On Campus The Arts Think Again The "genius" art of professor Tony Cokes Read More The Arts Seeing a Different Way An art installation sheds light on what it’s like to be visually impaired Business & Entrepreneurship Picking Stocks An alumni-run investment competition gives students a taste of high finance Medicine & Health Omm, No. Professor Willoughby Britton on the perils of meditation. ALEENAH MOHSIN LED A STUDY THAT FOUND OBESITY-RELATED HEART DISEASE DEATHS HAVE NEARLY TRIPLED OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS IN THE U.S. ANOTHER BROWN STUDY FOUND THE USE OF ANTI-OBESITY MEDS MORE THAN DOUBLED FROM 2022 TO 2023, WHILE BARIATRIC SURGERIES DECREASED 25.6%. EIDEN SPILKER ’24 IS USING WOOD FROM AN AILING AMERICAN ELM THAT HAD TO BE FELLED LAST MAY TO MAKE SCULPTURES FOR CAMPUS. BROWN’S NEW ONLINE MASTER’S IN DATA SCIENCE EXPLORES BOTH THE TECH ITSELF AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN SOCIETY, CHARTING THE FUTURE OF AI. PRESIDENT EMERITA RUTH J. SIMMONS WAS AWARDED A NATIONAL HUMANITIES MEDAL IN OCT. ’24 FOR PIONEERING EQUITY IN U.S. HIGHER ED. University News An End to the Divestment Question? After a year marked by student protests, and with the community still divided, the Brown Corporation closed the chapter on the issue of whether the University would divest from companies doing business with Israel. A flourishing of scholarship centered on the Middle East may bring new beginnings. Science & Tech Power Workout Campus cardio machines are generating electricity, not using it The Arts Granny Squares Everywhere Five minutes with Rachel Kamphaus ’25 The Arts Throw Down Brown Pottery Club wins its long-fought battle for a studio Science & Tech Capitalism to the Rescue? A popular class looks at how to leverage economics to save the environment. Science & Tech Pieces of Sky Fragments from the asteroid Bennu arrive on College Hill
