March/April 2016

A Six-Part Plan

Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion: An Action Plan for Brown University.

Entrepreneurship Central

With a gift from Jonathan M. Nelson ’77, Brown launched a multidisciplinary center for entrepreneurship.

What You Thought

Reader letters and onlline comments from the last two months.

Obituaries

The Match Game

For Josie Hubschman ’11, at right, a roommate-finding “nightmare” became a high-tech start-up.

The Human Angle

CNN Mumbai reporter Malika Kapur ’97 says to tell a political story, you need a personal one.

Magazine 2.0

Doug McGray ’97 and Chas Edwards ’92 hope to revitalize long-form print storytelling for the digital age.

Get Prejudice Off the Team

Michael Balaban ’74 chairs the board of a nonprofit that aims to rid sports culture of homophobia.

Dawn of the Digital Age

In 1956, Brown got its first computer, an IBM 650, the world's first mass-produced.

From the President

Christina Paxson on why the media's coverage of diversity and inclusion is almost always wrong.

Everybody Loves Barrett

After teaching entrepreneurship“sort of under the radar,” Barrett Hazeltine is in the academic mainstream.

Notes on Sports

Brown's Academic All-Ivy athletes, and things heat up for the Summer Olympics.

An Ivy Record Falls

Cedric Kuakumensah ’16 becomes the greatest shot blocker in Ivy League men’s basketball history.

Beyond Ping Pong

After Marco Santini ’07 added plywood to a ping pong table and wound up with a whole new game.

Big Air

Ty Walker ’19, one of the world's best snowboarders is preparing for the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Complicated Truth

For New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv ’04 the most important stories come from surprising places.

Attention Spans

A religious scholar asks: Is the Internet helping or hurting movements for social justice?

Stuffed Art

Dead Animals, an exhibition this winter at the Bell Gallery, shows taxidermy in contemporary art.

Part of the Tribe

Despite protesters, Genesis Prize winner Michael Douglas speaks about his Jewish journey.

The Genius

How a computer science professor wound up as a genius on a TV commercial for tax software.

A Landmark Portrait

The official portrait of Brown's 18th president, Ruth Simmons, joins the ones hanging in Sayles Hall.

You're Not Your Scars

Actress and Central Falls, R.I., native Viola Davis brings a Salomon Center audience to tears.

Fresh Ink

A dystopian first novel, a look at the global politics of climate change, and essays by Marilynne Robinson ’66

Overcome Your Programming

In How to Pass as Human, Nic Kelman ’00 MFA creates androids trying to pass as people.

What’s in an Image?

David Shields ’78 looks at how New York Times wartime photojournalism lies about the true nature of war.

Running Down Dinner

Journalist Charles Bethea ’05 co-produced the documentary Fair Chase, about the origins of running.

It’s Always a Fight

True Blood actor Sam Trammell ’91 turns crack addict in the indie thriller All Mistakes Buried.

Beyond Space and Time

George Musser ’88 explores nonlocality, a physics mystery that's undercutting our beliefs about the physical world.

The Book Behind the Movie

There would have been no Academy Award–movie The Danish Girl without the first novel by David Ebershoff ’91.

Self-Directed

Illustrator Juman Malouf ’97 creates a fantastical world in her first novel, The Trilogy of Two.

Visual Aid

Slavery required violence, and these shackles were how violence was maintained.

My Bad Mood

After my biracial son told me my "black" mood was racist, I chose words more carefully.

We’re Supposed To Be Better At This

Over the decades since the black student walkout in 1968, Brown has convened panels, issued reports, and made promises about creating a more diverse and pluralistic campus that everyone agrees have not been kept. Now President Christina Paxson wants to make good on those past promises with an unprecedented action plan. Will it work?

A Farewell to C.D. Wright

C.D. Wright, who died unexpectedly in January, was one of the best poets of her generation.

A Farewell to Tom Gleason

A historial and a painter, Professor of History Tom Gleason was passionate about his students.