November/December 2014

The Provost Talks About Brown's Future

The Provost Talks About Brown's Future

Correction

Inspiring

Group Effort

Race In America

The CIA and Torture

Obituaries

Obituaries from the November/December 2014 issue.

Superwoman at Rest

A farewell to beloved dean and adviser Marjorie Thompson '74, '79 PhD who died of cancer in September.

Alumni Recognition Awards

Hill Harper ’88 headlined this year's Brown Alumni Association salute to outstanding graduates.

Financing a Dream

Mollie West ’09 and Andy Posner ’09 AM are combating poverty a few hundred dollars at a time.

Big Data Man

Computer scientist David Blei ’97 thinks the algorithms for those annoying ads following you around online may also do some good.

Fighting Ebola

Armand Sprecher ’89, of Doctors Without Borders, has been fighting Ebola in Africa for more than ten years.

The Educator

Forrest Broman ’61 went to Haiti after the 2010 Haitian earthquake to rebuild schools. He had no idea what he was getting into.

Pigskin Party

More than 10,000 alumni and students watched the Bears take on Harvard on the night of September 27.

Party Line

Did Alexander Graham Bell steal some of these two Brown professors' ideas when he invented the telephone? 

Singular Finds: The 2014 BAM Holiday Gift Guide

Tired of the holiday retail madness? Sick of jumping from website to website in search of the out-of-the-ordinary perfect gift? Look no further. Our annual gift guide comes to the rescue with a tempting assortment of products from the creative hands and minds of Brown alumni.

Better Late Than Never

Betsy Boyd ’95 tends to be a master procrastinator. Did she put off having kids too long?

From the President

President Paxson reviews improvements to Brown's sports programs and promises even more.

A Pioneer in Women's Sport

Olympic gold medalist Helen Johns Carroll ’36 was one of the best swimmers Brown has ever seen.

Game Day

Football Replay

REPLAY

Scratching the Itch

Zimmer ’91 took up speed skating at forty-two. Two years later she was a national champion.

Don't Hold Back

In their Opening Convocation speeches, the president and the provost gave advice to new students.

It's Okay Not to Know

Maahika Srinivasan ’15 tells this year's nervous first-years to stop blabbering and to start listening.

Recommended Reading

Lila is a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction.

Higher Learning

Marilynne Robinson ’66 says that at Brown she discovered the importance of ideas and the lifelong habit of thought.

Birthday Party

Alumni returned to campus in droves to help learn about Brown research celebrate the University's 250th.

Puzzled

Natan Last ’12, a founder of the Brown Puzzle Club and a New York Times crossword contributor, created this puzzle for the University’s 250th anniversary—its semiquincentenary, to word enthusiasts. Look for the Brown-related clues sprinkled throughout.

Let's Talk

Teach-ins this semester have included the Ferguson, Missouri, shootings and the turmoil in Gaza.

Keeping Up With Change

New provost Vicki Colvin gives an surprising glimpse of what Brown might look like ten years from now.

A Memorial to Slaves

As a reminder of our history, this fall President Paxson unveiled a slavery sculpture on the Front Green.

Endowment Return

Serving Those Who Served

U.S. Navy veteran and Brown veterans czar Karen McNeil wants her fellow vets to know they’re welcome on campus.

Visual Archaeologist

With her imaginative use of digital technologies, Lisa Oppenheim ’98 is reinventing contemporary photography.

Fresh Ink

New books include a collection of unnerving stories, a Caitlin Strong mystery, and a look at how melodrama shapes politics.

America's Seafood Woes

The U.S. now imports 91 percent of its seafood and exports a third of what it catches. What happened?

On Screen

ON SCREEN

Books That Shape Us

New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul ’93 asked 65 prominent writers what they read.

The Search for Meaning

Radio host Krista Tippett ’83 wants us to reach across our differences to talk about what matters most.

Doing the Right Thing?

In her latest documentary, Rory Kennedy ’91 examines the 1975 U.S. evacuation from South Vietnam.

A Live Action Graphic Novel

Jason Neulander ’91, ’93 AM is spinning heads with his sci-fi, multimedia The Intergalactic Nemesis.