September/October 2014

Too Much Faith?

Jenks the Naturalist

Life-Changing Poet

Leon Cooper's Genius

More About Autism

A Great Reunion

Remembering George Borts

Fitting In

Brown and Tougaloo

Lowry's Books

Obituaries

Obituaries from the September/October 2014 issue.

Blowing in the Wind

Chris Wissemann ’83 is an evangelist for wind farms, and he’s got the track record to prove it.

Fighting Corruption

Dorothy Effange Njeuma ’66 says that one purpose of a good education is to produce savvy citizens.

The Troubadour

Former Country Joe and the Fish keyboardist Mark Kapner ’65 has spent a lifetime serenading the public.

Art Underfoot

For 65 years, Norma Sturges '45 has been keeping an unusual folk art alive. Museums are finally paying attention.

Rock of Ages

Rock Of Ages, the Rockefeller Library turns 50.

From the President

Preparing tomorrow's leaders to understand and manage the complexities of such messy problems as climate change.

The Odd Couple

A friendship forged at Brown becomes a source of stregth as two women make their way in the world.

Game Day

Smiling at the Ballpark

Eric Nadel ’72 always dreamed of being a baseball broadcaster. Now this voice of the Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame.

Replay

 Women’s crew placed at the NCAA Division I Championships.

A Dream Come True

The NFL has plenty of show-offs. But James Develin ’10 proves that success comes when you shut up and play hard.

What Are You, Anyway?

As a biracial woman, the author, a former editor-in-chief of Ebony magazine, always considered herself black. But as society becomes increasingly multiracial, old views of racial identity and culture are being challenged as never before.

Clear Conscience

After 9/11, former CIA lawyer John Rizzo ’69 was one of the first to approve such interrogation techniques as waterboarding.

Right from Wrong

A researcher argues that, as robots take over more and more human tasks, they'll need to know how to make ethical choices.

Lemonade from Lemons

Researchers wonder: what if we could put some of that climate-changing carbon dioxide to good use?

Climate Change

A computer science professor develops an easy way to make all your outdoor digital photos look better.

Research By the Dozens

Professor of Political Science Ross Cheit recruited dozens of undergrads to help research his book on child sexual abuse.

Wrong Assumptions

A former dean of medicine argues that it's time to end the forty-year-old ban on gay men giving blood.

Why I Am a Jew

Visiting America's oldest active synagogue in August, President Paxson described her conversion to Judaism.

Last Class

In April, Nobel Laureate Leon Cooper, the Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Science, said good-bye to teaching.

The Exchange

How Brown faculty and students joined the civil rights movement in Tougaloo, Mississippi, fifty years ago.

What if Mr. Hyde Could Talk?

Novelist Daniel Levine ’01 imagines Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale from the monster’s perspective.

Fresh Ink

On Stage

Ayad Akhtar's play Disgraced opens on Broadway.

The iPad Bard

With their ability to combine video and text, can tablets make Shakespeare more accessible to kids?

Family Songs

Two CDs by Nick Bayard ’04, one for children and one for adults, were inspired by falling in love.

Television

David Walton's Peter Pan.

S'mores Instead of Malaria

David Munro ’85 thinks that film and media approaches to encouraging social change have been missing one thing: laughs.