September/October 2019

illustration of screen-obsessed theater-goers

Will Smart Phones Kill Live Theater?

12 Brown playwrights on writing for the stage in the age of streaming

Portrait of Courtney Mattison in her studio

Fragile Beauty

Courtney Mattison ’11 AM creates ceramic installations about endangered coral reefs.

Candid photo of Elizabeth Cureton ’95, and Veronica Shim ’95 MD

Medicine & Health

Keep It Simple

Four Brown alums and their integrated breast care center help make a cancer diagnosis a little easier

Under the Elms

The Pirate Scummy (Charlotte Senders ’18) sings out during a Reunion event in May.

Arrrcappella Anniversary

The Pirates turn 20

vintage photo of Dell O’Dell

Humanities & Culture

Magic Tricks

Want to study alchemy, witchcraft, or sorcery? The Hay library has you covered.

Obituaries

Photo of Ken McDaniel ’69 with others on stage at his 50th reunion

Ken McDaniel ’69

Walkout leader and champion for low-income students in STEM

Photo of Tony Horowtiz ’80 Puliter Prize winning author Farewell

Tony Horwitz ’80

Finding the American story that lies between red and blue

Content

Motion-blurred photo of a student on a scooter

Scooter Mania

Rental scooters are College Hill’s new ride.

From the Editor

Cover of the September/October 2019 issue

University News

Thank You

The BAM is grateful for your support.

From the President

picture of President Christina Paxson

University News

Open to Discovery

Reflecting on 50 years of the Open Curriculum.

Fresh Ink

Bunny, by Mona Awad ’14; Bring Your Brain To Work, by Art Markman ’88; and Correspondents, by Tim Murphy ’91 stacked

Fresh Ink

New books by Mona Awad ’14 MFA, Art Markman ’88, and Tim Murphy ’91

Beyond the Gates

A Grecian urn depicts Konstantinos Zervas ’89 ScM and Kostas Bakoyannis ’00

Dual Mayors

Brown alums take the reins in Greece’s two largest cities

Nathalie Jordi ’04 stands at the door of her hotel

Business & Entrepreneurship

The New Nunnery

A refurbished church, school, and convent become a sought-after New Orleans hotel

Alison Rosenthal ’98 smiles

Business & Entrepreneurship

Investing in Diversity

A new venture capital fund seeks great ideas from “non-obvious” founders

Claire Adam ’96 relaxes

Two Sons, One Chance

A powerful debut novel set in Trinidad

The Root AI team displays their agricultural machinery

Robo-Farmer

Can artificial intelligence make growing crops sustainable?

Sang Min Lim ’17 eyes the camera

K-Pop

Sang Min Lim ’17 claims his space in K-pop

Photograph of John F. Kennedy Jr. ’83 as a child with his grandmother

An American Tragedy

A new book chronicles the life of John F. Kennedy ’83

Matthew Carrano ’91 grins alongside some dinosaur teeth

Mr. Dinosaur

Paleontologist Matthew Carrano ’91 and the Smithsonian’s “Deep Time” exhibit.

Jessica Meir ’99 poses in her spacesuit

Space Flight

Jessica Meir ’99 takes her first giant leap to the International Space Station

Sight Lines

A new film examines how blindness affects the creative process

Current Obsession

Roxanne Barnes ’21 sitting on the stairs in the Finlandia co-op

They Danced in the Dining Room

Roxanne Barnes ’21 threw benefit parties at the Finlandia co-op

The Big Search

portrait of Adi Melamed '19 and Aaron Mayer '18

Hi-Tech Ethics

Can CS majors save the world? The founders of a student startup think so.