On Campus Medicine & Health Sleep Secrets Why do teens sleep so late? Is there a scientific way to measure how sleepy you are? Pioneering sleep scientist Mary Carskadon has answers—and is still discovering new frontiers. Read More Business & Entrepreneurship The Students Behind ENGN 9 The little-known story of how two seniors facing a scary job market came up with the class destined to become a Brown classic The Arts High and Lonesome Old-Time String Band students learn Appalachian music the traditional way—by ear. Medicine & Health Patients Who Were “Never Prioritized” Sickle cell, which primarily affects Black people, has been ignored for years. Researchers are coming up with better ways to treat it. TEACHER STRIKES MAY WORK. A STUDY BY PROF MATTHEW KRAFT FOUND STRIKES FROM ’07 TO ’23 DELIVERED GAINS IN SALARY, BENEFITS, & CONDITIONS. AN ALS PATIENT REGAINED NEARLY FLUENT SPEECH THROUGH A BRAIN/COMPUTER INTERFACE, THANKS TO A TRIAL LED BY PROF LEIGHT HOCHBERG. HENRY HOLLINGSWORTH ’22 AND EMILIE BYDWELL ’08 WON BRONZES IN ROWING & RUGBY RESPECTIVELY AT THE 2024 SUMMER OLYMPICS. FIGURE SKATER VINCENT ZHOU ’25 GOT HIS ’22 WINTER OLYMPICS GOLD TWO YEARS LATE, AFTER A RUSSIAN DOPING SCANDAL DELAYED IT. BROWN IS A TOP 25 PRODUCER OF STARTUP FOUNDERS, AND A TOP 100 FOR UTILITY PATENTS, PER PITCHBOOK AND FEDERAL DATA. Student Life A Roman Holiday Inside Brown’s annual Latin Carol Celebration Science & Tech Digital Dig Archaeology’s free field recording program—alum-created and Brown-subsidized Business & Entrepreneurship Standing on Ceremony Well-loved tea shop comes down the hill Humanities & Culture Eye to Eye Since 2014’s Gaza War, these two professors—one Palestinian, one Israeli—have been working together. They sat down with us to talk about history, censorship, antisemitism, diasporas, and, most of all, peace. The Arts Share the Knowledge A roundup of topical new books by Brown faculty The Arts Putting the “Desi” in Design A pioneering mag on South Asian culture
