Volunteer for BRUnet: Students Need YOU!
An uncertain economy has Brown seniors anxious about the job market. Help calm their nerves by sharing your hard-won work experience. Setting up your volunteer profile on BRUnet, Brown’s career network, is easy...and the Class of 2008 will thank you.

Register Today for Reunion 2008!
Reunion Weekend is May 23-25. Online registration is fast and easy. Find event details, useful planning information, and more on the BAA Web site.

Have a Favorite View Of Brown’s Campus?
Every year donors who support Brown through the Annual Fund are thanked with a scenic image of College Hill. Next year your favorite photo could be featured.

Wing is New Dean of Medicine
As of July 1, Edward J. Wing M.D. will be the new dean of medicine and biological sciences. A distinguished immunologist, researcher, clinician, medical educator, and administrator, Wing has chaired the Department of Medicine at Brown for the past 10 years. (Image: Ken Zirkel)

University Admits 13.3 Percent, Sets New Record
Brown set a record low admission rate this year of 13.3 percent, admitting 2,187 regular-decision applicants. The increase in the number of applicants – 20,604, an 8 percent increase over last year’s 19,059 – made this the most competitive admissions process the University has ever seen.

Hope for Parkinson’s Patients
Professor of Medicine Robert J. Smith and a team of scientists have discovered that mutations in a gene may trigger Parkinson’s in people with a family history of the disease. Smith hopes the findings will lead to a treatment and ultimately a cure for the disease.

Surprising Geology: Snow on Mars and Speedy Meteorites
Mars may have had snow at some point in its history, according to new work by research analyst Jay Dickson and Professor James Head. Professor Peter Schultz’s study of a Peruvian meteorite could upend conventional wisdom about meteorites that strike Earth.

Wood Reflects on The Purpose of the Past
Professor Gordon Wood’s sixth book is a collection of his best long-form book reviews, with updated analyses. Reviews in the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post praise the historian for his style and scholarship.

Darrell West to Join Brookings Institution*
After 26 years at Brown, Professor of Political Science Darrell West will join the Brookings Institution as vice president and director of governance studies. West will continue to work with a number of Brown doctoral students whom he advises. (*Free registration required)

Brown Represents at Clinton Global Initiative Event
President Simmons and Brown students joined other college presidents and students, Bill Clinton, and Brad Pitt in New Orleans at the Clinton Global Initiative University Conference. Simmons presented Cornell University President David Skorton with an award for Cornell’s commitment to sustainability.

Great Debating in Providence High Schools*
Students from Brown’s Swearer Center for Public Service and the Rhode Island Urban Debate League are teaching high school students debate skills. Participating in debate has been shown to increase literacy, grades, and graduation and college-matriculation rates. (*Free registration required)

Rules of Engagement*
On the fifth anniversary of the conflict in Iraq, Watson Institute for International Studies Professor Catherine Lutz and anthropology Professor Matthew Gutmann joined a group of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans to discuss the rules of war during the “Winter Soldier Hearings.” (*Free registration required)

Men's Basketball Coach Robinson to Head Up OSU Beavers
Craig Robinson is leaving Brown to lead the Oregon State University Beavers. “We’re really grateful for the work he’s done here,” said Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger. Robinson led the Bears to a school-record 19 wins and a berth in the College Basketball Invitational.

Ten Bears Are Winter Academic All-Ivy
The Ivy League’s winter list of Academic All-Ivy honorees includes ten Brown student-athletes. The five males and five females were starters or key reserves on their varsity teams and carry a 3.0 or better cumulative grade point average.

Bears Kick Off Spring Football Practice; Annual Spring Game on April 26
Coach Phil Estes had reason for optimism as his football team hit the practice field to gear up for the annual Brown vs. White spring game. The 2008 team returns 13 starters and nine All-Ivy players after finishing third in the league with a 4-3 record.

Men’s Lacrosse Makes Sixth Straight Win
Kyle Hollingsworth ’09 scored the game-winner over Yale with just 11 seconds to play, unknotting an 8-8 tie and giving No. 16 Brown its sixth straight victory. The Bears are now 7-2 overall and 2-0 in the Ivy League.

Men’s and Women’s Crew Teams Start Season with Victories
In its 2008 spring opener, the Brown men’s crew won three of its five races against Yale, and the No. 3 women’s crew opened its 2008 spring season by winning three of its five races at No. 6 Princeton with Michigan State.