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4/10, London, England
A Night at the Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
4/10, San Francisco, CA
Mapping the Brain
(Prof. Elaine Bearer)
4/10, Seattle, WA
Inaugural Monthly
Happy Hour
4/13, Costa Mesa, CA
An Evening of Cabaret with James Naughton ’68
4/13, New York City, NY
Clash of the Trivia Titans
4/14, San Francisco, CA
Concert Featuring Pianist Gila Goldstein
4/16, Pittsburgh, PA
Children at Play: An American History
(Prof. Howard Chudacoff)
4/16, Providence, RI
Poets and Painters
(Artist Ellen Peckham)
4/17, Chicago, IL
Lecture and Viewing of the Winslow Homer Exhibit
4/24, New York City, NY
Women in Politics
(Prof. Jennifer Lawless)
4/25, New York City, NY
New York Philharmonic Concert Featuring Pianist Martha Argerich
4/28, St. Louis, MO
Regulating Ethics in
Public Life
(Prof. Ross Cheit)
4/30, Minneapolis, MN
New Nanotechnologies and their Societal Implications
(Prof. Robert Hurt)
4/30, Philadelphia, PA
Happy Hour
4/30, New York City, NY
Big Stuff for the
Classes of the 80s
5/1, Baltimore, MD
Mass Incarceration and American Ideals
(Prof. Glenn Loury)
5/7, Houston, TX
A Night at the Theatre:
The Gershwins’ An
American in Paris
See full calendar...
Randy Pausch ’82 and a book based on his “Last Lecture” will be profiled by Diane Sawyer on ABC on April 9. He was also on the cover of Parade magazine on April 6.
OK Go singer Damian Kulash ’98, a member of the Future of Music Coalitions Rock the Net campaign, testified on Capitol Hill in support of net neutrality.
Mark Whipple ’80 has joined the Philadelphia Eagles as the team’s offensive assistant coach.
Dan Maffei ’90 is running
for U.S. Congress.
Leatherheads star John Krasinski ’01 talked to the New York Times about directing an adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, a project he conceived while at Brown.
Rock violinist Lili Haydn ’92 recently performed on Jay Leno and opened a Dodgers game.
Kimberly Misher ’07 landed a highly competitive Junior Fellowship with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Skype chief executive Josh Silverman ’91 made London’s Sunday Times “Top 40 Under 40”
Playwright Quiara Hudes ’04 MFA has a Broadway hit with In the Heights.
Bravo president Lauren Zalaznick ’84, profiled by the New York Times, discusses reaching out to her audiences.
Lucy DeVito ’05 plays the title role in Seattle’s Intiman Theatre’s production of The Diary of Anne Frank.
Contemporary Art Magazine featured award-winning documentary art photographer
Taryn Simon ’97.
Lynn Pasquerella ’85 PhD will be the next provost of the University of Hartford.
Janet Tsai Dargan ’86 is the new senior vice president, business development, for Sony Pictures Television International.
Bomb It, a documentary produced by Kate Christensen ’01, premiered in several international film festivals and was reviewed in Variety.
See “Alumni in the News” archive...
Ariel Werner ’09 received a Truman Scholarship, the most prestigious national award for a college junior.
Emma Clippinger ’09 won JP Morgan’s Good Venture Undergraduate Competition. Her organization, Gardens for Health International, received $25,000.
Andres Idarraga ’08 put drugs and prison behind him to come to Brown.
Eight student demonstrators, including Susan Beaty ’10*, were arrested during a peaceful anti-Iraq war demonstration.
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| 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. |
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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) |
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Grant Will Fund Graduate School Dissertation Workshops A $571,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support graduate students in the humanities and social sciences while they write dissertations. Workshops connect those working on similar topics, and bring speakers and experts to campus. |
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The New Face of Financial Aid Brown has eliminated the loan requirement for families with incomes up to $100,000 and reduced the contribution expected from many other families. |
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Answer the Call, Win a Free Sweatshirt The Brown Annual Fund’s student callers are giving away three free sweatshirts each week until June 30 to alumni who answer their calls winners do not need to make gifts to receive a prize. Callers are hoping to raise $700,000 from 6,500 donors by June 30. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Dancers Stepping on Toes for Space It is the end of an era for student dance group Fusion, which announced that it will no longer be performing in the Ashamu Dance Studio, its home for the past 25 years, due to lack of space. The new Nelson Fitness Center will feature fitness and dance studios. (Image: Min Wu) |
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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) |
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Other Campus Headlines
- A Free Buddy Cianci Talks About Providence |
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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. |
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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) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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) |
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Campaign 2008: Brown Voices Library director and historian Ted Widmer weighs in on Obama’s use of a phrase borrowed from the founding fathers and his effort to quell concerns about religion and race. |
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Incarceration Nation* Incarceration rates are significantly higher for African Americans and Hispanics than for whites. Professor of Economics Glenn Loury addressed this issue in a panel moderated by Warren Simmons, executive director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. (*Free registration required) |
| Other Faculty and Research Headlines
- Report Seeks to Understand Repeated Miscarriages |
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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. |
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Reunion Weekend Is Almost Here - Register Now! Rejoin your Brown community of friends on campus, May 23, 24, and 25! If your class year ends in 3 or 8, be sure to contact classmates and finalize your plans to attend. Online registration is fast and easy. More reunion information can be found online. |
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Reunion Giving Fuels Brown Annual Fund’s Success Alumni celebrating reunions donate one-third of the Annual Fund total each year, and several reunion classes are on track to break fundraising records. Visit the reunion giving Web site to check class progress and make your Brown Annual Fund gift before May 23. |
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What Do You Do with an English Degree? The English department asked alumni from the classes of ’99 to ’07: Where are you now? Where did your degree in English lead? Their compelling and surprising answers reveal the diversity of career paths Brown English alumni have taken. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Spring Teams to Defend, Pursue Titles Spring is here, and many spring sports are already well under way. (Image: Brown Daily Herald ) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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