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5/14, Boston, MA
Young Alumni Clothing Drive
5/14, New York City, NY
Ivy Plus Spring Fling
5/14, Pelham, NY
An Evening with Buddy Cianci: On the Screen and In Person
5/14, Providence, RI
Many Hands, One Dream: Brown’s Impact on the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Kenya
(Prof. E. Jane Carter and Prof. Stephen T. McGarvey)
5/15, Pittsburgh, PA
Happy Hour
5/17, Rowayton, CT
Semiannual Play Date
5/19, London, England
5/27, Paris, France
Intellectual Diversity and the Essence of Brown
(Prof. John Tomasi)
5/19, Berlin, Germany
Dinner in Berlin
5/21, New York, NY
Baking and Life Lessons with Warren Brown ’93
5/23, Providence, RI
Pre-Campus Dance Young Alumni Reception
5/23-5/25,
Providence, RI
Reunion Weekend
5/31, Denver, CO
Hellfire Nation: Saints and Sinners in American Politics
(Prof. James Morone)
See full calendar...
Former Watson Institute visiting fellow Michael V. Bhatia ’99* was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
Nine alumni are 2008 Guggenheim Fellows: Professor of Mathematics Douglas Arnold ’75; filmmaker Rodney Evans ’93; writer Sam Lipsyte ’90; filmmaker Ben Russell ’98; Associate Professor of Anthropology Philip Scher ’87; artist Jeffrey Schiff ’74; poet Reginald Shepherd ’91 MFA; Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Art History Kaja Silverman ’77 PhD; and Professor of Sociology Roger
Waldinger ’74.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal ’92 talked about rumors of becoming a possible Republican VP running mate on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. (Video)
Lisa Cisneros ’01 practices law for a special kind of client in her hometown: LGBT farmworkers.
NPR’s Talk of the Nation featured Pamela Paul ’93 and her latest book, Parenting, Inc., about the big business of having children. (Audio)
Tan Siok Siok ’94 discusses her documentary, Boomtown Beijing, about the Olympic city and its run-up to the games. (Audio)
Arthur Warga ’75 has led the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business from ordinary to extraordinary while battling brain cancer.
State Department Foreign Service officer David Gehrenbeck ’00 PhD*, who coordinates U.S. policy on the former Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan, hopes more young people will consider a career in the foreign service.
Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch ’95 is a novel about a former debutante who must adjust her dreams to the harsh reality of life.
Benjamin McGuire ’04 is profiled extensively in the New York Times about being young, gay, and married.
Fine jewelry retailer Zale Corp. has named William Acevedo ’88 as executive vice president and chief stores officer.
This is Not a Robbery, a documentary co-produced by Andrew Lauren ’91, screened at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.
Bad Voodoo’s War, a documentary by Deborah Scranton ’84, aired on PBS’s Frontline.
Singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb ’90 has an upcoming children’s album,
Camp Lisa.
Political fundraiser Rufus Gifford ’96 and filmmaker Christine Vachon ’83 were named in Out magazine’s annual list of the most influential gays and lesbians in America.
Williams College will confer honorary degrees on health advocate Nawal Nour ’88 and Rector of Oxford’s Exeter College Frances Cairncross ’67 AM.
See “Alumni in the News” archive...
Rebecca Russo ’08 and Matt Thanabalan ’10 organized a group including 18 students to participate in ongoing reconstruction efforts in NOLA.
Kelsey Lane ’09.5 and Kyle Poyar ’10 won $16,000 scholarships from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Brown’s first Edible Car Competition, organized by engineering students*, judged vehicles made out of food based on appearance and distance covered.
Tom Flaherty ’08 was named runner-up in a regional comedy competition held at Boston’s Comedy Connection.
Student activists Scott Warren ’09 and Colin O’Brien ’10 were arrested at a D.C. rally while protesting Darfur genocide.
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Brown-RISD Dual Degree Program Accepts 18 The program received about 400 applications in its inaugural year. Of those, 30 to 50 applicants were admitted to both Brown and RISD; from that pool both schools chose the 18 who were admitted to the program. |
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Warren Alpert Medical School Reaches Top Quartile in Rankings The Medical School placed 31st for research and 23rd for primary care in U.S. News and World Report’s 2009 rankings of about 130 medical schools, improving from last year’s ranks of 34th and 27th, respectively. |
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Million Dollar Month Challenge Hits Halfway Mark Made possible by an anonymous reunion alumnus and the Brown Annual Fund Leadership Council, the Million Dollar Month challenge seeks 2,000 more donors by May 25! Please help the Brown Annual Fund earn an additional $1 million to support the Plan for Academic Enrichment. |
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Brown Celebrates 240th Commencement, Alumni Reunions On May 23-25, nearly 20,000 friends, family members, and alumni will participate in Commencement and Reunion Weekend. Honorary degrees will go to actor, filmmaker and environmentalist Robert Redford; author Edwidge Danticat ’93 MFA; choreographer Judith Jamison; and others. Author and publisher Dave Eggers will deliver the Baccalaureate address. |
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Scorsese at Ivy Film Festival: “Film what you feel” Brown’s seventh Ivy Film Festival welcomed acclaimed director Martin Scorsese, who spoke to a rapt capacity audience about his relationships with individual actors and music and about the centrality of improvisation and personality in his movies. |
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An Activist and Author: This Provost Has a Past Provost David Kertzer ’69 knows what it’s like to raise his voice on behalf of the little guy. During the mid-1960s he spent the night in military barracks with the late American writer Norman Mailer after being arrested for protesting the Vietnam War. (Image: Connie Zheng) |
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North Korea Progress Report During his recent visit to the Watson Institute for International Studies, Christopher Hill, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia and the lead U.S. negotiator with North Korea, discussed recent talks in Pyongyang, North Korea, over that country’s nuclear program. (Audio: Open Source interview [16 min.]) (Image: State Department) |
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Morales Tells of Bolivian Boyhood In a speech that intertwined his past with his country’s future, President of Bolivia Evo Morales noted with evident pride that since his inauguration in 2005, Bolivia has seen increasing economic prosperity and political equality. (Image: Min Wu) |
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Earth Day at Brown
- “Green” Conference Fosters Dialogue, Dissent |
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Other Campus Headlines
- Brown Ranks Sixth on Princeton Review’s “Dream School” List |
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Guggenheims Go to Brown Professors Associate Professor of History Deborah Cohen and Professor of English and Comparative Literature Forrest Gander received 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation selected 190 individuals from approximately 2,600 applicants. (Image: Courtesy brown.edu) |
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Wood, Putnam to Retire; Vogel Will Take Leave Professor of History Gordon Wood and Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature Michael Putnam are retiring. Paula Vogel, professor of literary arts and director of Brown’s playwriting program, will take a one-year leave before deciding whether her departure will be permanent. (Image: John Abromowski) |
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First Female Brown Scientist Elected to National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences has elected Johanna Schmitt, the Stephen T. Olney Professor of Natural History, as a member - one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer. Schmitt’s research integrates plant evolutionary ecology, physiological ecology, and ecological genomics. (Image: John Abromowski) |
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Brain Stimulation Can Treat Depression, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Research conducted in part by scientists from Brown Medical School proves that a pacemaker-type device that jolts the brain and regulates mood circuits may ease deep depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms that no other treatments can touch. |
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Nano Breakthrough Could Help Hydrogen Cars Become Reality A team of chemists led by Brown’s Shouheng Sun has created uniform platinum nanocubes, a breakthrough that could make hydrogen fuel cells like those used in hydrogen cars - more efficient and less costly. (Image: Chao Wang/Brown University) |
| Other Faculty and Research Headlines
- Drug Giant Has Credibility Gap |
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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, see who is coming from your class, register now, and make your plans to come back to campus. More reunion information can be found online. |
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Reunion Classes: Always Bold For Brown This year, Reunion attendees who have supported the Brown Annual Fund will have the opportunity to show that they have been “bold for Brown.” Visit the Reunion Giving Web site to check class progress, and don’t forget to make your gift before May 25! |
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(Social) Networking in Brown’s Name It’s only natural that Brown alumni are looking for each other on sites like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. The Brown Alumni Association (BAA) makes it easy with its own groups and with links to other Brown-alumni-related groups. Join up now! |
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Hear Brown Faculty Online or in Person See podcasts of former Senator Lincoln Chafee ’75 on the U.S. Senate, Professor Loury on incarceration in America, and Professor Chudacoff on the history of child’s play. Topics coming soon include women in politics, immigration, and 3-D X-ray video! Or catch a faculty lecture in your area. |
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Bears Among Nation’s Best in NCAA Academic Progress Report Ratings For the second straight year, Brown finished in the top five nationally, ranking third in the nation out of 329 Division I schools with 21 sports being honored by the NCAA. |
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Women’s Rugby Wins Ivy League, Dashes to Final Four The women’s rugby team won the Ivy League title by a combined 145-0 over three matches, then went on to win both their matches at the NCAA National Tournament. On Monday the team held their annual prom dress game to promote breast cancer awareness. (Image: Ashley Hess) |
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Men’s Lacrosse Wins Ivy League Championship Brown beat Princeton 6-5 for a share of the Ivy League Championship, its first Ivy title since 1995. The Bears won 10 of their last 11 regular-season games to finish 11-3 overall. |
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Equestrian Team Wins All-Ivy Competition The Bears took first with 37 points, followed by Cornell and Dartmouth, which tied at 32. Three Bears took home championship ribbons - senior Whitney Keefe in open fences and flat, sophomore Emily Bourdeau in intermediate fences, and freshman Dakota Gruener in novice flat. (Image: Amy Lowitz) |
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Men’s Crew Breaks Record at Charles Race After breaking a 20-year-old record, the No. 2 men’s crew team defeated No. 7 Northeastern on the Charles River in Boston to retain the Dreissigacker Cup. (Image: Colin Keogh) |
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Two Gymnasts Earn All-American Honors Three members of the gymnastics team - Chelsey Binkley ’11, Jen Sobuta ’09, and Vicki Zanelli ’11 - traveled to Shreveport, La., for the USA Gymnastics Collegiate Championships, and two came home with All-American honors. (Image: Ashley Hess) |
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Bear Tracks: The Year in Athletics, by the Numbers The Brown Daily Herald gives us the rundown. (Image: Ashley Hess) |
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