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9/10, Long Island, NY
Golf Invitational
9/14, Washington, DC
Monthly Book Club
9/18, Philadelphia, PA
Happy Hour
9/19, New York City, NY
Gay Day at Great Adventure
9/20, New York City, NY
Navigating the Ever-Changing Landscape of College Admissions
(Dean James Miller ’73)
9/21, Rye, NY
Turbulent Times
in Congress
(Lincoln D. Chafee ’75)
9/23, Denver, CO
Looking for Life: Exploring the Red Planet with Brown
(Prof. John Mustard)
9/23, Baltimore, MD
Book Club
9/25, Seattle, WA
A Vision For Brown Athletics
(Dir. of Athletics Michael Goldberger)
9/25, London, England
Documentary Film Night: Buddy
9/27, Providence, RI
Homecoming Football: Brown vs. Harvard
and
Classes of the ’80s Post-game Gathering
10/4, Columbus, OH
Architecture of the Night
(Prof. Dietrich Neumann)
10/4, Washington, DC
10/5, Philadelphia, PA
Sixteen Months Down, 30 Days to Go: Recounting and Forecasting Election 2008
(Prof. Jennifer Lawless)
10/11, Menlo Park, CA
Entrepreneurs’ Forum
(Dean Barrett Hazeltine)
See full calendar...
Meredith Whitney ’92, analyst at Oppenheimer & Co., is profiled in a Fortune cover story.
A new memoir by rabbi Danya Ruttenberg ’97, Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion, describes her circuitous route back
to belief.
Emily Ziff ’00 and her business partner, actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, have signed a deal allowing Overtune Studios a first look at projects by their production company, Cooper’s Town Productions.
The Democratic convention featured a film about Barack Obama directed by Davis Guggenheim ’86, whose father produced a similar biographical piece for Robert F. Kennedy. Cecile Richards ’80 took the stage at the convention, twenty years after her late mother did the same.
Executive Director of the National Center for Children and Families Sheryl Brissett-Chapman ’71 discussed issues faced by the DC Child and Family Service Agency on Raw Fisher Radio.
(Audio, 24 min.)
Lewis Feldstein ’63 was named to the 2008 NonProfit Times “Power and Influence Top 50” as one of the most influential executives in the nonprofit sector.
Ann Cherkis ’89 was
named to Variety’s “10 Screenwriters to
Watch” list.
Accelerating America, an award-winning documentary directed by Timothy Hotchner ’95*, follows students of the Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program, started by Robert DeBlois ’82 AM*.
Yaya DaCosta ’04 was profiled as a “Fresh Face” by Broadway Buzz.
Dr. Carl C. Wamser ’66 was named “Best Carbon Crusader” in Willamette Week’s “Best of Portland 2008” issue.
Nate Albert ’02 was named VP of A&R at Universal Republic Records.
Jincy Willett ’78, ’81 AM, who credits David Sedaris with saving her writing career, has a new book, The Writing Class.
The debut novel by Reif Larsen ’02 about a whimsical child who likes maps had top publishers clamoring for the rights.
Industrial design professor Steven Skov Holt ’82 and his wife are curating an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, OR.
Scott A. Robinson ’94 has been named director of the American Institute in Taiwan’s American Cultural Center.
21 recent Brown
graduates received
Fulbright scholarships
this year.
(*Free registration required)
See “Alumni in the News” archive...
Glamour magazine named Gabby Salazar ’09* one of its “Top Ten College Women” of 2008.
Patrick Corey ’10 and Kelly Glaser ’10* are among the 20 Brown students who are installing high-efficiency bulbs in Providence homes as part of Project 20/20.
(*Free registration required)
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| Help Identify Brown’s Future Leaders Who should guide Brown over the next six years? Who should lead the Brown Alumni Association (BAA)? Nominate the worthy alumni YOU know for alumni trustee or for BAA officer positions – and get ready to vote in March 2009. Learn more and submit your nominations online. |
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Salomon 101 Gets a Makeover In recognition of the generosity of Donald R. De Ciccio ’55 and Sandra L. De Ciccio, President Simmons recently dedicated the De Ciccio Family Auditorium in the Richard and Edna Salomon Center for Teaching. |
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Summer Renovations Total $45 Million A flurry of summer construction has changed the face of the campus. The projects ranged from updated utilities to new furniture to relocating 13 campus offices in one week. Find out what student services departments are now in the renovated J. Walter Wilson Hall. |
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Health Grant to Send Students Abroad About $400,000 in new grant money from NIH’s John E. Fogarty International Center will fund travel awards and a revamped educational program for students interested in global public health. (Image: John Abromowski / Brown University) |
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2007–2008 Brown Annual Fund Earns Challenges, Sets Records Several exciting challenge gifts brought 33,496 Brown Annual Fund donors together in support of the University in 2007–2008. These donors contributed $35.1 million, achieving a historic first in dollars raised to support the Plan for Academic Enrichment. See full fundraising results for fiscal year 2008, including Campaign for Academic Enrichment, Sports Foundation and Alpert Medical School. |
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Convocation Kicks Off 245th Academic Year After the procession through the Van Wickle Gates, distinguished economist and social critic Glenn Loury and President Simmons addressed the Class of 2012. A total of 2,186 new undergraduate, graduate, and medical students have begun their studies at Brown. See also: video of President Simmons’ welcome to entering undergraduates, with short greetings from Katherine Bergeron and Brian Becker. (Image: John Abromowski / Brown University) |
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Brown Ranked 16th in Academics; Students 2nd Happiest In U.S. News and World Report’s annual survey, Brown took 16th place among 262 American universities. The Princeton Review placed Brown second place happiest student body, and gave high marks for radio and theater. See also: BDH article |
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Strengthening the College Experience at Brown After nearly 18 months of study and discussion, the Task Force on Undergraduate Education’s report was released today. Recommendations include specific goals to guide undergraduate study, expanded and better-integrated academic advising, and an e-portfolio system to capture students work. Download the report. (Image: John Abromowski / Brown University) |
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Anthropology Museum’s Bristol Facility to Close* Fire code and environmental issues are forcing Brown to close the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology in Bristol. The museum will be relocated closer to campus to make it more accessible and to better protect the collections. (*Free registration required.) |
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High Enrollment Yields Surplus First-Years The Brown family is a bit larger since Brown enrolled 1,537 students in the class of 2012 – 52 more students than expected. Although this has created a housing crunch, first-years appear to be enjoying their first days on campus. (Image: Meara Sharma) |
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Other Campus Headlines
- Summer Reading, Writing Required for Freshmen |
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Destination Iceland: Where Was the Water on Mars? Iceland, an island nation that may share traits with ancient Mars, is a perfect place to test remote-sensing equipment for Martian missions. View the reports and photographs that a team of Brown researchers filed from the field. (Image: NASA) |
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Advocating for a Safe Place to Live Sociology Professor Phil Brown has spent much of his career investigating environmental contamination in low-income communities, coining the term “popular epidemiology” to explain the work. |
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Is the Gender Wage Gap Really Narrowing? The narrowing of the wage gap between men and women in the last 30 years is illusory, reflecting changes in the type of women in the workforce rather than in how much they’re being paid, according to new research by Professor Yona Rubinstein. (Image: John Abromowski / Brown University) |
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Making Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Safer A team led by engineering Professor Robert Hurt has created a mercury-absorbent lining for broken compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). Thanks in part to the work of Professor Steven Hamburg and the Center for Environmental Studies, Home Depot is planning to institute a recycling program for CFLs. (Image: John Abromowski / Brown University) |
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Ted Widmer Reexamines Our History In his new book Ark of the Liberties: America and the World, director of the John Carter Brown Library Ted Widmer* traces American history and myth. (*Free registration required.) |
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Birth Control Medication Alters Women’s Sense of Smell Psychology professor Rachel Herz appeared on CBS News to discuss a new study that suggests that women taking birth control pills are likely to be drawn to the odor of the “wrong” men for them – those with genes similar to their own. (Video, 3 min.) |
| Other Faculty and Research Headlines
- Brown/RISD Collaborate on Toys for Kids with Cerebral Palsy |
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Looking For Talent and Experience Whose experience and talents will shape Brown’s future? Help the Brown Alumni Association’s nominating committee identify candidates for the upcoming alumni trustee and BAA officer elections by submitting your nominations online. Learn more. |
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Get Political Insights from Brown Faculty Feeling a little rusty on the issues? Deciding between red or blue? Get educated with these new BAA podcasts: Darrell West and Jennifer Lawless look back on and forecast the 2008 elections, James Morone examines religion and morality in American politics, Matt Garcia discusses immigration reform, and Corey Brettschneider explores democratic rights. |
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Redeem Brown’s Honor in GoCrossCampus, starting September 16 Last fall, Ivy alumni and students got better acquainted while plotting their moves in a new kind of competition: GoCrossCampus, a Web-based territorial-conquest game resembling Risk. Brown lost to Yale at Newport in turn #10. Never again! Read a New York Times article or a recent BDH article, or sign up with your @alumni.brown.edu address. |
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Brown Alumni Association Annual Meeting – September 26, 2008 All alumni are welcome to attend the BAA’s annual meeting and enjoy lunch at noon on campus. To RSVP, and for confirmation of the location, e-mail Nancy Gray by September 19. Learn more about the BAA. |
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Triumphant Year in Review*; Games to Catch this Fall The Providence Journal runs down Brown’s banner athletic year, with 10 winning teams and four Ivy League championships, while the BDH gives you the scoop on not-to-miss games for the fall season. (*Free registration required.) |
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Bears in Beijing Gymnast Alicia Sacramone ’10, runner Anna Willard ’06, assistant track and field coach Jerome Romain, and rowers Portia Johnson McGee ’01, Nikola Stojic ’93, and Igor Boraska ’94 are back from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. |
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Football: Third in Ivies? Harvard and Yale may have tied for first in the poll, but the Bears were ranked next in line and will play both favorites at Brown Stadium. (Image: Brown University) |
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Two Bears Boost Team USA to World U-19 Lacrosse Championship Defenseman Peter Fallon and attackman Andrew Feinberg brought their game, big-time, to the championship match with Canada. (Image: Brown University) |
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Rowing Rewards For the second straight year, the men’s crew team won the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Turfer Athletic Rowing Trophy. |
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