When Brown announced plans last year for a new mind, brain, and behavior building, a group of faculty, students, and alumni objected that the Urban Environmental Lab would have to be torn down. What followed was a debate about how to capture the future without forgetting the past.
The rationales may have shifted, but as New Republic executive editor Peter Scoblic ’96 argues in his new book, the reasons go back at least fifty years to a view of foreign policy as an epic struggle between good and evil.
Cell phones and automobiles bounce signals off satellites in orbit. Brown scientists download data from space probes cruising the surface of Mars. Yet in one building near campus, you can still experience science and astronomy much the way Galileo did.
When Brown announced plans last year for a new mind, brain, and behavior building, a group of faculty, students, and alumni objected that the Urban Environmental Lab would have to be torn down. What followed was a debate about how to capture the future without forgetting the past.
The rationales may have shifted, but as New Republic executive editor Peter Scoblic ’96 argues in his new book, the reasons go back at least fifty years to a view of foreign policy as an epic struggle between good and evil.
Cell phones and automobiles bounce signals off satellites in orbit. Brown scientists download data from space probes cruising the surface of Mars. Yet in one building near campus, you can still experience science and astronomy much the way Galileo did.
The new dean of medicine hopes to succeed where others have not.
Brown takes a long hard look at the curriculum and offers reforms.
Peter DuBois ’97 AM takes over Boston’s Huntington Theater.
A farewell to Randy Pausch '82.
To unseat Harvard and Yale in football this season, the Bears need to keep playing offense—and block, too.
Brown hopes to move the anthropology museum nearer to campus but doesn’t yet know where.
Brown’s first vice president for international affairs David Kennedy ’76 envisions “a Davos for young intellectuals.”
A writer explains what’s been keeping her at it for half a century.
CFLs may reduce our energy consumption, but they also contain mercury.
