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Mental Health Special Issue: You OK?

Four years since lockdown: How we’re doing and what we’ve learned about surviving and thriving during adversity.

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The Arts
Illustration of Sigmund Freud

Paging Dr. Freud

The Arts
Image of Steven Koppel taking a photo in the surf.

Visual Therapy

Digital imagery helps people express complex emotions.
The Arts
Image of Brenda Barbour smiling with her hand on her hip and a brick wall.

Talking Cure

A podcast by two sisters helps Black women navigate healthcare.
Ever True
Screenshot of a zoom grid

Zooming with the Fellas

Covid launched a “virtual Black barbershop” for ’80s alums.
Humanities & Culture

Self-Healing

The power and resilience of swimming in icy waters
Image of Helen Wagner floating icy water.
Medicine & Health

Are Mushrooms the New Prozac?

Research with psilocybin shows positive results for depression
Image of Xiaoju Hu against a tree.

On Campus

Medicine & Health
Image of Yovanska Duarté-Vélez and Gisela Jiménez-Colón.

A Familismo Approach

Targeted therapy for Latinx youth
Medicine & Health
Illustration by Tim Cook of a person with their eyes closed with clouds in the background

Mainstreaming Mindfulness

Professor Eric Loucks is on a mission
Medicine & Health
An Illustration by Lorenzo Gritti of students in chairs with laptops and large talk bubbles above in the shape of Covid spikes.

“Coping with Covid” 101

A new course on the psychology of pandemics offers a scientific take on Covid-related mental health issues and a place for students to process.
Medicine & Health
An image of Professor Jud Brewer standing in front of a white board with his hands on his hips.

The Anxiety Hacker

Jud Brewer can help you change your mind
Education

The Good Life

A course on happiness gets mobbed
Illustration by Tim Cook of a person with flowers in her hair and a butterfly flying around her head.

The Classes

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April 2nd, 2024

John Mogulescu writes: After working for 49 years at the City University of New York (CUNY), where I was the senior university dean for academic affairs and the founding dean of the...
April 2nd, 2024

David Hahn writes: “I collaborated on a video with brilliant visual artist Andreas Karaoulanis (also known as bestbefore). People have described the abstract style of the video as a Paul Klee painting...
April 2nd, 2024

Sharon Lean took on a new role as chair of the department of political science at Wayne State University, where she has been serving on the faculty since 2005. She writes: “I...
April 2nd, 2024

Christina Sanabria writes: “123 Andrés, the kids’ music duo that I’m a part of, won a Grammy for Best Children’s Album. Our album “We Grow Together/Crecemos Juntos” is a collection of songs...

Sports

In Memoriam
photo of Bill Reynolds in the ProJo office

The Shooter

Remembering a gifted basketball player and master storyteller
First Person
Image of Samantha Reisman climbing on a rock wall in a gym.

Climbing the Walls

Five minutes with Samantha Reisman ’28 PhD
Sports & Recreation
Image of Hannah Doyle holding her hands in a fighting stance with boxing gloves on them and a boxing ring in the background.

PhD Level Punches

Neuroscience meets boxing
Sports & Recreation
Image of Olivia Pichardo in Brown baseball uniform standing with her teammates.

History Maker

The first woman to play Division I baseball
Science & Tech

Ocean’s 11

Charlie Enright ’08 and Mark Towill ’11 of the 11th Hour Racing Team on winning the Ocean Race while trying to save the seas.
photo from the deck of the Mālama, heading into the wind
Sports & Recreation

Invisible Champions

Women’s basketball won Brown’s first Ivy title. But the accolades did a disappearing act.
Black and white image of Christa Champion shooting the basketball in a Brown game in 1984.

What Do
You Think?

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“Thank you for covering the important work of Charlie Enright ’08 and Mark Towill ’11. Major congrats for their big win in the Round the World Race. And I wish them much...”
—Bob Koch ’74
Morristown, N.J.
 
In response to Ocean’s 11 (N–D’23):
“I have suffered from long Covid since my initial infection in 2022. After being sick for two years, I cannot understand why there is not more long Covid political action, especially around...”
—Katherine E. Leslie ’00
Lafayette, Colo.
In response to Do You Have Long Covid? ():
“Change starts at the bottom and moves up, not from the top down. In my day it was Vietnam and things did change. ”
—Judith Humphreys Weitz ’64
Washington, D.C.
In response to Tragedy, Far Away and Close to Home (J–M’24):
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