Music concentrator Alex Kotch ’06 has created a sound installation called “No One Will See Us,” the culmination of two months of studying bathroom scrawls around campus. The program includes a wide range of messages, read aloud by men and women in corners of a room, that run the gamut from crude to philosophical.

Gregory Tucker, associate professor of physics, was on the team of scientists who, peering back to the oldest light in the universe, have evidence to support the concept of inflation, which poses that the universe expanded many trillion times its size faster than a snap of the fingers at the outset of the big bang.

In this commentary, author Scott Molloy examines the legacy of Joseph Banigan, a potato famine refugee who fled to Providence and became Rhode Island’s first Irish-Catholic millionaire. Banigan’s philanthropy extended to Brown University. In 1896, he donated $5,000 to Brown to fund scholarships for students in need. “Banigan's gift seemed a bit out of line with so few Irish-Catholics at Brown to support,” Molloy writes, “but he wanted to see the cream of Irish-American society in Rhode Island rise to the top, rather than curdle in acrimony.” Enrollment of Irish-Catholic students at Brown rose from that point. Many of these students went on to become civic leaders in Rhode Island and elsewhere.