“Students throughout the world want the quality of an American degree and ... many of them have the financial resources to pay full tuition,” writes Evan S. Dobelle, president and CEO of the New England Board of Higher Education. Unfortunately, the region’s colleges and universities are missing the opportunity to market themselves overseas. He advocates for international agreements between New England's colleges and the higher education systems of such countries as Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, Ireland, Italy, or Israel. (One model: the New England Higher Education Compact.)

This feature about Brown University’s toy soldier collection, housed in the John Hay Library, examines the collection as well as the collector - Anne S.K. Brown. The article was distributed to media outlets across the country.

Three Brown University undergraduates have founded CollegeCanvas.com, a Web-based business selling original art at affordable prices. Up and running for four months, the student entrepreneurs have made thousands of dollars, according to the article, and hope to expand to other college campuses.

Professor Darrell West is a key source for this article about electronic governance around the world. "Many countries don't have the money, and some don't see the benefits or have the desire to make the public sector open and transparent," West said. However, he is optimistic about the future of e-governance.

A review of Comparative Literature Professor Arnold Weinstein’s new book, Recovering Your Story: Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulker, Morrison, calls it “a perfectly respectable book that undertakes to examine and celebrate five of the most cognitively demanding exemplars of modernist literature. ... (I)n drawing his title from the tropes of talk-show psychobabble, Weinstein has risked the appearance of destroying, or at least trivializing, the thing he so ardently seeks to save. ... It is a risk Weinstein revisits throughout an otherwise absorbing and generous-hearted critical performance.”

As NASA gears up to return humans to the Moon, a pair of U.S.-funded instruments picked to fly on India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter next year will continue the search for water at the Moon's poles and other surface resources that might support lunar bases one day. Professor Carle Pieters, principal investigator behind one of those instruments - a spectrometer - discusses the impact of the data set the device will return.

This year, Brown University has more students preparing to accept Marine Corps officer commissions upon graduation than any other Rhode Island college. Seven students have completed Marine officer candidate training and will accept commissions as second lieutenant upon graduation.