Brown Alumni Magazine

01/12/2025

Who do we choose to gossip with? Are social interactions algorithmic like a social media feed? Associate professor Oriel FeldmanHall and PhD Candidate Alice Xia coauthored a study on how we can gossip; successfully. Click the link in the comments to learn more.

📝: Gretchen Schrafft
📸: David Delpoio

29/11/2025

Xoomba's handwoven pieces and Suzie Becker’s advent poem tree kick off this year’s Gift Guide 🎁✨ From organic cotton bags made in Burkina Faso to a handmade poem-a-day tree for December, each piece is crafted with care.

Follow our countdown to discover the best gifts to give this season, and find all details and special Brown alum discounts in our bio ⭐

📝: Tim Murphy ’91
📸: Joel Benjamin

24/11/2025

Netflix's newest thriller, written by Simon Kinberg ’95:

HERE COMES THE FLOOD is a brand new Netflix heist thriller coming soon starring big names and packed with action 💥🎬💰

22/11/2025

What does it mean to have 130+ Funko Pops lining your shelves?

For Briana Bisono ’28, each one preserves a piece of who she is and where she comes from. Find out which characters shape her collection at the link in the comments below 🔗

📝: Nyra Delph ’28
📸: Mark Ostow

17/11/2025

On July 30 Brown signed a resolution agreement with the government to restore major federal research funding. Weeks later, the White House offered the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which was ultimately rejected by the university.

Though there is no crystal ball for the future, the BAM reached out to faculty, students, and experts to understand different views on what the agreement may mean for the university. While some feel the deal reflects a savvy bit of deal making, others think the agreement is giving up Brown’s “mortal soul,” and still others feel that “Brown got off easy.”

Read what else the community has to say at the link in the comments below.

📝: Michael Blanding
🎨: Dana Smith

06/11/2025

A new kind of campus treasure hunt has landed at Brown 🖼️
What began as small paintings of the Brutalist-but-beautiful SciLi has grown into a project that turns everyday campus architecture into a shared art experience.

🔗 Read more at the link in the comments below.

📝: Lily Ellman ’27
🎨: Hadley McCormack ’27

03/11/2025

As the seasons get colder, it’s the perfect time to cozy up with a new book. This issue’s Fresh Ink features Jordan Roter ’97’s “Moms Like Us”, Amy Larocca ’97’s “How to Be Well” and over 20 new non-fiction, fiction and poetic works from Brown Alumni. Click the link in our comments to check out more of these titles.

📝: Ed Hardy
📸: Erik Gould

30/10/2025

3,000 years later, the Battle of Kadesh raged again—this time on the Quiet Green.

After months of research and design, ninety students in handmade chariots and armor re-enacted the ancient clash between Egypt and the Hittites, bringing history to life for a legendary course taught by Professor Laurel Bestock.

🔗 Read more at the link in the comments below.

📝: Maggie Spear & Meg Talikoff ’25
📸: Nick Dentamaro

29/10/2025

The legacy of the late André Leon Talley ’73 AM will be celebrated with an exhibit at the SCAD Museum.

André Leon Talley: Style Is Forever is a tribute to the enduring legacy of André Leon Talley — distinguished editor, cultural icon, and beloved SCAD mentor and friend. The exhibition features select looks from Talley’s personal collection, including ready-to-wear, couture, and bespoke pieces, ...

23/10/2025

The “freedom bracelet” you bought to fight oppression?
It might be funding it.
Inside Bangkok’s and Beijing’s go-go bars, Brown Professor Elena Shih produced one of the first ethnographies of East Asia’s anti-trafficking sector—revealing how some programs exploit the very women they claim to save.

🔗 Click the link in the comments below to read more.

📝: Megan Talikoff ’25
📸: Simon Simard

15/10/2025

Are AI chatbots actually intelligent? Are they capable of rational, human-like thinking? David Kebudi ’19, ’21 ScM answers these questions, details the future of AGI, and tells his story from being a computerphobe to an AI expert in this Fall 2025 feature article. Click the link in our comments to read more.

📝: Daniel Oberhaus
🎨: AI-generated self portraits by David Kebudi

10/10/2025

Federally funded science consortium BrainGate helped Casey Harrell, who has ALS, speak to his family for the first time. The U.S. government and research universities’ relationship has been mutually beneficial since its inception in WWII. Today, that relationship is rocky. Click the link in the comments to read our Fall 2025 cover story, a condensed history of U.S. research funding.

📝: Will Bunch ’81
🎨: Cristina Spanò