Brown Alumni Magazine

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

01/10/2025

Michael Showalter ’92 is directing and coproducing ”The Off Weeks,“ a new show on Apple TV+ staring Ben Stiller and Jessica Chastain.

From the producers: ”The project follows writing professor Gus Adler, whose divorce has thrown his life into chaos. He struggles to hold things together during ‘on weeks’ when he has custody of his kids. But in his ‘off weeks,’ he’s falling dangerously in love with Stella West, a mysterious woman whose arrival puts Gus’ on-week duties and off-weeks ambitions on a fatal collision course.“

Ben Stiller and Jessica Chastain are attached to lead the limited series "The Off Weeks," which has been greenlit at Apple TV+.

11/09/2025

Twenty-four years and I remember it like yesterday. (Louise Sloan ’88, the BAM's editorial content director here.) In the comments below is the essay I wrote back in 2001, from my NYC apartment—this photo was taken from my 12th floor terrace. Also in the comments, the BAM's report on the Brown alums who lost their lives that day.

29/08/2025

The Poetry Foundation named Andres Cordoba ’25 MFA as one of five 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows. Andres is the recipient of the 2024 John Hawkes Prize, 2024 Edwin Honig Memorial Award, and 2025 Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop Prize. He is currently the co-poetry editor for Big Score Lit and an MFA candidate in fiction at New York University.

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

15/08/2025

Today is the FINAL DAY to submit your work to the BAM 2025 gift guide. Send us a DM or email [email protected] to be considered.

14/08/2025

Former Brown baseball star James Lowe ’05 is not just a youth baseball coach. He is a youth sports guru reminding coaches and parents that having fun is more important for youngsters than competition. Read more about Lowe’s coaching philosophy at the link in our comments.

📝: Kevin Stacey
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13/08/2025

THREE DAYS until the deadline for BAM’s 2025 Gift Guide. If you’re a creator looking to promote your work, send us a DM or email [email protected] for consideration in our 2025 gift guide. DEADLINE IS AUGUST 15.

12/08/2025

Tribalism is commonly believed to divide us. Michael Morris ’86 argues it can be unifying amidst political disarray. According to Morris, tribalism is “truly what made us human.” Read more about the cultural psychologist at the link in our comments.

📝: Will Bunch ’81
📸: Kevin Condon

11/08/2025

As we gear up for the holiday season, the BAM gift guide features the best work from Brown alumni and students.

Send us a DM or email [email protected] to submit your products for consideration in our 2025 gift guide. DEADLINE IS AUGUST 15.

07/08/2025

Looking to promote your products? BAM’s holiday gift guide will get your work out to the greater Brown community.

Send us a DM or email [email protected] to submit your products for consideration in our 2025 gift guide. DEADLINE IS AUGUST 15.

06/08/2025

In San Francisco, Anne Tamar-Mattis ’91.5 is the administrative director of Liminal Medicine, a ketamine-assisted psychotherapy center. Read more on Tamar-Mattis and her spouse’s work in this new field of alternative solutions to mental health treatment. Click the link in our comments.

📝: Tim Murphy ’91
🎨: Karol Banach