Already a stunning success as a playwright, Nottage ’86 wins writing’s top prize for her “harrowing” play, Ruined. The other two finalists for the prize also were Brown alumnae.

A Brown scholar of alchemy in early modern Europe and a Brown MFA recipient are among 180 fellowship recipients chosen from among nearly 3,000 scholars, artists, and scientists.

How have nations avoided using “ultimate weapons” – nuclear warheads – against one another for more than 60 years? A Watson Institute associate professor outlines policies that can help sustain the atom bomb-free stretch in the face of new technologies and threats.

Wendell Pritchett ’86, a noted scholar in urban policy and an experienced government and university administrator, has been appointed chancellor of Rutgers University–Camden. Town and gown is already high on his priority list.

Brown’s engineering “elves” are designing toys that are fun and therapeutic for kids with cerebral palsy.

A higher gas tax? A Brown economist tells why increasing the cost of driving cars, rather than simply expanding mass transit, is the best way to reduce the economic and environmental impact of fossil-fuel consumption.

Looming above the main room of Sayles Hall is an antique musical treasure: the largest remaining Hutchings-Votey pipe organ in the world.