For more than seven months, New York Times reporter David Rohde was a prisoner of the Taliban, which tried to use him as a bargaining chip. Then, against all expectations, he escaped.
“She worked
hard, earned good grades, got a scholarship to Brown University, and is
now in graduate school, on her way to being Dr.
Jazmin Perez,” said Obama.
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.
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.
In the Heights, the New York City–based musical written by Quiara
Alegría Hudes ’04 MFA and produced by Jill Furman ’90, took home top honors at the Tony Awards on June 15, winning the prize for Best Musical.
Ex-felon Andrés Idarraga ’08 is headed to Yale Law School later this summer. First, though, he joined Bill Cosby to address inmates at his former home, Rhode Island’s Adult Correctional Institutions.
Described by his Brown mentor as “an undergraduate struck by lightning” and by his sister as “a peacemaker,” social scientist Michael Bhatia ’99 died May 7 in Afghanistan.
