Elise Ryan

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The world at our fingertips: A decade of smartphones on campus

By Rebecca Carcieri, Chanikarn Kovavisarach, Claire Liu, Nick Michael and Elise Ryan | December 6

To get a ride downtown, you call the taxi dispatcher. To find a date, you sit at a bar. To share the details of your weekend, you call a friend. In 2007, this was life on a college campus. But halfway through that year, the release of the first iPhone heralded a seismic cultural shift that no one anticipated. ...

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Students brave cold for Hasan Minhaj

By Elise Ryan | November 25

When Hasan Minhaj was growing up in Davis, California, he never dreamed that he would become the host of a Netflix show beloved for educating viewers on politically and socially relevant topics through comedy. Later, when Minhaj performed for an audience of two in a college dining hall plastered with ...

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Stuart Weitzman’s shoes evolve from staples to icons

By Elise Ryan | November 1

Stuart Weitzman, the creative and entrepreneurial mind behind many famed shoe silhouettes, stepped onto the Martinos Auditorium stage in silver shoes last night to discuss his career’s trajectory. Hosted by Fashion@Brown and The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship, Weitzman’s talk offered students ...

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Colson Whitehead shares artistic journey

By Elise Ryan | September 30

Colson Whitehead, author of nine novels including the #1 New York Times best-seller “The Underground Railroad” and his latest 2019 release “The Nickel Boys,” took to the pulpit of the First Unitarian Church Friday night to read, laugh and discuss the qualms and joys of a writer’s life with ...

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Times publisher Sulzberger ’03 returns to University

By Elise Ryan | September 24

A.G. Sulzberger ’03, publisher of the New York Times, returned to the University Monday evening to share his belief in the steadfast power of journalism in a world where reporters face unprecedented risk and newspapers face failing business models. Sulzberger, who was promoted to Times publisher on ...

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Alums celebrate at 71st Emmy Awards

By Elise Ryan | September 23

At the 71st Annual Emmy Awards, actors from acclaimed television shows shed their costumes to join writers, directors and other creatives — among them Brown alums — at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. University alums’ accomplishments were celebrated in numerous categories, including Outstanding ...

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Marin Hinkle ’88 finds courage in season two of ‘Mrs. Maisel’

By Elise Ryan | September 20

“I’m going to Paris.” Rose Weissman, mother of housewife turned stand-up comedian Miriam “Midge” Maisel, declares her intention to move to the City of Light in the first episode of the second season of Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” “I don’t feel like I have a life here ...

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Following Sofi Tukker: A journey from College Hill to Coachella

By Elise Ryan | April 25

Earlier this month, while students eagerly awaited the arrival of Spring Weekend’s rising stars, Sophie Hawley-Weld ’14 and Tucker Halpern ’14 brightened a different, grander arena: Coachella’s Mojave stage. Hawley-Weld and Halpern joined forces five years ago in the spring of their senior year, ...

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Biopic examines Ted Bundy from new angle

By Elise Ryan | April 11

Netflix’s “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” investigates the character of serial killer Ted Bundy as well as the “vulnerability of humans,” according to Producer Michael Simkin. Simkin, Zac Efron’s producing partner at Ninjas Runnin’ Wild Productions, spoke to an audience ...

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Jabberwocks to accept all genders, all voices

By Elise Ryan | April 10

The Jabberwocks, the University’s oldest a cappella group, will begin accepting singers of all genders and all voices beginning fall 2019. Founded in 1949 and traditionally an all-male group, this change comes as the group celebrates its 70th anniversary. “Every singer is welcome to participate, ...