Wednesday before Wednesday before Thanksgiving at Muldoon's Newport Beach Orange County Brown alums - primarily from the last century, but with some youth rolled in - and Stanford alums gathered late afternoon - early evening Nov. 19, 2025, at Muldoon's Irish Pub in Newport Beach to kick off the holiday season before the holidays actually arrive. It was a very low-key event, and Muldoon's provided a warm, welcoming atmosphere (and good happy hour food and drink deals). In an otherwise rainy...

There's a lot going on Friday night - Halloween, the 6th game of the World Series, and WWE Friday Night Smackdown. In this blizzard of great events, ESPN-U will give us a live national TV broadcast of the Brown-Penn football game at 4 PM Pacific Time, direct from Franklin Field on the Penn campus in Philadelphia. History abounds! Franklin Field, at 33rd and Spruce Sts. in Philadelphia (across 33rd St. from the Towne School of Civil Engineering and Moore School of Electrical Engineering...

Brown Prof. Emeritus Peter Howitt - Nobel Prize Caricature Brown Economics Professor (Emeritus) Peter Howitt shares this year's Nobel memorial prize in Economic Sciences with Phillipe Aghion of INSEAD (Paris) and the London School of Economics, and Joel Mokyr of Northwestern. Mokyr received a 50% share, with Howitt and Aghion each getting 25%. Howitt and the others were cited for work on how the world economy has been able to sustain a growth mode - with some slips - for about 2 centuries...