Brown University is having a moment.

Its professors are winning the most prestigious awards in the world, its alumni are doing big things, and it quickly and successfully reached a deal with the Trump administration to restore tens of millions of dollars in federal research funding.

🐻 On Monday, professor emeritus Peter Howitt was among three people awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for “having explained innovation-driven economic growth.” My colleague Alexa Gagosz has the full story.

🐻 Last week, professor Ieva Jusionyte was one of 22 national winners of “genius” grants announced by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. That comes with a $800,000 no-strings-attached grant that Jusionyte plans to use to fund research for her new book, which will focus on the practice of extraditing organized crime leaders from Mexico and other Latin American countries to the US.

Two Brown graduates have been generating a lot of buzz in the media and publishing space.

🐻 Chloe Malle, who graduated in 2008, was just handpicked by Anna Wintour to take over editorial content for Vogue, the most prominent fashion publication in the world. Wintour had led Vogue for 37 years.

🐻 Jonathan Karp, a 1986 graduate, is wrapping up his successful tenure leading Simon & Schuster. In his final year on the job, he helped edit books by Barry Diller, Jeffrey Seller, John Irving, and Kamala Harris.

And of course, there’s President Trump.

🐻 While other Ivy League universities have been locked in contentious, months-long battles with the administration, Brown worked out a reasonable deal to restore $50 million in research grants by pledging $50 million over the next 10 years to state workforce development organizations in Rhode Island.

It’s possible there’s still turmoil ahead for Brown, which just announced layoffs and is facing pressure from professors, students, and alumni to avoid signing on to a compact promising to uphold Trump’s political priorities.

But the university has stable leadership under President Christina Paxson, who is already the dean of Ivy League presidents and plans to remain on the job through at least June 2028. Brown also just checked in at No. 13 on the US News & World Report’s ranking of top universities.