Donald McClure, longtime professor in the Division of Applied
Mathematics at Brown University, has been named executive director of
the American Mathematical Society.
Senator Claiborne deBorda Pell passed away on January 1, 2009. He served as a Trustee from 1974-1979. In 1972 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws and in 2006 he was awarded with the University faculty's highest honor, the Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal.
Anastasia Volovich, the Richard and Edna Salomon Assistant Professor of
Physics, went to Washington to collect a Presidential Early Career
Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Are you wondering where to eat on campus, whether you can access your mailbox, or when the libraries will be open during Brown’s month-long break from classes? Read on.
As a Royce Fellow in Sport and Society, Brown junior Abby Hein spent last summer establishing a kids’ soccer league in an African village. To her surprise, the experience restored her own athletic career.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has
elected five Brown University professors — David M. Berson, Mark D.
Bertness, John P. Donoghue, Susan A. Gerbi, and Jimmy Xu — fellows for
their significant contributions to the life and physical sciences.
Fourteen undergraduate students chosen to participate in Brown’s new international study program will receive grants for overseas research next summer.
Calling the Mumbai attacks “India’s 9/11,” newly appointed professor Ashutosh Varshney, a scholar of South Asian ethnic conflict, advocates a multi-pronged response.
Brown senior Emma Clippinger and Emily Morell of Yale were chosen from among 100 applicants for their work as co-founders of Gardens for Health International, which provides nutritional support and economic empowerment to HIV-positive people in Rwanda.
