faculty

News about research

Targeted treatment for stomach cancers; protest era re-created; smells like dirt

Recent news coverage spotlights the work and creativity of Brown faculty. What have they been up to?
READ MORE July 23, 2008

New advising program appoints ten faculty fellows

As part of a new program to increase interaction between faculty and students, the University has named its first 10 non-residential Faculty Advising Fellows.
READ MORE July 10, 2008
Professor Marion Orr:

Marion Orr to head Taubman Center

Marion Orr will become director of Brown’s Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions on July 1, succeeding Darrell M. West, who will leave the University on June 30.
READ MORE June 16, 2008
David Mumford:
Faculty in the news

Professor Emeritus David Mumford receives two major international honors

Applied mathematician David Mumford was in Israel in late May to receive the prestigious Wolf Award; he immediately made a philanthropic gift of his prize money. Next month he’s headed to London for formal admission into the Royal Society.
READ MORE June 12, 2008
 Shadi Bartsch comes to Brown from the University of Chicago as the new W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics.
Faculty distinction

Sixteen named to endowed chairs

Twelve full professors and four assistant professors were named to endowed chairs by the Corporation in May.
READ MORE May 28, 2008
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