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President's Report 2012 (PDF) Administration Ruth J. Simmons was sworn in as the 18th president of Brown University on July 3, 2001. President She also holds an appointment as professor in the Biography Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Africana Studies. She was Contact Information president of Smith College from 1995 until the Letters and time of her appointment at Brown. Announcements A native of Texas and a 1967 graduate of Dillard Organizational Chart University in New Orleans, Simmons received her Past Presidents Ph.D. in Romance languages and literatures from Harvard University in 1973. She is fluent in Photos and Videos French and has written on the works of David Presidential Hosts Diop and Aime Cesaire.

Select News Items In 1983, after serving as associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Staff Southern California, Simmons joined the Princeton University administration. She remained at Princeton for seven years, leaving in 1990 for two years to serve as Student Office Hours provost at Spelman College. Returning to Princeton in 1992 as vice provost, she Additional Links remained at the university until June 30, 1995. As vice provost she was deputy to the provost and executive secretary of the Priorities Committee, the university’s Senior Staff budget committee. In 1993, invited by the president to review the state of race Brown & the World relations on the Princeton campus, Simmons wrote a report that resulted in a number of initiatives that received widespread attention. In 1995 she became Visit Brown president of Smith College, the largest women’s college in the United States, where

Social@Brown she launched a number of strategic initiatives to strengthen the college’s academic programs and inaugurated the first engineering program at a U.S. women’s college. Brown & Providence Simmons is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, and the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a current officer and past President of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, an Honorary Fellow at Selwyn College at Cambridge University, and she serves on a number of boards, including the Howard University Board of Trustees

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and the Board of Directors of Texas Instruments. She was recently appointed by President Obama as a member of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. Active in a wide range of educational, charitable, and civic endeavors, she holds honorary degrees from numerous colleges and universities, including Amherst College, Bard College, Howard University, Dillard University, Princeton University, Lake Forest College, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Dartmouth College, Boston University, Northeastern University, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Mount Holyoke College, Washington University in St. Louis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The George Washington University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Ewha Womans University, University of Southern California, Tougaloo College, Jewish Theological Seminary, University of Toronto, Providence College, University of Vermont, Morehouse College, Spelman College, Union College, and The American College of Greece.

Simmons is the recipient of a number of prizes and fellowships, including the German DAAD and a Fulbright Fellowship to France. In 1997 she was awarded the Centennial Medal from Harvard University, in 1999 the Teachers College Medal for Distinguished Service from Columbia University, and in 2001 the President’s Award from the United Negro College Fund. She has been honored with the 2002 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal and the 2002 “Drum Major for Justice” education award from Southern Christian Leadership Conference/WOMEN. In 2004 she received the ROBIE Humanitarian Award, given by the Jackie Robinson Foundation; the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal; and the chairman’s award of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. She was selected as a Newsweek “person to watch” and as a Ms. Woman of the Year in 2002. In 2001 Time magazine named her America’s best college president. In 2007, she was named one of U. S. News & World Report’s top U.S. leaders and — for the second time — a Glamour magazine Woman of the Year.

In recent years Simmons, an articulate spokesperson and writer, has written and delivered papers or presentations on a wide array of educational and public policy issues, including institutional governance, foreign language study, diversity, liberal arts, science education, leadership, and women in higher education. Among numerous educational institutions and national forums, she has been a featured speaker at the White House, the World Economic Forum, the National Press Club, the Association of American Universities, and the American Council on Education. In September 2001 ABC News tapped her to serve as a respondent during its live telecast following President Bush’s address to Congress.

During her tenure at Brown University, Simmons has created an ambitious set of initiatives designed to expand and strengthen the faculty; increase financial support and resources for undergraduate, graduate, and medical students; improve facilities; renew a broad commitment to shared governance; and ensure that diversity informs every dimension of the university. These initiatives have led to a major investment of new resources in Brown’s educational mission.

As an academic leader, Simmons believes in the power of education to transform lives. She champions the university as a haven of reasoned debate with the responsibility to challenge students intellectually and prepare them to become informed, conscientious citizens. She has spent her career advocating for a leadership role for higher education in the arena of national and global affairs.

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Apr 10: Statement of President Simmons on the Tragic Loss of Life in Poland

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Jan 10: Brown’s response to Haiti earthquake

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Jan 09: Statement on the passing of Senator Claiborne Pell

Dec 08: Message on Mumbai Tragedy

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May 08: Corporation Letter

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Feb 08: Russell Carey appointed Senior Vice President for Corporation Affairs

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Facts About Brown About the Hosts Program History In the fall of 1998, the Office of the President initiated a student hosting program Mission designed to create opportunities for students to connect with University leaders, alumni, and invited community guests. Supported by the Office of Public Affairs President's Report 2012 (PDF) Administration and University Relations, these student hosts were expected to become both an President inclusive and select group of students, representing the diverse opinions, thoughts, values, and realities of the Brown experience. Meeting and greeting guests at Biography University events and ceremonies, these student hosts would become the

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Feb 28: President Simmons honored by National Council for Research on Women (ncrw.org)

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Feb 3: Ruth Simmons Recalls Brown University’s Historical Ties to Slavery (emorywheel.com)

Dec 14: R.I. consortium explores energy-saving initiatives (projo.com)

Nov 2: Brown President Ruth Simmons wins NAACP award (projo.com)

Sept 23: Educational partnerships with Haiti to expand (projo.com)

Sept 22: President Simmons joins new organization to promote engagement with Muslim world (news.brown.edu) and Partners for a New Beginning Launches Steering Committee, Commitments (state.gov)

Sept 14: Two women from R.I., Simmons and Davis, honored by magazine as world changers (projo.com)

Sept 13: President Simmons among '40 Fierce and Fabulous Women' (projo.com)

June 9: Brown University president says U.S. needs to retool math, science education (projo.com)

June 5: RISD Honorary Degrees (risd.edu) and 643 receive degrees at RISD commencement (projo.com)

May 7: Brown president to receive Ellis Island award (projo.com)

Apr 4: When hope helped create history (timesofindia.com)

Mar 30: Ruth J Simmons: We want our students to be aware of India (livemint.com)

Mar 26: Strengthening ties with India (pbn.com)

Mar 26: The Today Show: Power Brunch with Business Leaders (today.msnbc.msn.com)

Mar 23: President Simmons Leads Brown Delegation on Visit to India (news.brown.edu)

Mar 3: President Simmons to be awarded Honorary Degree by Wesleyan (wesleyan.edu)

Feb 1: President Ruth Simmons Honored by BET (today.brown.edu) and Dr. Ruth Simmons: BET Honoree (bet.com)

Jan 28: Simmons signs sustainability pact at World Economic Forum (boston.com)

Jan 28: BET's high-five for docs, divas (washingtonpost.com)

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Dec 14: Ruth Simmons: 1st Black President of an Ivy League School (blackscholarsindex.com)

Oct 29: Dr. Ruth Simmons on the Tavis Smiley Show (video) (pbs.org)

Oct 26: Ruth Simmons, First Black President in the Ivy League, Puts Salary on the Chopping Block (blackoncampus.com)

Aug 9: Ruth Simmons: An educator and academic leader (video) (cnn.com)

Jun 17: President Obama Announces Appointments to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships (whitehouse.gov)

Apr 27: First in their fields: Obama and Simmons (video) (flypmedia.com)

Jan 20: President Simmons reflects on inaugural address (blogs.wsj.com)

Nov 26: Simmons calls for greater educational opportunities for African students (modernghana.com)

Nov 6: The Remarkable Rise and Run of Barack Obama (by President Simmons) (telegraph.co.uk)

Nov 4: Helping Out With the Short List (insidehighered.com)

Feb 6: President Ruth J. Simmons of Brown to speak at Commencement (union.edu)

Mar 31: US News & World Report: Ruth Simmons - America's Best Leaders 2007 (video) (youtube.com)

Mar 8: Presidential Lecture with Brown University President Ruth Simmons (slideshow) (columbia.edu)

Feb 7: Ruth J. Simmons to be 2008 Commencement Speaker (concordy.com)

Apr 30: Brown strives to become even greener (projo.com)

Oct 20: Black leaders praise Brown slavery study (projo.com)

Oct 3: Ruth Simmons: The visible woman (guardian.co.uk)

May 25: Brown University's 18th president is a woman with a mission. Almost 60, she says she's fearless (projo.com)

Sept 12: Peculiar Institutions: Brown University looks at the slave traders in its past (newyorker.com)

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Dawn handles incoming communications to the president’s office and facilitates appropriate responses to the requests, questions, and concerns submitted via mail or email. She also oversees outgoing presidential communications, including those prepared by offices throughout the University.

Richard Spies

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Dick provides oversight of the senior officers’ activities pertaining to Brown’s short- and long-term planning processes, including the growth of the University both on and off College Hill. He advises the president on the direction and progress of the significant investment in the University’s academic programs and guides the multiple capital projects currently underway.

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Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services: Margaret Klawunn

Vice President for Public Affairs and University Relations: Marisa Quinn

Vice President for Research: Clyde Briant

Vice President for International Affairs: Matthew Gutmann

Vice President for Human Relations: Karen Davis

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Vice President/CIO for Computing and Information Services: Michael Pickett

Senior Advisor and Executive Vice President for Planning: Richard Spies

Vice President and General Counsel: Beverly Ledbetter

Assistant to the President: Hannah Rodriguez-Farrar

Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences: Edward Wing

Dean of the College: Katherine Bergeron

Dean of the Faculty: Kevin McLaughlin

Dean of the Graduate School: Peter Weber

Dean of Engineering: Lawrence Larson

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President's Report 2012 (PDF) The Corporation of Brown University has just completed its May meeting, and I write to inform you of actions taken at the meetings.

FORWARD PLANNING

The Corporation received reports from Provost Mark Schlissel regarding academic priorities, searches, and facilities, and from Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn regarding residence hall renovations and athletics. A great deal of forward progress is being made on many fronts, and members of the Corporation expressed appreciation and gratitude for the work of faculty, students, and staff this year.

CAPITAL PROJECTS

The Committee on Facilities & Design reviewed reports on the progress of ongoing capital projects and planning, including the renovation of Hunter Laboratory and residence hall renovations that will be underway this summer. This evening members of the Corporation and the community will gather at the athletic complex to dedicate the Nelson Fitness Center, the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center, the David J. Zucconi ’55 Varsity Strength and Conditioning Center, and the Ittleson Quadrangle. We are deeply grateful to the donors whose generosity made these beautiful facilities available to our students.

ELECTION OF FELLOW AND TRUSTEES AND OTHER ACTIONS

The Corporation elected one new Fellow: Theresia Gouw Ranzetta ’90; and three new Trustees: Craig Barton ’77, Alison Cohen ’09, and William Twaddell ’63. Brief biographical notes on the new Fellow and Trustees are available online.

The Corporation approved the appointment of the following faculty to named chairs, effective July 1, 2012: Amanda Anderson, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English; Gilad Barnea, Robert and Nancy Carney Assistant Professor of Neuroscience;

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Wesley Bernskoetter, Manning Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Allan Bower, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Engineering; Laurent Brossay, Charles A. and Helen B. Stuart Associate Professor of Medical Science; Peter van Dommelen, Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology; Beshara Doumani, Joukowsky Family Professor of Modern Middle East History; Paul Dupuis, IBM Professor of Applied Mathematics; Philip Gould, Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres; Paul Guyer, Jonathan Nelson Professor of Philosophy; Johanna Hanink, Robert Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of Humanities; Thangam Ravindranathan, Manning Assistant Professor of French Studies; David Weil, James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics; and, effective January 1, 2013: Gregory Schopen, Rush C. Hawkins University Professor of Religious Studies.

The Board of Fellows approved the recommendation of the faculty with regard to the candidates for baccalaureate and advanced degrees, to be awarded at Commencement on Sunday, May 27.

The Corporation also endorsed resolutions of appreciation for two senior administrators who are ending their respective terms in office this year: Executive Vice President for Planning and Senior Advisor to the President Richard Spies and Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger.

ESTABLISHMENT OF ENDOWED POSITIONS, ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS

The Corporation established an endowed professorship and accepted a number of gifts. These included the following: The Joukowsky Family Professorship in Archaeology III, effective immediately, with support from Artemis A. W. Joukowsky ’55 LHD’85 P’87 and Martha Sharp Joukowsky ’58 LLD’85 P’87; From donors who wish to remain anonymous, a gift of $5,000,000; $3,00,000 of which is for the Establishment of a Professorship in Brain Science, $1,000,000 for a Scientific Innovation Fund, and $1,000,000 pending donor designation; From donors who wish to remain anonymous, a gift of $3,000,000 for the Athletic Turf Field Projects; From donors who wish to remain anonymous, a gift of $3,000,000 for the Brown- India Research Initiative; From donors who wish to remain anonymous, a gift of $1,500,000 to establish a College Hill Visiting Professorship; From donors who wish to remain anonymous, a gift of $1,500,000 pending designation; From the estate of E. Warren Fisher ’38, an unrestricted bequest in the amount of $1,040,479; From donors who wish to remain anonymous, a gift of $1,000,000 pending designation; From donors who wish to remain anonymous, a gift of $1,000,000 for an international scholarship.

CONCLUSION

This weekend marks the final Corporation meetings of my term as President. I thank the Brown community for the support, collegiality, and friendship extended so generously to me over these past eleven years. It has truly been an honor to serve

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as Brown’s 18th President, and as I prepare for a leave and a return to the faculty, I understand more than ever what a rare privilege it will be to continue to serve this great university.

Sincerely,

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President's Report 2012 (PDF) Administration I write to report to you that after many months of discussions, we have reached an agreement with Mayor Angel Taveras to increase the University’s total payments to President Providence by $31.5 million over the next 11 years. Brown entered into these discussions not only seeking to respond to the city’s current fiscal crisis, but also to Biography position the University for future growth and even greater success. Over the Contact Information months, we insisted on certain principles that were important to assuring that future: preservation of Brown’s legal status as a tax exempt institution, restoring a Letters and Announcements relationship of respect and trust among the negotiating partners, and resisting any attempts to alter the 2003 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by 05/01/12: Brown and other nonprofit colleges in Providence. Thanks to the participation and Agreement with cooperation of many, we have been able to reach all of our objectives. Providence

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Our agreement today builds on a history of commitment to Providence and Rhode Island by Brown. Together with our faculty, staff, students and area alumni, Brown contributes in myriad and significant ways to the vitality of Providence and Rhode Island. In collaboration with the other private colleges and universities in Providence, Brown entered into an MOU in 2003 to provide nearly $50 million over 20 years to the city—a commitment we have and will continue to keep. Brown also pays $1.3 million in real property taxes on properties purchased since 2003 that are used for educational purposes, and $1.6 million in property taxes on property we lease or do not use for educational purposes. In total, Brown pays $4 million each year in voluntary and property tax payments to Providence and nearly $2 million in fees. With this agreement, this amount will increase by an additional $3.9 million per year for five years beginning in June 2012, followed by $2 million annually for six years until June 2022.

During this challenging period, the relationship of nonprofit institutions to their municipalities has been much debated not only in Rhode Island but also around the country. Such questions are valid and must be explored more thoughtfully and deliberately in the coming years to ensure that we are maximizing our substantial assets across the city and state. My hope and expectation is that in the coming years as the city and state address the very substantial structural issues that have led to the current fiscal situation, we will at the same time work collaboratively to develop sound practices that ensure the long term fiscal health and economic growth that benefits all Providence citizens and institutions.

I would like to thank members of the Brown community for their input and guidance during these discussions. As President-elect Paxson begins her tenure, I hope that our renewed pledge to maintain a meaningful and productive partnership with the City will bear abundant fruit.

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December 14, 2011

The Brown University community was saddened to learn of the recent death of President's Report 2012 (PDF) Martha Mitchell. For nearly a half century, Martha Mitchell served Brown as a librarian and archivist. The University's longest-serving archivist, Martha knew more about the Archives and the history of Brown than any other individual then and now. She delighted in imparting this wisdom to others, especially students, and shared her knowledge with gracious generosity.

Martha had amazing spirit, endless curiosity, and an eagerness to explore new ideas. All of these qualities she devoted to Brown, where she compiled the Encyclopedia Brunoniana, which remains the world's most comprehensive source of information about Brown and its history. As we approach the 250th anniversary of Brown's founding we will particularly rely on and be grateful for Martha's significant contributions. She touched many lives at Brown, and for all who had the pleasure of being caught in her infectious energy; her passing is a great loss.

On behalf of the Brown community, I offer condolences to the Mitchell family and a sincere expression of gratitude to them for allowing us to share our daily lives with this amazing woman for so many years.

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Dear Members of the Brown Community, President's Report 2012 (PDF)

At its just completed regular October meeting, the Corporation of Brown University discussed a number of important strategic issues, received a variety of updates, and focused on continuing the momentum that members of the community have achieved under the Plan for Academic Enrichment.

REVIEW OF ATHLETICS

I discussed with the Corporation the findings and conclusions in my response, released earlier this week, to the April 2011 Report of the Athletics Review Committee. The Corporation affirmed the recommendations I made in my report, and reaffirmed their statement from February 2011 that intercollegiate athletics, the experience and contribution of Brown student-athletes, and the University's participation in the Ivy League are deeply valued. As stated at that time, the Corporation agreed that Brown's varsity teams should offer a high quality experience for students and opportunities for equitable participation and achieving excellence. In addition, intercollegiate athletics must be appropriately aligned with the academic mission of the University, and the individual experience of student- athletes must be consonant with their academic goals and curricular opportunities. The Corporation agreed that the vision and plan presented in my report will achieve these goals, and the administration, under the leadership of the Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services and the oversight of the Provost and the Dean of the College, is charged with executing that plan. The Corporation, through its appropriate committees, will be engaged in ongoing oversight, monitoring, and assessment of the university’s progress under that plan and in the area of intercollegiate athletics in general.

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affirmed my statement of the importance of military service and leadership; and the value of expanding opportunities for Brown students to participate in ROTC training and other officer training programs. The Corporation encouraged me to continue my conversations with military leaders to explore further opportunities to expand the offerings available to students in this regard, consistent with our deep respect for the men and women serving in the armed forces and the long-standing relationship that Brown has had with the military throughout our history. Towards this end, the Corporation directed that the university establish an office on campus to coordinate and direct services supporting veterans studying at Brown and Brown students participating in ROTC programs.

COMMITTEE DISCUSSION AND OTHER BUSINESS

The Committee on Academic Affairs heard reports from the Provost, the Dean of the Faculty, and the Dean of Medicine & Biological Sciences on the implementation of the recent changes in the tenure policy as approved by the faculty. The Committees on Budget & Finance and Audit reviewed a report of the audited financial statements for Fiscal Year 2011, which concluded on June 30th. The report highlighted the fact the university successfully adapted to revenue growth of less than one percent between fiscal year 2010 and 2011 by staff and operating budget reductions.

The Committee on Facilities & Design discussed a number of potential capital projects, including the renovation and expansion of student residences, and approved architect Toshiko Mori’s design for the renovation and repurposing of Hunter Laboratory. The Hunter renovation project will consolidate environmental programs and provide much needed laboratory and research space; the timing of construction is dependent upon funding. The Committee on Advancement discussed nascent plans for the celebration of the University’s 250th anniversary, which will take place in 2014.

In executive session, the Corporation discussed the Presidential search process. The recently announced members of the Presidential Selection Committee and the Campus Advisory Committee had their first joint meeting over the weekend, and plans for campus outreach and forums in November to seek community input into the process will be forthcoming.

NEW MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION

The Corporation welcomed new Fellow Jonathan M. Nelson ’77 P’07 P’09; and seven new Trustees: Robert J. Carney ’61, Cathy Frank Halstead, John Hannan P’10 P’14 P’14, Kevin Mundt ’76 P’11, Steven Price ’84, Jasmine Waddell ’99, and Lauren Zalaznick ’84.

CHAIR ESTABLISHED

The Corporation established the IBM Professorship of Applied Mathematics. An existing visiting professorship was also renamed the IBM Visiting Professorship of Applied Mathematics. Both professorships were supported by IBM.

NEW GIFTS

The Corporation accepted with gratitude a number of gifts to the University. These include:

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From Chancellor Thomas J. Tisch ’76 and Alice M. Tisch, an additional gift of $15,000,000 for University priorities;

From parents who wish to remain anonymous, a gift of $5,000,000 to be designated for approved academic priorities;

From Mark L. Shapiro ’64 and Judy C. Lewent, a gift of $3,333,000 to establish the Judy Lewent and Mark L. Shapiro Professor of Philosophy;

From international donors who wish to remain anonymous, a gift of $2,000,000 to support Brown’s Middle East Studies Program;

From the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a gift of $2,000,000 to support a six- year pilot program allowing doctoral students to pursue a master’s degree in a secondary field while they earn their doctorates;

From the General Motors Corporation, a gift of $1,600,000 to support the General Motors/Brown Collaborative Research Laboratory in Computational Materials Research;

From donors who wish to remain anonymous, a gift $1,300,000 of which $1,150,000 is for endowed scholarships; and of which $150,000 is for the Brown Annual Fund for financial aid;

From the Wesley R. Thompson Trust, a bequest of $1,051,532 to create the Wesley R. Thompson & Lois H. Thompson Scholarship Fund;

From Trustee Emeritus Frank J. Wezniak ’54, P’89 a gift of $1,000,076 to fund the Frank J. Wezniak Charitable Remainder Unitrust;

From donors who wish to remain anonymous, a gift of $1,000,000 for the Brown Annual Fund;

From Sanford I. Sirulnick P’93 MD’97, a gift of $1,000,000 to name the Erik J. Sirulnick, MD, Case Study Room in the Medical Education Building.

On Friday, the Corporation, joined by many faculty, students, and staff, dedicated the new Medical Education Building at the Alpert Medical School. The ceremony included a keynote address by Dr. Darrell G. Kirch, President and CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges, and the presentation of an honorary degree to Mr. Herbert M. Kaplan, President of the Warren Alpert Foundation. We were joined at the ceremony by Governor Chafee and Mayor Taveras who reiterated the positive impact the Alpert Medical School and the Medical Education Building are having on health care in Rhode Island and economic development in the City of Providence. The Corporation expressed its deep appreciation to Mr. Kaplan and the Alpert Foundation for their leadership and philanthropy in making this new building a reality, and to all of the donors who enabled its successful completion.

CONCLUSION

The Corporation expressed appreciation for the hard work of all members of the community. Thank you, once again, for your work and support.

Sincerely,

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History President's Report 2012 (PDF) Mission United Nations General Assembly Special Commemorative Meeting Administration Mr. President, Madame Deputy, permanent representatives and permanent President observers to the United Nations, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, I wish Biography to thank the member states of the Caribbean Community and the Group of African States for their invitation to speak to you today in solemn remembrance of victims Contact Information of the transatlantic slave trade. This international day of remembrance is an Letters and important international breakthrough in a long effort to recognize the seriousness Announcements and consequences of a monumental violation of human rights.

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Cast once more at sea, inheritors of this erasure have been left to a patchwork existence with gaping holes that cannot, for the most part, ever be filled with pieces that precisely match. Other peoples around the world have known such loss and have struggled with similarly deliberate oppressive acts but nowhere has the erasure been more extensive nor more complete than in the transatlantic slave trade.

What is one to do in the face of such a massive violation of human rights? Courageous individuals throughout the world must produce the arguments, challenge the practices that keep evil in place, and ultimately overturn such wrongs. While acknowledging how difficult it can be to resist an evil act that has taken deep and self-interested root, I believe that resisting human rights violations must be an important, if not dominant, feature of worldwide efforts for peace and security. The self-interest that inspires widespread evil deeds is powerful indeed. It overwhelms common sense and common decency, trounces goodwill toward others, and installs itself with virulence. Even more problematic is the fact that as virulent as such acts may have become, once eradicated, the world forgets all too easily how they came into being and gained traction. This cycle of forgetting must finally be broken.

Our task in these times is to ensure that the world does not forget how easily massive human rights violations take root and gain acceptance in the heart of a society. International vigilance is required to identify and address the rise of such offenses. International focus, diplomatic efforts, and timely action to arrest the growth of these violations is essential.

Universities are vital partners in this process. In serving society, our task is not only to record history accurately but also to make sure that the history of such transgressions is not erased. I said that it is all too easy for such offenses to settle upon the consciousness of a society. Sadly, it is just as easy for history to be erased or written in a way to make light of offenses or, in some cases, to deny that they ever occurred. Deniers of atrocities are a breed apart. Inheritors of the malevolence of the original sin, they perpetuate the injustice done to victims by denying that it ever occurred in the first place. We must face the deniers and, putting evidence before them, counter their fabrications with the stark truth. This universities do steadfastly but that is hardly enough. Universities must also reveal the truth of their own histories, practices, and erasures.

Many of our oldest universities in the United States have a special burden vis-a-vis the history of slavery. Our campuses were often founded with the largesse of those directly involved in the slave trade and, in some cases, founders, faculty, and even students kept slaves. This secret has long lingered in the shadows of the academy – an academy that today extols principles of freedom and equality.

Brown University took steps to recover this history as a way of demonstrating that the fear of the truth has no place in a university that purports to expose the truth. In 2003, a committee of faculty and students undertook a process to uncover any ties that our University had to the slave trade. In commissioning a study of our University’s history, I said, “This is an effort to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past… . Understanding our history and suggesting how the full truth of that history can be incorporated into our common traditions will not be easy. But, then, it doesn’t have to be.” [1]

Our three-year long process resulted in an extraordinary expedition through archives and artifacts of the New England slave trade. We learned that, although this history was largely absent from the University’s official documents, some of our founders were, in fact, involved directly or indirectly in the transatlantic slave trade. We also learned that our state of Rhode Island was “steeped in the guilt and

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infamy of the African slave trade.” [2] Our process explored the meaning and implication of the benefit the University received from this commerce. We asked important questions: What did this history teach us about what we do today, and what does it compel us to do in these times?

We concluded that we should memorialize this history so that it is forever after a visible dimension of our early history and current identity. We are doing that by rewriting our history with the full account of what transpired in those early days. We are also committed to helping others understand the past and present consequences of human trafficking in all its dimensions; a center is being established on our campus for this purpose. In addition, a memorial is being commissioned on the campus that acknowledges this history. Finally, we decided that we should do more for the children of our city, particularly those who might be heirs to this history. In that regard, we established a fund to support the local schools and a program to train teachers who are employed in the public schools. These small steps are by no means intended to make amends for this history. Instead, they are meant to be ever-present lessons in how principles of equality and justice can so easily be tarnished. They are to be constant reminders of our obligation to be “drum majors for justice” as Martin Luther King, Jr., intended.

Egregious wrongs compel action. The most important action required is that which directly addresses the offense, cleanses the record, and brings to light the truth of what has transpired. Most of all, any action that heals must cast light on the lasting effects of human rights violations. The action you take today is part of an important process to acknowledge that too little attention has been paid to the tragic commerce and consequence of the trade in African slaves. It is my hope that this worldwide process will lead to greater understanding of these lasting consequences and prompt the world to consider ways to prevent modern day abuses of human rights. We at Brown are proud to have launched this process, inspiring other universities to follow; we are proud to be partners in the effort to set the record straight and to honor the sacrifice of so many millions who perished in the transatlantic trade.

Again, I thank you for the work that you have undertaken to acknowledge this history, and I am honored to stand with you today in solemn remembrance of those who perished in the transatlantic slave trade. I speak, too, in honor of my own forbears who, in spite of inhuman conditions, survived that awful journey and made a life in an alien land. It is to all of them that we owe remembrance.

Thank you, Mr. President.

[1] Slavery and Justice: A Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. (2006). Providence, RI: Brown University, p. 11.

[2] Seth Rockman, “Slavery and Abolition along the Blackstone,” in Landscape of Industry: An Industrial History of the Blackstone Valley. (2009). Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, Hanover, p.127.

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President's Report 2012 (PDF) Following President Obama's signing of the legislation passed by the U.S. House and Senate that ended the ban on openly gay men and women serving in the armed forces, I have decided to form a committee to review the history of military education at Brown, to evaluate our current policies on ROTC, and to make recommendations with respect to the appropriate role for Brown in officer training programs. I am pleased to announce that the following faculty and students have agreed to serve on the committee:

Katherine Bergeron, Chair Leslie Bostrom (Visual Art) Andrew Campbell (Molecular, Microbiology & Immunology) Catherine Lutz (Anthropology) Kenneth Miller (Biology) Robert Pelcovits (Physics) Philip Rosen (Modern Culture and Media) Thomas Webster (Engineering) Chaney Harrison, ’11.5 Samuel Howard, ‘14

The Graduate Student Council will announce their graduate student representative later this week. Stephen Lassonde, Deputy Dean of the College, will staff the committee.

The group will meet for the first time on Tuesday. I have asked them to make every effort to consult broadly with the campus community throughout their work. Dean Bergeron has assured us that we will have an opportunity to hear a progress report on the Committee’s work at the March 15 meeting of the Brown University Community Council. In the meantime, all faculty, students, and staff at Brown have been given access to a website that contains information about the committee’s charge, along with readings of relevance to this issue. You may reach the site through the following link: https://sites.google.com/a/brown.edu/committee-on- rotc/

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Dear Brown community members:

President's Report 2012 (PDF) President Ruth J. Simmons presented a preliminary report to the Corporation of Brown University at our meeting on October 13, 2001 on the state of the University, emphasizing Brown's critical academic priorities. It was the sense of the Corporation that the community should be informed of our reaction to President Simmons' report.

The Corporation affirmed the President's clearly stated goal, which is to strengthen Brown's academic mission, and committed itself to supporting initiatives that will expedite her efforts. We directed the President to present, at our February meeting, a substantial proposal to enhance academic excellence and enrich the intellectual life of the University.

The members of the Corporation enthusiastically endorsed the President's priorities, which include faculty resources, research opportunities, and financial support for graduate and undergraduate students. It is our expectation that the plan that will be submitted in February will include specific recommendations that will enable us to act quickly and make an immediate impact on the quality of our University.

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President's Report 2012 (PDF) Vice Chancellor Marie Langlois, Chancellor Emeritus Artemis Joukowsky, trustees, faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends. T.S. Elliott commented that “history is a pattern of timeless moments.” Today, in this timeless moment under the watchful glance of history, we assemble to open this 238th year of Brown University. [I am aware that in addressing you today, I am making history – as the first Texan to lead this great university.]

This assembly takes place in the presence of edifices that time has endowed with a patina of glory and embossed with the names of honorable sons and daughters of Brown. The majesty of our surrounding suggests the nobility of the work soon to be resumed in the offices, classrooms, laboratories, corridors, carrels, rehearsal rooms, studios, lecture halls, sports pavilions, cultural centers and athletic fields. You may think me extravagant to speak of nobility, but I believe that knowledge work is glory work and that those who embark upon that effort with seriousness of intent and integrity as their guide are righteous in their cause.

In addressing you this morning, I am taking the place of a faculty member who normally opens the year with an address at opening convocation. Let me remind you that it is to the faculty that we look for the central leadership of this undertaking. The university is an enterprise that is in all of its scholarly parts wrought by faculty, improved upon by faculty, held in equilibrium by faculty, pushed to excellence by faculty. What greatness and virtue are to be found here derives mainly from the character and caring of the dedicated scholars who are guardians of the academy. It is they who have fought for the independent pursuit of knowledge, they who have opened new frontiers of learning, they who have given society its heroic scientific and technological advances. Society is in their debt.

We have welcomed this year 1,379 members of the Class of 2005, 398 graduate students, 75 medical students, 9 students resuming their studies, and 6 transfer students. These newcomers are varied by age, prior experience, geographical origin, religious affiliation, personal traits and preferences, talents, race, and culture. All exemplary by their records of achievement, they join accomplished students in the Classes of 2002, 2003 and 2004 who have already made an

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outstanding mark on the University. Brown is fortunate to have in all of you, some of the most exemplary scholars in the world.

You seekers of knowledge have every resource within reach: collections of many types; laboratories in which to examine, test, and interpret phenomena; technologies that help to analyze and hasten work; studios for art making and word work; facilities that improve fitness of mind and body. Virtually everything is at hand for academic exploration and intellectual stimulation. Yet our environment cannot grant us utensils to grasp such essential qualities as attentiveness, open- mindedness, steadfastness, resilience, ethics, and concern for others. These elements also fuel the light of understanding, a light that is requisite to the deepest levels of meaning.

Last Spring, the light of understanding flickered on our campus, revealing darkness close at hand. Such troubles are as old as knowledge itself. Whatever level of intelligence we attain, whatever the time we expend in the service of intellectual growth, however high the pursuit of learning takes us, we still must rely on the simple and enduring qualities and values that preserve peace and understanding among peoples.

I will not revisit the circumstances that brought about the difficulties and divisions on the campus for what does it matter which match caused a conflagration? Having all journeyed here for the sake and furtherance of learning, we are defined by that purpose, and our compact as members of this learning community is clear. While other types of communities devise covenants so as to avoid conflict, our covenant is rooted in quarrel. In opposition. We encourage ideas and opinions to collide in the service of learning. We freely trespass boundaries, criticize each others’ views, test every theory. No idea is beyond range or out of bounds. To be sure, there are rules, but such rules give wide berth to the expression of ideas. That freedom of expression is the very bedrock of scholarly investigation.

Although universities owe much of their ideals, customs, and costumes to medieval ecclesiastical traditions, most of us who carry on these traditions are not monks or clerics. Still, we have no less a duty to the sacred obligation to protect the light of the world: the never-ending search for truth. As scholars, it is our responsibility to love truth and to seek to keep that light glowing brightly from generation to generation.

Now you will say that truth is often uncertain and elusive. That is surely so. Yet, as signatories of this solemn compact, we can make the journey of truth seekers and truth tellers safe whether they arrive at their desired destination or not. Their journey is a dangerous one. There are those who wait along the way, prepared to highjack the vehicles of truth. There are purveyors who would delay and distract those who journey from their goal. There are by-ways that promise better rewards if one would but turn away from the search.

By entering this university, each of you has also become a guardian of free expression. Your task will be onerous, I am sure, for you will be tempted many times in your life to close off the route to free expression because there will be brigands who are adept at using this path for nefarious intent. If we are to safeguard our current freedom and the means to restore that freedom when it is wrested from us, the path must remain passable even when the dishonorable must pass upon it.

Knowledge is rooted in freedom of speech and inquiry. Over the centuries, freedom of speech has overturned tyranny, lead new populations of learners to the academy,

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discredited erroneous and biased scholarship disguised as factual and objective knowledge, and opened up new fields and approaches. The protection of speech that is offensive or insulting to us is one of the most difficult things we do, but it is this same freedom that protects us when we are, in turn, powerless. It is easy enough to exist in a realm where everyone is like-minded and speaks only of unimportant matters. While comfort may be found in silence, truth cannot dwell there. Each of us must raise our voices to advance what is known.

Of course, in a community of learning, we hope that you will all use this freedom responsibly. We expect that you will not be reckless or deliberately assault, intimidate, harass, or harm others under the guise of free speech. You will hear exhortations to be kind, to be just, to be considerate of others. Such exhortations are to be expected when we live in a community. However, these admonitions should not interfere with the confidence you feel as a learner to be exacting and rigorous in your thoughts and uncompromising in the expression of your opinion. I hope you will use every means at our disposal to do so with tact and aplomb, but even if you do not have this humane touch, you must not avoid expressing your opinion and engaging those of others. If you fail to do so, you will not be a full beneficiary of the process of learning.

I will not ask you to embrace one who offends your humanity through the exercise of free speech, but I would ask you to understand that the price of your own freedom is permitting the expression of such opinions. We will not stop hoping that men and women will rise above gratuitously specious utterances, but even if they do not, we must fight with all the force within us to preserve their right to be heard even as we feel inclined to expose the error in their logic. This thing, bitter as it is, is the nectar of our republic and the basis of university life. To learn is to submit to the tyranny and discomfort of this freedom.

I believe learning, at its best, to be the antithesis of comfort. This process of discovery need not make us feel good and secure; rather it should assault our arrogant assertions and our comfortable beliefs. If you have come to this place for comfort, I would urge you to rise, walk to yon iron gate, pass through the portal and never look back. But if you seek betterment for yourself, your community and posterity, stay and fight. Fight for the courage to be a true learner. Fight for the dignity of your intellect. Fight for the compact that preserves our liberty. Fight for the privilege of being in a place that is dedicated to overturning lies. Fight for the place that each of you has earned in the timeless moments of the history of Brown.

I am haunted by an encounter with a nameless girl from my undergraduate years. During those years, I was like many my age, confident of my opinions. I was passionate in my views about the manifest evil of apartheid and its adherents in South Africa. One day, in the middle of a classroom discussion about apartheid in which every student held to the view of apartheid as corrupt, a young white South African woman spoke up in class and defended this way of life. Her voice was at once courageous and plaintive. “It’s our country too,” she said. I have now forgotten many of the comments of those in the class who spoke against the horror of apartheid, a hideous system that has now been justly abolished, but I have never forgotten these simple words spoken in opposition to my own. They taught me more about the need for discourse in the learning process than all the books I subsequently read. I have regretted for thirty years that I did not engage this young woman’s assertions rather than dismissing her as a racist. I have tried to set that mistake right for all of my career.

Every morning that I rise, I walk through the streets of College Hill in the shadow of noble facades shaped by artisans of bygone eras. I pass under magnificent canopies

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formed by majestic elms that have been witness to enormous change in our society. When I reach my office and find my way to my desk, I face portraits of founding fathers of our university. Their visages were initially jarring as I sought to feel comfortable in my surroundings.

Some of our founders and benefactors were holders or traders of slaves. They did not think a woman’s mind was equal to that of a man. Such was the fact of life in the colonies when Brown was founded. We must not hide from that fact, for it is a part of our past and in speaking its truth, we not only let the light in, but we give it air, making it shine more brightly. As a descendent of slaves, I am incapable of seeing the practice of slaveholding as a just enterprise no matter what twist one places on the social, economic, or political realities of former times. As a woman, I cannot be an apologist for the injustice of discrimination. But I am not here to alter what cannot be changed, nor to condemn what is in our past. I am here to affirm what the university has become and what it aspires to be. There is dignity in who we are and the path we have chosen today. Let us be judged by what we are making of the past.

Last year this community grappled with difficult issues of free speech. To forget that difficulty is not the way to knowledge. I hope we will find the means to set again upon the path of knowledge by voicing our opinions about that dilemma and moving definitively beyond it by making ourselves a community that works amicably to absorb the challenges of truth seeking and truth telling.

Today, let us choose to focus on redefining the ways in which we can value life and respect difference. What a rich, rich legacy we have. Both successes and errors of the past teach us about what the future can be. For my part, I choose to stand upon this hill to try to write a new chapter for the generations to come. I choose to embrace the obligations of membership in this community. I promise to do so even when the weight of history is heavy and my discomfort is great. The journey toward reconciliation and a more enlightened world is a difficult one, but if we travel it in the spirit of truth, openness, and mutual respect, it will be a more satisfying journey.

Welcome to this quarrelsome enterprise. Enjoy!

Thank you.

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Facts About Brown 1765-1791 History James Manning was born October 22, 1738 in Piscataway, Mission New Jersey. In 1762, he graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton University), and was ordained a Baptist President's Report 2012 (PDF) Administration minister in 1763. That same year he was sent by the President Philadelphia Association of Baptist Churches to Rhode Island for the purpose of establishing a college to be Biography principally under the direction of the Baptists. Contact Information Rhode Island College (renamed Brown University in 1804) was granted a charter Letters and Announcements on March 3, 1764, and Manning became its first president when it opened the next year. He served as the College's only professor until 1767, when the increase in Organizational Chart students presented the need for an additional instructor. In 1769 President Manning presided over the first Commencement, at which time seven students Past Presidents received the degree of Bachelor of Arts and 21 honorary degrees were conferred. James Manning In 1770, Manning oversaw the move of the College from Warren, RI to Providence. Jonathan Maxcy It was during his presidency, from 1776 to 1782, that the College Edifice (University Asa Messer Hall) was occupied by American and French troops as a barracks and hospital. When the war was over, the College reopened, poor, with few students and a Francis Wayland damaged building. Manning guided the College through the difficult post- Barnas Sears Revolution period, and manifested a multiplicity of talents during his tenure -- lecturing, preaching, taking on boarders, even "making thirty two Rods of Stone Ezekiel Gilman wall on the College Land." 165 men graduated during his presidency, which ended Robinson upon his death in 1791. Elisha Benjamin Andrews

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Facts About Brown 1792-1802 History Jonathan Maxcy graduated from Rhode Island College in Mission 1787. His poem at Commencement was hailed by the audience and he "was induced with reluctance to consent to President's Report 2012 (PDF) Administration its publication." Maxcy was immediately appointed as a President tutor by the College, and became president pro tempore in 1792, being given a trial period because of his youth. In 1797 Biography he was formally elected president. Maxcy's skills as an orator Contact Information and scholar were well-known and served to bolster the reputation of the fledgling College. Letters and Announcements Of his presidency it was written: "[t]hough destitute of funds, and patronage from Organizational Chart the legislature of the state, guided by his genius and wisdom, the College flourished and diffused its light over every part of the country...Dr. Maxcy was one of the most Past Presidents learned men which our country has produced...[h]is stores of knowledge were James Manning immense, and he had at all times the command over them." Maxcy did struggle, however, keeping "command over" matters of student discipline, as the College's Jonathan Maxcy men were noted to be rowdy during the young president's tenure. Maxcy resigned in Asa Messer 1802 to become president of Union College in New York.

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Facts About Brown 1802-1826 History Asa Messer graduated from Rhode Island College in 1790 Mission and thereafter served in a variety of roles at the College, including tutor, librarian, professor of learned languages, President's Report 2012 (PDF) Administration and professor of natural philosophy until he succeeded President Jonathan Maxcy as president pro tempore in 1802. In 1804, Messer was named president, the same year that Nicholas Biography Brown, class of 1786, donated $5,000 to his alma mater,

Contact Information resulting in the renaming of the College to Brown University. Letters and Announcements Messer's administration witnessed the increased unruliness of students—acts such Organizational Chart as burning the privy and removing the chapel doors and furniture during the night were not uncommon. Messer ordered such perpetrators "rusticated"—sent to the Past Presidents country to continue their studies for a time under the direction of clergymen. James Manning Messer presided over the opening of Hope College, the University's second building and the first used exclusively as a dormitory, and the founding of Brown's first Jonathan Maxcy Medical School.

Asa Messer Despite such achievements, his presidency is remembered most as a time of Francis Wayland conflict. His liberal religious views set him at odds with many members of the

Barnas Sears student body and the Corporation. He lamented how, in 1824, protesting students "broke open the Library: they beat down the pulpit: they prevented or disturbed for Ezekiel Gilman several weeks a regular recitation: they even assailed our house, in the night, and Robinson broke the windows." The continued strife resulted in Messer's resignation in 1826. Elisha Benjamin Andrews

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Facts About Brown 1827-1855 History The son of a Baptist minister, Francis Wayland graduated Mission from Union College in 1813 and for the next two years continued his medical studies in his native New York City. In President's Report 2012 (PDF) Administration 1816 he abandoned medicine to study for the ministry, but President lack of funds forced him to withdraw from the Andover Seminary. In 1817 he returned to Union College and Biography remained there as a tutor until 1821, when he became a

Contact Information minister at the First Baptist Church in Boston. Wayland's sermons gained him notoriety in the Baptist community, Letters and which in turn led to his receipt of an honorary degree from Brown in 1822 and his Announcements election to the Corporation in 1825. Wayland returned to Union in 1826 as Organizational Chart professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, though his third stay there proved to be the shortest. That December, he was elected Brown's president, and Past Presidents took office two months later. A beloved, though stern, figure on campus, Wayland James Manning sought to squelch the unruliness that beset the student body prior to Messer's resignation. He ordered that officers of the College visit students' rooms and Jonathan Maxcy "occupy rooms in the College, during the hours appropriated for study." Students

Asa Messer alleged he "had a heavy foot for a student's door when it was not promptly opened after his official knock." Francis Wayland

Barnas Sears Wayland wrote several widely recognized textbooks on the topics of moral and intellectual philosophy and political economy. He was also an advocate of changes Ezekiel Gilman in higher education. In his own classes, he encouraged student analysis of the Robinson lesson and free discussion, both of which were innovative for the time. Lack of Elisha Benjamin support for his progressive views led to his offer of resignation in 1849. Discussions Andrews with the Corporation resulted in the withdrawal of his resignation.

William Herbert His 1850 Report to the Corporation of Brown University on changes in the system Perry Faunce of collegiate education outlined Brown's first "new curriculum." Wayland posited in Clarence Barbour the report that "every student might study what he chose, all that he chose, and nothing but what he chose." This led to more flexible entrance and degree Henry Wriston requirements, which were later criticized, and to the introduction of electives. After Barnaby Keeney effecting remarkable change in the institution during his tenure, Wayland retired in 1855, and lived only blocks from campus until his death in 1865. Ray Heffner

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Facts About Brown 1855-1867 History Barnas Sears was perhaps the most prominent Baptist Mission educator in the country, his predecessor Francis Wayland notwithstanding. He was an alumnus of Brown, having President's Report 2012 (PDF) Administration graduated in 1825 after supporting himself by teaching President school over winter break and building stone walls in the summer. Sears steered Brown through the financial Biography hardships that preceded and were brought on by the Civil

Contact Information War, and actually managed to augment the endowment by $210,000 during his tenure. Sears' more moderate views on Letters and discipline were met with enthusiasm by undergraduates, whose student societies Announcements were now permitted to hold night meetings. President Sears presided over the Organizational Chart opening of a new chemistry facility as well as some changes in the curriculum. He was so beloved as President that when he left Brown in 1857, the entire student Past Presidents body lined up to shake his hand before he embarked for a new position in Virginia. James Manning

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A Massachusetts native, Alexis Caswell graduated first in Brown's Class of 1822. He became a tutor at Columbian College (George Washington University) and in 1827 was President's Report 2012 (PDF) ordained a Baptist minister. Soon after, he was called from a position in Nova Scotia to assist the ailing pastor of Providence's First Baptist Church. After serving for a time as minister, he took a professorship in mathematics and natural history upon the resignation of Professor Alva Woods. He served in this capacity from 1828 to 1850, when he became professor of mathematics and astronomy, a position which he occupied until 1855, when he was named professor of natural philosophy and astronomy.

During the 1840-41 school year, he was president pro tempore while President Wayland traveled in Europe. He was named regent of the University and assisted Wayland from 1852 to 1855. When Wayland announced his retirement, some expected that Caswell, the senior member of the faculty, would become president. However, he would wait another 15 years before that honor was bestowed upon him.

Caswell accepted the presidency in 1868, at the age of 69. His was not expected to be a dynamic presidency, though while he was in office he managed to revitalize the alumni group, and oversee increases in the endowment, tuition, faculty salaries and enrollment. Caswell resigned in 1872 at the age of 73. Three years later he accepted another presidency -- that of Rhode Island Hospital.

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Facts About Brown 1872-1889 History Ezekiel Gilman Robinson graduated from Brown in 1838. Mission He later said of his college days, "I had drifted aimlessly into college and drifted aimlessly through it, waking up only the President's Report 2012 (PDF) Administration last year to see what I might and ought to have done." President Unsure of what he wanted to do, Robinson rented a room at Brown and became a "resident graduate," studying German Biography under Professor Horatio B. Hackett and occasionally

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Letters and When Hackett departed Brown for the Newton Theological Announcements Institution, Robinson followed. After his graduation from Newton and ordination in Organizational Chart 1842, Robinson served in a variety of teaching and clerical positions until he was appointed professor of Christian Theology at Rochester Theological Seminary in Past Presidents 1853. In 1860, he became its president. In 1867, he was offered the presidency of James Manning Brown, but declined. When he was offered the position again in 1871, he accepted.

Jonathan Maxcy The College underwent great material and academic advancements during

Asa Messer Robinson's tenure. He instituted graduate study at Brown over the objections of the senior professors of Latin and Greek, but with the approbation of history professor Francis Wayland E. Benjamin Andrews, who would succeed him as president. He introduced

Barnas Sears professorships in physiology and hygiene; geology and paleontology; astronomy; botany; and modern languages. And he presided over the near doubling of the Ezekiel Gilman endowment, the renovation of University Hall, and construction of the Library Robinson (Robinson Hall), Sayles and Slater Halls. Satisfied with the state of the University, Elisha Benjamin Robinson resigned in 1889. Andrews

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Facts About Brown 1889-1898 History Elisha Benjamin Andrews, a Civil War lieutenant, Baptist Mission minister, and Brown alumnus, assumed the presidency of the University in 1889, a year after he had left a Brown President's Report 2012 (PDF) Administration professorship for a position at Cornell. He bolstered the President program in graduate instruction entered upon by Robinson, and was instrumental in the founding of the Women's Biography College (later Pembroke) in 1891. He also saw

Contact Information undergraduate enrollment increase by 140% during his term. In light of these developments, and in the face of Letters and questions regarding the adequacy of the College's current facilities, Andrews Announcements proposed that Brown address itself to the business of becoming "a true University." Organizational Chart In 1897, Andrews resigned after a controversy with the Corporation over his views Past Presidents on the coinage of silver, which had been a primary issue in the 1896 presidential James Manning campaign. Several Corporation members felt that Andrews' views might adversely affect the prospects of the institution, and that his views had already cost the school Jonathan Maxcy alumni donations. However, the faculty and student body advocated the necessity of

Asa Messer free speech, and the Corporation refused to accept Andrews' resignation offer. Only a year later, Andrews resigned for good, this time to become superintendent of Francis Wayland Chicago public schools.

Barnas Sears At the 1947 dedication of Andrews Hall, President Henry Wriston remarked, Ezekiel Gilman "Under Andrews, Brown ceased to be a small New England college and embraced Robinson the idea of a university. With him the ideal of scholarship, which must dominate a Elisha Benjamin modern university, came to fruition." Andrews

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Facts About Brown 1899-1929 History William H.P. Faunce, the son of a Baptist minister, entered Mission Brown in 1876. After graduation, he taught freshman mathematics at Brown, but then decided to become a President's Report 2012 (PDF) Administration minister. He graduated from the Newton Theological President Institution in 1884, and thereafter served as pastor of the State Street Church in Springfield, Massachusetts until Biography 1889, at which time he became pastor of the Fifth Avenue

Contact Information Church in New York City. After a successful tenure in New York, he was offered the presidency of Brown in 1899. Letters and Announcements Faunce's administration eventually spanned thirty years, the longest presidential Organizational Chart term in Brown's history. The change in the state of the University during that period was marked, and the growth of the physical plant was nothing short of Past Presidents extraordinary—a new president's house and the Van Wickle Gates in 1901, an James Manning administration building in 1902, a modern engineering building and a swimming pool in 1903, Caswell Hall, Rockefeller Hall (Faunce House), and the John Carter Jonathan Maxcy Brown Library in 1904, the John Hay Library in 1910, Arnold Laboratory in 1914,

Asa Messer Metcalf Laboratory in 1923, an engineering laboratory in 1925, and Marston, Hegeman and Littlefield Halls in 1926. On the Pembroke campus, Sayles Gym was Francis Wayland built in 1907, and Miller, Metcalf, and Alumnae Halls appeared in 1910, 1919, and

Barnas Sears 1927, respectively. The University's endowment increased from $1.7 to $9.9 million during his term, and the size of both the student body and faculty nearly tripled. Ezekiel Gilman Robinson When the beloved president known to students as "Willie Horse Power Faunce" Elisha Benjamin retired in 1929 at the age of seventy, the Corporation wanted to acquire a residence Andrews for him, and $40,000 was contributed by five friends to acquire the house at 41 Lloyd Avenue where he lived until his death the following year. William Herbert Perry Faunce

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Facts About Brown 1929-1937 History Clarence Barbour, an 1888 graduate of Brown, was ordained Mission to the Baptist ministry in 1891 after being graduated from the Rochester Theological Seminary, where he would President's Report 2012 (PDF) Administration become president in 1915. He was elected president of President Brown in 1928, and began his duties after the retirement of President Faunce in 1929. He was to be the last of a long line Biography of Baptist ministers to occupy the Brown presidency.

Contact Information Two weeks after Barbour took office, the stock market crash Letters and brought the advent of the Great Depression and an end to his plans for an Announcements ambitious capital campaign. Though plans for expansion were not feasible, Barbour Organizational Chart did much to connect Brown's far-flung and growing alumni body. In his first year he spoke before 28 alumni clubs, 61 college and school audiences, 63 chapel Past Presidents services at Brown and 70 church services, and a host of luncheons and professional James Manning group meetings.

Jonathan Maxcy Speaking to alumni at the first Homecoming dinner in 1935, Barbour said, "I came

Asa Messer to Brown with lofty dreams and with visions of things to be accomplished. Almost at once we were struck with the most terrible depression in the history of the Francis Wayland country.... Many of my dreams have never come to pass and will never come to

Barnas Sears pass. But I have tried to navigate the ship on an even keel. I have the satisfaction that I have been used in a measure to hold the wheel in a stormy sea. We are Ezekiel Gilman steady." Robinson

Elisha Benjamin President Barbour left office in September 1936. Vice President James P. Adams Andrews served as acting President until Henry Wriston's inauguration.

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Contact Information One of his early objectives was "to get Brown off the defensive in the matter of its public image -- in short, to Letters and awaken a decent pride." Both the number and quality of applicants improved Announcements during his term, as did Brown's image as a leading university and research center. Organizational Chart President Wriston established the temporary Veterans College in the wake of World Past Presidents War II, which provided an opportunity for students lacking formal entrance James Manning requirements to prove themselves capable of transferring to regular college work. When space was especially tight, he even provided some of these students rooms in Jonathan Maxcy his own home.

Asa Messer Wriston also took a keen interest in architecture, and was instrumental in Francis Wayland construction of the residence Quadrangle that now bears his name. The

Barnas Sears construction of the Quad made possible the enlargement of the student body, while the wider geographic distribution of the students did much to change Brown from a Ezekiel Gilman regional college to a nationally recognized institution. Robinson

Elisha Benjamin When Wriston announced his retirement in 1955, he was widely lauded for the Andrews impact he made on the school during his tenure. One alumnus may have summed it up best when he said that Wriston "took Brown by the scruff of the neck and shook William Herbert it into greatness." Perry Faunce

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Facts About Brown 1955-1966 History Barnaby Keeney received his doctorate in history from Mission Harvard in 1939 and taught there until 1941, when after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Army and served President's Report 2012 (PDF) Administration with the 35th Infantry as an officer in charge of an President intelligence interpreters team. He was awarded the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, and the Silver Star, and was Biography discharged a captain.

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James Manning Keeney's presidency was another period of remarkable growth: over a dozen major facilities were either acquired by the University or built on its campus, Jonathan Maxcy undergraduate enrollment increased by nearly 1,000, the Graduate School nearly

Asa Messer tripled in size, and $82 million was raised. Keeney's resignation in 1966 spared the popular president from much of the turmoil that was spreading across college Francis Wayland campuses and that was to weaken the presidency of his successor.

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Facts About Brown 1970-1976 History After earning his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Mission chemistry from Harvard, Donald Hornig worked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and later at the Los President's Report 2012 (PDF) Administration Alamos Laboratory, before coming to Brown as assistant President professor in 1946. He was promoted to full professor in 1951, when he was only thirty-one-years old. Biography

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James Manning President Hornig presided over the merger of Brown and Pembroke into a fully coeducational institution, as well as the development of a full M.D. degree-granting Jonathan Maxcy medical program. Another major but unpopular accomplishment was the

Asa Messer improvement of Brown's financial position, which he achieved through cuts in spending. Hornig proposed selective cutbacks, including a 15% cut in faculty and Francis Wayland the elimination of programs that did not enhance the overall standing of the

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Ezekiel Gilman Students protested cuts in faculty, support services, and financial aid, and in July Robinson 1975, Hornig resigned, effective June 1976. He later described his presidency as Elisha Benjamin "bittersweet." When asked what he would change about his administration, he Andrews replied, "The times."

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Jonathan Maxcy In 1983, the faculty awarded him the Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal, the highest

Asa Messer honor it may bestow. The event marked the first time that a current president had been so honored. The accompanying citation attested to "the abundant feeling of Francis Wayland security you have rekindled in all of us...the bright optimism you have produced."

Barnas Sears In 1987 he surprised the Brown community by making known his wish to resign the Ezekiel Gilman presidency. After he left in 1988, he became director of the Institute for Robinson International Studies that he had helped found. In 1989, both he and his wife were Elisha Benjamin awarded honorary degrees. Andrews

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Facts About Brown 1989-1997 History Vartan Gregorian was born in Iran, and attended the College Mission Armenien in Beirut, Lebanon, where he earned a degree in Armenian studies in 1955. He was awarded a scholarship for President's Report 2012 (PDF) Administration study overseas, whereupon he entered Stanford the following President year. By working through the summers, he achieved a bachelor's degree in history and humanities within two Biography years. He also completed his doctorate at Stanford. After

Contact Information serving in a variety of teaching and administrative posts at different institutions, Gregorian became provost of the University of Pennsylvania. Letters and He would resign from that position in 1980 to become head of the New York Public Announcements Library, which he restored from decline to cultural and financial stability during his Organizational Chart eight-year term.

Past Presidents In 1984 he was awarded an honorary degree from Brown for his work at the James Manning Library, and in 1988 he was unanimously elected president of the University by the Corporation. He was formally inaugurated in April 1989. During his tenure at Jonathan Maxcy Brown, he instituted the President's Lecture Series, which brought prominent

Asa Messer scholars, leaders, and authors to campus, presided over the building of a residence Quadrangle that now bears his name, taught classes, and led a capital campaign Francis Wayland that raised well over $500 million. By the end of his presidency, Brown's

Barnas Sears endowment had grown to nearly $1 billion.

Ezekiel Gilman President Gregorian's tenure was also a time of increased international prominence Robinson for Brown. Applications for admission soared, and the student body grew more Elisha Benjamin diverse than ever. Gregorian, who was intensely liked by students, informed the Andrews Brown community of his resignation on January 7, 1997. He left the University in September of that year to assume leadership of the Carnegie Corporation. Thayer William Herbert Street Quadrangle was renamed in his honor in 1999. Perry Faunce

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Facts About Brown 1998-2000 History Gordon Gee earned a bachelor's degree in history from the Mission University of Utah in 1968 and a law degree and doctorate in education from Columbia University in 1971 and 1972, President's Report 2012 (PDF) Administration respectively. At Columbia, he was a Harlan Fiske Stone President Scholar and Kellogg Fellow.

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Asa Messer University in 1990. He was elected president of Brown University on June 27, 1997 by a unanimous vote of the Brown Corporation, the University's governing body, Francis Wayland and took office on January 6, 1998.

Barnas Sears President Gee identified among his goals enhancing graduate education at Brown Ezekiel Gilman and furthering the idea of the institution as a "private University with a public Robinson purpose." In February 2000 Gordon Gee resigned as president to become Elisha Benjamin chancellor of Vanderbilt University. Andrews

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Ana Cuellar Machado Spanish House, and a member of the First Generation Group. She enjoys working with children and is particularly interested in the food industry and sustainable agriculture.

Raj Dhaliwal ’12 is from Boston, Massachusetts and is concentrating in the Business Economics track of Commerce, Organization, and Entrepreneurship. Outside of the classroom, he is actively involved in student organizations and holds the positions of Vice President of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and Events Coordinator of the Soweto Kliptown Youth Organization. He is also a member of the Brown Pre-Law Society. His other interests include working for a local, non-profit microfinance firm, acting as a marketing coordinator for

Raj Dhaliwal a Proctor & Gamble company, and playing squash and soccer. As a Presidential Host, he is excited to represent the student population at University events and to share his experiences at Brown with guest lecturers and distinguished visitors.

Sheila Dixon ’13 grew up in the historic city of Schenectady, NY and is the youngest of 14 children. She was adopted and raised by a woman who dedicated her life to taking children out of the foster care system and raising them to be bright, respectful individuals of society. Very humbled and appreciative of her upbringing, she accredits her family and community of mentors for her academic and athletic success. Outside of her academic endeavors at Brown, Sheila is a passionate and success-driven athlete and plays on The

Sheila Dixon Brown Women’s basketball team. During this past season she was recognized as an Ivy League Player of the Week, earned Second Team All-Ivy Honors and was named MVP of the team. In an effort to pursue a career in Constitutional Law, Sheila has declared her concentration in political science and is also considering a dual degree in American studies.

Nick Donias ’12 is a proud Texan from Fort Worth, Texas and is studying neuroscience. In his spare time, he works in a neuroscience lab exploring how to alter epileptic activity in the brain. Nick also volunteers for the Third World Center as a Minority Peer Councilor Friend. His other interests include running marathons, rugby, playing saxophone, and mentoring high school students. He loves Brown University and is extremely excited to be a junior.

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Kristina von Gerichten ’13 is from Barrington, RI. She is a Political Science concentrator with a focus on American Politics. While at Brown, she is also interested in exploring psychology and architecture. Since her freshman year, she has served as a member of Residential Counsel, a student advisory board to Residential Life. During the 2010-2011 year she was the Chair of its Program Housing committee. Additionally, she is currently a member of the Residential Peer Leader program, aiding freshmen throughout their first year at

Kristina von Gerichten Brown. Outside of Brown she enjoys traveling, sailing, and sports.

Margot Grinberg ’12 was born and raised in New York with her dad and brother. She is concentrating in economics and Public Policy and American Institutions. Margot works on the business staff at the Brown Daily Herald as a senior finance associate where she coordinates the collections process. Outside of academics, Margot enjoys running, skiing, and traveling.

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Betty Hua ’12 is from San Diego, CA and is double concentrating in Education Studies and Sociology. Throughout her time at Brown, Betty has worked with the Residential Peer Leader program, the Swearer Center's National College Advising Corps, the Rhode Island Urban Debate League programs, the Third World Center's Minority Peer Counselor (MPC) Friend program, and with the Rites and Reason Theatre's Research to Performance Method (RPM) plays. Last summer Betty worked with the Breakthrough

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Silvia Ibrahim ’12 was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and came to the United States at age seven. She attended an arts magnet school for seven years in West Palm Beach, Florida before Brown. She is a History and Africana Studies concentrator. Her focus is in 20th century African American history, although her favorite class at Brown was on African literature: Chinua Achebe. She is currently doing preliminary research for her dissertation in History. Although it is unofficial, she is pondering the topic of black minstrelsy and white

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Rachel Kay ’13 is from Boston, Massachusetts, where she grew up with her mom, dad, older brother, and dog. She has yet to declare a concentration at school, but imagines she will delve deeper into the Art History and Literary Arts Departments as her Brown career proceeds. In the meantime, she likes taking advantage of a liberal arts education and experimenting with classes of a wide variety – from philosophy to jazz, or comparative literature to psychology. She currently lives in a triple in Barbor and looks forward to this year as a

Rachel Kay time for developing her dancing and writing potentials at Brown.

Nikita Khadloya ’13 is studying Applied Math and Economics. She is from San Jose, California and attended St. Francis High School. In her free time she enjoys shopping, reading, and spending time with her friends. In addition to being a Presidential Host, she is also involved with Brown Women in Business and the Brown Daily Herald. After graduation, she plans on pursuing a career in business or finance.

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Justin Klee ’13 was born and raised in New London, CT, about an hour from Providence. He has a twin brother, Jared, who goes to Dartmouth, a little brother, Trevor, who is a senior in high school, and an older half- sister, Alex, who works for Nordstrom in Palo Alto, CA. Justin attended a very small private high school about five minutes from his house, where he participated in varsity cross country, swimming, and tennis, as well as singing in an a cappella group. His summers were spent teaching tennis and swimming all over southeastern CT.

Justin Klee At Brown he has continued many of his high school interests, participating in club tennis, the Brown Derbies (an a cappella group), and the fraternity, Sigma Chi. He loves Brown and could not imagine being anywhere else.

Alex Kryger ’12 is an English and Theatre Arts double concentrator who hails from Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Alex is very involved with the theatre community at Brown, having acted in both student- produced and department-produced main-stage shows. He has also has been a board member and publicity chair of Brown's Musical Forum, has had private vocal training through the Applied Music Program, has served on the “A Day on College Hill” Committee as the co- chair of Late Night Events, and is a member and

Alex Kryger business manager of Brown's oldest co-ed a cappella group, The Higher Keys. During his time at Brown, Alex has fostered many interests, including, but not limited to, the work of Virginia Woolf, the celtic harp, the “Beyond the Bottle” campaign, and Providence architecture.

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Zekuan Richard Lee ’13 is studying Applied Math- Economics and East Asian Studies. Born in Qingdao, China but raised between the metropolis of Shanghai and the sandy beaches of Florida, Richard fills his life with fast-paced activities such as the Brown Investment Group and intramural basketball and volleyball. At the same time, Richard is often spotted on campus thinking pensively (and napping) on the Main Green, as well as tutoring students at local Providence schools. Most importantly, Richard believes in the beauty of

Zekuan Richard Lee conversation and getting to know people, their values, and the inspiring circumstances that bring them to where they are today.

Meg Miller ’14 was born in Montreal but was raised in Providence. As a local, she has been lucky enough to see Brown from an outside perspective through her extensive engagement in the community prior to becoming a student. Meg has always been interested in the idea of finding sustainable solutions to the structural inequalities that lead to poverty but is still exploring the different disciplines that will lead her there, including engineering, economics, community health, and anthropology. The most rewarding parts of her

Meg Miller experience thus far at Brown have been her participation in UCAAP (University Community Academic Advising Program) and BRYTE (Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment). She is excited to continue working with BRYTE as it grows and to finding new ways to reach out to the local community.

James Putnam ’12 is from Los Angeles and is concentrating in applied mathematics and economics. Here at Brown, he is captain of the men's club tennis team and is actively involved in the Delta Tau fraternity. This past summer, he researched financial risk management strategies as part of an applied mathematics program funded by the National Science Foundation. In his free time, he enjoys playing music and rock climbing. His favorite aspect of being a Brown student is having the opportunity to interact with so

James Putnam many passionate, intelligent, and interesting people, and he is eagerly looking forward to extending this privilege through his experiences as a Presidential Host.

Jaap Ruoff was born and raised in a small town called Uitgeest, which is about 25 kilometers north of Amsterdam, Netherlands. At 16, he chose for adventure and left the country to finish his high school degree at the United World College of Southern Africa, Swaziland. This opened the doors to the US and Brown University in particular. As a freshman he founded Sheep Textbooks, a textbook rental service, which marked the start of his entrepreneurial career. Now, he is a co- founder at Obroo, a young company that explores

Jaap Ruoff software solutions for education worldwide.

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Brynn Smith ‘11 was born and raised in Saco, Maine. A double concentrator in Public Policy and Urban Studies, she has aspirations of participating in Teach for America and potentially attending law school. A varsity athlete in high school, Brynn has continued her athletic career at Brown as a Division 1 Track and Field athlete, throwing the hammer and shot put. Additionally, she is also a student coordinator for both the Office of Residential Life and the Curricular Resource Center on campus, organizing MAPS (Matched Advising Program

Brynn Smith for Sophomores). In her free time, she likes to explore Providence.

Brandon Delmore Tomasso ’13, a native of Southern New Jersey, studies Archaeology and Anthropology at Brown. Intrigued by the study of past civilizations from a young age, he has excavated archaeological sites in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Italy. This past summer, Brandon had the opportunity to excavate an ancient Latin city outside of Rome and conduct research in Classical Archaeology with the assistance of an Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award (UTRA) granted to him by the

Brandon Delmore Tomasso University. Brandon also fences Sabre for the Varsity Fencing Team and organizes class events and unification activities as president of the 2013 Class Coordinating Board. In addition, he enjoys competing with the Brown Debate team and serving on the Undergraduate Council of Students. Brandon is also a Writing Fellow who assists other undergraduates with their writing skills.

Elizabeth Vasily ’13 is from Darien, CT and graduated from Greenwich Academy in 2009. She is a Classics major, with a focus on Latin, and is also interested in archaeology and economics. In high school she was captain of the varsity tennis team, competed nationally in USTA tournaments, and founded her school’s environmental action committee. She continues to pursue these interests at Brown as she is captain of the Women’s Club Tennis Team and an EcoRep. She also enjoys surfing and macramé.

Elizabeth Vasily

Chelsea Welch '12 was born and raised in West Virginia. She is a former Miss West Virginia Teen USA. Chelsea is concentrating in Human Biology with a focus in Ecosystems, Evolution, and the Environment with hopes of becoming a conservation biologist. She is the Captain of the Brown Varsity Cheerleading Squad for the 2011-2012 season and has been involved with BRYTE, a tutoring program for refugee families in Providence. She is also a 13-year member of 4-H and is still actively living the motto "To Make the Best Better". Chelsea

Chelsea Welch '12 spent a semester in Tanzania studying wildlife conservation and now speaks Kiswahili. Her other interests include backpacking, farming, being a camp counselor, and studying

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animal behavior.

Nathan Van Winkle ‘13 is from Hillsboro, a midsized city in Oregon. He came to Brown planning on studying engineering, but fell in love with geology as well. He is now majoring in Civil Engineering and Geophysics. He has been engaged in research since the summer after his freshmen year, originally through the UTRA-REU program, and he continues to work in the lab. The main focus of this research is new battery cell technology. In addition to course work Nathan is a member of Zeta Delta Xi, the Queer Alliance, and a member of the

Nathan Van Winkle Brown Formula SAE team.

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