348-402: The Modernist Journals Project (MJP) was created in 1995 at Brown University in order to create a database of digitized periodicals connected with the period loosely associated with modernism . The University of Tulsa joined in 2003. The MJP's website states: The Modernist Journals Project is a multi-faceted project that aims to be a major resource for the study of modernism and its rise in
696-457: A 25-year-old Brown University graduate from Ridgewood, N.J., is pioneering a new hip-hop persona: the rapper as schlemiel." ^ "CHUBB ROCK: A RAPPER EVEN A PARENT CAN LIKE" . Chicago Tribune . 13 August 1992 . Retrieved 2022-08-22 . ^ Drape, Joe (2018-05-03). "Career Turn: From N.C.A.A. Star to Grammy-Nominated D.J." The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-05-11 . ^ "Here Comes
1044-521: A Better World , The Verificationist , The Hundred Brothers , recipient of the MacArthur fellowship Jacob M. Appel (A.B. 1995) – author, playwright, Arborophilia , Creve Coeur , The Mistress of Wholesome Mona Awad (M.F.A. 2014) – novelist and short story writer Peter Balakian (Ph.D. 1980) – Pulitzer Prize -winning poet, Ozone Journal Edward Ball (A.B. 1982) – National Book Award -winning nonfiction writer, Slaves in
1392-672: A Boy Moisés Zamora (A.B. 2000) – creator, Selena: The Series Theater [ edit ] Ayad Akhtar (1993) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Disgraced Adam Bock (1989) – Obie Award-winning playwright, The Thugs Kate Burton (A.B. 1979) – actress; nominated for three Tony Awards; on Grey's Anatomy as Dr. Ellis Grey Zoë Chao (A.B. 2008) – actress in theatre and star of her own television show The God Particles ; currently starring as Isobel in Facebook Watch drama Strangers Nilo Cruz (M.F.A. 1994) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Anna in
1740-2176: A Half Men Takehiro Hira (1997) – Japanese-born actor, Giri/Haji , Sekigahara Tina Holmes (1995) – actress, Six Feet Under Peter Jacobson (1987) – actor, House M.D. Rafe Judkins (2005) – contestant on Survivor: Guatemala , television writer Rhonda Ross Kendrick (A.B. 1993) – Daytime Emmy -nominated actress, Another World , daughter of Diana Ross Rory Kennedy (A.B. 1990) – Emmy Award-winning documentary producer, director, and writer, American Hollow , Ghosts of Abu Ghraib [REDACTED] Rory Kennedy (1990) John Krasinski (A.B. 2002) – actor, The Office , Leatherheads , License to Wed ; director, A Quiet Place Nicole Leach (A.B. 2000) – actress Clea Lewis (A.B. 1987) – actress, Ellen , Andy Barker, P.I. Florencia Lozano (A.B. 1992) – actress, One Life to Live Ian Maxtone-Graham (A.B. 1982.5) – writer, producer, The Simpsons , Saturday Night Live Silas Weir Mitchell (A.B. 1991) – actor, Grimm Peter Nowalk (A.B. 2000) – creator, How to Get Away with Murder ; producer, Scandal , Grey's Anatomy Masi Oka (Sc.B. 1997) – actor, Heroes , Scrubs , Will and Grace , Gilmore Girls , Get Smart [REDACTED] Masi Oka (1997) Monica Owusu-Breen (1990) – writer, Alias , Lost ; executive producer, Brothers & Sisters , Midnight, Texas John Pleshette (1964) – actor, Knots Landing , The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald Tracee Ellis Ross (A.B. 1995) – actress, Girlfriends , Black-ish , daughter of Diana Ross [REDACTED] Tracee Ellis Ross (1995) Ben Shenkman (A.B. 1990) – actor, Royal Pains and Angels in America Sam Trammell (A.B. 1991) – actor, True Blood Bee Vang (2015) – actor, Gran Torino , writer Julie Warner (A.B. 1987) – actress, Nip/Tuck , Family Law , The Guiding Light Suzanne Whang (Sc. M. 1986) – General Hospital , Las Vegas ; host HGTV 's House Hunters David Walton (2001) – actor, About
2088-1089: A Lawyer With AIDS, Years Too Late; Bias Battle Over Dismissal Proves Costly Not Only to Worker, but to Law Firm" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-09-04 . ^ Jacobs, Ben (2013-09-23). "Sean Eldridge, Husband of Facebook Mogul Chris Hughes, Running For Congress" . The Daily Beast . Retrieved 2021-07-21 . ^ "Staff | Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights" . rfkhumanrights.org . Retrieved 2018-02-01 . ^ "Malika Saada Saar's quest to improve human rights for women" . MSNBC . 2015-03-28 . Retrieved 2019-09-14 . ^ "A New Way to Look at Race" . www.brownalumnimagazine.com . Retrieved 2021-06-01 . ^ "Martha Alice Ingham Dickie, class of 1926 – Second Interview | The Pembroke Center Oral History Project" . www.brown.edu . Retrieved 2021-05-03 . ^ "Brown Alumni Magazine – Who Knew?" . www.brownalumnimagazine.com . Retrieved 2018-07-06 . ^ "Barack Obama: Press Release – President Obama Nominates Leslie Joyce Abrams to Serve on
2436-754: A Resumé from the Material Gathered Concerning Harvard College for the N. E. Hist. and Gen. Register, July, 1887, by Chief Justice Wm. A. Richardson, LL.D., the Papers on Official Positions Held by Alumni of Yale, College of New Jersey, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia College and Brown University . D. Clapp & Son, printers. ^ "John Baldwin" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Tristam Burges" . Biographical Directory of
2784-517: A Sense of Humor, Dies at 82" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-06-01 . ^ Carcieri, Rebecca (2021-05-25). "U. alums to produce, star in collection of short musicals 'Together Apart' " . Brown Daily Herald . Retrieved 2021-06-01 . ^ "Documentarian Kirsten Johnson '87 reflects on Brown's influence on her career" . The Brown Daily Herald . Retrieved 2022-11-15 . ^ Parker-Pope, Tara (2009-08-24). "Christopher Reeve's Son Tackles
3132-1099: A Teenage Drama Queen , The Iron Giant , Jack Frost (1998) Matt Manfredi – screenwriter, Crazy/Beautiful , Ride Along , The Mysterious Benedict Society Ross McElwee (A.B. 1970) – documentary filmmaker, Sherman's March (1986) and Bright Leaves Leah Meyerhoff (A.B. 2001) – Student Academy Award -nominated writer/director, Twitch Tim Blake Nelson (A.B. 1986) – actor, Lincoln (2012), The Incredible Hulk , Syriana , Minority Report , O Brother, Where Art Thou? , The Thin Red Line (1998); director, Leaves of Grass , O , The Grey Zone [REDACTED] Tim Blake Nelson (1986) Lorraine Nicholson (2012) – actress, Soul Surfer , daughter of Jack Nicholson Matthew Reeve (002 )– producer and director, son of Christopher Reeve Yoruba Richen (A.B. 1994) – film director, screenwriter, and producer Angela Robinson (A.B. 1992) – director, Herbie: Fully Loaded , D.E.B.S. (2003), D.E.B.S. (2004) Jane Rosenthal – founder of
3480-1146: A Wallflower , Beauty and the Beast (2017), Little Women (2019) [REDACTED] Emma Watson (2014) Betsy West (1973) – filmmaker and director, RBG , My Name Is Pauli Murray ; Fred W. Friendly Professor of Professional Practice in Media Society Emeritus, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism JoBeth Williams (A.B. 1970) – actress, The Big Chill , Poltergeist Elizabeth Woodward – producer, The Great Hack , The Vow , You Resemble Me . Janet Yang (A.B. 1978) – first Asian-American president, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (2022–); producer, The Joy Luck Club , The People vs. Larry Flynt , South Central Jeff Zimbalist (2000) – filmmaker, Favela Rising Television [ edit ] Sosie Bacon (Class of 2014) – actress, 13 Reasons Why , Loverboy , Smile ; daughter of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick Iris Bahr (1998) – actress, Larry
3828-920: A college in the Colony of Rhode-Island, under the chief direction of the Baptists; ... Mr. James Manning , who took his first degree in New-Jersey college in September, 1762, was esteemed a suitable leader in this important work. James Manning arrived at Newport in July 1763 and was introduced to Stiles, who agreed to write the charter for the college. Stiles' first draft was read to the General Assembly in August 1763, and rejected by Baptist members who worried that their denomination would be underrepresented in
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#17327936393244176-842: A crash in practice for the Formula One 1975 Austrian Grand Prix ; inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America and the International Motorsports Hall of Fame (1991) Charlie Enright (2008) – American sailor, winning skipper 2023 The Ocean Race Cory Gibbs (2001) – professional soccer player, Charlton Athletic , FA Premier League Fred Hovey (1890) – professional tennis player, US Open Men's Doubles Champion (1893) and Men's Singles Champion (1895) Jeff Larentowicz (2005) – professional soccer player, New England Revolution , Major League Soccer Bill Wirtz (1950) – owner of
4524-724: A hospital for French troops from June 26, 1780, to May 27, 1782. A number of Brown's founders and alumni played roles in the American Revolution and subsequent founding of the United States. Brown's first chancellor, Stephen Hopkins, served as a delegate to the Colonial Congress in Albany in 1754, and to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776. James Manning represented Rhode Island at
4872-511: A leader of the Harlem Renaissance Richard Foreman (A.B. 1959) – playwright/avant-garde theater pioneer; founder, Ontological-Hysteric Theater , recipient of the MacArthur fellowship Sam Walter Foss (A.B. 1882) – poet Sarah Gambito (M.F.A. 1999) – poet; director of creative writing, Fordham University Deborah Garrison (A.B. 1986) – poet Peter Gizzi (M.F.A. 1991) – poet, professor at
5220-1135: A long-awaited vision of freedom" . The Guardian . Retrieved 2022-01-19 . ^ Baker, Calvin (2020-08-02). "The Best American Novelist Whose Name You May Not Know" . The Atlantic . Retrieved 2022-01-19 . ^ "Syrian Journeys" . www.brownalumnimagazine.com . Retrieved 2021-07-21 . ^ "Partners in Verse" . www.brownalumnimagazine.com . Retrieved 2021-06-01 . ^ Mehta, Kahini (2019-10-16). "Project VOICE brings Sarah Kay '10 and Phil Kaye '10 back to Providence" . Brown Daily Herald . Retrieved 2021-06-01 . ^ Harris, Elizabeth A. (2020-05-28). "Simon & Schuster Names Jonathan Karp C.E.O." The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-02-06 . ^ "Language and Plague" . www.brownalumnimagazine.com . Retrieved 2021-06-01 . ^ Lerner, Ben (2016-01-14). "Postscript: C. D. Wright, 1949–2016" . The New Yorker . ISSN 0028-792X . Retrieved 2019-01-20 . ^ "The trick to reading while walking? Hold
5568-771: A major record label Jamila Woods , (A.B. 2011) singer, songwriter and poet signed to Jagajaguwar ZOX – SideOneDummy recording artist, composed of John Zox '02, Eli Miller '02, Daniel Edinberg '02, and Spencer Swain Film [ edit ] Andrew Ahn (2008) – director, Spa Night , Driveways Eva Amurri (2007) – actress, Loving Annabelle , Saved! , The Banger Sisters ; daughter of Susan Sarandon Scott E. Anderson (Sc.B. 1986) – Academy Award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor, Babe , and nominee Starship Troopers , Hollow Man Bess Armstrong (1975) – actress, The Four Seasons (1981), High Road to China Raymond J. Barry (A.B) – actor, Born on
5916-620: A public Building or Buildings for the boarding of the youth & the Residence of the Professors. The three petitioners were Ezra Stiles , pastor of Newport's Second Congregational Church and future president of Yale University ; William Ellery Jr. , future signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ; and Josias Lyndon , future governor of the colony. Stiles and Ellery later served as co-authors of
6264-611: A state capital– Providence, Rhode Island ; U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (2011–2023). [REDACTED] David Cicilline (1983) Gil Cisneros (M.A. 2015) – U.S. Congressman, California (2019–2021), 10th Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness [REDACTED] Gil Cisneros (2015) William Claflin – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1877 –1881) Stephen A. Cobb (1858) – U.S. Congressman, Kansas (1873–1875) Howard A. Coffin (1901) – U.S. Congressman, Michigan (1947–1949) Samuel S. Cox (1846) – U.S. Congressman, Ohio , New York, U.S. ambassador to
6612-405: A steering committee to research Brown's eighteenth-century ties to slavery. In October 2006, the committee released a report documenting its findings. Titled "Slavery and Justice", the document detailed the ways in which the university benefited both directly and indirectly from the transatlantic slave trade and the labor of enslaved people. The report also included seven recommendations for how
6960-459: Is noted as the first African American president of an Ivy League institution. Other presidents of note include academic, Vartan Gregorian ; and philosopher and economist, Francis Wayland . In 1966, the first Group Independent Study Project (GISP) at Brown was formed, involving 80 students and 15 professors. The GISP was inspired by student-initiated experimental schools, especially San Francisco State College , and sought ways to "put students at
7308-629: Is noted as the founder and commander of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment , widely regarded as the first Black battalion in U.S. military history. David Howell , who graduated with an A.M. in 1769, served as a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1785. Nineteen individuals have served as presidents of the university since its founding in 1764. Since 2012, Christina Hull Paxson has served as president. Paxson had previously served as dean of Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs and chair of Princeton's economics department. Paxson's immediate predecessor, Ruth Simmons ,
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#17327936393247656-459: Is said to cancel the hex. The John Hay Library is the second oldest library on campus. Opened in 1910, the library is named for John Hay (class of 1858), private secretary to Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt . The construction of the building was funded in large part by Hay's friend, Andrew Carnegie , who contributed half of the $ 300,000 cost of construction. The John Hay Library serves as
8004-466: Is that copyright becomes an issue with publications from 1923 onward. The intellectual reason is that most scholars consider modernism to be fully fledged in 1922, a date marked by the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses , Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room , and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land . We believe the materials on the MJP website will show how essential magazines were to modernism's rise. The journals that
8352-453: Is to inspire creative and critical thinking about culture by fostering an interdisciplinary understanding of the material world. It provides opportunities for faculty and students to work with collections and the public, teaching through objects and programs in classrooms and exhibitions. The museum sponsors lectures and events in all areas of anthropology and also runs an extensive program of outreach to local schools. The Annmary Brown Memorial
8700-574: The Huntley-Brinkley Report Gareth Cook (A.B. 1991) – Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting , Boston Globe , for writing about stem cell research David Corn (1981) – Washington, D.C. bureau chief for Mother Jones Dana Cowin (A.B. 1982) – Editor-in-Chief of Food & Wine Lyn Crost (A.B. 1938) – World War II correspondent and author, Honor by Fire:Japanese Americans at War in Europe and
9048-463: The 110-metre hurdles Pam Dreyer (2003) – American ice hockey player, Olympic bronze ( 2006 ) medal in the women's tournament Glen Foster (1952) – American sailor, Olympic bronze ( 1972 ) medal in the Tempest class David Hall (1901) – American runner, Olympic bronze ( 1900 ) medalist in the 800-meter race Henry Hollingsworth (2022) – American rower, Olympic bronze (2024) medal in
9396-826: The 2020 Summer Olympics Nikola Stojić (1997) – Serbian rower, competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012) Evan Weinstock (1914) – American bobsledder, competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics Anders Weiss (2016) – American rower, competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics Anna Willard (2006) – 2008 Olympic qualifier in 3000m steeplechase, American record holder in 3000m steeplechase Joanna Zeiger (1992) – fourth in inaugural Olympic Women's Triathlon, 2000 Summer Olympics, Sydney; Olympic trial qualifier in marathon, triathlon and swimming; world champion in triathlon Other sports [ edit ] Rhett Bernstein (2009) – professional soccer player Mark Donohue (1959) – professional race car driver; 1972 Indianapolis 500 winner; fatally injured in
9744-738: The 40th Legislative District . Dana Levenberg (1986)- member of the New York State Assembly (2023–present), Town Supervisor of Ossining (2016–2022) Mee Moua (1992) – Minnesota State Senator, first elected Hmong-American politician Mark Strama (1990) – member of the Texas House of Representatives Austin Volk (1941) – member of the New Jersey General Assembly and mayor of Englewood, New Jersey Aaron Regunberg (2012) – member of
10092-754: The American Epidemiological Society , professor of physiology at Brown Tina L. Cheng (A.B., M.D.) – Chair of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center . Lynda Chin (A.B. 1988) – Department Chair and Professor of genomic medicine , University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Scientific Director, MD Anderson Institute for Applied Cancer Science James J. Cimino (BSc 1977) – Professor of Medicine and director, Informatics Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine George E. Coghill (A.B. 1896, Ph.D. 1902) – anatomist Solomon Drowne (A.B. 1773) – physician, academic, and surgeon during
10440-809: The American Nazi Party ; dropped out after second year to join the Navy Kenneth Roth (A.B. 1978) – Executive Director of Human Rights Watch (1993–2022) [REDACTED] Kenneth Roth (1978) Malika Saada Saar (A.B. 1992) – Director of the Human Rights Project for Girls; co-founder of Rebecca Project for Human Rights Rinku Sen (A.B. 1988) – Co-president of the Women's March board of directors, former executive director of Race Forward Martha Sharp (A.B. 1926) – Unitarian who aided hundreds of Jews in escaping
10788-1565: The American Physical Society Robert Parr (A.B. 1942) – Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, UNC Chapel Hill; co-founder of quantum chemistry Ainissa Ramirez (Sc.B. 1990) – material scientist and science communicator Maureen Raymo (Sc.B 1982) – paleoclimatologist ; Bruce C. Heezen/Lamont Research Professor and Director of the Lamont-Doherty Core Repository, Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory ; Co-Founding Dean, Columbia Climate School Collin Roesler (Sc.B. 1985) – William R. Kenan Professor of Earth and Oceanographic Science, Bowdoin College Rachel Rosen (Sc.B.) – Associate Professor of Physics, Columbia University Carolyn Rovee-Collier (M.Sc. 1964, Ph.D. 1966) – Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University ; pioneering developmental psychologist David M. Sabatini (Sc.B. 1990) – Professor of Biology, MIT (2002–2021); Member, Whitehead Institute ; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator ; discoverer of mTOR [REDACTED] David M. Sabatini (1990) Jenny Saffran (A.B. 1991) – Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Ellery Schempp (Ph.D. 1967) – physicist, primary student involved in
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11136-1268: The American Revolution Jacqueline A. French (M.D. 1982) – neurologist, professor, NYU Langone Health , and Chief Scientific Officer of the Epilepsy Foundation Nora Groce (Ph.D.) – Leonard Cheshire Chair of Disability and Inclusive Development, Institute of Epidemiology & Health, University College London Tina Hartert – Lulu H. Owen Endowed Chair in Medicine at Vanderbilt University Andrew C. Hecht (1989) – Chief of Spine Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital ; Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and of Neurologic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine Insoo Hyun (Ph.D. 1998) – Professor of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine ; Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School Judith V. Jordan (1965) – co-director, Jean Baker Miller Institute; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School Mark L. Kahn (A.B. 1984, M.D. 1987) – Edward S. Cooper, M.D./Norman Roosevelt and Elizabeth Meriwether McLure Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at
11484-773: The American Revolution , it was the first US college to codify that admission and instruction of students was to be equal regardless of the religious affiliation of students. The university is home to the oldest applied mathematics program in the country and oldest engineering program in the Ivy League. It was one of the early doctoral-granting institutions in the U.S., adding masters and doctoral studies in 1887. In 1969, it adopted its Open Curriculum after student lobbying, which eliminated mandatory general education distribution requirements. In 1971, Brown's coordinate women's institution, Pembroke College ,
11832-1463: The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University Lisa Caputo (A.B. 1986) – chief marketing officer, Citigroup Finn M. W. Caspersen (A.B. 1963) – financier, chairman and chief executive of the Beneficial Corporation John S. Chen (Sc.B. 1978) – chairman and CEO of BlackBerry Limited Chung Yong-jin (A.B. 1994) – South Korean billionaire, vice chairman and CEO of Shinsegae Group Glenn Creamer (A.B. 1984) – billionaire, Senior managing director of Providence Equity Partners Dan DiMicco (BSc 1972) – CEO (2000–12) and chairman (2006–12) of Nucor Tanya Dubash (A.B. 1991) – Indian businesswoman David Ebersman (A.B. 1991) – former chief financial officer of Facebook, Inc. ; founder, Lyra Health Donna M. Fernandes (Sc.B 1981) President and CEO, Buffalo Zoo 2000–2017 Dylan Field (Class of 2013½) – founder and CEO of Figma [REDACTED] Dylan Field Devin Finzer (BSc 2013) – billionaire, CEO and co-founder of OpenSea George M. C. Fisher (Sc. M. 1964, Ph.D. 1966) – former CEO of Motorola and Eastman Kodak Company Sidney Frank (Class of 1942) – billionaire founder of Grey Goose and Jägermeister Tom Gardner (A.B. 1990) – co-founder and co-chairman of
12180-1507: The Atlanta Hawks George Pyne (1988) – founder and CEO of Bruin Sports Capital Sridhar Ramaswamy (Ph.D. 1995) – former Senior Vice President of Advertising and Commerce, Google Ajit Ranade (A.M., Ph.D. 1997) – Chief Economist with the Aditya Birla Group Steven Rattner (A.B. 1974) – Deputy chairman and Deputy CEO, Lazard Frères & Co. William R. Rhodes (A.B. 1957) – Senior vice-chairman, Citigroup Stephen Robert (A.B. 1962), chairman and CEO of Oppenheimer & Co. (1983–1997), Chancellor of Brown University (1998–2007) John D. Rockefeller Jr. (A.B. 1897) – financer, philanthropist, son of John D. Rockefeller , and builder of Rockefeller Center [REDACTED] John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1897) Tom Rothman (A.B. 1976) – president, 20th Century Fox Film Group Tom Scott (A.B. 1989) – co-founder of Nantucket Nectars , with Tom First John Sculley (A.B. 1961) – president of PepsiCo (1977–1983); CEO of Apple Computer (1983–1993) Josh Silverman (A.B. 1991) – CEO of Etsy (2017–) and Skype (2008–10); founder of Evite Rashmi Sinha (Ph.D. 1998) – co-founder and CEO of SlideShare Lawrence M. Small (A.B. 1963) – president of Fannie Mae ; secretary of
12528-1539: The Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania ; winner of the Lasker Award [REDACTED] Aaron T. Beck (1942) Jonathan Berek (M.MSc 1973) – Laurie Kraus Lacob Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine John M. Barry (A.B. 1968) – author; Professor, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Linda Bartoshuk (Ph.D. 1965) – Presidential Endowed Professor of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science, University of Florida Mark S. Blumenkranz (A.B. 1972, M.D. 1975, M.MSc 1976) – H.J. Smead Professor Emeritus, Stanford University School of Medicine Atul Butte (A.B. 1991, M.D. 1995) – Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Francisco ; Director, Baker Computational Health Sciences Institute Christopher G. Chute (A.B. 1977, M.D. 1982) – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics at Johns Hopkins University Barbara E. Ehrlich (Sc.B. 1974) – Professor of Pharmacology and of Cellular And Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine Nancy Etcoff (A.B.) – Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School Stanley Falkow (Ph.D. 1961) – father of microbiology, discoverer of
12876-1244: The Borel−Moore homology and Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence Edward F. Moore (Ph.D. 1950) – Professor of Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison ; known for the Moore machine Anthony Morse (Ph.D. 1937) – Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley ; known for the Morse–Kelley set theory , Morse–Sard theorem and the Federer–Morse theorem John Mylopoulos (Sc.B. 1966) – Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of Toronto David Nadler (BSc 1996) – Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley David Notkin (Sc.B. 1977) – Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington Peter J. Olver (Sc.B. 1973) – Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota Randy Pausch (Sc.B. 1982) – Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Carl Pomerance (A.B. 1966) – Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Dartmouth College Ken Ribet (A.B., A.M. 1969) – Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley ; known for
13224-1753: The Boston Camerata Alvin Curran (A.B. 1960) – avant-garde composer Catie Curtis (1987) – contemporary folk singer-songwriter Dave Dederer (A.B.) – guitarist, singer, and founding member of rock band The presidents of the United States of America Shelby Gaines (1991) – musician and artist Tucker Halpern (2013) – musician and DJ, one half of electronic pop group Sofi Tukker Dhani Harrison (2001) – son of George Harrison , composer, guitarist Sophie Hawley-Weld (2014) – musician, one half of electronic pop group Sofi Tukker Lili Haydn (1992) – singer-songwriter, violinist Dave Harrington (2009) – multi-instrumentalist and producer Lingua Ignota (M.F.A. 2016) – multidisciplinary artist and instrumentalist [REDACTED] Lingua Ignota (2016) Nicolás Jaar (A.B. 2012) – avant-garde electronic music producer, owner and founder of record label and art house Clown & Sunset Gabriel Kahane (2003) – singer-songwriter Elliott Kerman (Sc.B. 1981) – founding baritone member of Rockapella Tad Kinchla (1995) – bassist for jam band Blues Traveler Richard Kostelanetz (A.B. 1962) – electro-acoustic composer (New York City Oratorio, America's Game), writer on innovative musics and musicians Damian Kulash (A.B. 1998) – lead singer and founding member of indie rock band OK Go Erich Kunzel (1964) – conductor, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Lawrence – soul-pop group founded by Clyde Lawrence '15 and Gracie Lawrence (Class of 2020) Lisa Loeb (A.B. 1990) – Grammy Award -winning alternative singer-songwriter; first unsigned artist to top
13572-640: The Boy Scouts of America (1964–68); recipient of the 1964 Presidential Medal of Freedom [REDACTED] Thomas J. Watson Jr. (1937) Henry Wheaton (A.B. 1802) – U.S. Minister to Denmark (1827–1835) and Prussia (1837–1846) Curtin Winsor Jr. (A.B. 1961) – U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica (1983–1985) Advisors and officials [ edit ] Kate Brandt , first American Chief Sustainability Officer Charles "Chuck" Colson (1953) – chief counsel to Richard Nixon (1969–1973); figured in
13920-707: The Build engine Marion Elizabeth Stark (A.B. 1916, A.M. 1979) – one of the first female American mathematics professors Gordon Kidd Teal (Ph.D. 1931) – inventor of the commercial silicon transistor John Tukey (Sc.B. 1936, Sc. M. 1937) – co-developed the Cooley–Tukey fast Fourier transform algorithm ; coined the terms bit , byte , software and cepstrum , recipient of the National Medal of Science [REDACTED] Bob Wallace (1971) Bob Wallace (Class of 1971) – ninth Microsoft employee, inventor of
14268-914: The Cabinet Office of Japan and cultural consultant John Bonifaz (1987) – founder, National Voting Rights Institute , recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship Geoffrey Bowers – plaintiff an early HIV/AIDS discrimination case Katherine Chon (Sc.B. 2002) – co-founder and Board President of anti- human trafficking non-profit Polaris Project Bhupendranath Datta (M.A. 1914) – Indian revolutionary, sociologist and anthropologist Sean Eldridge (A.B. 2009) – political activist and former congressional candidate Derek Ellerman (Sc.B. 2002) – co-founder and Board Chairman of anti-human trafficking non-profit Polaris Project, former Ashoka fellow and current Ashoka Ambassador John Dix Fisher (1820) – founder of
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14616-2658: The California Institute of Technology Ares J. Rosakis (Sc.M. 1980, Ph.D. 1982) – Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology Ed Scheinerman (BSc 1980) –Professor of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Steen (Sc.B. A.B., 1975) – Maxwell M. Upson Professor, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University Katia Sycara (Sc.B. 1969) – Edward Fredkin Research Professor of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University Gretar Tryggvason (Sc.M. 1982, Ph.D. 1985) – Department Head and Charles A. Miller Jr. Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Krystyn Van Vliet (Sc.B. 1998) – Michael and Sonja Koerner Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT Richard W. Ziolkowski (Sc.B. 1974) – Litton Industries John M. Leonis Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona Economics and management [ edit ] Mark Aguiar (A.B. 1988) – Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance, Princeton University Igor Ansoff (Ph.D. 1948) – economist and applied mathematician; Founding Dean, Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University Clarence Edwin Ayres (A.B. 1912, M.A. 1914) – Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin ; leading proponent of institutional economics Malcolm Baker (A.B. 1992) – Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School William A. Darity Jr. (A.B. 1974) – Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University [REDACTED] William Darity (1974) Steven J. Davis (A.M. 1981, Ph.D. 1986) – William H. Abbott Distinguished Service Professor of International Business and Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business ; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution Mihir A. Desai (A.B. 1989) – Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance, Harvard Business School ; Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Douglas Diamond (A.B. 1975) – Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business ; Nobel laureate ( Economic Sciences , 2022) [REDACTED] Douglas Diamond (1975) Karen Dynan (A.B. 1985) – Professor of
14964-741: The Center on Global Energy Policy , School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University [REDACTED] Jason Bordoff (1994) Selmer Bringsjord (Ph.D. 1987) – Chair of the Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Melani Cammett (A.B. 1991) – Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University ; Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs ; Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Prudence Carter (BSc 1991) – Sarah and Joseph Jr. Dowling Professor of Sociology, Brown University; Mary E. Pardee Professor and Dean of
15312-631: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , 2nd Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Aaron T. Beck (A.B. 1942) – "father of cognitive behavioral therapy "; founder of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania ; winner of the Lasker Award Seth Berkley (Sc.B. 1978, M.D. 1981) – CEO of GAVI , founder and former President and CEO of
15660-1032: The Central Intelligence Agency noted for his role in "laying the legal groundwork" for the War on Terror Tahesha Way (A.B. 1993) – Secretary of State of New Jersey (2018–2023), Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey (2023–) Janet Yellen (A.B. 1967) – United States Secretary of the Treasury , former Chair of the Federal Reserve , former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco ; Trefethen Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley International politicians [ edit ] Junaid Ahmad (A.B.) – Bangladeshi economist, World Bank country director for India Ichirō Fujisaki – Japanese Ambassador to
16008-1006: The Central Intelligence Agency ; broke the 2005 story of warrantless NSA wiretapping; winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting David S. Rohde (A.B. 1990) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist; escaped from 7-month Taliban captivity in 2009 Kevin Roose (Class of 2009) – technology columnist for The New York Times Alissa J. Rubin (A.B. 1980) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Baghdad Bureau chief, The New York Times Margaret Russell (1980) – Editor-in-Chief, Elle Decor magazine; design judge, Top Design Laura Secor (A.B.) – journalist Aaron Schatz (1996) – ESPN NFL analyst, founder of Football Outsiders Kathryn Schulz (A.B. 1996) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, staff writer at The New Yorker [REDACTED] Kathryn Schulz (1996) Julia Flynn Siler (A.B. 1983) – journalist and nonfiction author Elissa Silverman (A.B. 1995) – journalist, member of
16356-508: The Chicago Blackhawks Colonial Era graduates (1769–1783) [ edit ] Solomon Drowne (A.B. 1773) – physician [REDACTED] Solomon Drowne Dwight Foster (A.B. 1770) – United States Senator from Massachusetts, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts Theodore Foster (A.B. 1770) – United States Senator from Rhode Island David Howell (A.M. 1769) – Delegate to
16704-778: The Congress of the Confederation Joshua Toulmin (A.M. 1769) – English dissenting minister James Mitchell Varnum (A.B. 1769) – leader of 1st Rhode Island Regiment , widely regarded as the first Black battalion in U.S. history Samuel Ward Jr. (A.B. 1771) – delegate to the Hartford Convention Unclassified [ edit ] Michael V. Bhatia (A.B. 1999) – Medal of Freedom recipient Susan Bennett (1971) – voice actress, original voice of Apple's Siri Florencio Campomanes (A.M. 1951) – former president of
17052-559: The Congress of the Confederation , while concurrently serving as Brown's first president. Two of Brown's founders, William Ellery and Stephen Hopkins signed the Declaration of Independence . James Mitchell Varnum , who graduated from Brown with honors in 1769, served as one of General George Washington's Continental Army brigadier generals and later as major general in command of the entire Rhode Island militia . Varnum
17400-1075: The Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and justice of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territory Performing arts [ edit ] Music [ edit ] Sean Altman (A.B. 1983) – founding tenor member of Rockapella , known for the theme song of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Charles Ansbacher (1965) – founder and conductor of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra MC Paul Barman (A.B. 1997) – cult rapper Marco Beltrami (Sc.B. 1988) – two-time Academy Award-nominated film score composer, Scream (1996), Resident Evil (2002), Terminator 3: Rise of
17748-478: The Council of Advisors on Science and Technology [REDACTED] Maria Zuber (1986) Social sciences [ edit ] Mary Beaudry (A.M. 1975, Ph.D. 1980) – Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Gastronomy, Boston University Peter Bearman (A.B. 1978) – Jonathan R. Cole Professor of Sociology, Columbia University Aaron Belkin (A.B. 1988) – Professor of Political Science, San Francisco State University ; authority on LGBT people in
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#173279363932418096-788: The Council of the District of Columbia at-large (2015–2023) Amy Sohn (A.B. 1995) – columnist, New York magazine; novelist, Run Catch Kiss and Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell Doreen St. Félix (2014) – staff writer at The New Yorker Alison Stewart (A.B. 1988) – host, MSNBC's The Most with Alison Stewart A. G. Sulzberger (A.B. 2003) – publisher, The New York Times ; chairman of The New York Times Company [REDACTED] A. G. Sulzberger (2005) André Leon Talley (A.M. 1973) – Vogue magazine editor-at-large; first African-American male creative director of Vogue ; regarded as "fashion icon" Wallace Terry (A.B. 1959) – African-American journalist, author, and oral historian known for his coverage of Black soldiers in
18444-429: The Dark Enlightenment Sachi Cunningham (1994) – PBS FRONTLINE/World producer and director of photography, Los Angeles Times video journalist Literature [ edit ] Lauren Acampora (A.B. 1997) – author David Allyn (A.B. 1991) – author, Make Love, Not War , I Can't Believe I Just Did That , playwright, Baptizing Adam Donald Antrim (A.B. 1981) – author, Elect Mr. Robinson for
18792-609: The Democratic National Convention Annette Nazareth (A.B. 1979) – former Securities and Exchange Commissioner, partner at Davis Polk & Wardell Richard Olney (1856) – United States Attorney General (1893–1895), United States Secretary of State (1895–1897) David Onek (1991) – candidate for District Attorney of San Francisco Thomas Perez (A.B. 1983) – Chair of the Democratic National Committee, former United States Secretary of Labor (2013–2017) [REDACTED] Thomas Perez (1983) John A. Rizzo (A.B. 1969) – Acting General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel at
19140-548: The East Side neighborhood of College Hill. The university's central campus sits on a 15-acre (6.1-hectare) block bounded by Waterman, Prospect, George, and Thayer Streets ; newer buildings extend northward, eastward, and southward. Brown's core, historic campus, constructed primary between 1770 and 1926, is defined by three greens: the Front or Quiet Green, the Middle or College Green, and the Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle (historically known as Lincoln Field). A brick and wrought-iron fence punctuated by decorative gates and arches traces
19488-2120: The Elephantine Papyri Dean Zimmerman (Ph.D. 1992) – Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University Steven Zwicker (Ph.D. 1969) – Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis Law [ edit ] Herman Vandenburg Ames – legal scholar, Professor of American Constitutional History, University of Pennsylvania Richard Reeve Baxter (A.B. 1942) – Judge, International Court of Justice ; Manley Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Karima Bennoune (A.B. 1988) – Homer G. Angelo and Ann Berryhill Endowed Chair and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law Samuel W. Buell (A.B. 1987) – Bernard M. Fishman Distinguished Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law Zechariah Chafee (A.B. 1907) – First Amendment scholar; University Professor of Law, Harvard University Sarah Cleveland (A.B. 1987) – Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights, Columbia Law School [REDACTED] Sarah Cleveland (1987) Jennifer Daskal (A.B. 1994) – Professor of Law, Washington College of Law at American University Lawrence Douglas (A.B. 1982) – James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College Justin Driver (A.B. 1997) – Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law, Yale Law School Heidi Li Feldman (A.B. 1986) – Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center Daniel Fischel (A.M. 1974) – Lee and Brena Freeman Professor Emeritus of Law and Business and Dean Emeritus, University of Chicago Law School James Forman Jr. (A.B. 1988) – J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, Yale Law School ; Pulitzer Prize -winning writer, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America [REDACTED] James Forman Jr (1988) Kent Greenfield (A.B. 1984) – Professor of Law and Dean's Distinguished Scholar, Boston College Law School Henry B. Hansmann (A.B. 1967) – Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor Emeritus of Law, Yale Law School Harold Dexter Hazeltine (A.B. 1894) – Downing Professor of
19836-901: The Fiat group Akash Ambani (A.B. 2013) – Director of Jio and Reliance Retail ; eldest son of Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani George S. Barrett (A.B. 1977) – CEO of Cardinal Health (2009–2017) John Berylson (A.B. 1975) – American investor Marvin Bower (Sc.B. 1925) – co-founder of McKinsey & Company Aneel Bhusri (Sc.B. 1988) – billionaire, co-founder and CEO of Workday [REDACTED] Aneel Bhusri (1988) Alfred S. Bloomingdale (1938) – co-founder and President, Diners Club International Orlando Bravo (1970) – first Puerto Rican billionaire businessman [REDACTED] Orlando Bravo (1970) Willard C. Butcher (1948) – former chairman and CEO, Chase Manhattan Bank Adam Cahan (A.B. 1993) – former Senior Vice President of Mobile and Emerging Products, Yahoo! Arthur L. Carter (1953) – investor, namesake of
20184-683: The Harvard Art Museums Kerry Tribe (A.B. 1997) – installation artist [REDACTED] Kerry Tribe (1997) Mark Tribe (A.B. 1990) – artist; chair of the School of Visual Arts ' MFA program Marcus Waterman (1857) – Orientalist painter Nikolas Weinstein (born 1968), American glass artist Virgil Macey Williams (1847–1850) – painter, co-founder of the San Francisco Art Association Saya Woolfalk (A.B. 2001) – multimedia artist Game Design [ edit ] Elizabeth Hargrave (1994) – board game designer Athletics [ edit ] Baseball [ edit ] Bill Almon (1975) – professional baseball player for
20532-2286: The Herbrand–Ribet theorem and Ribet's theorem [REDACTED] Ken Ribet (1969) Stefan Roth (Sc.M. 2003, Ph.D. 2007) – Professor of Computer Science, Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt Robert Schapire (Sc.B. 1986) – former David M. Siegel '83 Professor in Computer Science, Princeton University Robert Sedgewick (Sc.B. 1968, Sc.M. 1970) – Department Chair and William O. Baker Professor in Computer Science, Princeton University Scott Shenker (Sc.B. 1978) – Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Chief Scientist, UC Berkeley Shu Shien-Siu (Ph.D. 1948) – Chair Emeritus, Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics Joseph H. Silverman (Sc.B. 1977) – Professor of Mathematics, Brown University Scott A. Smolka (Ph.D. 1984) – Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Stony Brook University Halil Mete Soner (MSc 1983, Ph.D. 1986) – Norman John Sollenberger Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University John A. Stankovic (BSc 1970, MSc 1975, Ph.D. 1979) – BP America Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia John Stasko (Sc.M. 1985, Ph.D. 1989) – Regents Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech Frank Tompa (Sc.B., Sc.M. 1970) – Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Kari Vilonen (Ph.D. 1983) – Professor in Pure Mathematics, University of Melbourne Martin M. Wattenberg (A.B. 1991) – Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University Raymond Louis Wilder (Ph.B. 1918, Sc.M. 1921) – Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan Thaleia Zariphopoulou (MSc 1989, Ph.D. 1989) V.F. Neuhaus Centennial Professor and Presidential Chair in Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin Humanities [ edit ] Linda Martín Alcoff (Ph.D. 1987) – Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College Margaret L. Anderson (Ph.D. 1971) – Professor Emerita of History, UC Berkeley Leora Auslander (Ph.D. 1988) – Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in Western Civilization, Professor of European Social History, University of Chicago Jacques Bailly (A.B. 1988) – classicist at
20880-798: The Hewlett Foundation Alexandra Lahav (A.B. 1993) – Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Professor of Law, Cornell Law School Bruce H. Mann (A.B., A.M. 1972) – Carl F. Schipper Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School , husband of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren [REDACTED] Bruce H. Mann (1972) Eric L. Muller (1984) – Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor of Law in Jurisprudence and Ethics, University of North Carolina School of Law Wendell Pritchett (A.B. 1986) – James S. Riepe Presidential Professor of Law and Education, University of Pennsylvania Law School Alexander A. Reinert (A.B. 1994) – Max Freund Professor of Litigation & Advocacy, Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University Vincent Rougeau (A.B. 1985) – President, College of
21228-430: The House of Bourbon-Parma and relative of the Dutch royal family ; Dutch Ambassador to the Holy See Prince Alexander von Fürstenberg (A.B. 1993) – businessman, son of Diane von Fürstenberg and Prince Egon von Fürstenberg Princess Tatiana von Fürstenberg (A.B. 1991) –singer-songwriter, daughter of Diane von Fürstenberg and Prince Egon von Fürstenberg Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein (Sc.B. 1985) – son of
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#173279363932421576-462: The Houston Rockets Football [ edit ] Don Colo (1950) – professional football player, three-time Pro Bowl selection; played for the Cleveland Browns Zak DeOssie (2007) – linebacker and long snapper for the New York Giants, two-time Pro Bowl selection (2008, 2010) James Develin (2010) – fullback for the New England Patriots; 2014 and 2016 Super Bowl Champion; 2017 Pro Bowl selection Mark Donovan (1988) – President of
21924-467: The Hudson River School [REDACTED] Sanford Robinson Gifford (1844) Isca Greenfield-Sanders (A.B. 2000) – artist Karl Haendel (A.B. 1998) – artist known for his pencil drawings Ilana Halperin (A.B. 1995) – artist George Hitchcock (A.B. 1872) – impressionist painter Akiko Ichikawa (A.B. 1994) – interdisciplinary visual artist and writer Bill Jacobson (A.B. 1977) – photographer Ken Johnson (A.B. 1976) – art critic for
22272-784: The Institute for Human Sciences [REDACTED] Timothy Snyder (1991) David Sosa (A.B. 1989) – Professor and Chair of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin Jeffrey Stout (A.B. 1972) – Professor Emeritus of Religion, Princeton University David Summers (A.B. 1963) – William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Art Theory and Italian Renaissance Art, University of Virginia . Charles Taliaferro (A.M.,Ph.D. 1984) – Oscar and Gertrude Boe Overby Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College Richard Taylor (Ph.D. 1959) – philosopher; subject of David Foster Wallace 's prize-winning undergraduate thesis John L. Thomas (Ph.D. 1961) – George L. Littlefield Professor of American History Emeritus, Brown University; winner of
22620-457: The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Tom Catena (A.B. 1986) – Catholic medical missionary working in central Sudan [REDACTED] Tom Catena (1986) William A. Catterall (A.B. 1968) – Chair and Professor of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine , ForMemRS Charles V. Chapin (A.B. 1876) – Providence Superintendent of Health (1884–1932), pioneer in public health research and practice, first president of
22968-496: The Kansas City Chiefs John W. Heisman (Class of 1891) – college football player and coach; namesake of the Heisman Trophy [REDACTED] John Heisman (1891) Steve Jordan (Sc.B. 1982) – professional football player, six-time All-Pro tight end who played for the Minnesota Vikings Sean Morey (1999) – Special Teams Captain of 2005 Super Bowl XL Champion Pittsburgh Steelers Bill O'Brien (A.B. 1992) – Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at
23316-893: The Kansas State Capitol Raymond Hood (1898–99) – architect of the Tribune Tower in Chicago and Rockefeller Center in New York [REDACTED] Raymond Hood (1902) Charles Evans Hughes III (A.B.) – architect, grandson of Charles Evans Hughes Francis L. V. Hoppin (A.B.) – architect Norman Isham (A.B. 1886, M.A. 1890) – Rhode Island historical architect Harry Wild Jones – architect John Black Lee – mid-century modern architect Robert Somol (A.B. 1982) – architectural theorist Laurinda Hope Spear (B.F.A. 1972) – architect, co-founder of Arquitectonica Thomas Alexander Tefft (1851) – pioneer American architect Design [ edit ] Jonathan Adler (A.B. 1988) – potter, designer and author Julie Carlson (A.B. 1983) – co-founder of Remodelista Tom Geismar (A.B. 1953) – graphic designer, designer of
23664-1611: The Lasker Award , Albany Medical Center Prize , Shaw Prize , and Breakthrough Prize ; discoverer of the functions and mechanisms of chaperone -mediated protein folding [REDACTED] Arthur L. Horwich (1972, 1975) Richard Ivry (A.B. 1981) – Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley Bor-ming Jahn (M.Sc. 1967) – Distinguished Chair Emeritus in Geosciences, National Taiwan University Lucy Jones (A.B. 1976) – seismologist Richard Kaner (A.B. 1980) – Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials Innovation, UCLA Suzanne Mahlburg Kay (Ph.D. 1975) – William & Katherine Snee Professor of Geological Sciences Emeritus, Cornell University Brian Keating (M.Sc. 1995, Ph.D. 2000) – Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics, UC San Diego Steven Kliewer (B.Sc. 1985) – Diana K. and Richard C. Strauss Distinguished Chair in Developmental Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Philip Kocienski (Ph.D. 1971) – Professor Emeritus of Organic Chemistry, University of Leeds Clifford Kubiak (Sc.B 1975) – Distinguished Professor and Harold C. Urey Chair in Chemistry, UC San Diego Krishna Kumar (Ph.D.1996) – Robinson Professor in Chemistry, Tufts University Ka Yee Christina Lee (Sc.B. 1986) – 14th Provost (2020–23) and David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago Wen-Hsiung Li (Ph.D. 1972) – James Watson Professor of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago Robert Bruce Lindsay (A.B., Sc.M. 1920) – Chair of
24012-656: The Lasker Award , Shaw Prize , and Breakthrough Prize ; discoverer of the functions and mechanisms of chaperone -mediated protein folding Howard Hu (B.Sc. 1976) – Flora L. Thornton Chair and Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC ; Founding Dean, Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto William Kessen (Sc.M. 1950) – Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Professor of Pediatrics, Yale University Jim Yong Kim (A.B. 1982) – President, Dartmouth College ; co-founder of Partners in Health ; Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of
24360-514: The Lok Sabha representing Kota (2009–2014) Henry Tufnell (A.B. 2015) – Welsh politician, Member of Parliament for Mid and South Pembrokeshire [REDACTED] Henry Tufnell (2015) Julio Velarde (M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1978) – Chairman of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (2006–present) Activists, reformers, and thought leaders [ edit ] Junaid Ahmad (A.B. 1983) – economist; World Bank Country Director for India Benjamin Boas (A.B. 2007) – Cool Japan Ambassador to
24708-763: The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (2015–2021) [REDACTED] Melissa Nobles (1985) Lloyd Ohlin (A.B. 1940) – sociologist and criminologist; Professor Emeritus, Harvard University , Columbia University , University of Chicago Hal Pashler (A.B. 1980) – Distinguished Professor of Psychology, UC San Diego Wendy Pearlman (A.B. 1996) – Jane Long Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University Thomas Pepinsky (A.B. 2001) – Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government, Cornell University Nelson W. Polsby (A.M. 1957) – Heller Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley , member, Council on Foreign Relations Imam Prasodjo (Ph.D. 1997) –Professor in
25056-821: The MacArthur Fellowship Ronald H. Nash (A.M. 1960) – Evangelical Baptist philosopher and apologist; Professor, Reformed Theological Seminary Sianne Ngai (A.B. 1993) – Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, University of Chicago Kathy Peiss (Ph.D. 1982) – Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania Nelson W. Polsby (A.M. 1956) – Heller Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley Arthur Upham Pope (A.B. 1904) – expert on Iranian art ; founder and first director, Asia Institute Gerald Prince (Ph.D. 1968) – Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania Arthur S. Reber (M.A. 1965, Ph.D. 1967) – psychologist known for introducing
25404-594: The MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction Dana Schwartz (A.B. 2015) – author David Shenk (A.B. 1988) – author, The Forgetting, Data Smog , The Immortal Game Reginald Shepherd (M.F.A. 1988) – poet and author Daniel Sherrell (A.B. 2013) – author and climate organizer David Shields (A.B. 1978) – author, Reality Hunger Scott Snyder (A.B. 1998) – author of
25752-704: The MacArthur fellowship Cyrus Grace Dunham (2014) – author, A Year Without A Name: A Memoir David Ebershoff (A.B. 1991) – Lambda Literary Award -winning author, The Danish Girl , editor-at-large at Random House , professor at Columbia University Jeffrey Eugenides (A.B. 1983) – Pulitzer Prize –winning author, Middlesex , The Virgin Suicides , The Marriage Plot [REDACTED] Jeffrey Eugenides (1983) Percival Everett (A.M. 1982) – novelist, poet; Distinguished Professor of English, University of Southern California Rudolph Fisher (A.B. 1919, A.M. 1920) – author, musician, physician;
26100-961: The Macarthur fellowship Neil Donahue (B.Sc. 1985) – atmospheric chemist ; Thomas Lord Professor of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University John Donoghue (Ph.D. 1979) – H.M. Wriston Professor of Neuroscience and Engineering, Brown University Bethany Ehlmann (M.S. 2008, Ph.D. 2010) — president of The Planetary Society ; Professor of Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology ; Rhodes Scholar Anne Fausto-Sterling (Ph.D. 1970) – major contributor to sexology and biology of gender ; Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Biology and Gender Studies, Brown University [REDACTED] Anne Fausto-Sterling (1970) W. Tecumseh Fitch (A.B. 1986, Ph.D. 1994) – Professor of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna Raymond Fuoss (Ph.D. 1932) – Sterling Professor Chair of Chemistry, Yale University Paul Garabedian (A.B. 1946) – Director of
26448-837: The Mars 2020 rover at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Jessica Meir (A.B. 1999) – NASA astronaut; one of two women to participate in the first all-female spacewalk [REDACTED] Jessica Meir (1999) Lynn J. Rothschild (Ph.D. 1985) – evolutionary biologist and astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center Thomas O. Paine (A.B. 1942) – third Administrator of NASA , oversaw first seven Apollo crewed missions [REDACTED] Thomas O. Paine (1942) Ellen Stofan (Ph.D. 1989) – NASA Chief Scientist (2013–2016), John and Adrienne Mars Director, National Air and Space Museum Suzanne Smrekar (BSc 1984) – Deputy Principal Investigator for
26796-1193: The Mars InSight lander Paul Spudis (Sc.M. 1977) – noted lunar scientist associated with the NASA Office of Space Science Winslow Upton (Sc.B. 1875) – astronomer, director of Ladd Observatory George Wallerstein (Sc.B. 1951) – astronomer, winner of the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship Maria Zuber (Ph.D. 1986) – Principal Investigator of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission Government, law and public policy [ edit ] Governors [ edit ] Philip Allen (A.B. 1803) – 22nd Governor of Rhode Island (1851–1853), U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1853–1859) Oliver Ames (1851–1853) – 35th Governor of Massachusetts (1887–1890) Henry B. Anthony (A.B. 1833) – 21st Governor of Rhode Island (1849–1851), U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1859–1884), President pro tempore of
27144-734: The Michigan Panthers [REDACTED] Joe Paterno (1950) Fritz Pollard (A.B. 1919) – first black All-American halfback ; first black National Football League head coach; as a player, led the Akron Pros to the NFL's first-ever championship in 1920; inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame [REDACTED] Fritz Pollard (1919) Edward North Robinson (1896) – football coach at University of Nebraska–Lincoln , Brown, Tufts , Boston University , and for
27492-1967: The Michigan Territory ; territorial Delegate to Congress Thomas Hale Sill (1804) – U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania (1826 –1827, 1829 –1831) Edward L. Sittler Jr. (1930) – U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania , 23rd Congressional District Albert Smith (1813) – U.S. Congressman, Maine (1839–1841) Henry J. Spooner (1860) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1881–1891) Walter Russell Stiness (1877) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1815–1823) Ebenezer Stoddard (1807) – U.S Congressman, Connecticut . James Tallmadge Jr. (1798) – U.S. Congressman, New York (1817–1819), President of New York University (1830–1846) [REDACTED] James Tallmadge Jr. (1798) Eli Thayer (1845) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1857–1861) Benjamin Thomas (1830) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1861–1863) Charles R. Train (1837) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1859–1863) Daniel Wardwell (1811) – U.S. Congressman, New York (1831–1837) Ezekiel Whitman (1795) – U.S. Congressman, Maine (1835–1837) David Rogerson Williams (1792–1795) – U.S. Congressman, South Carolina (1811– 1813), Governor of South Carolina (1814–1816) Henry Williams (1826) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1839 –1831, 1843–1845) William D. Williamson (1804) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1809–1811) and Maine (1821–1822) William Widnall (1926) – U.S. Congressman, New Jersey (1950–1975) John W. Wydler (1947) – U.S. Congressman, New York (1963–1981) State legislators [ edit ] Sullivan Ballou (Class of 1852) – member of Rhode Island House of Representatives ; Major in Rhode Island militia; killed at First Battle of Bull Run Brian Benjamin (A.B. 1998) – member of
27840-764: The Motley Fool Kenneth Gaw (1992) – Hong Kong businessman Charles Giancarlo (BSc 1979) – chairman and CEO of Pure Storage , former chief technology officer at Cisco Systems Jeffrey W. Greenberg (A.B. 1973) – chairman and CEO of Marsh & McLennan Companies Theresia Gouw (Sc.B. 1990) – investor, wealthiest female venture capitalist in the United States Ross Greenburg (1977) – president of HBO Sports Oliver Haarmann (1990) – founding partner of Searchlight Capital Partners James Harmon (A.B. 1957) – investor; President and CEO, Export–Import Bank of
28188-648: The National Assembly , Minister of Foreign Affairs Aeneas Mackay, 15th Lord Reay – Scottish lord, Member of the House of Lords Excepted Hereditary (2019–present) Uttama Savanayana (Sc.B. 1982) – Former Minister of Finance (2019–2020), Industry (2016–2018), and Digital Economy and Society of Thailand (2015–2016) Tarek Shawki (MSc 1983, MSc 1985, Ph.D. 1985) – Minister of Education and Technical Education [ ar ] of Egypt Ijyaraj Singh (Sc.B. 1987) – Indian politician, Member of
28536-608: The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Matthew Sacchet (A.B. 2010) – Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Sally Satel (M.D. 1984) – Lecturer in Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine Erica Schwartz (Sc.B. 1994, M.D. 1998) – Deputy Surgeon General of the United States (2019–2021) Harry Selker (M.D. 1978) – Dean, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts University School of Medicine Manny Sethi (A.B. 2000) – physician, president and founder of
28884-998: The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Rachel Aviv (A.B. 2004) – staff writer at The New Yorker Jim Axelrod (A.M. 1989) – Chief White House correspondent, CBS News Rebecca Ballhaus (A.B. 2013) – Pulitzer Prize –winning journalist Chris Berman (A.B. 1977) – ESPN host and anchor Martin Bernheimer (1958) – Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic Duncan B. Black , aka Atrios (Ph.D. 1999) – political blogger Elizabeth Bruenig (2014–2015) – opinion writer at The New York Times and formerly The Washington Post [REDACTED] Elizabeth Bruenig Robert Conley (1953) – founding member and former general manager of NPR ; creator and original host of All Things Considered ; former New York Times front-page correspondent; National Geographic writer; reporter and anchor for NBC and
29232-611: The National Museum of African American History and Culture [REDACTED] Kevin Young (1996) Joshua Zeitz (A.M. 1998, Ph.D. 2002) – historian and commentator C Pam Zhang (2011) – author, How Much of These Hills Is Gold Medicine and public health [ edit ] Samuel Warren Abbott (A.M. 1858) – first medical examiner and first secretary of Massachusetts's first state board of health from 1886 to 1904 Justin M. Andrews (Ph.B. 1923) – Director of
29580-815: The New York Islanders Brian Eklund (A.B. 2002) – professional ice hockey goaltender for the Tampa Bay Lightning Garnet Hathaway (2014) – professional ice hockey forward for the Washington Capitals Brian Ihnacak (1985) – professional ice hockey forward for HC '05 Banská Bystrica Sam Lafferty (2018) – professional ice hockey forward for the Vancouver Canucks Lacrosse [ edit ] Timothy Kelly (2002) – general manager of
29928-804: The New York State Senate (2017–2021), Lieutenant Governor of New York (2021–2022) Antonio F. D. Cabral (1997) – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1990–present) Dan Greenberg (A.B. 1988) – member of the Arkansas General Assembly (2006–2011) Elijah Hamlin – member of the Maine House of Representatives (1830–1832) Steve Harrison (1990) – member of the West Virginia State Senate (2003–2006) and
30276-886: The New York Times Paul Ramirez Jonas (A.B. 1987) – contemporary artist; Chair of the Department of Art, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning Nina Katchadourian (A.B. 1989) – multimedia artist Richard Kostelanetz (A.B. 1962) – book-art, audio, video, photography, film, holography Paul Laffoley (A.B. 1962) – artist and architect Walter Liedtke (A.M. 1969) – curator of European paintings Metropolitan Museum of Art Candice Lin (A.B 2001) – artist Sarah Morris (A.B. 1988) – contemporary painter and filmmaker Elizabeth Neel (A.B. 1997) – contemporary painter Lisa Oppenheim (A.B. 1998) – multimedia artist Sarah Oppenheimer (A.B. 1995) – sculptor and installation artist Maureen Paley (A.B. 1975) – established
30624-1385: The New York Titans of the National Lacrosse League Dylan Molloy (2017) – player for the Chrome Lacrosse Club Lars Tiffany (1990) – head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers men's lacrosse program at the University of Virginia Dom Starsia (1974) – former head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers men's lacrosse program at the University of Virginia Olympics [ edit ] Gold [ edit ] Tessa Gobbo (2013) – American rower, Olympic gold ( 2016 ) medalist in women's coxed eight rowing Helen Johns Carroll (A.B. 1936) – American freestyle swimmer, Olympic gold ( 1932 ) medalist Becky Kellar-Duke (1997) – Canadian ice hockey player, Olympic gold (2002, 2006, 2010) and silver (1998) medalist Katie King (1997) – American ice hockey player, Olympic gold ( 1998 ), silver ( 2002 ), and bronze ( 2006 ) medalist Tara Mounsey (Sc.B. 2001) – American ice hockey player, Olympic gold (1998) and silver (2002) medalist Xeno Müller (2002) – Swiss rower, Olympic gold ( 1996 ) and silver ( 2000 ) medalist in
30972-494: The Ottoman Empire Samuel L. Crocker (1822) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1853–1855) Robert Lee Davis – U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania (1932–1933) Nathan F. Dixon II (1833) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1849–1851, 1863–1871) Job Durfee (A.B. 1813) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1821–1825) Samuel Eddy (1787) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1819–1825), Chief Justice of
31320-1138: The PBS and Mobil logos Chuck Hoberman (1974–1976) – designer, inventor of the Hoberman sphere Fashion [ edit ] Montana Levi Blanco (A.M.) – costume designer, recipient of the 2022 Tony Award for Best Costume Design in a Play Dana Buchman (A.B. 1973) – fashion designer Pierre-Alexis Dumas (A.B. 1991) – Artistic Director, Hermès (2011–present) Kimberly Ovitz (A.B. 2005) – fashion designer Michael Rider (A.B. 2002) – Creative Director, Celine André Leon Talley (A.M. 1973) – Vogue magazine editor-at-large; first African-American male creative director of Vogue [REDACTED] Andre Leon Talley (1973) Visual arts [ edit ] David Aldrich (A.B. 1929) – watercolor painter Deborah Aschheim (A.B. 1986) – new media artist Marc Erwin Babej (A.B. 1992) – photographic artist, writer Éric Baudelaire (A.B. 1994) – artist Richard Benson (1961) – photographer, Dean of
31668-1267: The Perkins Institution for the Blind —the first school for the blind established in the U.S. Kathryn S. Fuller (A.B. 1968) – chairman of the Board Ford Foundation former president and CEO of non-governmental organization World Wildlife Fund – U.S. (1989–2005) Samuel Gridley Howe (1821) – prominent physician, abolitionist , advocate of education for the blind Gene Karpinski (1974) – President, League of Conservation Voters Kerry Kennedy (A.B. 1981) – activist, writer; President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights ; former wife of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ; daughter of Robert F. Kennedy [REDACTED] Kerry Kennedy (1981) Maya Keyes – anarchist and gay rights activist Alfie Kohn (A.B. 1979) – proponent of progressive education Nancy Lublin (1993) — founder of Crisis Text Line Horace Mann (A.B. 1819) – educationist; father of American public school education Nancy Northup (A.B. 1981) – President, Center for Reproductive Rights Nawal M. Nour (A.B. 1988) – physician, founder of
32016-532: The Pro Football Hall of Fame . Catherine Gund (A.B. 1988) – documentary filmmaker; activist Chris Hayes (A.B. 2001) – Editor of The Nation and host of All in with Chris Hayes on MSNBC [REDACTED] Chris Hayes (2001) Tony Horwitz (1980) – journalist, Wall Street Journal , winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting A. J. Jacobs (1990) – journalist and author, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become
32364-602: The Providence Steam Roller ; member of the College Football Hall of Fame Wallace Wade (1917) – football coach at the University of Alabama and then Duke , member of the College Football Hall of Fame ; namesake of Duke's football stadium Ice hockey [ edit ] Curt Bennett (1970) – professional ice hockey player, St. Louis Blues and Atlanta Flames Yann Danis (A.B. 2004) – professional ice hockey goaltender for
32712-459: The Pulitzer Prize twice, Macarthur fellowship recipient, Ruined , Sweat Sarah Ruhl (A.B. 1997, M.F.A 2001) – playwright and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, recipient of the Macarthur fellowship , The Clean House , Eurydice , Passion Play , In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) Burt Shevelove (1937) – Tony Award-winning playwright, A Funny Thing Happened on
33060-1200: The Pulitzer Prize for History for Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America [REDACTED] Marcia Chatelain (2008) Roderick Chisholm (A.B. 1938) – Professor of Philosophy, Brown University James Corum (A.M.) – military historian; Lecturer, University of Salford Christina Crosby (Ph.D. 1982) – Professor of English, Wesleyan University ; scholar of feminism and critical disability studies Kenneth Dean (A.B. 1979) – Raffles Professor of Humanities, National University of Singapore Matt Delmont (A.M. 2004, Ph.D. 2008) – Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History, Dartmouth College Melvin Dixon (Ph.D. 1975) – Professor of Literature, Queens College Anne Dufourmantelle – philosopher and psychoanalyst Fred Feldman (Ph.D. 1968) – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Amherst Ann Ferguson (Ph.D. 1965) – Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst Alison Fields (M.A. 2003) – Mary Lou Milner Carver Professor of Art of
33408-1919: The Rhode Island House of Representatives and 2018 Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island Kyle Evans Gay – member of the Delaware Senate Mayors [ edit ] Kostas Bakoyannis (A.B. 2000) – Mayor of Athens, Greece (2019–present) David Cicilline (A.B. 1983) – first openly gay mayor of a state capital– Providence, Rhode Island ; U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (2011–). Buddy Dyer (Sc.B. 1980) – 32nd Mayor of Orlando, Florida (2003–) Henry Loeb (1943) – Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee (1960–1963, 1968–1971) Alex Morse (A.B. 2011) – 44th Mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts (2012–2021); elected youngest mayor of Holyoke at age 22 [REDACTED] Alex Morse (2011) Freddie O'Connell (A.B., BSc 2000) – 10th Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee Chelsie J. Senerchia – 26th Mayor of Miami, Florida (1951–1953) Solomon Sibley (A.B. 1794) – 1st Mayor of Detroit, Michigan (1806–1806) Sumbul Siddiqui (A.B. 2010) – Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts (2020–); first Muslim mayor in Massachusetts history Samuel Starkweather (1822) – 7th and 15th Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (1844–1845, 1857–1858) Konstantinos Zervas (Sc.M. 1989) – Mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece (2019–) Diplomats [ edit ] Willard L. Beaulac (1918) – U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay (1944–1947), Colombia (1947–1951), Cuba (1951–1953), Chile (1953–1956) and Argentina (1956–1960) W. Randolph Burgess (1912) – U.S. Ambassador to NATO (1957–1961) William H. Courtney (Ph.D. 1972) – U.S. Ambassador to Georgia (1995–1997) and Kazakhstan (1992–1994) Samuel S. Cox (1846) – U.S. Ambassador to
33756-563: The Rhode Island School of Design , which offers undergraduate and graduate dual degree programs . Brown's main campus is in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence. The university is surrounded by a federally listed architectural district with a concentration of Colonial-era buildings. Benefit Street has one of America's richest concentrations of 17th- and 18th-century architecture. Undergraduate admissions are among
34104-904: The Rhode Island Superior Court Edward C. Stokes (1883) – 32nd Governor of New Jersey (1905–1908) John Milton Thayer (1841) – 2nd Governor of Wyoming Territory (1875–1878) and 6th Governor of Nebraska (1887–1892) David Rogerson Williams (1792–1795) – 45th Governor of South Carolina (1814–1816) Jared W. Williams (A.B. 1818) – 21st Governor of New Hampshire (1847–1849) William D. Williamson (1804) – 2nd Governor of Maine (1821–1821), U.S. Congressman, Maine (1821–1823) Legislators [ edit ] United States senators [ edit ] Philip Allen (A.B. 1803) – U.S. Senator , Rhode Island (1853–1859), Governor of Rhode Island (1851–1853) Henry B. Anthony (A.B. 1833) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1859–1884), President pro tempore of
34452-2180: The Rhode Island Supreme Court (1827–1835) Frederick D. Ely (1859) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1885–1887) James Ervin (1797) U.S. Congressman, South Carolina (1817–1821) Horace Everett (A.B. 1797) – U.S. Congressman, Vermont (1829–1843) Thomas Ewing Jr. – U.S. Congressman, Ohio (1877–1881) George Fisher (1813) – U.S. Congressman, New York (1829–1830) Dwight Foster (A.B. 1774) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1793–1800) George B. Francis (1904) – U.S. Congressman, New York (1917–1919) Daniel L. D. Granger (1874) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1903–1909) Julian Hartridge (1848) – U.S. Congressman, Georgia (1875–1879) Nathaniel Hazard (1792) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1819–1820) Aaron Hobart (1805) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1820–1827) Thomas Jenckes (1838) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1859–1863) Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (Sc.B. 1992) – U.S. Congressman, Louisiana (2004–2008) [REDACTED] Bobby Jindal (1992) George Gordon King (1825) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1849–1853) Oscar Lapham (1864) – U.S. Congressman, Rhode Island (1891–1895) Dan Maffei (A.B. 1990) – U.S. Congressman, D-New York (2009–2011, 2013–2015) Seth Magaziner (A.B. 2006) – U.S. Congressman, D- Rhode Island (2022–) [REDACTED] Seth Magaziner (2006) Horace Mann (A.B. 1819) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1848–1853) James Brown Mason (A.B. 1791) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1815–1819) Charles D. Millard (1897) – U.S Congressman, New York (1931–1937) Marcus Morton (A.B. 1804, A.M 1807) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1817–1821); Governor of Massachusetts (1825, 1840–1844) John J. O'Connor (1906) – U.S. Congressman, New York (1923–1939) Richard Olney II (1892) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1815–1921) Dutee Jerauld Pearce (A.B. 1808) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1825–1837) Dean Phillips (A.B. 1991) – U.S. Congressman, Minnesota (2019–); former candidate for
34800-610: The San Diego Padres , New York Mets , Chicago White Sox , Oakland Athletics and Pittsburgh Pirates ; No. 1 pick in the 1974 draft Mark Attanasio (A.B. 1979) – financier and owner of the Milwaukee Brewers Charley Bassett – professional baseball player Tommy Dowd – professional baseball player Dave Fultz – professional baseball player Irving "Bump" Hadley (Class of 1928) – professional baseball player, pitcher for
35148-1038: The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America Jonathan Maxcy (A.B. 1787) – President of Brown University and Baptist minister George Maxwell Randall (A.B. 1835) – Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado and Parts Adjacent Katherine Sonderegger (Ph.D. 1990) – William Meade Chair in Systematic Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary Joshua Toulmin (A.M. 1769) – English dissenting minister with U.S. sympathies Royalty and nobility [ edit ] Prince Rahim Aga Khan (A.B. 1995) – eldest son of Prince Karim Aga Khan IV Prince Alexander-Georg von Auersperg (1983) – son of Sunny von Bülow Countess Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli (1989) – daughter of Claus von Bülow and Sunny von Bülow Prince Jaime Bernardo of Bourbon-Parma, Count of Bardi – member of
35496-879: The Smithsonian Institution Orin R. Smith (1957) – chairman and CEO, Engelhard (1999–2001) Barry Sternlicht (A.B. 1982) – co-founder and CEO of Starwood Capital Group , co-founder of Starwood Jeff Stibel (Sc.M. 1999) – entrepreneur, founder of Bryant Stibel Jeffrey Swartz (A.B. 1982) – former CEO of Timberland Melvin Swig (A.B. 1939) – real estate developer and philanthropist Ted Turner (Class of 1960) – billionaire founder of CNN and Turner Broadcasting [REDACTED] Ted Turner Amelia Warren Tyagi (A.B. 1993) – businesswoman, author; daughter of Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren Thomas J. Watson Jr. (1937) – president and CEO of IBM (1956–1971); U.S. Ambassador to
35844-776: The Starr Report ; President of Baylor University [REDACTED] Kenneth Starr (1969) Norman O. Tietjens (Ph.B. 1925, M.A. 1927) – judge of the United States Tax Court Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson (A.B. 1973) – federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and former Rhode Island Superior Court judge William Tong (A.B. 1995) – Attorney General of Connecticut (2019–) Anne Rachel Traum (A.B. 1991) – Judge of
36192-468: The Tax Division (2008-2009) Charles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) – 11th Chief Justice of the United States (1930–1941); Governor of New York (1907–1910); U.S. Secretary of State (1921–1925) [REDACTED] Charles Evans Hughes (1881) Charles Evans Hughes Jr. (A.B. 1909) – 20th United States Solicitor General ; son of Charles Evans Hughes Alfred H. Joslin (A.B. 1936) – Justice of
36540-1187: The Tribeca Film Festival Danny Rubin (A.B. 1979) – screenwriter, Groundhog Day Michael Showalter (A.B. 1992) – actor/writer/director, Wet Hot American Summer , The Baxter and the series The State , Stella and Michael & Michael Have Issues Leelee Sobieski (Class of 2005) – actress, Eyes Wide Shut , Never Been Kissed , Here on Earth , Joy Ride (2001), The Glass House (2001), Wicker Man (2006), 88 Minutes , Public Enemies (2009); nominated for an Emmy for Joan of Arc [REDACTED] Leelee Sobieski Alison Stewart (A.B. 1988) – radio and television journalist; filmmaker Matthew Sussman – actor, documentary filmmaker Sara Tanaka (A.B. 2000) – actress, Rushmore , Old School , Imaginary Heroes Astra Taylor (Class of 2001) – activist and filmmaker, Zizek! , Examined Life , What Is Democracy? Christine Vachon (A.B. 1983) – acclaimed independent film producer, I'm Not There , Infamous (2006), The Notorious Bettie Page , Far From Heaven , Hedwig and
36888-401: The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission ; second president of Texas Southern University Michael Paradiso (Ph.D. 1984) – Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and Professor of Neuroscience, Brown University Robert L. Park (Ph.D. 1964) – Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park ; former Director of Public Information at
37236-1237: The U.S. House of Representatives [REDACTED] Horace Mann (1819) Jonathan Maxcy (A.B. 1787) – 2nd President, Brown University; 1st President, University of South Carolina ; 3rd President, Union College David Maxwell (A.M. 1968) – 12th President, Drake University Alexander Meiklejohn (A.B. 1893, A.M. 1895) – 8th President, Amherst College ; Dean, Brown University; philosopher and free-speech advocate Alonzo G. Morón (B.A. 1932) – 8th President of Hampton University , sociologist, civil servant Richard L. Morrill (A.B. 1961) – 8th President, University of Richmond ; 18th President, Centre College ; President, Salem College Robert W. Morse (A.M. 1947, Ph.D. 1949) – 1st President, Case Western Reserve University Bernard Muir (1990) – Athletic Director, Stanford University Samuel M. Nabrit (Ph.D. 1932) – 2nd President, Texas Southern University Louis E. Newman (Ph.D. 1983) – Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Stanford University Melissa Nobles (A.B. 1985) – Chancellor and Professor of Political Science, MIT Eliphalet Nott (A.M. 1795) – 4th President, Union College ; 3rd President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ;
37584-518: The U.S. Supreme Court Thomas J. Perrelli (A.B. 1988) – former United States Associate Attorney General Solomon Sibley (A.B. 1794) – Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court ; first United States Attorney for the Michigan Territory ; territorial Delegate to Congress Kenneth Starr (M.A. 1969) – former U.S. Solicitor General ; former U.S. appeals court judge; special counsel in Bill Clinton impeachment proceedings and namesake of
37932-608: The United States Armed Forces Adia Benton (A.B. 1999) – cultural and medical anthropologist , Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University Kenneth A. Bollen (A.M. 1975, Ph.D. 1977) – Henry Rudolph Immerwahr Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, UNC Chapel Hill Jason Bordoff (A.B. 1994) – Co-Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School , Founding Director of
38280-629: The United States Congress , 58 Rhodes Scholars , 22 MacArthur Genius Fellows, and 38 Olympic medalists. In 1761, three residents of Newport, Rhode Island , drafted a petition to the colony's General Assembly : That your Petitioners propose to open a literary institution or School for instructing young Gentlemen in the Languages, Mathematics, Geography & History, & such other branches of Knowledge as shall be desired. That for this End... it will be necessary... to erect
38628-653: The United States District Court for the District of Nevada Craig Waters (A.B. 1979) – communications counsel to the Florida Supreme Court Business [ edit ] See also: List of companies founded by Brown University alumni Lawrence D. Ackman (1960) – real estate entrepreneur, father of billionaire Bill Ackman Giovanni Alberto Agnelli (1986) – heir apparent and designated future chairman of
38976-482: The University of Alabama , former head Coach at Penn State , former NFL head coach of the Houston Texans Curly Oden (1921) – National Football League running back and member of 1928 league champion Providence Steam Roller Joe Paterno (A.B. 1950) – Head Coach for Penn State (1966–2011), all-time winningest Division I football coach E. J. Perry (A.B. 2021) – quarterback for
39324-438: The University of Massachusetts Amherst 's MFA Program for Poets & Writers Xochitl Gonzalez (A.B. 1999) – author and screenwriter, Olga Dies Dreaming ; staff writer at The Atlantic Jaimy Gordon (A.M. 1972, A.D. 1975) – National Book Award -winning author, Lord of Misrule Andrew Sean Greer (A.B. 1992) – Pulitzer Prize –winning author, Less Jennifer Haley (M.F.A. 2005) – playwright, winner of
39672-717: The University of Vermont ; National Spelling Bee Official Pronouncer Janetta Rebold Benton (Ph.D. 1980) – Distinguished Professor of Art History, Pace University Olivier Berggruen (A.B. 1986) – art historian Bernard Bloch (Ph.D. 1935) – Professor of Linguistics, Yale University George Boas (A.B., A.M. 1913) – Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University Edgar S. Brightman (A.B. 1907, A.M. 1908) – philosopher, Martin Luther King Jr. 's advisor at Boston University Marcia Chatelain (A.M., Ph.D. 2008) – Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania , recipient of
40020-745: The Vermont Supreme Court Peleg Arnold (A.B.) – Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1795 to 1812; represented Rhode Island as a delegate to the Continental Congress in the 1787–1788 session; incorporator of the Providence Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1790 Haiganush R. Bedrosian (A.B. 1965) – Chief Justice, Rhode Island Family Court Francisco Besosa (A.B. 1971) – District Judge, U.S. District Court for
40368-806: The Vietnam War Salamishah Tillet (M.A.T. 1997) – Pulitzer Prize -winning essayist Krista Tippett (A.B. 1983) – host, NPR's Speaking of Faith , and creator and host of On Being Larry Tye (A.B. 1977) – journalist Alex Wagner (A.B. 1999) – host, Alex Wagner Tonight , MSNBC [REDACTED] Alex Wagner (1999) David Wallace-Wells (A.B. 2004) – opinion columnist, The New York Times ; author of The Uninhabitable Earth Ivan Watson (A.B. 1997) – senior international correspondent, CNN Emily Witt (A.B. 2003) – staff writer, The New Yorker Curtis Yarvin (1992) – blogger, political theorist, software engineer, and internet entrepreneur associated with
40716-1349: The Wall Street Journal ; two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Josh Marshall (Ph.D. 2003) – Polk Award -winning journalist; founder, Talking Points Memo Matthew Miller (A.B. 1983) – Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress ; columnist for Fortune ; regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine George Musser (Sc.B. 1988) – author and editor at Scientific American Pamela Paul (A.B. 1993) – opinion columnist, The New York Times , editor of The New York Times Book Review (2013–2022) [REDACTED] Pamela Paul (1993) Holly Peterson (A.B. 1987) – contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, editor-at-large for Talk magazine, producer for ABC News Sasha Polakow-Suransky (2001) – deputy editor at Foreign Policy , Rhodes Scholar Scott Poulson-Bryant (A.B. 2008, originally Class of 1989) – co-founding editor of VIBE Magazine Andrew Revkin (A.B. 1978) – environmental journalist, New York Times ; recipient of 2008 Columbia University Journalism School John Chancellor Award Quentin Reynolds (1924) – World War II war correspondent . James Risen (1977) – journalist for The Intercept ; author of two books about
41064-747: The Washington Senators and New York Yankees Mike Lynch – professional baseball player Frank Philbrick – professional baseball player Lee Richmond – professional baseball player, pitched the first perfect game in major league baseball history Fred Tenney – professional baseball player William Edward White – possibly the first African-American to play major league baseball [REDACTED] William Edward White Basketball [ edit ] Lindsay Gottlieb (1999) – head coach, USC Trojans women's basketball Bernard Muir (1990) – athletic director at Stanford University Stephen Silas (1996) – head coach for
41412-700: The Watergate Scandal ; founder of Prison Fellowship Thomas Corcoran (1922) – member of President Franklin Roosevelt 's "brain trust"; guided New Deal legislation; high-powered Washington lobbyist Tad Devine (A.B. 1978) – political consultant, senior adviser in Al Gore 's 2000 and John Kerry 's 2004 Presidential campaigns, chief strategist for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign David F. Duncan (1995) – domestic policy advisor to Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton ; co-originator of
41760-677: The Watergate scandal Randall Kroszner (A.B. 1984) – member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Ira Magaziner (1969) – Clinton advisor, current chairman of Clinton AIDS Initiative; co-instigator of Brown's New Curriculum Matt Meyer (A.B. 1994) – Delaware politician, 11th New Castle County Executive , Democratic nominee in the 2024 Delaware gubernatorial election Seema Nanda (1992) – United States Solicitor of Labor , CEO of
42108-1354: The Wayback Machine . University of Indonesia staff website. Accessed 26 June 2018. ^ Culpepper, Sophie (2019-04-05). "Alum talks Chinese-Italian fashion" . Brown Daily Herald . Retrieved 2019-05-10 . ^ "patricksharkey" . patricksharkey . Retrieved 2018-02-26 . ^ LoLordo, Vincent M. (1996-03-01). "Experimental Psychologist Richard L. Solomon (1918–1995)" . APS Observer . 9 . ^ "Katherine Adams joins Apple as general counsel and SVP" . Apple Newsroom . Retrieved 2017-12-17 . ^ "Encyclopedia Brunoniana | Allen, Zachariah" . www.brown.edu . Retrieved 2021-01-09 . ^ "A Conversation with Astronaut Jessica Meir" . American Academy of Arts & Sciences . 19 February 2021 . Retrieved 2022-03-27 . ^ McGlone, Peggy (2018-04-05). "Former NASA scientist to lead National Air and Space Museum" . Washington Post . ISSN 0190-8286 . Retrieved 2018-04-10 . ^ "Brown alumna Ellen Stofan to head National Air and Space Museum" . Retrieved 2018-04-10 . ^ Reichhardt, Tony. "Paul Spudis (1952–2018)" . Smithsonian Magazine . Retrieved 2022-01-25 . ^ "Philip Allen" . Biographical Directory of
42456-636: The West Virginia House of Delegates (1993–2002) Wingate Hayes (1844) – Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1859 to 1860 Ratcliffe Hicks (1864) – member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1866–1895), benefactor of the University of Connecticut Walter M. D. Kern – politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1978 to 1990, where he represented
42804-677: The Whitewater controversy ; 14th President of Baylor University Francis Wayland III (A.B. 1846) – Dean Emeritus, Yale Law School Medicine and public health [ edit ] Cheryl A. M. Anderson (A.B. 1992) – Professor and Dean, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health , UC San Diego Louise Aronson (A.B. 1986) – author; Professor of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco Ann Arvin (A.B. 1966) – Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Emerita, Stanford University School of Medicine Aaron T. Beck (A.B. 1942) – "father of cognitive behavioral therapy "; founder of
43152-831: The World Chess Federation Amy Carter (Class of 1989) – daughter of former President Jimmy Carter ; political activist [REDACTED] Amy Carter Andrew Dexter Jr. (A.B. 1798) – founder of Montgomery, Alabama Ze Frank (B.Sc. 1995) – online content creator Isaac Haxton (2008) – professional poker player Douglas Harriman Kennedy (A.B.) – tenth child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy Casey Johnson (2001) – socialite, heiress of Johnson & Johnson , daughter of Nancy Sale & Woody Johnson Alexandra Kerry (A.B. 1997) – daughter of presidential candidate and U.S. Senator John Kerry Sadad Ibrahim Al Husseini (M.S. 1970, Ph.D. 1973) – oil and gas industry expert Theodore Morde (1935–36) – famed explorer and adventurer who claimed to have discovered
43500-468: The Yale School of Art (1996–2006), recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship Bill Bollinger (1961) – minimalist sculptor and installation artist Susan Chen (A.B. 2015) – painter Dawn Clements (A.B. 1986) – contemporary artist known for her panoramas Dave Cole (A.B. 2000) – sculptor, visual artist John Connell (Class of 1962) – sculptor and painter Devon Dikeou (A.B. 1986) – artist and curator Barnaby Evans (1975) – creator of
43848-582: The longest serving American college president Inman E. Page (A.B. 1877, A.M. 1880) – President of the Lincoln Institute , Langston University , Western University , and Roger Williams University Lynn Pasquerella (Ph.D. 1985) – 18th President, Mount Holyoke College Willard Preston (A.B. 1806) – 4th President, University of Vermont Wendell Pritchett (A.B. 1986) – Chancellor of Rutgers University–Camden (2009–14); Provost, University of Pennsylvania (2017–21); Interim President, University of Pennsylvania (2022); first person of color to lead
44196-631: The self-medication hypothesis of drug addiction John Hay (1858) – U.S. Secretary of State under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (1898–1905), private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln [REDACTED] John Hay (1858) Charles Hill (A.B. 1957) – Senior Lecturer in the Humanities, Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy, Yale University ; former executive aid to former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz; research fellow, Hoover Institution E. Howard Hunt (1940) – author, OSS & CIA officer, worked under President Richard Nixon ; figured in
44544-1586: The "Lost City of the Monkey God" in Honduras Cara Mund (Class of 2016) – Miss America 2018 Allegra Versace (Class of 2008) – heiress to Gianni Versace 's fortune and daughter of Donatella Versace References [ edit ] ^ "Brunonian | Definition of Brunonian in English by Oxford Dictionaries" . Oxford Dictionaries | English . Retrieved 2019-03-11 . ^ Sandomir, Richard (2017-06-28). "Richard Benson, Photographer and Printer, Dies at 73" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-12-21 . ^ "Rina Foygel Barber" . www.macfound.org . Retrieved 2023-10-10 . ^ "Jim Yong Kim" . www.macfound.org . Retrieved 2022-01-18 . ^ "Nawal M. Nour" . www.macfound.org . Retrieved 2022-01-18 . ^ "William Seeley" . www.macfound.org . Retrieved 2021-03-26 . ^ "Education for Everybody: Brown's Innovation and Influence in Collegiate Education" . library.brown.edu . Retrieved 2017-11-20 . ^ "Vern Alden (2014) – Hall of Fame" . Brown University Athletics . Retrieved 2020-08-24 . ^ "Pratt Dean Ravi Bellamkonda to become provost and EVP at Emory" . The Chronicle . Retrieved 2021-03-08 . ^ "Frances Cairncross" . www.hw.ac.uk . Retrieved 2017-12-07 . ^ "Robert A. Corrigan, President" . The New York Times . 2002-08-20. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-04-02 . ^ Cummings, Glenn A. (2015). "Meeting
44892-509: The 1964 Bancroft Prize Salamishah Tillet (M.A.T. 1997) – Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing, Rutgers University–Newark ; recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism [REDACTED] Salamishah Tillet (1997) Francesca Trivellato (Ph.D. 2004) – Andrew W Mellon Professor in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study Adam Ulam (A.B. 1943) – Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, Harvard University ; one of
45240-693: The 1989 Timoshenko Medal Herman Chernoff (Ph.D. 1948) – Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, MIT ; known for the Chernoff bound , Chernoff distribution and Chernoff face Kathleen M. Eisenhardt (Sc.B. 1969) – Stanford W. Ascherman M.D. Professor, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University Tejal Desai (Sc.B. 1994) – Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering, Brown University School of Engineering Philippe Fauchet (MSc 1980) – Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering Rina Foygel Barber (Sc.B. 2005) – Louis Block Professor of Statistics, University of Chicago ; recipient of
45588-426: The 1995 MacArthur Fellowship Rina Foygel Barber (Sc.B. 2005) – Louis Block Professor of Statistics, University of Chicago ; recipient of the 2023 MacArthur Fellowship Jim Yong Kim (A.B. 1982) – 12th President of the World Bank , President Emeritus of Dartmouth College , and public health physician; recipient of the 2003 MacArthur Fellowship Ben Lerner (A.B. 2001, M.F.A. 2003) – poet; recipient of
45936-483: The 1999 MacArthur Fellowship Edwidge Danticat (M.F.A. 1993) – Haitian-American author, recipient of the 2009 MacArthur Fellowship [REDACTED] Edwidge Danticat (1993) Michael H. Dickinson (Sc.B. 1984) – Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology ; recipient of the 2001 MacArthur Fellowship Richard Foreman (A.B. 1959) – playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer; recipient of
46284-410: The 2006 MacArthur Fellowship Sarah Ruhl (A.B. 1997, M.F.A 2001) – playwright; recipient of the 2006 MacArthur Fellowship Sebastian Ruth (A.B. 1997) – violinist, recipient of the 2010 MacArthur Fellowship Joanna Scott (M.A. 1985) – author; recipient of the 1992 MacArthur Fellowship William Seeley (A.B. 1993) – Professor of Neurology and Pathology, UC San Francisco , recipient of
46632-449: The 2007 MacArthur Fellowship [REDACTED] Lynn Nottage (1986) Nawal M. Nour (A.B. 1988) – obstetrician and gynecologist , Kate Macy Ladd Professor at Harvard Medical School ; recipient of the 2013 MacArthur Fellowship Lauren Redniss (A.B. 1996) – artist and writer; recipient of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship Jennifer Richeson (Sc.B. 1994) – Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology, Yale University ; recipient of
46980-906: The 2011 Macarthur fellowship Academia [ edit ] Academic administrators [ edit ] Jasper Adams (A.B. 1815) – President, College of Charleston ; 1st President Hobart College Vernon Alden (A.B. 1945) – 15th President, Ohio University James Burrill Angell (A.B. 1849) – 3rd President, University of Michigan [REDACTED] James Burrill Angell (1849) Rufus Babcock (1821) – 2nd President, Colby College Ravi V. Bellamkonda (Ph.D. 1994) – Dean, Pratt School of Engineering , Duke University (2016–2021); Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Emory University (2021–) Samuel Belkin (Ph.D. 1935) – 2nd President, Yeshiva University Lee Eliot Berk (A.B 1964) – 2nd President and namesake, Berklee College of Music Sarah Bolton (Sc.B. 1988) – 12th President, College of Wooster ; former Dean of
47328-589: The 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Scott Haltzman (1982, M.D. 1985) – psychiatrist, self-help author Jordan Harrison (M.F.A. 2003) – playwright, finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Tony Horwitz (A.B. 1980) – Pulitzer Prize –winning journalist, author of Confederates in the Attic , Blue Latitudes Shelley Jackson (M.F.A. 1994) – hyperfiction writer , author of Patchwork Girl Steven Johnson (A.B. 1990) – writer and popular science author Winthrop Jordan (Ph.D. 1960) – American Civil War and racial history writer, winner of
47676-1222: The 2014 Timoshenko Medal Yves Moreau (MSc 1994) – Professor of Engineering, KU Leuven Simon Ostrach (Sc.M. 1945, Ph.D. 1950) – Wilbert J. Austin Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University ; pioneer in space science Stella Pang (BSc 1977) – Department Head and Chair Professor of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong Louise Prockter (MSc Ph.D. 1999) – Chief Scientist, Space Exploration Sector, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University Upadrasta Ramamurty (Ph.D. 1994) – President’s Chair in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University Kavita Ramanan (MSc 1993, Ph.D. 1998) – Roland George Dwight Richardson University Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University Kaliat Ramesh (Sc.M. 1985, Sc.M. 1987, Ph.D. 1988) – Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Professor of Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering Guruswami Ravichandran (Ph.D. 1987) – John E. Goode Jr., Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering; Otis Booth Leadership Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science at
48024-430: The 2015 MacArthur Fellowship David Lobell (Sc.B. 2000) – Gloria and Richard Kushel Director at the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University ; recipient of the 2015 MacArthur Fellowship Monica Muñoz Martinez (A.B. 2006) – public historian; recipient of the 2021 MacArthur Fellowship Lynn Nottage (A.B. 1986) – first female playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize twice; recipient of
48372-664: The 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography [REDACTED] David Kertzer (1969) Michael Kimmel (M.A. 1974) – Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University Eric Klinenberg (A.B. 1993) – Professor of Sociology and Helen Gould Shepard Professor in Social Science, New York University Prema Kurien (A.M. 1989, Ph.D. 1993) – Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University Harold Leavitt (Sc.M. 1944) – pioneer in management psychology ; Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford University Jacob T. Levy (A.B. 1993) – Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory and Chair of
48720-501: The 2017 MacArthur Fellowship Kelly Benoit-Bird (BSc 1998) – Senior Scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ; recipient of the 2010 MacArthur Fellowship Richard Benson (1961) – photographer, Dean of the Yale School of Art (1996–2006); recipient of the 2010 MacArthur Fellowship Lucy Blake (A.B. 1981) – conservationist, recipient of the 2000 MacArthur Fellowship John C. Bonifaz (A.B. 1987) – founder, National Voting Rights Institute , recipient of
49068-970: The 2023 MacArthur Fellowship Leigh Hochberg (BSc 1990) – L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Engineering, Brown University; Senior Lecturer in Neurology, Harvard Medical School Philip G. Hodge (Ph.D. 1949) – Professor Emeritus of Mechanics, University of Minnesota Ayanna Howard (Sc.B. 1993) – Dean, College of Engineering , Ohio State University [REDACTED] Ayanna Howard (1993) Joseph Jacobson (Sc.B 1987) – Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Richard D. James (BSc 1974) – Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Aerospace Engineering Mechanics, University of Minnesota Mark Kachanov (Ph.D. 1981) – Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University John Kim (Sc.M. 1974) – Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA Victor Li (BSc 1977, MSc 1978, Ph.D. 1981) – James R. Rice Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and
49416-783: The 2024 Democratic Party presidential nomination [REDACTED] Dean Phillips (1991) Henry Kirke Porter (1860) – U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania (1903–1905) John Reed Jr. (1803) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1813–1817, 1821–1841) Edwin R. Reynolds (1839) – U.S. Congressman, New York (1860–1861) Christopher Robinson (1825) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1859–1861) Deborah K. Ross (1985) – U.S Congresswoman, North Carolina (2021–) Jonathan Russell (1791) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1820) Zabdiel Sampson (1803) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1817–1820) William P. Sheffield, II (1877) – U.S. Congressman, Rhode Island (1909–1911) Solomon Sibley (1794) – first United States Attorney for
49764-703: The 3000m relay Vincent Zhou (2023) – American figure skater, Olympic silver in the team event ( 2022 ) [REDACTED] Vincent Zhou (2023) Silver [ edit ] Lauren Gibbs (2006) – American bobsledder, Olympic silver ( 2018 ) medalist in women's doubles bobsled Jonathan Smith (1983) – American rower, Olympic silver ( 1984 ) and bronze ( 1988 ) medalist in the coxless four and men's eight Sarah Herndon (1983)- American sailor, Olympic silver (2000) medalist in Women's 470 (crew) team John Welchli (1950) – American rower, Olympic silver ( 1956 ) Bronze [ edit ] Igor Boraska (1995) – Croatian rower, Olympic bronze ( 2000 ) medal in
50112-3124: The American Philosophical Society . 146 (4): 416–418. ISSN 0003-049X . JSTOR 1558317 . ^ Harden, Blaine (2000-03-31). "Adam Ulam, a Top Historian Of Soviet Union, Dies at 77" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-03-26 . ^ Messing, Stacey. "Zimmerman, Dean" . philosophy.rutgers.edu . Retrieved 2018-11-22 . ^ "Zechariah Chafee, 71, Dead; Taught Law for 41 Years | News | The Harvard Crimson" . www.thecrimson.com . Retrieved 2018-01-09 . ^ "Justin Driver – Yale Law School" . law.yale.edu . Retrieved 2023-02-14 . ^ "James Forman Jr" . Yale Law School . Retrieved 2017-09-05 . ^ "Kent Greenfield – Law School – Boston College" . www.bc.edu . Retrieved 2017-11-14 . ^ "Sonia Katyal | Othering & Belonging Institute" . belonging.berkeley.edu . Retrieved 2022-03-09 . ^ Bruce H. Mann , Harvard Law School ^ Kolata, Gina (2018-05-10). "Stanley Falkow, Who Saw How Bacteria Cause Disease, Dies at 84" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-03-27 . ^ "Joseph Dominic Matarazzo" . www.apa.org . Retrieved 2021-11-10 . ^ "Lloyd B. Minor, MD | Dean | School of Medicine | Stanford Medicine" . med.stanford.edu . Retrieved 2018-01-18 . ^ "Mark Bear, Ph.D." bearlab-s1.mit.edu . Retrieved 2018-01-16 . ^ "Andrew G. Clark" . CALS . Retrieved 2022-08-22 . ^ Chang, Kenneth (2010-06-04). "Paul R. Garabedian, Calculator of Planes' Wing Dynamics, Dies at 82" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2017-12-21 . ^ "Brown Engineering Alumna Ka Yee Lee '86 Named Provost at University of Chicago | School of Engineering" . www.brown.edu . Retrieved 2020-06-02 . ^ "Ka Yee C. Lee appointed provost of University of Chicago" . University of Chicago News . 7 January 2020 . Retrieved 2020-06-02 . ^ "Robert H. MacArthur" . obo . Retrieved 2021-03-14 . ^ Ayers, Paul; Yang, Weitao (2017). "Robert G. Parr (1921–2017)" . Angewandte Chemie International Edition . 56 (36): 10639. doi : 10.1002/anie.201705477 . ISSN 1521-3773 . PMID 28776903 . ^ "Michael Shadlen, MD, PhD" . MD-PhD Program . 12 June 2017 . Retrieved 2021-11-12 . ^ Shinn-Cunningham, Barbara (2015-06-01). "Barbara Shinn-Cunningham" . Current Biology . 25 (11): R442–R444. doi : 10.1016/j.cub.2015.02.060 . ISSN 0960-9822 . S2CID 22101955 . ^ "Where Are They Now?" . www.aps.org . Retrieved 2018-01-18 . ^ Schulkin, Jay (1996). "Elliot Stellar: A Biographical Memoir" (PDF) . ^ "Jessica Tierney Named Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science" . College of Science . 2022-04-21 . Retrieved 2022-06-09 . ^ "Dr. Stefanie Tompkins" . www.darpa.mil . Archived from
50460-1009: The American West, University of Oklahoma Diana Fuss (Ph.D. 1988) – Louis W. Fairchild Class of ’24 Professor of English, Princeton University Alexander R. Galloway (A.B. 1996) – Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University [REDACTED] Alexander R. Galloway (1996) Gary Gerstle (A.B. 1976) – Paul Mellon Professor of American History , University of Cambridge Brie Gertler (Ph.D. 1997) – Commonwealth Professor of Philosophy and Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs, University of Virginia George Gorse (A.M. 1974, Ph.D. 1980) – Viola Horton Professor of Art History, Pomona College Jacqueline Wernimont (A.M 2005, Ph.D. 2009) – Distinguished Chair in Digital Humanities and Social Engagement, Dartmouth College John Greco (Ph.D. 1989) – Robert L. McDevitt and Catherine H. McDevitt Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University Roland Greene (A.B. 1979) – Mark Pigott KBE Professor, Anthony P. Meier Family Professor of
50808-490: The American charts [REDACTED] Lisa Loeb (1990) The Low Anthem – indie folk band that includes alums Ben Knox Miller (2006), Jeff Prystowsky (2006) and Jocie Adams Erin McKeown (2000) – folk singer-songwriter Elizabeth Mitchell (1990) – musician, member of indie folk –pop band Ida ; played in a band with Lisa Loeb and Duncan Sheik while at Brown Will Oldham (Class of 1992) – indie rock/ alternative country singer-songwriter who also performs under
51156-1689: The Americas" . www.brownalumnimagazine.com . Retrieved 2018-02-26 . ^ McFadden, Robert D. (2014-12-01). "Anthony D. Marshall, Astor Son Who Was Convicted in Swindle, Dies at 90" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-04-06 . ^ "Ely Eliot Palmer, 1st American Ambassador to Afghanistan" . Washington Post . ISSN 0190-8286 . Retrieved 2021-02-22 . ^ Yardley, William (2013-10-29). "William H. Sullivan, U.S. Ambassador to Volatile Laos and Iran, Is Dead at 90 (Published 2013)" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-02-22 . ^ "The William T. Patten Foundation: Past Lecturers: Charles Hill" . patten.indiana.edu . Retrieved 2018-01-28 . ^ "Profile in Strategy: Charles Hill" . Hoover Institution . Retrieved 2018-01-28 . ^ "John Rizzo, CIA lawyer who approved torture program, dies at 73" . Washington Post . ISSN 0190-8286 . Retrieved 2021-12-31 . ^ "New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy chooses Tahesha Way, state's elections chief, as next lieutenant governor" . POLITICO . 2023-09-07 . Retrieved 2023-09-21 . ^ "From scoring goals to saving Argentina's economy: Martin Guzman" . Reuters . 2020-12-15 . Retrieved 2021-05-03 . ^ "Indonesia president names Gojek co-founder as education minister" . Reuters . 2019-10-23 . Retrieved 2021-05-03 . ^ "Bangladesh's Junaid Ahmad Is The New World Bank Head In India" . Huffington Post India . 2016-09-20 . Retrieved 2017-12-17 . ^ Navarro, Mireya (1994-01-21). "Vindicating
51504-449: The Angry Inch , Boys Don't Cry (1999); executive producer, This American Life Andrew Wagner (A.B. 1985) – writer, director, Starting Out in the Evening , The Talent Given Us Earl Wallace (A.B. 1955) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Witness Julie Warner (A.B. 1987) – actress, Doc Hollywood , Tommy Boy Emma Watson (A.B. 2014) – actress, model, and activist, Harry Potter , The Perks of Being
51852-1190: The Atocha Station , 10:04 , The Topeka School , and The Lichtenberg Figures , recipient of the MacArthur fellowship [REDACTED] Ben Lerner (2001, 2003) Steven Levenson (A.B. 2006) – author, Dear Evan Hansen , winner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical David Levithan (A.B. 1993) – author, Boy Meets Boy , Will Grayson, Will Grayson , Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Alan Levy (A.B. 1952) – author David Lipsky (A.B. 1987) – author, Three Thousand Dollars , The Art Fair , Absolutely American Sam Lipsyte (A.B. 1990) – author, Home Land , Venus Drive , The Fun Parts Lois Lowry (Class of 1958) – Newbery Medal -winning author, The Giver [REDACTED] Lois Lowry Thomas Mallon (A.B. 1973) – author, Henry and Clara , Bandbox , Dewey Defeats Truman , Two Moons Ben Marcus (M.F.A. 1991) – author, The Age of Wire and String , Notable American Women Alex McAulay (A.B.) – author, Bad Girls , Lost Summer , Oblivion Road , Shelter Me Emily Arnold McCully (A.B. 1961) – Caldecott Award -winning children's author, Mirette on
52200-784: The Author Lauren Redniss, No Such Thing as Bad Weather" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-10-18 . ^ Fox, Margalit (2008-12-31). "Willoughby Sharp, 72, Versatile Avant-Gardist, Is Dead" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-01-10 . ^ "Shesolbio" (PDF) . Program in American Studies at Princeton . Retrieved 2009-02-23 . ^ "Martha Tedeschi | Harvard Art Museums" . harvardartmuseums.org . Retrieved 2020-12-02 . ^ "Brown University 250th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition Part 1: Dawn Clements, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Kerry Tribe" . www.brown.edu . Retrieved 2018-03-14 . ^ "Mark Tribe | P.S.1 Studio Visit" . momaps1.org . Archived from
52548-564: The B---- in Apartment 23 , Supernatural Robin Green (1967) – Emmy Award -winning writer and producer, The Sopranos , Northern Exposure Andy Greenwald (1999)– writer, podcaster, and producer Jonathan Groff (A.B. 1983) – actor, BlackAF ; producer, Black-ish ; writer, The Jon Stewart Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien David Groh (1961) – actor, Rhoda Levon Hawke – actor, son of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman Marin Hinkle (1988) – actress, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel , Once and Again , Two and
52896-681: The Banner of Heaven Louis Ozawa Changchien (M.F.A. 2006) – actor, Predators , The Bourne Legacy , Bosch Yaya Da Costa (A.B. 2004) – actress, Take the Lead , Honeydripper , The Kids Are All Right , The Butler ; fashion model [REDACTED] Yaya Da Costa (2004) Lucy DeVito (A.B. 2005) – actress, Melissa and Joey , Leaves of Grass Tom Dey (A.B. 1987) – director, Shanghai Noon , Showtime , Failure to Launch , Marmaduke , Wedding Season Alice Drummond (A.B. 1950) – actress, Awakenings , Nobody's Fool (1994), Doubt (2008) Richard Fleischer (A.B. 1939) – director, 20,000 Leagues Under
53244-1291: The Barbarian , Halloween: Resurrection , Cursed , Cube 2: Hypercube Ruth Hussey (A.B. 1933) – Academy Award-nominated actress, The Philadelphia Story Oren Jacoby (1977) – Academy Award-nominated documentarian, Constantine's Sword Kirsten Johnson (1987) – documentarian, director, and cinematographer, Dick Johnson Is Dead , Cameraperson Rory Kennedy (A.B. 1991) – independent filmmaker, Moxie Firecracker Films, Inc.; Ghosts of Abu Ghraib Simon Kinberg (A.B. 1995) – screenwriter and producer, X-Men: Days of Future Past , Sherlock Holmes , Jumper (2008), X-Men: The Last Stand , Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) Alison Klayman (A.B. 2006) – documentary filmmaker and journalist, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Paul Kowalski (A.B. 2004) – film director and screenwriter, Paper Tiger (2020) John Krasinski (A.B. 2001) – playwright, actor, director, and producer, The Office , Jack Ryan , A Quiet Place , A Quiet Place Part II , Brief Interviews with Hideous Men , License to Wed , 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi , IF ; selected as People magazine's 2024 Sexiest Man Alive [REDACTED] John Krasinski (2001) Ellen Kuras (1981) – cinematographer, Eternal Sunshine of
53592-1034: The Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology Stephen L. Buchwald (Sc.B. 1977) – Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry, MIT ; developed Buchwald-Hartwig amination Sankar Das Sarma (Ph.D. 1979) – Distinguished University Professor and Richard E. Prange Chair in Physics, University of Maryland, College Park Richard E. Carson (Sc.B. 1977) – Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University Andrew G. Clark (Sc.B. 1976) – Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Population genetics and Chair of Computational Biology, Cornell University Julia Clarke (A.B. 1995) – John A. Wilson Professor in Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Texas at Austin Tejal A. Desai (Sc.B. 1994) – bioengineer and therapeutic nanotechnologist; Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering, Brown University School of Engineering Michael H. Dickinson (Sc.B. 1984) – Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Biology, California Institute of Technology ; recipient of
53940-504: The Brown campus by 10 acres (40,000 m ) and 26 buildings. In 1971, Brown renamed the area East Campus. Today, the area is largely used for dormitories. Thayer Street runs through Brown's main campus. As a commercial corridor frequented by students, Thayer is comparable to Harvard Square or Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue . Wickenden Street , in the adjacent Fox Point neighborhood, is another commercial street similarly popular among students. Built in 1925, Brown Stadium —the home of
54288-1413: The Cable Guy: Health Inspector , Curb Your Enthusiasm Kenneth Biller (1986) – television producer, writer, and director Julie Bowen (A.B. 1991) – actress, Modern Family , Boston Legal , Ed , Happy Gilmore [REDACTED] Julie Bowen (1991) Roger Bowen (A.B.) – comedic actor, M*A*S*H ; novelist Warren Brown – host, Sugar Rush Jessica Capshaw (A.B. 1998) – actress, Grey's Anatomy , The Practice , Minority Report Jordan Carlos (A.B. 2001) – comedian, Stephen Colbert 's "black friend" Charise Castro Smith (A.B. 2005) actress, writer, playwright, producer, The Exorcist , The Haunting of Hill House , Encanto Kitty Chen (A.B. 1966) – actress, Law & Order , writer Nick Chinlund – actor, The X-Files Jude Ciccolella (A.B. 1969) – actor, best known for his role as Mike Novick in 24 Julian Cihi (A.B. 2009) – Japanese and American actor Yaya DaCosta (A.B. 2004) – actress and model Joel de la Fuente (A.B. 1991) – actor, best known for his role as Dr. Johann Pryce in Hemlock Grove Aunjanue Ellis (A.B. 1993) – actress, The Mentalist [REDACTED] Aunjanue Ellis (1993) India Ennenga (A.B.) – actress, Treme Eve Gordon (A.B. 1978) – actress, Recount , Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves , Felicity , American Horror Story , Don't Trust
54636-664: The Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women's Hospital Janet Sinsheimer (B.Sc. 1979) – Professor of Biostatistics, Biomathematics, and Human Genetics, Fielding School of Public Health , UCLA Thomas A. Wadden (A.B. 1975) – Albert J. Stunkard Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Augustus A. White (A.B. 1957) – Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School Natural sciences [ edit ] Anthony Aguirre (Sc.B. 1995) – Faggin Family Presidential Chair for
54984-1186: The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University [REDACTED] Tricia Rose (1987, 1993) Alvin Hirsch Rosenfeld (Ph.D. 1967) – Professor of English and M. Glazer Chair and Professor of Jewish Studies, Indiana University Bloomington James F. Ross (Ph.D. 1958) – Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Pennsylvania John Howland Rowe (A.B. 1939) – Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, UC Berkeley Mari Ruti (A.B. 1988) – Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga Nathan Schneider (A.B. 2006) – journalist; Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder Daniel R. Schwarz (Ph.D. 1968) – Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature & Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Cornell University Julius S. Scott (A.B 1973) – scholar of slavery and Caribbean and Atlantic history , author, The Common Wind Russ Shafer-Landau (A.B. 1986) – Elliott R. Sober Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison Ethan H. Shagan (A.B. 1994) – Zaffaroni Family Chair in Education of
55332-456: The Clouds" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-01-20 . ^ Kepler, Compiled by Adam W. (2012-03-04). "A Prize for a Playwright" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-03-31 . ^ "Celebrating A Voyage Long and Strange" . news.brown.edu . April 23, 2008 . Retrieved 2019-01-20 . ^ Fowler, Yara Rodrigues (2021-09-29). "Palmares by Gayl Jones review –
55680-492: The College Board of Fellows. A revised charter written by Stiles and Ellery was adopted by the Rhode Island General Assembly on March 3, 1764, in East Greenwich . In September 1764, the inaugural meeting of the corporation—the college's governing body—was held in Newport's Old Colony House . Governor Stephen Hopkins was chosen chancellor, former and future governor Samuel Ward vice chancellor, John Tillinghast treasurer, and Thomas Eyres secretary. The charter stipulated that
56028-445: The College of Brown University, Pembroke's campus was absorbed into the larger Brown campus. The Pembroke campus is bordered by Meeting, Brown, Bowen, and Thayer Streets and sits three blocks north of Brown's central campus. The campus is dominated by brick architecture, largely of the Georgian and Victorian styles . The west side of the quadrangle comprises Pembroke Hall (1897), Smith-Buonanno Hall (1907), and Metcalf Hall (1919), while
56376-1637: The College, Williams College Hermon Carey Bumpus (Ph.B. 1884) – 5th President, Tufts University Walter Burse (1920) – 2nd President, Suffolk University Dame Frances Cairncross (A.M. 1966) – Rector, Exeter College, Oxford James Tift Champlin (1834) – 7th President, Colby College Gordon Keith Chalmers (A.B. 1925) – 13th President, Kenyon College ; 9th President, Rockford College Jeremiah Chaplin (1799) – Founder and 1st President, Colby College [REDACTED] Jeremiah Chaplin (1799) Oren B. Cheney (Class of 1840) – Founder and 1st President, Bates College Barbara Chernow (A.B. 1979) – Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration, Brown University Aram Chobanian (A.B. 1951) – 9th President, Boston University Jay Coogan (A.B. 1980) – 16th President, Minneapolis College of Art and Design William E. Cooper (A.B., A.M. 1973) – 8th President, University of Richmond Robert A. Corrigan (A.B. 1957) – 12th President, San Francisco State University Glenn Cummings (M.A.T. 1984) – 13th President, University of Southern Maine Eliphaz Fay (A.B. 1821) – 4th President, Colby College Willbur Fisk (A.B. 1815) – 1st President, Wesleyan University Henry Simmons Frieze (A.B. 1841) – Acting President, University of Michigan Edward Guiliano (1972) – 3rd President, New York Institute of Technology Thomas Hassan (1978) – 14th Principal, Phillips Exeter Academy ; first gentleman of New Hampshire John Hope (1894) – 4th President, Morehouse College ; 5th President, Atlanta University ;
56724-639: The Computer Science Department, Stanford University ; creator of the term "Computer Science" [REDACTED] George Forsythe (Ph.D. 1941) William Fulton (A.B. 1961) – Oscar Zariski Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan Thomas A. Garrity (Ph.D. 1986) – Webster Atwell Class of 1921 Professor of Mathematics, Williams College Anne Gelb (Sc.M. 1991, Ph.D. 1996)– John G. Kemeny Parents Professor of Mathematics, Dartmouth College Mark Goresky (Ph.D. 1976) – Member, Institute for Advanced Study ; co-inventor of intersection homology John Guttag (A.B. 1971) – Chair of
57072-414: The Congo (2013–2017) William H. Sullivan (A.B. 1943) – U.S. Ambassador to Laos (1964–1969), the Philippines (1973–1977), and Iran (1977–1979) W. Stuart Symington (A.B. 1974) – U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria (2016–2019) and Rwanda (2008–2011) Thomas J. Watson Jr. (A.B. 1937) – U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979–1981); 2nd President of IBM (1952–71); 11th national president of
57420-834: The Czech Republic, Joins Brookings as Visiting Fellow" . Brookings . September 5, 2014 . Retrieved 2018-01-28 . ^ "Brown Alumni Magazine – Copenhagen's Ambassador" . www.brownalumnimagazine.com . Retrieved 2018-04-16 . ^ "Ambassador Rufus Gifford is the reality star who will try to fix America's image abroad" . news.yahoo.com . 29 May 2021 . Retrieved 2021-06-01 . ^ "Alumni Reunion Forum: Our Politics, Our Future | Commencement | Brown University" . www.brown.edu . Retrieved 2018-07-29 . ^ Hatch, Gardner N.; Musten, W. Curtis; Edwards, John S. (1988). American Ex-prisoners of War: Non Solum Armis . Turner Publishing Company. ISBN 9781563116247 . ^ "Brown Alumni Magazine – ALUMS IN THE STATE DEPT: Horse Trader of
57768-2025: The Darkness' " . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-06-13 . ^ "Back to School for Tatiana von Furstenberg and Francesca Gregorini" . Observer . 2011-09-06 . Retrieved 2022-05-11 . ^ Ella Windsor bio Archived 2012-04-28 at the Wayback Machine ^ Goldberger, Paul (10 January 1985). "Charles E. Hughes 3d Dead; Leader in Bank Architecture" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2018-06-02 . ^ "It's All About Home" . www.brownalumnimagazine.com . Retrieved 2021-01-17 . ^ "[Title page]". IEEE Conference Anthology . IEEE. January 2013. p. 1. doi : 10.1109/anthology.2013.6784689 . ISBN 978-1-4799-1660-3 . ^ Soloski, Alexis (2019-02-07). "A Costume Designer With Low Budgets and High Style" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-08-31 . ^ Vanasco, Jennifer (2022-06-12). "The 2022 Tony Award winners" . NPR . Retrieved 2022-08-31 . ^ "Hammer Projects: Eric Baudelaire | Hammer Museum" . hammer.ucla.edu . 9 July 2010 . Retrieved 2021-01-17 . ^ "Bill Bollinger" . www.e-flux.com . Retrieved 2021-01-15 . ^ Genzlinger, Neil (2018-12-07). "Dawn Clements, Who Put Her Life Into Her Panoramas, Dies at 60" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-04-12 . ^ Liu, Claire (2019-11-20). " 'Luscious': four decades of artwork by University professor" . Brown Daily Herald . Retrieved 2021-01-17 . ^ Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education . Taylor & Francis. 2011-02-25. ISBN 978-1-136-89030-7 . ^ "Walter Liedtke, Met Museum Curator, Vermeer Expert, Dies at 69" . Bloomberg.com . 2015-02-04 . Retrieved 2018-01-28 . ^ "Lauren Redniss" . www.macfound.org . Retrieved 2021-10-18 . ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (2015-10-26). "For
58116-977: The Department of Linguistics, UCLA David Kelley (A.B., A.M.) – philosopher, founder of The Atlas Society Sean Dorrance Kelly (Sc.B. 1989, M.S. 1989) – Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University Ari Kelman (A.M. 1993, Ph.D. 1998) – Chancellor's Leadership Professor of History, University of California, Davis ; winner of the 2014 Bancroft Prize Karen Leigh King (Ph.D. 1984) – Hollis Professor of Divinity , Harvard University Mark Kishlansky (A.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1977) – Frank Baird Jr. Professor of History, Harvard University Carolyn Korsmeyer (Ph.D. 1972) – Professor Emerita of Philosophy, University at Buffalo Jennifer Lackey (Ph.D. 2000) – Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University Aditi Lahiri (Ph.D. 1982) – Chair of Linguistics, University of Oxford Wallace Lambert (A.B. 1947) – psychologist of linguistics; "widely considered
58464-428: The Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Lloyd B. Minor (Sc.B. 1979, M.D. 1982) – Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine ; former provost, Johns Hopkins University Christine Montross (M.D. 2006, M.MSc 2007) – Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School at Brown University Nawal M. Nour (A.B. 1984) – Chair of
58812-632: The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital ; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School Michael Polydefkis (BSc 1988) – Director, Cutaneous Nerve Lab, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Megan Ranney (M.P.H. 2010) – Dean and C.-E. A. Winslow Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Public Health [REDACTED] Megan Ranney (2010) Joan Reede (Sc.B. 1976) – physician, Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School Griffin P. Rodgers (Sc.B. 1976, M.MSc & M.D. 1979) – Director of
59160-751: The Department of Political Science, McGill University Ogden Lindsley (A.B. 1948, Sc.M. 1950) – developer of precision teaching ; Professor, University of Kansas Geoffrey Loftus (A.B. 1967) – Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Washington Sabina Magliocco (A.B. 1980) – Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, University of British Columbia Leslie McCall (A.B. 1986) – Presidential Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY Ruth Milkman (A.B. 1975) – Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY ; former president, American Sociological Association Melissa Nobles (A.B. 1985) – Chancellor and Professor of Political Science, MIT ; Kenan Sahin Dean of
59508-1044: The Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School ; Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital ; Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; former director of the World Health Organization 's HIV/AIDS department; recipient of the Macarthur fellowship ; 12th President of the World Bank [REDACTED] Jim Yong Kim (1982) Beth Levine (A.B. 1981) – Charles Cameron Sprague Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center Jonathan S. Lewin (A.B. 1981) – Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University ; Professor, Emory School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health David C. Lewis (A.B. 1957) – Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Community Health and Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University. Stacy Tessler Lindau (M.D. 1996) – Catherine Lindsay Dobson Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of
59856-879: The Department of Social and Political Science, University of Indonesia Jennifer Richeson (Sc.B. 1994) – Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology, Yale University ; Macarthur fellowship recipient [REDACTED] Jennifer Richeson (1994) Bruce Riedel (A.B. 1975) – Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution ; Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS Lisa Rofel (A.B. 1975) – Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz Eldar Shafir (A.B. 1984) – Class of 1987 Professor of Behavioral Science and Public Policy and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University [REDACTED] Eldar Shafir (1984) Patrick Sharkey (A.B. 2000) – William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University William Herbert Sheldon (A.B. 1919) – psychologist, creator of
60204-1101: The District of Puerto Rico Theodore R. Boehm (A.B. 1960) – Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana Charles S. Bradley (A.B. 1838) – Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court George Moulton Carpenter (A.B. 1864) – Federal Judge for United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island Zachary A. Cunha (A.B. 1998) – United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island Herbert F. DeSimone (A.B. 1910) – Attorney General of Rhode Island and Assistant Secretary of Transportation Job Durfee (A.B. 1813) – Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court Samuel Eddy (1787) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1819–1825), Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court (1827–1835) John Patrick Hartigan (A.B. 1951) – Rhode Island Attorney General, 1933–1939; US District Court, 1940–1951; US Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 1951–1968 Richard Hertling , (A.B. 1982) – Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims Nathan Hochman (A.B. 1985) – attorney, District Attorney-elect of Los Angeles County , United States Assistant Attorney General for
60552-778: The Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences , New York University Margaret Gardel (Sc.B. 1998) – Horace B. Horton Professor of Physics, University of Chicago Miriam B. Goodman (B.Sc. 1986) – Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, Stanford University ; Chair, Stanford Neuroscience Institute Andrew V. Granato (Ph.D. 1955) – Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Alan Grossman (Sc.B. 1979) – Praecis Professor of Biology and Department Head of Biology, MIT David Grinspoon (A.B., Sc.B.) – astrobiologist ; Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute James W. Head (Ph.D. 1969) – Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor Emeritus of
60900-442: The E.B. Wylie Collegiate Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Michigan ; inventor of engineered cementitious composites Reda R. Mankbadi (Ph.D. 1979) – Distinguished Professor and Founding Dean, College of Engineering, Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University Robert McMeeking (MSc 1974, Ph.D. 1977) – Tony Evans Distinguished Professor of Structural Materials and Mechanical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara ; recipient of
61248-406: The Eastern Diocese , which included all of New England with the exception of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe (A.B. 1828) – first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania (now Diocese of Bethlehem ) William Bullein Johnson (A.M. 1814) – South Carolina Baptist leader; first president of the Southern Baptist Convention ; instrumental figure in
61596-479: The Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (1999–2004), MIT James Hendler (MSc 1983, Ph.D. 1986) – Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ; one of the originators of the Semantic Web Scott Klemmer (A.B. 1999) – Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science & Engineering, UC San Diego Robert Lazarsfeld (Ph.D. 1980) – Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Chair of
61944-434: The End of YouTube" . Pitchfork . February 2016 . Retrieved 2022-08-22 . ^ "Wardell" . 8 August 2013. ^ "Live Sessions" . Live Sessions . Retrieved 2022-08-22 . ^ Journal, Rob Duguay Special to The. "Jon Spencer brings same fire, new band" . The Providence Journal . Retrieved 2022-08-22 . ^ Gates, Anita (2017-08-14). "Joseph Bologna, Onscreen Tough Guy With
62292-546: The English-speaking world, with periodical literature as its central concern. The historical scope of the project has a chronological range of 1890 to 1922, and a geographical range that extends to wherever English language periodicals were published. With magazines at its core, the MJP also offers a range of genres that extends to the digital publication of books directly connected to modernist periodicals and other supporting materials for periodical study. We end at 1922 for both intellectual and practical reasons. The practical reason
62640-533: The Expectations of the New President: Glenn A. Cummings" (PDF) . ^ "Willbur Fisk, Office of the President – Wesleyan University" . www.wesleyan.edu . Retrieved 2017-11-09 . ^ "Edward Guiliano" . nyit.edu . Retrieved 28 April 2014 . ^ "Joan Leitzel Papers, 1996–2002" . University of New Hampshire Library. 25 June 2014 . Retrieved 2018-01-18 . ^ "James MacAlister papers" . Drexel University Archives and Special Collections. November 16, 2005. Archived from
62988-476: The Faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English, Princeton University Donald Kagan (A.M. 1955) – Sterling Professor Emeritus of Classics & History, Yale University; winner of the National Humanities Medal [REDACTED] Donald Kagan (1955) Matthew Kapstein (Ph.D. 1987) – Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of Chicago Divinity School Patricia Keating (A.M. 1976, Ph.D. 1980) – Distinguished Professor and Chair of
63336-544: The Family , The Genetic Strand Mark Baumer (M.F.A. 2011) – writer and environmental activist Josh Bazell (A.B. 1992) – novelist Bill Berkson (1957–1959) – poet and critic Lisa Birnbach (A.B. 1978) – author, The Official Preppy Handbook Kate Bornstein (née Albert Bornstein) (A.B. 1969) – transgender activist, performance artist, playwright, gender theorist , and author Jeffrey Carver (A.B. 1971) – science fiction author, Nebula Award finalist Andrew Chaikin (A.B. 1978) – author, A Man on
63684-1863: The Federal Reserve, Dies at 69" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-03-25 . ^ "The In Your Face Economist" . Bloomberg.com . 1997-06-30 . Retrieved 2017-11-14 . ^ "Michael Keane, PhD" . carey.jhu.edu . Retrieved 2023-04-21 . ^ "Nancy Rothbard" . Management Department . Retrieved 2021-07-21 . ^ "Scott Shane | Weatherhead School at Case Western Reserve University" . weatherhead.case.edu . Retrieved 2021-05-03 . ^ "John H. Williams, 93; Was Noted Economist And Dean at Harvard; Served on Advisory Groups" . The New York Times . 1980-12-25. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-03-25 . ^ "Frederick J. Almgren Jr., 63, Math Professor" . The New York Times . 1997-02-08. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-04-03 . ^ "Computer Pioneers – George Elmer Forsythe" . history.computer.org . Retrieved 2022-03-27 . ^ "Computer Pioneers – Derrick Henry Lehmer" . history.computer.org . Retrieved 2018-01-18 . ^ Yan, Song Y. (1996-09-30). Perfect, Amicable And Sociable Numbers: A Computational Approach . World Scientific. p. 30. ISBN 978-981-4498-27-2 . ^ "CS News: Robert Sedgewick, Brown Alum And Former Faculty Member, Wins ACM's Outstanding Educator Award" . cs.brown.edu . 17 June 2019 . Retrieved 2021-06-01 . ^ "Margaret L. Anderson – American Academy" . American Academy . Retrieved 2018-04-16 . ^ Morenne, Benoît; Specia, Megan (2017-07-25). "Philosopher Who Praised Risk Died Trying to Save Children From Drowning" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-05-03 . ^ "UMass Philosophy – Faculty" . people.umass.edu . Archived from
64032-658: The Fourth of July , Steel City David Bartis (A.B. 1988) – producer, The Wall , Edge of Tomorrow , Fair Game Randall Batinkoff (1990) – actor, For Keeps , School Ties Steve Bloom (A.B. 1978) – screenwriter, James and the Giant Peach , The Sure Thing , Tall Tale , Jack Frost Joseph Bologna – actor, My Favorite Year , Blame It on Rio Sara Colangelo (A.B. 2001) – writer and director, Little Accidents , Worth David Conrad (A.B. 1990) – actor, Wedding Crashers , Ghost Whisperer Michael Costigan (1990) – producer, Brokeback Mountain , American Gangster , Under
64380-739: The Geological Sciences, Brown University Arthur Hoag (A.B. 1942) – astronomer; discoverer of Hoag's Object Michael R. Hoffmann (Ph.D. 1973) – John S. and Sherry Chen Professor of Environmental Science, Caltech Albrecht Hofmann (Ph.D. 1969) – Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry , ForMemRS [REDACTED] Albrecht Hofmann (1969) John Edwards Holbrook (A.B. 1815) – zoologist, herpetologist, and naturalist Donald C. Hood (Ph.D. 1969) – James F. Bender Professor in Psychology and Professor of Ophthalmic Science, Columbia University Arthur L. Horwich (A.B. 1972, M.D. 1975) – Sterling Professor of Genetics and Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine ; winner of
64728-2091: The Globes" . Wall Street Journal . ISSN 0099-9660 . Retrieved 2022-08-31 . ^ Robertson, Campbell (2007-01-05). "So Many Different People to Be, Onstage and Off, if She Can Dodge the Trucks" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-07-21 . ^ "Sex and Politics" . www.brownalumnimagazine.com . Retrieved 2022-08-31 . ^ "Roger Bowen; Comedic Actor and Novelist" . Los Angeles Times . 1996-02-24 . Retrieved 2021-06-11 . ^ "India Ennenga: Expect surprising plot points on "The Returned" " . www.cbsnews.com . 16 April 2015 . Retrieved 2021-07-21 . ^ Passarelli, Emily (2012-10-29). "First-year stars in film with Krasinski '01" . Brown Daily Herald . Retrieved 2021-07-21 . ^ Liu, Claire (2020-02-06). "BMP screens alum's new show 'Briarpatch' " . Brown Daily Herald . Retrieved 2021-06-11 . ^ Michael R. Sisak. "Topless protester ID'd as 'Cosby Show' actress, Brown graduate" . The Providence Journal . Associated Press . Retrieved 2024-10-06 . ^ Turnquist, Kristi (2012-03-04). "Silas Weir Mitchell on playing Monroe on 'Grimm,' and filming in Portland" . oregonlive . Retrieved 2021-07-21 . ^ "Show Creator Monica Owusu-Breen Talks NBC's "Midnight Texas" " . blackfilm.com – Black Movies, television, and Theatre News . 2017-04-05 . Retrieved 2021-06-11 . ^ Vang, Bee (7 April 2011). "Opinion: Why I can't shrug off KDWB's hateful slur against Hmong community" . Saint Paul Pioneer Press . Retrieved 7 April 2011 . ^ "Writer of Netflix's upcoming 'Selena: The Series' commemorates her birthday and her legacy" . NBC News . 16 April 2019 . Retrieved 2021-06-04 . ^ Genzlinger, Neil (2018-12-19). "John Ford Noonan, 'Coupla White Chicks' Playwright, Dies at 77" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-12-31 . ^ Sherman, Rachel (2023-06-06). "Miriam Silverman Is 'Unafraid of Embracing
65076-409: The Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley (2016–2021) Neta Crawford (A.B. 1985) – Montague Burton Professor of International Relations , Oxford University Lee Drutman (A.B. 1999) – Senior Fellow, New America ; Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University Emily Falk (Sc.B. 2004) – Professor of Communication, Psychology, and Marketing, Vice Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at
65424-902: The High Wire Mark C. McGarrity (A.B. 1966) – wrote crime fiction under the name Bartholomew Gill Roland Merullo (A.B. 1975, A.M.) – author Madeline Miller (A.B. 2000, A.M. 2001) – Women's Prize for Fiction -winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe [REDACTED] Madeline Miller (2000, 2001) Steven Millhauser (1968–71) – Pulitzer Prize –winning author, Martin Dressler Rick Moody (A.B. 1983) – author, The Ice Storm , Garden State , Purple America , The Diviners Kass Morgan (A.B.) – author, The 100 Rebecca Morris (M.F.A. 1986) – nonfiction author, Ted and Ann , If I Can't Have You , A Killing in Amish Country Ottessa Moshfegh (M.F.A. 2011) – writer, author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation [REDACTED] Ottessa Moshfegh (2011) Jandy Nelson (M.F.A. 1992) – author, I'll Give You
65772-666: The History Department, UC Berkeley Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Ph.D. 1994) – Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair in the Humanities, Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University Maxim D. Shrayer (A.B. 1989) – Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston University Kaja Silverman (Ph.D. 1977) – Katherine and Keith L. Sachs Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania Richard Slotkin (Ph.D. 1966) – Olin Professor of English Emeritus, Wesleyan University Timothy D. Snyder (A.B. 1991) – Richard C. Levin Professor of History, Yale University , Permanent Fellow at
66120-458: The History of Science, Mathematics and of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, Yale University Ryan S. Baker (BSc 2000) – Professor, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education ; Director, Penn Center for Learning Analytics Albert T. Corbett (A.B. 1972) – Associate Research Professor Emeritus of Human–Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University Julie Beth Lovins (A.B. 1968) – computational linguist who developed
66468-414: The Holocaust Michael Soussan (A.B. 1996) – whistleblower and author Irving Stowe (A.B. 1936) – founder of Greenpeace Jurists and attorneys [ edit ] Jeffrey Arbeit (A.B. 2005) – Judge, United States Tax Court Leslie Abrams Gardner (A.B. 1997) – District Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia Asa Aldis (A.B. 1796) – Chief Justice of
66816-416: The Holy Cross ; Dean Emeritus, Boston College Law School Paul M. Schwartz (A.B. 1981) – Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law Harry Shulman (A.B. 1923) – Dean Emeritus, Yale Law School Kenneth Starr (A.M. 1969) – Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean Emeritus, Pepperdine University School of Law ; Solicitor General of the United States (1989–93); Independent Counsel for
67164-607: The Honorable Norman O. Tietjens, Judge, United States Tax Court , Reports of the Tax Court of the United States , Vol. 81, p. iii–xxi. ^ Kei-Rahn, Jordan (2018-11-25). "Tong '95 elected Connecticut's first Asian-American attorney general" . Brown Daily Herald . Retrieved 2018-11-27 . ^ Hirsch, Lauren (2022-06-08). "Lawrence D. Ackman, a Cityscape's Financier, Dies at 83" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-08-22 . ^ "Brown University: The Two Hundred and Forty-Fifth Commencement" (PDF) . May 26, 2013. Archived from
67512-649: The Humanities, Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy, Yale University James S. Holmes (1948–1950) – founding figure in translation studies Jean E. Howard (A.B. 1970) – George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities, Princeton University George B. Hutchinson (A.B. 1975) – Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture, Cornell University Matthew Frye Jacobson (Ph.D. 1992) – Sterling Professor of American Studies and History, Yale University Dale Jacquette (A.M. 1981, Ph.D. 1983) – Professor Ordinarius of Philosophy, University of Bern Gene Andrew Jarrett (A.M. 1999, Ph.D. 2002) – Dean of
67860-769: The Humanities, director, Humanities Center, Stanford University ; President, Modern Language Association (2015–16) Albert Harkness (1842) – founder of the American Philological Association and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens John Hattendorf (A.M. 1971) – Ernest J. King Professor Emeritus of Maritime History , United States Naval War College Dagmar Herzog (A.M. 1985, Ph.D. 1991) – Distinguished Professor of History, Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar, Graduate Center, CUNY Marianne Hirsch (A.B., A.M. 1970, Ph.D. 1975) – William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University [REDACTED] Marianne Hirsch (1970, 1975) Charles Hill (A.B. 1957) – Senior Lecturer in
68208-473: The John Carter Brown Library is generally regarded as the world's leading collection of primary historical sources relating to the exploration and colonization of the Americas. While administered and funded separately from the university, the library has been owned by Brown and located on its campus since 1904. The library contains the best preserved of the eleven surviving copies of the Bay Psalm Book —the earliest extant book printed in British North America and
68556-411: The Laws of England (1919–1942), University of Cambridge Sonia Katyal (A.B. 1993) – Distinguished Haas Chair, UC Berkeley School of Law David Kennedy (A.B. 1976) – Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School Larry Kramer (A.B. 1980) – Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, Stanford Law School ; president of
68904-445: The Lownes Collection of the History of Science (described as "one of the three most important private collections of books of science in America"), and the papers of H. P. Lovecraft . The Hay Library is home to one of the broadest collections of incunabula in the Americas, one of Brown's two Shakespeare First Folios , the manuscript of George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four , and three books bound in human skin . Founded in 1846,
69252-501: The MJP has digitized are all available to the public, for free, on its website, where PDFs of the following magazines can be downloaded: Brown University Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island , United States. It is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations . One of nine colonial colleges chartered before
69600-894: The Machines (2003), Hellboy (2004), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Max Payne (2008), Mesrine (2008), The Hurt Locker (2009), The Wolverine (2013), Warm Bodies (2013), World War Z (2013), Free Solo (2018), Ford v Ferrari (2019), and the video game Fortnite Clare Burson (1997) – singer-songwriter David Buskin (A.B 1965) – singer-songwriter (Modern Man), jingle composer, Clio Award winner (1983) Julia Cafritz – musician, known for Pussy Galore Wendy Carlos (A.B. 1962) – composer and electronic musician , Switched-On Bach (1968); film score composer, A Clockwork Orange (1971), Tron (1982) [REDACTED] Wendy Carlos (1962) Mary Chapin Carpenter (A.B. 1981) – country singer-songwriter Chubb Rock – rapper and radio host Joel Cohen (A.B. 1963) – director of
69948-1157: The Major Leagues Lived His Life as a White Man" . Slate Magazine . Retrieved 2022-01-06 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link ) ^ "Donald Richard Colo" . databaseFootball.com. Archived from the original on April 8, 2013 . Retrieved January 9, 2013 . ^ "ZAK DEOSSIE '07 NAMED TO PRO BOWL" . The Official Site of Brown Athletics . Retrieved January 9, 2013 . ^ "John W. Heisman, Noted Coach, Dies" . The New York Times . Retrieved January 9, 2013 . ^ "Steven Russell Jordan" . Pro-Football-Reference.Com . Retrieved January 9, 2013 . ^ "Sean Joseph Morey" . Pro-Football-Reference.Com . Retrieved January 9, 2013 . ^ "Bill O'Brien" . The Official Website of Duke Athletics . Retrieved January 9, 2013 . ^ "Joe Paterno Staying In Brown University Athletic Hall Of Fame" . Huff Post Sports. 14 September 2012 . Retrieved January 9, 2013 . ^ "EJ Perry – Football" . Brown University Athletics . Retrieved 2023-06-13 . ^ "Fritz Pollard" . The Official Site of
70296-513: The Marathon" . Well . Retrieved 2023-06-24 . ^ "Jane of All Trades – Nymag" . New York Magazine . 6 May 2002 . Retrieved 2021-01-26 . ^ "The Unschooled Life: Astra Taylor's Story" . PopularResistance.Org . 2014-01-16 . Retrieved 2021-06-04 . ^ Davis, Clayton (2022-08-02). "Janet Yang Becomes First Asian Elected as Film Academy President" . Variety . Retrieved 2023-04-21 . ^ Heyman, Marshall (2014-01-10). "Sosie Bacon Steps Out for
70644-1076: The Mathematics Department, Stony Brook University Edward D. Lazowska (A.B. 1972) – Bill & Melinda Gates Chair Emeritus, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at University of Washington Derrick Henry Lehmer (Ph.D. 1930) – Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, UC, Berkeley ; "father of computational number theory" [REDACTED] Derrick Henry Lehmer (1930) Katrina Ligett (Sc.B. 2004) – Associate Professor of Computer Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Michael L. Littman (Ph.D. 1996) – University Professor of Computer Science, Brown University Dan Margalit (Sc.B. 1998) – Professor of Mathematics, Georgia Tech Kathleen McKeown (A.B. 1976) – Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science and Founding Director, Data Science Institute at Columbia University Melanie Mitchell (A.B. 1980) – Davis Professor of Complexity, Santa Fe Institute ; co-developer of Copycat John Coleman Moore (Ph.D. 1952) – Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Princeton University ; known for
70992-904: The Millers (2013), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), Ghostbusters (2016), The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021), Severance (2022) Duncan Sheik (A.B. 1992) – alternative rock singer-songwriter; top 10 hit for the song "Barely Breathing"; Grammy and two-time Tony Award -winning composer, Spring Awakening Sasha Spielberg (2012) – musician, Wardell ; daughter of Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw [REDACTED] Sasha Spielberg (2012) Susie Suh (A.B. 2002) – alternative rock singer-songwriter Saleka (A.B. 2018) – R&B singer-songwriter; daughter of M. Night Shyamalan Jon Spencer – singer and composer, known for Pussy Galore and Boss Hog Sally Taylor (1996) – musician, daughter of Carly Simon and James Taylor Gwyneth Walker (A.B. 1967) – composer J. Mayo Williams (1920) – first African-American producer at
71340-431: The Moon Jessamine Chan (2000) – author, The School for Good Mothers Susan Cheever (A.B. 1965) – author Frank Chipasula (A.M. 1980, Ph.D. 1987) – Malawian writer Franny Choi (A.B. 2011) – poet Mallika Chopra (A.B. 1993) — author and self-help entrepreneur Ted Chiang (Sc.B. 1989) – Nebula Award , Locus Award , and Hugo Award -winning science fiction writer; author of Story of Your Life ,
71688-606: The Name , All In: The Fight for Democracy , Ghosts of Abu Ghraib Francesca Gregorini (A.B. 1990) – Italian-American writer and film director Davis Guggenheim (1986) – Academy Award-winning documentary film director, An Inconvenient Truth , It Might Get Loud , and Waiting for "Superman" ; film director for Gracie , Gossip (2000), and episodes of 24 , Alias , The Shield , ER , NYPD Blue [REDACTED] Davis Guggenheim (1986) John Hamburg (A.B. 1992) – director, I Love You, Man , Along Came Polly ; screenwriter, Zoolander , Meet
72036-1424: The National Book Award and Bancroft Prize Gayl Jones (M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1975) – novelist, poet, and playwright; "literary legend" of Black literature [REDACTED] Gayl Jones (1973, 1975) Zeyn Joukhadar (Ph.D. 2014) – novelist Bess Kalb (A.B. 2010) – author and television writer Phil Kaye (A.B. 2010) – poet and spoken word artist Sarah Kay (A.B. 2010, M.A.T. 2012) – poet and spoken word artist Jonathan Karp (A.B. 1986) – publisher, CEO of Simon & Schuster Caroline Kepnes (A.B. 1999) – American author and screenwriter, You , Hidden Bodies , Providence Alexandra Kleeman (A.B. 2007) – writer T. E. D. Klein (A.B. 1969) – horror fiction writer and magazine editor Caroline Knapp (A.B. 1981) – essayist and author, Drinking: A Love Story Richard Kostelanetz (A.B.1962) – cultural historian, fictioner, poet, experimental writer, critic of avant-garde arts and artists, anthologist Geoffrey A. Landis (Ph.D. 1988) – Nebula Award and Hugo Award-winning scientist-writer and hard science fiction author Reif Larsen (A.B 2003) – professor at Columbia University ; author, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet Marie Myung-Ok Lee (A.B. 1986) – author and essayist Joanne Leedom-Ackerman (A.M. 1969) – author and journalist Ben Lerner (A.B. 2001, M.F.A. 2003) – poet, author of Angle of Yaw , Leaving
72384-531: The OECD , 73rd Governor of Delaware (2009–2017) [REDACTED] Jack Markell (1982) Matt Meyer (A.B. 1994) – Governor-elect of Delaware Marcus Morton (A.B. 1804, A.M 1807) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1817–1821), 16th & 18th Governor of Massachusetts (1825, 1840–1844) Pendleton Murrah (1848) – 10th Governor of Texas (1863–1865) Philip W. Noel (1954) – 68th Governor of Rhode Island (1973–1977) Robert E. Quinn (1915) – 58th Governor of Rhode Island (1937–1939), Judge for
72732-444: The Ottoman Empire (1885–1886) Nathaniel Davis (1944) – U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland (1976–1977), Chile (1971–1973), Guatemala (1968–1971), and Bulgaria (1965–1966); Director General of the Foreign Service (1973–1975) Roy T. Davis (A.B. 1910) – U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica (1922–1930), Panama (1930–1933), and Haiti (1953–1957) Rosemary DiCarlo (A.B. 1969, M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1979) – acting U.S. Ambassador to
73080-652: The Pacific Adrian Dearnell (A.B. 1994) – Franco-American financial journalist, CEO and founder of EuroBusiness Media Larry Elder (A.B. 1974) – columnist; radio personality; TV talk show host, The Larry Elder Show ; author; unsuccessful Republican candidate in the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election Katherine Eban (A.B. 1989) – investigative journalist Chip Giller (A.B. 1993) – environmentalist, founder of Grist Ira Glass (A.B. 1982) – host and producer, National Public Radio , This American Life [REDACTED] Ira Glass (1982) Jerry Green (A.B. 1950) – sports journalist, member of
73428-663: The Parents , Meet the Fockers Josh Hamilton (1991) – actor, Eighth Grade , 13 Reasons Why Hill Harper (A.B. 1988) – actor, Constellation , Lackawanna Blues , CSI: NY Phil Hay – screenwriter, Destroyer , The Invitation , Ride Along Todd Haynes (A.B. 1983) – Academy Award-nominated writer/director, Mildred Pierce , I'm Not There , Far from Heaven , Velvet Goldmine , Safe (1995), Poison , Dark Waters , The Velvet Underground [REDACTED] Todd Haynes (1983) David Hedison (Class of 1949) – film, television, and stage actor Sean Hood (1988) – screenwriter, Conan
73776-402: The Pembroke Campus at its northern end. The walk is bordered by departmental buildings as well as the Lindemann Performing Arts Center and Granoff Center for the Creative Arts The corridor is home to public art including sculptures by Maya Lin and Tom Friedman . The Women's College in Brown University , known as Pembroke College, was founded in October 1891. Upon its 1971 merger with
74124-412: The Pembroke Campus, which houses both dormitories and academic buildings. Facing the western edge of the central campus sit two of the Brown's seven libraries, the John Hay Library and the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library . The university's campus is contiguous with that of the Rhode Island School of Design , which is located immediately to Brown's west, along the slope of College Hill. Built in 1901,
74472-634: The Penn Center for Particle Cosmology , University of Pennsylvania Fyodor Urnov (Ph.D. 1996) – Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development, University of California, Berkeley John S. Werner (Ph.D. 1979) – Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Vision Science and Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, UC Davis Xi-Cheng Zhang (Ph.D. 1986) – Parker Givens Chair of Optics, University of Rochester ; Director of Institute of Optics Maria Zuber (Ph.D. 1986) – E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Vice President for Research, MIT ; NASA planning advisor; Co-chair of
74820-1559: The Physics Department and Dean of the Graduate School, Brown University; recipient of the ASA Gold Medal David Lobell (Sc.B. 2000) – Gloria and Richard Kushel Director at the Center on Food Security and the Environment and Professor in the Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University ; recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship Robert H. MacArthur (A.M. 1953) – founding figure in evolutionary ecology ; Professor, University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University Nick McCave (Ph.D. 1967) – Woodwardian Professor of Geology , Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge ; fellow, St John's College, Cambridge Warren Meck (Ph.D. 1982) – Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University Kenneth R. Miller (Sc.B. 1970) – Professor of Biology, Brown University [REDACTED] Kenneth R. Miller (1970) David Moore (A.B. 1974) – Professor and Chair of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley ; discoverer of constitutive androstane receptor , farnesoid X receptor , and small heterodimer partner . John F. Mustard (M.Sc. 1986, Ph.D. 1990) – Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University Myung Kyungjae (Ph.D. 1999) – biologist, Distinguished Professor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Samuel M. Nabrit (Ph.D. 1932) – first African American to receive doctorate degree from Brown University ; first African American trustee at Brown University; first African American appointed to
75168-1094: The Physics of Information, UC Santa Cruz Stephon Alexander (Ph.D. 2000) – theoretical physicist and musician, Professor of Physics, Brown University Edgar Allen (Sc.B. 1915, A.M. 1916, Ph.D. 1921) – anatomist and physiologist, discoverer of estrogen and father of endocrinology Amy Arnsten (A.B. 1976) – Albert E. Kent Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology, Yale University Raymond Arvidson (Ph.D. 1974) – James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis Biman Bagchi (Ph.D. 1980) – biophysical chemist , theoretical chemist ; Amrut Mody Professor, Indian Institute of Science [REDACTED] Biman Bagchi (1980) Mark Bear (Ph.D. 1984) – Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory , MIT ; former Howard Hughes Medical Investigator Joy M. Bergelson (Sc.B. 1984) – Dorothy Schiff Professor of Genomics, New York University Marianne Bronner (Sc.B. 1975) – Edward B. Lewis Professor of Biology; Director of
75516-2521: The Practice, Economics Department, Harvard Kennedy School James Feyrer (A.M., Ph.D. 2001) – Professor and Vice-Chair of Economics, Dartmouth College Marvin Goodfriend (Ph.D. 1980) – Friends of Allan Meltzer Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University John Haltiwanger (Sc.B. 1977) – Dudley and Louisa Dillard Professor of Economics and Distinguished University Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park Janice Hammond (Sc.B.) – Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing, Harvard Business School Jerry A. Hausman (A.B. 1968) – John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics, MIT Guido Imbens (A.M. 1989, Ph.D. 1991) – Applied Econometrics Professor and Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business ; Nobel laureate ( Economic Sciences , 2021) [REDACTED] Guido Imbens (1989, 1991) Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (A.M. 1997, Ph.D. 2000) – Neil Moskowitz Endowed Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park Bruce J. Katz (A.B. 1981) – Vice President, Brookings Institution ; Visiting Professor, London School of Economics Michael Keane (Ph.D. 1989) – Wm. Polk Carey Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University Robert G. King (A.B., A.M., Ph.D.) – Professor of Economics, Boston University Randall Kroszner (Sc.B. 1984) – Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Neale Mahoney (Sc.B. 2005) – Professor of Economics, Stanford University Edwin Mills (A.B. 1951) – Professor Emeritus of Real Estate and Finance, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University Robert A. Moffitt (A.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1975) – Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University Jonathan Morduch (A.B. 1985) – Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU Anna Nagurney (A.B. 1977, Sc.B. 1977, Sc.M. 1980, Ph.D. 1983) – John F. Smith Memorial Professor, Isenberg School of Management at University of Massachusetts Amherst Georgia Perakis (Sc.M. 1988, Ph.D. 1993) – William F. Pounds Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management Eswar Prasad (A.M. 1986) – Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy, Cornell University ; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution [REDACTED] Eswar Prasad (1986) Nancy Rothbard (A.B. 1990) – Deputy Dean and David Pottruck Professor of Management, Wharton School of
75864-804: The Pro Football Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on December 22, 2011 . Retrieved January 9, 2013 . ^ Eddie "Robbie" Robinson at the College Football Hall of Fame ^ "Wallace Wade" . Encyclopediaof Alabama . Retrieved January 9, 2013 . ^ "Garnet Hathaway is thriving in bottom-six role with the Capitals" . Washington Post . ISSN 0190-8286 . Retrieved 2021-06-04 . ^ Miller, Max (2024-06-11). "REPORT: Canucks' Lafferty Expected To Hit Open Market" . ^ "Encyclopedia Brunoniana | Lacrosse" . www.brown.edu . Retrieved 2021-06-04 . ^ Sheinin, Peri (2021-01-31). "Undergraduate Vincent Zhou takes second at figure skating U.S. championships" . Brown Daily Herald . Archived from
76212-1779: The Program in Integrative Sexual Medicine Director, University of Chicago George Makari (A.B. 1982) – Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the De Witt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine Joseph Matarazzo (A.B. 1946) – 98th President of the American Psychological Association , chair of the first department of medical psychology in the United States Jessica Meir (A.B. 1999) – NASA astronaut; former Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School Craig C. Mello (Sc.B. 1982) – Nobel laureate (2006, Physiology or Medicine ); Blais University Chair in Molecular Medicine , University of Massachusetts Medical School [REDACTED] Craig C. Mello (1982) Lloyd B. Minor (Sc.B. 1979, M.D. 1982) – Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine ; former Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Johns Hopkins University [REDACTED] Lloyd B. Minor (1979, 1982) Mark Musen (Sc.B. 1977, M.D. 1980) – Professor of Biomedical Informatics and of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University ; Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research Srihari S. Naidu (Sc.B. 1993, M.D. 1997) – Professor of Medicine, New York Medical College Jordan S. Orange (A.B., Ph.D., 1996, M.D., 1997) – Chair of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ; Pediatrician-in-Chief of New York-Presbyterian / Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital Thomas G. Plante (Sc.B. 1982) – clinical psychologist; Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. University Professor of Psychology, Santa Clara University Paul Ridker (BSc. 1981) – Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School ; Director of
76560-471: The Prophet (2012) and The Humans James Naughton (A.B. 1967) – actor, two-time Tony Award winner for City of Angels (1992) and Chicago (1996); also featured in films such as The Paper Chase (1973), The Glass Menagerie (1987) and The Devil Wears Prada (2006) John Ford Noonan (A.B. 1964) – actor and playwright best known for A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking Lynn Nottage (A.B. 1986) – first female playwright to win
76908-663: The Public Health Movement . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 10–14. ^ "Tina Lee Cheng" . Iowa City Press-Citizen. June 21, 1983 . Retrieved May 18, 2021 – via newspapers.com. ^ "Institute of Medicine Elects Lynda Chin to Membership" . The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. ^ "Joan Reede builds diversity and inclusion into Harvard Medical School's ethos" . Harvard Gazette . 2018-10-11 . Retrieved 2018-12-05 . ^ Rosen, Jody. "MUSIC; Rapping in Whiteface (for Laughs)" , The New York Times , April 23, 2000. Accessed July 30, 2008. "MC PAUL BARMAN,
77256-431: The Public and Classical Instruction." The document additionally "recognized more broadly and fundamentally than any other [university charter] the principle of denominational cooperation." The oft-repeated statement that Brown's charter alone prohibited a religious test for College membership is inaccurate; other college charters were similarly liberal in that particular. The college was founded as Rhode Island College, at
77604-525: The Rhode Island Supreme Court (1963–1979) Patrick C. Lynch (1987) – Rhode Island Attorney General (D) Lewis Linn McArthur – Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court Theron Metcalf (A.B. 1805) – Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Marcus Morton (1838) – Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1882–1890) Michael Newdow (Sc.B. 1974) – atheist doctor and lawyer who unsuccessfully argued Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow before
77952-933: The Safe Communities Institute and Homegrown Violent Extremism Studies, USC Price School of Public Policy Deborah A. Thomas (A.B. 1988) – R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania Fred Turner (A.B. 1984) – Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication, Stanford University Khachig Tölölyan (Ph.D. 1975) – founding figure in diaspora studies ; Professor Emeritus of English and Letters, Wesleyan University Jeffrey K. Tulis (A.M. 1974) – Professor of Government, The University of Texas at Austin Sam Wineburg (Class of 1980) – Margaret Jacks Professor Emeritus of Education, Stanford University Deborah J. Yashar (A.B. 1985) – Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Others [ edit ] Asger Aaboe (Ph.D. 1957) – Professor Emeritus of
78300-823: The Screen" . IndieWire . 1998-12-10 . Retrieved 2018-01-09 . ^ Ambrose, Don (2018-10-02). "Insights From an Ethical, Adventurous, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist: An Interview With Sharon LaFraniere" . Roeper Review . 40 (4): 268–272. doi : 10.1080/02783193.2018.1506975 . ISSN 0278-3193 . S2CID 149858492 . ^ "98-033 (Mara Liasson)" . www.brown.edu . Retrieved 2021-05-14 . ^ "Contemporary Authors Online: Julia Flynn Siler" . www.galegroup.com . Gengage Learning. 2013 . Retrieved April 15, 2016 . ^ "André Leon Talley, Fashion Icon and Former 'Vogue' Editor, Dead at 73" . Complex . Retrieved 2022-08-22 . ^ Bella, Timothy (January 19, 2022). "The fashion world mourns André Leon Talley: 'No one
78648-623: The Sea (1954), The Narrow Margin , Fantastic Voyage , Tora! Tora! Tora! , The Boston Strangler , Doctor Dolittle , Mandingo , Soylent Green ; Academy Award-winning documentary producer, Design for Death Sarah Friedland (A.B. 2014) – director, Familiar Touch Josh Friedman (1989) – screenwriter, War of the Worlds , The Black Dahlia ; executive producer, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles ; developer, Snowpiercer Liz Garbus (A.B. 1992) – Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, What Happened, Miss Simone? , The Farm: Angola, USA , Killing in
78996-1595: The Senate (1865–1867) [REDACTED] Lafayette S. Foster (1828) Theodore Foster (A.B. 1770) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island John Brown Francis (A.B. 1808) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island Theodore F. Green (A.B. 1887) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1937–1961) Maggie Hassan (A.B. 1980) – 81st Governor of New Hampshire (2013–2017); U.S. Senator, D – New Hampshire (2017–) [REDACTED] Maggie Hassan (1980) Nathaniel P. Hill (A.B. 1856) – U.S. Senator, Colorado (1879–1885) John Holmes (A.B. 1796) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1817–1820), U.S. Senator, Maine (1820–1827, 1829–1833) Jeremiah B. Howell (A.B. 1789) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1811–1817) William Hunter (A.B. 1791) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1811–1821) Edward L. Leahy (A.B.) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1949–1950) Henry F. Lippitt (A.B. 1878) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1911–1917) William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) – U.S. Senator, New York (1831–1833) Blair Moody (A.B. 1922) – U.S. Senator, Michigan (1951–1952) John Ruggles (A.B. 1813) – U.S. Senator from Maine (1835–1841) Frederic M. Sackett (1890) – U.S. Senator, Kentucky (1924–1930), U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1930–1933) John Milton Thayer (1841) – U.S. Senator, Nebraska (1867–1871) [REDACTED] John Milton Thayer (1841) Jared W. Williams (A.B. 1818) – U.S. Senator, New Hampshire (1853–1854); U.S. Congressman, New Hampshire (1837–1841); 21st Governor of New Hampshire (1847–1849) Members of
79344-1406: The Smartest Person in the World , The Year of Living Biblically Edward Davis Jones (Class of 1877) – co-founder of The Wall Street Journal , namesake of the Dow Jones Industrial Average Sasha Frere-Jones (Class of 1988) – writer, music critic, and musician John F. Kennedy Jr. (A.B. 1983) – lawyer; journalist; publisher of George magazine; son of President John F. Kennedy ; killed in an airplane crash on July 16, 1999 [REDACTED] John F. Kennedy Jr. (1983) Glenn Kessler (A.B. 1981) – diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post Noel King (A.B. 2004) – co-host of Morning Edition and Up First Hiroko Kuniya (A.B. 1979) – Japanese news anchor Erik Kuselias (1991) – host of hosts Sportsline and CBS Sports Sharon LaFraniere (A.B. 1977) – Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist at The New York Times Sharon Lerner – American investigative reporter and environmental journalist Josh Levin (2002) – National Editor at Slate Irving R. Levine (1944) – former NBC News correspondent Mara Liasson (A.B. 1977) – NPR correspondent Bill Lichtenstein (1978) – journalist, documentary filmmaker, president of LCMedia, Inc.; recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship and Peabody Award Andrew Marantz (2006) – staff writer at The New Yorker Mark Maremont (1980) – senior special writer for
79692-419: The Son" . www.brownalumnimagazine.com . Retrieved 2021-10-18 . ^ Johnson, Martin (2016-04-13). " 'Become Alive' by Dave Harrington Review" . Wall Street Journal . ISSN 0099-9660 . Retrieved 2023-07-16 . ^ "Lingua Ignota's Liturgical Noise Is a Celebration of Obliteration" . www.vice.com . 8 June 2017 . Retrieved 2021-10-18 . ^ "The Range Journeys to
80040-722: The Soviet Union (1979–1981) Gus Wenner (2012) – CEO of Rolling Stone Jochen Wermuth (A.M. 1992) – German investor, founder and Chief Investment Officer of Wermuth Asset Management Melanie Whelan (1999) – CEO of SoulCycle (2015–2019) Meredith Whitney (A.B. 1992) – equity research analyst notable for her prediction of the 2007–2008 financial crisis Andrew Yang (A.B. 1996) – founder of Venture for America (VFA), 2020 U.S. Democratic presidential candidate [REDACTED] Andrew Yang (1996) Nancy Zimmerman (A.B. 1985) – hedge fund manager, co-founder of Bracebridge Capital Journalism [ edit ] Leroy F. Aarons (A.B. 1955) – journalist; founder of
80388-725: The Spotless Mind , Blow , He Got Game , Summer of Sam , Be Kind Rewind Justin Kuritzkes (2012) – playwright and screenwriter, Challengers Jonathan Levine (A.B. 2000) – writer/director, Warm Bodies , 50/50 (2011), The Wackness , All The Boys Love Mandy Lane Doug Liman (A.B. 1988) – director and producer, The O.C. , Edge of Tomorrow , Fair Game (2010), Jumper (2008), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), The Bourne Identity (2002), The Bourne Supremacy , Go (1999), Swingers (1996) Laura Linney (A.B. 1986) – three-time Academy Award and two-time Tony Award-nominated actress, The Big C , The Savages , The Nanny Diaries , The Squid and
80736-516: The Sun Emily Nemens (A.B. 2005) – writer, editor, The Paris Review Naomi Novik (A.B. 1995) – fantasy author, His Majesty's Dragon Dan O'Brien (M.F.A. 1999) – playwright and poet, author of The Body of an American Nicanor Parra (1943–1945) – Chilean poet, author of Poemas y antipoemas [ es ] , winner of the 2011 Miguel de Cervantes Prize S. J. Perelman (Class of 1925) – humorist, The New Yorker ; author; Academy Award -winning screenwriter, Around
81084-470: The Town of Franklin, Mass: From Its Settlement to the Completion of Its First Century, 2d March, 1878 : with Genealogical Notices of Its Earliest Families, Sketches of Its Professional Men, and a Report of the Centennial Celebration . Higginson Book Company. p. 156. ^ "Julian Hartridge" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Nathaniel Hazard" . Biographical Directory of
81432-504: The Treasury ; 15th Chair of the Federal Reserve ; the first woman in both roles [REDACTED] Janet Yellen (1967) Formal sciences [ edit ] Frederick J. Almgren Jr. (Ph.D. 1962) – Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University ; recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Douglas N. Arnold (A.B. 1975) – McKnight Presidential Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (Ph.D. 1939) – President, Mathematical Association of America ;
81780-576: The Tropics [REDACTED] Nilo Cruz (1994) Daveed Diggs (A.B. 2004) – actor, Tony Award-winning originator of the roles of Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in the Pulitzer-Prize winning 2015 musical Hamilton [REDACTED] Daveed Diggs (2004) Jackie Sibblies Drury (M.F.A.) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Fairview Gina Gionfriddo (M.F.A. 1997) – playwright, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Becky Shaw (2009) and Rapture, Blister, Burn (2013); producer, Law and Order Ann Harada (A.B. 1985) – actress in
82128-2266: The U.S. Senate Augustus O. Bourn (1855) – 36th Governor of Rhode Island (1883–1885) Donald Carcieri (A.B. 1965) – 73rd Governor of Rhode Island (2003–2011) Norman S. Case (A.B. 1908) – 56th Governor of Rhode Island (1928–1933) Lincoln Chafee (A.B. 1975) – 74th Governor of Rhode Island (2011–2015), U.S. Senator, Rhode Island [REDACTED] Lincoln Chafee (1975) William Claflin (Class of 1837) – 27th Governor of Massachusetts (1869–1872) John H. Clifford (1827) – 21st Governor of Massachusetts (1853–1854) Samuel Cony (1829) – 31st Governor of Maine (1864–1867) Elisha Dyer (A.B. 1829) – 25th Governor of Rhode Island (1857–1859) Elisha Dyer Jr. – 45th Governor of Rhode Island (1897–1900) James Fenner (A.B. 1789) – 7th, 11th, and 17th Governor of Rhode Island (1807–1811, 1824–1831, 1843–1845) John Brown Francis (A.B. 1808) – 13th Governor of Rhode Island (1833–1838) William Gaston (1840) – 29th Governor of Massachusetts (1875–1876) Theodore Francis Green (1887) – 57th Governor of Rhode Island (1933–1936); U.S. Senator , D – Rhode Island (1937–1961) [REDACTED] T. F. Green (1887) Maggie Hassan (A.B. 1980) – 81st Governor of New Hampshire (2013–2017); U.S. Senator , D – New Hampshire (2017–) James H. Higgins (A.B. 1898) – 50th Governor of Rhode Island (1907–1909) Charles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) – 36th Governor of New York (1907–1910) and 1916 Republican presidential nominee Charles Jackson (A.B. 1917, A.M. 1920) – 18th Governor of Rhode Island (1845–46) Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (Sc.B. 1992) – 55th Governor of Louisiana (2008–2016) Otto Kerner Jr. (1930) – 33rd Governor of Illinois – (1961–1968) Samuel Ward King – 15th Governor of Rhode Island (1839–1843) Frank Licht (A.B. 1938) – 67th Governor of Rhode Island (1969–1973) William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) – Justice of New York State Supreme Court (1829); 11th Governor of New York (1833–1839); U.S. Secretary of War (1845–1849); U.S. Senator from New York; U.S. Secretary of State (1853–1857) [REDACTED] William L. Marcy (1808) Jack Markell (1982) – 18th United States Ambassador to
82476-449: The United Arab Emirates (2008–2011) and Pakistan (2012–2015) Richard Olney (A.B. 1856) – 34th U.S. Secretary of State (1895–1897), 40th United States Attorney General (1893–1895) Ely Palmer (A.B. 1907) – U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (1948) Nit Phibunsongkhram (A.M. 1967) – Foreign Minister of Thailand (2006–2008), Thai Ambassador to the United States (1996–2000) David Pressman (A.B. 1999) – U.S. Ambassador to
82824-1507: The United Nations (1999–2001), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State , U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1993–1994) , former Chairman of the Asia Society , member of the Atlantic Council of the United States , Counselor to the Council on Foreign Relations , Founding Chairman of the American Academy in Berlin [REDACTED] Richard Holbrooke (1962) Charles Evans Hughes (A.B. 1881) – 44th U.S. Secretary of State (1921–1925) Noble Brandon Judah (1904) – U.S. Ambassador to Cuba (1927–1929) Suzan G. LeVine (A.B. 1993) – U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Lichtenstein (2014–2017) Frederick Irving (A.B. 1943) – U.S. Ambassador to Iceland (1972–1976) Roberta S. Jacobson (A.B. 1982) – U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (2016–2018) William L. Marcy (A.B. 1808) – 21st U.S. Secretary of State (1853–1857), 20th United States Secretary of War (1845–1849) Anthony Dryden Marshall (1950) – U.S. Consul in Istanbul, 1958–59; U.S. Ambassador to Malagasy Republic , (1969–71), Trinidad and Tobago (1972–74), Kenya (1973–77), Seychelles (1976–77); theatrical producer; felon Adam Namm (A.B. 1985) – U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador (2012–2015) James D. Nealon (A.B. 1980) – U.S. Ambassador to Honduras (2014–2017) Victoria Nuland (A.B. 1983) – Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2021–2024), U.S. Ambassador to NATO (2005–2008) [REDACTED] Victoria Nuland (1983) Richard Olson (A.B. 1981) – U.S. Ambassador to
83172-546: The United Nations (2013) [REDACTED] Rosemary DiCarlo (1969) Norm Eisen (A.B. 1985) – U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic (2011–2014) Ana A. Escrogima (A.B. 2001) – nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Oman Rufus Gifford (A.B. 1996) – U.S. Ambassador to Denmark (2013–2017), Deputy Campaign Manager for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign , Chief of Protocol of the United States John Hay (A.B. 1858) – 37th U.S. Secretary of State (1898–1905) Richard Holbrooke (A.B. 1962) – U.S. Ambassador to
83520-510: The United Nations for Special Political Affairs (2014–2017), U.S. Ambassador to Hungary (2022–), co-founder Not on Our Watch Frederic M. Sackett (A.B. 1890) – U.S. Senator , Kentucky (1924–1930), U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1930–1933) John J. Sullivan (A.B. 1981) – U.S. Ambassador to Russia (2020–2022), U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (2017–2019), acting U.S. Secretary of State (2018) Stephanie S. Sullivan (A.B. 1980) – U.S. Ambassador to Ghana (2019–2022), and Republic of
83868-1661: The United States (1997–2001) Walter Hoving (Ph.B. 1920) – CEO of Tiffany & Co. Nina Jacobson (A.B. 1987) – former president, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures [REDACTED] Nina Jacobson (1987) Parth Jindal (A.B. 2012) – managing director of JSW Cement , son of Sajjan Jindal Craig Kallman (A.B. 1987) – chairman and CEO of Atlantic Records Group Ray Kassar (1948) – former CEO of Atari Paul Kazarian (M.A. 1980) – billionaire investor Dara Khosrowshahi (Sc.B. 1991) – CEO of Uber , former CEO of Expedia Group [REDACTED] Dara Khosrowshahi (1991) İpek Kıraç (2007, M.P.H. 2011) – Turkish billionaire heiress and businesswoman Beth Kobliner (A.B. 1986) – personal finance commentator Randy Komisar (A.B. 1976) – co-founder of Claris , former CEO of LucasArts Jonathan Klein (A.B. 1980) – former president of CNN /US Steph Korey (A.B. 2009) – founder of Away Liz Lange (A.B. 1988) – founder of Liz Lange Maternity Debra L. Lee (A.B. 1976) – chairman and CEO of Black Entertainment Television Gordon Macklin (A.B. 1950) – former president and CEO, NASDAQ Nadiem Makarim (A.B. 2006) – founder of Gojek , current Minister of Education and Culture of Indonesia Brian Moynihan (A.B. 1981) – president and CEO, Bank of America [REDACTED] Brian Moynihan (1981) Jonathan M. Nelson (A.B. 1977) – billionaire, investor, founder of Providence Equity Partners Karan Paul (1992) – chairman, Apeejay Surrendra Group Steven Price (Sc.B. 1984) – co-founder of Townsquare Media , and minority owner of
84216-644: The United States (2008–12), Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1995–99) Shigeyuki Goto (A.M. 1984) – Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (2021–present) Martín Guzmán (Ph.D. 2013) – Minister of Economy of Argentina (2019–2022) [REDACTED] Martín Guzmán (2013) Nitya Pibulsonggram (A.M. 1967) – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand (2006–2008) Nadiem Makarim (2006) – Minister of Education and Culture of Indonesia (2021–present) Eduardo Montealegre (Sc.B. 1976) – Nicaraguan politician, Deputy to
84564-401: The United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "American Immigration Lawyers Association – Rep. Deborah Ross (D-NC-02)" . www.congressweb.com . Retrieved 2021-02-17 . ^ "Zabdiel Sampson" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "William Paine Sheffield" . Biographical Directory of
84912-510: The United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "James Burrill, Jr" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Lincoln Chafee" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "John Hopkins Clarke" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Nathan F. Dixon I" . Biographical Directory of
85260-506: The United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Jeremiah B. Howell" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "William Hunter" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Edward L. Leahy" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Henry F. Lippitt" . Biographical Directory of
85608-608: The United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Marcus Morton" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "John J. O'Connor" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Dutee Jerauld Pearce" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "About" . Representative Dean Phillips . 2012-12-03 . Retrieved 2019-03-09 . ^ "Henry Kirke Porter" . Biographical Directory of
85956-510: The United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Nathan F. Dixon III" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "James Fenner" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Dwight Foster" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Lafayette S. Foster" . Biographical Directory of
86304-514: The United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Piyush "Bobby" Jindal" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "LAPHAM, Oscar (1837–1926)" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved March 26, 2014 . ^ "Dan Maffei" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "James Brown Mason" . Biographical Directory of
86652-484: The United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Samuel Eddy" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "James Ervin" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Horace Everett" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ Blake, Mortimer (1879). A History of
87000-461: The United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Samuel S. Cox" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Samuel L. Crocker" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Bioguide Search" . bioguide.congress.gov . Retrieved 2021-02-17 . ^ "Job Durfee" . Biographical Directory of
87348-511: The United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Solomon Sibley" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Edward L. Sittler, Jr." . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Ebenezer Stoddard" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Daniel Wardwell" . Biographical Directory of
87696-503: The United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Theodore Foster" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Theodore F. Green" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Nathaniel P. Hill" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "John Holmes" . Biographical Directory of
88044-524: The United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "William L. Marcy" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress – Retro Member details" . bioguideretro.congress.gov . Retrieved 2021-02-17 . ^ "John Ruggles" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Frederic M. Sackett" . Biographical Directory of
88392-466: The United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "William Widnall" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "John W. Wydler" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, 1988 , p. 283. Accessed January 22, 2018. "Walter M.D. Kern Jr., Rep., Ridgewood Assemblyman Kern
88740-711: The United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Henry B. Anthony" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ "Donald Carcieri" . National Governors Association . Retrieved 22 December 2012 . ^ "Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee" . Rhode Island Office of the Secretary of State . Retrieved November 7, 2012 . ^ "Samuel Cony" . National Governors Association . Retrieved 22 December 2012 . ^ "Elisha Dyer" . National Governors Association . Retrieved 22 December 2012 . ^ "Elisha Dyer, Jr" . National Governors Association. Archived from
89088-632: The United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ Cotter, Pamela (November 2, 2010). "Congressional District 1 race's final tally" . Providence Journal . Archived from the original on November 8, 2010 . Retrieved 2010-11-02 . ^ "Gil Cisneros" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 3 January 2019 . ^ Shane III, Leo (2021-04-15). "Biden nominates former California congressman to take over Pentagon's personnel office" . Military Times . Retrieved 2021-06-01 . ^ "Howard A. Coffin" . Biographical Directory of
89436-1039: The United States Congress . Retrieved 22 December 2012 . ^ "Jack A. Markell" . National Governors Association. Archived from the original on 5 April 2015 . Retrieved 22 December 2012 . ^ "Marcus Morton" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 22 December 2012 . ^ "Pendleton Murrah" . National Governors Association . Retrieved 22 December 2012 . ^ "Philip W. Noel" . National Governors Association . Retrieved 22 December 2012 . ^ "Quinn, Robert E." Our Campaigns . Retrieved April 27, 2014 . ^ "Edward C. Stokes" . National Governors Association . Retrieved 22 December 2012 . ^ "Nebraska Governor John Milton Thayer" . National Governors Association . Retrieved September 16, 2012 . ^ "Maine Governor William Durkee Williamson" . National Governors Association . Retrieved August 18, 2012 . ^ "Samuel G. Arnold" . Biographical Directory of
89784-425: The United States Congress . ^ "Jared W. Williams" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved 21 December 2012 . ^ Greene, Richard Henry (1890). Official Positions Held by Alumni of Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, and by the Men Educated at William and Mary College: With a Comparative Statement, Including
90132-556: The United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia" . www.presidency.ucsb.edu . Retrieved 2018-09-17 . ^ Aldrich, Lewis Cass (1891). History of Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, Vermont . Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co. p. 223 . ^ "Peleg Arnold" . United States Congress Biographical Directory . Retrieved 28 April 2014 . ^ "Haiganush R. Bedrosian" . 2014 Award Winners . Retrieved 28 April 2014 . ^ "Theodore R. Boehm" . Indiana Supreme Court. Archived from
90480-1045: The United States House of Representatives [ edit ] Benjamin Adams (A.B. 1788) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1816–1821) Jeremiah Bailey (1795) – U.S. Congressman, Maine (1835–1837) John Bailey (1807) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1824–1831) John Baldwin (A.B. 1797) – U.S. Congressman, Connecticut (1825–1829) Gideon Barstow (1803) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1821–1823) William Baylies (1795) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1809–1809, 1813–1817, 1833–1835) William H. Bates (1940) – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1950–1969) Barnabas Bidwell – U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts (1805 –1807) William Daniel Brayton – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1857–1861) Franklin E. Brooks (1883) – U.S. Congressman, Colorado (1903–1907) George H. Browne (1840) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1861–1863) Tristam Burges (A.B. 1796) – U.S Congressman, Rhode Island (1825–1835) David Cicilline (A.B. 1983) – first openly gay mayor of
90828-836: The United States Senate (1875–1875), Governor of Rhode Island (1849–1851) [REDACTED] Henry B. Anthony (1833) Samuel G. Arnold (A.B. 1841) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island James Burrill Jr. (A.B. 1788) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee (A.B. 1975) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island (1999–2007); Governor of Rhode Island (2011–2015) John Hopkins Clarke (A.B. 1809) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island Nathan F. Dixon I (A.B. 1799) – U.S. Senator, Rhode Island Nathan F. Dixon III (A.B. 1869) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island James Fenner (A.B. 1789) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island Dwight Foster (A.B. 1774) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Lafayette S. Foster (A.B. 1828) – U.S. Senator, Connecticut (1855–1867), President pro tempore of
91176-1063: The University of Pennsylvania David Schmittlein (A.B. 1977) – John C Head III Dean (2007-2024) and Professor of Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management Scott Shane (A.B. 1986) – A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve University Anthony Shorrocks (A.M. 1970) – Professor, London School of Economics ; 5th Director of World Institute for Development Economics Research ; Julia Steinberger (Sc.B. 1996) – Professor of Ecological Economics, University of Lausanne Ebonya Washington (A.B. 1995) – Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics, Yale University David N. Weil (A.B. 1982) – James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics, Brown University John Henry Williams (A.B. 1912) – Founding Dean, Harvard Kennedy School ; economist of international trade theory Janet Yellen (A.B. 1967) – Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley ; 78th U.S. Secretary of
91524-414: The University of Pennsylvania Philip Kantoff (1976, M.D. 1979) – former Chairman of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center , Jerome and Nancy Kohlberg Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School William Williams Keen (A.B. 1859) – first American brain surgeon [REDACTED] William Williams Keen (1859) Linda Liau (A.B., S.B. 1987) – W. Eugene Stern Chair of
91872-902: The University of Pennsylvania William H. Frey (A.M. 1971, Ph.D. 1974) – Senior Fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution Ester Fuchs (A.M. 1974) – Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, Columbia University SIPA Robert M. Gagné (Sc.M 1939, Ph.D. 1940) – educational psychologist ; Professor, Florida State University ; author of Conditions of Learning John Ghazvinian (A.B. 1996) – Executive Director, Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania John Wesley Gilbert (A.B. 1888, A.M. 1891) – first African American to receive an A.M. from Brown, first African American archaeologist Michael Inzlicht (Sc.M. 1999, Ph.D. 2001) – Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough David Kertzer (A.B. 1969) – Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science, Brown University; recipient of
92220-1966: The University of Pennsylvania [REDACTED] Wendell Pritchett (1986) Suzanne M. Rivera (A.B. 1991) – 17th President, Macalester College Chase F. Robinson (A.B. 1985) – President and Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY Leonard Schlesinger (A.B. 1972) – 12th President, Babson College Arthur R. Taylor (A.B. 1957, A.M 1961) – 10th President, Muhlenberg College ; President, CBS (1972–1976) Sir Richard Trainor (A.B. 1970) – Principal, King's College London (2004–2014); Rector, Exeter College, Oxford (2014–) [REDACTED] Sir Richard Trainor (1970) Yang Wei (Ph.D. 1985) – President, Zhejiang University Nils Yngve Wessell (A.M. 1935) – 8th President, Tufts University Benjamin Ide Wheeler (A.B. 1875, A.M. 1878) – 8th President, University of California Charles Lincoln White (A.B. 1887) – 13th President, Colby College Beniah Longley Whitman (A.B. 1887, A.M. 1890) – 11th President, Colby College ; 7th President, George Washington University Mary Emma Woolley (A.B. 1894, A.M 1895) – 11th President, Mount Holyoke College Applied sciences [ edit ] Lallit Anand (Sc.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1975) – Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT Panos Antsaklis (MSc Ph.D. 1977) – H. Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame Ravi V. Bellamkonda (Ph.D. 1994) – Dean, Pratt School of Engineering , Duke University (2016–2021); Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Emory University (2021–) Sangeeta N. Bhatia (Sc.B. 1990) – John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT [REDACTED] Sangeeta N. Bhatia (1990) Bernard Budiansky (Ph.D. 1950) – James Lawrence Professor of Engineering, Harvard University ; recipient of
92568-467: The Van Wickle Gates are a set of wrought iron gates that stand at the western edge of Brown's campus. The larger main gate is flanked by two smaller side gates. At Convocation the central gate opens inward to admit the procession of new students; at Commencement, the gate opens outward for the procession of graduates. A Brown superstition holds that students who walk through the central gate a second time prematurely will not graduate, although walking backward
92916-690: The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010) John Lloyd Young (A.B. 1998) – actor; Tony Award winner for Jersey Boys (2006); lead vocalist, 2007 Grammy-winning Jersey Boys album for Clint Eastwood's 2014 Jersey Boys ; member of President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities Religion and theology [ edit ] Alfred W. Anthony (A.B. 1883) – Professor at Bates College and Cobb Divinity School , author, Free Will Baptist minister Mark E. Brennan (A.B. 1969) – Catholic auxiliary bishop of Baltimore Edward Winter Clark (1857) – Baptist missionary active in Nagaland , India Alexander Viets Griswold (A.B. 1810) – Episcopal Bishop of
93264-622: The Way to the Forum Miriam Silverman (A.B. 2001, M.F.A. 2005) – Tony Award winning actress, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window , The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel [REDACTED] Miriam Silverman (2001, 2005) Alfred Uhry (1958) – playwright; Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award and Tony Award winner, Driving Miss Daisy , The Last Night of Ballyhoo Amy Van Nostrand – actress, The Hothouse David Yazbek (1982) – Tony and Emmy Award-winning writer, musician, composer, and lyricist, The Band's Visit (2017), The Full Monty (2000), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005) and Women on
93612-573: The Whale , The Exorcism of Emily Rose , Kinsey , Mystic River , Love Actually , You Can Count on Me , The Truman Show , Absolute Power , Primal Fear , Ozark [REDACTED] Laura Linney (1986) Kurt Luedtke (A.B. 1961) – Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Out of Africa Kátia Lund (A.B. 1989) – co-director, Cidade de Deus (City of God) (2002) George Macready (A.B. 1921) – actor of film, stage, and television, Tora! Tora! Tora! , Paths of Glory Eli Marienthal (Class of 2008) – actor, Confessions of
93960-489: The World in Eighty Days Nathaniel Philbrick (A.B. 1978) – nonfiction writer; National Book Award winner, author of In the Heart of the Sea Marilynne Robinson (A.B. 1966) – Pulitzer Prize and Orange Prize -winning author, Gilead , Housekeeping , Home [REDACTED] Marilynne Robinson (1966) Ariel Sabar (A.B. 1993) – author, National Book Critics Circle Award 2009 for My Father's Paradise Joanna Scott (M.A. 1985) – author, recipient of
94308-520: The basis for the film Arrival [REDACTED] Ted Chiang (1989) Brian Christian (A.B. 2006) – author, The Most Human Human Zinzi Clemmons (A.B. 2007) – author Nicole Cooley (A.B. 1988) – poet, Professor of English, Queens College, City University of New York Nilo Cruz (M.F.A. 1994) – Pulitzer Prize –winning playwright, Anna in the Tropics Edwidge Danticat (M.F.A. 1993) – American Book Award -winning author, Breath, Eyes, Memory , The Dew Breaker , recipient of
94656-469: The block's perimeter. This section of campus is primarily Georgian and Richardsonian Romanesque in its architectural character. To the south of the central campus are academic buildings and residential quadrangles, including Wriston, Keeney, and Gregorian quadrangles. Immediately to the east of the campus core sit Sciences Park and Brown's School of Engineering . North of the central campus are performing and visual arts facilities, life sciences labs, and
95004-505: The board of trustees should be composed of 22 Baptists, five Quakers , five Episcopalians, and four Congregationalists. Of the 12 Fellows, eight should be Baptists—including the college president—"and the rest indifferently of any or all Denominations." At the time of its creation, Brown's charter was a uniquely progressive document. Other colleges had curricular strictures against opposing doctrines, while Brown's charter asserted, "Sectarian differences of opinions, shall not make any Part of
95352-955: The book up a bit" . Boston Globe . Retrieved 2018-09-10 . ^ "Ottessa Moshfegh on Her Must-Read Debut Novel, 'Eileen' " . Harper's BAZAAR . 2016-09-16 . Retrieved 2018-09-17 . ^ Alter, Alexandra; Ember, Sydney (2018-04-05). "The Paris Review Names a New Editor: Emily Nemens of The Southern Review" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-04-09 . ^ Otis, John (January 23, 2018). "Nicanor Parra, Chile's eminent poet and 'anti-poet,' dies at 103" . The Washington Post . ^ Blair, Elizabeth (30 September 2020). "Kevin Young Named Director Of National Museum Of African American History And Culture" . NPR . Retrieved 2021-03-08 . ^ "Dr. Justin Andrews Dies; Authority on Malaria, 64" . The New York Times . 1967-07-02. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-05-14 . ^ Cassedy, James H. (1962). Charles V. Chapin and
95700-547: The center of their education" and "teach students how to think rather than just teaching facts". Members of the GISP, Ira Magaziner and Elliot Maxwell published a paper of their findings titled, "Draft of a Working Paper for Education at Brown University." The paper made proposals for a new curriculum, including interdisciplinary freshman-year courses that would introduce "modes of thought," with instruction from faculty from different disciplines as well as for an end to letter grades. The following year Magaziner began organizing
96048-611: The clouds atop a red and white torse . Brown is the largest institutional landowner in Providence, with properties on College Hill and in the Jewelry District . The university was built contemporaneously with the eighteenth and nineteenth-century precincts surrounding it, making Brown's campus tightly integrated into Providence's urban fabric. Among the noted architects who have shaped Brown's campus are McKim, Mead & White , Philip Johnson , Rafael Viñoly , Diller Scofidio + Renfro , and Robert A. M. Stern . Brown's main campus, comprises 235 buildings and 143 acres (0.58 km ) in
96396-489: The college moved from Warren to Providence. To establish a campus, John and Moses Brown purchased a four-acre lot on the crest of College Hill on behalf of the school. The majority of the property fell within the bounds of the original home lot of Chad Brown , an ancestor of the Browns and one of the original proprietors of Providence Plantations . After the college was relocated to the city, work began on constructing its first building. A building committee, organized by
96744-419: The college to Providence, constructing its first building, and securing its endowment. Joseph became a professor of natural philosophy at the college; John served as its treasurer from 1775 to 1796; and Nicholas Sr's son Nicholas Brown Jr. succeeded his uncle as treasurer from 1796 to 1825. On September 8, 1803, the corporation voted, "That the donation of $ 5,000, if made to this College within one Year from
97092-400: The college's charter two years later. The editor of Stiles's papers observes, "This draft of a petition connects itself with other evidence of Dr. Stiles's project for a Collegiate Institution in Rhode Island, before the charter of what became Brown University." The Philadelphia Association of Baptist Churches was also interested in establishing a college in Rhode Island, which was home of
97440-531: The concept of implicit learning ; Broeklundian Professor, Emeritus, Brooklyn College Christina J. Riggs (A.B. 1993) – Professor of History of Visual Culture, Durham University Camille Robcis (A.B. 1999) – Professor of History and French, Columbia University , recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Daniel T. Rodgers (A.B., Sc.B. 1965) – Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus, Princeton University Tricia Rose (A.M. 1987, Ph.D. 1993) – Chancellor's Professor of Africana studies , Director of
97788-525: The contiguous U.S. [REDACTED] John F. Aiso (1931) William C. Chase (A.B. 1916) – Major general during World War II G. Edward Buxton (Ph.B. 1902) – commanding officer of Sergeant Alvin C. York ; first assistant director of the OSS Thomas Ewing Jr. (Class of 1856) – Union Army general during the American Civil War , first chief justice of Kansas Ployer Peter Hill (BSc 1916) – test pilot, namesake of Hill Air Force Base in Utah James Mitchell Varnum (A.B. 1769) – General in
98136-416: The corporation on the same day voted, "That this College be called and known in all future time by the Name of Brown University." Over the years, the benefactions of Nicholas Brown Jr., totaled nearly $ 160,000 and included funds for building Hope College (1821–22) and Manning Hall (1834–35). In 1904, the John Carter Brown Library was established as an independently funded research library on Brown's campus;
98484-580: The corporation, developed plans for the college's first purpose-built edifice, finalizing a design on February 9, 1770. The subsequent structure, referred to as "The College Edifice" and later as University Hall , may have been modeled on Nassau Hall , built 14 years prior at the College of New Jersey . President Manning, an active member of the building process, was educated at Princeton and might have suggested that Brown's first building resemble that of his alma mater . Nicholas Brown , John Brown , Joseph Brown , and Moses Brown were instrumental in moving
98832-403: The east side comprises Alumnae Hall (1927) and Miller Hall (1910). The quadrangle culminates on the north with Andrews Hall (1947). East Campus, centered on Hope and Charlesfield streets, originally served as the campus of Bryant University . In 1969, as Bryant was preparing to relocate to Smithfield, Rhode Island , Brown purchased their Providence campus for $ 5 million. The transaction expanded
99180-477: The eights competition Robert Bennett (1949) – American athlete, Olympic bronze ( 1948 ) medal in the men's hammer throw Charles Thomas Butler (1955) – American bobsledder, Olympic bronze ( 1956 ) medal in the four-man Emilie Bydwell (2008) - American rugby 7s coach, coached the United States women's national rugby sevens team to an Olympic bronze in the 2024 Summer Olympics . John Collier (1929) – American athlete, Olympic bronze ( 1928 ) medal in
99528-517: The environmental art installation WaterFire Ayana Evans (A.B. 1998) – performance artist Brian Floca (A.B. 1991) – author and book illustrator Coco Fusco (A.B. 1982) – interdisciplinary artist and feminist [REDACTED] Coco Fusco (1982) Susan Freedman (A.B. 1982) – president of the Public Art Fund Chitra Ganesh (A.B. 1996) – artist Orly Genger (A.B. 2001) – contemporary sculptor and installation artist Sanford Robinson Gifford (A.B. 1844) – landscape painter of
99876-1218: The father of the psychological study of bilingualism" Keith Lehrer (Ph.D. 1960) – Regents' Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University of Arizona Jeffrey Lesser (A.B. 1982; M.A. 1984) – Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History, Emory University Nancy MacLean (A.B. 1981, A.M. 1981) – William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy, Duke University [REDACTED] Nancy MacLean (1981) Sharon Marcus (A.B. 1986) – Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University Brian Massumi (A.B. 1979) – philosopher and social theorist, former Professor of Communication, Université de Montréal [REDACTED] Brian Massumi (1979) Brian McHale (A.B. 1974) – Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor, Ohio State University Jeffrey L. Meikle (A.B. 1971, A.M. 1971) – Stiles Professor in American Studies Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin Anne K. Mellor (A.B. 1963) – Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies, UCLA Nara Milanich (A.B. 1994) – Professor of History, Barnard College Monica Muñoz Martinez (A.B. 2006) – Associate Professor of History, UT Austin , recipient of
100224-542: The field of somatotype and constitutional psychology Rachel Sherman (A.B. 1991) – Professor and Chair of Sociology, The New School for Social Research Adam T. Smith (A.B. 1990) – Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Anthropology, Cornell University Richard Solomon (A.B. 1940, A.M. 1942, Ph.D. 1947) – experimental psychologist ; author of the opponent-process theory of emotion; James M. Skinner University Professor of Science, University of Pennsylvania Erroll Southers (A.B. 1978) – Director of
100572-675: The first stemming algorithm for word matching Jamie Metzl (A.B. 1990) – futurist; Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council [REDACTED] Jamie Metzl (1990) Pedro Noguera (A.B. 1981, A.M. 1982) – Distinguished Professor of Education and Dean, USC Rossier School of Education Bina Venkataraman (A.B. 2002) – Director of Global Policy Initiatives, Broad Institute Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Ph.D. 2006) – Professor of Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz Science, technology and innovation [ edit ] Willis Adcock (Ph.D. 1948) — chemist, professor of electrical engineering, grew silicon boules for construction of
100920-631: The first African American in both roles; co-founder of the Niagara Movement , which became the NAACP Suzanne Keen (A.B. 1984, A.M. 1986) – 10th President, Scripps College Jim Yong Kim (A.B. 1982) – 17th President, Dartmouth College ; 12th President of the World Bank Joan Leitzel (M.A. 1961) – 17th President, University of New Hampshire Luther Luedtke (Ph.D. 1971) – 5th President, California Lutheran University James A. MacAlister (1856) – 1st President, Drexel University Horace Mann (A.B. 1819) – 1st President, Antioch College ; father of American public education ; member of
101268-942: The first East End gallery in London, represents the work of important contemporary artists Bern Porter (Sc.M. 1933) – visual artist and scientist involved in the development of the cathode-ray tube and the Manhattan Project Seth Price (A.B. 1997) – post-conceptual artist Lauren Redniss (A.B. 1996) – artist and writer, recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship and Macarthur fellowship Willoughby Sharp (A.B. 1957) – pioneer in conceptual and performance art Jeff Shesol (A.B. 1991) – cartoonist, Thatch ; scriptwriter for Bill Clinton Taryn Simon (A.B. 1997) – multidisciplinary artist Scott Snibbe (A.B. 1991, MSc 1994) – interactive media artist Anne Morgan Spalter (A.B. 1987) – digital mixed media artist and pioneering computer art academic; founder of Brown's and RISD's original digital fine arts courses Martha Tedeschi (A.B. 1980) – Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of
101616-547: The first hospital center in the United States devoted to the medical needs of African women who have undergone FGM , recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship Michael Parenti (A.M. 1957) – political scientist, social critic, and author [REDACTED] Michael Parenti Jesselyn Radack (A.B. 1992) – national security and human rights attorney Cecile Richards (1980) – President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America [REDACTED] Cecile Richards (1980) George Lincoln Rockwell (Class of 1942) – founder of
101964-628: The first quartz crystal oscillator Bryan Cantrill (BSc 1996) – one of the three authors of DTrace , CTO of Oxide Computer Company , former CTO of Joyent John H. Crawford (1975) – chief architect, Intel386 and Intel486 microprocessors; co-managed the development of the Pentium microprocessor; Intel Fellow, Enterprise Platforms Group John Cumbers (Ph.D. 2011) – British molecular biologist, founder of SynBioBeta Helen Wendler Deane (Ph.D. 1943) – American histophysiologist Lisa Gelobter (1991) – developed visual programs such as Shockwave Lillian Moller Gilbreth (Ph.D. 1915) – one of
102312-591: The first silicon transistor at Texas Instruments Katherine L. Adams (A.B. 1986) – General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Legal and Global Security, Apple Inc. Zachariah Allen (1813) – Inventor of the steam engine automatic cut-off valve Seth Berkley (Sc.B. 1978, M.D. 1981) – CEO of GAVI , founder and former President and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative [REDACTED] Seth Berkley (1978, 1981) John Seely Brown (A.B. 1962) – inventor of spellcheck Walter Guyton Cady (1895) – physicist and electrical engineer; developed
102660-635: The first woman elected to position David Blei (Sc.B. 1997) – Professor of Computer Science and Statistics, Columbia University Dick Bulterman (Sc.M. 1977, Ph.D. 1982) – Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Nelson Dunford (Ph.D. 1936) – James E. English Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, Yale University ; namesake of the Dunford decomposition , Dunford–Pettis property , and Dunford-Schwartz theorem ; Steven K. Feiner (A.B. 1973, Ph.D. 1985) – Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University George Forsythe (Ph.D. 1941) – founder and chair of
103008-438: The first working female engineers; arguably the first true industrial/organizational psychologist; mother of twelve children as described by the book Cheaper by the Dozen [REDACTED] Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1915) Morton Gurtin (Ph.D. 1961) – Timoshenko Medal -winning mechanical engineer and mathematical physicist Andy Hertzfeld (Sc.B. 1975) – key member of original Apple Macintosh development team; one of
103356-913: The founders of behavioral neuroscience James W. Stigler (A.B. 1976) – Distinguished Professor of Psychology, UCLA Jesse Thaler (Sc.B. 2002) – Professor of Physics, MIT ; Director, NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions Jessica Tierney (A.B. 2005, M.Sc. 2008, Ph.D. 2010) – Associate Professor of Geosciences and Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science, University of Arizona Jan Peter Toennies (Ph.D. 1957) – Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization ; Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Göttingen Stefanie Tompkins (M.Sc. 1993, Ph.D. 1997) – Director, DARPA ; former vice president for Research and Technology Transfer, Colorado School of Mines Mark Trodden (M.Sc.,Ph.D. 1995) – Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor and Department Chair of Physics, Co-Director of
103704-400: The founding Furman University , out of which emerged Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Adoniram Judson (A.B. 1807) – Baptist missionary; due in part to his efforts, Myanmar has the third largest number of Baptists worldwide [REDACTED] Adoniram Judson (1807) Swami Kriyananda (1945–47) – founder of the Ananda movement Yehuda Kurtzer (A.M. 2001) – President of
104052-435: The 💕 The following is a partial list of notable Brown University alumni , known as Brunonians . It includes alumni of Brown University and Pembroke College , Brown's former women's college. "Class of" is used to denote the graduation class of individuals who attended Brown, but did not or have not graduated. When solely the graduation year is noted, it is because it has not yet been determined which degree
104400-455: The individual earned. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources . MacArthur "Genius" Fellows [ edit ] Donald Antrim (A.B. 1981) – novelist, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World ; recipient of the 2013 MacArthur Fellowship Greg Asbed (BSc 1985) – human rights strategist and labor organizer; recipient of
104748-990: The landmark 1963 Supreme Court case, Abington School District v. Schempp William Seeley (A.B. 1993) – Zander Family Endowed Professor in Neurology, UC San Francisco , recipient of the Macarthur fellowship Michael Shadlen (A.B. 1981, M.D. 1988) – Professor of Neuroscience, Columbia University , Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy (Ph.D. 1998) – Professor of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Gabriela Schlau-Cohen (BSc 2003) – Associate Professor of Chemistry, MIT Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Sc.B. 1986) – Director, Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute , George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Steven H. Simon (Sc.B. 1990) – Professor of Physics, University of Oxford Daniel L. Stein (Sc.B. 1975) – Professor of Physics and Mathematics, New York University Eliot Stellar (M.Sc. 1942, Ph.D. 1947) – Provost Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania ; one of
105096-402: The late Commencement, shall entitle the donor to name the College." The following year, the appeal was answered by College Treasurer Nicholas Brown Jr. In a letter dated September 6, 1804, Brown committed "a donation of Five Thousand Dollars to Rhode Island College, to remain in perpetuity as a fund for the establishment of a Professorship of Oratory and Belles Letters." In recognition of the gift,
105444-457: The late King Hussein of Jordan ; Commander of the Jordan Royal Air Force Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark (A.B. 1993) – member of the titular royal family of Greece Princess Nissa Raad (A.B. 2002) – member of the Jordanian royal family Princess Lila Pahlavi (A.B. 1992) – Princess of Iran ; youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , deposed Shah of Iran Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (A.B. 2006) – member of
105792-421: The library's collection was founded on that of John Carter Brown , son of Nicholas Brown Jr. The Brown family was involved in various business ventures in Rhode Island, and accrued wealth both directly and indirectly from the transatlantic slave trade . The family was divided on the issue of slavery. John Brown had defended slavery, while Moses and Nicholas Brown Jr. were fervent abolitionists . In 2003, under
106140-624: The men's eight Kim Insalaco (2003) – American ice hockey player, Olympic bronze (2006) medal in the women's tournament Kathleen Kauth (2001) – American ice hockey player, Olympic bronze (2006) medalist in the women's tournament Janet Leung (2016) – Canadian softball player, Olympic bronze ( 2020 ) Ted Patton (1988) – American rower, Olympic bronze ( 1988 ) Jimmy Pedro (A.B. 1994) – most decorated American male judo athlete; Judo World Champion (1999); two-time Olympic bronze medalist (1996, 2004 ) Donald Whiston (1951) – American ice hockey player, Olympic bronze ( 1952 ) medal in
106488-470: The men's tournament Competitors [ edit ] Hanna Barakat (2022) – Palestinian–American runner, competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics Dick Dreissigacker (1969) – American rower, competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics Cicely Madden (2018) – American rower, competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics Rajanya Shah (1996) – American rower, competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics Jagger Stephens (2020) – Guamanian swimmer, competed at
106836-718: The molecular nature of antibiotic resistance ; Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine ; winner of the Lasker Award [REDACTED] Stanley Falkow (1961) James D. Griffin (A.B. 1970) – Professor, Harvard Medical School ; Chair of Medical Oncology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute ; Director of Medical Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital Tina Hartert (A.B. 1985) – Lulu H. Owen Chair in Medicine and Vice President for Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Arthur L. Horwich (A.B. 1972, M.D. 1975) – Sterling Professor of Genetics and Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine ; winner of
107184-486: The most expensive printed book in the world. Other holdings include a Shakespeare First Folio and the world's largest collection of 16th-century Mexican texts. The exhibition galleries of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown's teaching museum, are located in Manning Hall on the campus's main green. Its one million artifacts, available for research and educational purposes, are located at its Collections Research Center in Bristol, Rhode Island . The museum's goal
107532-438: The most selective in the country, with an acceptance rate of 5% for the class of 2026. As of March 2022 , 11 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with Brown as alumni , faculty, or researchers , one Fields Medalist , seven National Humanities Medalists , and 11 National Medal of Science laureates. Alumni include 27 Pulitzer Prize winners, 21 billionaires, four U.S. Secretaries of State , over 100 members of
107880-476: The mother church of their denomination . At the time, the Baptists were unrepresented among the colonial colleges; the Congregationalists had Harvard University and Yale University, the Presbyterians had the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University , and the Episcopalians had the College of William & Mary and King's College, which later became Columbia University . The local University of Pennsylvania in their native Philadelphia
108228-712: The names Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Palace Elvis Perkins (1995) – singer-songwriter Navah Perlman (A.B. 1992) – concert pianist; daughter of Itzhak Perlman Dan Prothero – producer / engineer and owner of Fog City Records The Range – DJ and electronic musician Sebastian Ruth (A.B. 1997) – violinist, 2010 MacArthur Fellow and faculty member of the Yale School of Music Susan Salms-Moss (A.B. 1967) – soprano Theodore Shapiro (A.B. 1993) – film score composer, State and Main (2000), Old School (2003), Starsky & Hutch (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Marley & Me (2008), Tropic Thunder (2008), I Love You, Man (2008), We're
108576-466: The non-profit Healthy Tennessee Neel Shah (Sc.B. 2004, M.D. 2009) – Executive Director of Costs of Care, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School Jerome K. Sherman (Sc.B. 1947) - Professor of biology at University of Arkansas. A founder of modern sperm banking and cryopreservation. Military [ edit ] John F. Aiso (1931) – highest-ranking Japanese American in the U.S. Army during World War II, first Japanese American judge in
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113100-431: The original Broadway casts of Avenue Q and Cinderella Quiara Alegría Hudes (M.F.A. 2004) – Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, Water by the Spoonful , In the Heights (Tony Award winner for Best Musical), Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue , In the Heights Stephen Karam (2002) – playwright, Speech & Debate (2006); Tony Award winner, The Humans (2016); two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Sons of
113448-602: The original on April 29, 2021 . Retrieved 2021-05-03 . ^ Grossman, Julia (2021-02-09). "Maria Zuber ScM'83, PhD'86, P'11 selected for top science position in Biden administration" . Brown Daily Herald . Retrieved 2021-03-26 . ^ "BU Mourns the Loss of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Gastronomy Professor Mary Beaudry" . Boston University . 22 October 2020 . Retrieved 2021-03-26 . ^ "Peter S. Bearman — Add Health" . www.cpc.unc.edu . Retrieved 2017-12-21 . ^ "Curriculum Vitae: Kenneth A. Bollen" (PDF) . Archived from
113796-690: The primary software architects of the classic Mac OS Alexander Lyman Holley (1853) – American inventor, founding member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Eliot Horowitz (Sc.B. 2003) – co-founder and former CTO of MongoDB [REDACTED] Eliot Horowitz (2003) Mary Lou Jepsen (1987, Ph.D. 1997) – technology executive and inventor, co-founder of One Laptop per Child Chirinjeev Kathuria (BSc 1988, M.D. 1993) – co-founder and co-chairman of UpHealth Inc, co-founder of Ocean Biomedical Amy Leventer (Sc.B. 1979) – marine biologist, micropaleontologist, Antarctic researcher Adam Leventhal (Sc.B. 2001) – software engineer, one of
114144-454: The repository of the university's archives, rare books and manuscripts, and special collections. Noteworthy among the latter are the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection (described as "the foremost American collection of material devoted to the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering"), the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays (described as "the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind in any research library"),
114492-406: The school's football team—is located approximately a mile and a half northeast of the university's central campus. Marston Boathouse, the home of Brown's crew teams, lies on the Seekonk River , to the southeast of campus. Brown's sailing teams are based out of the Ted Turner Sailing Pavilion at the Edgewood Yacht Club in adjacent Cranston . List of Brown University alumni From Misplaced Pages,
114840-470: The single scull Albina Osipowich (A.B. 1933) – American freestyle swimmer, Olympic gold (1928) medals in the 100-meter freestyle and 4×100-meter freestyle Alicia Sacramone (2010) – American gymnast, Olympic silver ( 2008 ) medal in the women's artistic team all-around Jack Spellman (1924) – American wrestler, Olympic gold ( 1924 ) medal in the men's freestyle light heavyweight Norman Taber (1913) – American runner, Olympic gold ( 1912 ) medal in
115188-454: The site of the First Baptist Church in Warren, Rhode Island . Manning was sworn in as the college's first president in 1765 and remained in the role until 1791. In 1766, the college authorized the Reverend Morgan Edwards to travel to Europe to "solicit Benefactions for this Institution". During his year-and-a-half stay in the British Isles , Edwards secured funding from benefactors including Thomas Penn and Benjamin Franklin . In 1770,
115536-696: The story collection Voodoo Heart and writer of Vertigo Comics 's ongoing original series American Vampire Gustaf Sobin (A.B. 1957) – poet, expatriate Brian Kim Stefans (M.F.A. 2006) – poet, professor of English at UCLA Nathanael West (Ph.B. 1924) – author, Miss Lonelyhearts , The Day of the Locust Meg Wolitzer (A.B. 1981) – author, The Wife , The Interestings , The Position Adelle Waldman (A.B. 1988) – author, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. Afaa M. Weaver (M.F.A. 1987) – poet, author, and editor Sherley Anne Williams (A.M. 1972) – poet and novelist Kevin Young (M.F.A. 1996) – poetry editor, New Yorker ; director of
115884-488: The student body to press for the reforms, organizing discussions and protests. In 1968, university president Ray Heffner established a Special Committee on Curricular Philosophy. Composed of administrators, the committee was tasked with developing specific reforms and producing recommendations. A report, produced by the committee, was presented to the faculty, which voted the New Curriculum into existence on May 7, 1969. Its key features included: The Modes of Thought course
116232-401: The tenure of President Ruth Simmons , the university established a steering committee to investigate these ties of the university to slavery and recommend a strategy to address them. With British vessels patrolling Narragansett Bay in the fall of 1776, the college library was moved out of Providence for safekeeping. During the subsequent American Revolutionary War , Brown's University Hall
116580-619: The term shareware Space science and exploration [ edit ] Brian Binnie (Sc.B. 1975, Sc.M. 1976) – test pilot, privately funded experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOne James B. Garvin (Sc.B. 1978, Sc.M. 1981, Ph.D. 1984) – Chief Scientist, NASA Mars and lunar exploration programs David Grinspoon (Sc.B. 1982) – astrobiologist , senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute Wesley Huntress (Sc.B. 1964) – president, The Planetary Society Byron K. Lichtenberg (Sc.B. 1969) – NASA astronaut Sarah Milkovich (Sc.M. 2002, Ph.D. 2005) – Lead of Science Operations for
116928-662: The three authors of DTrace David J. Lipman (A.B.) – Director, National Center for Biotechnology Information Hilary Mason – data scientist, former general manager of machine learning at Cloudera and chief scientist at Bitly Rebecca Moore (1977) – Director, Google Earth Meredith Ringel Morris (Sc.B. 2001) – Director and Principal Scientist, People + AI Research Team, Google Research Peter Norvig (Sc.B. 1978) – Director of Research, Google Inc. Erin Pettit (Sc.B. 1994) – glaciologist, Antarctic researcher David Shrier (Sc.B. 1995) – American futurist and author Ken Silverman (Sc.B. 2000) – writer of
117276-780: The titular royal family of Greece Prince Nikita Romanov – member of the Romanov family Lady Gabriella Windsor (A.B. 2004) – member of the British royal family Prince Faisal bin Ra'ad – son of Prince Ra'ad bin Zeid Fine and applied arts [ edit ] Architecture [ edit ] Stan Allen (A.B. 1978) – architect; George Dutton '27 Professor of Architecture and former Dean (2002–2012), Princeton University School of Architecture Edwin T. Banning (1885) – architect active in Rhode Island Prescott O. Clarke (1880) – architect active in Rhode Island Henry Atherton Frost – architect Sarah Williams Goldhagen (A.B. 1982) – architectural critic John G. Haskell – architect of Kansas public buildings, including
117624-526: The university should address this legacy. Brown has since completed a number of these recommendations including the establishment of its Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, the construction of its Slavery Memorial , and the funding of a $ 10 million permanent endowment for Providence Public Schools . The Slavery and Justice report marked the first major effort by an American university to address its ties to slavery and prompted other institutions to undertake similar processes. Brown's coat of arms
117972-400: The world's foremost authorities on Russia and the Soviet Union Dell Upton (M.A. 1975, Ph.D. 1980) – Chair of the Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles Geoffrey Wawro (A.B. 1983) – Professor of Military History and Director of the Military History Center, University of North Texas Charles Edwin Wilbour (Class of 1854) – Egyptologist, co-discoverer of
118320-1180: Was born in Jersey City March 10, 1937. He was graduated from Ridgewood High School and Brown University, and received his law degree at Columbia Law School in 1962, the year he was admitted to the bar." ^ "Senator Kyle Evans Gay (D)" . Delaware General Assembly . Retrieved 22 August 2023 . ^ Kokkinidis, Tasos (2 June 2019). "Kostas Bakoyannis Elected New Mayor of Athens | GreekReporter.com" . Retrieved 2019-07-04 . ^ "Taubman Speaker Series: Alex Morse '11, Mayor of Holyoke, MA | Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy" . watson.brown.edu . Retrieved 2020-07-03 . ^ "Meet Freddie O'Connell, candidate for Nashville mayor" . The Tennessean . Retrieved 2023-09-21 . ^ "Alumni Spotlight: Sumbul Siddiqui '10 | Brown Public Policy Program" . watson.brown.edu . Retrieved 2022-10-08 . ^ "State's First Muslim American Mayor Takes Negative Comments In Stride" . www.wbur.org . Retrieved 2022-10-08 . ^ "Dual Mayors" . www.brownalumnimagazine.com . Retrieved 2022-10-08 . ^ "Norman L. Eisen, Former U.S. Ambassador to
118668-531: Was constructed from 1903 to 1907 by the politician, Civil War veteran, and book collector General Rush Hawkins , as a mausoleum for his wife, Annmary Brown, a member of the Brown family. In addition to its crypt—the final repository for Brown and Hawkins—the Memorial includes works of art from Hawkins's private collection, including paintings by Angelica Kauffman , Peter Paul Rubens , Gilbert Stuart , Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , Benjamin West , and Eastman Johnson , among others. His collection of over 450 incunabula
119016-422: Was created in 1834. The prior year, president Francis Wayland had commissioned a committee to update the school's original seal to match the name the university had adopted in 1804. Central in the coat of arms is a white escutcheon divided into four sectors by a red cross. Within each sector of the coat of arms lies an open book. Above the shield is a crest consisting of the upper half of a sun in splendor among
119364-410: Was discontinued early on, but the other elements remain in place. In 2006, the reintroduction of plus/minus grading was proposed in response to concerns regarding grade inflation. The idea was rejected by the College Curriculum Council after canvassing alumni, faculty, and students, including the original authors of the Magaziner-Maxwell Report. In 2003, then-university president Ruth Simmons launched
119712-408: Was founded by Benjamin Franklin without direct association with any particular denomination. Isaac Backus, a historian of the New England Baptists and an inaugural trustee of Brown, wrote of the October 1762 resolution taken at Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Association obtained such an acquaintance with our affairs, as to bring them to an apprehension that it was practicable and expedient to erect
120060-414: Was fully merged into the university. The university comprises the College , the Graduate School , Alpert Medical School , the School of Engineering , the School of Public Health and the School of Professional Studies. Its international programs are organized through the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs , and it is academically affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory and
120408-1903: Was more soulful and grander than you were' " . The Washington Post . ^ "Wallace Terry, 65, Who Covered Top News When Few Blacks Did" . The New York Times . 2003-06-08. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-05-04 . ^ "archives.nypl.org – Wallace Terry papers" . archives.nypl.org . Retrieved 2021-05-04 . ^ "CNN Profiles – Ivan Watson – Senior International Correspondent" . CNN . Retrieved 2021-05-14 . ^ "Curtis Yarvin, Political Theorist" . Tablet Magazine . 2022-03-31 . Retrieved 2022-08-29 . ^ "Stepping Into Liquid" . www.brownalumnimagazine.com . Retrieved 2023-12-29 . ^ Gensler, Isabel (2016-03-03). "Alum critiques beauty standards in novel" . Brown Daily Herald . Retrieved 2021-04-01 . ^ "Collection: Bill Berkson Papers | UConn Archives & Special Collections ArchivesSpace" . archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu . Retrieved 2021-09-04 . ^ "Hello, I'm Mallika Chopra" . Mallika Chopra . Retrieved 15 March 2021 . ^ "Nicole Cooley | LSU Press Blog" . blog.lsupress.org . Retrieved 2018-01-29 . ^ "A 'Marriage Plot' Full Of Intellectual Angst" . NPR.org . Retrieved 2019-01-20 . ^ "Nine Brown alumni to receive honorary degrees" . news.brown.edu . April 17, 2014 . Retrieved 2019-01-20 . ^ "Faculty Profile > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences" . dornsife.usc.edu . Retrieved 2018-04-16 . ^ "Sarah Gambito" . Poetry Foundation . 2018-01-15 . Retrieved 2018-01-16 . ^ Winerip, Michael (2007-05-06). "Poet, Mother, Editor, Wife" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-01-16 . ^ Gussow, Mel (2004-03-30). "A Character In Reverse, An Author In
120756-409: Was relocated to the John Hay Library in 1990. Today the Memorial is home to Brown's Medieval Studies and Renaissance Studies programs. The Walk, a landscaped pedestrian corridor, connects the Pembroke Campus to the main campus. It runs parallel to Thayer Street and serves as a primary axis of campus, extending from Ruth Simmons Quadrangle at its southern terminus to the Meeting Street entrance to
121104-424: Was used to house French and other revolutionary troops led by General George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau as they waited to commence the march of 1781 that led to the Siege of Yorktown and the Battle of the Chesapeake . This has been celebrated as marking the defeat of the British and the end of the war. The building functioned as barracks and hospital from December 10, 1776, to April 20, 1780, and as
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