Brown University continued the 250th anniversary celebration of its
founding by awarding honorary degrees to nine University alumni today. The degrees, presented by Brown President Christina H. Paxson on the College Green, honored the achievements of music educator Lee Berk ’64; teacher Beatrice
E. Coleman ’25 (awarded posthumously); author Jeffrey Eugenides ’82;
physician Arthur Horwich ’72, M.D.’75; electrical engineer Mary Lou
Jepsen ’87, Ph.D. ’97; entertainment executive Debra Lee ’76; author
Lois Lowry ’58; ecologist Nalini Nadkarni ’76; and Thomas Perez ’83,
U.S. secretary of labor. Texts of the citations follow here.
Caroline Bologna was one of two graduating seniors chosen to deliver the senior orations at Brown University’s 246th Commencement. Bologna delivered her address, titled “Labels,” early Sunday afternoon May 25, 2014, on the College Green. Her text follows here.
Joshua Block was one of two graduating seniors chosen to deliver the senior orations at Brown University’s 246th Commencement. Block delivered his address, titled “Listen,” early Sunday afternoon May 25, 2014, on the College Green. His text follows here.
<p>Caroline Bologna was one of two graduating seniors chosen to deliver the senior orations at Brown University’s 246th Commencement. Bologna delivered her address, titled “Labels,” early Sunday afternoon May 25, 2014, on the College Green. Her text follows here. (See also the <a href="http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2014/05/orators">student orators news release</a> and the text of the <a href="http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2014/05/block">oration by Joshua Block</a>.)</p>
Brown University has created a $3-million endowed fund to provide discretionary support for the dean of medicine and biological sciences. The Dean Stanley M. Aronson Fund for Research and Innovation honors Dr. Stanley Aronson, the founding dean of what is now the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
At its regular Commencement Weekend meeting Friday, May 23, 2014, the Corporation of Brown University approved building sites for the School of Engineering and the Division of Applied Mathematics, approved the faculty’s recommendation that Brown establish its first international joint degree program, elected four new trustees, and formally accepted gifts to the University totaling more than $46.6 million.
Vicki Leigh Colvin, currently vice provost for research and the Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University, has been named provost of Brown University. Colvin will begin her duties at Brown July 1, 2014.
Brown University will confer more than 2,000 degrees and present a number of other awards and recognitions, some of which will be delivered by graduates themselves. As graduates look toward their futures, this Commencement also honors the past: Brown is celebrating its 250th year.
On Friday, May 16, as students in the inaugural class of Brown’s Executive Master of Healthcare Leadership wrap up the year by presenting their final projects, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse will join them to discuss health care challenges facing the United States.
