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| President Ruth J. Simmons invites you to a reception for Brown alumni/ae, parents, and friends on the occasion of the World Economic Forum
Friday, January 28, 2011 Nightcap
10:00 p.m. to midnight
Salon Scaletta
Steigenberger Hotel Belvedere
Promenade 89
Davos, Switzerland
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Reunion Weekend 2011: May 27, 28, and 29
If your class year ends in 1 or 6, mark your calendar and start planning now for your reunion. Be sure to attend an annual reception for returning international alumni/ae. Check out photos and videos from Reunion 2010.
John Chen '78 P'06 P'11 has been a longtime member of the Committee of 100, a national non-partisan organization composed of American citizens of Chinese descent, and currently serves as its chairman. In recognition of his leadership in building U.S.–Asia relations, he received an award from the US–Asia Institute. He is chairman, CEO, and president of Sybase, Inc., an industry leader in enterprise mobility infrastructure.
Oliver Haarmann '90 is a rising star in the private equity world in London. Earlier this year, he co–founded the private equity firm Searchlight Capital Partners, after many years as a managing director at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Trustee Tanya (Godrej) Dubash '91 was recently named the 4th most powerful businesswoman in India by Business Today magazine. She is executive director and president (marketing) at Godrej Industries, a publicly–traded consumer products, real estate, agriproducts, and chemicals company in India. Dubash was appointed a Trustee of the Brown University Corporation in May 2010.
Michael Wu '92 is being featured on CNN International's business show The Boss this fall and winter. The program follows three business leaders from Asia, Europe, and the United States, providing a unique insight into what it is like to run a company. Wu is chairman and managing director of Maxim's Caterers Ltd., the largest restaurant and food services company in Hong Kong. | |
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| International Brown Clubs recently hosted the following Brown faculty: Professor of Anthropology and International Studies Kay Warren in Amsterdam; Associate Professor of History Michael Vorenberg and Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Barbara Tannenbaum in London; Chair of the Education Department Kenneth Wong in Melbourne; Professor Emeritus of Classics and History Kurt Raaflaub in Seoul; and Professor of Physics Chung-I Tan P'95 P'03 in Hong Kong. | |
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John D. Rockefeller Jr., Class of 1897, was a businessman and philanthropist. He funded restorations of buildings in France after World War I (for which he was awarded France's highest decoration, the Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur) and excavations at Luxor in Egypt and the Agora in Athens. A staunch supporter of educational institutions, Rockefeller also gave to the American Academy in Rome, the Lingnan University in China, the library of the Imperial University in Tokyo, and the Shakespeare Memorial Endowment at Stratford-on-Avon.
John D. Rockefeller Sr., father of John D. Rockefeller Jr., made a gift to Brown to build a building initially named Rockefeller Hall, which was dedicated in 1904. Rockefeller Jr. added the East Wing in 1931 and renamed the building in memory of the late William Herbert Perry Faunce, 9th president of Brown.
The John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, which was dedicated in his honor in 1964, serves as Brown's primary teaching and research library for the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. | |
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Brown in China
President Simmons led a Brown delegation to China and Hong Kong from November 9 to 16. The delegation attended the Brown University Advisory Councils on China and on Asia meetings; had meetings with government officials and leaders in higher education; and met with alumni/ae, parents, and friends to strengthen the University's ties in the region.
Photo: President Simmons and Wei Yang PHD'85, president of Zhejiang University, at the memorandum of understanding signing ceremony at Zhejiang University. |
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Campaign Giving by Country/Region
Brown's international alumni/ae, parents, and friends have made more than $112 million in gifts to the Campaign for Academic Enrichment since July 2002. Donors from the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, India, Greece, Israel, Turkey, Singapore, Korea, France, Jordan, Switzerland, and Spain have led the giving. The Campaign will end on December 31, 2010. Click below to view your country/region's Campaign gift range:
Aga Khan Visiting Professorship in Islamic Humanities Established
Prince Karim Aga Khan IV LLD '96 hon. P'95 established the Aga Khan Visiting Professorship in Islamic Humanities in honor of Vartan Gregorian, who served as president of Brown from 1989 to 1997. The gift will allow Brown to bring in scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including comparative literature, history, philosophy, religious studies, contemporary art, the humanistic dimensions of anthropology and sociology or the interdisciplinary focus on the values that underpin and sustain civil society.
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The Brown International Organization (BRIO) Scholarship Committee Held A Family Weekend Reception
On October 23, the BRIO Scholarship Committee held a reception at the Annmary Brown Memorial for international students and their families to promote their scholarships, which provide financial aid for international students. The Committee is now working to complete the fifth BRIO Scholarship (each is funded with $500,000, which produces approximately $25,000 per year). Its long-term goal is to help Brown adopt a need–blind admission policy for international students. The University's current need–blind admission policy applies to U.S. students only. If you would like to support the BRIO Scholarships, please contact Vijay Chitnis '94.
BRIO is also working to promote the Brown International Ambassadorship Program to reach out to international high school students by providing them with a more personal connection to the University through current Brown students studying abroad. Read more.
Photo: The BRIO Scholarship Committee members at the reception.
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Leung Family Gallery Rededicated
On October 13, the newly renovated Leung Family Gallery in the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center in Faunce House was rededicated in a ceremony that included remarks by President Simmons, Chancellor Thomas Tisch '76, and Trustee Emerita Sally Wong Leung P'83 P'84 P'88, GP '12 GP'12. To conclude the ceremony, a group of Brown undergraduate students performed a Chinese lion dance.
Photo: The Leung Family and members of the Brown community at the rededication ceremony. |
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Brown Among Top Producers of Fulbright Scholars
Brown ranks third in the nation as top producers of Fulbright scholars for the 2010–2011 academic year. Of Brown's 24 Fulbright winners, 22 are recent graduates and two are currently enrolled graduate students. The students are now studying, pursuing independent research projects, or teaching in more than 20 countries around the world. |
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President Simmons Joins Muslim Outreach
President Simmons was appointed to the newly formed Steering Committee of Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a non–profit organization chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The group aims to deepen U.S. ties with Muslim communities around the world in four key areas: economic opportunity, science and technology, education, and exchange.
Brown Global Conversation Launched
The Global Conversation is now officially launched – as an online media platform for Brown students, faculty, and alumni/ae to share their international research, views, and initiatives. Over the summer, some 50 members of the Brown community began conversations about their global research and activism on a beta version of the site. The Global Conversation is being developed by the Watson Institute for International Studies. Read more to join the Conversation.
Brown Hosts American Portuguese Studies Association's Seventh International Conference
In October, the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies hosted the Seventh International Conference of the American Portuguese Studies titled "Transatlantic Exchanges." Panels focused on the diversity of Luso–African, Brazilian, and Portuguese literatures, cultures, and linguistics.
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Brown and China
During President Simmons' visit to Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Hong Kong, she received extensive media coverage and was welcomed by many alumni/ae, parents, and friends. She was interviewed by ICS TV, which broadcasts to 5 million homes in the Shanghai area, and by China Times Weekly, one of the leading newspapers in China.
Photo: Brown delegation in Hong Kong with alumni/ae of the 1980s and 1990s at a dinner hosted by Michael Wu '92. The event was filmed by CNN International.
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Photo: Brown delegation attended the Brown Alumni Association of Hong Kong's annual board meeting. |
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Photo: The Brown Club of Shanghai hosted a reception in honor of President Simmons. |
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Brown's China and Asia Advisory Councils Meetings
During her visit to China, President Simmons convened the China and Asia Advisory Councils in Shanghai and Hong Kong respectively. Vice President for International Affairs Matthew Gutmann P'14 updated Council members on Brown's initiatives related to the regions; Vice President for International Advancement Ron Margolin spoke about parents and alumni relations, fundraising, and media relations. Professor of Physics Chung–I Tan P'95 P'03, who will chair the Year of China initiative, announced Brown's plan to launch the Year of China during the 2011–2012 academic year. During this time, a series of public lectures, art exhibits, academic and other programming related to China will take place on College Hill or elsewhere to deepen the University's relationship with China. The participants discussed strategic plans to increase the University's reputation in the regions and the regions' presence at Brown.
Photo: Asia Advisory Council members with the Brown delegation |
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Wyclef Jean Named Visiting Fellow in Africana Studies
Haitian activist and international recording artist Wyclef Jean joined the Department of Africana Studies as a visiting fellow during the 2010–2011 academic year. As a fellow, he attends various campus Haitian Initiative events, including lectures, faculty conversations, and classes.
2010 International Research Seed Grant Award Winners
Brown's Office of International Affairs awarded a $50,000 grant for a project that will solidify international collaborations with peers in China and accelerate a promising cross–disciplinary effort on the connections between biological timing and climate change. Three Brown faculty members – Jianwu Tang, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology; John Mustard, professor of geological sciences; and Johanna Schmitt, Stephen T. Olney Professor of Natural History, director of the Environmental Change Initiative, and professor of biology and environmental studies – will participate in the project. |
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Brown Students Aim to Bring Clean Water to India
In August, four Brown students and a Rhode Island School of Design student traveled to Dharavi, India for three weeks to work to bring clean water to people in India.
Brown Students Host Strait Talk Symposium
From October 30 through November 4, the student group Strait Talk hosted the Sixth Annual Brown University Strait Talk Symposium, addressing issues related to the cross–strait conflict between mainland China and Taiwan. The Symposium included a conflict resolution exercise among 15 delegates – five each from mainland China, Taiwan, and the United States – and several public events.
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Brown Collaborates with Institutions in China
During its visit to China, the Brown delegation signed two memoranda of understanding (MOU).
- The first MOU established the Nanjing–Brown Forum, in which social sciences and humanities faculty at Nanjing University and Brown will take part in an annual exchange program.
- The second MOU renewed the Zhejiang University School of Medicine (ZUSM) and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University exchange program, which was established in 2007. The program allows students at the Warren Alpert Medical School to study at local hospitals in Hangzhou while ZUSM students study in Providence.
The delegation also met with government officials and leaders in higher education.
- In Shanghai, the delegation discussed collaborations with Mayor Zheng Han and his commissioner of education.
- In Hong Kong, the delegation talked with Joseph Jy Sung,president and vice chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, about potential faculty exchanges and student programs. The delegation also met Henry Tang, chief secretary for administration; Brown parent Edward Yau P'12, secretary for the environment; and Kenneth Chen Wei–On, undersecretary for education in the Hong Kong government.
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Brown and IIT-Bombay Sign Memoranda of Understanding
On October 5, President Simmons and Devang Khakhar, director of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)–Bombay, signed two memoranda of understanding formalizing institutional partnerships. The first promotes a wide array of academic and faculty collaborations between Brown and IIT–Bombay. The second establishes an undergraduate student exchange program between the two institutions. Both agreements begin in January 2011.
Photo: From left, President Simmons, Vice President Gutmann P'14, Dean of Faculty Rajiv Vohra P'07, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron, and Director Khakhar at the signing ceremony. |
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Brown Collaborates with University of Ghana
With $1.1 million in funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development and from Higher Education for Development, faculty in the Warren Alpert Medical School will partner with the University of Ghana on a higher education initiative for HIV/AIDS.
Photo: Edward Wing (far left), dean of medicine and biological sciences, at the Great Hall of the University of Ghana. |
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Top Latin American Students Visit Brown
In October, Brown students and faculty led 40 of Latin America's top university students in a pilot program aimed at supporting developing democracies in Latin America. The program – the Brown and Botin Program in Leadership, Liberal Arts, and Public Service in Democracy's Extension – is a partnership between the Watson Institute for International Studies and the Fundacion Botin in Spain.
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