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Campus Events

Family Weekend
October 19-21

Inauguration/
Alumni Fall Weekend
October 26-27
Inauguration Ceremony
October 27

International Brown Clubs Host Brown Faculty

October 20 - London
Professor of Political Science Corey Brettschneider will speak about "Campaign Finance and Free Speech."
Contact: Luke Balleny '06

November - Istanbul
The Brown Club of Turkey will host Professor of Medical Science John Sedivy.
Contact: Isil Guney PHD'06

In academic year 2012-2013, Brown will award $8.4 million in financial aid to international students. This is 9.3 percent of the University's $90.1 million financial aid budget, and 207 international students will be supported. The average financial aid award for international students is $40,715.

Artemis Joukowsky '55 LLD'85 hon. P'87 GP'13 GP'14 GP'16, Brown's chancellor emeritus, has been recognized with a medal and citation by the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan, for his distinguished service as ACOR president from 1992 to 2011.

William Owen Jr. '77 has been appointed chief executive officer of Sidra Medical and Research Center, which focuses on the health and well-being of women and children in Doha, Qatar. Previously, Dr. Owen was president of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Charles Davis '82 P'13 P'16, venture partner at Technology Crossover Ventures, has been appointed international chairman of the Young Presidents' Organization and is traveling around the world to lead the world's premier network of chief executives. He also serves on the Brown Corporation as a Trustee.

Max Makowski '93, film writer and director, has been named president of Tanghalang Pilipino, the resident theater company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

David Blei '97, associate professor of computer science at Princeton University, has been chosen by President Obama to receive a 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.

Brunonians Compete at the Olympics
Nikola Stojic '97, a member of the Serbian rowing team, and Craig Kinsley '11, a member of the U.S. men's track and field team, competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Bronze medalist Jimmy Pedro '94 returned as head coach of the U.S. judo team, and his star student, Kayla Harrison, won a gold medal. Stojic and Kinsley became the 63rd and 64th Brunonians to have competed in the games.

During academic year 2011-2012, 24 of 91 Brown Club faculty speaking programs took place outside the United States.

In June, the Brown Club of Singapore hosted Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Barbara Tannenbaum, who spoke about "Persuasive Communication."

Samuel Gridley Howe, Class of 1821, was a hero of the Greek War of Independence. In 1824, shortly after earning his M.D. from Harvard, Howe sailed for Greece to volunteer as a soldier and surgeon in the war and was eventually made surgeon-in-chief to the Greek fleet. The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association recognized Howe's support of Greek freedom by donating an inscribed base for the University's flagpole, which was dedicated on June 4, 1941. The marble and bronze base remains on Brown's campus to this day.

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Friends of the Watson Institute

Giving to Brown

Swearing In of Brown's 19th President

On July 2, Christina Paxson, who was the Hughes Rogers Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and the dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, was sworn in as Brown's 19th president. A traditional inauguration ceremony will be held on October 27 during Inauguration Weekend.
A welcome message from President Paxson.

Photo: President Paxson taking the oath of office administered by Donald Hood, secretary of the Brown Corporation and the University's senior Fellow.

Brown Ranks Fourth for Happiest Students
Brown was recently ranked fourth for the happiest students by Newsweek in its College Ranking 2012. The University also scored high marks for student opinion on satisfaction with their overall college experience and, if given the choice, most said they would choose Brown again.

BIARI Returns to Brown
Some 140 participants and 30 visiting faculty members from more than 45 countries took part in the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) on the Brown campus for two weeks in June. Now in its fourth year, the program brings together young faculty and professionals from around the world to address pressing global issues through innovative research and pedagogy. BIARI is co-sponsored by Brown and Sovereign|Santander. In February 2012, Brown and Sovereign|Santander signed a memorandum of understanding to provide support for an additional three years of BIARI.

Photo: BIARI and the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies co-sponsored performances by international artists.

Granoff Center Design Recognized
The Metalmag Architectural Awards, sponsored by Metal Magazine, annually recognize the best in metal design and construction across the industry. This year, Brown's Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts was the winning entry in the Metal Buildings category, with one juror referring to it as "the best entry, period."

Brown Exhibits Jin Shan at the Bell Gallery
Brown's David Winton Bell Gallery presents My dad is Li Gang!, an exhibition by Shanghai-based Jin Shan, from September 1 through November 4. The exhibition transforms the main gallery into a declaration of Jin's cultural position and social obligation as an artist to engage political issues and make them visible.

Brown Physicists Celebrate Higgs Discovery
In July, physicists at the CERN particle accelerator lab near Geneva, Switzerland, announced that they had discovered a new particle that is consistent with the Higgs boson, a fundamental particle that physicists believe is responsible for endowing matter with mass. Brown Professors of Physics Greg Landsberg, Meenakshi Narain, Ulrich Heintz, and David Cutts have played important roles in the historic search for the Higgs boson. The Chancellor's Professor of Physics Gerald Guralnik was one of six international physicists who originated the Higgs theory in 1964.

Photo: Professors Gerald Guralnik (left) and Ulrich Heintz.

Stephen Houston Makes New Discovery in El Zotz
Stephen Houston, the Dupee Family Professor of Social Science and professor of anthropology and archaeology, led a team of archaeologists that made a new discovery at the ancient Maya site in El Zotz, Guatemala, uncovering a pyramid believed to celebrate the Maya sun god. Through this find, researchers are gaining a significant amount of new information about the Maya civilization.

Ralph Milliken Participates in the Curiosity's Mission on Mars
Ralph Milliken, assistant professor of geological sciences, is on the science team of the Mars Science Laboratory, which landed the rover "Curiosity" on the surface of Mars in August. The rover allowed the team to study the rocks and soils of Gale Crater, giving scientists years of data to help them learn the geological history of the planet.

Beshara Doumani Named Director of the Middle East Studies Program
Beshara Doumani, an acclaimed scholar of the Middle East, has joined the Brown faculty as the Joukowsky Family Professor of Modern Middle East History and director of the Middle East Studies program. Doumani specializes in Middle Eastern history during the Ottoman period. He also serves as a faculty fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies.

Brown Professors Speak on Inequality in Nepal
Professor of Economics Glenn Loury and Professor of Sociology Hilary Silver delivered keynote addresses at the Annual Kathmandu Conference titled "Inequality and Affirmative Action: Situating Nepal in Global Debates" in Nepal in July. Scholars and political experts from Nepal, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States attended the conference.

Photo: Professor Glenn Loury

Ashutosh Varshney Urges India to Harness the Spirit of Nehru
Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and director of the Brown-India Initiative, co-authored an op-ed in the Financial Times titled "India must harness the profit motive in the spirit of Nehru." He and his co-author wrote that capitalism does not have a legitimizing political language in India. They assert that the further unshackling of private initiative, badly necessary, will have to be married to arguments about the national purpose, which is how China, to a substantial extent, has done it.

The New Faculty
Brown welcomed 56 new faculty members for academic year 2012-2013. New faculty members with international backgrounds and expertise include:

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Laura Bass
Associate Professor of Economics Gauti Eggertsson
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Frederick Tsz-Ho Fong
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Yen-Tsung Huang
Assistant Professor of Engineering Haneesh Kesari
Associate Professor of History Rebecca Nedostup
Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice Thomas Trikalinos

Brown Students Participate in International Summer Internships
Brown collaborates with alumni/ae, parents, and partner universities to provide international summer internship opportunities for undergraduate students to expand their knowledge of other cultures and acquire invaluable work experience in a global setting. This past summer, 11 students participated in internships in China, India, and Spain.

• In China, four students worked in companies in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, gaining experience in finance and marketing.
  
• In India, five students in Brown's C.V. Starr Program in Business, Entrepreneurship and Organizations (BEO) participated in internships at multinational companies in Mumbai and Bangalore, analyzing the benefits potential businesses could gain and researching earned business value in software projects.
  
• In Spain, Brown launched the BEO international internship program at the business school Instituto Empresa (IE) in Madrid in 2011. Brown has also launched a joint Executive MBA program with IE. This past summer, two students worked at IE doing market research for the Executive MBA admission team.
  

Brown Rowers Finish Second at the Henley Royal Regatta
This summer, the Brown men's crew represented their university and their country at the Henley Royal Regatta in the United Kingdom. This historical competition has been held annually since 1839, and this year, Brown rowers placed second in both the Grand Challenge Cup and the Temple Challenge Cup races. Brown also re-dedicated the room named for the University in the Leander Club in Henley-on-Thames. Thanks to Dhani Harrison '01, Michael Joukowsky '87, and Tessa Kennedy Kastner P'92 P'94.

Brown in Africa
Vice President for International Affairs Matthew Gutmann P'14 traveled to Africa for three weeks in the summer. He held talks with university leaders at the University of Cape Town, gave a graduation speech at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, joined Anthony Bogues, Brown's Harmon Family Professor of Africana Studies, at Addis Ababa University, and learned firsthand about collaborations between the medical schools at Brown and the University of Ghana. His visit was also an opportunity for an alumni gathering hosted by Mike Kerst '68 and Erna Kerst '69 in Nairobi, Kenya, which was attended by other alumni, current students, and one recently accepted Kenyan student.

Photo: Vice President Gutmann (front row, second from left) at the alumni gathering in Nairobi, Kenya.

Brown Partners with Mahatma Gandhi University
Brown will partner with Mahatma Gandhi University in India on a project titled "An Interdisciplinary and Community Oriented Approach toward Sustainable Development." The project is part of the "Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative" for institutional partnership projects in research and educational activities in science and technology between India and the United States.