- John Brown
John Brown (1736-1803) was an American merchant and statesman from Providence, Rhode Island and founder of Brown University. Born in Providence, January 27, 1736, Brown went on to own a successful farming and shipping business with his brothers, Nicholas, Joseph, and Moses Brown. He was active in the slave trade and china trade and invested heavily in privateers during the 1760s through 1780s. John Brown sold the United States Navy its first ship, … - John Carter Brown
John Carter Brown (1797-1874) was a book collector whose library formed the basis of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. His father, Nicholas Brown, was one of the university's namesake patrons. Collecting American books in the mid-19th century, Brown amassed thousands of early American volumes. He was an ancestor of J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art. - Glenn Loury
Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. He has taught previously at Boston, Harvard and Northwestern Universities, and the University of Michigan. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics (Northwestern University) and a Ph.D. in Economics (MIT). In addition to this scholarly work, Professor Loury is also a prominent social criticand public intellectual. - Kenneth R. Miller
Kenneth R. Miller (born 1948) is a biology professor at Brown University. Miller, who is Roman Catholic, is particularly known for his opposition to creationism, including the intelligent design movement. He has written a book on the subject entitled "Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution", in which he furthers the argument that a belief in God and evolution are not mutually exclusive. - Vartan Gregorian
Vartan Gregorian (born April 8, 1934 in Tabriz, Iran) is a distinguished American academic, currently serving as the president of Carnegie Corporation of New York. After receiving his dual Ph.D. in history and humanities from Stanford University in 1964, Gregorian served on the faculties at several American universities before joining the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he became the founding dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1974, … - Bobby Jindal
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a Louisiana politician. Jindal was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives on November 2, 2004, from Louisiana's First Congressional District (map), based in the suburbs of New Orleans. He was re-elected to Congress in the 2006 election with 88 percent of the vote in the 1st district. He intends to be a candidate for Governor of Louisiana in the October 20, 2007 election. - Nicholas Brown
Nicholas Brown, Jr. (1769-1841) was a Providence, Rhode Island businessman and philanthropist. He graduated from the College of Rhode Island in 1786, and became such a great benefactor to the school that it was renamed Brown University for him in 1804. Brown's father, also named Nicholas Brown (1729-1791), was a signatory of the College's original charter of 1764. - Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Davenport Chafee (born March 26, 1953) is a former United States Senator from Rhode Island. He lost his re-election bid in 2006 to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse. He has recently indicated that he is thinking of leaving the Republican Party. He is currently a visiting scholar at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. A Rhode Island native educated at Phillips Academy and Brown, … - Ruth J. Simmons
Ruth J. Simmons (born 1945 in Grapeland, Texas), is the 18th president of Brown University and first black president of an Ivy League institution. According to a January 2007 poll by the Brown Daily Herald, Simmons enjoys a more than 80% approval rating among Brown undergraduates. Simmons holds appointments as a professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies. In 2002, Newsweek selected her as a Ms. Woman of the Year, while in 2001, … - Craig Robinson
Craig Robinson is the head men's basketball coach at Brown University. He was a two-time Ivy League Player of the Year at Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1983 with an AB in Sociology. He also earned an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1992. After graduating from Princeton, Robinson was drafted by the NBA to play for the Philadelphia 76ers. After playing in Europe, he returned to the U.S. and in 1988, … - Andries van Dam
Andries "Andy" van Dam (born 1938) is a professor of computer science and former Vice-President for Research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Originally appointed as a professor of applied mathematics, he helped to found the computer science program as a joint project between the departments of applied mathematics and engineering. When the program was promoted to a full department, van Dam served as its first chair, from 1979 to 1985. - Moses Brown
Moses Brown, was a New England abolitionist and industrialist, who designed and built the first factory houses for spinning machines during the American industrial revolution (Slater Mill). Brown grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and owned a farming and shipping business with his brothers, Nicholas, Joseph, and John Brown. The brothers were co-founders of Brown University. They were active in the Baptist community of Providence. - Thomas Banchoff
Thomas F. Banchoff is a geometer, and a professor at Brown University since 1967. During the fall semester, 2008, he is teaching Math 35 , "Honors Multivariable Calculus." During the spring semester, 2008, he taught Math 104 , "Fundamental Problems in Geometry", which concentrated on Euclidean and non-Euclidean Geometry, with an emphasis on Spherical Geometry and Hyperbolic Geometry. - Alicia Sacramone
Alicia Sacramone (born 3 December, 1987) is a World Champion American gymnast from Boston, Massachusetts. Sacramone was the 2005 World Champion on Floor Exercise and has won many titles with her powerful and spunky gynnastics style. Alicia struggles with the Uneven Bars and occasionally the Balance Beam, but is one of the world's strongest competitors on Floor and Vault. - A.J. Jacobs
Arnold Stephen Jacobs, Jr., commonly called A.J. Jacobs is an American journalist and author. Jacobs was born in New York City to lawyer Arnold Jacobs Sr. and Ellen Kheel. He has one sister, Beryl Jacobs. Jacobs studied philosophy at Brown University. Jacobs is best known for having read all 32 volumes of the "Encyclopædia Britannica", and wrote about his experiences in his humorous book, … - John Hope
John Hope (June 2, 1868 - February 20, 1936), born in Augusta, Georgia, was an African-American educator and political activist. He was the son of a white father, who was a farmer, and a black mother. Hope graduated from Worcester Academy in 1890, then taught at Brown University. After he graduated from Brown in 1894 he taught at Roger Williams University. In 1897 he married Lugenia Burns Hope, who would become a well-known social reformer. - Eugene Charniak
Eugene Charniak is a Computer Science and Cognitive Science professor at Brown University. He has an A.B. in Physics from The University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Computer Science. His research has always been in the area of language understanding or technologies which relate to it, such as knowledge representation, reasoning under uncertainty, and learning. Over the last few years he has been interested in statistical techniques for language understanding. - David Mumford
David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He is currently a University Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, having previously had a long academic career at Harvard University. - Robert Coover
Robert Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa. He attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale, received his B.A. in Slavic Studies from Indiana University in 1955, then served in the United States Navy. - Anne Fausto-Sterling
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Ph. D., (born 1944) is Professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University. She participates actively in the field of sexology and has written extensively on the fields of biology of gender, sexual identity, gender identity, and gender roles. She has written two books intended for the general audience. The second edition of the first of those books, "Myths of Gender" (ISBN 0-465-04792-0), was published in 1992. - Maurice Herlihy
Maurice Herlihy is a computer scientist active in the field of multiprocessor synchronization. He is currently (2007) a professor of computer science at Brown University. - Paula Vogel
Paula Vogel (born November 16 1951, in Washington, D.C.) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and university professor. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play "How I Learned To Drive", which deals with child sexual abuse and incest. "The Baltimore Waltz", a tribute to her brother, won the Obie award for Best Play in 1992. Other plays include Hot 'N Throbbing, "Desdemona", "And Baby Makes Seven", … - James der Derian
James Der Derian is a Watson Institute research professor of international studies and professor of political science at Brown University. In July 2004, he became the director of the Institute’s Global Security Program. Der Derian also directs the Information Technology, War, and Peace Project in the Watson Institute’s Global Security Program. Der Derian was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he completed a M.Phil. and D.Phil. in international relations. - Gordon Gee
Elwood Gordon Gee is an American academic. He will leave after seven years as Vanderbilt University’s Chancellor to return to The Ohio State University as president, a position he held from 1990-1997. His resignation is effective August 1, 2007. He has held more university presidencies than any other American. Prior to his appointment as Vanderbilt's chancellor on February 7, 2000, Gee was president of Brown University from 1997 to 2000, … - George Landow
George Landow is Professor of English and Art History at Brown University. He is an early Electronic literature critic and theorist, as well as a pioneer in the analysis of hypertext and hypermedia. He is also the founder and current webmaster of "The Victorian Web", "The Contemporary, Postcolonial, & Postimperial Literature in English web", and "The Cyberspace, Hypertext, & Critical Theory web". - Edgar Allen
Edgar Allen was an American anatomist and physiologist. He is known for the discovery of estrogen and his role in creating the field of endocrinology. Born on Cañon (Canyon) City, Colorado, Allen was educated at Brown University. After serving in World War I he worked at Washington University, until he was appointed to the chair of anatomy at the University of Missouri in 1923. Ten years later he was appointed to the chair at Yale University. - Sergei Khrushchev
Dr. Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev (b. 1935), son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, now resides in the United States where he is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Khrushchev holds several advanced engineering degrees. From the Ukrainian Academy of Science, he earned his Soviet doctoral degree, and he earned a Ph.D. from the Moscow Technical University. - Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum (born Martha Craven on May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher, with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy and ethics. She was born in New York, the daughter of George Craven, a Philadelphia lawyer, and Betty Warren, an interior designer and homemaker. She studied theatre and classics at New York University, getting a Bachelor of Arts in 1969, and gradually moved to philosophy while at Harvard, … - David Kertzer
David I. Kertzer is Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology (1992-), Professor of History (1992-2001), and Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University. He became Provost of Brown on July 1, 2006. He is the author of ten books on various aspects of Italian society, especially 19th- and 20th-century history. - Sidney Frank
Frank's first big success with his own company was with Jacques Cardin brandy, a brand he purchased from Seagram in 1979 . In the 1980s , he obtained importing rights to Jägermeister and promoted it heavily, advertising it as the best drink in the world, turning a specialty brand into a mainstream success. In 1997 , he introduced Grey Goose vodka, made in France, and was so successful in promoting it that he sold the brand to Bacardi for $2 billion in June 2004 . - Donald Carcieri
Donald L. "Don" Carcieri (born December 16, 1942) is the Governor of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Politically a centerist Republican, Carcieri has had a varied vocational background, having worked as a manufacturing company executive, aid relief worker, bank executive and teacher. - Jeffrey Eugenides
His first novel, The Virgin Suicides , published in 1993, has been translated into 15 languages and made into a feature film. His second novel, Middlesex , received the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, France's Prix Medici, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His latest book, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro , was published in 2008. - Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley (May 21, 1926 - March 30 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He taught for many years at the University at Buffalo. He lived in Waldoboro, Maine, Buffalo, New York and Providence, Rhode Island, where he taught at Brown University. - Don Share
Don Share is a poet, editor, and teacher. This summer he will become Senior Editor of "Poetry" magazine in Chicago. Share has been Curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University since 2000. - William Damon
William Damon is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence, and a professor of education at Stanford University. Damon's current research explores how people develop character and a sense of purpose in their work, family, and community relationships. He examines how young people can approach their careers with a focus on purpose, imagination, and high standards of excellence. - Marin Hinkle
Marin Hinkle is also known to television audiences for portraying the role of Judy on "Once and Again." Her other television credits include the series WITHOUT A TRACE, "House," "ER" and "Law & Order," and the Hallmark movie of the week "Fielders Choice." Her feature film credits include "I Am Sam," "Frequency," "Dark Blue," "I'm Not Rappaport," "Friends with Money" and the upcoming "Fast Track," "Rails and Ties," "She Lived" and "What Just Happened?" - Joseph H. Silverman
Joe is a co-inventor of the NTRU public key cryptographic system. A Professor of Mathematics at Brown University since 1988, Joe has previously held academic positions at MIT, Boston University and Universite de Paris VII. He is the author of six standard reference texts on number theory, elliptic curves, Diophantine geometry, and arithmetic dynamics, and has published over 100 articles on number theory, dynamics and cryptography. - Gordon S. Wood
Gordon S. Wood (born 1933) is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for "The Radicalism of the American Revolution". His book "The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787" won a 1970 Bancroft Prize. Wood was born in Concord, Massachusetts and grew up in Worcester and Waltham. - Todd Haynes
Maverick, onetime "New Queer Cinema" director Todd Haynes was born on January 2, 1961, in Encino, California, and has had a controversial career. His 1987 film, "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" (which chronicles the life of American singer Karen Carpenter using Barbie dolls as actors) caused Richard Carpenter to sue him and was removed from distribution. His 1991 debut, "Poison", based on the writings of Jean Genet, … - William Beeman
William Orman Beeman is an actor, author, singer, and professor of anthropology at The University of Minnesota, where he is Chair of the Department of Anthropology. For many years he was Professor of Anthropology; Theatre, Speech and Dance; and East Asian Studies at Brown University. Born in Manhattan, Kansas, Beeman was the recipient of an award named in honour of opera baritone, George London.
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