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16 unusual facts about Brown University


Charles A. Kraus

Later, he became professor of chemistry and director of the chemical laboratories at Brown University, and was a consultant to the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb.

Darius Sessions

Sessions became a close friend of Brown University's first president, James Manning, and has been credited with the university being located in Providence, instead of Newport or Warren.

Davol Rubber Company

Various projects associated with Brown University have rented space in the building for many years, and the university recently announced plans to buy several buildings in the area.

Frank Perkins Whitman

He was graduated at Brown University in 1874 and took his A.M. there in 1877, later studying at Johns Hopkins University.

George Dealey

A younger brother, James Q. Dealey (1861–1937), was a professor of political science at Brown University and, after retiring from Brown, editor of the Morning News.

George Rankine Irwin

B. Freund, Brown University, and M. F. Kanninen, Southwest Research Institute, on the dynamics of inertial limited crack propagation and arrest.

George Stanley Gordon

In 1944, George Gordon enrolled and attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he majored in Psychology.

Harvey N. Davis

Harvey Nathaniel Davis obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University, taught mathematics at Brown University and later returned to Harvard as a Professor of Physics and Mechanical Engineering.

Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association

Over the next year, similar conferences were held with various names, including the ITASA/TASC Cultural Conference at the University of Illinois, the ITASA Taiwanese Cultural Celebration at Brown University, and TASCon at the University of Illinois again.

Monday Morning Cold

It was released in 1999 via her own record label, TVP Records, while she was still a student at Brown University.

Moses Farnum House

Quakers from Smithfield, Rhode Island, abolitionists, with ties to Moses Brown whose family had founded Brown University, and some of whom were among the first in America to free slaves, settled here.

Nonie Darwish

She has spoken on numerous college campuses including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Tufts, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Oxford, Cornell, UCLA, NYU, Virginia Tech, Pepperdine, UC Berkeley and several others.

Providence Steam Roller

By 1919 the team was drawing in more spectators than Brown University by a margin of 2–1, due to newspaper reports at the time.

To Mars and Providence

informs him that he was taken into the Martian cylinder, before being rescued by a Brown University librarian named Armitage.

Tony Puryear

Puryear, originally a New Yorker, graduated with a bachelor's degree in art from Brown University.

X Window System

A group at Brown University ported version 9 to the IBM RT/PC, but problems with reading unaligned data on the RT forced an incompatible protocol change, leading to version 10 in late 1985.


.tv

tv content stations, such as Motherboard.tv for Dell and the Creator's Project for Intel have given this domain type more visibility, and inspired the creation of independent content stations at the college level across the United States such as Massive.tv at Northwestern University, Maingreen.tv at Brown University, and Kuumba.tv at Washington University.

Abe Gelbart

After taking non-tenure-track positions at North Carolina State College, Brown University, and NASA's Langley Research Center, Gelbart took a faculty position at Syracuse University in 1943.

Afaa M. Weaver

He graduated from Brown University on a fellowship, with an M.A, and Excelsior College with a B.A. He taught at National Taiwan University and Taipei National University of the Arts as a Fulbright Scholar, and was a faculty member at the Cave Canem Foundation's annual retreat.

Andrew Fuller

According to Christianity Today, "“Tall, stout and muscular, a famous wrestler in his youth,” this self-taught farmer’s son became a champion for Christ, “the most creatively useful theologian” of the Particular Baptists. His book The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation, 1785, restated Calvinist theology for Baptists influenced by the Evangelical Revival. His Doctorate of Divinity was bestowed by Brown University, Rhode Island."

Anil Wilson

He participated in conferences and symposia at a number of universities abroad including Brown University (USA), Soka University (Japan), National University of Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), University of Macao, Thammasat University (Bangkok), et al.

Armen Keteyian

Keteyian won a Women's Sports Foundation Journalism Award for a 1993 ABC News report on the landmark Title IX battle at Brown University.

Bernard Chazelle

He went on to claim important research positions at institutions such as Carnegie Mellon, Brown, NEC, Xerox PARC, and the Paris institutions École Normale Supérieure, École Polytechnique, and INRIA.

Bill Wakeham

He served as a Research Associate at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island.

Busty Ashbaugh

(September 12, 1889 – November 20, 1953) was a celebrated football player at Brown University who went on to coach competitive teams at South High School, in Youngstown, Ohio.

Campus Compact

In 2009, Campus Compact moved its national office from the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island to the Downtown Crossing district of Boston, Massachusetts.

Christopher Rollston

He has lectured and delivered invited papers in a number of venues, including Vanderbilt University, George Washington University, the University of Michigan, Brown University, Duke University, Tel Aviv University, Baylor University and the University of Wisconsin.

Cornell Club of New York

Membership in the Cornell Club is restricted to alumni, faculty, and students of the Ivy League institution Cornell University, as well as alumni of a short list of affiliated schools, such as Brown, Colgate, Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford, Tulane, and Wake Forest.

Denise Riley

She was formerly Writer in Residence at Tate Gallery London, and has held fellowships at Brown University and at Birkbeck, University of London.

E. E. Jones

Only three outside schools have provided Georgia with more than one head coach in football: Princeton (Jones and William A. Reynolds), Cornell University (Pop Warner and Gordon Saussy), and Brown University (Charles McCarthy, James Coulter, and Frank Dobson).

Ed Beisser

:Not to be confused with Edward Beiser, an American scholar who taught at Brown University.

Gregg Bordowitz

He taught video art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Brown University, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1995 to 2010, before being hired as a permanent professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Harry Salisbury

After attending Brown University, Salisbury had a record of 6 wins and 4 losses for the Troy Trojans in 1879, and three years later was 20–18 for the 1882 Pittsburgh Alleghenys, completing all 38 of his starts.

J. A. B. van Buitenen

van Buitenen contributed to the training of several able scholars in the USA, among them James L. Fitzgerald (Brown University), Walter O. Kaelber, Michael D. Willis, Bruce M. Sullivan (Northern Arizona University) and Bruce Lincoln (University of Chicago).

J. Meredith Read

He was a graduate of Brown University, where he received the degree of A.M. in 1866, graduated from Albany Law School in 1859, studied international law in Europe, was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia, and afterward moved to Albany, New York.

Jill Greenberg

In 1988, Greenberg completed coursework on “Semiotics in Media” with Mary Ann Doane at Brown University.

Jodi Magness

From 1990-92, Professor Magness was Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Syro-Palestinian Archaeology at the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art at Brown University.

Jonathan Hopkin

His current research, with Mark Blyth of Brown University and Riccardo Pelizzo of Griffith University, examines the reasons for the narrowing of the range of political choices in advanced democracies, a process conceptualized as 'cartelization'.

Judsonia, Arkansas

Though the school died in 1883, the town streets still bear the names of several well-known 19th-century Baptists: Judson and Hasseltine (after Adoniram Judson and his wife, Ann Hasseltine Judson), Wayland (after Francis Wayland, president of Brown University in Rhode Island), Wade (after missionary Jonathan Wade) and Boardman (after missionary George Boardman, whose widow, Sarah Hall Boardman became Judson's second wife).

Larry Leon Hamlin

Although he earned a degree in business administration at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, he later studied theatre at Brown University.

Linda Spalding

Spalding has worked as a professor of English and writing at the University of Hawaii, York University, the University of Guelph, Brown University (where she was writer-in-residence in 1991), the University of Toronto and Ryerson University.

Lyman Jewett

Jewett studied at Worcester Academy and Brown University and took his DD at the Newton Theological Institution.

Mayoral Academies

The mayoral academy idea in Rhode Island was originated by Mayor Daniel McKee and developed by a coalition of Rhode Island mayors and town administrators, Cumberland Director of Children, Youth, and Learning Michael Magee, Progreso Latino CEO Ramon Martinez, and policy experts Bryan Hassel of Public Impact and Martin R. West of Brown University.

Michael Stonebraker

In the C-Store project, started in 2005, Stonebraker, along with colleagues from Brandeis University, Brown University, MIT, and University of Massachusetts Boston, developed a parallel, shared-nothing column-oriented DBMS for data warehousing.

Naida Cole

Naida Margaret Cole (born 28 October 1974 in Durham, North Carolina, U.S.) is a Canadian-American concert pianist who left a successful career as a recording artist and touring musician in 2007 to pursue medicine at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School, where she is currently enrolled.

Nancy Milford

While considering writing to be her primary career, Milford has also taught at the University of Michigan, Princeton University, Brown University, Vassar College, New York University, Bennington College, Briarcliff College, and Bard College.

Paul Buhle

Paul Merlyn Buhle (born 27 September 1944) is a (retired) Senior Lecturer at Brown University, author or editor of 35 volumes including histories of radicalism in the United States and the Caribbean, studies of popular culture, and a series of nonfiction comic art volumes.

Posen Foundation

An academic advisory board reviews grant applications, which have included universities such as Harvard University, Brown University, Brandeis University, and The New School.

Project NExT

Colors are frequently chosen according to the location of MathFest in the year of selection (for example, the peach dots first meeting was in Georgia, and the Brown dots first meeting was at Brown University).

Providence Grays

The team had a putative claim to being the first Major League Baseball team to field an African-American baseball player, William Edward White, a Brown University student who played one game for the Grays on June 21, 1879.

Sean Eldridge

He studied at Deep Springs College in Deep Springs, California, then graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he helped organize the national Students for Barack Obama campaign in 2007.

Steven Wilf

He also has held fellowships as John Carter Brown Fellow at Brown University, Fellow in Comparative Legal History at the University of Chicago, Golieb Fellow at the New York University School of Law, and at The Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem.

T. Garry Buckley

His family moved to Bennington, Vermont in 1937, and Buckley was educated at The Albany Academy, Bennington's high school, the Cranwell Preparatory School and Brown University.

Thayer Street

Thayer Street in Providence, Rhode Island is a popular destination for students of the area's nearby schools of Brown University, Moses Brown School, Wheeler School, RISD, Providence College, Johnson & Wales University, and Rhode Island College.

Touro Synagogue

Speakers at the annual event have included Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Brown University President Ruth Simmons.

Wickenden Street

The street is surrounded by universities on the East Side of Providence's College Hill, including Brown University, RISD, Moses Brown School, & The Wheeler School.