At Brown

Awards and Honors

Dean of the College Paul Armstrong has announced that Joseph Pucci, associate professor of classics, and Jan Tullis, professor of geological sciences, are the recipients of a new advising prize established by a gift from the family of trustee Marty Granoff.

Two Karen T. Romer Awards for Undergraduate Advising and Mentoring will be presented each year to faculty or administrative staff who have demonstrated commitment to students' academic and personal concerns beyond the formal requirements of teaching and advising.

Eighty-eight students and faculty submitted 49 nominations for the prize, which is named in recognition of the former associate dean of the College who was known for her dedication to supporting the academic needs of students.

Ann Harleman, visiting scholar at Brown and an adjunct professor of English at Rhode Island School of Design, has been awarded The Goodheart Prize for Fiction for her story, "Will Build to Suit," which appeared in Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review. The Goodheart Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best story published in Shenandoah during a volume year.

Harleman's stories have appeared previously in Shenandoah, and she is the author of "Bitter Lake" and "Happiness." She is the recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships and the O. Henry award.

Research Note

A paper titled "Noisy Inflows Cause a Shedding-Mode Switching in Flow Past an Oscillating Cylinder," by Didier Lucor, an applied mathematics doctoral degree candidate, and Professor of Applied Mathematics George Em Karniadakis has been published in Physical Review Letters, Volume 92, Number 15. This is a premier journal for all branches of physics.

In their paper, Lucor and Karniadakis introduce a new method that models noisy systems and quantifies the uncertainty associated with different levels of noise.

In addition to its publication in the journal, the paper was chosen for the cover of the issue. Typically, the editor of Physical Review Letters makes the cover selection based on the paper's importance to the field.