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Tuition Aid Program enrollment

If you are a faculty or staff member whose natural or legally adopted dependent child will be enrolled fulltime this fall in an undergraduate degree program, you may be eligible to participate in the Brown University Tuition Aid Program (TAP). For information about specific eligibility requirements and program provisions, please refer to the TAP Information Guide online.

To participate in TAP, eligible employees must submit an application each academic year, as well as a new application in the event a child changes schools during any academic year. To allow timely processing for fall semester 2004, please submit your application by June 30, 2004. You can download an application by going to the Human Resources Department's Web site and scrolling to "T."

If you still have questions regarding TAP benefits, please call the Benefits Office at 863-1788.

Be advised that a TAP benefit may affect the financial aid package and/or scholarship from the institution your child will be attending (including Brown University), and that the manner in which financial aid is affected may differ from one institution to another.

Specific information should be available from the financial aid office of your child's institution.

Frequency of citation equals impact on field

Brown scientists are making significant impacts in their fields, as measured by citations referencing their work - the intellectual debt acknowledged by colleagues - according to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which collects and analyses data on research performance and trends in science. A search of the ISI essential science indicator database across 21 disciplinary areas reveals that a dozen Brown faculty members are among the top 250 preeminent contributors to their fields.

As categorized by ISI, Brown's highly cited researchers include Franco Preparata in computer science; Mark Bertness in ecology/environment; Stuart Geman in engineering; Clyde Briant in materials science; Alan Needleman in engineering and materials science; Donald Forsyth and James Head in geosciences; Dennis Hogan in sociology; Vincent Mor in community health; and Martin Keller, Lawrence Price and Steven Rasmussen in psychology/psychiatry.

Additionally, during 2003, one Brown researcher was rated at the top of the rankings of the most-cited papers published during the previous two years. Assistant Professor of Chemistry Brian Moulton received the "Hot Paper" designation with over 500 references to his "From Molecules to Crystal Engineering: Supramolecular Isomerism and Polymorphism in Network Solids," published in Chemical Review in 2001.

Summer gathering on the Vineyard

The University will again host a summer reception on Martha's Vineyard open to all members of the Brown family - alumni, alumnae, students, parents, faculty and staff. The event will take place during the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2004. For further information or to indicate your interest in attending this special event, please contact Pamela Woodward at (401) 863-3683 or Pamela_Woodward@brown.edu.

Awards and Honors

Keith Stafford Brown, assistant professor of international studies (research), has been named one of 40 Fellows who will study at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, N.C., in the coming academic year. Fellows work individually on research projects in the humanities, and attend seminars, lectures and conferences as a group. Brown's research project is titled "Manifest Loyalties: The Routes of Modern Nationalism."

Brown University Dining Services received a 2004 Horton gold medal from the National Association of College and University Food Services. The prize, which will be presented at the NACUFS conference in June, was awarded for residence hall dining in the category of Special Event/Theme Dinner.

An annual event in the Refectory, this year's theme was "Eggstravaganza," a meal centered around the egg. A variety of egg-based meals were served, a large chicken greeted students during the meal and tables were decorated as poached eggs. Students engaged in an egg toss, the chicken dance and egg trivia. Rounding out the evening was a debate on the age-old issue of "which came first?"

Brown Dining Services Executive Chef John O'Shea earned a gold medal at the Region I Culinary Challenge in April. Medals were awarded by the American Culinary Federation (ACF), which is the largest and most prestigious organization dedicated to professional chefs in the United States. The Culinary Challenge, in which each contestant must produce a creative salmon entree with up to two side dishes in only 75 minutes, provides a venue for college and university production staff to exhibit culinary talents, techniques and regional food styles.

Harold Kushner, professor emeritus of applied mathematics, has received the Bellman Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council. The award is presented annually in honor of the recipient's substantial lifetime contributions. The council presented the award to Kushner for his fundamental and seminal contributions to stochastic systems theory, which created the foundation of a substantial part of the field. The American Automatic Control Council is composed of all U.S. professional organizations that are concerned with control and systems theory and practice, plus the International Federation of Automatic Control.

The Department of Psychology recognized the work of the following students this year:

Caroline Habbert received the Harold Schlosberg Memorial Premium, given annually to an outstanding student in the senior class concentration in psychology.

Meredith Jones and Dianne Suggs received the Muriel Fain Sher Premium, awarded annually to outstanding women graduating with a concentration in psychology.

Seniors Meghan Morean and Sara Yerry received the Edmund Burke Delabarre Memorial Premium, given for outstanding research and scholarship in psychology or related sciences.

Lauren Becker received the Kling Premium in Psychology, awarded annually to a student who has given outstanding service as a teaching assistant.

Lauren Wier received the Davids Book Prize in Psychology, awarded annually to a student who shows outstanding promise as a scholar and researcher in the field of clinical psychology.

The Richard E. Whalen Award went to Hadley Tassinari, an undergraduate who has demonstrated research excellence in the area of neuroscience and the biological basis of behavior broadly defined.

The Office of Campus Life has selected the following students to receive Joslin Awards, given to a small group of seniors who have contributed in a very significant way to the quality of student life at Brown: Luis Campillo, Miranda Craigwell, Langston Dugger, Ariana Green, Arjuna Kuperan, Dan Le, McKenna Morrigan, Kaitlyn Murphy, Cate Oswald, Anna Stern and Christopher Yee.

On the Road

Julio Ortega, professor of Hispanic studies, traveled to Madrid earlier this month at the invitation of the Wellington Foundation to talk about Hispanic writers in the United States. He also presented a paper at the colloquium on France and Latin America at the Albert Ludwigs Universitaet, Frieburg, and was later in Paris for a meeting at the American University where The Transatlantic Project at Brown will celebrate a symposium next year. The Transatlantic Project will have a colloquium in cooperation with the Cervantes Institute, in New York, dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges. The academic journal Revista de la Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia) dedicated its last issue to Ortega, with a selection of his recent writings and a sample of articles on his works.

Phil Brown, professor of sociology and environmental studies, gave the commencement address at State University of New York, Albany's School of Public Health, May 15. Brown spoke about the ethics and politics in environmental health research.

This spring, Deborah Berlow, director of Brown's Graphic Services, was a participant on a panel that discussed best practices of in-plant graphics service organizations. Berlow discussed how she implemented a partnership program with preferred vendors, reducing the vendor list from 300 to 40, migrating 36 percent of the University's offset work to her office's digital systems, which reducedproduction time by 40 percent; and improving quality control.