Horace Mann Medal
The Horace Mann Medal for Distinguished Graduate School Alumni was established in 2003, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Graduate School. The award is named in honor of Horace Mann, class of 1819, who created the nation’s first state board of education and is widely regarded as the father of American public school education. Formerly called the Distinguished Graduate School Alumni Award, the Horace Mann Medal is given annually by the Graduate School to a Brown Graduate School alumnus or alumna who has made significant contributions to his or her field.
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Previous Recipients:
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- Joanne Leedom-Ackerman ’74 AM, novelist, short story writer, journalist, and activist
- Wen-Hsiung Li ’72 PhD, leader in evolution of DNA sequences and comparative genomics
- Mary Lou Jepsen ’87, ’97 PhD, founding chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child
- Joel Scheraga ’76, ’79 AM, ’81 PhD, national program director for the Global Change Research Program in the EPA
- Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting ’94 PhD, racial theorist, professor of French and Italian at Vanderbilt University
- Maria Zuber ’83 ScM , ’86 PhD, P ’11, geophysicist, the first woman to head the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology