Director of student activities
Ricky Gresh will take over this month as director of student activities, after the former director's resignation in April.
Gresh comes to Brown from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was the director of student life programs.
At MIT, Gresh directed the LBGT Program and Resource Center and helped develop a partnership between the campus and local community members addressing alcohol-related issues, according to the Brown News Service.
Gresh, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania who has a masters in education from Harvard University, also held positions at MIT dealing with residential life and public service.
Vice president for public affairs and University relations
After a one-year search, Michael Chapman became the vice president for public affairs and University relations earlier this month.
Chapman worked as director of communications and public affairs at New York University Medical Center, where he directed the institution's first strategic advertising campaign, according to the Brown News Service. He also spent six years working for the Peace Corps, where he was director of communications.
At Brown, Chapman will be responsible for working out a "strategic communications plan," according to the News Service, and he will oversee the University's public relations and relationship with all levels of government.
Dean of the faculty
Professor of economics and former department chair Rajiv Vohra P'07 took over as dean of the faculty July 1.
In naming Vohra, Provost Robert Zimmer cited Vohra's "intelligence, commitment, experience and personal qualities," according to the Brown News Service.
Vohra, a graduate of St. Stephen's College in New Delhi, India, Vohra came to Brown in 1983 after earning his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. According to the News Service, his work focuses on many aspects of economic theory, including cooperative and non-cooperative game theory.
Director of Hillel
Less than three years after arriving to take the helm of Hillel, Rabbi Richard Kirschen is leaving the organization.
Kirschen and his family are moving later this month to Israel, where he will work in human rights.
As director of Hillel, Kirschen oversaw the completion of the Glenn and Darcy Weiner Center, a $12 million project.
"These last three years have been a time of intense transition for the Jewish community and for Brown Hillel," Kirschen wrote to the Hillel community in May.
Hillel is searching for a new director this summer.
