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Dr.
Brownell is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the
University of Rhode Island. Prior to her appointment as Dean
in 1999, Dr. Brownell served for 3 years as Interim Dean of
Arts and Sciences, 5 years as Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences,
and over 20 years as a professor of Communication Studies
at URI. In 1977-78, she coordinated the College of Human Science
and Services at URI, and in 1978-79, she served as an ACE
Fellow in academic administration at the University of Utah.
In 1979, she became the first URI scholar to visit the People’s
Republic of China to begin dialogues with an interdisciplinary
team of scholars on faculty and student exchanges with key
universities.
A
former resident of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, California,
and Spain, she received her B. A. in Theatre and her M. A.
and Ph.D. in Communication from the State University of New
York at Buffalo.
Dean
Brownell manages a budget of over $30 million in state, federal
and private funding to support a College of 22 departments
and over 40 academic programs, research centers, research-industrial
partnerships, outreach programs, and performing and visual
arts series. The College offers over 60 undergraduate and
graduate degree programs, and serves 4,000 majors and over
11,000 students. The College jointly offers the International
Engineering Programs with the College of Engineering, and
is launching a new program in Mandarin Chinese.
In 1988, Dr. Brownell received the
URI Foundation Teaching Excellence Award; in 1996, she received
the Association of Academic and Professional Women “Woman of
the Year” award; in 2003, she received the Multicultural Center
Administrative Excellence Award; and in 2006 received the Rhode
Island International Film Festival Producer’s Circle Award.
Her publications include articles in Communication Monographs
, Communication Quarterly , Personnel Journal
, Communication Research Reports , The Encyclopedia
of Aging , and The Gerontologist . Dr. Brownell has
received over $1,000,000 in grant funding for creative and research
projects, and she has attracted over $14,000,000 in individual,
corporate and foundation awards and gifts to URI. In 1974-75
she coordinated the URI Honors Colloquium on "Aging, Dying
and Death." In 1996, she co-coordinated the acclaimed John
Hazen White Sr. Honors Colloquium on "Mortal Questions."
Her research interests include images of aging in the media,
aging and communication, new communication technologies and
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