Lifespan has announced the appointment of Sheila Blumstein, PhD to its board. She is the interim president of Brown University. She began her career at Brown in 1970 as assistant professor of linguistics and became a full professor in 1981. She was chairwoman of the department of linguistics from 1978 to 1981 and chair of the department of cognitive and linguistic sciences from 1986 to 1987, when she was named dean of the college. She graduated from the University of Rochester and earned her PhD in linguistics from Harvard University.
