Mark S. Schlissel has been named the 11th provost of Brown University. Schlissel, who has served as dean of biological sciences in the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of California – Berkeley since July 2008, will assume his new role July 1, 2011. He holds a B.A. in biochemical science, and received an M.D. and a Ph.D. in physiological chemistry from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. •
