Over the Fall of 2025, several Indian-origin faculty at the prestigious Brown University in Rhode Island, received prominent awards and recognitions. The awards related to their research, service, scholarship and leadership, according to a January 15, 2026, news release on the University’s website brown.edu/news.
At least five Brown faculty members of Indian origin, were recognized during the Fall semester (alphabetical order):
Professor of Engineering Pradeep Guduru, who was named the recipient of the B.J. Lazan Award from the Society for Experimental Mechanics. Guduru will be presented the award at the society’s annual conference in June 2026. He was honored “for pioneering contributions to the mechanics of dynamic failure, electromechanics of batteries and the development of high-speed diagnostics and instrumentation.”
ADVERTISEMENT
Professor of Engineering Nitin Padture got the 2025 Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany in recognition of his outstanding research accomplishments in materials science, particularly emerging photovoltaics.
Kavita Ramanan, a professor of applied mathematics, was named president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a post she will hold until August 2026. The IMS is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination and application of statistics and probability.
Associate Professor of political science, international and public affairs as well as social and behavioral sciences Prerna Singh, was awarded a Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for her research on the development of welfare states in the Global South. The prize of 80,000 euros aims to help fund her latest research project on vaccination hesitancy.
