NAVSYS CEO Named Honorary Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Dr. Alison Brown is the first of Sidney Sussex’s women alumni to be named as an honorary Fellow to Sidney Sussex, in recognition of her distinguished technical contributions.
Colorado Springs, CO (PRWEB) May 2, 2005 -- NAVSYS Corporation, a GPS
technology company, announced today the appointment of Dr. Alison Brown, the
company’s founder, president, and chief executive officer, as an Honorary Fellow
of Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University. Dr. Brown was an undergraduate
at Sidney Sussex in 1976, studying Engineering. This was the first year that
women were accepted to Sidney Sussex, 280 years after the college was founded by
Lady Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex. Dr. Brown received a First Class degree
with Distinction from Cambridge in 1979. She subsequently received a Masters
degree from MIT and a PhD from UCLA.
Sidney Sussex is known for many of
its pioneering alumni, which reach back to Oliver Cromwell and earlier, Sidney
was also the first previously all-male college to appoint a female Master, Dame
Sandra Dawson, who is also the head of Cambridge's prestiguous Judge Institute
School of Management. Dr. Brown is the first of Sidney’s women graduates to be
awarded the honor of becoming an Honorary Fellow. “So many of Sidney’s fellows
have received world recognition for their work that I am humbled now to be part
of this august group”, stated Dr. Brown.
Dr. Brown is pictured below at
Sidney Sussex with two other Fellows of the college, Keith Glover, now Head of
Engineering at Cambridge University, who taught her Control systems engineering,
and Donald Green, her Director of Studies while she was an
undergraduate.
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