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Regent Brown

Jeanette Grasselli Brown, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, spent 38 years in industrial research, retiring in 1989 as director of corporate research for BP America.

From 1989 to 1995, she served as distinguished visiting professor and director, Research Enhancement, at Ohio University. She also is former chair of the Ohio University board of trustees. She is Chair of the board of Ideastream, WVIZ/WCPN public broadcasting. She is past Chair of the board of the Cleveland Scholarship Programs and is on the Board of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Mellen Center. She also serves on the boards of The Cleveland Orchestra, the Great Lakes Science Center, Martha Holden Jennings Foundation and the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Crain's Cleveland Business and Cleveland Magazine selected her as one of 29 most influential women in Northeast Ohio in 1997. Inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame and the first woman in the Ohio Science and Technology Hall of Fame, Regent Brown was recently awarded the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Award of the National American Chemistry Society for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Sciences.

Regent Brown holds 13 honorary doctoral degrees from colleges and universities around the country and in Hungary. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from Ohio University and Case Western Reserve University. She has been a director of six corporations, including three Fortune 500 companies.

Regent Brown was appointed to the Ohio Board of Regents in 1995 to complete a vacated term, and reappointed for a full term in 1999.