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Harvard Senior Jarred D. Brown Awarded the 2006 Colonel and Mrs. S.S. Dennis, III Scholarship
$1,000 prize recognizes outstanding academic achievements by an undergraduate in engineering sciences
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - February 14, 2007 – On behalf of the New York City Post of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), Harvard College senior Jarred D. Brown has been awarded the 2006 Colonel and Mrs. S.S. Dennis, III Scholarship in recognition of his hard work and dedication to research.
At a ceremony in Pierce Hall, Venkatesh Narayanamurti, dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, presented him with a certificate of accomplishment and a scholarship check for $1,000 from SAME. The organization has nearly 22,500 members and is dedicated to advancing individual technical knowledge and the collective engineering capabilities of governments, the uniformed services, and private industry in the interest of national defense.
Mr. Brown, a 2007 candidate for the S.B. degree in Engineering Sciences (honors mechanical and materials sciences track), is originally from Hampden, Maine. “I enjoy the full range of mechanical engineering,” says Brown. “For my senior design project, I am working with heart catheters to make them more moveable and controllable so as to aid heart surgery, and specifically trying to integrate in a component that would allow the catheters to have a much sharper curvature.”
At Harvard, Mr. Brown lives in Dunster House and has served as the co-chair of the house committee. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, named a Harvard College Scholar (top 10% of his class in 2003-04), and a John Harvard Scholar (top 5% of his class, 2004-05). Brown has also served as a teaching fellow for several courses in mathematics. In his free time he enjoys playing intramural hockey and soccer and is an avid fan at Harvard sporting events.
“I am a huge sports fan,” says Brown. “My roommate was the star tight end on the football team, so of course I made all their games. But I try to go and cheer on a wide variety of athletic events. In particular, Harvard hockey is definitely number one for me. I generally (errr, always) paint myself in crimson for the hockey games. I’m just sort of ‘that guy’ at the hockey games.”
After graduation, he plans to work in the business field for several years before pursuing a graduate degree in engineering. “I think that it’s important for engineers to have a business background because engineering, in practice, is so tightly wound with the surrounding economics,” explains Brown. “I think that I would like to ultimately return to school and pursue engineering further—perhaps aerospace engineering—but I’m not sure at this point.”