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Applied mathematics professor Michael P. Brenner has been appointed as the first Associate Dean for Applied Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences—a position that he will assume in addition to his longtime role as the College’s director of undergraduate studies in Applied Math...
...announcement came yesterday from the office of Frans A. Spaepen—the SEAS interim dean and the sole figure responsible for selecting Brenner—who said that Brenner was an obvious choice for the position because he currently occupies a central role in the College’s applied math program...
...Brenner will fill a position whose function unifies previously dissociated roles within the school. Speaking of the new office, Spaepen said, “These duties in fact were distributed to a whole lot of people, but many were left to [Brenner] as well...
...needs a spark. The recession has forced diners to flee restaurants like Denny's, the Cheesecake Factory and P.F. Chang's and head to either cheaper fast-food joints or the comfort of home. "For Denny's, the core consumers are blue-collar families," says Anton Brenner, restaurant analyst at Roth Capital Partners. "They've been squeezed very hard." In the fourth quarter of 2008, same-store sales dropped 6.1%. Sales fell 3.7% for the year, and the company's stock price, at $2.14 a share, has dropped 30.5% over the past 12 months. "It wasn't a good year...
...foreign forces as much as for local governors, but they also have the unintended consequence of undermining the central government, which never gets a chance to take credit for providing basic services such as roads, electricity and education. "We aren't here to win hearts and minds," says Jeremy Brenner, a U.S. State Department adviser based in Jalalabad. "What we need is to engender hope and faith in the Afghan government...