Marjorie Lee Browne - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

While discrimination against African-Americans and women was significant during Browne's early career, she was recognized for her achievements in education and mathematics.

• Elected to Sigma Xi, 1948
• University of Michigan nominee, American Mathematical Society
• Ford Foundation fellowship to study combinatorial topology at Cambridge University
• National Science Foundation Faculty Fellow studying computing and numerical analysis at UCLA
• Fellowship to study differential topology at Columbia University, 1965-66
• First recipient of W. W. Rankin Memorial Award for Excellence in Mathematics Education, given by the North Carolina Council of Teachers in Mathematics, which lauded her for "helping to pave the way for integrated organizations".
• The University of Michigan Department of Mathematics established the Dr. Marjorie Lee Browne Colloquium in 1999. The colloquium is presented each year during the University of Michigan's Martin Luther King Day activities.
• Marjorie Lee Browne Scholarship which offers full scholarships to students majoring in math at NCCU