Spent 38 years in industrial research, retiring in 1989 as Director of Corporate Research for BP America (formerly The Standard Oil Co. She is a Past Chair of the Ohio Board of Regents, the coordinating body for all higher education in the State of Ohio where she served from 1995 – 2008.
Brown received her B.S. degree from Ohio University and her M.S. in Chemistry from Case Western Reserve University. She holds 13 Honorary degrees, including one from the University of Pecs in Hungary. She has 1 patent, 80 publications and 9 books in the field of infrared and Raman spectroscopy.
Her civic involvements include the Boards of the Cleveland Orchestra, the Great Lakes Science Center, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Holden Forests and Gardens, Friends of Breakthrough Schools, , ideastream (public TV and radio), Global Cleveland, College Now Greater Cleveland, the Hungarian Development Panel, Chagrin Arts, and the Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair. She is past Chair of the Board of the Alliance for Water Future.
She has been a Director on the Board of 6 public corporations and has served on the White House Joint High Level Advisory Panel for assessing US/Japan science and technology.
She has received the Garvan Medal as the outstanding woman chemist in the United States from the American Chemical Society,and was the first woman inducted into the Ohio Science and Technology Hall of Fame. She is a recipient of the National Ellis Island Medal of Honor and she was selected for the book “Ohio 200 years, 200 Women: Ohio’s First and Finest. She is in the City Club Hall of Fame and was inducted into the inaugural class - Cleveland International Hall of Fame. Hungarian President Pal Schmitt awarded her that country’s Medal of Merit in 2011. She and her husband, Dr. Glenn R. Brown (dec), Past President of the Generation Foundation, received the H.Peter Burg Regional leadership Award from TeamNEO in 2012. She received the Cleveland Heritage Award in 2022.
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