Newsmaker: Simon Brown

Simon Brown

Noteworthy: Awarded a 2014 Beinecke Scholarship, a national award intended to enable highly motivated students to pursue graduate study in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Age: 21

Neighborhood: Oakland, originally from Cranberry.

Family: Mother, Laura Hagg; father, Christopher Brown; brother, Ryan Brown, 23.

Education: Junior at the University of Pittsburgh, majoring in history, philosophy and the history and philosophy of science.

Occupation: Works as a dining room server at Sherwood Oaks Retirement Community in Cranberry. Aspires to earn a Ph.D. in history and to teach at a university.

Quote: “I have been interested in history for a very long time. … I believe the best way to solve current social problems is to look at how people have solved these problems in the past, so that is my biggest motivating factor.”

—by Andrew Conte