PROVIDENCE – Ruth Kohorn Rosenberg, director of student mediation in the Office of Student Citizenship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named faculty ombudsperson at Brown University.

She will be responsible for promoting the well-being and mission of the faculty, post-doctoral research fellows and associates, and the university. She begins her duties Feb. 22.

Rosenberg has more than 25 years experience in conflict engagement. She designed and taught numerous courses and workshops on conflict-engagement skills at MIT and in New England.

At MIT, she developed a number of innovative outreach programs for undergraduates, graduate students and faculty, including an active-bystander program and basic-mediation workshops. •