John Lott Brown

John Lott Brown was a former university administrator and professor.

Background
Brown enrolled at Worcester Polytechnic Institute through the V-12 Navy College Training Program, where he earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He earned a master's in psychology at Temple University and worked for the Link Belt Co. Later, he earned a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University.

University positions
After getting his Ph.D he took command of a research program in human factors engineering at Columbia. Later, he joined the faculty of the Penn State College of Medicine full-time. He also conducted research in psychology. In 1964, he became a provost at the Kansas State University and director of a research center on vision at University of Rochester. Later, he became University of South Florida's (USF) president in 1978. During his tenure, USF established its Moffit Cancer Center, USF Psychiatry Center, and USF College of Public Health. During the next ten years USF added 38 degree programs and expanded to four satellite campuses. He resigned in 1988 and Francis Borkowski succeeded him. He then served as interim director of USF's Center of Microelectronics Research before serving interim president at Worcester Polytechnic Institute for nine months.

Personal life
Brown met his wife, Catharine Hertfelder at Temple University. They had four children. His hobbies included reading detective novels and dancing.