Bravman earned a
Bachelor of Science,
Master of Science, and
Ph.D. degree from
Stanford University in materials science & engineering. At a Stanford undergrad, Bravman became a member of
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Sigma Rho chapter). Bravman has received several awards, including the Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford University's highest honor for teaching. During the earliest months of his presidency, Bravman initiated an examination of the quality of student life by establishing the Campus Climate Task Force. In January 2013 Bravman announced that the university had discovered reporting errors in student
SAT test scores from 2006 through 2012, which resulted in Bucknell reporting scores to various organizations as higher than they actually were. Bravman also revealed the misreporting of
ACT scores, and that the reported scores were lower than they actually were. Bravman implemented new procedures to review data before reporting to outside organizations. After recalculating its published rankings using the corrected information,
U.S. News & World Report concluded that the difference between Bucknell's misreported data and newly reported data was not significant enough to change the school's numerical rank. ==Personal life==