A longtime faculty member of Russell Sage College has been appointed dean of the Troy, New York, school. Deborah Lawrence will begin as dean of Russell Sage, an undergraduate women's college, this June. Russell Sage is part of the Sages Colleges. Sage Colleges enrolls about 2,880 students and has campuses in both Troy and Albany. Lawrence will oversee civic engagement, global and diverse educational programming, and undergraduate research at the campus. Lawrence has been a faculty member in mathematics…