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2009 CIC SROP Conference

Passport to the Ph.D.

Preparation for Global Leadership

Passport to the Ph.D.: Preparation for Global Leadership

Featured Speakers

Dr. Marye Anne Fox

Chancellor, University of California San Diego

Location: Modern Languages Building, Auditorium 3
Date: Saturday, July 25, 2009
Time: 9:00 am - 9:45 am

Dr. Marye Anne Fox

Marye Anne Fox, a nationally known chemist and academic leader, was named the seventh chancellor of the University of California, San Diego in April 2004 by the University of California Board of Regents. She also holds the title of distinguished professor of chemistry and has received honorary degrees from 12 institutions in the U.S. and abroad.

Previously, Fox was chancellor and distinguished university professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University, a post she held since 1998. Before going to North Carolina, Fox spent 22 years at the University of Texas, where she advanced from assistant professor of organic chemistry to vice president for research and held the Waggoner Regents Chair in chemistry.

Fox has held over 50 endowed lectureships at universities around the world. She also has served as visiting professor at Harvard University, the University of Iowa, the University of Chicago, the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris and the Chemistry Research Promotion Center in Taipei.

Fox earned a bachelor's degree in science from Notre Dame College, a master's degree in science from Cleveland State University and a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College. She has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and to fellowships in both the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Fox has received numerous research and teaching awards. From the American Chemical Society, she received the Garvan Award, the Southwest Regional Award and the Charles Lathrop Parsons Award for 2005, in recognition of outstanding public service. She also is the recipient of the Monie A. Ferst Award, a national award recognizing outstanding mentoring of graduate students. More than 40 students have received advanced degrees under her supervision, and over 100 postdoctoral fellows and sabbatical visitors have worked with her.

Fox also serves on numerous boards including the Council on Competitiveness, Building Engineering and Science Talent (B.S.), the Association of American Universities (AAU) and World Universities Network (WUN). She also serves on the National Security - Higher Education Advisory Board and several San Diego regional advisory boards.

Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski, III

President, The University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Location: Marriott at Eagle Crest
1275 S. Huron Street
Ypsilanti, MI 48197

Date: Saturday, July 25, 2009
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski, III

President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III has served as President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) since May, 1992. His research and publications focus on participation and performance of African-American males.

The UMBC campus, with 12,000 students, 650 full-time faculty, an operating budget of $300 million, and over $80 million in external contracts and grants for research and training, combines excellence in undergraduate teaching with research and graduate education in the sciences, engineering, and public policy. UMBC also actively promotes economic development in the Baltimore region through its research, technology commercialization, and strong connections with the corporate community and public agencies.

Dr. Hrabowski serves as a consultant to the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and universities and school systems nationally. He also sits on several corporate and civic boards. Examples include the Baltimore Museum of Art, Constellation Energy Group, France-Merrick Foundation, Marguerite Casey Foundation, McCormick & Company, Inc., Mercantile Safe Deposit & Trust Company, University of Maryland Medical System, and the Urban Institute.

Examples of recent awards and honors include election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, receiving the prestigious McGraw Prize in Education, receiving the U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, being named Marylander of the Year by the editors of The Baltimore Sun, and being listed among Fast Company magazine's first "Fast 50 Champions of Innovation" in business and technology. He also holds honorary degrees, including most recently from University of Michigan, Duke University, the University of Illinois, Gallaudet University, Medical University of South Carolina, and Binghamton University, among others.

Dr. Hrabowski is co-author of the books, Beating the Odds, Raising Academically Successful African American Males, published by Oxford University Press in 1998, and Overcoming the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women, published by Oxford University Press in 2001.

A child-leader in the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Hrabowski was prominently featured in Spike Lee’s 1997 documentary, Four Little Girls, on the racially motivated bombing in 1963 of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

Born in 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Hrabowski graduated at 19 from Hampton Institute with highest honors in mathematics. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he received his M.A. (mathematics) and four years later his Ph.D. (higher education administration/statistics) at age 24.