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Judith Rodin, Ph.D., CW’66 was elected the seventh
President and Chief Executive of the University of
Pennsylvania on Dec. 16, 1993. She took office July 1, 1994,
becoming the first alumna to serve as President of Penn and
the first woman to serve as president of an Ivy League
institution.
Dr. Rodin also holds appointments on the Penn faculty
as Professor of Psychology in the School of Arts and
Sciences and as Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry in the
School of Medicine.
A member of the faculty at Yale University for more than 22
years prior to her appointment at Penn, Dr. Rodin was
Provost (1992-94) at Yale, with appointments as the Philip
R. Allen Professor of Psychology (1984-1994) and Professor
of Medicine and Psychiatry (1985-94) at the time of her
election as Penn’s president. She also was Dean of the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1991-92) at Yale.
Dr. Rodin was appointed Assistant Professor of Psychology at
Yale in 1972. She was named Associate Professor of
Psychology in 1975 and Professor of Psychology in 1979.
Her research interest has focused on the relationship
between psychological and biological processes in human
health and behavior. She has published more than 200 journal
articles and book chapters and is co-author of 10 books,
including “Body Traps” (William Morrow 1992),
which examines the role of physical appearance in the
psychological health of women. Dr. Rodin chaired the John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on
Determinants and Consequences of Health-Promoting and
Health-Damaging Behavior (1983-93) for more than a
decade.
She has been elected to the American Philosophical Society,
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute
of Medicine (National Academy of Sciences). She is Fellow of
the American Psychological Association, the Academy of
Behavioral Medicine Research, the American Association for
the Advancement of Sciences and the Society of Behavioral
Medicine.
Dr. Rodin was appointed by President Clinton to the
Presidential Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology
(PCAST) and to the steering committee of college presidents
for American Reads. She is a member of the Council on
Competitiveness. She is also a member of the executive committee of the
Association of American Universities.
Dr. Rodin is a member of the board of directors of
Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Aetna Life &
Casualty Company and AMR Corporation. She also is a member
of the board of trustees of the Brookings Institution, the board of directors of Catalyst, the board of directors of Greater
Philadelphia First and the executive committee of the
Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. Rodin received a bachelor’s degree in psychology
from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, where she was
selected Phi Beta Kappa. She received a Ph.D. in psychology
from Columbia University in 1970 and studied at the
University of California at Irvine in 1971 as a National
Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow.
She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree
from the University of New Haven in 1994, an honorary Doctor
of Humane Letters degree from the Medical College of
Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University in 1995 and an
honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Lafayette College in
1996.
Dr. Rodin was selected as one of “The Best of
1996” and was featured on the “NBC Nightly
News” on December 30, 1996. She was also featured in
the cover story, “The 25 Most Influential Working
Mothers,” published in the February 1998 issue of
Working Mother, and she was recognized for her research
contributions in the article, “Health Heroes: Our
Second Annual Salute to 10 Trailblazers Who’ve Made
America a Healthier Place for Women,” as published in
the October 1998 issue of American Health for Women.
On Sept. 27, 1998, Dr. Rodin was among 20 women featured in
the article, “Start the Vote for a Woman
President,” as published in Parade magazine, who were
selected by the White House Project in its ballot Box
Initiative “to create a climate where a woman could be
elected by the year 2008.”
Dr. Rodin was recognized with the 1999 Sara Lee Frontrunner
Award as a woman “whose trailblazing accomplishments
have both shaped our past and given inspiration for the
future” at a special White House ceremony on October
21, 1999.
She was also elected by the the editors of Ladies Home
Journal and was featured as one of “America’s 100
Most Important Women” in its November 1999
issue.
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