Sue Rosser

Sue Rosser

Sue Rosser is Provost Emerita and Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University.  She  served as the Special Advisor on Research Development and External Partnerships for the California State University System Office of the Chancellor from 2016-2020.  From 2009-2016, she was the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at San Francisco State University. From July 1999 – 2009, she served as Dean of Ivan Allen College of liberal arts college at Georgia Institute of Technology, where held the endowed Ivan Allen Dean’s Chair of Liberal Arts and Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She has authored and edited fourteen books and written approximately 130 journal articles on the theoretical and applied problems of women and science and women’s health; her most recent books are Academic Women in STEM Faculty:  Views Beyond a Decade After POWRE(Palgrave Macmillan: 2017) and  Breaking into the Lab:  Engineering Progress for Women in Science(NYU Press: 2012). She has held several grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), including from 2016-2019, serving as PI on IT Catalyst ($250,000), 2001-2006 as co-PI on a $3.7 million ADVANCE grant,  PI on InTEL: Interactive Toolkit for Engineering Learning ($900,000), and on Bridge to the Future for GIs ($217,732). She served as a Clayman Fellow at Stanford University (2007-08). She served on the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Executive Board, 2010-14.