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Nancy A. Roseman was the 28th president of
Dickinson College , mottoeng = Freedom is made safe through character and learning , established = , type = Private liberal arts college , endowment = $645.5 million (2022) , president = J ...
in
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. A professor of biology, she was dean of the college at
Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a col ...
before being selected as Dickinson's first female president in 2013. On 11 April 2016, she announced her resignation as president, effective 30 June 2016.


Early life

Roseman was born in
New Brunswick, New Jersey New Brunswick is a city (New Jersey), city in and the county seat, seat of government of Middlesex County, New Jersey, Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Susan Snyder
"Dickinson College picks 1st female leader"
''
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'', October 30, 2012.
and graduated from
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in
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in 1976.Brian Amaral
"Metuchen native makes history as new president of Dickinson College"
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, September 24, 2013.
She graduated from
Smith College Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith (Smith College ...
in 1980, and earned her doctorate in
microbiology Microbiology () is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, prot ...
at
Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering co ...
in 1987.Erik Veronikis
"Dickinson College President Nancy Roseman weighs in on historic post, goals"
''
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'', August 23, 2013.


Career

She joined the
Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a col ...
faculty in 1991. She taught and conducted research on the viral enzyme
dUTP diphosphatase In Enzymology, a dUTP diphosphatase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction :dUTP + H2O \rightleftharpoons dUMP + diphosphate Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are dUTP and H2O, whereas its two products are dUMP and d ...
. She was dean of the college from 2000 to 2007 and led the construction of Williams' new student center. Subsequently she was director of the Williams-Exeter Programme at
Exeter College, Oxford Exeter College (in full: The Rector and Scholars of Exeter College in the University of Oxford) is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth-oldest college of the un ...
. Williams awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2013."Williams College Announces its 2013 Honorary Degree Recipients"
Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a col ...
, March 13, 2013. In 2012, Dickinson College chose Roseman to become the 28th president of the school, succeeding retiring president
William Durden William G. Durden is a former president of Dickinson College. He was a Fulbright scholar and a recipient of the Klingenstein Fellowship from Teacher's College, Columbia University. Education Durden completed high school at The Albany Academy i ...
on 28 September 2013. She was Dickinson's first female and first openly gay president. The College announced that Roseman would step down as President on July 1, 2016. She is married to Lori van Handel.


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Dr. Nancy A. Roseman's Biography
Dickinson College , mottoeng = Freedom is made safe through character and learning , established = , type = Private liberal arts college , endowment = $645.5 million (2022) , president = J ...

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Dickinson College , mottoeng = Freedom is made safe through character and learning , established = , type = Private liberal arts college , endowment = $645.5 million (2022) , president = J ...
profile, October 28, 2013
Nancy Roseman
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