Sarah C. Mangelsdorf

Sarah C. Mangelsdorf
Mangelsdorf in 2024
11th President of the University of Rochester
Incumbent
Assumed office
July 1, 2019 (2019-07-01)
Preceded byRichard Feldman (interim)
4th CEO of the University of Rochester
Incumbent
Assumed office
July 1, 2019 (2019-07-01)
Preceded byJoel Seligman
Provost of the University of Wisconsin–Madison
In office
2014 (2014)–2019 (2019)
Preceded byPaul M. DeLuca Jr.
Succeeded byKarl Scholz
Personal details
Born (1958-02-07) February 7, 1958 (age 66)
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Websitewww.rochester.edu/president

Sarah Charlotte Mangelsdorf is an American educator, scholar, and the eleventh president of the University of Rochester.

Career

As a psychologist, the focus of Mangelsdorf's research has been on the social and emotional development of infants and toddlers.[1] She has held leadership positions at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.[2][3]

Mangelsdorf was provost at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she was credited with advancing fundraising, coping with budget cuts, improving the school's overall ranking, successfully retaining key faculty members, and improving relations with the state of Wisconsin.[4] Her responsibilities at Madison included oversight of all academic programs for its twelve colleges and schools, including budgeting.[5]

Mangelsdorf became as the eleventh president of the University of Rochester in July 2019.[6] She is the first woman to hold that post.[7][1]

Personal life

Mangelsdorf is married to Karl Rosengren, a developmental psychologist on the University of Rochester faculty.[7]

Her father, Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf Jr., was a physics professor at Swarthmore College,[8] and her grandfather Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf was a professor of botany at Harvard University.

References

  1. ^ a b Brian Sharp (October 4, 2019). "UR inaugurates Sarah Mangelsdorf as 11th president, the first woman". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  2. ^ University of Illinois, August 10, 2004, Sarah Mangelsdorf named acting dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Retrieved December 10, 2019, "...served on the editorial boards of five academic journals in the field of psychology ... honored several times for her teaching, including the William Prokasy Teaching Award (1998) ...."
  3. ^ James Brown (July 1, 2019). "University of Rochester's first female president starts". WXXI News. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  4. ^ John Lucas (June 11, 2019). "Exit Interview: Sarah Mangelsdorf". Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  5. ^ Staff writer (December 17, 2018). "Wisconsin Provost Sarah Mangelsdorf Named University of Rochester President". Newscenter (U of R). Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  6. ^ Wil Aiken (July 2, 2019). "Sarah Mangelsdorf begins UR presidency". Campus Times. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  7. ^ a b Douglas Embildge (November 18, 2019). "Someone You Should Know: Sarah Mangelsdorf". 13WHAM TV. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  8. ^ Wertheimer ’71, Marc Joel. "Mangelsdorf Remembered". www.swarthmore.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Academic offices
Preceded by 11th President of the University of Rochester
July 1, 2019 – present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent