1. Lynn C Pasquerella is an American academic and the 14th president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities.
23 Facts About Lynn Pasquerella
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Lynn Pasquerella was a professor of philosophy at the University of Rhode Island for 22 years before becoming URI's Associate Dean of the Graduate School.
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Lynn Pasquerella was the Provost of the University of Hartford from 2008 to 2010.
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Lynn Pasquerella served as the President of Phi Beta Kappa society from 2018 to 2021.
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Lynn Pasquerella is a philosopher whose area of interest is medical ethics.
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Lynn Pasquerella was a fellow in the John Hazen White Sr.
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Lynn Pasquerella has received funding through the United States Department of Energy to work on ethical issues related to the Human Genome Project.
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Lynn Pasquerella has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the American Bar Association, the Council of Graduate Schools, and the United States Office of Research Integrity.
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Lynn Pasquerella has served on the boards of Paul Newman's Discovery Center and the Africa Center for Engineering Social Solutions, for which she has been a project leader in Kenya.
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Lynn Pasquerella has served on the board of directors of the Rectory School, Day Kimball Hospital's ethics committee and as chair of its Institutional Review Board, the Rhode Island Bio Bank Steering Committee, the Rhode Island Health Department's Institutional Review Board, and the advisory board for the Women's Adult Correctional Facility in Rhode Island.
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Since July 2010, Lynn Pasquerella has hosted The Academic Minute, a radio segment and podcast featuring a different university-based researcher each day.
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On January 4,2016, Lynn Pasquerella announced that she would be stepping down as president of Mount Holyoke College at the end of the 2016 academic year.
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Lynn Pasquerella became the 14th president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities starting July 1,2016.
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From 2018 to 2021, Lynn Pasquerella served as the president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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Lynn Pasquerella serves on the boards of several institutions and organizations, including the Lingnan Foundation Board of Trustees, the Heterodox Academy Advisory Council, the Olin College of Engineering Board of Trustees, and the national Trust for the Humanities.
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Lynn Pasquerella is a member of the editorial advisory boards of several academic publications, including the Journal of Public Integrity, LearningWell Magazine, the Journal of Brentano and the Aristotelean Tradition, and Public Philosophy Journal.
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In December 2022, Lynn Pasquerella was awarded the North Star Medal of Lifetime Achievement by the STAR Scholars Network.
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In May 2019, Lynn Pasquerella was named one of America's Top 35 Women in Higher Education by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.
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Lynn Pasquerella has received the 2018 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service and Altruism from Mary Baldwin College.
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On May 20,2017, Lynn Pasquerella was the commencement speaker for Elizabethtown College's Class of 2017.
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Lynn Pasquerella delivered a commencement address and received an honorary doctorate degree at the University of Hartford's graduate commencement ceremony on May 18,2019.
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Lynn Pasquerella received honorary doctorate degrees during the commencement ceremonies of the University of South Florida on May 2,2019, and the University of Rhode Island on May 19.
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Lynn Pasquerella received honorary doctorates from Mount Holyoke College in 2020, from Concordia College in 2021, and from Bay Path University in 2022.