Rosemary Wander

• Office of the Provost, UNCG
• rcwander@uncg.edu
• 336.256.0426

Rosemary C. Wander has been the Associate Provost for Research and Public / Private Sector Partnerships at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro since 2002 and served as the interim Associate Provost in 2001-02. She is also the Director of UNCG’s newly created Institute for Community and Economic Engagement. Prior to these appointments she served as the Chair of the Department of Nutrition at UNCG. Before coming to UNCG she was on the faculty in the Department of Nutrition at Oregon State University for 13 years and Mississippi State University for two years. She received her doctorate from the University of Georgia in 1984 in Foods and Nutrition, her MS in Physical Chemistry from Ohio State University in 1968, and her BS in Chemistry from Centenary College of Louisiana in 1964. She has published 45 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 5 review articles, given 46 scientific presentations at professional meetings and numerous lectures to lay audiences, and been the major professor for 9 Ph.D. and 12 M.S. students. In 2003 she served as member of a task force to develop the “New Jobs across North Carolina: A Strategic Plan for Growing the Economy Statewide through Biotechnology.” She is a member of board of the North Carolina Biotechnology Council (NCBC), the North Carolina Association for Biomedical Research, and Gateway University Research Park. In the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) she is a member of the Executive Team for the Council for Research Policies and Graduate Education; a member of the Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness, and Economic Prosperity; and a member of the Council of Governmental Relations. She is a member of the University of North Carolina System Economic Transformation Council, the Federal Relations Council, and the Chief Research Officers Council. She is a member of the NCBC Science Education and Technology Committee and served as chair of NCBC’s Advisory Committee for Biotechnology in the Piedmont Triad for two terms. She is a member of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce Operating Group and the Greensboro Partnership Government Relations Committee. She is a member of the UNCG Corporate Relations Committee, convening chair of the UNCG Research Advisory Council and Scientific Advisory Board, and ex officio member of the Research Policy Committee and the Faculty Senate. In 2005 she was named one of the 50 Most Influential People in the Triad by The Business Journal and in 2006 honored as one of 15 Women in Business for Greensboro by The Business Journal.