Dr. Susan Henry
Cornell University

Biography:

Susan Henry is Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. She is the immediate Past-Chair of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Advisory Committee on Research on Minority Health. Dr. Henry's research is supported by a grant from the NIH.

Henry joined Carnegie Mellon in 1987 as a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and was head of that department from 1987 to 1991. Before that she was a professor of genetics and molecular biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1972 to 1987 and director of the Sue Golding Graduate Division at the college from 1983 to 1987. She was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at Rosentiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, from 1971 to 1972, a National Science Foundation graduate fellow, Department of Genetics, University of California, Berkeley, from 1968 to 1971; and a National Science Foundation undergraduate research fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Maryland, from 1965 to 1968. She was a visiting professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard University Medical School in 1982.

Henry was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 1993 and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994. She serves as a member of the Committee on Election to Fellowship, American Academy of Microbiology, and a member of the Board of Governors Nominating Committee, American Academy of Microbiology.

She received her Ph.D. in genetics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971 and her B.S. in zoology from the University of Maryland in 1968, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.