RFU - Key Persons
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- Retired ) Executive Vice President
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- Retired ) Managing Director
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- Senior Director, Academic Policy and Regulatory Affairs
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- Online Admissions Counselor
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- Communications Specialist
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- Associate Vice President for Online Learning & Instructional Design
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- Associate Vice President for Admissions and Recruitment
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- Associate Vice President, Boxer Library and Information Collaboration
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- Assistant Director, Admissions Diversity Recruitment
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- Chairman, Department of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Associate Professor
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- British Scientist and Researcher
- Founder, Rosalind Franklin Group / Partner, Leadership Consulting Practice, Boyden
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was born in London on July 25, 1920, into a prominent family of Anglo-Jewish scholars, leaders and humanitarians who placed a high value on education and service. She was an intellectually precocious child who, according to her mother, "all her life knew exactly where she was going and took science for her subject" at the age of 16. She was a conscientious and gifted student with a keen sense of justice and logic and a facility for languages. She thrived on intellectual debate, challenging others to justify their opinions and positions, a method she used throughout her life to clarify her own understanding, to learn and to teach.
Rosalind was a devoted daughter and sister and loyal and gracious to her many friends and colleagues. Family members recall her lively sense of humor, her straightforwardness, her love of cooking. She was an experienced mountaineer who loved to travel and explore nature.
Education
Rosalind's early education in private preparatory and boarding schools prepared her for enrollment in Newnham College, one of two schools for women at Cambridge University. She majored in physical chemistry and held herself to high standards of scholarship. She refused to let the challenges of their time defeat or define her. She steadfastly pursued her education during World War II, despite the bombs that rained down on London during the Blitz, despite shortages and rationing and despite family pressure to leave Cambridge for safer ground and, perhaps, for work aiding the war effort. As the Nazis marched across Europe, she continued her studies while closely following the war, debating British foreign policy in letters to her family and volunteering as an air raid warden.
Her excellent exam scores earned her a graduate research scholarship, a grant from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, providing an excellent reason to stay at Cambridge despite the war. But she clashed with her supervising professor, R.G.W. Norrish, after discovering a fundamental error in the project he had assigned her. Professor Norrish refused to accept her findings and demanded she repeat the experiments. Rosalind wrote that Norrish "became most offensive" when "I stood up to him." Norrish told a Franklin biographer years later that he did not approve of the junior investigator's interest in "raising the status of her sex to equality with men."
Dr. Franklin earned a bachelor's in 1941 and the next year, as more women moved into academia and industry, she accepted a position with the British Coal Utilisation Research Association, where she designed and conducted experiments to understand the microstructures of carbons and coals - work that ultimately benefited the Allied cause.
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- Director of Student Affairs
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- Retired Director of Podiatric Residencies / Advocate Christ Medical Center / Advocate Children 's Hospital
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- Vice Dean, Associate Professor
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- Assistant Director, Admissions Systems
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- President, Elmhurst Hospital
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- Associate Director of Admissions
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- Associate Dean of Clerkship and Residency Placement, Associate Professor
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- Graduate Nursing Recruiter
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- Executive Director, J.P. Morgan Private Bank / Washington, DC
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Development Committee
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- Healthcare Executive / Member, Board of Directors and Development Committee
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- Associate Vice President, Institutional Effectiveness and Decision Support
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- Vice President, Academic and Faculty Affairs
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- Chairman, Department of Podiatric Medicine
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- Interim Director of Admissions
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- Assistant Dean of Research for SCPM, Associate Professor
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- Chairman and President / Dr. Scholl Foundation
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- Coordinator of Admissions Operations
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- Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs, Associate Dean of Research Education Programs
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- Retired ) President and CEO
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- Internal Medicine Specialist
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- Vice Chancellor
- Dean and Professor Emerita / University of Kansas Medical Center
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- Assistant Director, CRM and Engagement
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- Advisor, General Catalyst / Former President and CEO, Jefferson University and Jefferson Health
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- Director, Nexus for Faculty Success
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- Associate Dean of Educational Affairs, Associate Professor
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- President and CEO / Rosalind Franklin University