Board of Directors
Name: Mary Sue Coleman, Ph.D.
Title: President, University of Michigan
Biography: Dr. Coleman was elected to the Board of Directors in 2003 and is a member of
the Audit Committee and the Science & Technology Advisory Committee. She has
served as President of the University of Michigan since August 2002, after having
served as President of the University of Iowa from 1995 to July 2002. In addition to
her current position as President, Dr. Coleman is a professor of biological chemistry
in the University of Michigan Medical School and a professor of chemistry in the
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Prior to 1995,
Dr. Coleman served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the
University of New Mexico, Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies & Research and
Associate Provost and Dean of Research at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, and a member of the biochemistry faculty and an administrator at the
Cancer Center of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Elected to the National
Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine in 1997, Dr. Coleman is a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. Dr. Coleman is a Director of Meredith Corporation and a
Trustee of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Gerald R. Ford
Foundation.
