Sarah Mangelsdorf

Sarah Charlotte Mangelsdorf is an American educator, scholar, and the eleventh president of the University of Rochester.

Sarah Mangelsdorf
OccupationUniversity administrator
Years active1980s-present
SpouseKarl Rosengren[1]
AwardsWilliam Prokasy Teaching Award (1998)[2]
Academic background
EducationOberlin College (1980)[2]
U. Minnesota PhD (1988)[2]
ThesisThe development of social appraisal in infancy (1988)
Academic work
DisciplineChild psychology
WebsiteU of R presidents website

Career

As a psychologist, the focus of Mangelsdorf's research has been on the social and emotional development of infants and toddlers.[3] She has held leadership positions at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.[2][4]

Mangelsdorf was provost at the University of Wisconsin at Madison where she was credited with advancing fundraising, coping with budget cuts, improving the school's overall ranking, successfully retaining key faculty members, and improving relations with the state of Wisconsin.[5] Her responsibilities at Madison included oversight of all academic programs for its twelve colleges and schools, including budgeting.[6]

Mangelsdorf became as the eleventh president of the University of Rochester in July 2019.[7] She is the first woman to hold that post.[1][3]

Personal life

Mangelsdorf is married to Karl Rosengren who is a developmental psychologist on the University of Rochester faculty.[1]

Her father, Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf Jr., was a physics professor at Swarthmore College,[8] and her grandfather Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf was a professor of botany at Harvard University.

References
  1. Douglas Embildge (November 18, 2019). "Someone You Should Know: Sarah Mangelsdorf". 13WHAM TV. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  2. University of Illinois, August 10, 2004, Sarah Mangelsdorf named acting dean of College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Retrieved December 10, 2019, "...served on the editorial boards of five academic journals in the field of psychology ... honored several times for her teaching, including the William Prokasy Teaching Award (1998) ...."
  3. Brian Sharp (October 4, 2019). "UR inaugurates Sarah Mangelsdorf as 11th president, the first woman". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  4. James Brown (July 1, 2019). "University of Rochester's first female president starts". WXXI News. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  5. John Lucas (June 11, 2019). "Exit Interview: Sarah Mangelsdorf". Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  6. Staff writer (December 17, 2018). "Wisconsin Provost Sarah Mangelsdorf Named University of Rochester President". Newscenter (U of R). Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  7. Wil Aiken (July 2, 2019). "Sarah Mangelsdorf begins UR presidency". Campus Times. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
  8. Wertheimer ’71, Marc Joel. "Mangelsdorf Remembered". www.swarthmore.edu. Retrieved 2023-09-13.
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