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Columbia University; Vassar College.
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Mary Greenwood
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She also holds an appointment as a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Nutrition and Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis and was formerly an Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley. Greenwood is a nationally and internationally known expert on obesity and diabetes. Previously, she held various positions in the University of California (University of California) system: as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of California Office of the President.
Chancellor of University of California Santa Cruz.
And Dean of Graduate Studies and Vice Provost at University of California Davis. However, she was mired in controversy, and abruptly resigned as second-in-command at the University of California system.
She was best known as the Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, during the Clinton Administration. She also served as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1999.
In addition she has been President of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO)—now the Obesity Society.
And also President of the American Society of Clinical Nutrition. Greenwood received her Doctor of Philosophy in Physiology, Developmental Biology, and Neurosciences from Rockefeller University. She did postdoctoral study at Columbia University.
She obtained the Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology, Summa cum laude, from Vassar College.
On May 6, 2013, Greenwood announced her retirement from the University of Hawaiʻi as President.
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National Academy of Sciences.
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