Lynn Pasquerella

Pasquerella is a 1979 summa cum laude graduate of Quinebaug Community College, a 1980 Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College, and earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1985 from Brown University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/newpresident/biography.html|title=Biography :: New President Announcement :: Mount Holyoke College|website=www.mtholyoke.edu|access-date=2019-11-25}}

Pasquerella is a philosopher whose area of interest is medical ethics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aacu.org/president/lynn-pasquerella|title=Lynn Pasquerella|last=|first=|date=2018-05-30|website=Association of American Colleges & Universities|language=en|access-date=2019-11-25}} She was a fellow in the John Hazen White Sr. Center for Ethics and Public Service and a professor of medical ethics in Alpert Medical School’s Affinity Group Program.

Pasquerella has received funding through the United States Department of Energy to work on ethical issues related to the Human Genome Project. She has also received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the American Bar Association, the Council of Graduate Schools, and the United States Office of Research Integrity. She was the principal investigator on a $3.5 million NSF ADVANCE grant to promote the careers of women in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and on a $750,000 NSF–Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate grant to encourage recruitment of underrepresented groups into the professoriate in STEM fields.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/newpresident/news_release.html|title=News Release :: New President Announcement :: Mount Holyoke College|website=www.mtholyoke.edu|access-date=2019-11-25}}

Pasquerella has served on the boards of Paul Newman's Discovery Center and the Africa Center for Engineering Social Solutions, for which she has also been a project leader in Kenya.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/newpresident/biography.html|title=Biography :: New President Announcement :: Mount Holyoke College|website=www.mtholyoke.edu|access-date=2019-11-25}} She has served on the board of directors of the Rectory School, Day Kimball Hospital’s ethics committee and as chair of its Institutional Review Board, the Rhode Island Bio Bank Steering Committee, the Rhode Island Health Department’s Institutional Review Board, and the advisory board for the Women’s Adult Correctional Facility in Rhode Island.{{Cite web |url=http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS134675+02-Nov-2009+PRN20091102 |title=Lynn Pasquerella Named 18th President of Mount Holyoke College | Reut… |website=Reuters |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201171551/http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS134675+02-Nov-2009+PRN20091102 |archive-date=1 February 2013 |url-status=dead}}

Since July 2010, Pasquerella has hosted The Academic Minute, a radio segment and podcast featuring a different university-based researcher each day. The Academic Minute is produced by Northeast Public Radio in partnership with the American Association of Colleges and Universities.{{Cite news|url=http://www.wamc.org/academic-minute.html|title=The Academic Minute|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en}} In addition to Northeast Public Radio, The Academic Minute, which airs on WAMC, is syndicated to other stations throughout North America and streamed internationally via the web.

On January 4, 2016, Pasquerella announced that she would be stepping down as president of Mount Holyoke College at the end of the 2016 academic year. Pasquerella became the 14th president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities starting July 1, 2016.{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/01/04/mount-holyoke-college-president-stepping-down/Yne56AXOZhmWjB9b2UU2hI/story.html |title=Mount Holyoke College president to resign later in 2016 |publisher=The Boston Globe |first=J.D. |last=Capelouto |date=2016-01-04 |accessdate=2016-03-29}} From 2018 to 2021, Pasquerella served as the president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She serves on the boards of several institutions and organizations, including the Lingnan Foundation Board of Trustees,{{Cite web|url=https://lingnanfoundation.org/trustees/changes-to-board-of-trustees-at-lingnan-foundation/|title=Changes to Board of Trustees at Lingnan Foundation|website=lingnanfoundation.org|access-date=2019-11-25}} the Heterodox Academy Advisory Council,{{cite web|url=https://heterodoxacademy.org/team/ |title=Team — Heterodox Academy }} the Olin College of Engineering Board of Trustees,{{cite web|url=https://www.olin.edu/about/board-trustees |title=Board of Trustees | Olin College of Engineering }} and the national Trust for the Humanities.{{cite web|url=http://nth.fund/leadership |title=Leadership }} She is also a member of the editorial advisory boards of several academic publications, including the Journal of Public Integrity,{{cite web|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=mpin20 | title=Learn about Public Integrity }} LearningWell Magazine,{{cite web|url=https://learningwellmag.org/about |title=About LearningWell Magazine }} the Journal of Brentano and the Aristotelean Tradition,{{cite web|url=https://www.brentanoandthearistoteliantradition.org/about-us/ |title=About Us – Brentano and the Aristotelian Tradition }} and Public Philosophy Journal.{{cite web |url=https://publicphilosophyjournal.org/about/ppj-editorial-advisory-board/ |title=PPJ Editorial Advisory Board {{!}} Public Philosophy Journal |website=publicphilosophyjournal.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513085424/https://publicphilosophyjournal.org/about/ppj-editorial-advisory-board/ |archive-date=2019-05-13}}

In December 2022, Pasquerella was awarded the North Star Medal of Lifetime Achievement by the STAR Scholars Network. In October 2022, she received the Brown University Alumni Association’s William Rogers Award,{{Cite web|url=https://alumni-friends.brown.edu/volunteer/recognition/william-rogers-award |title=William Rogers Award }} and in May 2020, she received the Mount Holyoke College Alumni Association’s Elizabeth Topham Kennan Award.{{Cite web|url=https://alumnae.mtholyoke.edu/148th-annual-meeting/ |title=148th Annual Meeting held virtually – Alumnae Association }} In May 2019, Pasquerella was named one of America’s Top 35 Women in Higher Education by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.{{Cite web|url=https://diverseeducation.com/2019%20Top%2035%20Women%20in%20Higher%20Education/#/|title=Top 35 Women in Higher Education|website=diverseeducation.com|access-date=2019-11-25}}

Pasquerella has received the 2018 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service and Altruism from Mary Baldwin College.{{Cite web|url=https://marybaldwin.edu/commencement/algernon-sydney-sullivan-awards/|title=Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards|website=Mary Baldwin University|date=27 April 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-25}} On May 20, 2017, Pasquerella was the commencement speaker for Elizabethtown College's Class of 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://huntingdondailynews.our-hometown.com/news/2017-06-12/People%7CPastimes/Elizabethtown_College_grants_diplomas_to_graduates.html|title=Elizabethtown College grants diplomas to graduates {{!}} June 12, 2017 {{!}} The Daily News serving Huntingdon, Mount Union, Orbisonia, and Saxton PA|website=huntingdondailynews.our-hometown.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-14}} On June 3, 2017, she received an honorary doctorate in Civil Law from Bishop's University in Quebec, Canada.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ubishops.ca/bishops-university-announces-honorary-doctorate-recipients-189th-convocation/|title=BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES HONORARY DOCTORATE RECIPIENTS AT ITS 189TH CONVOCATION {{!}} Bishop's University|work=Bishop's University |date=2017-06-02|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-25}} Pasquerella delivered a commencement address and received an honorary doctorate degree at the University of Hartford’s graduate commencement ceremony on May 18, 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hartford.edu/news/press-releases/2019/05/ns-grad-commencement-19.aspx|title=Graduate Commencement 2019 {{!}} University of Hartford|website=www.hartford.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-11-25}} She also received honorary doctorate degrees during the commencement ceremonies of the University of South Florida on May 2, 2019,{{Cite web|url=http://news.usf.edu/article/templates/?a=8933&z=220|title=President Judy Genshaft to Lead Her Final USF Commencement Ceremonies - University of South Florida|website=news.usf.edu|access-date=2019-11-25}} and the University of Rhode Island on May 19.{{Cite web|url=https://web.uri.edu/commencement/y2019/speakers-and-honored-guests/|title=Speakers and Honored Guests|last=|first=|date=|website=University of Rhode Island|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-25}} She received honorary doctorates from Mount Holyoke College in 2020, from Concordia College in 2021, and from Bay Path University in 2022.{{Cite web |date= |title=Mount Holyoke to hold 2020 Commencement |url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/2022-may/mount-holyoke-hold-2020-commencement |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509143103/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/2022-may/mount-holyoke-hold-2020-commencement |archive-date=2022-05-09 |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=Mount Holyoke College |language=en}}{{cite web |title=2021 Honorary Degrees |url=https://www.concordiacollege.edu/about/commencement/class-of-2021/honorary-degrees/ |website=Concordia College |access-date=June 21, 2024 |language=en}}

• What We Value: Public Health, Social Justice, and Educating for Democracy, University of Virginia Press, January, 2022.
• Ethical Issues in Home Health Care. Co–authored with Rosalind Ladd and Sheri Smith. Charles C. Thomas Publishing, 2002.
• Ethical Dilemmas in Public Administration. Edited with Alfred Killilea and Michael Vocino. Praeger, 1996.
• "Brentano’s Theory of Value: Beauty, Goodness, and the Concept of Correct Emotions" with Wilhelm Baumgartner in The Cambridge Companion to Brentano, 2004. Pages 220–237.{{cite web |url=http://www.uri.edu/artsci/phl/pasquerella.html |title=URI Philosophy Department |website=www.uri.edu |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051225050831/http://www.uri.edu/artsci/phl/pasquerella.html |archive-date=25 December 2005 |url-status=dead}}

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