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2008 Cobb Chamber Chair-Elect
Dr. Lisa Rossbacher
Dr. Lisa Rossbacher, president of Southern Polytechnic State
University,
is the Cobb Chamber of Commerce's 2008 Chair-Elect
Dr. Rossbacher earned
her Ph.D. (Geological and Geophysical Sciences) at
Princeton University, and she has worked for the U.S.
Geological Survey, NASA, a geothermal exploration
company, and National Public Radio, in addition to
public and private institutions of higher education.
She is the only woman geologist on record as becoming a
university president in North America. Her bimonthly
column has appeared in the magazine Geotimes
since 1988, and she has authored books on geology,
science, and the media.
Her
research interests focus on the role of water and water
ice on the planet Mars. In 1984, she was a finalist in
NASA’s astronaut selection process. She was elected to
Phi Beta Kappa as an undergraduate and to the status of
Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement
of Science in 2001.
Dr. Rossbacher is active in the Marietta Kiwanis, and she is
a board member of both the Cobb and Georgia Chambers of
Commerce. She was a member of the 2001 class of
Leadership Atlanta, the 2001 inaugural class of the
Diversity Leadership Academy of Atlanta, and the 2006
Regional Leadership Institute (Atlanta Regional
Commission). She received the 2006 “Glass Ceiling
Award” from Cobb Executive Women, and she currently
chairs the Cobb YMCA Board of Directors and the Atlanta
Regional Council for Higher Education. Her husband, Dr.
Dallas D. Rhodes, chairs the Department of Geology and
Geography at Georgia Southern University. |
