Dr. Mary Beth Rosson is a professor emerita in the College of IST.
Previously, she had served as the college's Associate Dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies. Rosson had also co-directed the Computer-Supported Collaboration and Learning Lab. Prior to joining Penn State in 2003, she had been a professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech for ten years, and a research staff member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center for eleven years. Rosson received her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from The University of Texas at Austin in 1982. She was internationally known for research and education in human-computer interaction, participatory and scenario-based evaluation and design methods, computer-supported collaborative learning, and end-user development. In recognition of her research accomplishments, Dr. Rosson had been elected Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery and was a member of the SIGCHI Academy.
