Penn State Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology
Managing Information, Powering Intelligence
Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
Director, Graduate Programs
Ph.D., Human Experimental Psychology University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1982
B.A., Psychology, Summa Cum Laude, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, 1977
Dr. Mary Beth Rosson is Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at The Pennsylvania State University. Rosson also co-directs the Computer-Supported Collaboration and Learning Lab. Prior to joining Penn State in 2003, she was Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech for 10 years, and a Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center for 11 years. Rosson received her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Texas – Austin in 1982. She is 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 was elected Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery and is a member of the SIGCHI Academy.
For a complete list of publications, see my current CV.