Professor
Department of Nutrition
Chair of the Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology
Chancellor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz
Office: 3243 Meyer
Phone: (530)754-4365
e-mail: mrcgreenwood@ucdavis.edu

Ph.D., Physiology, Developmental Biology,and Neurosciences, The Rockefeller University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Human Nutrition, Columbia University
A.B., Summa cum laude, Biology, Vassar College

Dr. M.R.C. Greenwood's research interests are in national science policy, obesity, diabetes, and women's health. Her past research work has been on the role of genetics in the development of obesity and diabetes. She is currently interested in national and international policy in these areas and the role of government in the regulation of food and diet.

Dr. Greenwood is a nationally and internationally know expert on obesity and diabetes.  She has numerous publications investigating the basis of obesity and diabetes. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academies of Sciences, has been President of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO)—now the Obesity Society, President of the American Society of Clinical Nutrition and has chaired the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine.

In addition, she is Chancellor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz and currently Professor of Nutrition and Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis. She also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Public Health and Nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley.
From April of 2004 to November of 2005, Dr. Greenwood served as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs for the 10 campus University of California (UC) system, the second highest position in the 10 campus system.

Dr. Greenwood previously served with distinction as Chancellor of UC Santa Cruz, a position she held from July 1996 to April 2004. In addition to her administrative responsibilities, Dr. Greenwood also held  a UC Santa Cruz appointment as professor of biology.

Prior to her UC Santa Cruz appointments, Dr. Greenwood served as Dean of Graduate Studies, Vice Provost for academic outreach, and Professor of Nutrition and Internal Medicine at UC Davis. While at UC Davis she maintained an active, well-supported research program focusing on the genetic basis for diabetes and obesity and in areas related to women’s health.

In addition, she served as Associate Director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1993 to 1995. There she provided authoritative information and advice on a broad array of scientific areas to the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in support of the President of the U.S.A. and his objectives and programs.

She is chair of the Division of Policy and Global Affairs (PGA) of the National Research Council and a former chair of the Council’s Office of Science and Engineering Policy Advisory Board. She has served in many advisory capacities and on numerous committees. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is a fellow and past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She is a former, U.S. senate confirmed, member of the National Science Board and was also a member of the Laboratory Operations Board of the U.S. Department of Energy. She was a member of the board of directors of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC).  Among numerous other distinctions, she was a member of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Science Advisory Board and of the Task Force on the Future of Science Programs at the U.S. Department of Energy. She was a member of the National Commission on Writing in America's Schools and Colleges, appointed by the College Board. She is a member of the biotech company, Maxygen, Inc., Board of Directors and has also served on various other for profit and non-profit advisory boards.

Ramenofsky, Marilyn, Savard, Roland, and Greenwood, M.R.C. Season and diel transitions in physiology and behavior in the migratory dark-eyed junco, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A 122, pp. 385-397, 1999.

Greenwood, M.R.C., Kovacs North, Karen, and Dollenmayer, Judith, Whose Millennium? The University as a Medium of Culture. American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 42, No. 6, March, 1999.

Greenwood, M.R.C. and Kovacs North, Karen, “Science Through the Looking Glass: Winning the Battles But Losing the War?” Science Magazine, Vol. 286, pg. 2072-2078, December 10, 1999.

Greenwood, M.R.C., Gerardi Riordan, Donna. “Civic Scientist/Civic Duty,” Science Communication, Vol 23, No. 1, pp. 28-40, September 2001.

Greenwood, M.R.C. “Risky Business:  Research Universities in the Post-September 11 Era,” Science and Technology in a Vulnerable World, Supplement to AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2003.

Greenwood, M.R.C., Gerardi Riordan, Donna. “Research Universities in the New Security Environment,” Issues in Science and Technology, pp. 35-39, Summer, 2002.

Greenwood, M.R.C. Greenwood, The Changing Picture for Women in Science and Higher Education Careers: Glass Ceilings and now a Glass Cliff? In: Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future, Cornell University Press, in press, 2007.