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Directors > Frank H.T. Rhodes > Complete Biography | |
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Dr. Rhodes is Professor of Geological Sciences and President Emeritus of Cornell University, where he served for eighteen years. Before assuming the presidency at Cornell in 1977, he was Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan, having earlier served as Dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. He was previously Professor and Head of the Geology Department and Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Wales, Swansea, and has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois, where he was also director of the University of Illinois Field Station in Sheridan, Wyoming, and the University of Durham. Dr. Rhodes is a graduate of the University of Birmingham, England, from which he holds four degrees, a former Fullbright scholar and Fullbright distinguished fellow, a National Science Foundation senior visiting research fellow, a visiting fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge and Trinity College, Oxford. He is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and an honorary fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge and of the University of Wales, Swansea. Dr. Rhodes holds honorary degrees from 35 institutions in the U.S. and abroad and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He is the recipient of the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society, the Justin Morrill Award of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, the higher education leadership award of the Commission of Independent Colleges and Universities, and the Clark Kerr medal of the University of California, Berkeley. He was the 1999 Jefferson Lecturer at Berkeley and was the recipient of the 2002 Ian Campbell Award of the American Geological Institute. Dr. Rhodes was appointed by President Reagan as a member of the National Science Board, of which he is a former chairman, and by President Bush as a member of the President’s Educational Policy Advisory Committee. He has served as Chairman of the governing boards of the American Council on Education, the American Association of Universities and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He has also served as a trustee of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and was a member of the board of directors of General Electric from 1984-2002. Dr. Rhodes has published widely in the fields of geology, paleontology, evolution, the history of science, and education. His books include Language of the Earth, Fossils, Geology, Evolution and The Evolution of Life. His latest book The Creation of the Future, published in 2001, deals with the role of the American University. Rhodes was chairman of the 1987 National Commission on Minority Participation in education and American Life that produced the report, “One-Third of a Nation.” The honorary co-chairs of the Commission were Presidents Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter. He was the co-chair, with Donald E. Petersen, former chairman of the Ford Motor Company, that produced the report, “American Potential: The Human Dimension,” and was co-chair, with Gary Tooker, chairman of Motorola, of the Council on Competitiveness 1995 report on research and development. He was also a member of the Association of Governing Boards’ 1996 Commission on Renewing the Academic Presidency. Dr. Rhodes is a director of The Washington Advisory Group and a member of the Board of Overseers of Koç University, Turkey. He is chairman of the board of Atlantic Philanthropies, a member of the boards of the Goldman Sachs Foundation and the Johnson Foundation, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Commission on the Future of the Research University. He is currently serving as president of the American Philosophical Society.
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