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Rosemarie Wesson

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Rosemarie Wesson is the Associate Vice Chancellor and University Vice Provost for Research at The City University of New York. She was the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. She has worked at the National Science Foundation, Louisiana State University and Dow Chemical Company.

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