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Rosalie K. Crouch, Ph.D., Provost Emerita, is a Distinguished University Professor ofOphthalmology and Biochemistry at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, SC. She is currently engaged full-time in vision research. Dr. Crouch obtained her A.B. degree from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, her M.S. degree from Lehigh University, and her Ph.D. from Einstein/Yeshiva University. She held an NIH postdoctoral fellowship while studying with Koji Nakanishi at Columbia University. She came to the Medical University of South Carolina in 1975 as an assistant professor and rose to the level of tenured professor in 1982. In that year she began to assume administrative responsibilities, which included service as Dean of the College of Graduate Studies, Vice Provost for Research, and Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. Dr. Crouch has received the SC Governor’s Award for Outstanding Service, the Senior Scientific Award from the American Society of Photobiology, the Senior Scientific Scholar Award by the Foundation for Prevention of Blindness, and the Faculty Appreciation Award from the MUSC Faculty Senate. Her research area is retinoid transport within the retina/RPE and studies of blinding disorders resulting from malfunction of this transport. |
