Dr. Barbara J. Rolls, Director
Dr. Barbara Rolls Curriculum Vitae (.pdf format)
Barbara J. Rolls obtained a B.A. in biology from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Cambridge, England. Her early research career was spent at the University of Oxford, England. In 1984, she moved to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where she was Professor of Psychiatry. In 1992, she moved to the Pennsylvania State University where she is Professor of Nutritional Sciences and occupant of the Helen A. Guthrie Chair in Nutrition.
She is Past-President of both the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior and the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. She has been a member of the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIH). In 1995 she was the recipient of the American Society of Nutritional Sciences Award in Human Nutrition. In 1996, she received the Pauline Schmitt Russell Distinguished Research Career Award from the College of Health & Human Development, Penn State. In 1997 she was the recipient of a MERIT award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for her outstanding research performance. She was the 2001 recipient of the International Award for Modern Nutrition. In 2003 she was awarded Honorary Membership in the American Dietetic Association. In 2006 she was elected a fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science and received the Evan G. and Helen G. Pattishall Outstanding Research Achievement Award, College of Health & Human Development, Penn State. She was selected as the 2007 W.O. Atwater Lecturer at Experimental Biology (sponsored by USDA’s 2007 Agricultural Research Service and the American Society for Nutrition), Washington, DC.
She is the author of five books including Thirst, The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan: Feel Full on Fewer Calories and The Volumetrics Eating Plan.