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Dr. Margaret Rosario, an eminent psychologist in ����Ӱҵ’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, has been elevated to the rank of Distinguished Professor by the City University of New York (CUNY). 

The title of Distinguished Professor is the highest academic honor that CUNY can offer its faculty. It’s conferred by the CUNY Board of Trustees in recognition of exceptional scholarly achievement. Distinguished Professorships are reserved for faculty with records of exceptional performance by national and international standards of excellence in their profession. 

Rosario, who also teaches at the Graduate Center, CUNY, is noted for her research on identity, its development and implications for health and other adaptive outcomes. Stress is also of interest. 

Her research has centered on lesbian, gay, and bisexual young people undergoing sexual identity development. The relations between stress and sexual identity development to health and other adaptive outcomes are of critical interest, as are the mediators and moderators of those relations. In addition, she is interested in the determinants of sexual orientation and the intersection of multiple identities. 

Rosario is a Fellow of the (APA) and the (SSSS). She’s received several research grants, as principal or co-investigator, from the National Institutes of Health.

Her other accolades include:

• The Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from SSSS;
• The Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award (from APA’s Division 44, The Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity); and
• The Distinguished Contribution to Ethnic Minority Issues Award (Division 44, APA).  

Rosario is associate editor of “,” and of the quarterly “.”  She sits on the editorial boards of  “” and the “.” In addition, she’s a past president of APA’s Division 44.

Rosario earned her bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, her doctorate from New York University and did her postdoctoral training at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. 

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