Ann (Adjie) Henderson, PhD

Adjie is a long-term resident of City Island and has served as Associate Dean of Research, Planning, and Facilities in the School of Arts and Sciences at Hunter College before joining the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President at the Graduate Center as Dean for the Graduate Sciences. She was a member of the Graduate Programs in Biology and Biochemistry. Dr. Henderson earned her PhD in genetics at the University of North Carolina, where she also studied molecular biology; she has been affiliated with CUNY since 1984 and maintained active research laboratories at Columbia University and Hunter College until 2001. She has published more than 200 papers in diverse scientific research areas from molecular genetics, forensics, and biologic anthropology to setting standards for environmental controls.