Penn State Forum Speaker Series - Nov. 16

Barbara J. Rolls

Professor of Nutrition, Penn State

"Feeling Full on Fewer Calories"

Rolls is a professor of nutritional sciences and the Helen A. Guthrie Chair in Nutrition at Penn State.  Rolls also holds positions at Penn State as professor in biobehavioral health, professor of neural and behavioral sciences in the College of Medicine, and is a faculty member in the Intercollege Graduate Program in physiology.  Rolls received a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate in physiology from the University of Cambridge, England.  After spending her early research career at the University of Oxford, England, Rolls joined the faculty of the John Hopkins University School of Medicine as professor of psychiatry.  In 1992, she became a faculty member at Penn State, where she currently teaches and conducts research as the director of the Laboratory for the Study of Human Ingestive Behavior.

Rolls is past-president of both the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior and The Obesity Society.  She has been a member of the advisory council of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).  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 Penn State's College of Health and Human Development.  In 1997, she was the recipient of a MERIT award from the NIDDK 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, also from Penn State's College of Health and Human Development.  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.  In 2008, Rolls received the Centrum Center for Nutritional Science Award.

She is the author of five books including "Thirst," "The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan," Feel Full on Fewer Calories" and "The Volumetrics Eating Plan."