{"id":4474,"date":"2023-10-20T22:01:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T22:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/?page_id=4474"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:02:00","slug":"bot-pallavicini","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/board-of-trustees\/bot-pallavicini\/","title":{"rendered":"BOT Pallavicini"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-secondary\">\n  <div class=\"relative bg-black\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"adhere object-cover\" src=\"\/media\/university\/050323-pomona-campus-from-hec-001.jpg\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"A tropical courtyard with palm trees.\">\n      <div class=\"adhere gradient-overlay\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"relative container pt-56 md:pt-112 pb-144 md:pb-192\">\n      <div class=\"md:flex md:justify-between px-12\">\n        <div class=\"sm:w-8\/12 md:w-6\/12 xl:w-5\/12 px-12\">\n                      <div class=\"mb-20\">\n              <div class=\"block font-sans font-bold text-14 text-white leading-130\">\n  <span class=\"inline-block\">\n    <a href=\"\/\" class=\"block hover:underline\">WesternU<\/a>\n  <\/span>\n      <span class=\"inline-block mx-6\">\/<\/span>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\" class=\"inline-block hover:underline\">About WesternU<\/a>\n          <span class=\"inline-block mx-6\">\/<\/span>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/\" class=\"inline-block hover:underline\">Governance<\/a>\n    <span class=\"inline-block mx-6\">\/<\/span>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/board-of-trustees\/\" class=\"inline-block hover:underline\">Board of Trustees<\/a>\n    <span class=\"inline-block mx-6\">\/<\/span>\n    <span class=\"inline-block\">Maria Pallavicini<\/span>\n  <\/div>            <\/div>\n                                        <h1 class=\"t-h1-sans  text-white\">Maria Pallavicini<\/h1>\n        <\/div>\n              <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"relative my-48 md:my-72\">\n  <div class=\"container\">\n    <div class=\"lg:flex px-12 lg:justify-start\">\n              <div class=\"w-full lg:w-5\/12 2xl:w-4\/12 -mt-80 md:-mt-112 mb-48 px-12 lg:pr-32\">\n                              <nav class=\"py-28 px-40 2xl:px-64 rounded-5 md:rounded-8 bg-gray-darker text-white mb-40\">\n            <ul>\n                                              <li class=\"block my-8\">\n                  <a class=\"text-22 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-white hover:text-yellow transition-default\" href=\"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/governance\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Governance<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n                                              <li class=\"block my-8\">\n                  <a class=\"text-22 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-white hover:text-yellow 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<li class=\"block my-8\">\n                  <a class=\"text-22 font-normal leading-130 tracking-20 text-white hover:text-yellow transition-default\" href=\"\/students\/student-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Student Government Association<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n                          <\/ul>\n          <\/nav>\n                            <\/div>\n      \n      \n                  \n                  \n      <div class=\"w-full px-24 wysiwyg-content lg:w-7\/12 2xl:w-7\/12\">\n        <h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4530 alignleft\" src=\"\/media\/university\/maria-pallavicini-phd-1.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling woman in a gray blazer.\" width=\"200\" height=\"263\" \/>Maria Pallavicini, PhD<br \/>\nVice Chair, Board of Trustees<\/h2>\n<p>Dr. Maria Pallavicini is a biomedical scientist with a long history in academic affairs and administration. She recently retired after spending 12 years as the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of the Pacific. During her tenure, she also served as the University\u2019s Interim President from 2019-2020. Prior to joining Pacific, she was the Founding Dean of the School of Natural Sciences at the University of California-Merced. In her early career, Dr. Pallavicini was a professor and scientist at the University of California- San Francisco and Lawrence Livermore\/Berkeley Biology National Laboratories. She received a bachelor\u2019s degree in biochemistry from the University of California-Berkeley, earned a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Utah, and completed postdoctoral training at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"parent":82,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4474","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4474"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5942,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4474\/revisions\/5942"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagewp.westernu.edu\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}