Sally J. Marshall - June 2013 Tuesday, June 04, 2013 0 1325 Sally J. Marshall, Ph.D., is currently the vice provost of Academic Affairs at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also a distinguished professor of biomaterials and bioengineering, preventive and restorative dental sciences. She will retire from UCSF effective July 1, 2013 and will return part-time for research. Marshall earned her B.S. in science engineering and her Ph.D. in materials science & engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Her research interests center on understanding the relationship between structures, properties and mechanisms in materials. Her major expertise is in x-ray scattering by materials and atomic force microscopy for microstructural and mechanical properties characterization. Read more