Martha R. Grabowski, Ph.D. – KP ‘79
Distinguished Chair, and Professor and Director of the Information Systems Program at the Madden School of Business, Le Moyne College Syracuse, NY

Martha R. Grabowski is the McDevitt Distinguished Chair in Information Systems, and Professor and Director of the Information Systems program in the Madden School of Business at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York.  A current member and incoming vice chair/chair of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine's Transportation Research Board/Marine Board and a member of the American Bureau of Shipping, she is a Lifetime National Associate of the National Academies and recently chaired the National Academies' policy study assessing the U.S. Arctic Oil Spill Response capabilities for 8 sponsoring agencies. 

Dr. Grabowski is a former licensed Merchant Mariner and a retired Lieutenant Commander in the Navy Reserve.  She is a 1979 USMMA graduate, where she earned a B.S. in Marine Transportation. She earned an M.B.A., an M.S. in Industrial Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Management/Information Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  Dr. Grabowski is a prolific author and has published extensively in several scholarly journals.