Jane Margaret O'Brien
Jane Margaret O'Brien, also known as Maggie O'Brien, is an American professor of chemistry, college president, and academic administrator. She is president emerita of St. Mary's College of Maryland, and was president of Hollins College.
Biography
O'Brien received her BS degree in biochemistry at Vassar College in 1975; and her PhD in chemistry at the University of Delaware in 1981.O'Brien served as president of St. Mary's College of Maryland in St. Mary's City, Maryland, from 1996 to 2009. She was the president of Hollins College in Hollins, Virginia, from 1991 to 1996.
While she was president of St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1998, a group of students on a study abroad trip to Guatemala experienced being robbed and five female students were gang raped.