Katharine Culbert Lyall (born April 26, 1941) was the president of the University of Wisconsin System from 1992 to 2004. Lyall was the first woman president in the UW system.[1] She had previously served as Executive Vice President of the System, and Director of the Graduate Program in Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University. She was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.[1] She received a B.A. (1963) and a Ph.D. (1969) in economics from Cornell University, and an MBA (1965) from New York University.[2]

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  1. 1 2 "Katharine Lyall". Wisconsin Women Making History. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Presidents of the University of Wisconsin System". University of Wisconsin. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-09.


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