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Barbara Shannon retired in December 1999 from The Pennsylvania State University as Dean Emerita of the College of Health and Human Development and Distinguished Professor of Nutrition. Prior to becoming that College’s Dean she served as Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Penn State. The College of Health and Human Development was restructured to its current configuration of two schools and six departments during her tenure as Dean.
Dr. Shannon received the B.S. degree from the University of Tennessee, Martin; the M.S. degree from the University of Illinois; and the Ph.D. degree from Purdue University. She joined the Penn State Faculty in 1971 as an assistant professor in the Nutrition Department where she was engaged in research and teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate level and supervised the research of master’s and doctoral students.
Her research focused on eating behavior as it impacts on disease prevention and health promotion and her studies were funded by both private and public sector foundations and agencies. She is a member of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences (formerly American Institute of Nutrition) and the Society for Nutrition Education — serving as president of the latter in 1991-92 and editor of the Journal of Nutrition Education from 1982-1985. In 1986 Dr. Shannon received the Outstanding Alumni Service Award from Purdue University’s School of Consumer and Family Sciences and in 1998 she was named a Distinguished Alumni of that School.
She now resides with her husband, Dr. Jack Shannon, in Cary, North Carolina. Since retiring she has been active in volunteer work serving on the Board of Directors and as President of The Carying Place, a transitional housing program for homeless families in the Cary area. Also, she completed docent training at the North Carolina Museum of Art and currently serves as a volunteer docent at that museum. Her favorite hobbies are oil painting and reading.
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