Rosemary Blieszner

Rosemary Blieszner is a dean emerita and Alumni Distinguished Professor Emerita of Human Development and Family Science. The emeritus title is conferred on retired professors, associate professors, and administrative officers who are specially recommended to the board by Virginia Tech President Tim Sands in recognition of exemplary service to the university. 

For more than 30 years, Blieszner helped lead the university’s Center for Gerontology as its associate director. She also served as associate dean of the Virginia Tech Graduate School from 2009 until March 2017, when she assumed the role first as interim dean, then as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, a position she held through July 2019.

Blieszner’s university-level appointments have included assistant vice provost for enrollment and degree management from 2015 to 2017 and director of strategic planning in the Office of the President from 2000 to 2001. She also served as a co-chair of Virginia Tech’s Sesquicentennial Steering Committee, which led the planning of the university’s celebration of its 150th anniversary in 2022.