About President Emeritus Barchi
Robert Barchi served as the 20th president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, from September 2012 to June 2020. A neuroscientist and neurologist, Dr. Barchi formerly served for eight years as president of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, an institution dedicated to health sciences education and research, and was a highly regarded faculty member and administrator at the Ivy League's University of Pennsylvania for three decades, including service as provost and chief academic officer.