# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valerie-ashby
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:22:31.095Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valerie-ashby"
name: "Valerie Ashby"
slug: "valerie-ashby"
description: "Valerie Sheares Ashby is an American chemist and university professor who currently serves as president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She was the Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University from 2015 to 2022 and formerly chair of the chemistry department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2012 to 2015. With her research group, she holds ten patents. On April 4, 2022, it was announced that Ashby would assume the position of president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County."
tagline: "American chemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Valerie_Ashby.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.95
  momentum:             0.3244837758112094
  historical:           4.4126
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Valerie Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Ashby"
    title: "Valerie Ashby"
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    title: "వాలెరీ షీర్స్ ఆష్బీ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Valerie Ashby"
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Valerie_Ashby"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump