Patricia Rife is an e-marketing professor for the University of Maryland University College's Graduate School of Management & Technology.

Throughout her career, she has worked with corporations and marketing projects locally and globally. Rife was involved in community-based organizational training, grant-writing and program-planning in various organizations.

Rife holds a B.S. in journalism and global studies education and a Ph.D. in history of science from Union University, Cincinnati, Ohio.

• Austrian Woman Physicist Lise Meitner (1878–1968) and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission (October, 16 2008)