Jared Cohon

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Jared Leigh Cohon is the eighth President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. .

He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earned in 1972 and 1973 respectively. Prior to Carnegie Mellon, Cohon was the Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and professor of environmental systems analysis at Yale University from 1992 to 1997 and was a faculty member in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering and Assistant and Associate Dean of Engineering and Vice Provost for Research at Johns Hopkins University from 1973 to 1992.

In the 1980s, under the name Clivus Jivus he was a member of The New Crusty Nostrils and the Exotic Naselles, a rock band at Johns Hopkins University.

Preceded by Robert Mehrabian

Carnegie Mellon University President 1997 – present

Succeeded by Incumbent

[edit] References

• Fenton, Edwin (2000). Carnegie Mellon 1900-2000: A Centennial History. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 0-88748-323-2. 

[edit] External links

• President Cohon's Bio at Carnegie Mellon
• Article mentioning Cohon's membership in The New Crusty Nostrils
• Carnegie Mellon Piper: Interview with Jared Cohon (p. 12)
• President's Dr. Jared L. Cohon lecture for CMU's "Journeys" lecture series