Jared Cohon

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Jared Leigh Cohon was the eighth President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. He is currently a University Professor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (College of Engineering) at Carnegie Mellon.

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. Cohon stepped down from his position as President of Carnegie Mellon in 2013 and returned to the faculty as a University Professor in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy.

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Preceded by Robert Mehrabian	Carnegie Mellon University President 1997 – 2013	Succeeded by Subra Suresh

References

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

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v t e Presidents of Carnegie Mellon University

Arthur Hamerschlag (1903) Thomas Baker (1922) Robert Doherty (1936) John Warner (1950) Guyford Stever (1965) Richard Cyert (1972) Robert Mehrabian (1990) Jared Cohon (1997) Subra Suresh (2013)

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