Nicholas P. Jones

Nicholas Jones is Executive Vice President and Provost of the Pennsylvania State University. His undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering is from the University of Auckland in his home country of New Zealand, and he holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from California Institute of Technology. Prior to his appointment at Penn State he served as the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and previously as Professor and Chairman of Civil Engineering. He also served for two years as Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has received several awards for teaching and for research and he maintains professional associations with the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Association for Wind Engineering.