Jared Leigh Cohon (born October 7, 1947) served as the eighth

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. he is a University Professor in the

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. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the

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and MS and

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degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from

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, 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

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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

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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

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and director of th
Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
In 2014, Carnegie Mellon announced that the University Center would be renamed in honor of President Cohon and will be called the Cohon University Center. Cohon was elected a member of the

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(2012) for contributions to environmental systems analysis and national policy and leadership in higher education.

References

External links

President Cohon's Bio at Carnegie Mellon

Carnegie Mellon Piper: Interview with Jared Cohon
(p. 12) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cohon, Jared 1947 births University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni MIT School of Engineering alumni Presidents of Carnegie Mellon University Yale University faculty Living people Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences