Cabinet Members and Deans

Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. President Shirley Ann Jackson became the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on July 1, 1999. President Jackson’s career prior to becoming Rensselaer's president has encompassed senior positions in government, as Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; in industry and research, as a theoretical physicist at the former AT&T Bell Laboratories; and in academe, as a professor of theoretical physics at Rutgers University. Full Profile

• Robert Palazzo
  Provost
• Charles Carletta
  Secretary of the Institute and General Counsel
• Laban Coblentz
  Chief of Staff and Associate Vice President for Policy and Planning
• Virginia Gregg
  Vice President, Finance 
• John Kolb ’79
  Vice President for Information Services and Technology and Chief Information Officer
• Eddie Ade Knowles
  Vice President, Student Life
• John Minasian
  Vice President and Dean, Rensselaer Hartford Campus
  
• James Nondorf
  Vice President, Enrollment, and Dean, Undergraduate and Graduate Admissions
• Curtis Powell
  Vice President, Human Resources
• Claude Rounds
  Vice President, Administration
  
• Wolf von Maltzahn
  Acting Vice President, Research
  
• William Walker
  Vice President, Strategic Communications and External Relations

Academic Deans:

• Alan Cramb
  Engineering
• Alan Balfour
  Architecture
• John P. Harrington
  Humanities and Social Sciences
• David A. Gautschi
  Lally School of Management & Technology
  
• Wei Zhao
  Science

Direct Reports to the President:

• Johannes Goebel
  Director for the experimental media and performing arts center
• Ronald Kudla
  Executive Director, Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer, and New Venture Creation
  
• Michael Wacholder
  Director, Rensselaer Technology Park and Commercial Real Estate