Top Deans & Directors

Brian Strom Inaugural chancellor, Rutgers Biomedical Health and Sciences Rutgers University The new $750 million cancer center — one that figures to exponentially improve care in the state — is just the latest project for Strom, who...

Michael Salvatore Senior vice president, administration Kean University In pursuit of the illustrious Carnegie Research Classification, Salvatore co-leads Kean University’s Presidential Task Force with an ambitious plan to achieve R2 status in the next fiscal year. Annette ReboliBrian...

Annette Reboli Dean, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Rowan University Her hands-on approach can be seen everywhere. As an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist, Reboli is committed to patient care, educating the next generation of physicians. Rodney...

Rodney Priestley Dean, Graduate School Princeton University Previously the school’s first vice dean for innovation, he brings his experience performing groundbreaking fundamental research in materials science and translating intellectual property into products and enterprises. Gregory PrastacosAnnette Reboli  

Gregory Prastacos Dean, School of Business Stevens Institute of Technology When you want to reimagine business education led by technological advances, you go to people such as Prastacos. That’s what the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of...

Patrick Murray Founding director, Monmouth University Polling Institute Monmouth University No politician in Jersey ever claims, “His polls are wrong.” That’s how solid and respected Murray’s work is in the state and around the country. They will...

Robin Mama Dean, School of Social Work Monmouth University Mama has taken social work from a program to a standalone school, one with connections to the United Nations and the International Federation of Social Workers, a nationally...

Ken Lacovara Dean, School of Earth & Environment Rowan University In 2005, Lacovara discovered one of the most complete dinosaur skeletons ever, a find he dubbed “Dreadnoughtus.” His TED talk, “Hunting for Dinosaurs Showed Me Our Place...

Ashley Koning Director, Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling; assistant research professor Rutgers University As the director — and only woman academic pollster currently in New Jersey — she runs and is the face of the Rutgers-Eagleton...

Robert Johnson Dean Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Johnson, a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, serves as the dean of the state’s oldest medical school, where he also is a professor of pediatrics and director...