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Prof. Paul C. Jennings | Former Vice President and Provost, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Professor Jennings received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology. After serving in the United States Air Force as a member of the faculty of the Air Force Academy, he joined the faculty of Caltech in 1966. He served as Chairman of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science from 1985 to 1989 and was Caltech's Vice President and Provost from 1989 to 1995. Following that he became Acting Vice President for Business and Finance until September of 1995; he held this post again in 1998-1999. From 2004 to 2007 he again became Caltech's Provost. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a past President of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, a past President of the Seismological Society of America, and a Fellow and past-chair of the California Council on Science and Technology. He has received the Newmark Medal and the Huber Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Housner Medal from the Earthquake Engineering Institute, and the Honor Alumnus and the Achievement in Academic Awards from his undergraduate alma mater, Colorado State University.