Anne Jones

Anne Katherine Jones is Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. As vice provost, she collaborates with units across the university to provide leadership for university-wide curriculum and student success projects. Ongoing projects include redefinition of the ASU general education requirements, partnering with the US Naval Community College to offer degrees for active-duty service members, expanding and improving the curricular offerings of ASU to prepare the broadest possible collection of students for life and career success, and student success initiatives to realize ASU’s mission and goals. Before joining the provost’s office in 2020, as Associate Director of the School of Molecular Sciences, Dr. Jones led ASU’s undergraduate and graduate academic programs in chemistry and biochemistry. Jones co-led the development and launch of the first online biochemistry degree in the United States, which grew to serve more than 1,000 students in its first five years, expanding access to high quality STEM education. Jones is also active in developing a Bridge Program to minimize equity gaps and support progression of a more representative groups of students from undergraduate degrees to doctorates in chemical sciences. As Professor of Chemistry, Jones has published widely in the fields of electrocatalysis and biological electron transfer. Her work has been supported by public and private agencies including the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, the US Department of Defense, the American Chemical Society and the Keck Foundation. Dr. Jones earned her D. Phil. in chemistry from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and NSF Graduate Fellow. She has received such prizes as the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, the AFOSR and DOE Early Career Awards, and the ASU Founder’s Day and Zebulon Pearce Teaching Awards.