Molly Jahn, a professor of plant breeding and genetics and plant biology at Cornell University, will soon take over as dean of UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. As a college, CALS has a budget of over $150 million and is annually awarded over $100 million in research grants. It also contains 2,200 undergraduates, 1,000 graduate students and 270 faculty members.
Jahn received her undergraduate degree in 1980 at Swarthmore College, her master's degree in 1983 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her doctorate in plant breeding in 1988 from Cornell.
Currently Jahn manages more than $6 million in federal and industry research projects and has more than 30 commercial licenses in force.
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