{"id":106,"date":"2019-02-11T19:24:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T19:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/provost-2019\/?page_id=106"},"modified":"2025-02-03T14:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:57:44","slug":"provost","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/provost\/about\/our-people\/provost\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Provost"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":26316,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"class_list":["post-106","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"lead_in":"","display_title":"","subtitle":"Nicole <\/span>S. <\/span>Sampson <\/span>is the University of Rochester\u2019s provost and chief academic officer<\/span><\/span>.<\/span>","call_to_action":"","hero_image_placement":"right_image","hero_media":"images","hero_pattern_option":"","hero_video":"","hero_image_landing":49572,"hero_image_landing_two":"","hero_image_landing_three":"","content_modules":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"","css_class":"","title":"","content":"Nicole S. Sampson is the University of Rochester\u2019s Provost, appointed to the role on February 1, 2025. Read the full news announcement<\/a>.\r\n\r\nSampson is an experienced higher education leader and a distinguished chemical biologist whose research focuses on the molecular intricacies of mammalian fertilization, methods for precision synthesis of polymers, and finding new treatments for tuberculosis and cholera.\r\n

More about Nicole Sampson<\/h2>\r\n\"Nicole\r\n\r\nUniversity of Rochester Provost Nicole S. Sampson is an accomplished academic and researcher committed to providing students with a world class educational experience.\r\n\r\nPrior to her appointment as provost, Sampson served as interim provost and as the Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences. As dean, she was instrumental in advancing the strategic priorities of the school and working to identify opportunities and resources to better support students, faculty, and staff members.\r\n\r\nSampson earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in chemistry from Harvey Mudd College, a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and held an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University.\r\n\r\nHer research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1995, and her honors and awards include a National Science Foundation CAREER Award; the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award and the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society; and the Research Foundation of SUNY Research and Scholarship Award. She is also a fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study and a fellow of the American Chemical Society.She has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed articles, reviews, and issued patents. Sampson has served on the editorial advisory boards of Accounts of Chemical Research; Journal of Organic Chemistry; Biochemistry; as well as Chemical & Engineering News.\r\n\r\nSampson came to Rochester in 2023 from Stony Brook University where she served in various roles, including dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. She also served as chair of the Chemistry Department from 2012-2017 and founded and served from 2010-2019 as co-director of a Chemical Biology Training Program funded by the NIH. She was a founding faculty member in Stony Brook\u2019s Institute for Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery.\u00a0 \u00a0 An Indiana native, Sampson now lives in the City of Rochester and enjoys exploring the area on her bike or in her running shoes. She enjoys competing in sprint triathlons and enjoying the variety of culinary venues Rochester has to offer. She and her husband Peter have two adult sons.\r\n

Sampson's Recent Publications<\/h3>\r\n