Jack M. Wilson
| Jack M. Wilson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1945 (age 71–72) Indiana, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | President-Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Innovation, entrepreneur, educator |
| Children | 4 |
Jack M. Wilson (born 1945) is an American educator, entrepreneur and the President-Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Innovation at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. During his career, he has served various institutions as professor of physics, department chair, research center director, dean, provost, vice president, and president, and has served with multiple professional societies and government committees.
Wilson began his professional career in physics as an instructor at Kent State University in Ohio. He then moved to the physics department at Sam Houston State University in Texas. In his ten years there (1972–82) he was first professor, then department chair, and eventually director of their Division of Chemistry, Physics, and Physical Sciences.
After two years as guest scientist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1982–84) and Executive Officer of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), Wilson moved to the University of Maryland. From 1984 to 1990, he was a professor of physics at the University of Maryland's main campus and continued as the Executive Officer of AAPT. He also served as Co-Director of the Maryland University Project in Physics and Educational Technology.
In 1990, Wilson went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, as director of the Lois J. and Harlan E. Anderson Center for Innovation in Undergraduate Education and Professor of Physics. In 1997 he was appointed as the J. Erik Jonsson '22 Distinguished Professor of Physics, Engineering Science, Information Technology, and Management at RPI, a capacity he held until 2001. He also served RPI as a Dean, Research Center Director, and interim Provost. He was also chairman of the board for RPI's extension campus, Rensselaer at Hartford.
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