Rebecca Kohn

Rebecca Kohn began service as Elon's provost and vice president of academic affairs on January 2, 2023.  

An accomplished scholar and researcher in the field of biology, Kohn brings to the position more than 20 years of academic and administrative leadership. She joined the faculty at Arcadia in 2017 as dean of the university’s College of Arts and Sciences and was named interim provost and special assistant to the president the following year. She became vice provost for academic planning and faculty affairs in 2019 and then took on the role of senior vice provost earlier this year, while continuing to serve as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Before joining Arcadia College, Kohn spent eighteen years as a member of the faculty at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, where she achieved the status of full professor of biology. As a Fulbright Fellow in 2007, she developed a collaborative research program at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile. While a postdoctoral fellow at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City, she developed a neuroscience research program, including experiments designed to be accessible to undergraduate researchers.

Kohn holds a doctorate in biology from Johns Hopkins University, where she explored transcriptional regulation, and a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Dartmouth College.