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Dean of Barrett Honors College
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Dr. Mark Jacobs is the Dean of Barrett Honors College and
Professor in the School of Life Sciences at ASU. He came to
ASU in the fall of 2003 from Swarthmore College, where he
had held an endowed chair in biology and had been both Chair
of the Biology Department and Associate Provost of the College.
He received his BA magna cum laude from Harvard in biology
and earned his Ph.D. at Stanford University in biological
sciences. A Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Jacobs is the
author of more than 50 publications on the physiological and
molecular control of plant development, and for 12 years was
associate editor-in-chief of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry,
an international plant science journal. He has been a visiting
professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University,
the University of California Santa Cruz and Universitat Freiburg
in Germany, where he held a NATO postdoctoral fellowship. He
teaches an honors seminar on "The History and Evolution of Human Food".
