Jane Knox is the academic advisor for students interested in becoming journalism majors, including new freshman, transfer students and students who wish to change to journalism from another major. She is also available to talk with any students seeking information about the major.
For seven years in the 1990s, she served as assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and as director of Undergraduate Advising, helping thousands of students through the tangle of College and University regulations.
Formerly a full-time lecturer in the chemistry department, Ms. Knox taught analytical chemistry and instrumentation for many years. She has also organized seminars for undergraduates interested in opportunities within the field, helped start a departmental internship program for freshman and sophomores, and has taught a writing course in technical communications.
A proponent of strong liberal arts education, she developed a general education course for non-science majors, called Chemistry for an Informed Electorate. Ms. Knox's interest in environmental and marine chemistry led her to participate in a month-long oceanographic research cruise on the equatorial Pacific looking at trace levels of mercury in seawater.
Retired from the chemistry department since spring 2003, she advises pre-journalism students.
Ms. Knox is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and has graduate degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Boston University.
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