Jonathan R. Cole, currently Provost Dean of Faculties and Quetelet Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, received a B.A. in American History from Columbia in 1964 and the Ph.D. with Honors in Sociology from Columbia in 1969. He has been teaching at Columbia from 1966 to the present time. He served as Director of the Center for the Social Sciences from 1979-1987, when he became Vice President for Arts and Sciences, a post held until July 1989, when he became Provost. Among many awards and honors, he has received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study on the Behavioral Sciences, and he is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published extensively on historical and social aspects of science, has been a leading international contributor to understanding the opportunities, challenges and obstacles facing women in the scientific community, has led a National Academy of Sciences evaluation of the peer review system in science, and has published works recently on health risks and on dilemmas facing American research universities.