Tonya Smith-Jackson, Ph.D, Named Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

HFES member Tonya Smith-Jackson, Ph.D, has been named the new interim provost and executive vice chancellor of Academic Affairs at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

Dr. Smith-Jackson, Ph.D., has worked for North Carolina A&T since 2013, most recently as senior vice provost for Academic Affairs. She originally joined A&T as a professor and chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and founder/director of the Human Factors Analytics Laboratory.  She earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before completing her master’s degree in psychology and industrial engineering and a Ph.D. in psychology/ergonomics at North Carolina State University.  She served in a variety of teaching, research and consulting capacities for such organizations as IBM and Ericsson, as well multiple colleges and governmental agencies before joining Virginia Tech in 1999. She served Virginia Tech in multiple roles, including founder and director of the Assessment and Cognitive Ergonomics Laboratory, co-director of the Safety Engineering Laboratory and the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory and director of the Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics Center.

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