Joseph Helble

Provost

Joseph J. Helble was appointed Provost of Dartmouth College in May 2018. Formerly the Dean of Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, Helble brought national prominence to the school, making it a national leader in educating women in engineering, and creating the first engineering PhD innovation program in the country to prepare doctoral candidates for entrepreneurial success.

He is a co-recipient of the National Academy of Engineering’s 2014 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education for the design and implementation of Dartmouth’s Engineering Entrepreneurship Program (which includes the PHD Innovation Program), and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Helble received his BS in chemical engineering from Lehigh University, and his PhD in chemical engineering from MIT.