Dr. Kimberly Jones is Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the College of Engineering and Architecture at Howard University. She recently served on the Chartered Science Advisory Board of the US Environmental Protection Agency, as chair of the Drinking Water Committee of the Science Advisory Board and liaison to the National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC). She has served on several committees of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, including the Grand Challenges and Opportunities in Environmental Engineering for the Twenty-first Century. She is an alternate Commissioner of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin. Dr. Jones has served on the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Board of Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, where she was Secretary of the Board. She served as the Deputy Director of the Keck Center for Nanoscale Materials for Molecular Recognition at Howard University. She also serves on the Center Steering Committee of the Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEINT).
Dr. Jones has received the Researcher of the Year award from Howard University, a Top Women in Science Award from the National Technical Association, the Outstanding Young Civil Engineer award from University of Illinois Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, a NSF CAREER Award, an Outstanding Leadership and Service and Outstanding Faculty Mentor award from Howard University, and Top Women Achievers award from Essence Magazine. She also served as an associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Engineering (ASCE).