Sunita KramerProvost and Dean of the Faculty

A Class of 1992 alumna, Sunita Gupta Kramer returned to her alma mater as provost and dean of the faculty. 

Prior to F&M, Kramer was the dean of the School of Science at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). Kramer arrived at TCNJ in July 2022 and in her time there, she was recognized as a champion of design thinking and interdisciplinary approaches to problem-solving. She often collaborated with TCNJ’s School of Engineering. Prior to arriving at TCNJ, Kramer was a faculty member at Rutgers University for 12 years before taking on progressive leadership roles, culminating with being the university’s inaugural associate vice president for research and experiential education. In that role, she coordinated and developed avenues for student research, innovation, experiential learning and external partnerships. She also was the creator and director of Rutgers’ Innovation, Design & Entrepreneurship Academy, a four-year program integrating research, design and entrepreneurial thinking into the undergraduate experience. Kramer served as assistant vice provost and was the founding associate academic dean of the Honors College at Rutgers-New Brunswick, where she also developed and led design thinking workshops and contributed to teaching a course on music and the brain. She served for six years as a member of the NIH–National Institute of General Medical Sciences’ Committee on Training and Workforce Development. The Committee designs strategies to increase undergraduate and graduate sponsored research, especially in support of developing a diverse STEM workforce. Previously, she served on the faculty at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where she taught and mentored undergraduate, graduate and medical students, and led a research program funded by grants from NIH, NSF, and the American Heart Association.

After graduating from Franklin & Marshall, Kramer earned her doctorate in molecular and cellular biology from Stony Brook University (N.Y.). She completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied cell guidance mechanisms during early embryonic development. She is married to Joseph J. Kramer, who graduated from F&M in 1990, where the two met as students. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Rutgers’ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and also serves as the director for the master’s degree program in biomedical sciences.