Thomas G. Nolen, PhD is the Dean of the School of Science and Engineering at the State University of New York at New Paltz. As a member of the Biology Department since 1998, he has served as the principle advisor for pre-health career students (from 1998 to 2022) as well as the Director of Dual Degree Medical Programs with the New York Institute of Technology’s College of Osteopathic Medicine (BS/DO), with the TOURO College of Osteopathic Medicine (BS/DO) and with the SUNY College of Optometry (BS/OD). He has 38 years' experience advising pre-health career students: 28 years at SUNY New Paltz and ten years at the University of Miami. He currently is developing several other health career tracks at SUNY New Paltz.

Dr. Nolen earned a Bachelor of Arts in Aquatic Biology and a Master of Arts in Organismal Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned his PhD is in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University and did his postdoctoral work in Neuroscience in the Psychology Department at Yale University.  Dr. Nolen was a Grass Foundation Fellow (1986) and a SW Kuffler Fellow (1988) in Neurophysiology at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA.

Dr. Nolen is a founding member of Catskill Hudson AHEC.