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Duke University has awarded distinguished professorships to 32 faculty and will recognize them in a ceremony at the Washington Duke Inn on May 23.
“I am very pleased to honor these faculty members with distinguished professorships,” said President Vincent Price. “Their outstanding scholarship has advanced knowledge across a wide variety of fields and made a positive impact on society, and I am proud to have them as colleagues.”
Distinguished professorships honor faculty who are well-established members of the Duke academic community and have also achieved distinction as creative scholars in their field or in their ability to transcend disciplines.
“I congratulate my colleagues on receiving distinguished professorships recognizing their impressive scholarly achievements and leadership in our academic community and beyond,” said Provost Alec D. Gallimore. “Duke is tremendously fortunate to count these bold thinkers among its faculty.”
During its February meeting, Duke’s Board of Trustees approved the awarding of Distinguished Professorships to the following faculty, effective July 1, 2024:
Lisa M. Amaya-Jackson (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)
Michelle Winn, MD, Distinguished Professor
Huiman Xie Barnhart (Biostatistics & Bioinformatics)
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor
Christopher Charles Beyrer (School of Medicine)
Gary Hock Distinguished Professor in Global Health
David B. Brown (Fuqua School of Business)
Snow Family Distinguished Professor
Doriane Lambelet Coleman (School of Law)
Thomas L. Perkins Distinguished Professor
Erica Field (Department of Economics)
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor
Sara Sternberg Greene (School of Law)
Katharine T. Bartlett Distinguished Professor
Simon Gray Gregory (Department of Neurosurgery)
Margaret Harris and David Silverman Distinguished Professor
Christoph Paul Vincent Hornik (Department of Pediatrics)
Samuel L. Katz Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics
Kimberly Sherell Johnson (Department of Medicine)
Brenda E. Armstrong, M.D. Distinguished Professor
Sönke Johnsen (Department of Biology)
Ida Stephens Owens Distinguished Professor
Hui-Kuan Lin (Department of Pathology)
Fred and Janet Sanfilippo Distinguished Professor
Jianfeng Lu (Department of Mathematics)
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor
Xunrong Luo (Department of Medicine)
Boyce Haller Distinguished Professor in Nephrology
Veronica Root Martinez (School of Law)
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Distinguished Professor of Law
Joel Meyer (Nicholas School of the Environment)
Sally Kleberg Distinguished Professor of Environmental Genomics
Michael C. Munger (Department of Political Science)
Pfizer,Inc./Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. University Professor
Willie John Padilla (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Dr. Paul Wang Distinguished Professor
Michael Patrick Pignone (Department of Medicine)
Rebecca & John Kirkland Distinguished Professor
Thomas James Polascik (Department of Urology)
Lawrence C. Katz Distinguished Professor
Jonathan Posner (Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)
J. P. Gibbons Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry
Michael Vernon Relf (School of Nursing)
Mary T. Champagne Distinguished Professor
Cynthia D. Rudin (Department of Computer Science)
Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Distinguished Professor
Emily Ryo (School of Law)
Charles L. B. Lowndes Distinguished Professor of Law
Kevin O'Neil Saunders (Department of Surgery)
Norman L. Letvin M.D. Distinguished Professor in Surgery and the Duke Human Vaccine Institute
Kevin Lindsey Thomas (Department of Medicine)
Donald F. Fortin, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Cardiology
Georgia Doris Tomaras (Department of Surgery)
A. Geller Distinguished Professor for Research in Immunology
Qianben Wang (Department of Pathology)
Banks Anderson, Sr. Distinguished Professor
Erika S. Weinthal (Nicholas School of the Environment)
John O. Blackburn Distinguished Professor
Heather Elizabeth Whitson (Department of Medicine)
Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience
Kanecia Obie Zimmerman (Department of Pediatrics)
Wilburt C. Davison Distinguished Professor
Lee Zou (Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology)
George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor
In addition, four faculty members awarded Distinguished Professorships that took effect July 1, 2023, will also be honored at the ceremony:
Elisabeth D. de Fontenay (School of Law)
Karl W. Leo Distinguished Professor of Law
Kafui Dzirasa (Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science)
A. Eugene and Marie Washington Presidential Distinguished Professor
Alec Gallimore (Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science)
Alfred J. Hooks E '68 Distinguished Professor
Miriam Treggiari (Department of Anesthesiology)
Paul G. Barash Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology
For a complete list of Duke’s Distinguished Professors, please visit the Provost’s Office website.
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