Duke University has awarded distinguished professorships to 22 faculty members.
The professors were recognized at a dinner Wednesday, April 25, at the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club with other university distinguished professors -- current and emeritus -- in attendance.
The recipients were:
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
-- Linda Burton, James B. Duke Professor of Sociology
-- Patricia Bauer, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience
-- William Darity, Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy Studies
-- Xinnian Dong, Arts & Sciences Professor of Biology
-- Claudia Koonz, Peabody Family Professor of History
-- David Rohde, Ernestine Friedl Professor of Political Science
-- R. Larry Todd, Arts & Sciences Professor of Music
-- David Wong, Susan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Trinity College Arts and Sciences Professor of Philosophy
Divinity School
-- Kenneth Carder, Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams, Jr. Professor of the Practice of Pastoral Formation
Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering
-- Kam Leong, James B. Duke Professor of Biomedical Engineering
-- Tuan Vo-Dinh, R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering
-- Mark R. Wiesner, James L. Meriam Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
-- Robert Jackson, Nicholas Professor of Global Environmental Change
School of Law
-- Catherine Fisk, Douglas Blount Maggs Professor of Law
-- James Salzman, Samuel F. Mordecai Professor of Law
School of Medicine
-- Ann Marie Pendergast, James B. Duke Professor of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
-- Joseph St. Geme III, James B. Duke Professor of Pediatrics
-- Harvey Cohen, Walter Kempner Professor of Medicine
-- Ramon Esclamado, Richard Hall Chaney, Sr. Professor of Surgery
-- Danny Jacobs, David C. Sabiston, Jr. Professor of Surgery
-- Salvatore Pizzo, Distinguished Professor of Pathology
School of Nursing
-- Diane Holditch-Davis, Marcus Hobbs Professor of Nursing
In addition, six new inductees in the Bass Society of Fellows for excellence in undergraduate teaching and research were honored at the dinner. They were:
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
-- Bruce R. Donald, William and Sue Gross Professor of Computer Science
-- Susan Alberts, Jack H. Neely Associate Professor of Biology
-- Stephen L. Craig, Fuchsberg-Levine Family Associate Professor of Chemistry
-- Robert Korstad, Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies
-- Jie Liu, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Associate Professor of Chemistry
Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering
-- Steven A. Cummer, Jeffrey N. Vinik Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering