Duke University has awarded distinguished professorships to 28 faculty members.
The professors were recognized at a dinner Monday, April 28, 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
- Pankaj Agarwal, RJR Nabisco Professor of Computer Science
- Avshalom Caspi, Edward M. Arnett Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience
- V. Joseph Hotz, Arts & Sciences Professor of Economics
- Timur Kuran, Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies
- Terrie Moffitt, Knut Schmidt Nielsen Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience
- Wayne Norman, Mike and Ruth Mackowski Professor of Ethics
Divinity School
- Paul Griffiths, William K. Warren Foundation Professor of Catholic Theology
Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering
- April Brown, John Cocke Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Ashutosh Chilkoti, Theo Pilkington Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- David Smith, William Bevan Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Fuqua School of Business
- Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics
- Ravi Bansal, J.B. Fuqua Professor of Business Administration
- Allan Lind, James L. Vincent Professor of Leadership
- Mary Frances Luce, Thomas A. Finch Jr. Professor of Business Administration
- Manju Puri, J.B. Fuqua Professor of Business Administration
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
- Cindy Van Dover, Harvey W. Smith Professor of Biological Oceanography
- Jeffrey Vincent, Korstian Professor in Forest Economics and Management
School of Law
- James Coleman, John S. Bradway Professor of the Practice of Law
- H. Jefferson Powell, Frederic Cleaveland Professor of Law and Divinity (joint appointment)
- Arti Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law
School of Medicine
- Page Anderson, Beverly C. Morgan M.D. Professor of Pediatric Cardiology
- Margaret Humphreys, Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine
- Sally Kornbluth, James B. Duke Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
- Michael Merson, Wolfgang Joklik Professor of Medicine
- Rendon Nelson, Reed & Marha Rice Professor of Radiology
- Howard Rockman, Edward Orgain Professor of Cardiology
- Allen Roses, Jefferson-Pilot Corporation Professor of Neurobiology
- Michael Zalutsky, Jonathan Spicehandler M.D. Professor of Neuro-Oncology
In addition, two 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
- Alvin L. Crumbliss, Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of Chemistry
Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering
- Roger C. Barr, Anderson-Rupp Professor of Biomedical Engineering.