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Duke Honors Distinguished Professors

The university has awarded distinguished professorships to 28 faculty members.

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.