Duke Honors Distinguished Professors

Duke has awarded distinguished professorships to 26 faculty members.

The professors were recognized at a dinner last month at the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club with other university distinguished professors -- current and emeritus -- in attendance.

The recipients were as follows:

Trinity College of Arts and Sciences

-- Edna Andrews, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies

-- Robert Calderbank, Philip Griffiths Professor of Computer Science

-- Ingrid Daubechies, James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics

-- Richard Durrett, James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics

-- Daniel Gauthier, Robert C. Richardson Professor of Physics

-- Nathaniel Mackey, Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing

-- Bruce Maggs, Pelham Wilder Professor of Computer Science

-- Kristine Stiles, France Family Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies

-- Duncan Thomas, Robert F. Durden Professor of Economics

Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering

-- George A. Truskey, R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering (II)

Fuqua School of Business

-- Michael Brandt, Kalman J. Cohen Professor of Business Administration

-- Tanya Chartrand, Roy J. Bostock Marketing Professor

-- Devavrat Purohit, Bob J. White Professor of Business Administration

School of Law

-- Jack Knight, Frederic Cleaveland Professor of Law and Political Science

-- Kimberly Krawiec, Kathrine Everett Professor of Law

School of Medicine

-- Richard Brennan, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry

-- David M. Brizel, Leonard Prosnitz Professor of Radiation Oncology

-- Priya S. Kishnani, Chen Family Professor of Pediatrics

-- Mary F. Klotman, R.J. Reynolds Professor of Medicine

-- Michael S. Krangel, Mary Bernheim Professor of Immunology

-- Daniel J. Lew, James B. Duke Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology

-- Joseph P. Mathew, Jerry Reves, M.D. Professor of Cardiac Anesthesiology

-- Richard Mooney, George Barth Geller Professor for Research in Neurobiology

-- Glenn M. Preminger, James F. Glenn, M.D. Professor of Urology

-- Geoffrey D. Rubin, George Barth Geller Professorship for Research in Cardiovascular Diseases

School of Nursing

-- Barbara S. Turner, Elizabeth Hanes Professor of Nursing

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In addition, 10 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

-- Vincent Conitzer, Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Computer Science

-- Thomas Ferraro, Frances Hill Fox Professor of English

-- Andrew Janiak, Creed C. Black Associate Professor of Philosophy

-- James Moody, Robert O. Keohane Professor of Sociology

-- Diane Nelson, Eads Family Professor of Cultural Anthropology

-- Mohamed Noor, Earl D. McLean Professor of Biology

-- Thomas Robisheaux, Fred W. Shaffer Professor of History

Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering

-- Kathryn Nightingale, James L. and Elizabeth M. Vincent Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

-- Adam Wax, Theodore Kennedy Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Nicholas School of the Environment

-- Lincoln Pratson, Truman and Nellie Semans/Alex Brown & Sons Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences.

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