Duke Honors Distinguished Professors

The university has awarded distinguished professorships to 28 faculty members.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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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.