Throughout the University's 2015 fiscal year, endowed professorship support helped advance work in data science, economics, and many areas across the Medical Center, including neurological disease. Commitments from alumni, parents, friends, and faculty and staff have also enabled us to build on a standard of faculty excellence. Endowed professorships give us resources to retain the outstanding scholars and health care providers currently teaching and mentoring our students, and they will allow us to successfully compete for new world-class faculty members in perpetuity.
Our community’s dedication to our faculty is why we have already reached our faculty support goal ($350 million) for The Meliora Challenge and our aspiration to establish a minimum of 80 new endowed professorships. We now have a total of 94 toward our new target of 100 before the Campaign ends on June 30, 2016.
Past issues of Fast Forward covered the creation or celebration of many endowed professorships during fiscal year 2015. You can read about them by following the links below.
- Julius, Helen, and Robert Fine Professorship
- Hazel Fyfe Professor in Economics
- Independence Chair in Nursing and Palliative Care
- Dr. C. McCollister Evarts Professorship in Orthopaedics
- Benefactor Distinguished Professor
- David M. Levy Professor in Neurology
- Robin and Tim Wentworth Directorship of the Goergen Institute for Data Science
- Northumberland Trust Professor in Pediatrics
- Tansukh, Sarla and Rajesh Ganatra Professorship in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
- Wright Family Research Professor
- Lawrence N. Chessin, M.D. ’58 and Rita R. Chessin Professorship in Infectious Diseases
- Catherine E. Aquavella Distinguished Professorship in Ophthalmology and the James V. Aquavella, M.D. Professorship in Ophthalmology
You can also find more information on endowed professorships and how they are created in the Endowed Professorships Brochure.