Sentences with phrase «endowed professorship»

He also created endowed professorships in Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, School of Art and Albert Nerken School of Engineering.

The creation of endowed professorships for these positions is a primary objective for our supporters so that this important program can carry on in perpetuity.

Murphy also led the School's record - breaking capital campaign, which tripled the number of endowed professorships, and raised $ 111 million dollars, the largest sum ever raised by a school of education.

I was recruited for that chair, then the only endowed professorship at the college, and to be director of the center.

While at Cooper, he led a $ 50 million capital campaign, created endowed professorships in the schools of art, architecture and engineering and added new trustees and new deans for art and the humanities.

He also endowed a professorship in civil engineering at the School.

A measure of the University's strong commitment to the mission of CECH is that one of the institution's first four endowed professorships funded a position in citizenship education.

A second endowed professorship — this time in English — was filled by a Christian intellectual committed to church - related education.

He has served as an Associate Professor, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist at the University of Florida, held the Rodger B. Jensen Endowed Professorship in Pistachio Physiology and Pomology at California State University and is the current Research Program Director for CAC.

This research was funded by the H. Mason Keeler Endowed Professorship and CNPq (Science without Borders).

I also expect that running a research organization such as RIMB through a university will necessitate endowed professorships, increasing the cost to a company considerably.

«It's well - known that epigenetic protein complexes and metabolic pathways both affect life span in many animals,» said Brunet, who also holds the Michele and Timothy Barakett Endowed Professorship.

Bulik, who holds the first endowed professorship in the field of eating disorders in the country, is currently leading a global research initiative called The Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative — or ANGI — to analyze 26,000 genetic samples and isolate genes that play important roles in the underlying biology of eating disorders.

He held the William C. Shreeve Endowed Professorship in Educational Administration at Eastern Washington University (EWU), where he now serves as a Professor Emeritus.

1998 A gift to the college provides funding for the Irving and Rose Fien Endowed Professorship in Elementary and Special Education.

Because they foster exceptional opportunities for teaching and service, endowed positions are fundamental to the University of Florida's mission.We are proud to recognize the inspiring array of individuals and organizations honored by endowed professorships and chairs at the University of Florida.

In 2009, they endowed the Emily R. and Gerald S. Leischuck Endowed Professorship for Educational Leadership, which enables the College of Education to recruit and retain educational leadership faculty.

A leading figure in the field of user research, Dr. Dennis Wixon holds the Microsoft Endowed Professorship in User Experience.

Winner of the coveted Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Prize, the William and Camille Cosby Endowed Professorship, the Ford Foundation Education Fellowship, and three national awards for her Oxford University Press book on the history of black women artists (including the American Library Association BCALA prize for Outstanding Contribution to Literature), Lisa Farrington is a leader in the field of African American art history.

Endowed professorships start at a minimum of $ 500,000, can be pledged over multiple years, and qualify for the new matching program — thus doubling the impact of your gift in perpetuity.

Darby Dickerson is the Dean of Texas Tech University School of Law, and she holds the W. Frank Newton Endowed Professorship.

Most committees, boards of directors and academic departments all have a «chairman» and many endowed professorships are referred to as chairs.

This enabled a tripling of the number of endowed professorships and earmarked $ 11,000,000 for student financial aid.

Kristina J. Doubet is a professor in the College of Education at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where she has received the Distinguished Teacher Award, the Madison Scholar Award, and the Sarah Miller Luck Endowed Professorship for Excellence in Education.

The gift will also endow professorships, fund equipment purchases and assist in the construction of new and renovated facilities.

«Margery's experiments showed that the NS1 protein can alter expression of Hedgehog target genes on its own, without other viral proteins,» said Bier, professor and newly named holder of the Tata Chancellor's Endowed Professorship in Cell and Developmental Biology.

This would adversely affect the College's ability to support need - based financial aid, endowed professorships (which are used to attract world - class educators), and yes, Bowdoin's ability to advance knowledge in climate science and a wide range of other disciplines over time.»

Chairs and Professorships can be established for a $ 3 million Named Endowed Chair, a $ 1 million Named Expendable Chair, a $ 1 million Named Endowed Professorship and a $ 500,000 Named Expendable Professorship.

Ironically, while black theology theoretically relies heavily upon expressions of the people, such as freedom and sorrow songs and sermons, the more academic elites of black theology — those who have the luxury of tenure and endowed professorships in prestigious white seminaries and universities — seem to have little respect for the modern black church.

She was the first woman to hold an endowed professorship at Vanderbilt University, and she recently received the Goodnow Award from the American Political Science Association for lifetime accomplishment.

After working at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Elshtain joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University in 1988, where she became the first woman to hold an endowed professorship in the history of that institution.

Our effort to endow a professorship in evangelical studies is intended both to nourish and recruit more of these students, as well as to study a major American religious movement.

For example, donors can decide to use a portion of an endowment's scheduled income to provide funding for endowed professorships, which are used to attract world - class lecturers.

In 1960, the Royal Society appointed her to an endowed professorship.

The Foundation's mission is implemented through an international program of research institutes and scientific meetings in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience, neuroscience, and theoretical physics, and through the support of conferences, symposia, endowed professorships and other activities.

That is, acquiring the knowledge to engineer organisms with specifically designed novel features,» said Bier, professor and recently named holder of the Tata Chancellor's Endowed Professorship in Cell and Developmental Biology.

An endowed professorship is considered the highest honor in academic medicine and recognizes extraordinary talent in research, clinical care and teaching, and it provides solid and sustaining funding to an accomplished faculty member to support his or her continued focus on radiation oncology research and its clinical translation.

The popularity of the Apple Watch, along with its high - quality heart - rate sensor, makes it an attractive tool for large - scale AF screening, said Marcus, holder of the Endowed Professorship of AF research in the UCSF School of Medicine.

An endowed professorship is considered the highest honor in academic medicine and recognizes extraordinary talent in resear

The Carneys, of Houston, are long - time supporters of Brown, including as the donors of two endowed professorships — the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney University Professor of Economics and the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Assistant Professor of Neuroscience.

A gift of $ 2.5 million entitles the donor to name the position in perpetuity («Endowed Professorship»).

«It is an incredible honor to have been selected for this endowed professorship,» said Hill.

When she retires, it will become the Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot Chair, making her the first African - American woman in Harvard's history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor.

She also has an endowed professorship named in her honor at Swarthmore College.

In March 1998, she was the recipient of the Emily Hargroves Fisher professorship, which, upon her retirement, will become the Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot professorship, making her the first African American woman in Harvard's history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor.

In 1993, the Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot Chair, an endowed professorship, was established at Swarthmore College; and in 1998 she was the recipient of the Emily Hargroves Fisher Endowed Chair at Harvard University.

Upon her retirement, the Emily Hargroves Fisher Endowed Chair will become the Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot Chair, making Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot the first African - American woman in Harvard's history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor.