Sentences with phrase «named professorships»
"Named professorships" refer to prestigious positions at universities or institutions that are named after a specific person. It is an honor bestowed on distinguished individuals, typically as a tribute to their accomplishments or contributions in a particular field of study. Full definition
In 1995, shortly after the death of Mrs. Terry Fischer, the University named the professorship in her honor, fittingly recognizing her long and successful career as a community leader and incorporating her compelling vision into the mission of the professorship.
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«While these are the first named professorships at JAX,» Liu says, «they will undoubtedly not be the last.
Treviño and his fellow researchers Luis R. Gomez - Mejia at Arizona State University, David B. Balkin at the University of Colorado and Franklin G. Mixon Jr. at Columbus State University, analyzed appointments to the rank of named professorship by gender via a sample of 511 management faculty at top American research universities with 10 or more years of experience since receiving their Ph.D..
March 20, 2013 Faculty members recognized for outstanding research T. Conrad Gilliam has been named a Distinguished Service Professor and four other members of biological sciences faculty — Issam A. Awad, James K. Liao, Elizabeth McNally and Christopher R. Shea — have received named professorships.
Donors may also name a professorship, investigatorship, fellowship and research or clinical funds.
They found that women are less likely to be awarded named professorships and that they derive lower returns from their scholarly achievements when it comes to appointments to endowed chairs.
August 10, 2011 Anonymous gifts support new professorships in Institute for Molecular Engineering The University of Chicago has created four named professorships for its new Institute for Molecular Engineering, building momentum behind the new academic program.
March 20, 2013 T. Conrad Gilliam has been named a Distinguished Service Professor and four other members of biological sciences faculty — Issam A. Awad, James K. Liao, Elizabeth McNally and Christopher R. Shea — have received named professorships.
Endowments include a named professorship in business at Stanford University Law School; the Munger Research Center wing of the Huntington Library in San Marino, California; and the Munger Science Center at Harvard - Westlake School, a Los Angeles preparatory school, attended by numerous Munger offspring.
He has clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer, advised the Federal Trade Communication, chaired a media - reform group, written for Slate, the New Republic and the New Yorker (among others), and currently serves as a fellow at the New America Foundation, along with his day job in a named professorship at Columbia.
Rusi Taleyarkhan was stripped of his named professorship, which includes $ 25,000 annually in discretionary resources from the West Lafayette, Indiana - based university, $ 14,000 of which went into his salary.
The committee chair, Michael Hout, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences; 7 of the 17 panel members have named professorships; 2 are deans (of law and education schools); and a majority have published articles about testing, accountability, or incentives.