Named Deanships, Directorships, and Professorships
Endowed positions have a personal and lasting impact.
Natalia Trayanova, Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Trayanova’s research centers around understanding the normal and pathological electrophysiological and electromechanical behavior of the heart. She is the Murray B. Sachs Professor.
Arturo Casadevall, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Casadevall’s groundbreaking work on infectious diseases is widely known. He has received several of the highest honors in medicine and health, and holds the Alfred and Jill Sommer Professorship and Chairmanship.
Dr. Chung, the inaugural Charles D. Miller Professor, joined the Hopkins faculty in the Department of Political Science in 2004, where she teaches courses in comparative politics and East Asian politics.
Professor Wang, the R. Clayton Emory Chair in Real Estate and Infrastructure, joined the Carey Business School in 2014 and leads the Edward St. John Real Estate Program.
Ashani T. Weeraratna, Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine
Ashani T. Weeraratna, Ph.D., is the E.V. McCollum Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, and co-leader of the Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Program at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
University Professorships and University Distinguished Service Professorships are honorary titles awarded by the University, upon the recommendation of the President, to recognize exceptional achievements made by select members of the senior faculty.
Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts
ROBERT “BOB” HALL was a 1955 graduate of the School of Engineering. He served as a trustee of the Peabody Conservatory, on the advisory council for the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, and as a member of the Sheridan Libraries Advisory Board. Hall’s gift was made to honor the…
THE HODSON TRUST was established by THOMAS S. HODSON, a Maryland lawyer and state senator. His son, CLARENCE HODSON (pictured), a lawyer and banker who was commissioned a colonel by the governor of Maryland, provided the trust's assets. Colonel Hodson founded the Beneficial Loan Society in 1914 to make small…
Alonzo and Virginia Decker Professorship in Strategy and Entrepreneurship
ALONZO G. DECKER JR. was a university trustee for more than 30 years and served as national chairman for the Hopkins Hundreds Campaign in the 1970s, during which he gave generously, including the endowment for professorships in science and engineering. As chief executive officer of Black & Decker, Alonzo Decker…
GERALD “Jerry” STEPHENS, CPCU, is the retired chairman and founder of RLI Corp., a specialty property and casualty insurance company headquartered in Peoria, IL. Stephens founded RLI in 1961, and developed one of the first Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP) in 1974. After 39 years as president and 11 years…
Spiegel/Nichols Associate Professorship in Pediatric Urology
Dr. ALLEN J. SPIEGEL earned his PhD in pharmacy from the University of Florida in 1957. He retired as senior director of international patents operations from Pfizer Inc., where he worked for 43 years. He served as a member of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy's national advisory board beginning…
Richard W. TeLinde and Edward E. Wallach Professorship in Reproductive Endocrinology
RICHARD W. TELINDE, M.D., the third Professor of Gynecology at Johns Hopkins, was born in 1894 in Waupun, Wisconsin. He attended Hope College and the University of Wisconsin, receiving his AB from the latter in 1917. He started medical school at the University of Wisconsin and transferred to the Johns…
Mandell Bellmore Professorship in Computer Science
MANDELL BELLMORE earned his doctoral degree in operations research from The Johns Hopkins University in 1965, and immediately after, joined the faculty in the Department of Operations Research. Prior to joining the faculty, he was a member of the technical staff of the MITRE Corporation, where he served as a…
R. Clayton Emory Chair in Real Estate and Infrastructure
For the first time in its history, the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School has received an endowment to create a named faculty chair, the R. Clayton Emory Chair in Real Estate and Infrastructure. Professor Ko Wang is the inaugural recipient of this chair. CLAY EMORY, founder of Emory Properties, established…
DAVID J. CARVER, A&S 1919 (PhD), taught philosophy and psychology at Kiang Nan Provincial College in Nanking, China, for four years following his graduation from college. When he returned to the United States, he earned his doctorate in psychology from Hopkins and then became an importer of Chinese art. He…
