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.
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…
Michel Mirowski, M.D., Professorship in Cardiology
MICHEL MIROWSKI, a pioneering cardiologist, was the inventor and co-developer of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), a lifesaving device that detects ventricular fibrillation and produces a counter-shock that returns the heart to normal rhythm. Dr. Mirowski survived the Holocaust as a young teenager in Poland and studied medicine in Lyons,…
KEN KELLER, Ph.D., was director and resident professor of SAIS Europe from 2006 to 2014 and then Senior Adjunct Professor of Science and Technology Policy from 2015 to 2020. During his tenure as director of SAIS Europe, he placed a strong emphasis on strengthening the curriculum, encouraging and supporting faculty scholarly…
Charles J. Homcy and Simeon G. Margolis Professorship
SIMEON G. MARGOLIS, MD, PhD, received his bachelors, medical, and doctorate degrees from The Johns Hopkins University. After completing his internship and residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1965, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Medicine. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Biological Chemistry at the…
WILLIAM F. WARD SR. graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1940 with a degree in engineering mechanics and served as a major in the Army Corp of Engineers during World War II. After the war he joined F.X. Hooper Company, which later became part of Koppers Company, and was general manager…
William B. Kouwenhoven Professorship in Electrical Engineering
WILLIAM B. KOUWENHOVEN had a long and distinguished career at Hopkins spanning 60 years, with service on the faculties at both the schools of Engineering and Medicine. He is considered to be the grandfather of biomedical engineering. Dr. Kouwenhoven served as the second dean of the School of Engineering from…
Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professorship in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering
WILLARD HACKERMAN, Engr 1938, and his wife, LILLIAN PATZ HACKERMAN, were both prominent in Baltimore and Maryland civic life. Mr. Hackerman served for years as a university trustee, then trustee emeritus. He joined the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company after graduating from Hopkins and considered G.W.C. Whiting his mentor. For over 50…
Theophilus Halley Smoot Professorship of Engineering Science
THEOPHILUS H. SMOOT came to Hopkins as a research assistant in mechanical engineering in 1942, and became a research associate in 1946. Mr. Smoot, who died in Florida in 1976, made estate provisions to endow a professorship upon the death of his widow, Helen A. Smoot.
