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.
The BROWN FOUNDATION, based in Houston, Texas, was founded in 1951 by Margarett Root Brown, Herman Brown, Alice Pratt Brown, and George R. Brown. Herman and George Brown co-founded Brown & Root Inc., a construction company with subsidiary oil, gas, mining, and real estate companies. The foundation supports education, the…
Professor William Kurrelmeyer Chair in the Department of German
WILLIAM KURRELMEYER, A&S 1896, 1899 (Ph.D.), who joined the Hopkins faculty in 1900 and remained for more than 40 years, molded the German program, and made Hopkins an international center for German scholarship. Dr. Kurrelmeyer's fields of study included the history of aesthetics, lyric poetry, narrative theory, and the periods…
Nancy H. and Robert E. Hall Professorship in the Humanities
ROBERT E. HALL, Engr. 1955, spent 28 years as a senior officer at Brown Capital Management LLC and 18 years as an analyst at T. Rowe Price. His interest in and support of the humanities was shared by his wife, NANCY H. HALL, an avid art lover as well as…
Morton K. Blaustein Professorship and Chairmanship in Earth and Planetary Sciences
MORTON K. BLAUSTEIN, A&S 1950, one of Baltimore's most active civic leaders and philanthropists, was a longtime university trustee and the chairman and chief executive officer of the American Trading and Production Corporation. He held a doctorate in petroleum geology and was appointed to the National Petroleum Council by the…
MARY ELIZABETH GARRETT headed the Women's Medical Fund, a group of women from Baltimore and across the nation who raised the endowment necessary for the Hopkins School of Medicine to open in 1893. Miss Garrett herself provided the majority of the funds raised by the group. The endowment the women…
Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professorship in History
LEONARD STULMAN, A&S 1925, and his wife, HELEN R. STULMAN, made an impressive mark on their native Baltimore through both their business and their generous philanthropy. Mr. Stulman achieved great success in construction and real estate and supported the Jewish community, the arts, music, theater, and Johns Hopkins. In addition…
MILTON S. EISENHOWER, widely regarded as a leader of great vision, holds the distinction of having served two nonconsecutive terms as president of Johns Hopkins University. After serving from 1956 to 1967--a period in which the university's income tripled and the endowment doubled--he retired and was named president emeritus. During…
JOHN MARTIN VINCENT, A&S 1890 (PhD), an expert in European history, was a member of the Hopkins history faculty for 35 years. Dr. Vincent and his wife made 21 tours of Europe. The Vincents were noted in Baltimore for their popular dinner parties, where young Woodrow Wilson, A&S 1886 (PhD),…
JOHN DEWEY, A&S 1883 (PhD), was one of the most influential philosophers, educators, and social critics of the 20th century. While studying at Johns Hopkins, Dewey was strongly influenced by G. Stanley Hall, the university's first professor of psychology and one of the most prominent American experimental psychologists of his…
John and Diane Cooke Professorship in Chinese History
Former university trustee JOHN COOKE is president and chief executive officer of Western Territories Group, LLC. Previously, he was executive vice president for external affairs at the J. Paul Getty Trust and also served as a senior executive at the Walt Disney Company for 15 years. He was integrally involved…
NORMAN SCOWE (pictured as a student), Engr 1927, and his wife, JEAN SCOWE, were both longtime and generous friends of the university. Mr. Scowe served as chairman, president, and director of Mineral Pigments Corporation, American Chemical & Pigments Corporation, and Rockwood Industries. He died in 1986. Jean Scowe died a year…
JAMES R. HERBERT BOONE, A&S 1921, left his Baltimore home, the Oak Hill House, and art collection to Hopkins to support the humanities. The university used part of the proceeds of these gifts to endow this professorship. Mr. Boone and his wife, MURIEL HARMAR WURTZ-DUNDAS BOONE, spent much of their…
