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 DALIO PROFESSORSHIP IN MOOD DISORDERS is generously supported by the Dalio Foundation, Inc. This professorship was formally installed in April of 2010, with gratitude and respect to the co-directors of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center, Drs. J. Raymond DePaulo, Med 1972, and Kay Redfield Jamison, and many other…
Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professorship for Alzheimers Research in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
ELIZABETH and ERNEST ALTHOUSE were longtime residents of Poughkeepsie, New York, where they were both employees of Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation. Mr. Althouse joined the company in 1928 and by 1968 had risen to become its president. He retired in 1975, but continued to serve as vice-chairman of…
The Stephen and Jean Robinson Professorship for Eating Disorders
STEVE and JEAN ROBINSON married in 1989. Jean is a native of the Baltimore area and Steve, a native of Oklahoma. Together they spent the next 25 years raising their three daughters in Howard County, coaching and supporting them in soccer, basketball, high school musicals and the Future Business Leaders…
The Sachiko Kuno and Ryuji Ueno Innovation Professorship
SACHIKO KUNO, PhD obtained her PhD in biochemical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan and conducted post-doctoral research at the Technical University of Munich, Germany at a time when there were few women pursuing careers in science. In the mid-1980s, Dr. Kuno and Dr. RYUJI UENO established R-Tech Ueno Ltd. in…
SIDNEY M. FRIEDBERG (A&S 1930; Piano 1954; BS 1971, English and World Literature) was chief executive officer and president of the nation's largest independent bowling chain, Fair Lanes, Inc. He took over leadership of the company at age 19, upon his father's death. Mr. Friedberg met his first wife, Miriam,…
Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Artistic Director of Ensembles
RUTH BLAUSTEIN ROSENBERG (1937, Voice) studied voice and piano at the conservatory and remained close to the school throughout her life as a concertgoer, generous contributor, member of the Peabody Board of Trustees and, later, member of the Peabody Advisory Council. With her husband, Baltimore industrialist Henry Rosenberg Sr., she…
ANDREW W. MELLON, born in 1855, was a financier, diplomat, and industrialist. Mr. Mellon helped found the Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh, the Gulf Oil Corporation, and the Pittsburgh Coal Company. In 1921, he left the presidency of the Mellon National Bank to become U.S. secretary of the treasury, serving…
George T. Nager, M.D., Professorship in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Patients of Hopkins physicians GEORGE T. NAGER, M.D., and John Niparko, M.D., the inaugural chairholder, supported the creation of this professorship. Dr. Nager was considered one of the world's leading otological surgeons and otopathologists, as well as an outstanding teacher, mentor, and clinician. Among his many honors was inclusion in…
Charles Cummings Professorship in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
CHARLES W. CUMMINGS was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in November of 1935. He graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1953, Dartmouth College in 1957, and the University of Virginia Medical School in 1961. He was an intern at Dartmouth and completed a year of general surgery residency at the University of…
John E. Bordley Chair in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
JOHN E. BORDLEY, Med 1929, who held the title of Andelot Professor Emeritus, was director of the Department of Otolaryngology from 1952 to 1969, with a joint appointment at the School of Public Health in environmental health sciences. He is considered to have been a major architect of otolaryngology, and…
LAMMOT DU PONT COPELAND of Wilmington, Delaware, was the last du Pont to head his family's firm, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Keenly interested in supporting research concerning reproductive biology and world population growth, he established a trust, in 1958, to benefit the Johns Hopkins Department of…
The Zadek Family Professorship in Orthopaedic Surgery
The Zadek family relationship with Johns Hopkins began more than 100 years ago when ISADORE ZADEK entered the School of Medicine. He studied general surgery under Dr. William Halsted, before becoming the fourth resident in Hopkins’ Orthopaedic Program under Dr. William Baer (1915-1918). Dr. Zadek entered the U.S. Army Medical…
