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.
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…
James B. Knapp Deanship of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
MAJOR GENERAL JAMES B. KNAPP, USAF (Ret.), a West Point graduate and career Air Force officer, gained a place in history as the chief negotiator at the armistice talks between North Korea and South Korea in 1969. A highly decorated pilot and commander during World War II, he later served…
JACOB L. HAIN, A&S 1923, a university trustee, was an investment banker who organized the Penn Square Mutual Fund located in Reading, Pennsylvania. The firm dealt primarily with investments in railroads, airlines, and nonferrous metals. In addition to endowing this professorship, Mr. Hain also made possible the acquisition of the…
As the Hopkins trustees debated their first steps in establishing a world-class university, President Daniel Coit Gilman commented: "Enlist a great mathematician and a distinguished Grecian. Your problem will be solved." JAMES JOSEPH SYLVESTER, one of the foremost of British mathematicians and author of the groundbreaking theory of invariants, was…
IRA REMSEN, the university's first chemistry professor, came to Hopkins in 1876. Also a medical doctor, he had a profound influence on the field of chemistry through the standard-setting texts he wrote, his editorship of the American Chemical Journal, and his former students who went on to lead chemistry departments at…
HENRY WALTERS was a Baltimore civic leader and the son of William T. Walters, founder of the Walters Art Gallery. This professorship, originally designated for zoology, was later redirected for a biologist, reflecting the university's academic priorities. One of the leading donors to the 1902 Endowment Fund Campaign, Henry Walters…
