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.
BENJAMIN H. GRISWOLD III, a university trustee from 1951 to 1980 and thereafter trustee emeritus, was senior partner of the Baltimore investment firm of Alex. Brown & Sons, whose partners endowed this chair in his honor to recognize his leadership and longtime generosity at Johns Hopkins. Mr. Griswold served as…
Austen-Stokes Professorship in the Art of the Ancient Americas
The creation of the Austen-Stokes Professorship in the Art of the Ancient Americas came about through the singular vision of JOHN AUSTEN STOKES JR. John first encountered the art of the ancient Americas when he moved to Mexico in the 1950s after serving in the Korean War. There he met…
ARTHUR O. LOVEJOY, professor of history at Hopkins from 1910 to 1939, is credited with the introduction of the interdisciplinary academic area known as the history of ideas. He founded the Journal of the History of Ideas and established the Hopkins History of Ideas Club. Professor Lovejoy was the first chairman of…
ARTHUR D. CHAMBERS, A&S 1897 (PhD), enjoyed a long and successful career with DuPont, which he helped convert from a producer of explosives to a manufacturer of chemical dyestuffs. When he retired in 1944, the DuPont dye works on the east bank of the Delaware River at Deepwater, New Jersey,…
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…
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…
In 1976, the university celebrated its 100th birthday with a year of parties, dinners, and parades, and a centennial symposium that brought scholars from all over the world to Hopkins. The century of achievement was also commemorated by the establishment of two Alumni Centennial Professorships in the School of Arts…
ALSOPH H. CORWIN joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1932. For more than four decades he served as a teacher and mentor, all the while making significant contributions to several branches of chemistry. His research led to a clearer understanding of photosynthesis and the chemistry of chlorophyll and hemoglobin. Dr.…
Alexander Badawy Chair in Egyptian Art and Archaeology
A professor emeritus of art history at UCLA, the late ALEXANDER BADAWY was a noted scholar of ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern architecture. Soon after making his generous commitment to Hopkins, he retired to Alexandria, Egypt. Dr. Badawy endowed this chair to attract to Johns Hopkins a faculty member whose…
Desmond M. Tutu Professorship in Public Health and Human Rights
BISHOP DESMOND M. TUTU was born in 1931 in Klerksdorp, Transvaal. His father was a teacher, and he himself was educated at Johannesburg Bantu High School. After leaving school he trained first as a teacher at Pretoria Bantu Normal College and in 1954 he graduated from the University of South…
Robert Bond Welch, M.D. Professorship in Ophthalmology
Born and raised in Maryland, ROBERT BOND WELCH, Med 1953, is the son of an Annapolis ophthalmologist and became a leader in that field in Maryland and internationally. Dr. Welch completed his pre-medical training at Princeton and obtained his MD degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 1953. He completed…
[caption id="attachment_778" align="alignleft" width="200"] [/caption] WALTER J. STARK, MD, joined the faculty at Wilmer in 1973 and was appointed professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins and director of the Corneal and Cataract Services of Wilmer in 1982. His distinguished professional career spans more than 30 years of service and accomplishment.…
