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 SECOND DECADE SOCIETY (SDS) is the alumni leadership development organization for the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. The society's membership is composed of 135 undergraduate alumni who are elected 10 to 20 years after graduation. SDS members are leaders in their professions and communities and contribute their talents…
SCOTT M. BLACK, A&S 1968, is founder and chief executive of Delphi Management Company, a prominent investment management firm based in Boston. Mr. Black, who attended Hopkins with the help of scholarships, now earmarks up to 20 percent of his gross income for philanthropy. His sister, BARBARA BLACK GOLDFARB, A&S…
In 2000, PHILIP and MELISSA RUSS began the process of endowing a professorship in appreciation for the education that their son, Manuel Benjamin “Ben” Russ, received at the Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Ben Russ, a member of the Class of 2000, majored in history…
ROBERT G. MERRICK JR. (pictured), who died in 1990 at the age of 58, came from a family with strong ties to the university through their history of generous giving and the service of several as trustees. His father, Robert G. Merrick, A&S 1917; his sister, Anne Pinkard; and his nephew,…
Richard A. Macksey Professorship for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities
RICHARD A. MACKSEY, A&S 1953, 1957 (PhD), is an award-winning teacher who has been a Hopkins faculty member since 1958. Co-founder of Hopkins' Humanities Center, he holds a joint appointment in the Humanities Center and in the Writing Seminars. Dr. Macksey, who reads and writes in six languages, is best…
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…
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),…
