Twenty-three faculty members in the College of Arts & Sciences were recently honored with endowed professorships approved by the Cornell Board of Trustees, continuing the college’s priority to recognize and support faculty excellence.
With these new appointments, the number of A&S faculty appointed to endowed professorships since fall 2018 has reached 66.
“These endowed professorships within Arts & Sciences recognize outstanding faculty, who enhance the academic experience for our students and ‘do the greatest good’ for our society,” said Cornell Provost Michael Kotlikoff. “It is my pleasure to applaud the accomplishments of these eminent and emerging scholars.”
The professorships are possible because of generous gifts from alumni, parents and friends. Those gifts allow the College to replace retiring faculty, recruit stellar new faculty and recognize and retain mid-career and senior faculty to provide leadership across the disciplines and in areas of strategic importance.
The 23 faculty members honored are:
Gerard Aching, W.E.B. Dubois Professor in the Humanities
Rachel Bean, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor
Mabel Berezin, Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences in Sociology
Csaba Csaki, John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science
Scott Emr, Samuel C. and Nancy M. Fleming Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology
Jill Frank, President White Professor of History and Political Science
Stephen Hilgartner, Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Science & Technology Studies
Natasha Holmes, Anne S. Bowers Associate Professor
Ray Jayawardhana, Hans A. Bethe Professor
Mayer Juni, Bruce Slovin Assistant Professor in American Jewish Studies
Sabrina Karim, Hardis Family Assistant Professor for Teaching Excellence
Ailong Ke, Robert J. Appel Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology
Dong Lai, Benson Jay Simon ’59 MBA ’62 and Mary Ellen Simon MA ’63 Professor
Tristan Lambert, William T. Miller Professor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Marilyn Migiel, Kappa Alpha Professor in Literature
Song Lin, Tisch University Professor
Kin Fai Mak, inaugural Josephson Family Professor
Shaun Nichols, Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences in Philosophy
Shirley Samuels, Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor in American Studies
Philippe Sosoe, Frank Spitzer and Narahari Umanath Prabhu Associate Professor of Mathematics
Steve Strogatz, inaugural Susan and Barton Winokur Distinguished Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics
Peidong Sun, Distinguished Associate Professor of Arts & Sciences in China and Asia-Pacific Studies
Yunan Yang, Goenka Family Assistant Professor in Mathematics
