Faculty Honored with Endowed Chairs, Professorships

Eleven faculty members were installed in endowed faculty chairs or professorships during Honors Convocation in April, effective beginning the 2015-2016 academic year.

Nathan Simons Bigelow the Shelton L. Williams Professorship of Comparative and International Politics	Kerry Gail Brock the Ray C. Fish Professorship in Mathematics
Robert Wayne Cape Jr. the Chase Professorship of Classical Languages	Andrew J. Carr the Michael A. Imhoff Endowed Professorship in Chemistry
Victoria Hennessey Cummins the A.M. Pate Jr. Endowed Chair of History	John Patrick Duffey the Margaret Root Brown Chair in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Steven Kurt Goldsmith the Monroe D. “Bud” Bryant & Howard McCarley Endowed Professorship in Biology	Michael A. Higgs the J.N. Chadwick Endowed Chair in Mathematics
Karla S. McCain the Rupert B. Lowe Endowed Chair in Chemistry	Roger S. Platizky the Henry L. & Laura H. Shoap Endowed Professorship of English Literature
Stephen L. Ramsey the Clyde Hall Endowed Professorship in Business and Economics a
Faculty Tenure and Promotions Effective Fall 2015
GRANTED TENURE David Aiello Associate Professor of Biology a	PROMOTION (already tenured) Kelly Reed Professor of Biology