01/27/2014
As posted recently in MyVU News, nine Vanderbilt University faculty members, two of whom are active inventors, were honored for their academic achievements, including their recent naming to endowed chairs. Congratulations to the following:
- H. Alex Brown, Bixler-Johnson-Mayes Chair, professor of pharmacology and biochemistry, associate director of the Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, and active inventor;
- J. Jeffrey Carr, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Radiology and Radiological Sciences and professor of clinical biomedical informatics, who was recruited from Wake Forest University this summer;
- James E. Crowe Jr., Ann Scott Carell Chair, professor of pediatrics and of pathology, microbiology and immunology, director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, and active inventor;
- M. Eric Johnson, Bruce D. Henderson Chair in Strategy and Ralph Owen Chair and dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management, recruited this summer from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College;
- Lorrie Moore, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in English and a distinguished American fiction writer who joined the Creative Writing faculty last fall;
- David F. Penson, Paul V. Hamilton, M.D., and Virginia E. Howd Chair in Urologic Oncology, professor of urologic surgery and medicine and director of the Center for Surgical Quality and Outcomes Research;
- Sheila H. Ridner, Martha Rivers Ingram Chair in Nursing and a nationally known expert on lymphedema;
- Emilie M. Townes, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair, professor of ethics and society and a leading womanist theologian, who on July 1 became the 16th dean of the Vanderbilt Divinity School; and
- Thomas J. Wang, Gottlieb C. Friesinger II Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine, professor of medicine and director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, who was recruited last year from Harvard University.