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Rensselaer Catalog 2007-2008 
    
Rensselaer Catalog 2007-2008 [Archived Catalog]

Named Professorships


Rensselaer has several professorships honoring individuals or institutions for whom they are named, as well as honoring those who occupy them. These named professorships are listed below with their incumbents. Dates in parentheses indicate the year the professorship was established.

Ray Palmer Baker Distinguished Professorship (1997)
Toh-Ming Lu
Clay P. Bedford, Sr. ‘24 Endowed Chair Professorship (2003)
(vacant)
Howard N. Blitman ‘50 P.E. Career Development Professor in Engineering (2004)
Satish Ukkusuri
Irene and Robert Bozzone ‘55 Assistant Professor of Management and Technology (1995)
(vacant)
Ann and John H. Broadbent, Jr. ‘59 Senior Constellation Professor, Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering (2003)
Robert J. Linhardt
Warren H. Bruggeman ‘46 and Pauline Urban Bruggeman Distinguished Associate Professor (1995)
Phillip Phan
Henry Burlage Chaired Professor in Engineering (2005)
Pulickel Ajayen
Constellation Professor, Future Chips (2004)
Shawn-Yu Lin
John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor of Engineering (1974)
Alan W. Cramb
Margaret A. Darrin Distinguished Professor in Applied Mathematics (1981)
Jong-Shi Pang
Amos Eaton Professor of Computer Science (1991)
Joseph E. Flaherty
Ford Foundation Professor of Mathematics (1967)
Joyce R. McLaughlin
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Professor in the Technologies of Management (1969)
Albert S. Paulson
Alma and H. Erwin Hale ‘30 Teaching Professorship of Humanities and Social Sciences (1991)
Linda L. Layne
Edward P. Hamilton Distinguished Educator (1975)
Joseph G. Ecker
William Howard Hart Professor of Rational and Technical Mechanics (1883)
George J. Dvorak
Edward E. Hood, Jr. Professorship (1989)
Richard T. Lahey Jr. ‘64
John Tod Horton ‘52 Professor of Materials Engineering (1971)
(vacant)
Robert W. Hunt Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (1938)
Richard W. Siegel
Institute Professor of Science (1995)
E. Bruce Watson
Institute Professor of Science (1988)
(vacant)
Institute Professor of Science and Technology (1983)
Daniel Berg
Howard P. Isermann ‘42 Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering (1989)
Jonathan Dordick
Samuel A. Johnson ‘37 and Elisabeth C. Johnson Professor in Engineering (1990)
Mark S. Shephard
J. Erik Jonsson ‘22 Distinguished Professor (1997)
Xi-Cheng Zhang
Kodak Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering (1991)
(vacant)
Gail and Jeffrey L. Kodosky ‘70 Chair in Physics, Information Technology, and Entrepreurship
(vacant)
Gail and Jeffrey L. Kodosky ‘70 Career Development Chair
(vacant)
Louis Ellsworth Laflin Professor of English (1917)
Merrill D. Whitburn
Elaine S. and Jack S. Parker Chair in Engineering
Shekhar Garde
Thomas Phelan Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences (1995)
Langdon Winner
Rosalind and John J. Redfern Jr. ‘33 Professor of Engineering (1981)
Jacob Fish
Eliza Ricketts Foundation Professor of Mathematics (1937)
Donald A. Drew
Virginia and Lloyd W. Rittenhouse ‘35 Teaching Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences (2004)
John M. Gowdy
Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts ‘48 Chaired Professor in Solid State Electronics (1991)
Michael S. Shur
Russell Sage Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering (1938)
Georges Belfort
Alan Paul Schulz Career Development Professor of Chemistry (2004)
(vacant)
Senior Constellation Professor, Biocomputation and Bioinformatics (2005)
Angel E. Garcia
Senior Constellation Professor, Tetherless World (2006)
James A. Hendler
Philip Sporn Professor of Electric Power Engineering (1962)
J. Keith Nelson
William Weightman Walker Professor of Chemistry (1905)
(vacant)
William Weightman Walker Professor of Polymer Engineering (1905)
(vacant)
Wellfleet Career Development Constellation Professor, Future Chips (2004)
Christian M. Wetzel
Wellfleet Senior Constellation Professor, Future Chips (2003)
E. Fred Schubert
Cary L. Wellington Professor of Management of Technology (1988)
Iftekhar Hasan
Dean R. Wellington ‘83 Teaching Professorship in Management (1990)
Robert A. Baron
Yamada Corporation Professor (2001)
James M. Tien ‘66