Distinguished Professorships
- Recent Awards
- Distinguished Professors
- Distinguished Service Professors
- Distinguished Teaching Professors
- Distinguished Librarians
- Distinguished Academy Honorary Inductees
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Joanne Davila
2024, Distinguished Service Professor
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Susan Lane
2024, Distinguished Service Professor
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Lawrence Martin
2024, Distinguished Service Professor
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Laszlo Mihaly
2024, Distinguished Service Professor
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Marci Lobel
2024, Distinguished Teaching Professor
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Daniel Raleigh
2024, Distinguished Professor
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Adam Singer
2024, Distinguished Professor
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Jacobus Verbaarschot
2024, Distinguished Professor
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Susan E. Brennan
2023, Distinguished Service Professor
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Bettina C. Fries
2023, Distinguished Professor
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Christopher Gobler
2023, Distinguished Professor
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Sharon Applebaum Nachman
2023, Distinguished Professor
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Richard T. Matthias
2023, Distinguished Professor
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Danny Bluestein
2022, Distinguished Professor
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips
2022, Distinguished Professor
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Martin Rocek
2022, Distinguished Professor
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Judith Ann Crowell
2022, Distinguished Service Professor
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Lawrence Colwyn Hurst
2022, Distinguished Service Professor
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Georges E. Fouron
2022, Distinguished Teaching Professor
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Carol A. Carter
2022, Distinguished Professor
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Leonie Huddy
2022, Distinguished Professor
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Richard K. Larson
2022, Distinguished Professor
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Robert E. Shrock
2022, Distinguished Professor
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Katy Siegel
2022, Distinguished Professor
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Vincent W. Yang
2022, Distinguished Professor
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Jadranka Skorin-Kapov
2022, Distinguished Teaching Professor
Name | Title/Department | Year |
Daniel Raleigh | Distinguished Service Professor, Chemistry | 2024 |
Adam Singer | Distinguished Service Professor, Emergency Medicine | 2024 |
Jacobus Verbaarschot | Distinguished Service Professor, Physics and Astronomy | 2024 |
Bettina C. Fries | Distinguished Professor, Microbiology and Immunology | 2023 |
Christopher Gobler | Distinguished Professor, SoMAS | 2023 |
Sharon Applebaum Nachman | Distinguished Professor, Pediatrics | 2023 |
Richard T. Matthias | Distinguished Professor, Physiology and Biophysics | 2023 |
Danny Bluestein | Distinguished Professor, Biomedical Engineering | 2022 |
Rowan Ricardo Phillips | Distinguished Professor, English | 2022 |
Martin Rocek | Distinguished Professor, Physics and Astronomy | 2022 |
Carol A. Carter | Distinguished Professor, Microbiology and Immunology | 2022 |
Leonie Huddy | Distinguished Professor, Political Science | 2022 |
Richard K. Larson | Distinguished Professor, Linguistics | 2022 |
Robert E. Shrock | Distinguished Professor, CN Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics | 2022 |
Katy Siegel | Distinguished Professor, Art | 2022 |
Vincent W. Yang | Distinguished Professor, Medicine | 2022 |
Abhay Deshpande | Distinguished Professor, Physics and Astronomy | 2021 |
Mary Jo Bona | Distinguished Professor, Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; English | 2021 |
Christopher J. Bishop | Distinguished Professor, Mathematics | 2021 |
Anissa Abi-Dargham | Distinguished Professor, Psychiatry | 2021 |
J. Kirk Cochran | Distinguished Professor, SoMAS | 2021 |
Maurizio Del Poeta | Distinguished Professor, Microbiology and Immunology | 2021 |
Yi-Xian Qin | Distinguished Professor, Biomedical Engineering | 2021 |
Paul Shepson | Distinguished Professor, SoMAS | 2021 |
Axel Drees | Distinguished Professor, Physics and Astronomy | 2020 |
Peter Stephens | Distinguished Professor, Physics and Astronomy | 2020 |
Claude LeBrun | Distinguished Professor, Mathematics | 2020 |
Styliani-Anna (Stella) Tsirka | Distinguished Professor, Pharmacological Sciences | 2020 |
Joel H. Saltz | Distinguished Professor, Biomedical Informatics | 2020 |
Alexander B. Zamolodchikov | Distinguished Professor, Physics and Astronomy | 2020 |
Xiuxiong Chen | Distinguished Professor, Mathematics | 2019 |
Howardena Pindell | Distinguished Professor, Art | 2019 |
Stanislaus Wong | Distinguished Professor, Chemistry | 2019 |
Yusuf A. Hannun | Distinguished Professor, Cancer Center | 2019 |
Peter J. Tonge | Distinguished Professor, Chemistry | 2019 |
Minghua Zhang | Distinguished Professor, SoMAS | 2019 |
Jessica Gurevitch | Distinguished Professor, Ecology and Evolution | 2018 |
Dmitri E. Kharzeev | Distinguished Professor, Physics and Astronomy | 2018 |
Ute Moll | Distinguished Professor, Pathology | 2018 |
Suparna Rajaram | Distinguished Professor, Psychology | 2018 |
Nicole S. Sampson | Distinguished Professor, Chemistry | 2018 |
Leon A. Takhtajan | Distinguished Professor, Mathematics | 2018 |
Justus Buchler | Distinguished Professor, Philosophy | 1971 |
Ira S. Cohen | Distinguished Professor, Physiology and Biophysics | 2017 |
Lina M. Obeid | Distinguished Professor, School of Medicine | 2017 |
Arthur Samuel | Distinguished Professor, Psychology | 2017 |
Petar Djuric | Distinguished Professor, Electrical Engineering | 2017 |
Scott McLennan | Distinguished Professor, Geosciences | 2017 |
Kathlyn Parker | Distinguished Professor, Chemistry | 2017 |
Fotis Sotiropoulos | Distinguished Professor, CEAS Dean, Civil Engineering | 2017 |
Frederick Grine | Distinguished Professor, Anthropology | 2017 |
Mikhail Lyubich | Distinguished Professor, Institute for Mathematical Sciences | 2017 |
Manuel London | Distinguished Professor, College of Business | 2016 |
Scott Smolka | Distinguished Professor, Computer Science | 2016 |
Yuanyuan Yang | Distinguished Professor, Electrical Engineering | 2016 |
William C. Chittick | Distinguished Professor, Asian and Asian American Studies | 2016 |
Michael Aaron Frohman | Distinguished Professor, Pharmacology | 2016 |
Lorna Role | Distinguished Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior | 2016 |
Kathleen Wilson | Distinguished Professor, History | 2016 |
Lawrence Dutton | Distinguished Professor, Music | 2015 |
Benjamin Hsiao | Distinguished Professor, Chemistry | 2015 |
Chang Kee Jung | Distinguished Professor, Physics and Astronomy | 2015 |
Daniel Klein | Distinguished Professor, Psychology | 2015 |
Philip Setzer | Distinguished Professor, Music | 2015 |
Allen Tannenbaum | Distinguished Professor, Computer Science | 2015 |
Dennis Assanis | Distinguished Professor, Mechanical Engineering | 2015 |
Robert K. Lazarsfeld | Distinguished Professor, Mathematics | 2015 |
Nancy J. Tomes | Distinguished Professor, History | 2015 |
Erwin London | Distinguished Professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology | 2014 |
Lewis A. Coser | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Sociology | 1969 |
H. Bentely Glass | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences | 1965 |
C. N. Yang | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Physics | 1966 |
Seymour S. Cohen | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Pharmacology | 1976 |
Jacob Bigeleisen | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Chemistry | 1989 |
Gerald E. Brown | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Institute for Theoretical Physics | 1988 |
John W. Milnor | Distinguished Professor, Mathematics | 1989 |
K. Daniel O'Leary | Distinguished Professor, Psychology | 1988 |
Edward Reich | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Pharmacology | 1986 |
Charles Rosen | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Music | 1985 |
Robert Aller | Distinguished Professor, Marine Sciences Research Center | 1998 |
Robert Cess | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Atmospheric Sciences | 1992 |
Jeff Cheeger | Distinguished Professor, Mathematics | 1990 |
Benjamin T.P. Chu | Distinguished Professor, Chemistry | 1992 |
Thomas J. Flanagan | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, English | 1993 |
John Gagnon | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Sociology | 1999 |
James Glimm | Distinguished Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics | 1990 |
Paul Grannis | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Physics and Astronomy | 1997 |
Don Ihde | Distinguished Professor, Philosophy | 1997 |
Janos Kirz | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Physics | 1995 |
H. Blaine Lawson | Distinguished Professor, Mathematics | 1993 |
Milton Lodge | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Political Science | 1998 |
Dusa McDuff | Distinguished Professor Emerita, Mathematics | 1998 |
Lorne Mendell | Distinguished Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior | 1996 |
Morton Meyers | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Radiology | 1998 |
Iwao Ojima | Distinguished Professor, Chemistry | 1995 |
Theodosios Pavlidis | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Computer Science | 1995 |
Paul Poppers | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Anesthesiology | 1998 |
Howard Rachlin | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Psychology | 1997 |
Felix T. Rapaport | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Surgery | 1995 |
Louis W. Ripa, Jr. | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Children's Dentistry | 1991 |
Louis Simpson | Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, English | 1991 |
Robert R. Sokal | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolution | 1991 |
Philip Solomon | Physics and Astronomy (Deceased) | 1999 |
Dennis Sullivan | Distinguished Professor, Mathematics | 1998 |
William Van der Kloot | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Physiology and Biophysics | 1999 |
Donald Weidner | Distinguished Professor, Geosciences | 1998 |
Armen Zemanian | Distinguished Professor, Electrical Engineering | 1998 |
Gregory Belenky | Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering | 2007 |
Jorge Benach | Distinguished Professor, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | 2009 |
Evelyn Bromet | Distinguished Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Science | 2009 |
Edward S. Casey | Distinguished Professor, Philosophy | 2004 |
Fu-Pen Chiang | Distinguished Professor, Mechanical Engineering | 2003 |
Stephen Cole | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Sociology | 2007 |
Daniel Dykhuizen | Distinguished Professor, Ecology and Evolution | 2009 |
Nicholas Fisher | Distinguished Professor, Marine Science Research Center | 2005 |
John Fleagle | Distinguished Professor, Anatomical Sciences | 2004 |
Douglas Futuyma | Distinguished Professor Ecology and Evolution | 2001 |
Marvin Goldfried | Distinguished Professor, Psychology | 2004 |
Lorne M. Golub | Distinguished Professor, School of Dental Medicine | 2003 |
Arthur P. Grollman | Distinguished Professor, Pharmacological Science | 2003 |
Herbert Herman | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Materials Science and Engineering | 2001 |
Richard Howard | Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy | 2004 |
Barbara V. Jacak | Distinguished Professor, Physics | 2008 |
Gilbert Kalish | Distinguished Professor, Music | 2001 |
E. Ann Kaplan | Distinguished Professor, English & Comparative Lit. & Cultural Studies; Director, Humanities Inst. | 2005 |
Arie Kaufman | Distinguished Professor, Computer Science | 2004 |
Eva Feder Kittay | Distinguished Professor, Philosophy | 2009 |
Israel Kleinberg | Distinguished Professor, Oral Biology and Pathology | 2001 |
Donald B. Kuspit | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Art | 2007 |
Herman Lebovics | Distinguished Professor, History | 2006 |
Cindy Lee | Distinguished Professor, Marine Science Research Center | 2003 |
William Lennarz | Distinguished Professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology | 2000 |
M. Cristina Leske | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Preventative Medicine | 2001 |
Jeffrey Levinton | Distinguished Professor, Ecology and Evolution | 2004 |
Konstantin K. Likharev | Distinguished Professor, Physics and Astronomy | 2002 |
Donald H. Lindsley | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Geosciences | 2001 |
Serge Luryi | Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering | 2003 |
Gail Mandel | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Neurobiology and Behavior | 2002 |
Barry McCoy | Distinguished Professor, C.N. Yang Inst. for Theoretical Physics | 2003 |
Stuart McLaughlin | Distinguished Professor, Physiology & Biophysics | 2006 |
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen | Distinguished Professor, Institute for Theoretical Physics | 2001 |
Miriam H. Rafailovich | Distinguished Professor, Materials Science and Engineering | 2007 |
F. James Rohlf | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolution | 2004 |
Roger Rosenblatt | Distinguished Professor, English | 2008 |
Joel T. Rosenthal | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, History | 2002 |
Clinton Rubin | Distinguished Professor, Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology | 2005 |
Sami Said | Distinguished Professor, Medicine | 2006 |
Mark Schneider | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Political Science | 2004 |
Jeffrey Segal | Distinguished Professor, Political Science | 2004 |
Edward Shuryak | Distinguished Professor, Physics and Astronomy | 2003 |
Gene Sprouse | Distinguished Professor, Physics and Astronomy | 2006 |
George Stell | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Chemistry | 2001 |
George Sterman | Distinguished Professor, Institute of Theoretical Physics | 2004 |
Rolf Sternglanz | Distinguished Professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology | 2003 |
Arthur A. Stone | Distinguished Professor, Psychiatry and Psychology | 2005 |
Eckard Albert Friedrich Wimmer | Distinguished Professor, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | 2002 |
Mark Aronoff | Distinguished Professor, Linguistics | 2010 |
Kenneth Dill | Distinguished Professor, Chemistry (Laufer Center) | 2012 |
Eugene Feinberg | Distinguished Professor, Applied Math and Statistics | 2012 |
Paul Gootenberg | Distinguished Professor, History | 2013 |
Michael Kimmel | Distinguished Professor, Sociology | 2011 |
James M. Lattimer | Distinguished Professor, Physics and Astronomy | 2013 |
John Parise | Distinguished Professor, Geosciences | 2010 |
Sanjay Sampath | Distinguished Professor, Materials and Engineering | 2011 |
Joseph Mitchell | Distinguished Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics | 2013 |
Esther S. Takeuchi | Distinguished Professor, Chemistry/Materials Science and Engineering (awarded the rank at University of Buffalo) | 2009 |
Vitaly Citovsky | Distinguished Professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology | 2014 |
Robert Harvey | Distinguished Professor, Cultural Analysis and Theory | 2014 |
Kenneth Kaushansky | Distinguished Professor, School of Medicine | 2014 |
Distinguished Service Professors
Name | Title/Department | Year |
Joanne Davila | Distinguished Service Professor, Psychology | 2024 |
Susan Lane | Distinguished Service Professor, Medicine | 2024 |
Lawrence Martin | Distinguished Service Professor, Turkana Basin Institute | 2024 |
Laszlo Mihaly | Distinguished Service Professor, Physics and Astronomy | 2024 |
Susan E. Brennan | Distinguished Service Professor, Psychology | 2023 |
Judith Ann Crowell | Distinguished Service Professor, Psychiatry | 2022 |
Lawrence Colwyn Hurst | Distinguished Service Professor, Orthopaedics | 2022 |
Mary F. Kritzer | Distinguished Service Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior | 2018 |
J. Peter Gergen | Distinguished Service Professor, Biochemistry | 2017 |
Perry Goldstein | Distinguished Service Professor, Music | 2016 |
Peter Richards Brink | Distinguished Service Professor, Physiology and Biophysics | 2016 |
Laura J. Fochtmann | Distinguished Service Professor, Psychiatry | 2016 |
R. David Bynum | Distinguished Service Professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology | 2014 |
Sidney Gelber | Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Philosophy | 1989 |
Marvin Kuschner | Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Pathology (Deceased) | 1989 |
Robert D. Cess | Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering | 1991 |
Barry S. Coller | Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Medicine & Pathology | 1993 |
Norman Goodman | Distinguished Service Professor, Sociology | 1990 |
Irwin Kra | Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Mathematics | 1997 |
M. Cristina Leske | Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Preventive Medicine | 1997 |
Robert Liebermann | Distinguished Service Professor, Earth and Space Sciences | 1996 |
Velio A. Marsocci | Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering | 1994 |
Lester G. Paldy | Distinguished Service Professor and Director Emeritus, Technology & Society | 1990 |
Peter Paul | Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Physics | 1992 |
J. R. Schubel | Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus Marine Sciences Research Center | 1991 |
Eli Seifman | Distinguished Service Professor, Director Emeritus, Interdisciplinary Program in Social Sciences and Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education (Deceased) | 1992 |
Stanley Alexander | Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, School of Medicine | 2006 |
Said Arjomand | Distinguished Service Professor, Sociology | 2004 |
Henry Bokuniewicz | Distinguished Service Professor, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences | 2009 |
Malcolm Bowman | Distinguished Service Professor, Marine Science Research Center | 2004 |
David L. Ferguson | Distinguished Service Professor, Technology and Society | 2000 |
Richard Fine | Distinguished Service Professor, Pediatrics | 2006 |
Marie Gelato | Distinguished Service Professor, Medicine | 2008 |
David Hanson | Distinguished Service Professor, Chemistry | 2008 |
Gilbert N. Hanson | Distinguished Service Professor, Geosciences | 2000 |
Vincent Iacono | Distinguished Service Professor, Periodontics | 2007 |
David W. Krause | Distinguished Service Professor, Anatomical Sciences | 2003 |
Dorothy S. Lane | Distinguished Service Professor, Preventive Medicine | 2002 |
Mario B. Mignone | Distinguished Service Professor, European Languages, Literatures and Cultures | 2001 |
S. N. Sridhar | Distinguished Service Professor, Linguistics and India Studies | 2011 |
Roy Steigbigel | Distinguished Service Professor, Medicine | 2011 |
Patricia Wright | Distinguished Service Professor, Anthropology | 2014 |
Distinguished Teaching Professors
Name | Title/Department | Year |
Marci Lobel | Distinguished Service Professor, Psychology | 2024 |
Georges E. Fouron | Distinguished Teaching Professor, Africana Studies | 2022 |
Jadranka Skorin-Kapov | Distinguished Professor, College of Business | 2022 |
Latha Chandran | Distinguished Teaching Professor, Pediatrics | 2016 |
Nancy Hollingsworth | Distinguished Teaching Professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology | 2015 |
Elof A. Carlson | Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Biology | 1975 |
John G. Truxal | Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Technology and Society | 1977 |
Homer Goldberg | Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, English | 1988 |
Norman Goodman | Distinguished Teaching Professor, Sociology | 1986 |
Alan Tucker | Distinguished Teaching Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics | 1989 |
Stanley Alexander | Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Children's Dentistry | 1996 |
Barbara Elling | Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Germanic and Slavic Languages | 1990 |
Shi Ming Hu | Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Social Sciences (Deceased) | 1992 |
Jonathan F. Levy | Distinguished Teaching Professor, English | 1992 |
Thomas Liao | Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Technology & Society | 1998 |
Harold Metcalf | Distinguished Teaching Professor, Physics and Astronomy | 1999 |
Judith Mark Tanur | Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Sociology | 1994 |
Rose Zimbardo | Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, English | 1991 |
Michael A. Barnhart | Distinguished Teaching Professor, History | 2000 |
Fred Ferguson | Distinguished Teaching Professor, School of Dentistry | 2003 |
Patrick Grim | Distinguished Teaching Professor, Philosophy | 2001 |
Thomas Hemmick | Distinguished Teaching Professor, Physics and Astronomy | 2007 |
William Jungers | Distinguished Teaching Professor, Anatomical Sciences | 2008 |
Robert C. Kerber | Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus,Chemistry | 2002 |
Joseph Lauher | Distinguished Teaching Professor, Chemistry | 2009 |
Helen Rodnite Lemay | Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, History | 2001 |
Frank Myers | Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Political Science | 2008 |
Steven Skiena | Distinguished Teaching Professor, Computer Science | 2009 |
Jack T. Stern | Distinguished Teaching Professor, Anatomical Sciences | 2001 |
H. Barry Waldman | Distinguished Teaching Professor, General Dentistry | 2005 |
Stephen Vitkun | Distinguished Teaching Professor, Anesthesiology | 2010 |
Michael Schwartz | Distinguished Teaching Professor, Sociology | 2013 |
Kenneth Takeuchi | Distinguished Teaching Professor, Chemistry (awarded the rank at University of Buffalo) | 2008 |
Name | Title/Department | Year |
Michael B. Huang | Distinguished Librarian, Health Sciences Center Library | 2018 |
Constantia Constantinou | Distinguished Librarian (awarded the rank at SUNY Maritime) | 2011 |
Distinguished Academy Honorary Inductees
Name | Title/Department | Year |
Eugene Drucker | Distinguished Academy Honorary Inductee, Music | 2016 |
Paul Watkins | Distinguished Academy Honorary Inductee, Music | 2016 |
David Finckel | Distinguished Academy Honorary Inductee, Music | 2016 |