University announces Named/Distinguished Service Professorships

All appointments listed below are effective July 1, 2009 unless otherwise noted.

Philip Berger, the Charles P. McQuaid Professor at Chicago Booth, as the Wallace W. Booth Professor

Marianne Bertrand, the Fred Steingraber/A.T. Kearney Professor at Chicago Booth, as the first Chris P. Dialynas Professor

Kerwin Charles, the Steans Professor in the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, as the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor

John Cochrane, the Myron Scholes Professor at Chicago Booth, as the first AQR Capital Management Professor

Robert Gertner, the Wallace W. Booth Professor at Chicago Booth, as the first Joel F. Gemunder Professor

David Gozal, Professor and Chair of Pediatrics, as the first Herbert T. Abelson Professor

Jonathan M. Hall, the Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in History & Classics and the College, as the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor. The DSP title will be designated during the period that it is held by Hall.

Sydney Hans, Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, as the Samuel Deutsch Professor, effective Aug. 1

William Howell, Professor in the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, as the Sydney A. Stein Jr. Professor

Don Q. Lamb, the Louis Block Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Enrico Fermi Institute and the College, as the Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor

Kwang-sun Lee, Professor in Pediatrics, as the George M. Eisenberg Professor

Raphael Lee, Professor in Surgery, as the first Paul and Allene Russell Professor

Charles Lipson, Professor in Political Science and the College, as the Peter B. Ritzma Professor

Per Mykland, Professor in Statistics and the College, as the Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor, effective Oct. 1

Partha Niyogi, Professor in Computer Science and the College, as the Louis Block Professor

Lubos Pastor, Professor at Chicago Booth, as the Charles P. McQuaid Professor

Nanduri Prabhakar, Professor in Medicine, as the Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor

Daniel Sulmasy, Professor-elect in Medicine, as the first Kilbride-Clinton Professor

Pietro Veronesi, Professor at Chicago Booth, as the first Roman Family Professor