Endowed Chair

Xenofon Koutsoukos, chair of the Department of Computer Science, and Çağlar Oskay, chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, have been honored by Vanderbilt University with endowed chairs. Koutsoukos has received the inaugural Thomas R. Walters Chair. This chair will be celebrated at the Investiture event… Read More

Two faculty members were among 26 Vanderbilt faculty who were honored by Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver at an endowed chair investiture ceremony on campus Feb. 24, conferring the university’s highest scholastic rank on those who had received the designation during… Read More

Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Jamey D. Young has been named Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering. Cornelius Vanderbilt Chairs are established by the university at all Vanderbilt schools to recognize faculty who are engaged in groundbreaking research. Jamey Young Young is the director of graduate studies in chemical engineering… Read More

(L to r) Interim Chancellor and Provost Susan R. Wente, Bunmi O. Olatunji, Craig L. Duvall, Rick W. Wright, Seth R. Bordenstein, Cathy Eng, David Lubinski, Nilanjan Sarkar, Mark R. Denison and Duane Watson. (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt) Two engineering faculty members named to endowed chairs were honored for their academic achievements… Read More

Biomedical Engineering Professor David Merryman has received the School of Engineering’s inaugural Walters Family Chair. Merryman was recognized by Interim Chancellor and Provost Susan R. Wente and Philippe Fauchet, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean, during a ceremony Sept. 16 at the Student Life Center. “I am very honored to receive… Read More

Robert J. Webster III, whose work has led to tools and methods for surgeries that require little or no incision, has been named the Richard A. Schroeder Chair in Mechanical Engineering. He is among Vanderbilt University’s newest endowed chair holders. In all, eight recipients were celebrated for their path-breaking… Read More

  From left: Jeff Balser, David Cliffel, Edward Chaum, N. Edwin Trevathan, Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos, Sebastian Joyce, Philippe Fauchet, Scott Borinstein, E. Wesley Ely and Provost Susan R. Wente. (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt) Colleagues, friends and family gathered April 25 to honor eight Vanderbilt University faculty named to… Read More

Four engineering professors received newly endowed chairs in late 2011, bringing the total of named chairs in the School of Engineering to 12. The recipients are Benoit Dawant and David Kosson, both named a Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering. Anita Mahadevan-Jansen is the Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Read More

Vanderbilt University and the School of Engineering have named Professor Daniel M. Fleetwood to the Olin Henry Landreth Chair in Engineering. Landreth was Vanderbilt’s first professor of engineering and its first dean of engineering. This is a new chair within the School of Engineering and it has been made possible… Read More

Recognized for his work in the field of fuel cell membranes and electrochemical engineering, Professor Peter N. Pintauro, chair of the chemical and biomolecular engineering department, is the first holder the H. Eugene McBrayer Chair in Chemical Engineering in the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering.   An event to… Read More