Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees recently appointed five faculty in the Arts and Sciences to endowed professorships.
Since 1787, Dartmouth has recognized its top faculty with named professorships. These appointments—traditionally supported through endowed gifts from alumni, family, and friends of the institution—honor faculty whose scholarship, teaching, and service exemplify Dartmouth’s core mission.
“These distinguished faculty members have each made a lasting mark on their fields,” says Interim Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean John Carey. “Their research pushes the boundaries of knowledge, their teaching shapes how students think, and their influence reaches well beyond Hanover. I’m proud to congratulate them on these appointments.”
The following professors were named to endowed professorships.
Ivan Aprahamian, a chemist who builds molecules that flip like tiny switches when triggered by light, work that’s produced erasable 3D displays and a self-powered pump that pulls pollutants from water, was appointed to the Roth Family Distinguished Professorship.
William Cheng, a musicologist, pianist, and composer whose boundary-pushing scholarship explores music through disability studies, care ethics, race, and queerness, was appointed to the Eunice and Julian Cohen Professorship for the Study of Ethics and Human Values.
Hany Farid, a trailblazing computer scientist who develops techniques to detect deepfakes and authenticate digital images, audio, and video, was appointed to the Donald Knuth Professorship of Computation and Just Communities.
Robert Hawley, a glaciologist who studies the physics of glaciers and ice sheets amid a changing climate, was appointed to the Cheheyl Professorship. (Hawley was recently named director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning.)
Carl Renshaw, a hydrologist who studies how rivers and streams respond to floods, dams, and dam removal, was appointed to the Frank J. Reagan 1909 Professorship.