Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships

Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships

Established 2013 (2013)
Website web.jhu.edu/administration/provost/BDP

Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships (BDPs) were established as part of a $350 million gift by Michael Bloomberg, JHU Class of 1964, to Johns Hopkins University in 2013. Fifty faculty members, ten from Johns Hopkins University and forty recruited from institutions worldwide, will be chosen for these endowed professorships based on their research, teaching, service, and leadership records.[1][2][3] The program is directed and managed by Johns Hopkins University Vice Provost for Research, Dr. Denis Wirtz.[4]

Purpose

The BDPs will create interdisciplinary connections and collaborations across Johns Hopkins University, train and mentor undergraduate and graduate students, and strengthen the university's leadership in research fields of international interest.[2][5][6] Each of the BDPs will be appointed in at least two divisions or disciplines.[7][8]

Timeline

As of July 2016, twenty two [9] of the fifty Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships have been announced.[5][10][11]

The first cohort of scholars in 2014 included two Nobel Laureates, Peter Agre and Carol W. Greider, and poverty researcher, Kathryn Edin.[12] Sociologist Stephen Morgan, neuroscientist Patricia Janak, and organization theorist Kathleen Sutcliffe, were announced as the second group of BDPs in June 2014.[13] In March 2015, it was announced that biomedical informatics expert Christopher G. Chute of the Mayo Clinic and infectious disease specialist Arturo Casadevall of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine would be joining Johns Hopkins University as BDPs.[14][15][16] Two internally selected professors were also named BDPs: big data scientist Alex Szalay and computational biologist Steven Salzberg.[10] In July 2015, four new Bloomberg Distinguished Professors were named across five divisions of Johns Hopkins University: global food ethicist and nutritionist Jessica Fanzo, biophysicist Taekjip Ha, cell dynamics investigator Rong Li, and computer vision specialist Alan Yuille.[11]

In October 2015, Paul Ferraro, an environmental economist was announced as a BDP[17] and in November, it was announced that noted statistician Nilanjan Chatterjee would be joining Johns Hopkins as a BDP from the National Cancer Institute.[18] Experimental astrophysicist and cosmologist Charles L. Bennett and epigeneticist Andrew Feinberg were named BDPs in December 2015.[19] In February 2016, it was announced that diabetes and obesity expert Rexford Ahima of the University of Pennsylvania was joining Johns Hopkins as a BDP[20] and in April 2016 Mauro Maggioni of Duke University announced that he was joining Johns Hopkins as a BDP.[21] In May 2016, it was announced that computational biologist Michael Schatz of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was named the 21st Bloomberg Professor at Johns Hopkins.[22] Nobel Laureate in Physics Adam Riess was named as the 22nd BDP in July 2016.[23]

Bloomberg Distinguished Professors

Professor Research Area Installation Year
Peter Agre Earned the Nobel Prize for his discovery of aquaporins; extended his studies of aquaporins and aquaglyceroporins to malaria research 2014
Rexford Ahima Known for uncovering connections between diabetes and obesity through studies of the physiological mechanisms of obesity; applies this basic and translational research to the clinic; board certifications in internal medicine and in endocrinology/diabetes/metabolism 2016
Charles L. Bennett Experimental astrophysics and cosmology; designs and builds novel instruments to observe the cosmic microwave background; deputy principal investigator for the Differential Microwave Radiometer on the NASA Cosmic Background Explorer and principal investigator for the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe space missions 2015
Arturo Casadevall How microbes cause disease and how hosts protect themselves against microbes; Microbiology; Immunology; Infectious diseases; founded mBio, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Society for Microbiology 2015
Nilanjan Chatterjee Research in quantitative genetics, cancer research, big data, statistical methodology, genomics, gene-environment interaction, genetic association and genome-wide association studies 2015
Christopher G. Chute Medical concept representation, Controlled vocabulary, Biomedical Informatics, and Medical decision making 2015
Kathryn Edin Poverty research through ethnographic observations, in-depth interviews, and mixed method approaches to the domains of welfare and low-wage work, family life, and neighborhood contexts; Intergenerational poverty; Single mothers 2014
Jessica Fanzo Global good ethics; food security; agricultural policy and nutrition policy; international nutrition and development 2015
Andrew Feinberg Founder of the field of cancer epigenetics; discovered epigenetic alterations in human cancer with Bert Vogelstein; expanded the understanding of DNA methylation and other epigenetic changes and applied this research to epidemiology and medicine; studies the epigenetic effects of spaceflight as a principal investigator on NASA's Twins Study 2015
Paul Ferraro Environmental and social impacts of public and private programs; Environmental and Resource Economics; Evaluation; Environmental Policy; 2015
Carol W. Greider Earned the Nobel Prize for her discovery of telomerase; studies clinical applications of telomerase to combat diseases such as cancer and dyskeratosis 2014
Taekjip Ha Biophysics; computational biology; single-molecule biology and intracellular imaging 2015
Patricia Janak Biological basis of behavior and associative learning, with a particular focus on addiction 2014
Rong Li Cell dynamics; cellular systems; biochemistry; mathematical modeling; proteomics 2015
Mauro Maggioni Mathematical techniques for analyzing, modeling, and extracting information from large data sets that lead to smarter machine learning algorithms and scientific discoveries; harmonic analysis; signal processing 2016
Stephen L. Morgan Predictors of student achievement; improving the study of causal relationships 2014
Adam Riess Observational cosmologist working on the measurement of the expansion of the universe; shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt for discovering that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating 2016
Kathleen M. Sutcliffe Organizations and group decision making, with a special focus on reliability and safety, especially in health care 2014
Steven Salzberg Develops new computational methods and applied software for analyzing DNA and RNA, with implications in medicine and biological science; gene finding algorithms and genome assembly research; bioinformatics 2015
Michael Schatz Develops algorithms for comparative genomics, human genetics, and personalized medicine; bioinformatics 2016
Alex Szalay Application of big data research to astronomy, astrophysics, and medicine, including radiation oncology and high throughput genomics; key contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 2015
Alan Yuille Machine vision research; computer vision systems; modeling of the human visual system; artificial intelligence; mathematical modeling of vision and cognition 2015

References

  1. ↑ Barbaro, Michael. "$1.1 Billion in Thanks From Bloomberg to Johns Hopkins", The New York Times, New York, 26 January 2013. Retrieved on 1 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 Anderson, Nick. " Bloomberg pledges $350 million to Johns Hopkins University ", The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., 23 January 2013. Retrieved on 12 March 2015.
  3. ↑ Associated Press "Michael Bloomberg's Contributions To Johns Hopkins University Top $1 Billion", Huffington Post, New York, 27 January 2013. Retrieved on 11 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships"
  5. 1 2 Mac, Ryan. “Michael Bloomberg Pledges $350 Million To Johns Hopkins University", Forbes, New York, 26 January 2013. Retrieved on 12 March 2015.
  6. ↑ Dance, Scott. “Bloomberg donates $350 million to Johns Hopkins for research, scholarships", The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, 26 January 2013. Retrieved on 2 March 2015.
  7. ↑ “With Latest $350 Million Gift to Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg Surpasses $1 Billion in Giving to Alma Mater", Philanthropy News Digest, New York, 29 January 2013. Retrieved on 10 March 2015.
  8. ↑ Franklin, Frank. “NYC's Mayor Bloomberg giving another $350 million to alma mater Johns Hopkins", NBC News, New York, 27 January 2013. Retrieved on 1 March 2015.
  9. ↑ Messersmith, Julie. "Nobel laureate Adam Riess named 22nd Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins", JHU Hub, Baltimore, 8 July 2016. Retrieved on 13 July 2016.
  10. 1 2 Rosen, Jill. "Johns Hopkins Appoints Four to Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships", "JH Press Release", Baltimore, 30 March 2015. Retrieved on 31 March 2015.
  11. 1 2 Brooks, Kelly. "Four new Bloomberg Distinguished Professors named at Johns Hopkins", JHU Hub, Baltimore, 8 July 2015. Retrieved on 8 July 2015.
  12. ↑ Brooks, Kelly. "With Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships, Johns Hopkins aims to foster cross-specialty collaboration", JHU Hub, Baltimore, 27 February 2014. Retrieved on 1 March 2015.
  13. ↑ Brooks, Kelly. "Johns Hopkins Appoints Three to Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship Positions", Newswise, Charlottesville, 11 June 2014. Retrieved on 1 March 2015.
  14. ↑ Newswise. "Albert Einstein College of Medicine Announces New Chair of Department of Microbiology & Immunology", "Newswise", Charlottesville, 30 December 2014. Retrieved on 23 March 2015.
  15. ↑ Parmar, Arundhati. "The 50 best Mayo Clinic doctors. Ever.", "MinnPost", Minneapolis, 22 December 2011. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  16. ↑ ANSI. "People on the Move", "American National Standards Institute", Washington DC, 21 November 2014. Retrieved on 22 March 2015.
  17. ↑ Parsons, Tim. "Paul Ferraro named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins", JHU HUB, Baltimore, 21 October 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  18. ↑ Messersmith, Julie. "Nilanjan Chatterjee named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins", "JHU HUB", Baltimore, 10 November 2015. Retrieved on 11 November 2015.
  19. ↑ Messersmith, Julie. "JHU's Charles Bennett and Andrew Feinberg named Bloomberg Distinguished Professors", JHU Hub, Baltimore, 15 December 2016. Retrieved on 27 January 2016.
  20. ↑ Messersmith, Julie. "Rexford Ahima named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins", JHU Hub, Baltimore, 23 February 2016. Retrieved on 23 February 2016.
  21. ↑ Messersmith, Julie. "Big data scientist named 20th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins", JHU Hub, Baltimore, 14 April 2016. Retrieved on 28 April 2016.
  22. ↑ Messersmith, Julie. "Computational biologist Michael Schatz named 21st Bloomberg Professor at Johns Hopkins", JHU Hub, Baltimore, 26 May 2016. Retrieved on 26 May 2016.
  23. ↑ Messersmith, Julie. "Nobel laureate Adam Riess named 22nd Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins", JHU Hub, Baltimore, 8 July 2016. Retrieved on 13 July 2016.
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