Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships

Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships

Established 2014
Website web.jhu.edu/administration/provost/BDP

Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships (BDPs) were established by a $250 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]

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][4][5] Each of the BDPs will be appointed in at least two schools or divisions.[6][7]

Timeline

As of March 2015, ten of the fifty Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships have been appointed.[8][9]

The first cohort of scholars in 2014 included two Nobel Laureates, Peter Agre and Carol W. Greider, and poverty researcher, Kathryn Edin.[10] Sociologist Stephen Morgan, neuroscientist Patricia Janak, and organization theorist Kathleen Sutcliffe, were announced as the second group of BDPs in June 2014.[11] 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.[12][13][14] Two internally-selected professors were also named BDPs: big data scientist Alexander Szalay and computational biologist Steven Salzberg.[15]

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
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
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
Patricia Janak Biological basis of behavior and associative learning, with a particular focus on addiction 2014
Stephen Morgan Predictors of student achievement; improving the study of causal relationships 2014
Kathleen Sutcliffe Organizations and group decision making, with a special focus on reliability and safety, especially in health care 2014
Christopher G. Chute Medical concept representation, Controlled vocabulary, Biomedical Informatics, and Medical decision making 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
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
Alexander 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

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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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. ↑ Mac, Ryan. “Michael Bloomberg Pledges $350 Million To Johns Hopkins University", Forbes, New York, 26 January 2013. Retrieved on 12 March 2015.
  5. ↑ Dance, Scott. “Bloomberg donates $350 million to Johns Hopkins for research, scholarships", The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, 26 January 2013. Retrieved on 2 March 2015.
  6. ↑ “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.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ Mac, Ryan. “Michael Bloomberg Pledges $350 Million To Johns Hopkins University", Forbes, New York, 26 January 2013. Retrieved on 12 March 2015.
  9. ↑ Rosen, Jill. "Johns Hopkins Appoints Four to Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships", "JH Press Release", Baltimore, 30 March 2015. Retrieved on 31 March 2015.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Brooks, Kelly. "Johns Hopkins Appoints Three to Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship Positions", Newswise, Charlottesville, 11 June 2014. Retrieved on 1 March 2015.
  12. ↑ Newswise. "Albert Einstein College of Medicine Announces New Chair of Department of Microbiology & Immunology", "Newswise", Charlottesville, 30 December 2014. Retrieved on 23 March 2015.
  13. ↑ Parmar, Arundhati. "The 50 best Mayo Clinic doctors. Ever.", "MinnPost", Minneapolis, 22 December 2011. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  14. ↑ ANSI. "People on the Move", "American National Standards Institute", Washington DC, 21 November 2014. Retrieved on 22 March 2015.
  15. ↑ Rosen, Jill. "Johns Hopkins Appoints Four to Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships", "JH Press Release", Baltimore, 30 March 2015. Retrieved on 31 March 2015.