Boston University has a new professorship, and it's looking for its first class of honorees.
The school's College of Arts and Sciences is looking for professors who have "demonstrated a sustained record of excellence in research, teaching, and service," reports the Boston Globe.
Deborah Carr, for example, has made the study of health, aging, and families "crucial to policy makers nationally and internationally, fundamentally a perspective previously informed primarily by medical considerations," says the school.
She's also just been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The other professors in the class are Lucy Hutyra, professor of earth and environment; Cheryl Knott, associate chair of anthropology; Andrei Ruckenstein, professor of physics; and Pamela Templer, professor of biology and director of the Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health. Read the Entire Article
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