Appointment to an endowed chair is a mark of distinction, and the capacity to honor outstanding faculty members in this way is crucial to attracting and retaining exceptionally talented scholar-teachers.

“The University seeks faculty members who are the best researchers and teachers in the world,” says Provost Christopher L. Eisgruber ’83. “These people are few in number and very much in demand; scholars who can get a job at Princeton can get a job anywhere, and we face intense competition for them.”

The Aspire campaign has provided Princeton with a number of new endowed chairs, which will help the University continue to maintain a world-class faculty in a range of disciplines.

Two new professorships will enhance the University’s efforts to advance the frontiers of knowledge in the rapidly expanding area of neuroscience: the Bendheim Thoman Professorship, given by Robert Bendheim ’37 and Lynn B. Thoman ’77, and the Evnin Professorship, given by Anthony B. Evnin ’62.

The innovative Barron Family Professorship, funded by Thomas A. Barron ’74, will bring to the Princeton Environmental Institute a scholar working at the intersection of environmental studies and humanities.

In engineering, new endowed positions include professorships and a preceptorship given by Gerhard R. Andlinger ’52, and the Anderson Family Professorship in Energy and the Environment, given by Dwight W. Anderson ’89.

And four new professorships have been added in the quantitative sciences: one in mathematics, donated by R. Brandon Fradd ’83, and three in computer science, through the generosity of Charles C. Fitzmorris Jr. ’33, Robert E. Kahn *64, and Paul M. Wythes ’55.

May 2009