Duke University has awarded distinguished professorships to 19 members of its faculty. Another four were inducted into the Bass Society of Fellows for Excellence in Teaching and Research.

The professors were recognized at an April 30 dinner at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham.

The recipients were as follows:

Trinity Arts & Sciences

Susan C. Alberts, Robert F. Durden Professor of Biology

Mark Antliff, Mary Grace Wilson Professor of Art, Art History, & Visual Studies

Vincent Conitzer, Arts & Sciences Professor of Computer Science

Katherine Hayles, James B. Duke Professor of Literature

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English

Fuqua School of Business

Fernando G. Bernstein, Bob J. White Professor of Business Administration

Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering

Nirmala Ramanujam, Robert W. Carr, Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering

School of Law

Samuel W. Buell, Bernard M. Fishman Professor of Law

Margaret H. Lemos, Robert G. Seaks Professor of Law

School of Medicine

Hashim M. Al-Hashimi, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry

James A. Blumenthal, J.P. Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry
 
Donald P. Frush, John Strohbehn Professor of Radiology

Allan D. Kirk, David C. Sabiston, Jr. Professor of Surgery

Richard J. O'Brien, Disque D. Deane University Professor of Neurology

Erik K. Paulson, Robert J. Reeves Professor of Radiology

Michael L. Platt, Lawrence C. Katz Professor of Neurobiology

Ann M. Reed, William Cleland Professor of Pediatrics

Cynthia A. Toth, Joseph A. C. Wadsworth Professor of Ophthalmology

School of Nursing

Marion E. Broome, Ruby Wilson Professor of Nursing

Bass Professors

Lee D. Baker, Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Professor of Cultural Anthropology

Gary G. Bennett, Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Robert Mitchell, Marcello Lotti Professor of English

Philip J. Stern, Sally Dalton Robinson Associate Professor of History