Distinguished Professorships

Distinguished professorships are renewable appointments awarded in recognition of extraordinary research distinction.

Scott Acton

American Telephone & Telegraph Company Professorship in Engineering

Sean Agnew

William G. Reynolds Professorship in Materials Science

Rosalyn Berne

Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professorship

Silvia Blemker

Robert Thomson Distinguished Professorship

Benton Calhoun

Alice M. and Guy A. Wilson Professorship

Joe Campbell

Lucien Carr, III, Professorship in Engineering & Applied Science

George Christ

Commonwealth Professorship 

Jack Davidson

BP America Professorship in Science and Technology

Robert Davis

William Stansfield Calcott Professorship in Engineering and Applied Science

Sandhya Dwarkadas

Walter N. Munster Professorship for Research in Intelligence Enhancement

Matthew Dwyer

Robert Thomson Distinguished Professorship in Engineering and Applied Science

William Epling

Ann Warrick Lacy Professorship in Engineering

David Evans

Olsen Bicentennial Professor of Engineering

Patrick Hopkins

Whitney Stone Professorship

Kevin Janes

John Marshall Money Professorship in the School of Engineering and Applied Science

Barry Johnson

L.A. Lacy Distinguished Professorship in Engineering

Ayman Karim

Olsen Bicentennial Professorship in Engineering

Rob Kelly

Thomas Goodwin Digges Professor of Materials Science

Richard Kent

Frederick Tracy Morse Professorship in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Jason Kerrigan

Commonwealth Professorship

Venkat Lakshmi

John L. Newcomb Professorship in Engineering

James Lambert

Janet Scott Hamilton and John Downman Hamilton Professorship in Civil Engineering

Xiaodong Li

Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Professorship in Engineering

Zongli Lin

Ferman W. Perry Professorship in the School of Engineering and Applied Science

Eric Loth

Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Professorship in Engineering 

Elizabeth Opila

Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Professorship in Engineering 

Gustavo Rohde

Mac Wade Professorship in Engineering

John Scully

Charles Henderson Professorship in Engineering

Nikolaos Sidiropoulos

Louis T. Rader Professorship in Electrical Engineering

Kevin Skadron

Harry Douglas Forsyth Professorship in Engineering & Applied Science

James Smith

Henry L. Kinnier Professorship in Civil Engineering

Mircea Stan

Virginia Microelectronics Consortium Professorship in Engineering

Haydn Wadley

Edgar A. Starke, Jr. Research Professorship in Materials Science

Jennifer West

Saunders Family Professorship in Engineering

Aidong Zhang

Thomas M. Linville Professorship in Engineering & Applied Science

Professorships

Professorships are awarded for three years to recognize research excellence in earlier stages of an academic career, or to reward faculty members for their exceptional contributions in service or student education and development.

N. Scott Barker

Professorship in Service (Montgomery Bicentennial Chair)

Laura Barnes

Professorship in Research (Quarles Chair)

Sebastian Elbaum

Professorship in Research (Quarles Chair)

Mark Sherriff

Professorship in Student Education and Development (Vaughn Chair)

Leonid Zhigilei

Professorship in Research (Quarles Chair) 

Copenhaver Fellowships

Copenhaver fellowships are awarded to tenured associate professors for up to three years in recognition of research and scholarly excellence.