Two faculty members named to endowed professorships

By the Office of Communications on Feb. 1, 2019, 3:06 p.m.
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Two faculty members have been named to endowed professorships.

  • Alan Krueger, vacating the Lynn Bendheim Thoman, Class of 1977 and Robert Bendheim, Class of 1937 Professorship of Economics and Public Affairs to be the James Madison Professor of Political Economy, effective Feb. 1.
  • Jason Petta, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, effective July 1.

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