University of Rochester

Named Professorships

Lawrence Rothenberg, a faculty member in the Department of Political Science, was named the University’s first Corrigan-Minehan Professor of Political Science. The professorship is named for trustee Cathy E. Minehan ’68 and her husband, E. Gerald Corrigan.

Michael Tanenhaus, a professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, was named to the University’s first Beverly Petterson Bishop and Charles W. Bishop Professorship. The appointment is named for two alumni from the Class of 1946: the late Beverly Bishop, who earned her master’s degree in psychology, and her husband, Charles Bishop, who earned his doctorate in biochemistry.

Nina Schor, the chair of the Department of Pediatrics, was installed as the first William H. Eilinger Professor. The professorship is named in honor of Eilinger ’42, a longtime Kodak employee who died in 2007.

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