Eight faculty awarded named professorships

Eight UW–Madison faculty recently have been awarded named professorships following approval by the UW System Board of Regents.

Heather Dubrow was named Tighe-Evans Professor of English. Dubrow specializes in Renaissance poetry and Shakespeare, and has authored four scholarly books, written numerous articles, co-edited a collection of essays and published a chapbook of poetry. Mary and Patricia Tighe were elementary school teachers and Gwynne Blakemore Evans was one of the most distinguished Shakespeare editors of his generation.

H. Hill Goldsmith was named Leona Tyler Professor of Psychology. His research focuses on human emotional development, and he is recognized as a leading theorist in infant temperament and leading contributor to the field of human behavioral genetics. Tyler was a Wisconsin native who spent most of her career teaching psychology at the University of Oregon.

Arnold E. Ruoho was named S. Jonathan Singer Professor of Pharmacology. Ruoho is an internationally renowned leader in the structure and function of membrane proteins, which are found in the nervous system. Singer, an emeritus professor of biology at the University of California-San Diego, has helped develop the understanding of the structure of proteins and the manner by which membrane proteins associate with the lipid bilayer.

Bonnie Svarstad was named the William S. Apple Professor of Pharmacy. Svarstad is a pioneer in social and behavioral pharmacy who has contributed significantly to psychotropic drugs in the elderly, factors affecting patient compliance with medication regimens, and attitudes and behavior of pharmacists in their new roles in patient consultation. Apple, a UW–Madison alumnus and former professor, was chief executive officer of the American Pharmaceutical Association from 1959-1983.

Stephen Wainger was named Antoni Zygmund Professor of Mathematics. He is one of the most outstanding research mathematicians in the broad area of harmonic analysis during the second half of the 20th century. Zygmund was one of the foremost analysts of the 20th century famous for his work on the Calderon-Zygmund Theory and for the school of harmonic analysis he fathered.

Kenneth West was named Ragnar Frisch Professor of Economics. His fields of interest are macroeconomics and econometrics, and he has written on business cycles, monetary policy, stock price and exchange rate behavior, business investment, inventory fluctuations and statistical techniques for analysis of economic data. Frisch shared the first Nobel Prize in Economics in 1969 and made important contributions to measurement and modeling of economic data.

Hyuk Yu was named Walter H. Stockmayer Professor of Chemistry. Yu’s research interest has been in the equilibrium and dynamic properties of polymers in bulk solution and, more recently, on interfaces. Stockmayer was a renowned scientist who had a profound impact on the present state of knowledge of dynamics and statistical mechanics of chain molecules.

George Zografi was named the Edward Kremers Professor of Pharmacy. Zografi served as pharmacy school dean for five years and is the only person to have been awarded both the highest teaching award and the highest research award of the Association of American Colleges of Pharmacy. Kremers headed the UW pharmacy school for 43 years and introduced a number of programs that had an impact on the national scene, including the first bachelor of science in pharmacy degree and the first doctor of pharmacy degree programs.