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The appointment, made by the President of Yale University and confirmed by the Yale Corporation, can be granted to any Yale faculty member, and up to forty professors can hold the title at the same time. [1] [2] The position was established through a 1918 bequest from John William Sterling, and the first Sterling Professor was appointed in 1920.
A Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in their field. Traditionally, there are only 27 at any one time, though there are currently 40.
From 2002 until 2006, he was employed as a professor at Boston College; during his tenure, he won the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award in 2004. [6] [7] In 2006, Miller was appointed a professor of chemistry at Yale University, and was named Irénée du Pont Professor of Chemistry in 2008. [6]
Akiko Iwasaki (岩崎明子, Iwasaki Akiko, born September 13, 1970) is a Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University. [1] She is also a principal investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute . [ 2 ]
David William Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Previously, Blight was a professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for
John C. Tully is a theoretical chemist, a researcher and Sterling Professor emeritus of Chemistry at Yale University.He is known for his development of surface hopping, a method for including excited states in molecular dynamics calculations. [1]
Akhil Reed Amar (born September 6, 1958) is an American legal scholar known for his expertise in U.S. constitutional law.He is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he is a leading scholar of originalism, the U.S. Bill of Rights, and criminal procedure.
Christine Hayes is an American academic and scholar of Jewish studies, currently serving as the Sterling Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica at Yale University, specializing in Talmudic and Midrashic studies and Classical Judaica.