Professorships
Mentorship starts here.
Advanced 3D “bioprinters” help researchers find new disease treatments: youtube.com/watch?v=Sct2yhwYlLk
The Power of Mentorship
Every UD professor will enrich thousands of students’ lives over the course of their career. Our faculty conducts field-defining research across the disciplines, allowing students to learn alongside the world’s most distinguished thinkers.
By investing in our faculty, you create opportunities to recruit and retain world-class teachers and researchers, making UD a global destination for the brightest students.
About Endowed Professorships
An endowed professorship is a profound investment in UD’s most important resource: people. By establishing a permanent, named faculty position, you ensure that your college or department has the necessary resources to spur innovation and enrich students’ lives for generations to come.
Your investment represents a tangible opportunity to shape UD’s future in several crucial ways:
RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION
Faculty hiring is an incredibly competitive landscape. World-class researchers and teachers have more options than ever, and our ability to make UD an attractive destination is a key driver of our academic mission.
Creating an endowed professorship is a unique opportunity to enhance UD’s position as a world-class research institution.
Innovation
By endowing a position in a particular department, you can spur cutting-edge research in the areas most important to you. These positions recognize our outstanding faculty’s accomplishments and they create critical infrastructure that makes further breakthroughs possible.
Every day, UD professors find answers to society’s most pressing questions—sustainability, health, racial justice, data science and artificial intelligence—and creating a new endowed position makes you a vital partner.
Student Enrichment
Endowed professorships create cascading benefits for entire generations of UD students. Each year, an individual faculty member has the potential to teach and mentor hundreds of Blue Hens.
By naming your professorship after yourself, your family, a mentor, or a loved one, you can create a lasting legacy through the countless students whose lives are enriched.
faculty impact
Here our some of our featured named professorships:
Dr. Yan Jin
Edward and Elizabeth Rosenberg Professor of Plant and Soil Sciences
Philanthropic Impact
The Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professorship is funded by the late Edward F. Rosenberg, AS ’29, ’30M and his wife, Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg. Dr. Rosenberg was a nationally known rheumatologist, and his wife, a graduate of the Curtis Institute, was a concert pianist and harpist.
About Dr. Jin
As the first woman to be awarded Soil Science of America’s prestigious Don and Betty Kirkham Award, Dr. Jin continues to enrich our understanding of the complex world beneath our feet. In her 30 years at UD, her research has yielded breakthrough technologies.
Dr. David G. Edwards
Unidel Katherine L. Esterly Chair in Health Sciences
Philanthropic Impact
The Unidel Chair in Health Sciences is named for the late Dr. Katherine L. “Kitty” Esterly, a pioneer in neonatology in Delaware and recipient of the University’s Medal of Distinction.
About Dr. Edwards
In 2016, Dr. Edwards received long-term funding from the National Institute of Health to establish UD’s Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) in Cardiovascular Health. Dr. Edwards has developed evidence-based programs and recommendations that benefit doctors and patients across the U.S.