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24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President and Walter Hines Page Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
Office of the President
A political communication scholar who has steadied and steered Duke through a decade of change, Vincent Price was reappointed to a third term in 2026, and we are grateful for his steady, principled stewardship.
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
A rocket scientist who spent decades advancing spacecraft propulsion at Michigan, Alec Gallimore now guides Duke's academic mission and its thoughtful embrace of AI, and we thank him for leading with both rigor and warmth.
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine
Medicine
An infectious-disease physician-scientist who became Duke's first Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Mary Klotman has knit research, education, and care into one enterprise, and we are grateful for her clarity and care.
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Medicine and HHMI Investigator
Medicine and Biochemistry
His discoveries about the receptors that let our cells hear the world earned the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and after fifty years at Duke Robert Lefkowitz still mentors with a joy and wit we deeply admire.
Frederic M. Hanes Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Immunology
Medicine and Immunology
For nearly four decades Bart Haynes led the Duke Human Vaccine Institute in the long, patient pursuit of vaccines against HIV, tuberculosis, and pandemic threats, and we are grateful for his tireless dedication to protecting human life.
Chancellor Emeritus and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Medicine
Often called the father of personalized medicine, Ralph Snyderman built the Duke University Health System and still champions care that anticipates rather than reacts, and we thank him for a lifetime of institution-building generosity.
Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology and Neuroscience
A behavioral scientist who builds technology to help people improve their own health, Gary Bennett leads Duke's largest college with generosity and vision, and we thank him for championing a liberal-arts education that serves real lives.
Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics
Physics
A member of the National Academy of Sciences whose work helped establish neutrino oscillation, Kate Scholberg watches for the faint neutrino flash of a dying star, and we are grateful for her patient devotion to the universe's quietest messengers.
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
By inventing new ways to control light and spin, Warren Warren has sharpened both cancer imaging and our reading of ancient pigments, and we thank him for a career spent bending physics toward practical human good.
Executive Vice Provost and Professor of Biology
Biology
A geneticist who studies how new species arise and a beloved teacher who once explained the science of Star Trek, Mohamed Noor shares evolution with the world with contagious delight, and we are grateful for his open-hearted mentorship.
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Economics
Economics
With George Akerlof she brought identity and social norms into economic theory, opening a whole field, and we thank Rachel Kranton for insisting that economics reckon honestly with who people believe themselves to be.
Kimberly J. Jenkins Distinguished University Professor of New Technologies and Professor of Mathematics
Mathematics
A probabilist who turned the mathematics of randomness onto the problem of gerrymandering, Jonathan Mattingly gave courts a rigorous way to see unfair maps, and we are grateful for math put in service of fair democracy.
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
Mathematics
Her wavelets underlie how the world stores images and sound and even help restore old master paintings, and we thank Ingrid Daubechies, a National Medal of Science laureate, for mathematics of rare beauty and reach.
Dean of the Fuqua School of Business and Professor of Marketing
Marketing
A scholar of how people make hard, emotional decisions and the first Fuqua graduate to lead the school, Mary Frances Luce brings warmth and rigor to the deanship, and we are grateful for her people-first leadership.
James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics
Psychology and Behavioral Economics
Through the Center for Advanced Hindsight and a shelf of bestselling books, Dan Ariely has made the study of our irrational choices accessible to millions, and we thank him for teaching so many to think honestly about human behavior.
Professor of Finance
Finance
A past president of the American Finance Association whose yield-curve research reshaped how we read recessions, Cam Harvey now teaches a generation about crypto and DeFi, and we are grateful for his openness and curiosity.
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
His experiments with metamaterials turned the science-fiction idea of an invisibility cloak into a real research field, and we thank David Smith for the imagination and craft he brings to bending light itself.
Robert W. Carr, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Newly elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026, Nimmi Ramanujam builds low-cost tools that bring cervical-cancer detection to women across the world, and we are grateful for engineering aimed squarely at human dignity.
John W. Strohbehn Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Directing the Duke Center for Advanced Genome Technology, Charlie Gersbach uses CRISPR to chase cures for muscular dystrophy and beyond, and we thank him for pushing gene editing toward the clinic with rigor and care.
William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law
Law
A founder of Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain and a former Creative Commons chair, James Boyle has spent his career defending the shared commons of culture and ideas, and we are grateful for his fight for openness.
Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law and Philosophy
Law and Philosophy
A leading voice for mental privacy in an age of brain-reading technology, Nita Farahany asks how we keep our thoughts our own, and we thank her for guarding human freedom at the frontier of neuroscience and AI.
Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology
Conservation Ecology
A world authority on how fast species vanish and how to save them, Stuart Pimm turns his research into on-the-ground habitat protection through Saving Nature, and we are grateful for his fierce, hopeful care for life on Earth.
Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy
Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics
Founding director of the Cook Center on Social Equity, Sandy Darity has spent his career measuring and confronting the racial wealth gap, and we thank him for scholarship that treats justice as a rigorous, answerable question.
Associate Professor of American Religious History
American Religious History
A historian of the prosperity gospel who wrote with startling honesty about her own illness, Kate Bowler helps countless people sit with life's hardest moments, and we are grateful for her clear-eyed, compassionate voice.
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