93-11-12 U.Va. Board of Visitors Establishes New Professorships

U.VA. BOARD OF VISITORS ESTABLISHES NEW PROFESSORSHIPS

     CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 11 -- The University of Virginia
Board of Visitors established five endowed professorships at its
meeting today, bringing the total of endowed chairs to 350.
     In the Health Sciences Center, the Emily Davie and Joseph S.
Kornfeld Professorship in Biomedical Ethics was created by the
Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation and the Ira W. DeCamp
Foundation of New York.  This Eminent Scholars chair has an
endowment of $1 million.  It supports education and research in
biomedical ethics and will support a faculty member in the Center
for Biomedical Ethics.
     The John T. and Louise Nerancy Professorship in Health Policy
honors the late Dr. John Nerancy and his wife.  A gift to the
University by the Nerancys also supports three other chairs in the
School of Medicine and a critical care unit in University Hospital.
     Also in the area of Health Sciences, the Thomas E. Worrell Jr.
Professorship in Epileptology and Neurology was created to support
medical research and teaching in pediatric neurology, with a strong
emphasis on epilepsy.  The chair is made possible by gifts from
alumnus and former Board of Visitors member Thomas E. Worrell Jr.,
Abbott Laboratories of Illinois and Carter-Wallace Pharmaceuticals
of New Jersey.  This professorship will be used to attract and
retain researchers of national reputation in pediatric neurology
and epileptology.
     In the School of Law the board established the Roy L. and
Rosamond Woodruff Morgan Professorship, which is a research
professorship in international law and criminal justice.  Both
areas were of deep interest to the late Judge Roy Morgan, who
received a B.S. from the University in 1930 and a law degree from
the School of Law in 1933.  A former FBI agent, he served as an
associate prosecutor with the international tribunal prosecuting
World War II war crimes in Japan and developed a long association
of mutual respect for and work with the Japanese people.  He later
served as an American advisor to the prime minister of Japan, as
chief justice of a U.S. appellate court for the Far East and as
head of U.S. trade missions to Japan.  The professorship was
established through a gift from his widow, Rosamond Woodruff Morgan
of Low Gap, N.C.
     In the College of Arts and Sciences the Mayo Distinguished
Teaching Professorship was established through the support of an
anonymous donor.  According to Raymond J. Nelson, dean of the
faculty of arts and sciences, the distinguished teaching chair is
the first of three new professorships that the College hopes to
establish to honor outstanding teachers.
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                                                November 11, 1993
          
 
Karen Castle, Office Services Specialist, University News Office
P.O. Box 9018, Booker House, Charlottesville, VA  22906
(804) 924-7116, kac@virginia.edu

[Submitted by: Karen A. Castle  (kac@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu)
               Fri, 12 Nov 93 09:44:54 EST]