Endowed Faculty Chairs and Professorships

The following is a listing of the endowed faculty positions. Harvey Mudd College thanks these donors for their generosity.

Alexander and Adelaide Hixon Professorship in the Humanities
Anthony W. LaFetra Family Chair of Engineering
Atwood Endowed Chair of Engineering Science
Barbara Stokes Dewey Assistant Professorship in the Life Sciences
Benediktsson-Karwa Chair in Mathematics
Burton Bettingen Professorship in Physics
C.F. Braun and Co. Fellowship in Engineering
Csilla and Walt Foley Endowed Professorship in Computer Science
Donald A. Strauss Endowed Professorship in Chemistry
Fletcher Jones Professorship in Engineering Design
Hixon Center for Climate and the Environment – Endowed Chair
Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellowship in Science and Technology Studies
Iris and Howard Critchell Assistant Professorship
J. Stanley and Mary Wig Johnson Professorship in Engineering Management
James Howard Kindelberger Professorship in Engineering
John Stauffer Chair in Chemistry
Joseph B. Platt Chair in Effective Teaching
Jude and Eileen Laspa Endowed Professorship of Engineering
Kenneth A. and Diana G. Jonsson Professorship in Mathematics
Leonhard-Johnson-Rae Chair
Louisa and Robert Miller Professorship in the Humanities
Malcolm Lewis Chair in Sustainability and Society
Maria M. Klawe Professor of Climate and Computer Science in the Hixon Center for Climate and the Environment
McGregor-Girand Chair in STEM Equity Innovation and Research
Michael G. and C. Jane Wilson Chair in Arts and the Humanities
Norman F. Sprague Jr. Professorship in the Life Sciences
Oliver C. Field Professorship in Manufacturing and Engineering Economics
R. Michael Shanahan Dean of the Faculty
R. Michael Shanahan Endowed Professorship
Ray and Mary Ingwersen Professorship in Chemistry
Robert and Barbara McAlister Endowed Professorship in Math
Ruth and Harvey Berry Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership
Smallwood Family Chair
Stuart Mudd Professorship in Biology
Susan and Bruce Worster Professor of Physics
Union Oil Company Engineering Design Fellowship
Vivian and D. Kenneth Baker Professorship in the Life Sciences
Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair in Leadership
Willard W. Keith Jr. Fellowship in the Humanities

Mohamed Omar

Professor of Mathematics Mo Omar — Joseph B. Platt Chair in Effective Teaching and Associate Professor of Mathematics

“I am very grateful for the support of the Joseph B. Platt Chair in Effective Teaching. The support has supplemented my research in ways that have not only progressed my work, but have fruitfully impacted the opportunities that I can offer students at HMC.”

Danae Schulz

“Donor support was incredibly helpful in allowing me to perform a few experiments in the fall of 2020 [despite the COVID-19 pandemic]. Although these experiments were not the ones I had originally planned on that required student support, they were vital for (1) establishing a new collaboration aimed at identifying new therapeutic drugs for trypanosomiasis and (2) piloting some of the projects that I had proposed in my grant applications. I also am so grateful for the donor support that allowed my student to attend an online parasitology conference. When I spoke with my student afterward, she was very happy to have had the experience of presenting her work to an international cadre of experts.”