Legacy Professorships are created specifically for faculty and offer a unique opportunity to strengthen their fields for future generations. Available only to current, emeritus, and retired faculty and their families, these professorships provide an exclusive avenue to honor their life’s work and ensure lasting recognition at the university. Endowed professorships are critical to attracting and retaining distinguished faculty by providing sustained funding for research and teaching, thereby strengthening the reputation and academic excellence of the department and the university. A gift of $500,000 enables faculty members or their families to endow a named professorship in recognition of their own achievements or in memory of a fellow faculty member whose impact endures.
To learn more, contact Jennifer Bognar at jennifer.bognar@rutgersfoundation.org or call 848-932-7351.
“Itʼs a small way to give back for the opportunities Rutgers has given me, and by extension my family, and to support faculty contributions to discovery and research training in an area I had the privilege to work in for many years,” Omary says.
Margaret Marsh, a University Professor of History at Rutgers, and Howard Gillette, a professor emeritus of history at Rutgers–Camden (pictured) made a gift to honor Professor Gerald Grob’s Legacy. “In many ways, I owe the success of my academic career to Gerry,” Marsh says. “He was a great mentor, not just to me but to all of his students, and I have tried to follow his example.”
Anonymous Donor Establishes Legacy Professorship to Honor David Mechanic, Founding Director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research. “The new endowed professorship is designed to honor, retain, or recruit tenured or tenure-track scholars in the fields of health, healthcare, health care policy, or aging research... and to sustain innovative intellectual work that embraces teaching, discovery, and public service.”
Legacy Professorship Named for Groundbreaking Rutgers Ecologist. “This professorship is about enabling research that might be a bit off the beaten path, or too new to attract traditional funding—but that has the potential to lead to important scientific breakthroughs.”
For 25 years, Michael Gochfeld—a renowned researcher who holds both an M.D. and Ph.D.—served as founding director of the Rutgers Health residency program in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.