Steenbock Professorships
In the early 1980s, Mrs. Evelyn Steenbock initiated a program to endow a series of prestigious professorships in the natural sciences, in honor of her late husband Harry Steenbock, emeritus professor of Biochemistry. The income from those endowments supports research costs and/or released time for research of outstanding faculty nominated by UW–Madison departments or groups of three or more individual faculty. The final selection in each case is made by an expert selection committee from U.S. and Canadian universities. The initial award is for a period of ten years after which the selection committee will decide on the awardee for the ensuing ten years.
Information on competitions for Professorship, nomination procedures and deadlines are distributed to School/College research officers for distribution to Department Chairs and faculty as appropriate.
Current Steenbock Professors
Behavioral & Neural Sciences: Su-Chun Zhang—until 6/30/2025
Biological Sciences: Anthony Ives—until 6/30/2025
Chemical Sciences: Shannon Stahl–until 6/30/2028
Engineering: Michael Graham–Until 6/30/2030
Mathematical Sciences: Jin-Yi Cai—until 6/30/2024
Microbiological Sciences: Paul Ahlquist—until 6/30/2026
Nutrition: James Ntambi—until 6/30/2023
Physical Sciences: Robert Hamers—until 6/30/2024
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