IU Promotes Five to Distinguished Professor
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowFive scholars and researchers at Indiana University have been promoted to distinguished professor, the highest academic rank within the institution. They include: Katy Börner (pictured), a visualization researcher from the School of Informatics and Computing; Roger Hangarter (pictured), a molecular plant biologist from the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences; Stanley Ritchie, a professor of violin and early music in the Jacobs School of Music and Eliot Smith, a researcher of cognition and emotions from Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Bruce Molitoris, a researcher of renal disease at the IU School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine in Indianapolis, also has achieved the rank of distinguished professor.