IU Promotes Five to Distinguished Professor
Five 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.