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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill selected seven professors to receive distinguished professorships, including four in the College of Arts & Sciences.<\/em><\/p>\n

W.R. Kenan Jr. Professors<\/span><\/h3>\n
\"Michael
Health geographer and department chair Michael Emch.\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Michael Emch<\/b>, professor and chair of the Department of Geography, is a health geographer. He is also professor of epidemiology and a fellow of the Carolina Population Center. He has published widely in the subfield of disease ecology, mostly on infectious diseases of the developing world. He directs the Spatial Health Research Group.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>He is also a member of the UNC Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Ecology Lab. Many of the courses he teaches are about spatial components of health and disease.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Emch is an associate editor of\u00a0Health & Place<\/i>\u00a0and an advisory editor of\u00a0Social Science and Medicine<\/i>.<\/div>\n

Mark Zylka<\/b>, director of the UNC Neuroscience Center and professor of cell biology and physiology, in the UNC School of Medicine, is the principal investigator of a vibrant and highly competitive research laboratory. One focus is the identification and study of novel molecules and signaling pathways for the treatment of chronic pain. His lab has made several key discoveries \u2013 including the identification of the enzymes that generate adenosine, which reduces pain \u2013 that have garnered national and international recognition. Another important focus for Zylka\u2019s research has been autism. He is using genome-wide approaches to study transcriptional regulators linked to autism and to identify environmental risk factors for autism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kenan Professors<\/span><\/h3>\n
\"Department
Department of sociology professor Jacqueline Hagan is now a Kenan Distinguished Professor.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ruth Anderson<\/b>, professor and social gerontologist with expertise in care systems and trajectories of chronic illness and care outcomes for older adults, is the School of Nursing\u2019s associate dean for research. She is nationally distinguished as a former recipient of the National Institute of Nursing Research Path Paver Award, a Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame member and one of \u201c100 Nursing Professors to Watch.\u201d Her extensive body of scholarship is seen in\u00a0Geriatric Nursing, Implementation Science, Nursing Research<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Qualitativ<\/i><\/span>e Health Research<\/i>\u00a0and other peer-reviewed journals. She is in her 13th consecutive year of NIH funding.<\/p>\n

Jacqueline Hagan<\/b>, professor in the Department of Sociology, has as her central research area international migration, with a
\nspecial focus on undocumented and transit migration in the U.S.-Latin America migratory system. Within this broad interdisciplinary area, she has conducted high impact research on gender and migration, race and ethnic relations, migration and international labor markets, religion and migration and immigration policy effects. She is one of the world\u2019s leading scholars on processes of U.S. immigration and their consequences, for which recent events have made her a much sought-after policy expert and commentator on immigration bans and deportation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Computer
Kenan Distinguished Professor of computer science, Fabian Monrose.<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Fabian Monrose<\/strong>, professor in the Department of Computer Science, is a computer security researcher extraordinaire. He is an internationally recognized leader in the field and known for the unusual creativity in, and interdisciplinary approach to, his research. He has become a \u201cgo to\u201d authority for federal policy makers and federal cyber-crime investigators, and his work has influenced how products such as Skype are designed. He is an award-winning researcher and teacher, inventor and entrepreneur. Moreover, as a member of an underrepresented minority, he gives back to his community of origin through educational outreach and mentoring of junior scholars. In his spare time, he works with the UNC-Chapel Hill ITS security group to help protect the campus\u2019 networks from newly emerging threats and attacks.<\/div>\n

Alumni Professor<\/span><\/h3>\n
\"Department
Distinguished Alumni Professor Robert Babcock.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Robert Babcock<\/b>, professor in the Department of Classi<\/span>cs, is a scholar of medieval literary and intellectual culture. His particular area of expertise lies in medieval Latin, the transmission of classical texts and learning in the Middle Ages and Latin palaeography, the study of medieval manuscripts. As a scholar, he has an outstanding international reputation, and as a teacher and mentor, he plays a vital role both in the department and in the interdepartmental program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Burton Craige Distinguished Professor<\/span><\/h3>\n

Lissa Broome<\/b>, director of the School of Law\u2019s Center for Banking and Finance, serves as faculty adviser to the\u00a0North Carolina Banking Institute Journal<\/i>. She also heads the school\u2019s Director Diversity Initiative, which works to increase gender, racial and ethnic diversity on the boards of directors of publicly traded corporations in North Carolina and throughout the United States. She joined the Carolina faculty in 1984 and is a member of the North Carolina bar. Her teaching interests include commercial law and banking law.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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