Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships

The Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships (BDPs) will form a cadre of fifty world-class faculty members whose excellence in research, teaching, and service will be centered on interdisciplinary scholarship. The BDPs will bridge the university’s schools and divisions, conduct and stimulate innovative research that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries, and train a new generation of native “interdisciplinarians.” Together they will strongly advance the university’s commitment to new directions in scholarship and to fields where Johns Hopkins is especially well poised to assume a position of intellectual leadership. Chief among these fields are the university’s Signature Initiatives, and initially the BDPs will be deployed in support of these initiatives. Read more about Mayor Bloomberg's gift to the university.

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Denis Wirtz
Vice Provost for Research

265 Garland Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 516-8094
wirtz@jhu.edu

Susannah Porterfield
Associate Vice Provost for Research
sporterfield@jhu.edu

Julie Messersmith
Director of Research Initiatives
jmesser5@jhu.edu

Tracy Smith
Research Awards Program Manager & Senior Administrative Coordinator
tracysmith@jhu.edu

 

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For more information, please contact Julie Messersmith in the Office of the Provost at (410) 516-2825 or jmesser5@jhu.edu.