Endowed positions move UTSA toward premier research university status

The Vaughan Family Endowed Professorship in Physics and the Roland K. Blumberg Endowed Professorship in Music – both funded by long-time supporters of The University of Texas System – are the latest additions to a growing number of professorships, distinguished professorships, chairs and distinguished chairs that are helping UTSA to attract outstanding new scholars and researchers to the University.

Curtis Vaughan, a member of the UTSA Development Board since its inception in 1975 and its first chair, and his wife Phyllis contributed $100,000 in the summer of 2005 to establish the first endowed position in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Sciences.

The legacy of longtime supporter Roland K. Blumberg of Seguin, who passed away in 1997, continues at UTSA through the Blumberg Professorship in Music, which is being funded by a recently terminated charitable trust. Blumberg and his wife Jane, a UT Regent from 1977-83, also funded two other professorships in the sciences at UTSA during their lifetimes. Jane Blumberg passed away in 1992.

Following is a complete listing of endowed academic positions at UTSA and the date the position was created: (as of December 2005)

Jane and Roland Blumberg Professorship in Biology, 2/12/1982

Elmo James Burke, Jr. Chair in Management of Building/Development, 2/14/1985

Roland K. and Jane W. Blumberg Professorship in Bioscience, 8/13/1992

The Ewing Halsell Distinguished Chair in Biology, 10/9/1992

The Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Professorship, 5/3/1996

The Janey and Dolph Briscoe Distinguished Professorship, 6/30/1997

The San Antonio Conservation Society Endowed Professorship in Memory of Mary Ann Blocker Castleberry, 8/5/1996

Amy Shelton and V. H. McNutt Distinguished Professorship in Geology, 2/5/1999

The USAA Foundation Distinguished Professorship, 6/11/2001

Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature, 2/5/2002

USAA Endowed Professorship in College of Business, 6/11/2001

Brackenridge Endowed Chair in Literature and the Humanities, 2/11/2003

Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair #1, 12/11/2003

Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair #2, 3/1/2004

Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair #3, 3/1/2004

Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair #4, 3/1/2004

Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair #5, 3/1/2004

Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair #6, 3/1/2004

Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair #7, 4/30/2004

Robert F. McDermott Distinguished Chair in Engineering, 3/15/2004

Robert F. McDermott Chair in Engineering, 3/15/2004

Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Endowed Chair in Biotechnology, 4/15/2004

Gilbert M. Denman Professorship in American History, 12/2/2004

Janey S. Briscoe Endowed Chair in Business, 12/3/2004

Loretta J. Lowak Clarke Distinguished Professorship in Health and Kinesiology, 2/23/2005

Robert E. Clarke, Jr. Distinguished Professorship in Electrical Engineering, 2/23/2005

The Vaughan Family Endowed Professorship in Physics, 6/28/2005

The SBC Communications Inc. Endowed Chari in Infrastructure Assurance and Security, 10/07/2005

Margaret Batts Tobin Distinguished Chair in Biotechnology, 10/11/2005

Roland K. Blumberg Endowed Professorship in Music, 10/25/2005

Richard S. Liu Distinguished Chair in Business, 10/25/2005

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