ANN ARBOR—Appointments to endowed and titled professorships approved by the University of Michigan Regents at their April 15-16 meeting included:

Michael Boehnke, professor of biostatistics, will hold the Pharmacia & Upjohn Foundation Research Professorship in Biostatistics.

Mamadou Diouf, research director of CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal, will be the University of Michigan Presidential Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies, Sept. 1, 1999-Robert T. Todd III, professor of internal medicine, will hold the Frances and Victor Ginsberg Professorship of Hematology/Oncology.

Prof. Boehnke is “an internationally recognized leader in the development and application of statistical methods for gene mapping and complex diseases,” said Noreen M. Clark, dean of the School of Public Health. “He and his research colleagues from public health, medicine, and mathematics are pioneering statistical methods for analysis of data related to gene mapping and genetic determinants of disease. His stature, coupled with the quality of the work of his research partners, places Michigan at the top both nationally and internationally in this crucial, new area of inquiry.”

Prof. Diouf is “exceptionally well-placed to bring the U-M into contact with research and education throughout the African continent,” said Lester P. Monts, associate provost for academic affairs. “His influence in African and Third-World studies is solidly rooted in his own achievements. He is often described as a ‘second-generation’ scholar, coming of intellectual age after African independence, no longer willing to make the simple point that Africa has a history and insistent on a complex analysis of what constitutes that history. He has written on a wide range of subjects, both empirically grounded studies of Senegal and theoretically sophisticated analyses of issues in the study of colonial and post-colonial societies.”

Prof. Todd has “distinguished himself as an outstanding investigator in the area of leukocyte cell biology,” said Allen S. Lichter, interim dean of the Medical School. “His bibliography reflects over 140 publications in highly respected peer-reviewed journals, and his research program is well funded by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Todd’s expertise is further recognized through his membership on the editorial boards of the Journal of Immunology and the Journal of Clinical Investigation. In addition to his exciting research program, Dr. Todd is a skilled teacher and clinician.”

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