Two Women Named to Endowed Chairs

Frances E. Lund was named to the Charles H. McCauley Endowed Chair in Microbiology at the University of Alabama Birmingham. She will also chair the department of microbiology. Since 2008, Dr. Lund has been a professor in the department of microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester.

Dr. Lund is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. She holds a Ph.D. in microbiology from Duke University.

Anne L. Alstott was appointed the Jacquin D. Bierman Professor of Taxation at Yale Law School. She was a member of the faculty at Yale Law from 1997 to 2008 and served twice as deputy dean. For the past three years she has been the Manley O. Hudson Professor at Harvard Law School. She is the author of No Exit: What Parents Owe Children and What Society Owes Parents (Oxford University Press, 2004) and coauthor of The Stakeholder Society (Yale University Press, 1999).

Professor Alstott is a summa cum laude graduate of Georgetown University and earned her law degree at Yale.

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