Three Women Named to Endowed Chairs

Young-Kee Kim was appointed the Louis Brock Professor in Physics at the University of Chicago. Professor Kim joined the faculty at the university in 2003 and since 2006 has served as deputy director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Dr. Kim holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Korea. She earned a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Rochester.

Beverly Kracher was named to the Robert B. Daugherty Endowed Chair in Business Ethics and Society at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She also serves as the executive director and president of the Greater Omaha Alliance for Business Ethics.

Professor Kracher has been on the Creighton faculty since 1988. She holds a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska.

Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer was named the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor in Classics at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Mirror of Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire.

Dr. Bartsch-Zimmer joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1998. She is a graduate of Princeton University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

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