Separately, National Economic Council chief Laura D'Andrea Tyson confirmed she is resigning to take an endowed chair at the University of California at Berkeley.

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For example, by far the most famous tree scientist of modern times operates out of Hsu (Humboldt State University) in an endowed chair under my name and money.

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Dr. Jayson Lusk is Professor and Willard Sparks Endowed Chair in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Oklahoma State University and can be reached at Jayson.

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Brown Presidential Endowed Chair at the S.J.

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He is a trustee of the museum, perhaps the most coveted social prize in the city, and serves on the board of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where, after he donated more than forty million dollars, an endowed chair and a research center were named for him.

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Regius Professorships were created in the past when a university chair was founded or endowed by a royal patron.

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