The UC Davis community celebrated the accomplishments of three newly endowed professors and honored the donors who have made endowed chairs and professorships possible at an April 13 banquet in Freeborn Hall.

Appointed to endowed faculty positions in the past year were James Alan Bourgeois and Mark Servis, of the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences at the UC Davis School of Medicine, and Andrew Waterhouse of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences' viticulture and enology department.

"With their research and teaching and their engagement with the community, the faculty members who hold these endowed chairs and professorships contribute to the excellence of our campus in many ways," said Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef.

Bourgeois, the new Alan Stoudemire Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine, directs the Consultation-Liaison Service at the UC Davis Medical Center and is the consulting psychiatrist for the Northern Sierra Rural Health Network/UCDMC Integrating Mental Health and Primary Care telepsychiatry project. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer who joined the UC Davis School of Medicine in 2000.

The Stoudemire Professorship is named in honor of late physician Alan Stoudemire, who was widely known for his exemplary services in psychosomatic medicine, consultation-liaison psychiatry and medical psychiatric practice.

Servis, the Roy Brophy Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has long been recognized for his efforts at UC Davis. He has received five Residents' Outstanding Faculty Awards, an Excellence in Teaching Award and a Dean's Mentoring Award. He is deeply involved in curriculum reform and medical education, serving on the medical school's Committee on Educational Policy and the Steering and Executive Committees of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training.

The Brophy Professorship is named in honor of Roy Brophy, a former UC Regent and former chair of the M.I.N.D Institute Board of Directors. Brophy and his wife, Rebecca, recently added $200,000 to the professorship fund.

Waterhouse, the John E. Kinsella Endowed Chair in Food, Nutrition and Health, conducts groundbreaking research into the effects of phenolic compounds on the quality and consumer health aspects of wine. Since joining the faculty in 1991, he has won the Academie Amorim Award of Special Merit, the Medical Friends of Wine Research Award and a UC Davis Chancellor's Fellow award. He teaches the popular "Introduction to Winemaking" course and a graduate course entitled "Natural Products of Wine."

The Kinsella Chair honors Professor John Kinsella, dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences from 1990 until his death in 1993.

Michael Sugawara, vice chair of the UC Davis Foundation, also announced new gifts that will soon create five chairs and professorships. "I'm especially proud of the advances in learning, discovery and community engagements these endowments produce," Sugawara said. "We couldn't do it without the vision and commitment of private donors."

The new gifts will endow the following new faculty positions:

• an endowed chair in geriatric medicine;
• the Edward G. Jones Endowed Professorship in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences;
• the Novozymes Endowed Chair in Genomics;
• a John B. Orr Endowed Chair in Environmental Plant Sciences; and
• the Joe and Essie Smith Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.

UC Davis now has 80 endowed faculty positions, which are beneficial in recruiting and retaining exceptional faculty. Funds from faculty endowments often support graduate student salaries, research projects, professional development and research-related travel.