The ensuing controversy involved a Congressional investigation and required him to resign from his new appointment as president of Rockefeller University although the allegations against Imanishi-Kari were dropped and Baltimore eventually became an endowed professor at and president of Caltech.

In 1933, he became an endowed professor on mathematics in the Graduate School of Yale University.

"Physicians really didn't and still don't know a great deal about the home environment," said Dr. Knight Steel, the director of geriatrics at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey and the endowed professor of geriatrics at New Jersey Medical School in Newark.

Ernest Allen Emerson is a computer scientist and endowed professor at the University of Texas, Austin, USA.

In recent years, he has delivered keynote speeches, served as an endowed visiting professor, and participated in conferences from Tokyo to São Paulo and Beijing to Barcelona.

(Wright is credited only in the Foreword; she later went on to become an endowed professor of psychology at the University of Kansas).

She is board-certified in psychiatry and neurology and is an endowed clinical professor.

In 2010, Tucker spent a semester teaching and researching at the TU Darmstadt in Germany as an endowed professor of peace and security studies, and most recently was a senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, DC.

Punahou can point to endowed professors at Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, Duke, Illinois, Notre Dame, and Boston University.

In 2000, at the age of 32, he was named the Emil T. Hofman Professor of Physics, becoming the youngest endowed professor.