A&S faculty members recognized with prestigious endowed professorships
Arts & Sciences proudly recognizes 12 outstanding tenured faculty members with endowed professorships to begin in the 2025-2026 academic year. These new appointments reflect the following faculty members’ commitment to groundbreaking research, innovative teaching and mentorship, substantive collaboration with their students and dedicated service to their fields, their departments and William & Mary as a whole.
Ken Kambis Professor in Kinesiology & Health Sciences
Robin Looft-Wilson is the recipient of this Term Distinguished Professorship in the Department of Kinesiology. Awarded for a three-year term, this appointment recognizes Looft-Wilson’s excellence in research and demonstrated commitment to teaching and student mentorship. Currently a professor of kinesiology and Neuroscience Program affiliate, she is the recipient of multiple prestigious grants from the National Institutes of Health for research into how genetics and other risk factors affect artery function and contribute to cardiovascular disease. At W&M, she is known to her colleagues and students as a highly thoughtful and well-prepared instructor. She has won multiple awards for her teaching, including the Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer (2011-2012), the Coco Faculty Fellowship for Research and Teaching Excellence (2011-2012) and the Alumni Fellowship Award for Excellence in Teaching (2009). Looft-Wilson is also a dedicated mentor to undergraduates in her research laboratory, 21 of whom have been co-authors on nine publications in top journals of cardiovascular physiology. As a member of an advisory board for the American Physiological Society, she has helped provide fellowships and mentorship for underrepresented undergraduates since 2012.