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List of Professors

Name Years at Michigansort icon Position

Victor C. Vaughan

1877 - 1921
Professor of Hygiene and Physiological Chemistry
Dean of Medical Faculty

Frederick George Novy

1886 - 1935
Professor of Bacteriology
Director of Hygienic Laboratory
Dean of the Medical School

Eliza Maria Mosher

1896 - 1902
Professor of Hygiene
Women's Dean in the Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Warren Ellsworth Forsythe

1917 - 1956
Professor of Hygiene and Public Health
Director of the Health Service

Vered Stearns

2001 - 2002
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine