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The Okun Distinguished Professorship in Environmental Engineering at the School of Public Health has become a reality after a five-year campaign to fund an endowed professorship in Daniel A. Okun's name.
As chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering from 1955 to 1973, Okun played a key role in shifting the department's focus from a narrow program in sanitary engineering to the comprehensive and 10-fold larger program in environmental sciences and engineering that it is today.
Efforts to recruit the first Okun professor will begin soon, with an initial appointment expected for the 2000-2001 academic year.
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