Recognized Centers and Chairs of Excellence
The University of Memphis has been designated by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission
as a location for centers and chairs of excellence. The units listed below receive
special funding by the state in recognition of their status.
Centers of Excellence
- Center for Applied Psychological Research
- Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI)
- Center for Research in Educational Policy (CREP)
- Center for Research Initiatives and Strategies for the Communicatively Impaired (CRISCI)
- Center of Excellence in Egyptian Art and Archaeology
Chairs of Excellence
- Bornblum Chair of Excellence in Judaic Studies
- Dorothy Kayser Hohenberg Chair of Excellence
- Federal Express Chair of Excellence in Management Information Systems
- Helen and Jabie Hardin Chair of Excellence in Economics/Managerial Journalism
- Herbert Herff Chair of Excellence Biomedical Engineering (I)
- Herbert Herff Chair of Excellence Biomedical Engineering (II)
- Herbert Herff Chair of Excellence in Law
- Jabie Sanford Hardin III Chair of Excellence in Combinatorics
- James T. Thompson Chair of Excellence in Accounting Education
- Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Computer Science
- Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy
- Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Psychology
- Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Urban Education
- Morris S. Fogelman Chair of Excellence in Real Estate
- Plough Chair of Excellence in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology
- Robert Wang Chair of Excellence in International Business
- Sales and Marketing Executives Inc. Chair of Excellence in Sales
- Sparks Family Chair of Excellence in Global Research Leadership
- The University of Memphis Chair of Excellence in Free Enterprise Management
- Thompson-Hill Chair of Excellence in Accounting
- W. Harry Feinstone Chair of Excellence in Molecular Biology
- William A. and Ruth F. Loewenberg Chair of Excellence in Nursing
- William N. Morris Chair of Excellence in International Economics
- Wunderlich Chair of Excellence in Finance