New York: Princeton University announced earlier in June that seven new University Professorships have been endowed at the higher education institute through major gifts to the Venture Forward campaign. Among them is one titled, The U. Krishna Veeraraghavan and Sejal Shah University Professorship.
Veeraraghavan, a 1999 graduate of Princeton, and his wife Sejal Shah, are endowing the professorship to attract highly accomplished individuals to the University.
The University Professorship is the most prestigious honor Princeton can bestow on a faculty member, the University said in a June 2 announcement. Recipients of the honor are recognized for demonstrating scholarly preeminence in their professional accomplishments, as well as making exceptional contributions to the University’s research and teaching community.
Shah is a board-certified dermatologist and the founder and medical director of SmarterSkin Dermatology, a private cosmetic dermatology clinic in New York City; Veeraraghavan is global co-head of the mergers and acquisitions group at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.
