Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Chair in Geophysics

The estate of Cecil H. and Ida Green created the position. Their legacy at The University of Texas at Dallas was to establish in Dallas a world-class cohort of faculty and students in the new domain of integrated interdisciplinary biomedical research. The resources and talents of UT Dallas and UT Southwestern are combined under the guidance of the two institutions’ Green Centers. Endowments were generated for faculty members whose research expertise lies at one of the interfaces between biomedical science and physical, mathematical, computational or engineering science, emphasizing in particular research that will create synergy with research at UT Southwestern.

Dr. David Lumley

• Professor and Department Head of Sustainable Earth Systems Sciences

“I knew Cecil Green in the last decade of his life. My PhD advisor was the Green Chair in Geophysics at Stanford, and Cecil Green used to come by to visit us once or twice a year. Cecil and I made a great connection because we had similar paths; he grew up in Vancouver and attended the University of British Columbia, and became a geophysicist, as I did. It is therefore a great honor for me to hold the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Chair in Geophysics at UT Dallas.”