Sarah Allred Named Inaugural Gerald Grob Endowed Legacy Professor by Rutgers Board of Governors

In a meeting held April 23, 2026, the Rutgers Board of Governors has approved the appointment of Sarah Allred as the inaugural Gerald Grob Endowed Legacy Professor, effective July 1, 2026.

The professorship was established through a gift from Margaret Marsh and Howard F. Gillette, Jr. to honor Gerald Grob, a distinguished historian of medicine and longtime mentor to Marsh. The fund is designed to support and retain scholars whose work advances the study of health, medicine, and policy, while strengthening interdisciplinary research and teaching at Rutgers University–Camden and the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research.

Allred, a professor of psychology with Rutgers–Camden and a leading scholar in visual perception and memory, brings a multidisciplinary approach that integrates behavioral psychophysics, computational modeling, and large-scale data analysis. In addition to a strong record of external funding, including support from the National Science Foundation, Allred has played a key leadership role in advancing health equity initiatives across South Jersey through work with the Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Policy and the South Jersey Institute for Population Health.

The appointment follows recommendations from university leadership and endorsement by the Board’s Committee on Academic and Student Affairs.

Endowed professorships represent one of the university’s highest faculty honors, recognizing excellence in research, teaching, and public engagement.