Stanford University has an endowed professorship in his honor. He held an adjunct professorship at the school. He remained there until his death in 2018 rising to assume an endowed full professorship. He held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard. He received tenure and a full professorship in 1981. Scholar award and the Thousand Talents Professorship. Eliel Saarinen Visiting Professorship, University of Michigan. He wanted to endow a professorship to honor S. S. Chern. His Cambridge University professorship in history followed in 2008. He held the John Dewey Distinguished Professorship in the Social Sciences at New School. Wilczek holds the Herman Feshbach Professorship of Physics at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. Ko also resigned from various posts that he held, including his professorship at KAIST. His habilitation (which qualified him for a professorship) was on Bonaventure. He remained in this position until 1997 when Fuller appointed him to a full professorship. He was appointed to the Bing Professorship in 1977.