The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences honors faculty members who have earned named professorships for their research and scholarly accomplishments. These prestigious awards are the highest faculty honors bestowed by the college or their academic department and are made possible by the generosity of our donors. CALS is a global leader in the life sciences and agriculture and these outstanding faculty are instrumental in our impact.
2025 Professorship Honorees
This year CALS is honoring these individuals who have received named professorships in the last year.
Katherine Curtis
Community and Environmental Sociology
Buttel-Sewell Professorship
Jingyi Huang
Soil and Environmental Sciences
Marvin T. Beatty Professorship in Soil Science
Tu-Anh Huynh
Food Science
Fritz Friday Chair in Vegetable Processing Research
Chris Kucharik
Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences
William A. Rothermel Bascom Professorship in Agronomy
Dominic Parker
Agricultural and Applied Economics
Olav F. Anderson and Elsie DeNoyer Bascom Professorship
Vatsan Raman
Biochemistry
SC Fang Professorship in Biochemistry
Professorship Honorees from Previous Years
Additionally, this year CALS will be celebrating those individuals who received their professorships before we started holding this event annually.
Caitilyn Allen
Plant Pathology
Oscar N. and Ethel K. Allen Memorial Chair in Phytobacteriology
Amaya Atucha
Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences
Gottschalk Family Chair in Cranberry Research
Samuel Butcher
Biochemistry
Steenbock Research Professorship in Biomolecular Structure
Timothy Donohue
Bacteriology
Ira L. Baldwin Professorship in Bacteriology
Katrina Forest
Bacteriology
E.B. Fred Professorship in Bacteriology
Zac Freedman
Soil and Environmental Sciences
O.N. Allen Professorship in Soil Science
Guy Groblewski
Nutritional Sciences
Elmer Martin Billings & Jean Hood Billings Professorship in Nutrition
Katherine
Henzler-Wildman
Biochemistry
Jean V. Thomas Professorship in Biochemistry
Aaron Hoskins
Biochemistry
Wasson Professorship in Biochemistry
Randall Jackson
Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences
Campbell-Bascom Professorship
Robert Landick
Biochemistry
Dr. Laurens Anderson Distinguished Professorship in Biochemistry
John Lucey
Food Science
Owen R. Fennema Professorship in Food Chemistry
Bret Payseur
Genetics
James F. Crow Distinguished Professorship
Anna Pidgeon
Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Beers-Bascom Professorship in Conservation
Douglas Rouse
Plant Pathology
Vaughan-Bascom Professorship in Plant Pathology