Faculty Recognition
Auburn Alumni Association Professorships
"Since 2003, the Auburn Alumni Association has recognized exceptional faculty members who represent the best of Auburn University through their efforts to drive innovation, elevate the standards of teaching and research, and provide selfless service to our communities. By investing in faculty from across every discipline and field, the Alumni Professorships recognize the significant role faculty play in advancing Auburn's mission and the positive impact they have on the lives of our future alumni."
Gretchen R. VanValkenburg
Vice President for Alumni Affairs
Executive Director, Auburn Alumni Association
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College of Agriculture
"Endowed professorships play a vital role in advancing excellence in the Colle of Agriculture at Auburn University. In short, they allow us to recruit, reward, and retain outstanding faculty members. They help the college define disciplinary leadership in certain fields. And, they help to advance highly productive and visible research programs by providing additional programmatic support. More than anything else, they help to build strength in the college. Recipients of professorships do not necessarily recieve them for what they have done, but rather for what they have demonstrated they can do in the future. The college is thankful for the support provided by our professorship donors."
Paul Patterson
Dean and Director,
Alabama Agriculture Experiment Station
Mike and Leann Rowe Professorship
Paul Dyce
Animal Sciences
Faculty Endowed Professorship
Neha Potnis
Entomology and Plant Pathology
College of Architecture, Design and Construction
"It is through our faculty that the College of Architecture, Design and Construction is able to deliver robust, rigorous, and relevant programs, to develop and disseminate transformative scholarship, and to engage in impactful service. Endowed Professorships provide the necessary additional funds for recruiting and retaining innovative ideas, and citizenship. Such faculty elevate the Auburn experience through its triparite mission of instruction, inquiry, and impact. In addition, a titled professor is a recognized and accepted mark of distinction for the person, the program, the profession, the institution, and the donors."
Vini Nathan
Dean and McWhorter Endowed Chair
R. Hugh Daniel Endowed Professorship
David Hinson
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research
Harbert College of Business
"The Harbert College of Business maintains a strong legacy of excellence supported by a long tradition of philanthropic support. Among the many ways our faculty, students, and staff benefit from such impactful gifts, the creation of a named professorship, chair, or eminent scholar is among the most enduring. Our endowed positions server as a tribute to the visionary benefactors who established them, celebrate the distinguished faculty members who are honored to hold them, and help us deliver on our mission to serve students and impact practice through our research."
Annette L. Ranft
Deans and Wells Fargo Professor