Ron Butchart

Distinguished Research Professor 2013 Ron Butchart, professor and head of elementary and social studies education, is recognized nationally and internationally for his body of work on freedmen’s teachers in the South after the Civil War and on the history of black education in the United States. His...

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Susan Fagan

Distinguished Research Professor 2013 Susan Fagan, Albert W. Jowdy Professor and associate department head of clinical and administrative pharmacy, is an outstanding leader in basic stroke research and an expert in stroke therapeutics. She was one of the investigators in a landmark clinical trial that led to...

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Christopher Whalen

Distinguished Research Professor 2012 Christopher Whalen, the Earnest Corn Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, is widely recognized as a leading expert on the epidemiology of tuberculosis and its interaction with HIV infection. For over 20 years, he has conducted his field research in Uganda, where both tuberculosis...

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Edward Halper

Distinguished Research Professor 2012 Edward Halper, professor of philosophy, has contributed significantly to ancient philosophy and to other areas of philosophy. He is highly regarded as a specialist in Aristotle, especially the Metaphysics. Although this Aristotelian work has been widely and intensely studied for more than two...

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Michael Terns

Distinguished Research Professor 2012 Michael Terns, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and genetics, is a leading authority in the field of RNA biology. Among his many accomplishments, Terns’ work has revealed the pathways that regulate the activity of telomerase, an enzyme that is essential to the...

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Michael Arnold

Distinguished Research Professor 2012 Michael Arnold, professor of genetics, is one of the world’s best known experts on evolutionary genetics, particularly the study of natural hybridization. He has championed the view of hybridization as a critical evolutionary process in both plants and animals, and he has provided...

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Peter Smagorinsky

Distinguished Research Professor 2011   Peter Smagorinsky, professor of language and literacy education, is among the world’s most authoritative and prolific voices for educational reform. He is a scholar of international renown — in his own field — and in the related fields of cultural psychology, communication, human...

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William Whitman

Distinguished Research Professor 2011 William Whitman, professor of microbiology, has dedicated his career to the study of free-living prokaryotes, such as bacteria and archaea. His studies have had a major impact in microbial physiology, ecology, and taxonomy but also in evolution and marine science. His early work at...

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Walter Hellerstein

Distinguished Research Professor 2011 Walter Hellerstein, professor of law, is regarded by many as our nation’s foremost authority on state and local tax law. His work is so well-respected that it influences both the setting of policy, nationally and internationally, and the thinking of other scholars. Over...

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Andrew Herod

Distinguished Research Professor 2011 Andrew Herod, professor of geography, seeks to understand how economies function as geographical entities. He is internationally recognized as one of the most important scholars writing on the global economy and processes of globalization. Herod is perhaps best-known for his work on “labor geography,”...

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