Research Awards | Distinguished Research Professor

Richard B. Meagher

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Entrepreneur of the Year Award Richard Meagher, Distinguished Research Professor of Genetics, is a plant molecular geneticist whose research has sparked worldwide interest and media attention. Widely noted for his creativity, innovation and perseverance, Meagher was the first scientist to engineer plants to take up toxins...

Robert E. Rhoades

Posted on Feb 23, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor, William A. Owens Award

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Distinguished Research Professor 2006 Robert E. Rhoades, Professor of Anthropology, works on agricultural and environmental issues in developing countries. His research, which involved studying the ways that indigenous people’s traditional knowledge of agriculture contributes to sustainable production, challenged the widespread assumptions that third world farming systems are...

Doris Y. Kadish

Posted on Feb 23, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2006 Doris Y. Kadish, Professor of French and Women’s Studies, studies the nature of power in politics and how it affects the issues of gender and politics by analyzing the roles that these concepts play in the writings of Claude Simon – a modern...

Michael Strand

Posted on Feb 23, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2006 Michael Strand, Professor of Entomology and member of the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, studies how parasites interact with their insect-hosts. His studies of the insect immune system and the ways in which parasite and insect evolutionary pathways intertwine have demonstrated...

Dino J. Lorenzini

Posted on Feb 23, 2016 in Creative Research Medal, Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2006 Dino J. Lorenzini, Professor of Mathematics, has derived novel intuitions, techniques and theory from work in difficult areas of mathematics. He produced a new mathematical structure called the Lorenzini filtration, and subsequently was able to apply this discovery to different questions in number...

J. Michael “Hawkeye” Pierce

Posted on Feb 23, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2006 J. Michael "Hawkeye" Pierce, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and member of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, studies the function of glycans – a kind of carbohydrate – in how tumor cells interact within the body. He discovered and patented a rare...

Ronald L. Bogue

Posted on Feb 23, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2005 Ronald L. Bogue studies the thought of Gilles Deleuze, a major 20th century French philosopher whose extensive writings cover a wide range of topics in the arts, humanities and sciences. Through a close reading of Deleuze’s often difficult texts, Dr. Bogue uncovers the...

Ronald L. Simons

Posted on Feb 23, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2005 Ronald L. Simons studies how family relationships impact childhood development, subsequent life choices and deviant behaviors, including delinquency and substance abuse. He examined how such factors as single parenting, divorce, corporal punishment, peer pressure, community context and economic status affect children’s development and...

Mary Ann Moran

Posted on Feb 23, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2005 Mary Ann Moran investigates the roles of microbes in marine ecosystems. These communities of bacteria – and the compounds that they degrade, incorporate and release – are integral to aspects of life in the ocean as well as coastal productivity and global climate....

Francis B. Assaf

Posted on Feb 23, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor

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Distinguished Research Professor 2004 Francis B. Assaf, Professor of French, researches 17th and 18th century French literature and culture. His recent book, 1715: Le Soleil s'éteint, examines the year of King Louis XIV's death, which is considered to be the "hinge" year between Post-Classicism and the Pre-Enlightenment....