On Sept. 26, nearly 100 faculty, staff, friends, and supporters of CALS attended the CALS Investiture Ceremony that honored six department and college level professorships named in 2023.

This year’s honorees, pictured here with Dean Glenda Gillaspy (far left, first row) and Interim Senior Associate Dean Irwin Goldman (far right, first row) were (left to right, back row) Matt Ruark, professor and extension specialist in the Department of Soil Science; Amanda Gevens, chair, professor and extension specialist in the Department of Plant Pathology; Samer Alatout, associate professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology; (left to right, front row) Anita Thompson, chair and professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering; Julie Dawson, associate professor and extension specialist in the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences

View an online album with photos from the ceremony.