Spring investiture ceremony to honor CALS faculty on Feb. 27
The CALS community is invited to attend the 2025 Investiture Ceremony that will honor faculty members who have earned named professorships for their research and scholarly accomplishments. The ceremony will take place on Thursday, February 27, from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. in Memorial Union’s Great Hall. A reception with heavy appetizers will be held after the ceremony. RSVPs are requested by February 12.
This year’s ceremony will honor 21 individuals total, including those who received named professorships in the last year and those who received their current professorships before this event was held annually. 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.
The individuals who received named professorships in the last year are:
- 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
Those who received their current professorship prior to the college’s first investiture ceremony in 2023:
- Caitilyn Allen, Plant Pathology
Oscar N. and Ethel K. Allen Memorial Chair in Phytobacteriology - Amaya Atucha, Plant and Agroecosystems 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 Agroecosystems 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
Contact Nicole Lederich with questions.