Association honors Alumni Professors

The Auburn Alumni Association on Friday recognized AU's 25 Alumni Professors at a reception in their honor.

Alumni Professors who began their five-year terms in 2004-05 are K.H. Chang and Bill Gale of Engineering, Ray Dugas of Liberal Arts, Steven Kincaid of Veterinary Medicine and Francis Robicheaux of Sciences and Mathematics.

Other Alumni Professors and their colleges and schools are, Arthur Appel, Rex Dunham, Austin Hagan, John Liu, David Rouse, Elizabeth Guertal and Jeff Sibley of Agriculture; Sushil Bhavani, Ram Gupta, Hareesh Tippur and Jitendra Tugnait of Engineering; Bill Buskist, Ruth Crocker, Kelly Dean Jolley, Christopher Newland and Samia Spencer of Liberal Arts; Eric Bakker and Geoff Hill of Sciences and Mathematics; Bernard Kaltenboeck of Veterinary Medicine and Dennis Ruth of Architecture, Design and Construction.

The Alumni Association also recognized Judy Troy of Liberal Arts, who is serving a five-year term as AU's Alumni Writer-in-Residence.

The Provost's Of.ce is seeking nominations for new Alumni Professors for 2005-06. A university committee selects and the Office of the Provost appoints five faculty members each year to Alumni Professorships and one every five years as Alumni Writer-in-Residence.

The Alumni Association funds the professorships, which are awarded on the basis on each professor's quality of teaching, research and publishing.