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Faculty Awards and Honors Cather/Bessey Professors


Cather and Bessey Professors

Spring 2009
  • Sidnie White Crawford
    Classics and Religious Studies
  • Patrick Dussault
    Chemistry
  • Evgeny Tsymbal
    Physics and Astronomy
Spring 2008
  • Blair D. Siegfried
    Entomology
  • Richard Wiener
    Psychology & Law
Spring 2007
  • Dawn Braithwaite
    Communication Studies
  • Gerald Shapiro
    English
  • Yiqi Yang
    Textiles, Clothing, and Design, and Biological Systems Engineering
  • Hendrik Viljoen
    Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Spring 2006
  • Allan Peterson
    Charles Bessey Professor and Professor of Mathematics
  • Anthony Zera
    Charles Bessey Professor and Professor of Biological Science
  • David Hage
    Charles Bessey Professor and Professor of Chemistry
Spring 2005
  • John David Logan
    Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Mathematics
  • Vadim Gladyshev
    Charles Bessey Professor, Emerti, and Professor of Biochemistry
  • Marjorie Langell
    Charles Bessey Professor and Professor of Chemistry
Spring 2004
  • Sherilyn Fritz
    Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Geosciences and Biological Sciences
  • James Specht
    Charles Bessey Professor and Professor of Agronomy & Horticulture
  • James Takacs
    Charles Bessey Professor and Professor of Chemistry
Spring 2003
  • David Cahan
    Charles Bessey Professor and Professor of History
  • Patricia Cox Crews
    Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Textiles, Clothing and Design
  • Martin Dickman
    Charles Bessey Professor and Professor of Plant Pathology
  • Carolyn Pope Edwards
    Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Psychology and Family and Consumer Sciences
  • Karen Kunc
    Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Art and Art History
  • Marshall Olds
    Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures
  • Stephen Ragsdale
    Charles Bessey Professor and Professor of Biochemistry
  • Susan Sheridan
    Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology
  • Robert Spreitzer
    Charles Bessey Professor and Professor of Biochemistry
Spring 2002
  • Ruma Banerjee
    Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Biochemistry
  • Peter Dowben
    Charles Bessey Professor and Professor of Physics & Astronomy
  • Keith Jacobshagen
    Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Art & Art History
  • Clinton Jones
    Charles Bessey Professor and Professor of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
  • Carole Levin
    Willa Cather Professor and Professor of History
  • Marjorie Lou
    Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
  • Svata Louda
    Charles Bessey Professor and Professor of Biological Sciences
  • Shashi Verma
    Charles Bessey Professor and Professor of Natural Resource Sciences
  • Roger Wiegand
    Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Mathematics
  • Xiao Cheng Zeng
    Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Chemistry