The Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs announces this year’s University Professors and Distinguished Professors recognizing outstanding faculty.
The Distinguished Professor title recognizes outstanding faculty members who have made substantial contributions to the University as well as their discipline but are not presently recognized through an endowed position or faculty fellowship. Distinguished Professors will not exceed 10% of the number of tenured and tenure-track faculty in a specific college or school at any time. Recipients selected this year as Distinguished Professors are: Dr. Jennifer Slack, Professor, Department of Humanities; Dr. John Vucetich, Professor, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science; and Dr. Zhanping You, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
The University Professor title recognizes faculty members who have made outstanding scholarly contributions to the University and their discipline over a substantial period of time. University Professors will not exceed 2% of the total number of tenured and tenure-track faculty at Michigan Tech. This year, two professors have been awarded the title of University Professors. Dr. Kathleen Halvorsen, Professor of Natural Resource Policy in the Department of Social Sciences and Dr. Timothy Schulz, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
The confidential process for selecting recipients spans the academic year and recipients for each award are notified in mid-May. Additional details regarding the award and selection procedures can be found on the provost’s website.