Regents Professors

Regents' Professor, the highest of faculty ranks, is reserved for full professors with exceptional achievements that have brought them national or international recognition.
David S. Alberts PhD Professor of Pharmacology, Medicine and Public Health
S. James Anaya JD Professor of Law
J. Roger P. Angel PhD Director-Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory, Director-Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics, and Astronomy, Regents Professor of Optical Sciences
Julia E. Annas PhD Professor of Philosophy
Neal R. Armstrong PhD Professor
W. David Arnett PhD Professor of Astronomy
Barbara A. Babcock PhD Professor of English
Victor R. Baker PhD Professor of Geosciences
Carol A. Barnes PhD Professor of Psychology
Harrison H. Barrett PhD Professor of Optical Sciences
Elizabeth A. Bernays PhD Professor Emerita of Entomology
Thomas G. Bever PhD Professor of Linguistics
J. Douglas Canfield PhD Professor of English
Vicki L. Chandler PhD Professor of Plant Sciences and Molecular & Cellular Biology
Hsinchun Chen PhD McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems and Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab
Robert H. Colescott PhD Professor Emeritus of Art
Michael A. Cusanovich PhD Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry
George H. Davis PhD Professor Emeritus of Geosciences
Chandrakant S. Desai PhD Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Dan B. Dobbs PhD Professor of Law
Michael J. Drake PhD Director of Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Edgar A. Dryden PhD Professor of English
John H. Enemark PhD Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Paula Ya-Mei Fan PhD Professor of Music
Xiaohui Fan PhD Professor of Astronomy
Joel Feinberg PhD Professor of Philosophy and Law
Robert J. Glennon PhD Law Instruction
Yetta M. Goodman PhD Professor Emeritus of Language and Reading
Ralph E. Griswold PhD Professor of Computer Science
Mark R. Haussler PhD Professor of Physiology
C. Vance Haynes PhD Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
John G. Hildebrand PhD Regents Professor of Neuroscience
Jane H. Hill PhD Regents Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Linguistics
Travis W. Hirschi PhD Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Audrey L. Holland PhD Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences
Victor J. Hruby PhD Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Donald R. Huffman PhD Professor Emeritus of Physics
Malcolm K. Hughes PhD Professor of Dendrochronology
Donald M. Hunten PhD Professor of Earth and Planetary Atmospheres
J. Randolph Jokipii PhD Professor of Astronomy
Susan C. Karant-Nunn PhD Professor of History
Margaret G. Kidwell PhD Regents Professor Emerita of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
W. David Kingery PhD Regents Professor of Anthropology and Materials Science and Engineering
Mary P. Koss PhD Professor of Public Health, Psychiatry, and Family & Community Medicine
Willis E. Lamb, Jr. PhD Regents Professor of Physics
Brian A. Larkins PhD Professor of Plant Sciences
John H. Law PhD Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Keith E. Lehrer PhD Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Diana M. Liverman PhD Professor, Institute of the Environment, School of Geography and Development
Frank J. Low PhD Regents Professor of Astronomy (Deceased)
Michael W. Marcellin PhD Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Therese A. Markow PhD Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Fernando D. Martinez MD Professor of Pediatrics
Oscar J. Martinez PhD Professor of History
Toni M. Massaro JD Professor of Law
H. Jay Melosh PhD Professor of Geosciences
Pierre Meystre PhD Professor of Physics
N. Scott Momaday PhD Professor Emeritus of English
Nancy A. Moran PhD Regents Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Lynn Nadel PhD Professor of Psychology
Robert M. Netting PhD Professor of Anthropology
Shlomo P. Neuman PhD Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources
Alan C. Newell PhD Professor of Mathematics
Mark A. Nichter PhD Professor of Anthropology
Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr. PhD Professor of Management Information Systems
Heiko A. Oberman PhD Professor of History
Howard Ochman PhD Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
John W. Olsen PhD Professor of Anthropology
Roy R. Parker PhD Regents Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Jeanne E. Pemberton PhD Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
John L. Pollock PhD Professor of Philosophy
Marcia J. Rieke Sc.D. Professor of Astronomy
George H. Rieke PhD Regents Professor of Astronomy
Sydney E. Salmon MD Professor of Medicine
Muriel R. Saville-Troike PhD Professor Emerita of English
Michael Schaller PhD Professor of History
Farhang Shadman PhD Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Richard W. Shelton PhD Professor Emeritus of English
W. James Shuttleworth PhD Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources
Charles P. Sonett PhD Professor Emeritus of Planetary Sciences
H. David Soren PhD Professor of Art, Anthropology and Classics
Nicholas James Strausfeld PhD Regents Professor of Neuroscience
Peter A. Strittmatter PhD Professor of Astronomy
Douglas G. Stuart PhD Professor Emeritus of Physiology
Thomas W. Swetnam PhD Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
Barbara Timmermann PhD Professor Emerita of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Leslie P. Tolbert PhD Professor of Cellular Biology and Anatomy
Gordon Tollin PhD Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Elizabeth Vierling PhD Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
James R. Wait PhD Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Frances Ann Walker PhD Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Michael A. Wells PhD Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Allen S. Whiting PhD Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Richard Wilkinson PhD Professor of Classicss
Arthur T. Winfree PhD Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Henry I. Yamamura PhD Professor of Pharmacology
Vladimir E. Zakharov PhD Professor of Mathematics
Ofelia Zepeda PhD Professor of Linguistics

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