Named faculty positions, including chairs and professorships, are established as a means to honor and support the work of exceptional faculty pursuing scholarly activity in a particular field.

Current holders of a named dean, director, department chair, chair, or professorship:

Last updated March 29, 2024

  • David Acker, Raymond and Mary Baker Chair in Global Agriculture
  • J. Arbuckle, Henry A. Wallace Endowed Chair for Sustainable Agriculture
  • Sotirios Archontoulis, Pioneer Hi-Bred Agronomy Professorship
  • Lance Baumgard, Norman Jacobson Professorship in Dairy Science
  • Gwyn Beattie, Robert Buchanan Distinguished Chair of Bacteriology
  • Stuart Birrell, Kinze Manufacturing Professorship in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
  • Thomas Brumm, Mary and Charles Sukup Global Professor in Food Security
  • Michael Castellano, William T. Frankenberger Professorship in Soil Science
  • Matt Darr, John Deere Endowed Chair in Agricultural Innovation
  • James Dickson, Morrison Chair in Meat Science
  • Amani Elobeid, Ron and Lynn Deiter Endowed Chair for Sustaining Excellence in Ag Business
  • Nicholas Gabler, John F. Patience Endowed Professorship in Swine Nutrition
  • Matthew Helmers, Brent and Cindy Hart Professorship
  • Terry Houser, Smithfield Foods Chair in Meat Science Extension
  • Anna Johnson, Artz Chair for Faculty Excellence in Animal Science
  • Kevin Kimle, Bruce Rastetter Chair in Agricultural Entrepreneurship
  • Sergio Lence, Marlin Cole Professor of International Agricultural Economics
  • Thomas Lubberstedt, K.J. Frey Chair in Agronomy
  • GianCarlo Moschini, Pioneer Hi-Bred International Chair in Science and Technology Policy
  • Gail Nonnecke, Global Professor for Global Resource Systems
  • Matthew O'Neal, Henry A. Wallace Endowed Chair for Sustainable Agriculture
  • Daniel Robison, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Endowed Dean's Chair
  • Jason Ross, Lloyd L. Anderson Endowed Professorship in Physiology
  • Patrick Schnable, Iowa Corn Promotion Board Endowed Chair in Genetics and Baker Professorship in Agronomy
  • Asheesh (Danny) Singh, G.F. Sprague Chair in Agronomy
  • Juan Steibel, Jay L. Lush Chair in Animal Breeding and Genetics
  • Jodi Sterle, Eldred and Donna Harman Professorship in Teaching and Learning
  • Timothy Stewart, Harmon Family Professorship in Forestry
  • Walter Suza, George Washington Carver Chair
  • Kristine Tidgren, Leonard Dolezal Professorship in Agricultural Law
  • Kan Wang, Global Professorship in Biotechnology
  • Quinn Weninger, John F. Timmons Endowed Professorship in Environmental and Resource Economics
  • Curtis Youngs, M.E. Ensminger Chair
  • Jianming Yu, Pioneer Hi-Bred Distinguished Chair in Maize Breeding and Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding Endowment

  • Ginka Borisova, Dean's Professorship in Finance
  • James Brown, Debbie and Jerry Ivy Chair in Business
  • David Cantor, Ruan Chair in Supply Chain Management
  • Haozhe Chen, Walker Professorship in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • Arnold Cowan, Wells Fargo Professorship in Finance
  • Christine Denison, Roger P. Murphy Professor in Accounting
  • Dermot Hayes, Pioneer Hi-Bred International Agribusiness Chair
  • Pol Herrmann, Bob and Kay Smith Entrepreneurship Professorship
  • Michael Howard, Hilsinger-Janson Professorship
  • Diane Janvrin, William J. Varner Professorship
  • Scott Johnson, Thome Professorship in Business
  • Stephen Kim, Raisbeck Professor in Business
  • Paul Koch, Kent Corporation Chair in Business
  • Tingting Liu, John and Connie Stafford Professorship in Business
  • Frank Montabon, Dean's Professorship in Supply Chain Management
  • Annaleena Parhankangas, Kingland Professor of Entrepreneurship
  • Mark Power, Principal Financial Group Professorship
  • Sridhar Ramaswami, Dapper Faculty Professorship in Marketing
  • Kevin Scheibe, Union Pacific Professorship for Information Systems
  • Deidra Schleicher, John and Deborah Ganoe Professor in Business
  • David Spalding, Raisbeck Endowed Dean's Chair
  • James Summers, Max S. Wortman, Jr. Professorship
  • Yoshinori Suzuki, Land O'Lakes, Inc., Endowed Professorship in Supply Chain Management
  • Lingyao Yuan, Kingland Graduate Director Business Analytics
  • Chen Zhang, Dean's Professorship

 

  • Paul Bruski, Dorothy Maitland Miller Professorship in Graphic Design
  • Shelby Doyle, Stan G. Thurston Professorship in Design Build
  • Douglas Spencer, Pickard Chilton Professorship in Architecture

  • Ossama Abdelkhalik, Vance D. Coffman Faculty Chair
  • Venkataramana Ajjarapu, Thomas M. Whitney Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Jeramy Ashlock, Richard L. Handy Professorship
  • Rizia Bardhan, Jean H. Steffenson Professorship in Chemical and Biological Engineering
  • Ashraf Bastawros, Grace Miller Wilson and T. Wilson Endowed Engineering Faculty Fund
  • Robert Brown, Gary and Donna Hoover Chair in Mechanical Engineering
  • Halil Ceylan, Pitt-Des Moines, Inc., Professorship in Civil Engineering
  • Degang Chen, Jerry R. Junkins Chair
  • Eric Cochran, Mary Jane Skogen Hagenson and Randy L. Hagenson Professorship in Chemical and Biological Engineering
  • Peter Collins, The Stanley Chair in Interdisciplinary Engineering
  • Kristen Constant, Wilkinson Professorship in Interdisciplinary Engineering III
  • Chris Cornelius, Dr. Thomas D. McGee and Dr. Ick-Jhin Rick Yoon Department Chair in Materials Science and Engineering
  • Julie Dickerson, David C. Nicholas Professorship Endowment
  • Ian Dobson, Arend J. and Verna V. Sandbulte Faculty Fund
  • Liang Dong, Vikram L. Dalal Professorship
  • Michael Dorneich, Joseph Walkup Professorship in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
  • Paul Durbin, Joseph and Elizabeth Anderlik Professorship in Engineering
  • Sam Easterling, James L. and Katherine S. Melsa Dean of the College of Engineering
  • Matthew Frank, John B. Slater Professorship in Sustainable Design and Manufacturing
  • Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Joseph and Elizabeth Anderlik Professorship in Engineering
  • Manimaran Govindarasu, Murray J. and Ruth M. Harpole Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Caroline Hayes, John and Nancy Hayes Department Chair in Mechanical Engineering
  • Ted Heindel, Bergles Professorship in Thermal Science
  • Hui Hu, Martin C. Jischke Professorship in Aerospace Engineering
  • Doug Jacobson, Professorship in Cybersecurity in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Laura Jarboe, Cargill Professorship in Chemical Engineering
  • Ashfaq Khokhar, The Palmer Department Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Ratnesh Kumar, Palmer Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Simon Laflamme, Waldo W. Wegner Professorship in Civil Engineering
  • Valery Levitas, Murray Harpole Chair in Engineering
  • Beiwen Li, William and Virginia Binger Professorship
  • Surya Mallapragada, Carol Johnson Chair in Chemical and Biological Engineering
  • James McCalley, Jack London Chair in Power Systems Engineering
  • Steve Mickelson, Charles R. and Jane F. Olsen Professorship in Engineering
  • Gary Mirka, John Ryder Professorship in Engineering
  • Balaji Narasimhan, Vlasta Klima Balloun Faculty Chair
  • James Oliver, Larry and Pam Pithan Faculty Fund in Mechanical Engineering
  • Aishwarya Pawar, William March Scholar in Mechanical Engineering
  • Frank Peters, C.G. "Turk" and Joyce A. Therkildsen Professor in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
  • Cary Pint, Charles Schafer (Battelle) Chair in Engineering
  • Manojit Pramanik, Northrop Grumman Professorship
  • Aditya Ramamoorthy, Northrop Grumman Professorship in honor of Fred W. O'Green
  • Chris Rehmann, Cerwick Faculty Professorship I
  • Nigel Reuel, The Stanley Chair in Interdisciplinary Engineering 
  • Kristin-Yvonne Rozier, Dennis and Rebecca Muilenburg Professorship
  • Sarah Ryan, Charles (Turk) and Joyce Therkildsen Chair in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
  • David Sanders, Greenwood Department Chair in Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
  • Jennifer Shane, W.A. Klinger Teaching Professorship
  • Brent Shanks, Mike and Jean Steffenson Chair
  • Jacqueline Shanks, Manley R. Hoppe Professorship in Chemical Engineering
  • Zengyi Shao, Hershel B. Whitney Professorship, Global Initiatives in Chemical and Biological Engineering
  • Anuj Sharma, Pitt-Des Moines, Inc., Professorship in Civil Engineering
  • Pranav Shrotriya, Manorama and Shyam Bahadur Professorship in Mechanical Engineering
  • Arun Somani, Philip Tate Sproul and Virginia Shivers Sproul Endowment
  • Sri Sritharan, Wilkinson Chair in the College of Engineering
  • Xiaoli Tan, Schafer Professorship
  • Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, Richard C. Seagrave Professorship
  • Goce Trajcevski, Kingland Professor of Data Analytics
  • Namrata Vaswani, Joseph and Elizabeth Anderlik Professorship in Engineering
  • Dennis Vigil, Reginald R. Baxter Endowed Department Chair in Chemical and Biological Engineering
  • Kejin Wang, Wilson Professor of Engineering
  • Xinwei Wang, Wilkinson Professorship in Interdisciplinary Engineering
  • Zhaoyu Wang, Northrop Grumman Professorship
  • Jonathan Wickert, Presidential Professorship
  • R. Williams, Gerald and Audrey Olson Professorship in Civil Engineering
  • Yue Wu, Herbert L. Stiles Professorship in Chemical Engineering
  • Joseph Zambreno, Ross Martin Mehl and Marylyne Munas Mehl Computer Engineering Professorship
  • Hongwei Zhang, Richardson Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Reza Zoughi, Kirby Gray (Battelle) Chair in Engineering

  • Eric Brown, Richard Mahoney and Lois Hartman Professorship
  • Katherine Bruna, Willie and Kathleen Robinson ISU 4U Promise Faculty Professorship
  • Jonathan Fox, Ruth Whipp Sherwin Fund
  • Sarah Francis, Jane Armstrong Chair in Food Science and Human Nutrition
  • Eunha Jeong, Frederick and Johnna Kleisner Professorship
  • Laura Jolly, Human Sciences Dean's Chair
  • Marian Kohut, Barbara E. Forker Professorship in Kinesiology I
  • Carla Peterson, Nancy Rygg Armbrust Professorship in Early Childhood Development and Education
  • Eulanda Sanders, Donna R. Danielson Professorship in Textiles and Clothing
  • Guowen Song, Noma Scott Lloyd Chair in Textiles and Clothing
  • Elizabeth Stegemoller, Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair in Family and Consumer Sciences
  • Gregory Welk, Barbara E. Forker Professorship in Kinesiology II
  • Wendy White, Dr. Thelma McMillan Professorship in Food Science and Human Nutrition

  • Robbyn Anand, Carlyle G. Caldwell Endowed Chair in Chemistry
  • Jared Anderson, Alice Hudson Professorship
  • Amy Andreotti, Roy J. Carver Chair of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
  • Diane Bassham, Walter and Helen Parke Loomis Professorship
  • Steve Butler, Barbara J. Janson Professorship in Mathematics
  • Paul Canfield, Robert Allen Wright Endowed Professorship
  • Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State University President's Chair in Statistics
  • Carol Chapelle, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professorship
  • Myra Cohen, Lanh and Oanh Nguyen Chair in Software Engineering
  • Michael Dahlstrom, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professorship
  • Matthew DeLisi, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professorship
  • Daniela Dimitrova, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professorship
  • Kristie Franz, Smith Family Foundation Departmental Chair in Geology
  • Mark Gordon, Frances M. Craig Chair
  • Mark Hargrove, Roy J. Carver Trust Professor in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
  • Matthew Hufford, Cassling Family Professorship
  • Adam Kaminski, Harmon-Ye Endowed Professorship
  • Jae-Kwang Kim, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professorship
  • Brent Kreider, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professorship
  • Bernard Lidicky, Scott Hanna Faculty Professorship
  • Gustavo Macintosh, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professorship
  • Ryan Martin, Scott Hanna Professorship
  • Timothy McNicholl, Scott Hanna Faculty Professorship
  • Robert McQueeney, John and Mary Weaver Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • Daniel Nettleton, Laurence H. Baker Chair in Biological Statistics
  • Xuan Nguyen, Dio Lewis Holl Chair in Applied Mathematics
  • Daniel Nordman, Dale D. Grosvenor Chair
  • Gary Ockey, Angela B. Pavitt Professorship in English
  • Reuben Peters, Roy J. Carver Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology (3)
  • Dave Peterson, Lucken Professorship in Political Science
  • Yiu Poon, Scott Hanna Faculty Professorship
  • Hridesh Rajan, Kingland Professor Data Analytics or Cognitive Machine Learning
  • James Rodde, Louise Moen Chair in Music
  • Aaron Sadow, David C. Henderson Chair in Chemistry
  • Matthew Sivils, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professorship
  • Amy Smith, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professorship
  • Tin-Shi Tam, Cownie Professor of Music
  • Geetu Tuteja, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professorship
  • Maximilian Viatori, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professorship
  • Theresa Windus, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professorship
  • Miriam Zach, Charles and Mary Sukup Endowed Artist in Organ
  • Zhengyuan Zhu, Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professorship

  • Rachel Allbaugh, Lora and Russ Talbot Endowed Professor in Veterinary Medicine
  • Matt Brewer, Frank K. Ramsey Endowed Chair
  • Amanda Fales-Williams, Tyrone D. Artz, M.D. Chair for Teaching Excellence in Veterinary Medicine
  • M. Heather Greenlee, Lora and Russ Talbot Endowed Professor in Veterinary Medicine
  • Daniel Grooms, Stephen G. Juelsgaard Dean's Chair in Veterinary Medicine
  • Albert Jergens, Donn E. and Beth Bacon Professorship in Small Animal Surgery
  • Locke Karriker, Dr. Douglas and Ann Gustafson Professorship - CVM
  • Karl Kraus, Hoefle Professorship in Small Animal Orthopedic Surgery
  • Daniel Linhares, Roy A. Schultz Professorship in Swine Medicine
  • Mark Lyte, W. Eugene Lloyd Chair in Toxicology
  • Richard Martin, Benbrook Chair in Veterinary Medicine
  • Jodi McGill, John G. Salsbury Endowed Chair in Veterinary Medicine
  • Suzanne Millman, Scott and Nancy Armbrust Professorship in Veterinary Medicine
  • Paul Plummer, Anderson Chair in Veterinary Medicine
  • James Roth, Iowa State University President's Chair in Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine
  • Brett Sponseller, Lora and Russ Talbot Endowed Professor in Veterinary Medicine
  • Thimmasettapp Thippeswamy, W. E. Lloyd Professorship
  • Jessica Ward, Phyllis M. Clark Professorship
  • Qijing Zhang, Dr. Roger and Marilyn Mahr Chair in One Health

 

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