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Georgia State Faculty Honored with Regents’ Professorships

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Shana Bagley

ATLANTA — The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) has appointed and reappointed outstanding faculty to the system’s highest academic rank, the Regents’ Professor.

The Regents’ Professorship is granted by the board for three years, subject to renewal to a second three-year term by the board upon the recommendation of the institution’s president, the system chancellor and the board’s Committee on Academic Affairs.

After six years, the professorship is renewed at the discretion of the university president.

Initial Appointment

  • Daphne Greenberg, Learning Sciences, College of Education & Human Development

Reappointment

  • Didier Merlin, Institute for Biomedical Sciences

Permanent Reappointments

  • Xiaochun He, Physics & Astronomy, College of Arts & Sciences
  • Pam Longobardi, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design, College of the Arts

The standards to become a Regents’ Professor are very high. To be eligible for consideration, nominees for the Regents’ Professorship must hold the rank of full professor, normally for at least 10 years.

Nominees must show sustained, and recent, significant achievement in scholarship with high national (and international, where appropriate) citation and recognition, exceeding what is expected for full professors.

Regents’ Professors are expected to excel in formal instruction, dissemination of knowledge to national audiences, and to be successful and active in the mentoring of master’s and doctor's degree students.

They must also demonstrate substantial contributions in service to their academic discipline and to Georgia State as a whole, including a sustained record of significant positive involvement in the life of the institution.

To learn more about previous Regents’ Professors appointed at Georgia State, click here.

Additionally, faculty were also appointed to the university’s highest institutional-level rank as Distinguished University Professors this spring. To learn more, click here.

 

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Georgia State Faculty Honored with Regents’ Professorships