Distinguished Professor (Charles F. Curtiss)

Award Requirements

Application Deadline:
Due January 15 to CALS

Nominations for professorship awards must be submitted to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences by January 15. (Note that the college deadline is earlier than the provost's deadline to allow for a review.) Use the online submissions portal under Nominating Instructions and Form. Use the ISU cover sheet found on the award description web page (see link below). Contact Alicia Hauser (ahauser@iastate.edu) with questions. 

Distinguished Professor

Past Recipients

  • 2024 - Kan Wang - Agronomy
  • 2023 - Christopher Tuggle - Animal Science
  • 2022 - Lance Baumgard - Animal Science
  • 2020 - GianCarlo Moschini - Economics
  • 2020 - Robert Jernigan - Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
  • 2017 - Dermot Hayes - Economics
  • 2017 - Thomas Baum - Plant Pathology and Microbiology
  • 2016 - Gene Takle - Agronomy
  • 2015 - Stephen Howell - Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
  • 2014 - Hongwei Xin - Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
  • 2013 - Catherine Kling - Economics
  • 2013 - Jack Dekkers - Animal Science
  • 2013 - Patrick Schnable - Agronomy
  • 2012 - Jonathan Wendel - Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
  • 2011 - Jay-Lin Jane - Food Science and Human Nutrition
  • 2011 - Joel Coats - Entomology
  • 2011 - Kenneth Moore - Agronomy
  • 2009 - Rameshwar Kanwar - Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
  • 2008 - Joseph Sebranek - Animal Science
  • 2006 - Robert Horton - Agronomy
  • 2004 - Susan Lamont - Animal Science
  • 2002 - Wallace Huffman - Economics
  • 2001 - Cornelia Butler Flora - Sociology
  • 2000 - Herbert Fromm - Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
  • 1999 - Max Rothschild - Animal Science
  • 1996 - Walter Fehr - Agronomy
  • 1995 - Lauren Christian - Animal Science
  • 1993 - Donald Graves - Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • 1992 - Lloyd Anderson - Animal Science
  • 1991 - Arnel Hallauer - Agronomy
  • 1990 - Stanley Johnson - Economics
  • 1989 - Donald Beitz - Animal Science
  • 1986 - Jerry Sell - Animal Science
  • 1985 - George Ladd - Economics
  • 1984 - Wilbert Russell - Agronomy
  • 1983 - Allen Trenkle - Animal Science
  • 1982 - Phillip Baumel - Economics
  • 1981 - John Pesek - Agronomy
  • 1980 - Robert Shaw - Agronomy
  • 1979 - Richard Willham - Animal Science
  • 1978 - Albert Freeman - Animal Science
  • 1977 - Wayne Scholtes - Agronomy
  • 1976 - Neil Harl - Economics
  • 1975 - John Bremner - Agronomy
  • 1974 - Kenneth Carlander - Animal Ecology
  • 1973 - George Beal - Sociology
  • 1972 - John Timmons - Economics
  • 1971 - Wise Burroughs - Animal Science
  • 1970 - Kenneth Frey - Agronomy
  • 1969 - Paul Dahm - Entomology
  • 1968 - Dexter French - Biochemistry, Biophysics and Microbiology
  • 1967 - Charles Black - Agronomy
  • 1966 - Lanoy Hazel - Animal Science
  • 1965 - R. Scott Allen - Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • 1963 - Norman Jacobson - Animal Science
  • 1958 - Don Kirkham - Agronomy
  • 1957 - Jay Lush - Animal Science
  • 1956 - Earl Heady - Economics