Regent
Weisie Steen (far left) joins Regents Award recipient Paul Hageman of Texas
A&M University-Kingsville, Becky Hageman, Texas A&M-Kingsville
Senior Vice President and Provost Kay Clayton and President Rumaldo Z.
Juarez.
Texas A&M President Robert M. Gates, A&M System Vice Chancellor
for Engineering G. Kemble Bennett and Regents Award recipient William Seitz
of Texas A&M University at Galveston
(College Station)—Eighteen professors and administrators with The Texas A&M University System received the designation of Regents Professor or Regents Fellow for 2004-2005 during the Jan. 26 meeting of the A&M System Board of Regents.
Those from Texas A&M who were named Regents Professors are Martha Loudder; Christopher Mathewson; Stephen Safe, who has a joint appointment with The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences and Technology; Jeffrey Savell, who has a joint appointment with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station; and Jay Humphrey, who has a joint appointment with the Texas Engineering Experiment Station.
Others receiving the Regents Professor designation are Diljit Chatha of Prairie View A&M University; Doris Davis of Texas A&M University-Texarkana; Paul Hageman of Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Wayne Linek of Texas A&M University-Commerce; Dorothy McClellan of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; William Seitz of Texas A&M University at Galveston; and John Wright of the A&M System Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry.
Chancellor Robert D. McTeer and Suzanne McTeer
Those named Regents Fellows are Harvey Buehring and Robert Robinson of Texas Cooperative Extension; Daniel Gray and Sue Shahan of the Texas Engineering Extension Service; Tzachi Samocha of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, who has a joint appointment with Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; and W.D. “Dan” Turner of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, who has a joint appointment with Texas A&M.
The Board established the Regents Professor Award program in 1996 and Regents Fellows Award program in 1997 to recognize employees who have made exemplary contributions to their university or agency and to the people of Texas. To date, 77 faculty members have been named Regents Professors and 51 agency professionals have been named Regents Fellows.
Nominees must be full-time professors or senior-level professionals who have held that rank in the A&M System for at least five years and have produced a distinguished record of teaching, research or service. The chief executive officer of each university or agency nominates candidates for these designations. Nominations are reviewed by the chancellor, who then recommends them to the Board of Regents.
Recipients were given a $9,000 stipend, a commemorative medallion and a certificate at a dinner in their honor.