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List of Professors

Name Years at Michigansort icon Position

Kimberley D. Ellis

Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology

Dean Conant Worcester

1895 - 1900
Assistant Professor of Zoology & Biology

Lewis Edgar Wehmeyer

1928 - 1967
Professor of Botany

Reeve Maclaren Bailey

1944 - 1981
Professor of Biological Sciences
Curator of Fishes

Robert Rush Miller

1948 - 1986
Professor of Biological Sciences
Curator of Fisher Museum of Zoology

John M. Allen

1952 - 1989
Professor of Biology

Sally Lyman Allen

1953 - 1998
Professor of Biology

William R. Dawson

1953 - 1994
Dugald E. S. Brown Professor of Biological Sciences
Research Scientist in the Museum of Zoology

John B. Burch

1955 - 2001
Professor of Zoology
Professor of Natural Resources & Environment
Curator of Mollusks, Museum of Zoology

Richard D. Alexander

1957 - 2000
Professor of Biology, Biological Chemistry
Curator of Insects
Theodore H. Hubbell Distinguished University Professor of Evolutionary Biology

David G. Shappirio

1957 - 1998
Professor of Biological Sciences

James N. Cather

1958 - 1995
Professor of Zoology
Chair of Experimental Biology
Associate Chair, Division of Biological Sciences

Michael McCulloch Martin

1959 - 1999
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Professor of Biology
Chair of the Division of Biological Sciences

Robert Shaffer

1960 - 1993
Lewis E. Wehmeyer and Elaine Prince Wehmeyer Professor of Fungal Taxonomy
Director of Fungi

Rose M. Rizki

1962 - 1992
Research Scientist

Helen V. Gay

1962 - 1986
Professor of Biological Sciences

Dusan Baic

1964 - 1986

Hiroshi Ikuma

1965 - 2000
Professor of Biology

Larry D. Nooden

1965 - 2003
Professor of Biology

Howard A. Crum

1965 - 1995
Professor of Botany
Curator of Bryophytes and Lichens

Robert B. Helling

1965 - 2003
Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology

Robert E. Beyer

1965 - 1993
Professor of Biology
Associate Professor of Zoology

Brian A. Hazlett

1966 - 2006
Professor of Zoology

Bruce Oakley

1966 - 2003
Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Bruce M. Carlson

1966 - 2006
Professor of Anatomy
Professor of Biological Sciences
Senior Research Scientist Institute of Gerontology

Lewis J. Kleinsmith

1968 - 2004
Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

Gerald Smith

1969 - 2003
Professor of Geological Sciences, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Curator of Museum of Zoology, Museum of Paleontology

Richard I. Ford

1969 - 2007
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Professor of Anthropology
Professor of Botany

Stephen S. Easter Jr.

1970 - 2003
Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Robert B. Payne

1970 - 2007
Professor of Zoology
Curator of Birds, Museum of Zoology

Harry A. Douthit

1970 - 1994
Professor of Botany

Julian Adams

1970 - 2010
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Chair Department of Biology

George H. Jones

1971 - 1990
Professor of Biological Sciences, Zoology

Peter Kilham

1972 - 1989
Professor of Biology, Biological Chemistry

Douglas Foster

1973 - 2006
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Professor of Biological Sciences

Charles F. Yocum

1973 - 2010
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Biological Sciences
Alfred S. Sussman Professor of Biology

Rowena Matthews

1974 - 2007
Professor of Biological Chemistry & Chemistry
Research Professor

Philip D. Gingerich

1974 - 2014
Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Bioloby
Professor of Anthropology

Ronald A. Nussbaum

1974 - 2016
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Bioloty
Curator, Museum of Zoology

Michael J. Wynne

1976 - 2007
Professor of Botany
Curator of Algae

Barbara Sloat

1976 - 1998
Assistant Research scientist
Lecturer, Biology in Residential College

Santhadevi Jeyabalan

1976 - 2014
Lecturer IV Emerita, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Lecture IV Emerita

Fred L. Bookstein

1977 - 2005
Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Gerontology
Research Professor in Biostatistics & Biophysics

Robert D. Fogel

1978 - 2003
Professor of Biology
Curator of Fungi, Herbarium

Robert A. Bender

1978 - 2010
Professor of Biology

Beverly J. Rathcke

1978 - 2010
Associate Profesor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Anton A. Reznicek

1978 - 2020
Research Scientist of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Curator of Herbarium
Research Scientist & Curator Emeritus

John P. Langsmore

1979 - 2002
Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Research Scientist

Gary E. Belovsky

1980 - 1991
Professor of Natural Resources, Biology

Wesley M. Brown

1980 - 2002
Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

John R. Pringle

1980 - 1991
Professor of Biology

Pamela A. Raymond

1981 - 2017
Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

William L. Fink

1982 - 2014
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Curator, Museum of Zoology

Richard W. Wrangham

1983 - 1989
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Biology

Kathryn W. Tosney

1984 - 2005
Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Douglas J. Eernisse

1986 - 1994
Assistant Professor of Biology
Assistant Curator of Mollusks, Museum of Zoology

Mary C. McKitrick

1986 - 1993
Assistant Professor of Biology
Assistant Curator of Museum of Zoology

Stuart I. Tsubota

1986 - 1993
Assistant Professor of Biology

Robert G. Wetzel

1986 - 1991
Professor of Biology

Eran Pichersky

1986 - 2021
Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

James Arthur Teeri

1987 - 2002
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Director of Botanical Gardens 1994-2002

John Yoshihisa Kuwada

1987 - 2020
Professor of Molecular, Cellular & developmental Biology

Richard K. Rabeler

1987 - 2022
Research Scientist Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Terry L. Root

1988 - 2002
Assistant Professor of Biology
Associate Professor of Natural Resources

Priscilla K. Tucker

1988 - 2021
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Curator, Museum of Zoology

Deborah E. Goldberg

1989 - 2019
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Raymond V Barbehenn

1990 - 2015
Associate Research Scientist, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Associate Research Scientist Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Robyn J. Burnham

1991 - 2018
Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Associate Curator in the Herbarium Museum

Chris M. Hall

1991 - 2020
Associate Research Scientist, Earth & Environmental Sciences

Laura J. Olsen

1993 - 2022
Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Robert J. Denver

1994 - 2021
Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Ronald E. Ellis

1995 - 2003
Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Michael Frohlick

1995 - 2002
Assistant Professor Biology
Curator of Herbarium

Janine R. Maddock

1995 - 2020
Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology

Lisa Marie Curran

1996 - 2001
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology, Biology

Tomasz K. Baumiller

1996 - 2020
Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Curator of Museum of Paleontology

Mark L. Wilson

1997 - 2018
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Jianming Li

1998 - 2023
Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology

Mercede Pascual

2001 - 2004
Associate Professor of Biology

Paul V. Dunlap

2001 - 2018
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Bioloty

Douglas J. Futuyma

2002 - 2004
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Chair of Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Knute J. Nadelhoffer

2002 - 2020
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Michael Mayer

2004 - 2017
Professor of Biophysics

Paul E. Berry

2006 - 2018
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Bioloty
Curator of the Herbarium

Joseph D. Coolon

2008 - 2015
Assistant Research Scientist, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Pejman Rohani

2009 - 2015
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology & Complex Systems
Professor of Epidemiology

Georgios Skiniotis

2009 - 2017
Jack B. Dixon Collegiate Professor of the Life Sciences
Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry
Associate Professor of Biophysics

Stefan Georg Walter

2010 - 2016
Assistant Professor of molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology

Elizabeth G. Pringle

2011 - 2015
Assistant Research Scientist, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology