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Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lectureship

Jointly sponsored by the Auburn Alumni Association and the AU Graduate School, the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lectureship Award carries with it a $2,000 award from the Alumni Association. The recipients are nominated by deans, department heads, etc. and chose by the Graduate Faculty Council on the basis of excellence in research.

The 2010 recipient of this award is
Dr. Malcolm Crocker, Mechanical Engineering.

Malcom Crocker has been a professor in Mechanical Engineering at Auburn for more than 27 years. He was Head of the Mechanical Engineering department for seven years and is now a Distinguished University Professor. He received his Ph.D from Liverpool University. Crocker will give the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lecture this fall and will be honored with a reception following the lecture. Website

Other recent awardees include:

2009
Dr. Kimberly C. Walls, Music Education

2008
Dr. Bernhard Kaltenboeck, Pathobiology

2007
Dr. Ram Gupta, Dept. Chemical Engineering

2006
Dr. Olav Kallenberg, Professor of Mathematics & Statistics

2004-05
Dr. Vitaly Vodyanoy, Physiology

2003-04 
Jacquelyn Mize, Human Development and Family Studies

2002-03  
Jitrendra K. Tugnait, Electrical and Computer Engineering

2001-02  
Krystyna Kuperberg, Mathematics

2000-01  
Daniel Szechi, History

1999-00  
David B. South, Forestry and Wildlife Sciences

1998-99  
W. Daniel Lewis, History

1997-98  
L. Bruce Gladden, Health and Human Performance

1996-97  
Chris Rodger, Discrete & Statistical Sciences

1995-96  
Richard C. Jaeger, Electrical Engineering