Current SDSU Distinguished Professors
David Clay
South Dakota Corn Chair/Distinguished Professor
Department of Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science
Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan
Klingbeil Endowed Department Head/Distinguished Professor
Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences
Eric Nelson
Assistant Department Head/Distinguished Professor
Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory
Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Bob Thaler
Farm Credit Services of America Endowed Chair in Swine Production, Distinguished Professor and SDSU Extension Swine Specialist
Department of Animal Science
SDSU Extension
Xiaoyang Zhang
Distinguished Professor / Co-Director GSCE / Senior Research Scientist
Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence
Geography and Geospatial Sciences
Xiaoyang Zhang Lab
SDSU Distinguished Professors Cumulative List
2021
Bob Thaler, Animal Science
2020
Anne Fennell, Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science
2019
David Clay, Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science
2018
William Gibbons, Associate Dean for Research-ABS/Professor, Ag Experiment Station-AES
2017
Kendra Kattelmann, Health and Nutritional Sciences
Eric Nelson, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
2016
Sharon Clay, Plant Science
2013
Kasiviswanathan “Muthu” Muthukumarappan, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
2012
Dennis Helder, College of Engineering (Emeritus)
2007
Douglas C. Mc Farland, Animal and Range Sciences (Emeritus)
2006
Jonathan A. Jenks, Wildlife and Fisheries (Emeritus)
W. Carter Johnson, Horticulture, Forestry, Landscape and Parks (Emeritus)
2005
Robbi H. Pritchard, Animal and Range Sciences
2004
Nels H. Granholm, Biology and Microbiology (Emeritus)
2003
David J. Schingoethe, Dairy Science (Emeritus)
2002
David W. Willis, Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Mary R. Ryder, English (Emerita)
2001
James L. Johnson, Communication Studies and Theatre (Emeritus)
2000
Chandradhar Dwivedi, Pharmaceutical Sciences (Emeritus)
1999
Lester D. Flake, Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (Emeritus)
1998
Lois I. Widvey, Education (Emerita)
Donna J. Hess, Sociology (Emerita)
1997
Douglas D. Malo, Plant Science (Emeritus)
1996
Donald P. Evenson, Veterinary Science (Emeritus)
1994
Leon L. Wrage, Plant Science (Emeritus)
Robert V. Burns, Political Science (Emeritus)
1993
Charles F. Gritzner, Geography (Emeritus)
1992
Charles L. Woodard, English (Emeritus)
1991
Margaret J. Hegge, Nursing (Emerita)
William J. Costello, Animal and Range Sciences (Emeritus)
1989
Ruth W. Redhead, Foreign Languages (Emerita)
1988
Richard C. Wahlstrom, Animal and Range Sciences (Emeritus)