Bruce Tabashnik, Julia Clancy-Smith Named Regents' Professors

Bruce Tabashnik, Julia Clancy-Smith Named Regents' Professors

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Bruce Tabashnik
Bruce Tabashnik
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Julia Clancy-Smith

Two UA professors have received the highest honor bestowed on faculty in the Arizona state university system.

The appointment of Bruce Tabashnik and Julia Clancy-Smith as Regents' Professors, approved recently by the Arizona Board of Regents, brings to 99 the UA’s number of Regents' Professors since the designation was created in 1987. The honor is reserved for faculty scholars who have achieved national and international distinction for their work.

In addition, Vicente Talanquer has been named as a University Distinguished Professor for his contributions to educational excellence and undergraduate education. Henrietta "Etta" Kralovec and Frans Tax have been named as University Distinguished Outreach Faculty for their sustained commitment to community and academic outreach.

Formal ceremonies for the five will take place in the fall.

Tabashnik, professor and head of entomology in the UA’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has served as head of the Department of Entomology since 1996 and is a member of the BIO5 Institute. He previously was a faculty member at the University of Hawaii and earned his doctorate at Stanford University. He has spent decades conducting pioneering research on strategies to delay insect resistance to proteins produced by the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that kill some key insect pests but are not toxic to most other organisms, including humans and even most beneficial insects.

Clancy-Smith, an award-winning history professor, teaches about modern and early modern Africa and the Middle East. She has authored and co-authored several award-winning books, including "The Modern Middle East and North Africa: A History in Documents," "Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900" and "Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904)."

Talanquer, co-principal investigator on the UA's grant for the STEM Undergraduate Education Initiative, conducts research on the improvement of chemistry education and science teacher preparation. He has published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 10 textbooks, four of which are used by elementary school science students throughout Mexico.

Kralovec is an associate professor of teacher education and director of the secondary education program at UA South. In 2011, she received a $2.2 million Department of Education grant for the UA's Transition to Teaching program, which prepares STEM teachers for Title I schools in Arizona's Cochise and Santa Cruz counties.

Tax is a professor of molecular and cellular biology in the UA College of Science and a professor in the School of Plant Sciences in the UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He also is a member of the BIO5 Institute. His research areas include cell and developmental biology, genetics and epigenetics, and genomics, bioinformatics and systems biology. 

You can read more about each faculty member in this UANews article.

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