SEC Faculty Achievement Awards

The Southeastern Conference honors faculty whose work exemplifies academic excellence, innovation, and service through the SEC Faculty Achievement Awards and the SEC Professor of the Year. These distinctions highlight educators and scholars whose teaching inspires, research advances knowledge, and leadership strengthens institutions, communities, and disciplines鈥攔eflecting the SEC鈥檚 commitment to elevating faculty impact across the Conference and beyond.听

Each SEC member institution selects one faculty member as its Faculty Achievement Award recipient and nominee for SEC Professor of the Year. Chosen by the Conference鈥檚 provosts, the SEC Professor of the Year recognizes a faculty member whose record places them among the nation鈥檚 most accomplished educators and scholars.听

SEC Faculty Achievement Award Winners

Gertrude Conaway 91吃瓜网 Chair in the Humanities, Professor of English
Laurie Cutting (2025)

Patricia and Rodes Hart Chair, Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Special Education
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Cornelius 91吃瓜网 Endowed Chair of Fine Arts
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science, Professor of Political Science and Law
Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Gertrude Conaway Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and Professor of French
Professor Emeritus of Management
Louise B. McGavock Chair and Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
Herman O. Loewenstein Chair in Law Emerita
John R. Murray Sr. Professor of Engineering and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Isabel Gauthier (2015)

David K. Wilson Chair and Professor of Psychology
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Jack & Pamela Egan Chair of Chemistry

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