Royster Endowed Professorship
Departmental Rules
Adopted by the Faculty May 9, 2003
Amended by Request of Dean Steven Hoch Fall 2004
The Wimberly and Betty Royster Research Professorship shall be used to recognize tenured faculty in the Department of Mathematics at the rank of associate professor who have made outstanding contributions in their recent research. All tenured faculty at the associate professor level are eligible to be nominated.
Each fall of any year when endowment funds are available, the Chair of the Department of Mathematics shall constitute a Royster Research Professorship Nomination Committee consisting of two tenured faculty members appointed by the Chair and two tenured faculty members elected by the voting faculty of the Department of Mathematics. No elected member can serve more than two consecutive years in which the award is offered.
The Committee will solicit
nominations from the general faculty. A nomination will consist of a letter to
the chair from the nominator presenting the case that the nominee has met the
stated criterion of “outstanding contributions in recent research.” Nominees
for the Professorship should submit to the committee a dossier consisting of a
current curriculum vitae, a statement of research activity and future research
plans, and selected publications to document the nominee’s accomplishments in recent
research. The nominee should also provide the names of up to three potential
external referees. The committee may at its discretion solicit outside letters evaluating
the research accomplishment of nominees.
The committee will then convey its recommendation to the Chair. The
Chair may then recommend to the Dean one or more recipients of a fixed-term
award lasting three years. Appointments to this position are subject to the
procedures established by the
A given recipient may hold the
Professorship for at most one term of up to three years. The award will remain
in effect so long as the recipient is a tenured faculty member in the
Department of Mathematics at the