GIDP Faculty - Awarded Regents' Honor

Professors: Thomas W. Swetnam, Thomas Bever, and Diana Liverman were recently recognized as Regents’ Professors.

  • Thomas W. Swetnam – member: Arid Lands Resource Sciences and Global Change

Dr. Swetnam is one of two named as Regents” Professor effective July 1, 2012 by the Arizona Board of Regents. He is a professor and director of the premier center for research and education in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the UA and is among the world's leading scientists in dendrochronology, or tree-ring research. Read more.

  • Thomas Bever – member: Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Second Language   Acquisition & Teaching.
  •  Diana Liverman – member: member: Arid Lands Resource Sciences and Global Change

Thomas Bever is a research professor of linguistics, and Diana Liverman, co-director of the  Institute of the Environment and professor in the School of Geography and Development, were honored during an induction ceremony last Fall 2011. Read more.