Texas A&M Researcher William Murphy Named 2025 SEC Professor Of The Year
Murphy, a National Academy of Sciences member and Texas A&M University System Regents Professor, is Texas A&M’s third recipient of the SEC’s highest faculty honor.
Dr. William Murphy, a researcher at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been named the 2025 Southeastern Conference (SEC) Professor of the Year.
Murphy is a National Academy of Sciences member and the James E. Womack University Professor of Genetics in the Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences. He is also a Texas A&M University System Regents Professor and was recently appointed to lead a new Center for Comparative Genomics in animal genetics at Texas A&M. As a genomicist, Murphy studies the structure, function and evolution of an organism’s entire genome, or its entire DNA complement, to better understand the genetic basis of a species’ traits and diseases.
