2025 Southeastern Conference Professor of the Year Dr. William Murphy, Texas A&M University Credit: Jason Nitsch/Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

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Texas A&M’s William Murphy Named 2025 SEC Professor of the Year

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….

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