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McKnight Land-Grant Professorships

The McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, a two-year endowed chair, is designed to advance the careers of the most promising junior faculty at a crucial period in their professional lives.
Year Recipient Department
2008 Taner Akkin Biomedical engineering
2008 Alptekin Aksan Mechanical engineering
2008 Nicholas Hopper Computer science and engineering
2008 Chris Hyung-il Kim Electrical and computer engineering
2008 Katsumi Matsumoto Geology and geophysics
2007 Christy Haynes Chemistry
2007 Nihar Jindal Electrical and computer engineering
2007 Marta Lewicka Mathematics
2007 William Schuler Computer Science and Engineering
2007 Chun Wang Biomedical Engineering
2006 Demoz Gebre-Egziabher Aerospace engineering and mechanics
2006 Yongdae Kim Computer science and engineering
2006 Efie Kokkoli Chemical engineering and materials science
2006 Stergios Roumeliotis Computer science and engineering
2005 Alex Kamenev Physics
2005 Ezra Miller Mathematics
2005 T. Andrew Taton Chemistry
2005 Eric Van Wyck Computer science and engineering
2004 Baoquan Chen Computer science and engineering
2004 Heiko Jacobs Electrical and computer engineering
2004 Kristopher McNeill Chemistry
2004 Joachim Mueller Physics
2003 Tian-Jun Li Mathematics
2003 Krishnan Mahesh Aerospace engineering and mechanics
2003 Fernando Porte-Agel Civil engineering
2002 Marcus Keel Mathematics
2002 David Odde Biomedical engineering
2001 Mohamed-Slim Alouini* Electrical and computer engineering
2001 Shaul Hanany Physics
2001 Richard Hsung* Chemistry
2001 Victoria Interrante Computer science and engineering
2001 Jiaping Wang Mathematics
2000 Marc A. Hillmyer Chemistry
2000 Dihua Jiang Mathematics
2000 Ivan Marusic Aerospace engineering and mechanics
2000 Zhi-Li Zhang Computer science and engineering
1999 Paul A. Crowell Physics
1999 Mats Per Erik Heimdahl Computer science and engineering
1999 Marc Hirschmann Geology/geophysics
1999 Bradley J. Nelson* Mechanical engineering
1998 C. Daniel Frisbie Chemical engineering and materials science
1998 Rachel Kuske* Mathematics
1998 Eric Munson* Chemistry
1998 Donna Whitney Geology/geophysics
1997 John Bischof Mechanical engineering
1997 Andreas Stein Chemistry
1996 Victor Reiner Mathematics
1996 J. Ilja Siepmann Chemistry
1996 Andrew Teel* Electrical and computer engineering
1995 Prodromos Daoutidis Chemical engineering and materials science
1995 Craig Forsyth* Chemistry
1995 Susan Mantell Mechanical engineering
1995 Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos Computer science and engineering
1995 Carol Shield Civil engineering
1994 Christopher Cramer Chemistry
1994 David Lilja Electrical and computer engineering
1994 Ellen Longmire Aerospace engineering and mechanics
1994 John Lowengrub* Mathematics
1994 Jay Moon Electrical and computer engineering
1994 Daniel Mooradian* Biomedical engineering
1994 Mark Person* Geology
1994 Mark Snyder* Civil engineering
1993 Amy Alving* Aerospace engineering and mechanics
1993 Gary Balas Aerospace engineering and mechanics
1993 Lorraine Francis Chemical engineering and materials science
1993 Karin Musier-Forsyth* Chemistry
1993 Jian-Gang Zhu* Electrical and computer engineering
1992 Keshab Parhi Electrical and computer engineering
1992 Thomas Shield Aerospace engineering and mechanics
1992 William Tolman Chemistry
1991 Stephen Chou* Electrical and computer engineering
1991 Jeffrey Derby Chemical engineering and materials science
1991 Jeffrey Roberts Chemistry
1990 R. Lawrence Edwards Geology/geophysics
1990 Yuichi Kubota Physics
1990 Scott Rychnovsky* Chemistry
1989 James Kakalios Physics
1989 Homayoon Kazerooni* Mechanical engineering
1989 Kenneth Leopold Chemistry
1989 Christian Teyssier Geology/geophysics
1989 Robert Tranquillo Chemical engineering and materials science
1988 Steven Kass Chemistry
1987 Yukata Hosotani* Physics
1987 Doreen Leopold Chemistry
1987 Henry White* Chemical engineering and materials science
     

* no longer at the University of Minnesota