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Distinguished McKnight University Professor The Distinguished McKnight University Professorship honors the University's most distinguished mid-career faculty.
2008	Andreas Stein	Chemistry
2008	Sachin Sapatnekar	Electrical and computer engineering
2008	Jeffrey Derby	Chemical engineering and materials science
2007	Gary Balas	Aerospace engineering and mechanics
2007	Bernardo Cockburn	Mathematics
2007	Uwe Kortshagen	Mechanical engineering
2007	Nikos Papanikolopoulos	Computer science and engineering
2006	John Bischof	Mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering
2006	Karin Musier-Forsyth*	Chemistry
2006	J. Ilja Siepmann	Chemistry
2005	Jeffrey Roberts	Chemistry
2005	Shashi Shekhar	Computer science and engineering
2004	Graham Candler	Aerospace engineering and mechanics
2004	Guillermo Sapiro	Electrical and computer engineering
2003	Christopher Cramer	Chemistry
2003	Victor Reiner	Mathematics
2002	Efi Foufoula-Georgiou	Civil engineering
2002	Robert Tranquillo	Chemical engineering and materials science
2001	R. Lawrence Edwards	Geology/geophysics
2001	Timothy Lodge	Chemistry
2000	Keshab K. Parhi	Electrical and computer engineering
2000	Vladimir Sverak	Mathematics
2000	William B. Tolman	Chemistry
1999	Hung-wen Liu*	Chemistry
1999	David Y.H. Pui	Mechanical engineering
1999	Michael Ward	Chemical engineering and materials science
1998	Wei-Shou Hu	Chemical engineering and materials science
1998	Richard D. James	Aerospace engineering and mechanics
1998	Keith A. Olive	Physics
1997	George Barany	Chemistry
1997	Tayfun Tezduyar*	Aerospace engineering and mechanics
1996	Frank S. Bates	Chemical engineering and materials science

McKnight Land-Grant Professor 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
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

McKnight professorships

Distinguished McKnight University Professor

McKnight Land-Grant Professor