McKnight Professorships

Distinguished McKnight Professorship

The Distinguished McKnight University Professorship honors the University’s most distinguished mid-career faculty.

Recipient Year
Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos 2007
Shashi Shekhar 2005

McKnight Land-Grant Professorship

The major purpose of the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship program is to strengthen the University's faculty for the future. The program is designed to advance the careers of the most promising junior faculty at a crucial period in their professional lives by developing their potential to make significant contributions to their disciplines.

Recipient Year
Nick Hopper 2008
William Schuler 2007
Stergios Roumeliotis 2006
Yongdae Kim 2006
Eric VanWyk 2005
Baoquan Chen* 2004
Victoria Interrante 2001
Zhi-Li Zhang 2000
Mats Heimdahl 1999
Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos 1995

* no longer with the CSE department

McKnight Presidential Fellows Award Program

The McKnight Presidential Fellows Award program is targeted specifically to the most promising faculty granted tenure and promotion to associate professor. Selection criteria include identification by internal and external reviewers as leaders in their field; potential to build programs that will be in the top tier internationally, ability to advance University priorities; and growing national or international reputation as evidenced by record of scholarship, publications, external funding, invited presentation and symposia addresses, significant awards, or other evidence of recognition for research and scholarship. The award includes research-related financial support.

Recipient Year
Mats Heimdahl 2001