Four MSI Principal Investigators are among the eight assistant professors at the University of Minnesota so have been named McKnight Land-Grant Professors for 2015-17. They are, from the College of Science and Engineering, Rafael Fernandes (Physics and Astronomy), Matthew Johnson (Biomedical Engineering), and Dan Knights (Computer Science and Engineering), and, from the College of Biological Sciences, Emilie Snell-Rood (Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior).
The McKnight Land-Grant Professorships are given to new assistant professors and include $25,000 in each of the two years of the award. These funds are to be used for the professors’ research. More information about this award can be found on the Scholars Walk website.
You can see the abstracts of these PIs’ work using supercomputing resources on the MSI website: