Date:
03/10/2022
Four MSI PIs are among the ten faculty members who have been named as the 2022-24 McKnight Land-Grant Professors. Recipients hold the designation “McKnight Land-Grant Professor” for two years. The goal of the program is to advance the careers of assistant professors at a crucial point in their professional lives.
The MSI PIs who have been honored with this award are:
- Xue Feng (Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering)
- Professor Feng uses MSI for studies aimed at understanding the stochastic dynamics of ecohydrological systems and their sensitivities to environmental fluctuations, especially those arising from precipitation.
- Patrick Kelly (Physics and Astronomy)
- Professor Kelly uses MSI resources to carry out high-resolution simulations of the microlensing of individual stars at cosmological distances, using data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
- Noelle Noyes (Veterinary Population Medicine)
- Professor Noyes uses MSI resources for several projects that use metagenomics to study antimicrobial resistance, a plex ecological and population genetic phenomenon of microbes, with potentially dire consequences for human and animal health.
- Xavier Revelo (Integrative Biology and Physiology)
- Professor Revelo uses MSI resources as part of investigations into novel immune mechanisms underlying inflammation in cardio-metabolic diseases such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and heart failure.
A list of all the recipients and descriptions of their research can be found on the Scholars Walk website.