Honorary professorships

• Regents Professorships
• McKnight Presidential Endowed Chairs and Professorships
• Distinguished McKnight University Professorships
• McKnight Land-Grant Professorships
• McKnight Presidential Fellows
• Northrop Professorships
• CSE Distinguished Professorships
• Endowed Chairs and Professorships

Regents Professorships

Established in 1965, the Regents Professorship is the University of Minnesota's highest recognition for faculty excellence. The award honors faculty whose especially distinguished accomplishments in teaching and scholarship or creative work have contributed uniquely to the University and to the public good.

Regents Professors Emeriti and Former Regents Professors

* retired 
** no longer at the University of Minnesota 
^ deceased

McKnight Presidential Endowed Chairs and Professorships

Established in 1999, the McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair and the McKnight Presidential Endowed Professorship are among the highest honors for faculty at the University. Recipients are recommended by their college dean and chosen at the discretion of the president based, in part, on their academic and research accomplishments and their contributions to advancing the University.

McKnight Presidential Endowed Chairs

McKnight Presidential Endowed Professors

Distinguished McKnight University Professorships

The Distinguished McKnight University Professorship honors the University of Minnesota's most distinguished mid-career faculty.

** retired or no longer at the University of Minnesota
^ deceased

McKnight Land-Grant Professors

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.

** no longer at the University of Minnesota 
> changed affiliation within the University of Minnesota
^ deceased

McKnight Presidential Fellows

The McKnight Presidential Fellows Program is targeted at the most promising faculty who have been newly granted tenure and promotion to associate professor, to recognize their accomplishments and support their ongoing research and scholarship. Candidates are considered for these awards at the conclusion of the regular promotion and tenure review process each year. The program, which provides research funds for three years, complements the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship for new assistant professors and the Distinguished McKnight University Professorship for new full professors. As a whole, the McKnight awards identify and support promising faculty at critical stages of their careers.

** no longer at the University of Minnesota

Northrop Professorships

This award recognizes field-shaping faculty at any stage in their post-tenure career at the University of Minnesota—especially those who have made significant advances in their careers at the University of Minnesota, whose national and international work and reputation has been identified as having helped define the trajectory of one or more academic fields, and whose accomplishments have brought great renown and prestige to Minnesota.

College of Science and Engineering Distinguished Professorships

The College of Science and Engineering Distinguished Professorship honors exceptional faculty for their efforts in and contributions to teaching and scholarly research and for their genuine commitment to the College of Science and Engineering and its activities. College of Science and Engineering Distinguished Professors receive a one-time award of $15,000 to be used for professional development or research.

* retired ** no longer at the University of Minnesota † deceased ~ relinquished

Current Endowed Chairs and Professorships

University of Minnesota

College of Science and Engineering (Dean's Office)

Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering

Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Department of Chemistry

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Data Science Institute

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Mathematics

Department of Mechanical Engineering

School of Physics and Astronomy

Technological Leadership Institute