The Twin Cities land-grant flagship, strong across medicine, engineering, chemistry, ecology, and law, and woven deeply into Minnesota life.
11 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President
Office of the President
Thank you for bringing an emergency physician's urgency and a researcher's respect for evidence to leading Minnesota's land-grant mission.
Regents Professor; William Norris Land Grant Chair in Large-Scale Computing
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Thank you for helping found data mining as a discipline and for turning machine learning loose on Earth's climate and freshwater in the public interest.
Professor, CSE Distinguished Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Thank you for decades of multi-robot systems research and for the generations of computer scientists, so many of them women, you have mentored into the field.
Regents Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor
Department of Chemistry
Thank you for the density functionals and reaction rate theory used daily in laboratories worldwide, a lifetime of making chemistry computable.
Prager Chair in Macromolecular Science; McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair; Distinguished University Teaching Professor
Department of Chemistry
Thank you for sustainable polymers made from plants and for building a research center that dares to reimagine plastic itself.
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Thank you for modeling how living cells generate force, divide, and migrate, bringing an engineer's clarity to the physics of life and to brain cancer.
Regents Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Thank you for a career decoding iron enzymes, chemistry that taught the whole field how nature activates oxygen.
Regents Professor; McKnight Presidential Chair
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Thank you for the Cedar Creek experiments proving that biodiversity makes ecosystems more productive and more stable, some of the most cited ecology ever done.
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy
Department of Pediatrics
Thank you for blood and marrow transplants and cellular therapies that give children with epidermolysis bullosa and other rare genetic diseases a fighting chance.
Distinguished McKnight University Professor; Land O'Lakes Professor in Marketing
Department of Marketing
Thank you for illuminating self-control and the psychology of money, science that helps ordinary people understand their own choices.
S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law
Law School
Thank you for standing up for government ethics in and out of the White House, and for teaching corporate law with a public conscience.
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A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of University of Minnesota, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.