McKnight Presidential Endowed Chairs and Professorships
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 among its peers.
McKnight Presidential Endowed Professors
2025 - Surgery
2024 - Agronomy & Plant Genetics
2023 - Psychology
2022 - Electrical & Computer Engineering
2021 - Industrial & Systems Engineering
2020 - Epidemiology & Community Health
2020 - Mathematics
2020 - Law
2020 - Libraries
2020 - Economics
2017 - Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
2016 - Plant Biology
2016 - Computer Science & Engineering
2016 - Law
2011 - Criminal Law & Policy
2010 - Biology
2009 - Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics
2008 - Mathematics
2007 - American Indian Studies
2007 - Biological Limnology
2007 - Planning & Public Affairs
2006 - Law, Medicine & Public Policy
2006 - Cancer Prevention
2005 - Cancer Epidemiology
2004 - Law & Public Policy
2002 - Library Science
2002 - Planetary Geology
McKnight Presidential Endowed Chairs
2024 - Electrical & Computer Engineering
2024 - Nursing
2024 - Applied Economics
2023 - Interior Design
2019 - Chemistry
2018 - Public Affairs
2018 - Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics
2017 - Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
2016 - Electrical & Computer Engineering
2015 - Chemistry
2014 - Surgery
2014 - Public Health
2010 - Neurology
2008 - Political Science
2008 - Surgery
2008 - Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
2007 - Hematology & Oncology
2006 - Medicinal Chemistry
2005 - Child Development & Psychiatry
2004 - Cognitive Neuroscience
2003 - Radiology
2003 - Economics
2002 - Sociology
2001 - Stem Cell Biology
2001 - Ecology
2001 - Psychology
2000 - Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
2000 - Public Law
1999 - Genomics