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Eligibility for recognition
- For the Nobel Prize and its recognized equivalents (e.g. Field Medal, Draper Award) we will recognize those who at any time in their careers spent time at the University of Minnesota as faculty or students.
- For all other awards, the recipient must have spent at least five years on the U of M faculty, and must not have left the U of M before receiving the award. (This allows recognition of eminent scholars recruited to the UM, who received the award either before or after coming here.)
Please click on the heading to see the list of names in each category.
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Nobel Prize winners
The Nobel Prize is the world's most prestigious award of any kind. Created and funded by the estate of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the awards have been granted since 1901. Of the 758 individuals to have received the Nobel Prize, 19 have a know University of Minnesota connection. |
National Academies
Four organizations--the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council (NRC)--comprise the United States National Academies. (The NRC is composed of members of the other bodies.) The National Academies are "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine," enlisting the nation’s foremost scientists, engineers, health professionals, and other experts to address the scientific and technical aspects of some of society’s most pressing problems. |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
An organization dedicated to scholarship and the advancement of learning, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences was chartered in 1780 by leaders of the American Revolution with the goal to "cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people." The Academy now boasts some 4,000 members and several hundred honorary foreign members. |
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
The MacArthur Fellows Program of the John T. and Catherine P. MacArthur Foundation gives recipients a five-year, unrestricted grant "to individuals across all ages and fields who show exceptional merit and promise of continued creative work." |
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is the highest honor in American print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. Established by a dontaion from late newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the prizes are selected by an independent panel and administered by Columbia University. |
National Book Award
The National Book Award is one of the most important literary prizes in the United States. Adminitered by the National Book Foundation, it ihas been awarded in various categories since 1950 for the best books by living U.S. citizens published in the U.S. |
National Medal of Science
The National Medal of Science is an honor given by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics. |
Lasker Award
The Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science. They are administered by the Lasker Foundation, founded by advertising pioneer Albert Lasker and his wife Mary Woodward Lasker (later an influential medical research activist). Highly prestigious, the awards are sometimes referred to as "America's Nobels". |
Regents Professors
The Regents Professorship was established in 1965. It is the highest recognition given by the University to a member of its faculty for outstanding academic distinction in scholarly or artistic work, teaching or contributions to the public good. Once designated a Regents Professor, faculty members hold the title for as long as they remain at the University. |
Senior McKnight Professors
Senior McKnight Professors fall into three categories:
- McKnight Presidential Chairs, created in 1999 from a $15 million gift to the University from the McKnight Foundation, used at the discretion of the president to recruit and retain world-class faculty. Recipients of the chair are recommended by their college dean to the president and chosen based on their academic and research accomplishments and their importance to advancing the University among its peers. Each chair holder receives an annual allotment of approximately $50,000 to support their research.
- McKnight Presidential Professors, also made possible by a gift from the McKnight Foundation, are named by the president and are intended to attract or retain the best faculty in fields of critical importance at the University.
- Distinguished McKnight University Professors, chosen on the extent to which their research or scholarly achievements have brought distinction to the University of Minnesota; the merit of their achievements and the potential for greater attainment in the field; the quality of their teaching and advising; and their contributions to the wider community. They keep the title as long as they remain at the University, and earn a $100,000 grant paid over five years.
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Distinguished Teachers
Recipients of the Horace T. Morse-University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education and the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Education are considered the Univeristy's best teaching professors. |
Departmental Legacy Scholars
This category includes two or three "giants" from each department who spent time at the University before national and international awards evolved to recognize exceptional scholarship in those respective fields. |
Honorary Degrees
Individuals honored by the University with an honorary degree for their outstanding lifetime accomplishments. |
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