The Department of Entomology is pleased to announce that Ann
M. Fallon has been named 1999 Distinguished McKnight University
Professor.
Professor Fallon joins Marla
Spivak and Karen
Mesce, who have both been awarded McKnight Land-Grant Professorships,
in continuing the tradition of excellence in our Department.
The purpose of the Professorship is to recognize and reward
the University's most outstanding mid-career faculty who have
achieved full professor status. Recipients are honored with
the title Distinguished McKnight University Professor, which
they will hold for as long as they remain at the University
of Minnesota. The grant associated with the Professorship
consists of $100,000 to be used over five years.
Each year the nominations are reviewed by a committee composed
of prominent faculty from across the University. The committee
selects the strongest nominees, whatever their field, basing
its decisions on the merit of the nominee's scholarly achievements
and the potential for greater attainment in the field, the
extent to which the nominee's achievements and reputation
ahve brought distinction to the University of Minnesota, the
quality of the nominee's teaching and advising and the nominee's
contributions to the wider community.
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