Distinguished Teachers

The University of Minnesota annually recognizes faculty members for their outstanding contributions to teaching and learning. Three MSI PIs have received awards for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Education for 2025.

Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Education

• Professor Jean Marie Abraham (Division Head, Health Policy and Management)
  • Professor Abraham is using MSI resources to develop a database of medical costs throughout the country, which will be a valuable resource to generate insights regarding how healthcare prices vary within and across insurers and providers geographically and over time.
• Professor Prodromos Daoutidis (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)
  • Professor Daoutidis uses MSI for a variety of projects in the broad fields of computational mathematics and process systems engineering.
• Associate Professor Patrick Rothwell (Neuroscience)
  • Professor Rothwell uses resources available through MSI to process RNA sequencing data to study how chronic exposure to opiate drugs alters gene expression in the mouse brain

See all the Graduate and Professional Education Award recipients.