MSI PIs Receive 2022-24 McKnight Land-Grant Professorships
Four MSI PIs are among the ten faculty members who have been named as the 2022-24 McKnight Land-Grant Professors. Recipients hold the designation “McKnight Land-Grant Professor” for two years. The goal of the program is to advance the careers of assistant professors at a crucial point in their professional lives.
Here is a list of the MSI PIs who have been honored with this award
Xue Feng (Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering)
Professor Feng uses MSI for studies aimed at understanding the stochastic dynamics of ecohydrological systems and their sensitivities to environmental fluctuations, especially those arising from precipitation.
Patrick Kelly (Physics and Astronomy)
Professor Kelly uses MSI resources to carry out high-resolution simulations of the microlensing of individual stars at cosmological distances, using data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Noelle Noyes (Veterinary Population Medicine)
Professor Noyes uses MSI resources for several projects that use metagenomics to study antimicrobial resistance, a plex ecological and population genetic phenomenon of microbes, with potentially dire consequences for human and animal health.
Xavier Revelo (Integrative Biology and Physiology)
Professor Revelo uses MSI resources as part of investigations into novel immune mechanisms underlying inflammation in cardio-metabolic diseases such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and heart failure.
A list of all the recipients and descriptions of their research can be found on the Scholars Walk website.