Monfort Professors

As part of a $5 million gift to Colorado State University, the Monfort Family Foundation established the Monfort Professors Program to help the university enhance its faculty by recruiting and retaining talented faculty members. Each year for five years, starting in fall 2002, two outstanding faculty members will be named Monfort Professors. This designation will be for a two-year period. Each designee will receive $75,000 a year to support teaching and research activities.

Khosla, Manivannan, Dinneno and Roberts named Monfort Professors

Rajiv Khosla, associate professor of agricultural science; Venkatesan (Mani) Manivannan, associate professor of engineering; Frank Dinenno, associate professor of health and exercise science; and Jacob Roberts, assistant professor of physics, have been named Monfort Professors for 2008-2010 and 2009-2011. [press release]

2006-2008

  • Randy Bartels, Department of Electrical Engineering
  • David Thompson, Department of Atmospheric Science

2005-2007

  • N. LeRoy Poff, Department of Biology
  • Tomislav Rovis, Department of Chemistry

2004-2006

  • Karolin Luger, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Ranil Wickramasinghe, Department of Chemical Engineering

2003-2005

  • John Belisle, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
  • Kathleen Pickering, Department of Anthropology

2002-2004

  • A. Scott Denning, Department of Atmospheric Science
  • Yian Shi, Department of Chemistry