USD Appoints Distinguished Professor of Research
Hongmin Wang, associate professor and researcher in Basic Biomedical Sciences at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, has been appointed the university’s Donald S. MacKay Distinguished Professor of Research.
Wang, Ph.D., will serve from Sept. 1 until June 30, 2017. His research specialties include the neurosciences and zoology/biology.
The Donald S. MacKay Professorship award was established by the late Mercedes MacKay, former South Dakota state librarian (1939-1973), who earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of South Dakota, and it was named to honor her brother.