- Noah Feldman
Noah Feldman is a Faculty Advisor at the Center on Law and Security and a law professor at Harvard Law School. He specializes in constitutional studies, with particular emphasis on the relationship between law and religion, constitutional design, and the history of legal theory. He is also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
- Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn Named One of Worldâs Top Young Innovators: Technology Review Magazine To Honor Carnegie Mellon Computer Scientist
- Mario Capecchi
Mario Capecchi , Ph.D. Distinguished Professor Co-Chairman of Human Genetics Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Elias Zerhouni
Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. (b. 12 April 1951) is the 15th and current director of the National Institutes of Health, appointed by George W. Bush in May 2002. His accomplishments at the NIH have included the establishment of a research program into the problem of widespread obesity, and supporting the reduction of healthcare disparities. In April 2006, he told a Congressional subcommittee, …
- Drew Endy
Drew Endy is a synthetic biologist. He was a junior fellow for 3 years and later an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT. As of September 2008, he continued his research and teaching as an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University.
- Kurt Squire
Dr. Kurt D. Squire is an assistant professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison, and co-chair of the Games, Learning & Society conference, best known for his research into game design for education. He writes a regular column for Computer Games magazine, and has been interviewed for many periodicals and media outlets, from PBS to wired.com.
- Gerhard Casper
Gerhard Casper (1937 -) was the 9th president of Stanford University from 1992-2000. He is currently the " Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education" at Stanford.
- T. Ryan Gregory
Dr. T. Ryan Gregory (b. May 16 1975) is a Canadian evolutionary biologist and genome biologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Gregory completed his B.Sc. (Hons) at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in 1997 and his Ph.D. in evolutionary biology and zoology at the University of Guelph in 2002.
- Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough is the executive director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on managing technology and innovation. His new book, Open Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), articulates a new paradigm for organizing and managing R&D, in which companies must access external as well as internal technologies and take them to market through internal and external paths.
- Stephen L. Carter
Stephen L. Carter born October 26 1954 is an American law professor, legal- and social-policy writer, columnist, and novelist. He is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1982. He earned a B.A. from Stanford University in 1976 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979. After graduation, Carter clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Carter was raised in Ithaca, New York.
- Kevin Fitzgerald
Kevin Terrell Fitzgerald (born ca. 1953), a native of Denver, Colorado, is a veterinarian at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital. He is notable for being on the Animal Planet show "Emergency Vets" for many years. He was also named one of the 50 most eligible bachelors by "People Magazine" in 2001
- Jean Edward Smith
Jean Edward Smith (born October 13, 1932, Washington, D.C.) is professor at Marshall University and biographer. Currently he is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto after having served as professor of political economy there for thirty-five years. Smith also currently serves as professor of history and government at Ashland University. A graduate of McKinley High School in Washington, …
- Kevin Desouza
Kevin C. Desouza, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor at the Information School at the University of Washington and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington College of Engineering. He serves as the Director of the Institute for National Security Education and Research, …
- Suzanne Davis
Suzanne Davis (born 1953) is an American jazz pianist. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College. She went on to do the score for the independent film In Between and worked with Grover Washington Jr. among others. She headed the "Suzanne Davis Quartet" as well. She is currently a part-time faculty member and Assistant Professor at the Berklee College of Music.
- Erich Jarvis
When he was eighteen years old, Erich Jarvis stood at a crossroads: should he be a professional dancer or a scientist? Very different directions, clearly, and Jarvis' choice - to go to college and pursue a scientific education - led him on the path towards becoming one of today's brightest young stars in the field of neurobiology. Not only is Erich Jarvis ' personal story compelling, but his dedication, perseverance, and enthusiasm for his field of science is also truly inspiring.
- Henry Taube
Professor Henry Taube, Ph.D, M.Sc, B.Sc, FRSC (November 30, 1915 - November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist noted for having been awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes," otherwise referred to as inner-sphere electron transfer. Taube was born in Neudorf, Saskatchewan and attended high school at Luther College in Regina.
- Kalev Sepp
Professor Kalev I. "Gunner" Sepp is an assistant professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, teaching in the Special Operations Program. He received his doctorate in American Diplomatic History from Harvard University in 2002, and earned his Combat Infantryman Badge as a brigade adviser in the Salvadoran Civil War and as a Special Forces A-Team leader in Panama.
- Alexander Halavais
Alex Halavais, professor of informatics at the University at Buffalo, said students are so accustomed to instant information that "the idea of spending an hour or two to find that good source is foreign to them."
- Jules Boykoff
Jules Boykoff (born September 11, 1970) is a professor and author. His research areas include the role of the mass media in US politics, especially regarding coverage of climate change issues. He is currently an assistant professor of Politics and Government at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. He also held a visiting professor position at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington during the 2004-2005 school year.
- Julius Rebek
Julius Rebek, Jr. (born April 11, 1944) is a Hungarian-born American chemist and expert on molecular self-assembly. Rebek was born in Beregszasz (Berehove), Hungary in 1944 and lived in Austria from 1945 to 1949. In 1949 he and his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Kansas. Rebek graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry.
- Shing-Tung Yau
Shing-Tung Yau (born April 4, 1949) is a prominent mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
- Lera Boroditsky
Lera Boroditsky is an Assistant Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. Dr. Boroditsky grew up in Minsk in the former Soviet Union. After earning (well, receiving anyway) a Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University in 2001, Boroditsky served on the faculty at MIT in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences. In 2004 she returned to California and took a faculty position at Stanford.
- Robert Fagles
Robert Fagles (born September 11, 1933) is an American professor, poet, and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek classics, especially his acclaimed translations of the epic poems of Homer. He taught comparative literature and English at Yale University and for many years at Princeton University.
- Andrea Zittel
Andrea Zittel is an American installation artist. In the early 1990s, Andrea Zittel began making art in response to her own surroundings and daily routines, creating functional objects that fulfilled the artist’s needs relating to shelter, food, furniture, and clothing. She produced her first “Living Unit”--an experimental structure intended to reduce everything necessary for living into a simple, …
- Raymond L. Orbach
Raymond Orbach was sworn in as the Director of the Department's Office of Science on March 14,2002. With an annual budget of$3.3 billion, the Office of Science is the principal funding agency of the nation's research programs in high-energy physics, nuclear physics and fusion energy sciences. The office also manages research programs in basic energy sciences, biological and environmental sciences, and computational science, all of which also support the missions of the department.
- B. Ruby Rich
B. Ruby Rich (born 1948) is an American scholar, critic of gay films, and an assistant professor of community studies at UC Santa Cruz. She has also taught documentary film and queer studies during spring semesters at UC Berkeley. She is credited with coining the term New Queer Cinema. Rich began her career in film exhibition, in 1972, as founder of the Woods Hole Film Society. She then became associate director of the Film Center at the Art Institute of Chicago.
- William Tate
William Tate (September 21, 1903 - September 21, 1980) served as the Dean of Men at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia from 1946 until 1971. Tate was born in 1903 in Calhoun, Georgia. In 1920 he graduated from the Georgia Military Academy and entered UGA as a freshman, majoring in English and History. While at UGA, he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society.
- Joseph Jacobson
Joseph Jacobson, a native and resident of Newton, Massachusetts, is a tenured professor and head of the Molecular Machines group at the Center for Bits and Atoms at the MIT Media Lab. He is the founder of several companies including E Ink, Codon Devices, Inc., and Kovio, is on the scientific board of several more companies (such as Epitome Biosystems), and is one of the most prolific inventors of the day. Jacobson received his bachelors in physics from Brown University, …
- Alexander Meiklejohn
Alexander Meiklejohn (February 1, 1872-December 17, 1964) was a philosopher, university administrator, and free-speech advocate. He served as dean of Brown University and president of Amherst College. Meiklejohn was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England of Scottish descent, being the youngest of eight sons. When he was eight, the family moved to the United States, settling in Rhode Island. Family members pooled their money to send him to school.
- Kurt Thoroughman
Kurt A. Thoroughman (born 31 January 1972) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is known for his work in the study of motor control, motor learning, and computational neuroscience. Thoroughman investigates how humans plan, control, and learn new movements. Understanding normal motor behavior and its neural basis will further the development of insightful clinical tests in movement neurology, …
- Charles Ofria
Dr. Charles A. Ofria is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the director of the Digital Evolution (DEvo) Lab at Michigan State University. Ofria's research focuses on the interplay between computer science and Darwinian evolution. Avida is an artificial life software platform to study the evolutionary biology of self-replicating and evolving computer programs (digital organisms).
- V. V. Chari
Varadarajan .V. Chari is an Indian-American economist and professor of economics at the University of Minnesota. Chari received a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1974, and was a production engineer at Union Carbide (India) Limited from 1974 to 1976. Chari received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1980 and joined the Kellogg School of Management, …
- Adam Penenberg
Adam L. Penenberg (born July 27, 1962) is an American investigative journalist best known for uncovering the journalistic fraud of "The New Republic" reporter Stephen Glass in 1998. He was portrayed by Steve Zahn in the movie "Shattered Glass". At the time, he was a journalist working for "Forbes" magazine's online Web publication. As of 2005, Penenberg is an assistant professor of Journalism at New York University.
- Janna Levin
Janna J. Levin (born 1967) is a theoretical cosmologist. She holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology granted in 1993 and a Bachelor of Arts in Astronomy and Physics from Barnard College granted in 1988.. Her work predicts a finite universe and uses techniques from topology and fractals to demonstrate this. Other work includes black holes and chaos.
- Roland G. Fryer Jr
Roland Gerhard Fryer, Jr. (born 1977 in Daytona Beach, FL) is an African-American assistant professor of economics at Harvard University. In addition to being affiliated with Harvard University and the Society of Fellows, he maintains offices at the National Bureau of Economic Research and W.E.B DuBois Institute. Fryer is widely regarded to be one of black America and Harvard's rising stars, …
- William Everett
William Everett (October 10, 1839 - February 16, 1910) was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, the son of Charlotte Gray Brooks and Edward Everett who spoke at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with President Abraham Lincoln on September 23, 1863. He graduated from Harvard University in 1859, from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1863 and from Harvard University's law department in 1865.
- John Vincent Atanasoff
John Vincent Atanasoff (October 4,1903 - June 15,1995) was an American physicist of Bulgarian descent. The 1973 decision of the patent suit "Honeywell v. Sperry Rand" named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer, a special-purpose machine that has come to be called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer.
- Eloy Rodriguez
Eloy Rodriguez (born January 7, 1947) is a Mexican-American biochemist. He is the James Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies at Cornell University. He was born in Edinburg, Texas. Collaborating with primatologist Richard Wrangham, Rodriguez introduced the concept of zoopharmacognosy. Rodriguez graduated from the University of Texas, Austin with a B.S. in 1969 and a Ph.D. in Phytochemistry and Plant Biology in 1975.
- James S. Olson
James S. Olson, a Professor of History at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, is the author or co-author of over thirty books, usually non-fiction, and usually in the field of History. His most recent book was "Bathsheba’s Breast: Women, Cancer, and History", which won the 2002 History of Science Category Award from the Association of American Publishers.
- Lynn Seaton
Lynn was born in Tulsa , Oklahoma , July 18, 1957. He began studying classical guitar at age seven, switching to string bass at age nine. While studying music at the University of Oklahoma , he began working the clubs around the state. In September of 1980, Lynn relocated to Cincinnati , Ohio to join the Steve Schmidt Trio and the Blue Wisp Big Band.