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T. J. Pempel (Ph.D., Columbia) joined the Political Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley in July 2001 and became director of the Institute of East Asian Studies in January 2002. He holds the Il Han New Chair in Asian Studies. - Robert Gilpin
Robert Gilpin is a scholar of international political economy and the professor emeritus of Politics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is holding the Eisenhower professorship. Gilpin specializes in political economy and international relations, especially the effect of multinational corporations on state autonomy. - Bernd Sturmfels
Bernd Sturmfels received doctoral degrees in Mathematics in 1987 from the University of Washington, Seattle, and the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. After two postdoctoral years at the Insitute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, and the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Linz, Austria, he taught at Cornell University, before joining UC Berkeley in 1995, where he is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science. - Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health (the department she chaired from 1988-2003) and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Medical Expert Blogger I'm a medical doctor, media health and wellness expert, life coach, speaker and... flamenco dancer! - Marshall Kirk McKusick
Marshall Kirk McKusick (b. January 19, 1954 in Wilmington, Delaware) is a computer scientist, famous for his extensive work on BSD, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. He was president of the USENIX Association from 1990 to 1992 and again from 2002 to 2004, and still serves on the board. He is also on the editorial board of ACM Queue Magazine. He is known to friends and colleagues as "Kirk". - Matt Welsh
Matt Welsh is a Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and author of several books about the GNU/Linux operating system. Welsh received a BS from Cornell University in 1996 and MS and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He is a graduate of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. - Philip Morrison
Philip Morrison, (born 7 November 1915 in Somerville, New Jersey - died 22 April 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was Institute Professor, Emeritus and Professor of Physics, Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Morrison grew up in Pittsburgh and graduated from its public schools. He earned his B.S. in 1936 at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and in 1940 he earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of California, Berkeley, … - Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Benjamin Ide Wheeler (Randolph, Massachusetts, 1854 - 1927) was a Greek and comparative philology professor at Cornell University as well as President of the University of California from 1899 to 1919. Wheeler graduated from Brown University in 1875. During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire he was a member of Mayor Eugene Schmitz's Committee of Fifty. Under Wheeler the University of California underwent one of its periods of greatest growth. - Paul McEuen
Paul McEuen (born 1963 in Oklahoma) is an American physicist. He received his B.S. in engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma (1985), and his Ph.D. in applied physics at Yale University (1991). After postdoctoral work at MIT (1990-1991), he became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He moved to Cornell University in 2001, where he is currently a Professor of Physics. He is one of the world experts on carbon nanotubes. - Daniel Coit Gilman
Daniel Coit Gilman was an American educator. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, Gilman graduated from Yale College in 1852 with a degree in geography. At Yale he was a classmate of Andrew Dickson White, who would later serve as first president of Cornell University. The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, and would remain close friends. After serving as attaché of the United States legation at St. Petersburg, Russia from 1853 to 1855, … - Harry Edwards
Harry Edwards is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and author of "The Revolt of the Black Athlete". Dr. Edwards is also an alumnus of San Jose State University and Cornell University. Edwards has written a few papers and one book about the nexus between sociology and sports. - 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. - Steven Knapp
Steven Knapp has been a professor provost at Johns Hopkins University since 1996 and dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from 1994 to 1996.. He was named the 16th president of The George Washington University on December 5, 2006 succeeding Stephen Joel Trachtenberg. He will become president of the university on August 1, 2007. Knapp is a 1973 graduate of Yale University. He did his graduate work at Cornell University, … - Harry C. Katz
Harry Charles Katz (born 1951) is the Dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, and the Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977 and his A.B. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973. After teaching at MIT he came to the New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations in 1985. - Gregory Vlastos
Gregory Vlastos (July 27, 1907 - October 12, 1991) was a scholar of ancient philosophy, and author of several works on Plato and Socrates. He was born in Istanbul, to a Scottish mother and a Greek father, where he received a Bachelor of Arts from Robert College before moving to Harvard University where he received a PhD in 1931. After teaching for several years at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, he moved to Cornell University in 1948. - Dale R. Corson
Dale R. Corson (b. 1914) was the eighth president of Cornell University. Born in Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1914, Corson received a B.A. degree from the College of Emporia in 1934, his M.A. degree from the University of Kansas in 1935, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1938. In 1946 Corson came to Cornell University as an assistant professor of physics and helped design the Cornell synchrotron. - Richard Neustadt
Richard Elliott Neustadt was an American political historian specializing in the United States presidency. He also served as advisor to several presidents. Born in Philadelphia, Neustadt received a BA in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1939, followed by an M.A. degree from Harvard University in 1941. After a short stint as an economist in the Office of Price Administration, he joined the U.S. Navy in 1942, … - Roger Parker
Roger Parker (born London United Kingdom, 2 August, 1951) is an English musicologist, and is currently Thurston Dart Professor of Music at King's College London. He studied at the University of London, first at Goldsmiths' College, then at King's. In 1982, he moved to Cornell University in upstate New York, where he was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor. - Alice Fulton
Alice Fulton (born January 25, 1952 in Troy, New York, USA) is a United States poet, author, and feminist. She received her undergraduate degree in creative writing in 1976 from Empire State College and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University in 1982. In 1991, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship for her poetry. Defying convention, not easily categorized, and employing a postmodern poetics that admits artifice, … - William T. Vollmann
William Tanner Vollmann (born July 28, 1959 in Los Angeles, California) is an American novelist, journalist, short story writer and essayist. He lives in Sacramento, California with his wife and daughter. Vollmann studied at Deep Springs College and earned a B.A., "summa cum laude", in comparative literature at Cornell University. After graduation, Vollmann worked odd jobs, including as a secretary at an insurance company, … - Kevin Lane Keller
Kevin Lane Keller is the E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is most notable for having authored "Strategic Brand Management" (Prentice Hall, 1998 & 2002), a widely-used text on brand management. He has published his research in the "Journal of Marketing", "Journal of Marketing Research", and "Journal of Consumer Research". - David M. Schneider
David Murray Schneider (November 11, 1918, Brooklyn, New York - October 30, 1995, Santa Cruz, California) was an American cultural anthropologist, best known for his studies of kinship and as a major proponent of the symbolic anthropology approach to cultural anthropology. He received his B.S. in 1940 and his M.S. from Cornell University in 1941. He received his PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard in 1949, based on fieldwork on the Micronesian island of Yap. - George Poinar Jr.
George O. Poinar, Jr. is an entomologist and writer. He is most famous for popularizing the idea of extracting DNA from insects fossilized in amber, an idea which received widespread attention when adapted by Michael Crichton for the book and movie "Jurassic Park". Poinar earned a B.S. and M.S. at Cornell University, and remained there for his doctoral studies, receiving a Ph.D. in biology in 1962. He spent many of his years of research at University of California, … - Willis Linn Jepson
Willis Linn Jepson (born August 19, 1867 in Little Oak, near Vacaville, California; died November 7, 1946, Berkeley, California) is known as California's most distinguished early botanist. He became interested in botany as a boy and explored adjacent regions. He had came in contact with various botanists before he entered college. He graduated at the University of California in 1889, and the following year became an assistant in botany. - Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz
Ross Lomanitz was an American physicist. He was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Bryan, Texas. He graduated from high school at age 14. Lomanitz went on to earn his bachelor of science degree in physics from the University of Oklahoma and his doctorate in theoretical physics from Cornell University. He was the first graduate student of Richard Feynman. He attended to graduate school in the early 1940s at the University of California, Berkeley. - John H. Collins
John H. Collins (November 14, 1902 - January 8, 1981) was an American classical scholar. Born in Anaconda, Montana, he attended the University of Illinois and Cornell University, and in 1952 received his doctorate in classical history from Goethe University in Frankfurt-am-Main where he studied under Professor Matthias Gelzer, then a leading authority on Roman history, … - Irma Anderson
Irma A. Anderson was the first African American woman elected mayor of a major California city, serving Richmond, California between 2001 and 2006, she ran for reelection as the incumbent Democrat in the 2006 mayorial race and lost to Green challenger councilperson Gayle McLaughlin by 192 votes, her term expired on November 21, 2006. Anderson earned both R.N. and B.S.N. degrees from Cornell University. - Albert Overhauser
Albert W. Overhauser (born August 17, 1925 in San Diego, California) is an American physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is best known for his theory of dynamic nuclear polarization, also known as the Overhauser Effect. Overhauser attended high school in San Francisco at Lick-Wilmerding High School and began his undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley in 1942. - Erwin J. Haeberle
Erwin J. Haeberle (born March 30, 1936), is a German social scientist and sexologist. Haeberle was born on March 30, 1936 in Dortmund, Germany. From 1956 - 1963 he studied drama, German, English literature, and French literature at the University of Cologne, University of Freiburg Br., University of Glasgow, and University of Heidelberg. He received a M.A. in 1964 from Cornell and a Ph.D. in 1966 from Heidelberg. - Michael D. Morley
Michael Darwin Morley is an American mathematician, currently professor emeritus at Cornell University. His research is in advanced mathematical logic and model theory, and he is best known for Morley's categoricity theorem, which he proved in his Ph.D. thesis "Categoricity in Power" in 1962. His formal Ph.D. advisor was Saunders MacLane at Chicago University, but he actually finished his thesis under the guidance of Robert Vaught in Berkeley. - Donald Zilversmit
Donald Berthold Zilversmit (born 1919) is a U.S. nutritional biochemist, researcher and educator. He is Emeritus Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Zilversmit was born in Hengelo, Netherlands, the son of Herman and Elizabeth (DeWinter) Zilversmit. He began studies at Utrecht University but escaped before the German invasion in World War II. He came to the United States in 1939 to finish his studies at the University of California, … - Theodore de Laguna
Theodore de Laguna (d. 1930) was an American philosopher who taught for years at Bryn Mawr College and was known as an early feminist. He was the son of Alexandro Francisco Lopez de Leo de Laguna, a French-U.S. academic who was born in upper Normandy, France, and was of Italian and Jewish ancestry, and Fredericke Bergner, the daughter of refugees from the 1848 revolution in Germany. His mother died young, and he was raised by an aunt, Frederica. - Susan Marqusee
Susan Marqusee , Ph.D. UC Berkeley Associate Director Susan Marqusee , MD, Ph.D., is Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She received her A.B. in Physics and Chemistry from Cornell University in 1982, and her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1990. - Jean Frechet
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