- Mike French
Michael "Mike" G. French was a three time All-American lacrosse player at Cornell University from 1974 to 1976, leading the Cornell Big Red to the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship in 1976. He is currently ranked sixth all-time in Division I total scoring with 296 career points. French's top season was 1976 when he scored 65 goals and handed out 40 assists for 105 total points in 16 games, good for third all-time.
- Gilbert Gude
Gilbert Gude, a Republican, was a former U.S. Congressman who represented the Maryland's 8th congressional district from January 3, 1967, to January 3, 1977. Gude was born in Washington, D.C. and was educated in the public schools of Rockville, Maryland, and Washington. He attended the University of Maryland, obtained his B.S. degree from Cornell University in 1948, and his M.S. degree from George Washington University in 1958.
- 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, …
- Elliott Waters Montroll
Elliott Waters Montroll (May 4, 1916 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - December 3, 1983 in Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA) was an American scientist and mathematician. He was awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh in 1939, with a thesis "Applications of the characteristic value theory of integral equations' in which he applied integral equations to the study of imperfect gases.
- Richard M. Moran
Richard M. Moran is a legendary lacrosse player and coach. His playing career began as an All-County midfielder at Sewanhaka high school (Floral Park, NY) from 1951-1955 and helped his team to four consecutive undefeated seasons before heading to the University of Maryland where he was a key performer on the 1959 Terrapins National Championship team. Moran's head coaching career began in 1961 at Manhasset high school, where he compiled a 67-5 record over five seasons, …
- Bill Gossman
Bill Gossman is founder of Retoku Capital, and most recently served as CEO of Revenue Science. He is a seasoned executive with more than 25 years of hands-on experience building and leading high-growth organizations primarily in digital media and mobility, and is a pioneer in behavioral targeting and enabling media delivery to cell phones.
- Andrew Baer
Andrew Baer | View the Keynote | Download the MP3 Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Comcast Cable Communications, LLC Andrew Baer serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Comcast Cable Communications, LLC.
- Rikk Carey
Rikk Carey is the Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations for Plaxo. Rikk joined Plaxo in March 2002 as its first employee and was instrumental in bringing the company from its inception, to its current success as the market leader. He brings over 20 years experience in engineering, product development, and management to his role. Rikk’s previous senior management positions include General Manager at Yahoo!
- Harold Craighead
- Millard Baublitz
- Susan M. Pilch
Susan M. Pilch pilchs@ors.od.nih.gov Susan M. Pilch joined the NIH Library in January, 2001, and is currently employed as a Biomedical Librarian/Informationist. She received a Masters of Library Science from the University of Maryland in December, 2001, and holds a PhD in nutritional biochemistry from Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry from the University of Virginia.
- Samuel Gorovitz
Samuel Gorovitz Professor of Philosophy Founding Director of the Renée Crown University Honors Program Samuel Gorovitz , former dean of Arts and Sciences, led in the development of the field of medical ethics. He has also published extensively on other topics in philosophy and public policy. His advice on college governance and on health policy has been widely sought, and he has given more than 200 invited lectures in over a dozen countries.
- Christopher J. Collins
Christopher J. Collins , Ph.D., Cornell University Christopher J. Collins , Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He earned his Ph.D. in Human Resources and Organizational Behavior from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
- Sara J. Scherr
Sara J. Scherr Sara J. Scherr is an agricultural and natural resource economist specializing in land and forest management policy in tropical developing countries. . She is Director of Ecoagriculture Partners, an international partnership to promote increased productivity jointly with enhanced natural biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes.
- Frederick R. Snyder
Frederick Snyder is Vice President for Clinical Research Services. For the past 10 years, he has been Project Director of an intramural research support contract providing recruiting, evaluation, enrollment, and retention of research participants for therapeutic and nontherapeutic drug abuse research protocols being conducted by the Division of Intramural Research (DIR) of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
- Gerald F. Combs
GERALD F. COMBS , Jr. , Ph.D. Center Director Dr. Combs was named Center Director, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, in January, 2002. He came to Grand Forks from Ithaca, NY, where he was a Professor of Nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, having been on that faculty since 1975.
- David Rallis
David Rallis David Rallis , MD Dr. Rallis is a board certified, fellowship-trained Radiologist dedicated to state-of-the-art radiological diagnosis and practice. He received his BA from Cornell University in 1983, MS from Georgetown University in 1984, and MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1988. Following Medical School, he completed residencies in Internal Medicine (1991) and Diagnostic Radiology (1995.)
- Neil Goldsman
Neil Goldsman earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University. His recent nanofabrication and devices work has included Numerical Boltzmann/Schrodinger Equations: CAD of Quantum Effects in Nanoscale Semiconductors; and Design and Theory of Carbon Nanotube Diodes. He also recently worked on a MIPS contract with TRX Systems, Inc., of Lanham, Md. , on indoor location and emergency alerting.
- Angel David Nieves
Dr. Angel David Nieves is currently an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is also Co-Director of the Material Culture/Visual Culture (MC/VC) Research Program Area at the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (CRGE) with Dr. Mary Corbin Sies (AMST).
- Herbert J. Vallier
Mr. Vallier has extensive human resource expertise. He served as a human resource executive at Revlon, Inc., from 1998 through 2005, and has held leadership positions in human resources at Harvard University, Central Massachusetts Health Care, Inc., Health America Corporation, Shell Oil Company and as an officer in the United States Air Force. Mr. Vallier received his bachelors degree in personnel and labor relations from the University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
- Michael Hayes
Michael Hayes Director of Fraternity & Sorority Life mhayes6@umd.edu
- Guenter H. Richter
Guenter H. Richter , CHA Chief Operating Officer Guenter Richter's philosophy is simple: realizing that one is only as good as the team, it is important that one surrounds oneself with the best people possible who display a very positive attitude and are committed to service. After his escape from former East Germany and after receiving political asylum in Sweden, Mr. Richter went to former West Germany and Switzerland to pursue his hotel career.
- Daniel G. Forman
Dr. Daniel G. Forman received his Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science from Cornell University in 1983. After spending a year in Graduate School in search of a Master’s Degree in Reproductive Physiology from The University of Maryland, College Park he entered veterinary school at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in 1984.
- Neal A. Shear
Neal Shear is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, Co-Head of Institutional Sales and Trading, and Global Head of the Fixed Income Division. He is a member of the Firm's Management Committee. Mr. Shear joined the Firm in 1982 to start the commodities business, became a Vice President in 1984, a Principle in 1986, and a Managing Director in 1988.
- Jim Dimartino
Jim DiMartino brings over twenty successful years in business to business sales, account management, and merchandising to Resolvit. Jim knows that it takes exceptional customer service to strengthen business relationships and a commitment to excellence to maintain them. Throughout his career Jim has had the good fortune of managing sales at Cornell University, The Greenbrier Hotel, Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, and Toshiba.
- Greg Kidd
Greg Kidd , Senior Program Manager – Blue Ridge Field Office Greg’s interest in environmental protection was cemented during his teenage years when he was introduced to backpacking and the national park system. His first trip was a 30-mile section of the Appalachian Trail spanning Pennsylvania and Maryland. Greg’s active involvement in environmental protection took off during his tenure at the University of Maryland where he earned his B.S. in Zoology.
- Roy A. Barnes
Roy A. Barnes Mr. Barnes is currently responsible for both global strategic management and customer vacation experience strategy for Marriott Vacation Club International (MVCI), the leisure/vacation ownership division of Marriott International. A twenty year veteran of the hospitality business, he has successfully led efforts both within Marriott International and MVCI to improve operations, process management and performance accountability at all organizational levels levels.
- Avis Cohen
Avis Cohen received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1977 after bearing two sons. She held post-doctoral positions at the Carolinska Institute in Sweden, and Washington University in St. Louis before returning to Cornell University where she had her own laboratory studying the organization of the lamprey spinal cord. At Cornell she began a collaboration with mathematicians which continues today.
- Stan Stough
Stan Stough to Email: Stan Stough Stan is a Senior Electrical Engineer. Stan has 38 years experience, 15 with us and 23 with M/E consulting firms. Stan has worked on projects for NIH, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Intelsat, University of Maryland, Federal Bureau of Prisons, University of California - Davis and Berkeley, William and Mary College, Harvard University and the University of Virginia.
- Jim Balthazar
Jim Balthazar , President and CEO Mr. Balthazar is President and CEO of Nuventix and is a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Balthazar has over 29 years of startup business and technical management experience. Prior to establishing Nuventix, Mr. Balthazar served as Vice President of Marketing with Active Power, Inc (ACPW), while it grew from 13 employees through to a successful IPO in 2001.
- Lilian Shiao-Yen Wu
Lilian Shiao-Yen Wu is a member of the Research staff at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. She is also a Director of the International Institute of Forecasters, and is currently serving on the National Research Council's Committee on Women in Science and Technology. Dr. Wu's accomplishments include the development of innovative mathematical models and statistical methods for business forecasting and planning, and the implementation of those methods in business practice.
- Sean Tunis
Sean Tunis MD, MSc Sean Tunis is the Founder and Director of the Center for Medical Technology Policy. Through September of 2005, Dr. Tunis was the Director of the Office of Clinical Standards and Quality and Chief Medical Officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). In this role, he had lead responsibility for clinical policy and quality for the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide health coverage to over 100 million US citizens.
- Rance Cleaveland
Rance Cleaveland is CEO and a co-founder of Reactive Systems, Inc. He is a co-author of the initial version of the company's flagship Reactis product. RSI's technology derives from basic research Dr. Cleaveland performed in the areas of modeling and verification of concurrent systems prior to founding the company. He is currently on leave from his position as Professor of Computer Science at SUNY at Stony Brook, a position he has held since 1998.
- Dori Kelner
Owner of Visual Communications firm with experience in design, business analysis, marketing, data architecture and project management.
- Stephen P. Wright PhD.
I'm currently seeking a position that would involve research, and perhaps also teaching (or similar work) in psychology, social science, statistics, human development, human factors, human-computer interaction (HCI), or a related area. My top strength is creativity, and I'm looking for work that makes use of my talents and background.
- William Destler
- Joan K. Lippincott
Joan K. Lippincott Joan K. Lippincott is the Associate Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), a joint project of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and EDUCAUSE. Joan previously held positions in the libraries of Cornell, Georgetown, George Washington University, and SUNY at Brockport as well as the Research and Policy Analysis Division of the American Council on Education and the National Center for Postsecondary Governance and Finance.
- Roger Longman
Roger Longman , Managing Partner, Windhover Information Inc. Roger Longman is a Managing Partner at Windhover Information Inc. and has been involved with the health care industry for more than 20 years. In 1983, Longman joined The Wilkerson Group as a writer covering the pharmaceutical and biotech industries for IN VIVO: The Business & Medicine Report .
- Michelle Asha Cooper
Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper is the deputy director for the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. Michelle's research focuses on issues related to college access, persistence, alignment of P-16 educational standards, and financial aid, particularly for low- and moderate-income students and racial/ethnic minorities.
- Dennis Martin Devaney
Dennis Martin Devaney was sworn in yesterday as the 77th Commissioner of the United States International Trade Commission (ITC). Devaney, a Republican of Michigan, was appointed by President Clinton on January 3, 2001, for the period expiring at the end of the first session of the 107th Congress. Devaney was of counsel in the Detroit office of Butzel Long and an Associate Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School before his appointment to the ITC.