- Walter Lafeber
Walter LaFeber was a Marie Underhill Noll Professor and a Steven Weisse Presidential Teaching Fellow of History in the Department of History at Cornell University. He is one of the nation’s most distinguished historians of United States Foreign Relations. The son of a grocer, he received his BA from Hanover College in 1955, his MA from Stanford University in 1956 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1959, after which Cornell hired him.
- T. J. Pempel
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.
- 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.
- Thomas E. Fairchild
Thomas Edward Fairchild, was a U.S. federal judge and former politician from Wisconsin. Before his death, he served as a Senior Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Thomas Fairchild was born on Christmas Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His educational background included a B.A. from Cornell University, a law degree from the University of Wisconsin, and additional studies conducted at Princeton University and Deep Springs College in California.
- Charles Kendall Adams
Charles Kendall Adams (1835-1902) was an American educator and historian. He served as the second president of Cornell University from 1885 until 1892, and as president of the University of Wisconsin from 1892 until his death. Born in Derby, Vermont, Adams studied with Andrew Dickson White, Cornell's first president, at the University of Michigan. Adams then taught history at Michigan until his appointment as president of Cornell.
- Fred Buttel
Fred Buttel, (1948-2005) was a professor of rural sociology and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Buttel was previously a professor of rural sociology at Cornell University. He received a Ph.D. in rural sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1975.
- Carl L. Becker
Carl Lotus Becker was an American historian. He was born in Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa. He studied at the University of Wisconsin. Frederick Jackson Turner was his doctoral advisor there. Becker got his Ph.D. in 1907. He was John Wendell Anderson Professor of History in the Department of History at Cornell University from 1917 to 1941. He is best known for "The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers" (1932), …
- Alan G. Merten
Dr. Alan G. Merten President, George Mason University Dr. Merten serves as George Mason University's fifth president. Since he entered into that position in March 1996, George Mason University has gained national and international acclaim for a number of significant initiatives and achievements. Dr. Merten has developed a strong partnership with companies in Northern Virginia Technology, to position GMU as the primary source of a highly qualified and skilled workforce.
- Douglas Little
Douglas Little is an American historian specializing in American diplomatic and twentieth century. He teaches at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he is also the Dean of the College. His published books include "American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945" and "Malevolent Neutrality: The United States, Great Britain and the origins of the Spanish Civil War".
- John C. Sanford
John C. Sanford (born in 1950) is an American applied horticultural geneticist. Sanford graduated in 1976 from the University of Minnesota with a BSc in horticulture. He then went to the University of Wisconsin where he received a MSc in 1978 and a PhD in 1980 on plant breeding and genetics. Between 1980 and 1986 Sanford was an assistant professor at Cornell University, and then from 1986 to 1998 he was an associate professor.
- William Bagley
William Chandler Bagley (born March 15, 1874, in Detroit; died July 1, 1946, in New York City), an American educator and editor, was born in Detroit, USA. He graduated in 1895 from Michigan State College, currently called Michigan State University; completed M.S., in 1898, from the University of Wisconsin, 1898; and was awarded Ph.D. by Cornell University in 1900. He taught in elementary schools before becoming (1908) professor of education at the University of Illinois.
- Franklin Hiram King
Franklin Hiram King (8 June, 1848 - 4 August, 1911) was an American agricultural scientist who was born on a farm near Whitewater, Wisconsin, attended country schools, and received his professional training first at Whitewater State Normal School and then at Cornell University. King served as a professor of agricultural physics at the University of Wisconsin from 1888 until 1902. Interested in a wide range of subjects throughout his career, …
- James D. Thompson
James David Thompson (January 11, 1920 in Indianapolis - September 1, 1973) was an American sociologist. In 1932, Thompson's family moved to Chicago where he went to a public high school. He graduated from Indiana University with a B.A. in business and served in the United States Air Force from 1941 to 1946.
- Daniel Cosío Villegas
Daniel Cosío Villegas was a prominent Mexican economist, essayist, historian and diplomat. Cosío Villegas was born in Mexico City. After studying one year in engineering and two years of philosophy, he received a B.A. in Law from the National University (nowadays UNAM) and took several courses in economics at Harvard, Wisconsin and Cornell.
- Ed Ochester
Edwin Frank Ochester (b. 1939) is an American poet and editor. Born September 15 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, he was educated at Cornell University, Harvard University, and the University of Wisconsin. Currently he is a core faculty member of the Bennington College MFA Writing Seminars. For nearly twenty years Ochester served as director of the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, …
- Holbrook Working
Holbrook Working, a professor of economics and statistics at Stanford University’s Food Research Institute, is known for his contributions on hedging, the theory of futures prices – which anticipated the efficient markets hypothesis, an early theory of market maker behavior, and the theory of storage (including the "Working curve" which plots the difference between short term and long term grain futures prices against current inventory).
- John Socha
John Socha-Leialoha is a software developer best known for creating Norton Commander, a very popular file managing tool for DOS. John grew up in the woods of Wisconsin, earned a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Wisconsin, and his PhD in Applied Physics from Cornell University. He now lives in Seattle with his wife and son.
- Evander Bradley McGilvary
Evander Bradley McGilvary, Ph.D. (1864-1953) was an American philosophical scholar, born in Bangkok to American Presbyterian missionaries, the Rev. Daniel McGilvary and Mrs. Sophia McGilvary. He came to the United States to study, graduating from Davidson College (N.C.) in 1884 and from Princeton University (A.M.) in 1888. In 1891, he returned to northern Thailand to join his parents in the Laos Mission of the Presbyterian Church USA.
- Alice Catherine Evans
Alice Catherine Evans (January 29, 1881-September 5, 1975) was an American microbiologist. She was born in a farm in Neath, Pennsylvania. In 1886 she survived Scarlet Fever, as did her brother Morgan. She attended the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute for a year, then became a teacher. After earning a B.S. in bacteriology from the Cornell University in 1909 and an M.S. University of Wisconsin the following year, she became a researcher at the US Department of Agriculture.
- Charles Edwin Bennett
Charles Edwin Bennett (April 6, 1858-1921) was an American classical scholar and the Goldwin Smith Professor of Latin at Cornell University. He is best remembered for his book "New Latin Grammar", first published in 1895 and still in print today. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Bennett graduated from Brown University in 1878 and also studied at Harvard (1881-1882) and in Germany (1882-1884). He taught in secondary schools in Florida (1878-1879), …
- Harlan James Smith
Harlan James Smith (August 25, 1924-October 17, 1991) was an American astronomer. He was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, the son of Paul and Anna McGregor Smith. While attending Wheeling High School he was named first runner up in the "Westinghouse National Science Talent Search". From 1943 until the end of World War II he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, performing weather observation. Following the war he attended Harvard University, earning a B.A. in 1949.
- Duminda Wijesekera
Dr. Wijesekera was named an Institute Fellow in June 2006. He is an associate professor in the Department of Information and Software Engineering at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. During various times, he has contributed to research in security, multimedia, networks, systems, avionics, and theoretical computer science. Consequently, he draws upon his prior experience in addressing his current research issues.
- Jim Harkness
Jim Harkness President (612) 870-3403 jharkness@iatp.org Harkness joined IATP in July 2006. Previously he served as Executive Director of the World Wildlife Fund in China from 1999-2005, where he expanded the organization
- Mr. Donn Milton
- Alan Merten
- Johannes E. Gehrke
Johannes Gehrke Assistant Professor Johannes Gehrke obtained his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1999, and he has been an assistant professor in CS since then. Johannes's interests are in the areas of data mining, data stream processing, and novel applications of distributed database technology.
- Akbar Sayeed
- Deanna G. P. Byrnes
Deanna G. P. Byrnes, Assistant Professor: Deanna began studying evolutionary biology while earning her B.S. at Cornell University. After working at Abbott Laboratories for six years, she returned to her interests in mammal evolution and tropical ecology to earn her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 2005.
- Marx Holds Ba
Ms. Marx is a co-founder of Legal Insight and heads up the Company's consulting practice. She created the CommonView ℠ , a strategic process for helping firms develop a compelling and differentiated message. The CommonView ℠ process helps build consensus around an organization's key strategic initiatives. Barbara Marx talks about strategic messaging and new technology: Click here
- Andrew Clarke
Andrew also has extensive experience as an entrepreneur. In 1997 he founded ListNet, a real estate listing and advertising service on the Internet. As President and Chief Executive Officer, he managed all aspects of the business including strategy, operations, marketing, sales, and web site development. He developed and authored all versions of the business plan, led efforts to secure venture financing, and negotiated agreements with several major corporations.
- Thomas A. Kochan
Thomas A. Kochan is the George M. Bunker Professor of Management at MIT�s Sloan School of Management. He has done research on a variety of topics related to industrial relations and human resource management in the public and private sector. His recent books include: Working in America, After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry (1997) and The Mutual Gains Enterprise (1994).
- Thomas A. Decotiis
Thomas A. DeCotiis , Ph.D. Founder and Chief Executive Officer Academician and experienced business executive, Dr. Tom DeCotiis is a co-founder of CorVirtus, a company formed in 1985 to provide high-level, specialized consulting distinguished by values-based and vision-directed strategies.
- Todd Brennan
Dr. Todd Brennan Chairman, Chief Technology Officer, and Founder Dr. Brennan brings both an entrepreneurial spirit and deep technical background to his founding role as Chief Technology Officer of Bit9. Previously, Dr. Brennan founded Okena (acquired by Cisco in 2003), where he devised new techniques to defend against emerging computing threats.
- Jerry Liu
Jerry C. Liu , Ph.D. Dr. Liu received his BA from New York University, majoring in Biology and minored in Chemistry and East Asian Studies. He has a MS in Marine Environmental Sciences from the Marine Sciences Research Center at State University of New York at Stony Brook, specializing in Bio-fluid Mechanics, Behavioral Ecology, and Biological Oceanography. He received a Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, specializing in Microbiology and Artificial Intelligence.
- Victor Kord
Victor Kord was born in Romania and is Professor of Painting at Cornell University. His teaching career spans over forty years. He has shown his work extensively throughout the country and internationally since 1967, at such venues as the Kathryn Sermas Gallery; Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY; and the Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT. He has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship.
- Paul Hardin
Paul Sherwood - Facilities Design and Construction, The Ohio State University Paul Sherwood is a Director of Projects at The Ohio State University. He has a B.S. in Architecture from The Ohio State University, a Masters in Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and more than 18 years of experience in design, management, and construction.
- Irvin S.Y. Chen
Dr. Irvin S.Y. Chen received his BA in biology/genetics from Cornell University in 1977, and his PhD in molecular biology from the University of Wisconsin in 1981. At Wisconsin, he trained under Dr. Howard Temin, a 1975 Nobel Laureate for Medicine. Dr. Chen completed his postdoctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin (1981-1982), and at UCLA (1982-1984) with Dr. David Golde.
- Fred Harvey Harrington
Fred Harvey Harrington President, 1962-1970 Fred Harrington was serving as vice president of the university when President Elvehjem died and had just accepted the presidency of the University of Hawaii, but the regents persuaded him to stay at Wisconsin as president, a position he had narrowly missed out on four years earlier. He was inaugurated on October 20, 1962, in a ceremony also celebrating the 100 th anniversary of the Morrill Land-Grant Act.
- John McPeak
John McPeak is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration, with a joint appointment in the Economics department. He joined the faculty in fall of 2002, after completing three years as a post doctoral research associate in northern Kenya with Cornell University and the Pastoral Risk Management Project of Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program.
- Michael Hayes
Michael Hayes Director of Fraternity & Sorority Life mhayes6@umd.edu