- Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White (November 7 1832 - November 4 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, author, and educator, best known as the co-founder of Cornell University. White was born in Homer, New York. After spending one year at Hobart College (then known as Geneva College), he transferred to Yale University. At Yale, he was a classmate of Daniel Coit Gilman, who would later serve as first president of Johns Hopkins University. The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, … - Frank H.T. Rhodes
Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes (b. 1926) was the ninth president of Cornell University from 1977 to 1995. Rhodes was born in Warwickshire, England on October 29, 1926. He attended the University of Birmingham, graduating in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He also holds three other degrees from Birmingham, including a Doctor of Philosophy. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois in 1950, which he held for a year. - Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. Born in South Haven, Michigan, he was educated and taught at the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) before moving to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he was director of the College of Agriculture. He edited "The Cyclopedia of American Agriculture" (1907-09), … - Jeffrey Sean Lehman
Jeffrey S. Lehman was appointed Cornell University's eleventh president by the Board of Trustees at a special meeting held on campus Saturday, Dec. 14, 2002, and he assumed the presidency on July 1, 2003. He was the first Cornell alumnus to serve as president of the university. In his inaugural address, Lehman characterized Cornell as a blend of beloved and revolutionary elements. - Steven Stucky
Steven Stucky (born November 7, 1949 Hutchinson, Kansas) is an American composer. He has written commissioned works for many of the major American orchestras, including Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Philadelphia, and St. Louis. He is Professor of music composition at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Consulting Composer for the Los Angeles Philharmonic (where he has been the resident composer since 1988, … - Theodore J. Lowi
Theodore J. Lowi is the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions in the Government Department at Cornell University. His area of research is the American government and public policy. Lowi obtained a BA from Michigan State University in 1954, and an M.A. and PhD from Yale University in 1955 and 1961, respectively. He is a past President of the American Political Science Association and was voted one of the most influential political scholars of the modern era. - Donald Kuspit
Donald Kuspit is an American art critic, poet, and professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts. He was formerly the A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University (1991-1997). He received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1983 (given by the College Art Association). - Daryl Bem
Daryl J. Bem is a social psychologist at Cornell University, and the originator of the self-perception theory of attitude change. Bem received a B.A. from Reed College in physics in 1960. He later dropped out of graduate study in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pursue social psychology. He later earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1964. He has also carried out research on psi phenomena (a technical term for "E.S.P."), … - Kathleen Sullivan
Kathleen Marie Sullivan (born August 20, 1955), one of America's leading scholars in constitutional law, is a professor at the Stanford Law School and currently practices appellate litigation at Quinn Emanuel Urquart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, a law firm in California. Born in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, Sullivan was the dean of Stanford Law School from 1999 to 2004. She was a professor of law at Harvard Law School from 1984 to 1993. - 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, … - Peter Ludlow
Peter Ludlow (January 16, 1957), who also writes under the name Urizenus Sklar, is a professor of philosophy and linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before moving to Michigan, Ludlow taught for several years at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and was Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University and Cornell University. His research areas include the conceptual issues in cyberspace, … - Ali Mazrui
Ali Alamin Mazrui (born February 24 1933 in Mombasa, Kenya) is an academic and political writer on African and Islamic studies. His views are broadly similar to many other Anglophile Muslims such as India's Syed Ali Khan. Mazrui obtained his B.A. with Distinction from Manchester University in Great Britain, his M.A. from Columbia University in New York, and his doctorate from Oxford University. - Robert Connelly
Robert (Bob) Connelly is a mathematician specializing in discrete geometry and rigidity theory. He is best known for discovering embedded flexible polyhedra. One such polyhedron is in the National Museum of American History. Connelly received his Ph.D. from University of Michigan in 1970. He is currently a professor at Cornell University. His recent interests include tensegrities and carpenter's ruler problem. - 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. - David K. Wyatt
David K. Wyatt (September 21 1937 - November 15 2006) was a highly acclaimed American historian, working on Southeast Asian topics, especially Thailand. His book "Thailand. A Short History" has become the authority on Thai history in the English language. Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1937, he grew up in Iowa. Wyatt studied philosophy at Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1959. - Marilyn Frye
Marilyn Frye (born 1941) is a philosophy professor and feminist theorist. She earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1969 and has taught feminist philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of language at Michigan State University since 1974. Frye also serves Michigan State University as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters. Frye is openly lesbian, and much of her work explores social categories -- in particular, those based on race and gender. - Harry T. Edwards
Harry T. Edwards (born 1940) is a federal appellate judge in the United States. Judge Edwards graduated from Cornell University in 1962, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He graduated from University of Michigan Law School in 1965. He practiced law in Chicago for the firm of Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson from 1965 to 1970. He then taught at the University of Michigan Law School from 1970 to 1975 and again from 1977 to 1980. - Charles F. van Loan
Professor Charles Francis Van Loan, with the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University since 1975 (and chair from 1999 to 2005), is known for his enthusiasm for teaching and for his expertise in numerical analysis, especially matrix computations. He attended the University of Michigan, where he obtained his B.S. (1969), M.A. (1970), and Ph.D (1973), all in mathematics (with the B.S. in applied mathematics). - Moses Coit Tyler
Moses Coit Tyler (August 2, 1835 - December 28, 1900), American author, was born in Griswold, Connecticut. At an early age he removed with his parents to Detroit, Michigan. He entered the University of Michigan in 1853, but in the next year went to Yale College, where he was a member of Skull & Bones and from which he graduated AB in 1857, and received the degree of A.M. in 1863. - George Miksch Sutton
George Miksch Sutton (1898 - 1982) was an American ornithologist and bird artist. He published numerous technical papers in ornithology as well as more popular works illustrated with his own art. His early artistic work was inspired and tutored by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. In 1931, he was the first ornithologist to find the eggs of the Harris's Sparrow, one of the last North American birds to have its nest and eggs described. - Michael Schwerner
Michael Schwerner, called Mickey by friends and colleagues, was a CORE field worker killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by the Ku Klux Klan in response to the civil-rights work he coordinated, which included promoting registration to vote among Mississippi African Americans. Born and raised in New York, he attended Michigan State University, originally intending to become a veterinarian. He transferred to Cornell University, however, and switched his major to sociology, … - Douglas J. Futuyma
Douglas Joel Futuyma (born 1942, New York City) is an American biologist. Futuyma graduated with a B.S. from Cornell University, and took his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the interaction between plant-eating insects and the plants themselves. He was Lawrence B. Slobodkin Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, … - Andrew Hacker
Andrew Hacker (born 1929) is an American political scientist and public intellectual. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Queens College in New York. He did his undergraduate work at Amherst College. This was followed by graduate work at Oxford University, University of Michigan, and Princeton University where he received his Ph. D. degree. Hacker taught at Cornell before taking his current position at Queens. - John Frow
John Frow (born 1948) is an Australian professor and Chair of English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne. He was educated at Wagga High School and the Australian National University, and has lived and worked in South America in 1970 and 1971 and then did graduate studies from 1971 to 1975 in the Comparative Literature Program at Cornell University, including a year at the University of Heidelberg. - 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. - James Ingo Freed
James Ingo Freed (June 23, 1930-December 15, 2005) was an American architect born in Essen, Germany during the Weimar Republic. His family, which was Jewish, fled to the United States when he was 9 to escape the regime of Nazi Germany. In 1953 Freed received an architectural degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He then worked in Chicago and New York, including work with Mies van der Rohe. - 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. - Walter Feit
Walter Feit (October 261930 - July 292004) was a mathematician who worked in finite group theory and representation theory. He was born in Vienna and left for England in 1939. He moved to the United States in 1946 where he became an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. He did his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, and became a professor at Cornell in 1952, and at Yale in 1964. His most famous result is his joint, with John G. Thompson, … - Leonie Brinkema
Leonie M. Brinkema (born 1944, in Teaneck, New Jersey) is a United States District Court judge, in the Eastern District of Virginia. From Dutch descent, judge Brinkema received her B.A. from Douglass College in 1966 and undertook graduate studies in philosophy at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1966) and New York University (1967-1969). She earned her M.L.S. at Rutgers University in 1970 and her J.D. at Cornell University in 1976. - James Burrill Angell
James Burrill Angell (born January 7, 1829 near Scituate, Rhode Island-died April 1, 1916, Ann Arbor, Michigan) was president of the University of Michigan (1871-1909). He was the longest-serving president of Michigan, and under his leadership Michigan gained prominence as an elite public university. - Jeremiah Jenks
Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, Ph.D., LL.D. (1856-1929) was an American economist and educator, born at St. Clair, Mich. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1878, studied for several years in Germany, taking his doctorate from the University of Halle in 1885, and after his return to the United States, studied law and was admitted to the bar. He held professorships at both Cornell University (1891-1912) and New York University (1912 onward). - Charles Collingwood
Charles Collingwood was a pioneering CBS television newscaster. Born in Three Rivers, Michigan, Collingwood graduated from Deep Springs College and Cornell University and in 1939 received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. Collingwood was a protege of Edward R. Murrow during the Second World War and quickly became known as an unusually urbane and spontaneously eloquent on-air journalist. - Divakar Viswanath
Divakar Viswanath is a mathematician who discovered Viswanath's constant in 1999. At the time, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California. Before that, he conducted research under L. Trefethen at Cornell University. He is now an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan. - Louis Charles Karpinski
Louis Charles Karpinski was an American mathematician born in Rochester, New York, and educated at Cornell University and in Europe at Strassburg. He also studied (1909–1910) at Columbia, where he was a fellow and a university extension lecturer. He taught at Berea and at Oswego, New York at the Normal School there, then accepted a position at Michigan where in 1919 he became full professor of mathematics. Dr. - Edward Litchfield
Edward Harold Litchfield (1914-1968) was the twelfth Chancellor (1956-1965) of the University of Pittsburgh. He is best known for a major expansion of the university, but also a failure to raise sufficient capital to fund such growth, eventually leading to his resignation in July 1965. He earned the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. He taught political science at Brown University for a year, … - Dave Dombrowski
David Dombrowski (born July 27, 1956) is the current president, CEO, and general manager of the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball. - Edwin B. Hart
Edwin B. Hart (1874-1953) was an American biochemist. A native of Michigan, Hart studied physiological chemistry under Albrecht Kossel (1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) in Germany, and also studied at the University of Marzburg and University of Heidelberg. Upon his return to the United States, he worked at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (Part of Cornell University) in Geneva, … - Eric Lenneberg
Eric Heinz Lenneberg was a linguist who pioneered ideas on language acquisition and cognitive psychology, particularly in terms of the concept of innateness. He was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. An ethnic Jew, he left Nazi Germany because of rising Nazi persecution. He initially fled to Brazil with his family and then to the United States where he attended the University of Chicago and Harvard University. - Frank Angell
Frank Angell was a prominent early American psychologist. The nephew of University of Vermont and University of Michigan president, James Burris Angell and cousin of University of Chicago psychologist and Yale University president James Rowland Angell, Frank Angell earn his PhD in the Leipzig laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt. He then founded the experimental psychology laboratories at Cornell University (1891) and Stanford University (1892). - Wilbur Cortez Abbott
Wilbur Cortez Abbott (1869-1947) was an American historian and educator, born at Kokomo, Ind., and graduated from Wabash College in 1892. Afterward, he studied at Cornell University (1892-95 and at Oxford in 1897 where he received the degree of B. Litt. In the United States, he worked at various institutions of higher learning (Cornell, University of Michigan, Dartmouth, University of Kansas, Yale).
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