- Francis Boyle
Dr. Francis Anthony Boyle, is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School. He also received a Ph. D. in political science from Harvard University. Between 1988 and 1992 Boyle was a member of the board of Amnesty International USA. - Timothy Johnson
Dr. G. Timothy Johnson, frequently called Tim Johnson, is the current main medical editor/contributor for ABC News. He provides on-air medical ABC's "World News Tonight", "Nightline" and "20/20". He also appears on "Good Morning America". Johnson is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital. Johnson received his undergraduate degree from Augustana College, … - Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman , PhD: Dr. Goleman was a co-founder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois at Chicago), with the mission to help schools introduce emotional literacy courses. One mark of the Collaborative—and book’s—impact is that thousands of schools around the world have begun to implement such programs. - David Herbert Donald
David Herbert Donald (b. 1920, Goodman, Mississippi) is a historian of the American Civil War. Donald took his PhD in 1945 under James G. Randall at the University of Illinois. He taught at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins and, from 1973, Harvard University. He also taught at Smith College, the University of North Wales, Princeton University, University College London and served as Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. - Christine Korsgaard
Christine M. Korsgaard (born in 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American philosopher whose main academic interests are in moral philosophy and its history; the relation of issues in moral philosophy to issues in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the theory of personal identity; in the theory of personal relationships; and in normativity in general. She taught at Yale, the University of California at Santa Barbara, … - Sasaki Associates
Sasaki Associates is an architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning firm founded in 1953 by Hideo Sasaki (1919-2000). Sasaki was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Illinois, and Harvard University. He served as chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard from 1958 to 1968. Sasaki Associates has created a wide range of buildings, landscapes, and urban infrastructure. - Bernard Rands
Bernard Rands (b. Sheffield, England, 2 March 1934) is a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in England in 1934, he studied music and English literature at the University of Wales, Bangor. He studied composition and conducting with Pierre Boulez and Bruno Maderna in Darmstadt, Germany, and with Luigi Dallapiccola and Luciano Berio in Milan, Italy. He held residencies at Princeton University, the University of Illinois, … - Jeanne Gang
Jeanne Gang (b. 1964) is the founder and principal of the Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang. As the leader of the design team at Studio Gang, she focuses on materials, technology and sustainability in the innovative and award-winning work of the firm. Gang earned a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Illinois. - Martin A. Lee
Martin A. Lee is an author and activist who has written books and articles on far-right movements, terrorism, media issues and drug politics. Lee has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He has been a guest teacher-in-residence at the University of Illinois, and has lectured at many colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University and the American University in Paris. - Carol Dweck
Carol S. Dweck (born October 17, 1946) is a professor at Stanford University and a social psychologist. She graduated from Barnard College in 1967 and earned a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1972. She taught at Columbia, Harvard University, and the University of Illinois before joining the Stanford faculty in 2004. Her key contribution to social psychology relates to implicit theories of intelligence. - Erika Harold
Erika Harold was Miss America 2003 and was the Miss Illinois 2002. Her platform is "Preventing Youth Violence and Bullying: Protect Yourself, Respect Yourself." Her platform is said to have grown out of personal experience; she claims to have been the subject of racial and sexual harassment while growing up. Erika is of Greek, German and Welsh (father) and Native-American, African-American and Russian (mother) descent. - Gary Urton
Gary Urton is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies at Harvard University. He was previously Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University from 1978 to 2001. Dr. Urton is a specialist in Andean archaeology, particularly the quipu ("khipu") numerical recording system used in the Inca empire in the 15th and 16th centuries. He is the most prominent advocate of the theory that the quipus encode linguistic as well as numerical information. - James Brown Scott
James Brown Scott, J.U.D. was an American authority on international law. Scott was born at Kincardine, Ontario, Canada. He was educated at Harvard University (A.B., 1890; A.M., 1891). As Parker fellow of Harvard he traveled in Europe and studied in Berlin, Heidelberg (J.U.D.), and Paris. Following his return to the United States, he practiced law at Los Angeles, Cal. from 1894 to 1899. He founded the law school at the University of Southern California, and was its dean, … - John Bardeen
John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to have won two Nobel prizes in physics: in 1956 for the transistor, along with William Bradford Shockley and Walter Brattain, and in 1972 for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity together with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer, now called BCS theory. - Wendell Meredith Stanley
Wendell Meredith Stanley (August 16, 1904 - June 15, 1971) was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel prize laureate. He was born in Ridgeville, Indiana, and earned a BS in Chemistry at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. He then studied at the University of Illinois, gaining a MS in science in 1927 followed by a Ph.D. in chemistry two years later. - Jameson Marvin
Jameson Neil Marvin (b. 1941, Glendale CA) is an American choral conductor, arranger, and editor who since 1978 has directed the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum (collectively the Holden Choirs) and taught choral conducting at Harvard University. He studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Stanford, and the University of Illinois, working primarily with Howard Swann and Robert Shaw, … - Avery Craven
Avery Odelle Craven (born August 12, 1885 near Ackworth, Iowa; died January 21, 1980, Chesterton, Indiana) was an historian who specialized in the study of the nineteenth-century United States and the American Civil War. Craven graduated from Simpson College in 1908. He earned an M.A. from Harvard in 1914 and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1923. He taught at Michigan State University and the University of Illinois; in 1927, … - Ken Kramer
Kenneth Bentley (Ken) Kramer is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado. Born February 19, 1942, in Chicago, Kramer grew up in the city's suburb of Skokie, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois, and after earning his degree, entered Harvard University, from which he received his Juris Doctor. In 1966, he was admitted to the bar, and by 1970, … - Frank Baron
Frank Martin Baron (July 7, 1914, Chicago, Illinois - October 17, 1994) served as professor of civil engineering at University of California, Berkeley and held an international reputation as an expert in the fields of bridge and roof-structure design, and seismic and wind analysis. He was twice the recipient of the prized Leon S. Moisseiff Award issued annually by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and among his manifold professional affiliations, … - Evarts Boutell Greene
Evarts Boutell Greene, (1870 - 1947), American historian, born in Kobe, Japan, where his parents were missionaries, graduated Harvard University (B.A., 1890; Ph.D., 1893). He began teaching American history (1894) at the University of Illinois, where he was also (1906-13) dean of the college of arts and literature. - William Keepers Maxwell Jr.
William Keepers Maxwell, Jr (August 16 1908 - 2000) was an American novelist and editor. - Raymond MacDonald Alden
Raymond Macdonald Alden (1873-1924) was an American scholar and educator, born in New Hartford, N. Y. He studied at Rollins College, Fla., and at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1894. He took post-graduate studies there at Penn and at Harvard. - Herbert Reich
Herbert Reich (October 25, 1900, Staten Island - 2000, Massachusetts) was a pioneering figure in electrical engineering. Reich made substantial contributions towards the design of early oscilloscopes as a graduate student at Cornell University. Reich later taught as a Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois (1929-44) and Yale University (1946-69). From 1944 to 1946 he worked at the Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard University with Frederick Terman. - Larry Smarr
Larry Smarr is the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and Harry E. Gruber professor in the Jacobs School's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. Smarr is Principal Investigator on the NSF OptIPuter LambdaGrid project and is Co-PI on the NSF LOOKING ocean observatory prototype. - Coching Chu
Coching Chu (Simplified Chinese: 竺可桢; Traditional Chinese: 竺可楨; pinyin: Zhú Kězhēn; Wade-Giles: Chu K'o-chen) (March 7, 1890 - February 7, 1974), a prominent Chinese meteorologist, geologist and educator. Born in Shangyu, Zhejiang Province, Chu went to USA for further education in 1910. He graduated from College of Agriculture, University of Illinois in 1913. Five years later he received a Ph.D. in meteorology from Harvard University. - M. Cecil Mackey
M. Cecil Mackey (born January 23, 1929) was the president of Texas Tech University from 1976-1979 and Michigan State University from 1979-1985. - 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. - Joanne Berkenkamp
Joanne Berkenkamp JoAnne cares deeply about family farming issues and natural food, and has a great affection for Mississippi Market and what it stands for. When she's not lingering around the bulk bins, she serves as a consultant for a variety of sustainable agriculture non-profits and cooperatives in Minnesota and elsewhere. Joanne served as Board President through 2005, a critical time during which our co-op further refined its plans for a new store. - Jeremy Stoppelman
Jeremy Stoppelman , Co-Founder and CEO, Yelp: Jeremy is Co-Founder and CEO of Yelp. Previously, Jeremy was VP of Technology at PayPal, which was acquired by eBay. Between Yelp and PayPal, Jeremy was a student at Harvard Business School. He elected to put off his last year of business school to start Yelp. Jeremy graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in computer science. - Clare Beckton
Clare Beckton is Coordinator at Status of Women Canada. Ms. Beckton received her LLB and her BA from the University of Saskatchewan and spent an LLM year at the University of Illinois. Clare taught law at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1974 to 1984. In 2005, as a Fulbright Scholar, she obtained an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, with a focus on leadership. - Stacy Vandeveer
Stacy D. VanDeveer is adjunct faculty and an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. He holds a BA in political science from the University of Illinois, Urbana and an MA and PhD in government and politics from the University of Maryland. - Deirdre McCloskey
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Richard H. Clarida | September 2006 Interesting Times - Tonu Kalam
Tonu Kalam Past President Music Director/Conductor, University of North Carolina Symphony Orchestra (NC) Music Director/Conductor, Longview Symphony Orchestra (TX) Tonu Kalam , born of Estonian parents, has lived in the United States since the age of two. - Roger L. Plummer
Mr. Plummer worked for the Bell System for 30 years. His early positions were in engineering before he was transferred to the AT&T headquarters in 1969 for a two-year assignment. After returning to Illinois Bell, Mr. Plummer advanced through positions in engineering, network operations, sales, and marketing to become its operations vice president. In 1987, he was chosen to head a new business venture to place Ameritech in the systems integration business. - Mark Yarnell
Mr. Mark Yarnell has had an extreme influence on my life. His experience and teachings on business ethics, strategies, and leadership have helped mold my thinking and have been passed on to many other inquiring, open-minded individuals. Thank you for having such a positive impact on my life and contributing to my success. I would recommend your thoughts and insights to anyone in the field of business or marketing. - Michael T. Flavin
Michael T. Flavin is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of Advanced Life Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of new drugs to fight infection, inflammation, and cancer. He previously founded MediChem Life Sciences, where he led the completion of a $35 million private placement and the acquisition and integration of two companies as MediChem subsidiaries. - Catherine Yi-Yu Cho Woo
Dr. Woo has lived a life as a bridge between Chinese and American culture, so her support for the AAA-Fund is just another example of her generosity and concern for future generations. She and her husband Peter Woo have been blessed with four children and six grandchildren. They live in San Diego and travel the nation and the world in search of greater understanding and harmony between all of the world's peoples. - Bill Allen
BILL ALLEN served 25 years as a journalist before joining the University of Missouri faculty in 2004. A specialist in science, environment and medical reporting, he leads the agricultural journalism program at MU. He was senior investigative reporter/medical at the Louisville Courier-Journal in 2003-04 and a science, environment and medical reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1989-2002. - Josh Zender
Josh Zender , MPA, CIA Josh Zender specializes in consulting and assurance services for state and local governments. Prior to joining the Center for Government, he served as a Performance Auditor within the County of San Diego’s Auditor and Controller Department and was involved in a wide array of process improvement studies which sought to evaluate programs’ efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance with laws and regulations.
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