- Nils Hasselmo
Nils Hasselmo was the thirteenth president of the University of Minnesota, serving from 1988 to 1997. He went on to become the president of the Association of American Universities from 1998 to 2006. Nils Hasselmo was born in Köla, Sweden. He completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in Scandinavian languages and literature at Uppsala University, and did his military service in the Royal Signal Corps, including officer's training. - Winona Laduke
Winona LaDuke , 37 years old, lives on the White Earth Chippewa Reservation in Northern Minnesota with her two children. LaDuke began working on Indian issues at a young age and spoke before the United Nations when just 18 years old. - Herbert Feigl
Herbert Feigl (December 14, 1902 - June 1, 1988) was an Austrian philosopher and a member of the Vienna Circle. The son of a weaver, Feigl was born in Reichenberg (Liberec), Bohemia, and matriculated at the University of Vienna in 1922. He studied physics and philosophy under Moritz Schlick, the founder of the Vienna Circle, … - Thomas J. Sargent
Thomas J. Sargent is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a leader in the field of macroeconomics. He also is the William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University and the Donald L. Lucas Professor in Economics, Emeritus, at Stanford University. A professor of economics at the University of Minnesota from 1975 to 1987, when he joined the Hoover staff, he was also the David Rockefeller Professor at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 1998. - Ron Kind
Ronald James Kind (born March 16 1963) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He has served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997, representing. Kind is a native of La Crosse, Wisconsin. He was first elected in the 3rd Congressional District of Wisconsin (map) in November 1996. He currently serves on the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means. His other (non-committee) titles are the Democratic Chief Deputy Whip, … - Lewis Hyde
Lewis Hyde , a MacArthur fellow, is a writer, editor, translator, and poet. His numerous books include "The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, "an investigation into art and the economies of gift exchange, and "Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art," which explores the "trickster" character who appears in the traditions and myths of many cultures. Recently, he edited "The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau ," and is currently researching "the cultural commons." - Patricia Schroeder
Patricia Nell Scott Schroeder, popularly known as Pat Schroeder (born July 30, 1940), American politician, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado, serving from 1973 to 1997. She was the first woman elected to congress from Colorado. - William Lipscomb
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. (born December 9, 1919) is an American inorganic chemist, working in experimental and theoretical chemistry and biochemistry. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but his family moved to Lexington, Kentucky when he was an infant, and he lived there until he received his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Kentucky in 1941. He went on to earn his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1946. - Jack Dangermond
Jack Dangermond is the co-founder and president of ESRI, a privately-held Geographic Information Systems software company that is headquartered in Redlands, California. In 1969, he co-founded ESRI with his wife, Laura. Originally, the company concentrated on land use analysis, but increasingly focused on developing GIS software. ESRI became a leader in the GIS industry during the 1980s and continues to dominate. - Sandra Scarr
Sandra Wood Scarr (born August 1936) is an American psychology professor. Born in Maryland, her family followed her father, who was stationed at the United States Army's largest chemical weapon facility through much of her childhood. Scarr earned her Ph.D. in psychology in 1965 from Harvard University, where she majored in behavior genetics. Though she initially had a difficult time finding a job because she had a child, she eventually taught at the University of Maryland, … - Pitirim Sorokin
Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin was a Russian-American sociologist. Academic and political activist in Russia, he immigrated from Russia to the United States in 1923. He founded the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Like C. W. Mills, he was a vocal opponent of Talcott Parsons' theories. He is best known for his contributions to the social cycle theory. - Christopher A. Sims
Christopher A. Sims (born October 21, 1942) is an econometrician and applied macroeconomist. He is currently the Harold B. Helms Professor of Economics and Banking at Princeton University. Sims earned his Ph.D. in Economics in 1968 at Harvard University. He held teaching positions at Harvard, University of Minnesota, Yale University and, since 1999, Princeton. - Yum-Tong Siu
Yum-Tong Siu (born May 6, 1943 in Guangzhou, China) is the William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. Dr. Siu has been the dominant figure in the mathematics of several complex variables, for a quarter-century. He has mastered techniques at the interfaces between complex variables, differential geometry, and algebraic geometry. - Karl Lashley
Karl S. Lashley, born in Davis, West Virginia, was an American psychologist and behaviorist well-remembered for his influential contributions to the study of learning and memory. His failure to find a single biological locus of memory (or "engram", as he called it) suggested to him that memories were not localized to one part of the brain, but were widely distributed throughout the cortex. While working toward his Ph.D. in genetics at Johns Hopkins University, … - Jeffrey Davidow
Jeffrey Davidow (born January 26, 1944) is a career ambassador from the U.S. state of Virginia. Davidow has served as a member of the Senior Foreign Service, as well as having been the U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Venezuela, and Mexico. Upon completion of 34 years of service, he retired as America's highest ranking diplomat, one of only three people to hold the personal rank of Career Ambassador. Davidow was born in Boston, Massachusetts. - John Hasbrouck van Vleck
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (March 13, 1899 - October 27, 1980) was an American physicist. Born in Middletown, Connecticut the son of mathematician Edward Burr Van Vleck and grandson of astronomer John Monroe Van Vleck, he grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, and went to Harvard for college and graduate school. He joined the University of Minnesota as an assistant professor in 1923, then moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison before settling at Harvard. - Mehmet Toner
Mehmet Toner is Professor of Surgery (Biomedical Engineering) at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and is the founding director of the NIH BioMEMS Resource Center. Dr. Toner was born in Istanbul, Turkey in July 1958. Dr. Toner received a Bachelor of Science degree from Istanbul Technical University in 1983 and an M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1985, both in Mechanical Engineering. - Immanuel C.Y. Hsu
Immanuel Chung-Yueh Hsu (徐中約) was a sinologist, a scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history, and an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Born in Shanghai in 1923, he studied at Yenching University in Beijing, and at the University of Minnesota. He held a Harvard-Yenching Fellowship at Harvard University from 1950 to 1954. - Melvin Hochster
Melvin Hochster is an eminent American mathematician, regarded as one of the leading commutative algebraists active today. He is currently the Jack E. McLaughlin Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. Hochster attended Stuyvesant High School, where he was captain of the Math Team, and received a B.A. from Harvard University. While at Harvard, he was a Putnam Fellow in 1960. He earned his Ph.D. in 1967 from Princeton University, … - Frank C. Whitmore
Frank C. Whitmore (1887-1947), nicknamed "Rocky", was a prominent chemist who submitted significant evidence for the existence of carbocation mechanisms in organic chemistry. Frank C. Whitmore, who published as F.C. Whitmore, was born in 1887 in the town of North Attleborough, Massachusetts. Whitmore earned both his bachelor's degree (1911) and Ph.D. (1914) from Harvard University, where his Ph.D. advisor was Charles Loring Jackson. - Edward Downes
Edward Downes (August 12, 1911 - December 26, 2001) was an American musicologist, music critic, and quizmaster. Born in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, the son of Olin Downes, at one time chief music critic of "The New York Times", Downes was educated at Columbia University and the Manhattan School of Music and received a Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard University in 1958. He taught at Wellesley College, the Longy School of Music, … - Paul Vojta
Paul Vojta is an American mathematician, known for his work in number theory on diophantine geometry and diophantine approximation. In formulating a number of striking conjectures, he pointed out the possible existence of parallels between the Nevanlinna theory of complex analysis, and diophantine analysis. This was a novel contribution to the circle of ideas around the Mordell conjecture and abc conjecture, … - Alden W. Clausen
Alden Winship Clausen is a former President of the World Bank. He was born in Hamilton, Illinois to a family of German ancestry and graduated from Carthage College in 1944 with a BA, again in 1970 with a LLD, from the University of Minnesota in 1949 with a LLB and from Harvard University’s Advanced Management Program in 1966. Clausen was certified to practice law after graduating from the University of Minnesota, but instead he got a job at the BankAmerica in Los Angeles, … - Carl Graffunder
Carl Graffunder (born March 23, 1919) is a mid-century modernist architect whose influence from European modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright and Antonin Raymond manifested in many residential and commercial structures mostly in Minnesota. He was born in Rock Island, Illinois and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota. He received his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Minnesota in 1942 and Master of Architecture from Harvard University in 1948. - George Edward Akerson
George Edward Akerson (September 5, 1889 - 1937) was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Akerson attended the University of Minnesota, taking classes in Science, Literature and Art. After leaving there, he received a job at the Minneapolis Tribune. In 1910 Akerson started at Harvard University, later receiving a BA in Political Science in 1912. Akerson married Harriet Blake, a Wellesley College graduate, on June 28, 1915. - Julius Duscha
Julius "Jules" Duscha (born November 4, 1924) is an American journalist. He attended University of Minnesota and began his career in 1943 at the "St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch". Duscha moved to Washington, DC in 1947 and worked for "Congressional Quarterly", the Democratic National Committee, Labor's League for Political Education of the old American Federation of Labor and "The Machinist", … - John Elof Boodin
John Elof Boodin (November 14, 1869- November 14, 1950) was a Swedish-born American idealist and systematic philosopher. He was born in Pjetteryd, and died in Los Angeles, California. He was educated at the University of Colorado and University of Minnesota. He was influenced by the psychologist J. R. Angell, William James, and Josiah Royce. He studied philosophy at Brown University, under James Seth, before doctoral work at Harvard University, which he completed in 1899. - Thomas Middleton Raysor
Thomas Middleton Raysor (March 9, 1895-September 8, 1974) was an American literary scholar. He was born at Chapel Hill, Texas. He received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1917, joining the Army in 1918, and a Ph.D. in 1922. In Europe for a year, he studied S. T. Coleridge, returning to a position at the University of Minnesota. Then at the State College of Washington, he held a Guggenheim Fellowship. - Prakash Puram
Prakash has 22 years of management experience in the consumer and high-tech industries. Most recently he was GM of the Consumer and Retail Markets Software Business at Net Perceptions. Prior to that, he was Director of Worldwide Strategy and Business Development for Honeywell's Home & Building Controls division. - Paul A. Renne
Paul A. Renne is senior counsel to the Cooley Godward Kronish Litigation department and is the Firm's general counsel. Resident in the San Francisco office, he has been with the Firm since 1964. Mr. Renne’s practice is primarily related to litigating complex business disputes, with special emphasis on securities litigation, accountants' malpractice, trade secrets and intellectual property matters. - Jeffrey Legro
Jeffrey W. Legro is Compton Professor of World Politics and Chair. He is Co-director of the Governing America in a Global Era Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. A specialist on international relations, Legro has served as a consultant to foundations, think tanks, publishers, and government agencies. - Michael Chernew
Michael Chernew , Ph.D. Michael Chernew , Ph.D., is a professor at the University of Michigan in the Departments of Health Management and Policy, Internal Medicine, and Economics, where his research focuses on assessing the impact of managed care on the health care marketplace. In particular, he examines the impact of managed care on health care cost growth and on the use of medical technology. - Paul Sussman
Paul Sussman Treasurer Prior to becoming the Chief Financial Officer of TNDC, Paul Sussman worked for five years as a financial management and business planning consultant to nonprofit organizations, and as a program consultant for several foundations. He was the founding president of the Northern California Community Loan Fund, which he directed for 11 years until 1998. - Shelley Redford Young
Dr. Young, a great, great grandson of Brigham Young, has become widely recognized within the past decade, as a top cellular research scientist. Throughout his career, his studies have been focused at the cellular level, with a specialty in nutrition. His research and findings have been published in noted journals. The Youngs have written several books including Sick and Tired, Back to the House of Health Cook Book I and II, The pH Miracle, The pH Miracle for Diabetes and others. - Ken Holec
Ken has extensive experience in enterprise software strategy, marketing, sales, organizational development, financing and multinational operations. Mr. Holec is also currently Chairman of Revation Systems, and has prior Board of Director experience with other software companies including SPSS (SPSS) and Stellent (STEL). He holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Minnesota and is an OPM graduate of Harvard University. - I. Steven Udvarhelyi
Dr. Udvarhelyi has over ten years of experience in the managed care industry, and has been on the forefront of quality of care issues. Before joining Independence Blue Cross in 1996, Dr. Udvarhelyi worked for Prudential Health Care as National Medical Director, and later as Vice President of Operations for the Prudential's four health care plans in Florida. Prior to his managed care experience, Dr. Udvarhelyi served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. - Roger Parkinson
Roger Parkinson Chairman Roger Parkinson has been Chairman of the University of Toronto Press since 2001 and a member of the Board since 1998. He spent his career in the newspaper business. Most recently he spent eight years at the Globe and Mail, as Publisher and CEO from 1994 to 1999 and as Chairman from 1998 to 2001. From 2000 to 2002, he also served as President of the World Association of Newspapers. - Bf Skinner
I am one of the pioneering contributors to the field of behavioral psychology. - Julien Lafleur
Julien Lafleur - Development Manager (508) 653-8400 x224 - jlafleur@supportgroup.com Julien Lafleur specializes in high-end systems and training. His clients include Hewlett Packard, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and OxFam America. Julien has also instructed at Cornell, Harvard, the University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota teaching database development using FileMaker Pro. - Lonnie King
Lonnie King , DVM Acting Director, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases Lonnie King , DVM, is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s senior veterinarian and the director of the newly formed National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases (ZVED). Before the establishment of NCZVED, Dr. King served as CDC’s first director of the Office of Strategy and Innovation.
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