- Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American socialist organizer, professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Davis's main association however, was her membership in the Communist Party USA. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, …
- Dr. Charles E. Smith
Dr. Charles E. Smith was a former is a professor and Chair in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Mississippi. His focus research areas included: application of electromagnetic theory to microwave circuits, application of numerical techniques to microstrip transmission lines, antenna measurements in lossy media, measurement of electrical properties of materials, and radar design.
- Patrick Herron
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- Stephen Crabb
Stephen Crabb (born January 20, 1973) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Preseli Pembrokeshire. Stephen Crabb was born in Inverness and brought up in council housing in Pembrokeshire. He was educated at the Tasker Milward School in Haverfordwest. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science at the University of Bristol and a Master of Business Administration from the London Business School.
- Hugh Nibley
Hugh Winder Nibley (born March 27, 1910 in Portland, Oregon - died February 24, 2005) was one of Mormonism's most celebrated scholars. Nibley is notable for his extensive research and publication on ancient languages and culture, his vigorous defense of doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and for frankly discussing what he saw as the shortcomings of the LDS people and culture.
- John Brignell
John Brignell, Ph.D., is a retired Professor of Industrial Instrumentation who has a part-time interest in debunking the use of what he sees as poor science and false statistics in media. John Brignell was educated at Stationers' Company's School and began his career as an apprentice at STC. He studied at Northampton Engineering College (which became the City University, London) and took the degrees of BSc(Eng) and PhD of the University of London.
- Wilbur J. Cohen
Wilbur Joseph Cohen (June 10, 1913-May 17, 1987), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was an American social scientist and politician. He was one of the key architects in the creation and expansion of the American welfare state and was involved in the creation of both the New Deal and Great Society programs. Wilbur Cohen was known by several nicknames. He was once dubbed "The Man Who Built Medicare" and John F. Kennedy tagged him "Mr.
- Joseph Wu
Joseph Wu (born 1954) is currently the chief representative of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the United States as the head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Washington, D.C.. He was appointed to that position in mid-April 2007 by President Chen Shui-bian to succeed his predecessor, David Lee.
- Carroll Quigley
Carroll Quigley (November 9, 1910 - January 3, 1977) was a noted historian, polymath, and theorist of the evolution of civilizations. His books on the Anglo-American elite found a wide readership outside of academic circles.
- David M. Brienza
Dr. David M. Brienza is currently a Professor within the Department of Bioengineering and the School of Health and Rehab Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also the Director for the Center of Telerehabilitation in the Rehabilitation Engineering Research and is an Associate Professor for the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
- Ruth Gruber
Ruth Gruber (born September 30, 1911) is an American journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian and a former United States government official.
- 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.
- Jean Gottmann
(Iona) Jean Gottmann (October 10, 1915 - February 28, 1994) was a French geographer who was most widely known for coining the term megalopolis to describe the condition of the Boston-Washington corridor. His main contributions to human geography were in the sub-fields of urban, political, economic, historical and regional geography. His regional specializations ranged from France and the Mediterranean to the United States, Israel and Japan.
- Jillian Evans
Jillian "Jill" Evans (born May 8, 1959, Rhondda Cynon Taff) is a Welsh politician, MEP for Plaid Cymru (in the Greens/EFA party group) and chairs CND Wales.
- Joseph Henabery
Joseph Henabery (15 January 1888) Omaha, Nebraska, was a US film actor and director. Henabery's acting career began in "The Joke on Yellentown" (1914). Henabery appeared in the D.W. Griffith directed silent film classic "Birth of a Nation" (1915) as Abraham Lincoln. From 1914 to 1917 he appeared in seventeen films. Throughout the rest of his career he worked as a director. Henabery died (18 February 1976) in Los Angeles California.
- Sergio Troncoso
Sergio Troncoso received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Mexico City where he studied Mexico and Latin America. Later he mixed studying philosophy with working as a labor economist. Now he writes and teaches fiction writing. He is a member of the board of directors of the Hudson Valley Writers' Center.
- Jeff Krulik
"Jeff Krulik" is a director of independent films and a former Discovery Channel producer. Krulik's works explore the fringes of popular culture from an enthusiastic and appreciative point of view. With warmth and humor, he crafts cinema verite portraits of super-fans, quasi-celebrities and ordinary folk in extraordinary times.
- Dean W. Colvard
Dean Wallace Colvard is a former president of the Mississippi State University, notable for his role in a 1963 controversy surrounding the integration of that school's athletic teams. Born in North Carolina, Colvard received his B.A. Degree from Berea College, and followed that up by getting his M.A. Degree from the University of Missouri. He then went to Purdue University and received his Ph. D. in science and mathematics. Colvard attended college for a total of 19 years, …
- Alev Alatlı
Alev Alatlı, born in 1944 in Menemen, İzmir, is a Turkish writer. After graduation from the American School in Tokyo, Japan, she was educated in economics and statistics at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara (1963). Alatlı received her Master's degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA in 1965, and a degree for post-master studies in philosophy from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA in 1968.
- Gerty Cori
Dr. Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz was an American biochemist born in Prague (then Austria-Hungary) who, together with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen (animal starch) - a derivative of glucose - is broken down and resynthesized in the body, for use as a store and source of energy.
- Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee
- Edmund Muskie
Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie (March 28, 1914 - March 26, 1996) was an American Democratic politician from Maine. He served as Governor of Maine, a U.S. Senator, as U.S. Secretary of State, and ran as a candidate for Vice President of the United States.
- Natalia Kasperskaya
Natalya Kaspersky graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering in 1989 with a degree in applied mathematics. After graduation she worked as a research assistant at the Central Scientific Design Office. In 1994 Natalya started working at KAMI Information Technologies Center where she was involved in managing an antivirus project, AVP (in 2000 AVP was renamed Kaspersky Anti-Virus).
- Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and particle theory. For his work on quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, …
- Igor Kurchatov
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (Russian: И́горь Васи́льевич Курча́тов was a Soviet/Russian physicist. He was the leader of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Kurchatov was born in "Simsky zavod", Ufa Guberniya (now city of "Sim", Chelyabinsk Oblast). After completing Simferopol gymnasium №1 he studied physics at Crimea State University and ship building at the Polytechnical Institute in Petrograd.
- Donald L. Ritter
Donald Lawrence Ritter 's technical background and fluent Russian placed him in a unique category among fellow politicians during his tenure as a U.S. Congressman. He was appointed to a number of committees on technology and became a leading proponent of improving relations with Afghanistan. Ritter was born in New York City on October 21, 1940. He attended public schools in the Bronx and came to Lehigh following high school.
- Marye Anne Fox
Marye Anne Fox was named the seventh Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry of the University of California, San Diego in April 2004 by the University of California Board of Regents. Previously, Fox was chancellor and distinguished university professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University, a post she held since 1998.
- George Wald
George Wald(November 18, 1906 - April 12, 1997) was an American scientist who is best known for his work with pigments in the retina. He won a share of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit.
- Hirotaka Takeuchi
Hirotaka Takeuchi is dean of the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and was a visiting professor at Harvard Business School in 1989 and 1990. Hirotaka holds an MBA and PhD from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Naomi Carrard
Naomi Carrard worked as Research Assistant at the Australian Mekong Research Centre betwen May 2004 and June 2006. In that time Naomi worked full-time on the Australian Water Research Facility 'Water Governance in Context' project and part time on the Danida 'National Interests and Transboundary Water Governance' project. Naomi has a Bachelor of Liberal Studies (first class honours) from the University of Sydney with majors in Geography and History.
- Mandi Bird
Mandi Bird, a native of White Cloud, Michigan, became the Hauenstein Center's event planner in June 2007 after serving as a research assistant in 2006. She earned both her Bachelor of Science in exercise science and her Master's of Public Administration from Grand Valley State University. As a Hauenstein Center Leadership Fellow, Mandi has studied George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind and his capacity to lead.
- Garth Wiens
Garth Wiens is a member of the Policy Design Initiative. He is a research assistant working on field experiments in public and health care economics, employing the insights of behavioral science and psychology to tailor programs or policies to people�s actual, rather than idealized, decision-making processes.
- Takeshi Sasaki
Takeshi Sasaki Outside Director, ORIX Corporation Professor, Gakushuin University, Faculty of Law, Department of Political Studies Outside Director, East Japan Railway Company Outside Director, TOSHIBA Corporation
- Dawson Nolley
- Delia Bucknell
Delia Delia Bucknell , Research Assistant Delia joined the George Morris Centre in October 2006. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Rural Extension Studies at the University of Guelph , and an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, UK. Delia's primary role at the Centre is collecting, analyzing and organizing economic data and conducting literature reviews for a variety of research projects.
- Vanessa Potkin
Vanessa Potkin Staff Attorney Vanessa joined the Innocence Project in 2000 as its first Staff Attorney. She litigates in state and federal courts nationwide on behalf of convicted people seeking DNA testing to prove their innocence. As an adjunct professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, she assists in teaching and supervising students of the legal clinic.
- Kirsi Özgönül
- Sharon P. McKechnie
Sharon P. McKechnie , Ph.D. Senior Research Associate Sharon is an Assistant Professor in the Management and Economics Department of Emmanuel College in Boston . She began working as a research assistant at the Center for Work and Family while completing her doctorate in Organization Studies at the Carroll School of Management in Boston College .
- Sheila P. Burke
Sheila P. Burke , MPA, RN, FAAN , is the Smithsonian’s Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer. Before joining the Smithsonian Institution in June of 2000, Burke was executive dean and lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. She served as the chief of staff to former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole from 1986 to 1996 and was elected to serve as secretary of the Senate in 1995.
- Wen-Wen Lam
Wen-Wen Lam is currently running marketing for Renkoo. When she isn't out and about planning fun events with her friends, she can be found learning about marketing, bikram yoga, shopping, and keeping up with the latest celebrity gossip. Prior to Renkoo, she was part of the marketing team at LinkedIn.