- David J. Hanson
David Justin Hanson, PhD, (born 1941) is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the State University of New York at Potsdam, NY, USA. Hanson researched the subject of alcohol and drinking for over 30 years, beginning with his PhD dissertation investigation, and has written widely on the subject.
- Dave Weldon
David Joseph Weldon, (known as Dave Weldon) (born August 31 1953, Amityville, New York) is an American politician and physician. He has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing (map).
- Thomas Szasz
Dr. Thomas Stephen Szasz (pronounced /sas/; born April 15, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary) is a psychiatrist and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York. He is a prominent figure in the antipsychiatry movement, a well-known social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, and of the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as of scientism.
- John R. Ryan
Vice Admiral John R. Ryan (b. August 15, 1945) is the Chancellor-designate of the State University of New York. A native of Mountainhome, Pa., Vice Admiral Ryan graduated from the United States Naval Academy in June 1967 with his twin brother, Vice Admiral Norbert Ryan Jr., USN. After designation as a naval aviator, his initial assignment was to Patrol Squadron EIGHT. From 1972 to 1975, he was assigned to the Candidate Guidance Office at the Naval Academy.
- John B. Simpson
John B. Simpson is the current president of the University at Buffalo, part of the State University of New York system. He assumed this position on January 1 2004, after leaving his position as executive vice chancellor and provost of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka (born October 7, 1934) is an American writer of poetry, drama, essays and music criticism.
- Bill T. Jones
Bill T. Jones is an American artistic director, choreographer and dancer based in New York City. He is the recipient of the 2007 Tony Award, the 2005 Wexner Prize, the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement and the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, as well as a 1994 MacArthur Fellowship. Jones began his dance training at the State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY), studying classical ballet and modern dance.
- 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, …
- Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing CH (born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Persia on October 22, 1919) is a British writer.
- 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).
- 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.
- Garrick Utley
For forty years Mr. Utley was a broadcast journalist on NBC, ABC, CNN, and public radio and television; he focused on international affairs and reported from more than seventy-five countries. He has received several journalistic honors, including the Oversea Press Club's Edward R. Murrow award. He served on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, is chairman of the American Council on Germany, a director of Public Radio International, and a trustee of Carleton College.
- Camille Paglia
Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947 in Endicott, New York) is an American social critic, intellectual, author and teacher. She is a professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Paglia completed her undergraduate studies at Binghamton University and later, her graduate studies at Yale.
- Evelyn Fox Keller
Evelyn Fox Keller (*1936) is an American physicist, author, and feminist and is currently a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller has also taught at the State University of New York and in the department of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Muriel A. Howard
Dr. Muriel A. Howard has served as the president of Buffalo State College since 1996. Dr. Howard's professional and scholarly interests include educational leadership and the representation of women and minorities in the academy. President Howard is the immediate past chair of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Board of Directors.
- Oren Lyons
Oren Lyons (b.1930) Oren R. Lyons is a traditional Faithkeeper and chief of the Turtle Clan and a proud and accomplished Native American who works tirelessly towards the issues concerning Indigenous peoples in the United States and the world. He is a member of the Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, (Haudenosaunee) consisting of Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, …
- Charles Wuorinen
Charles Wuorinen is an American composer. Co-founder of The Group for Contemporary Music, Wuorinen writes serial instrumental music. Some of his pieces are influenced by fractal geometry and Benoît Mandelbrot, while his later works feature some tonal relationships. In 1970, Wuorinen was the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, for the electronic piece "Time's Encomium". He is also the author of "Simple Composition", ISBN 0-938856-06-5, …
- Frederic Rzewski
Frederic Anthony Rzewski (born April 13 1938 in Westfield, Massachusetts) is an American composer and virtuoso pianist.
- Vern Bullough
Vern Leroy Bullough was an American historian and sexologist. He was a distinguished professor emeritus at the State University of New York (SUNY), an Outstanding Professor in the California State University, a past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, past Dean of natural and social sciences at the SUNY College in Buffalo, New York, and one of the founders of the American Association for the History of Nursing.
- Philip Coppens
Philip Coppens is a chemist and crystallographer. Coppens received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Amsterdam. He is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and holder of the Henry M. Woodburn Chair of Chemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a Corresponding Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and has been awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1996, …
- Lewis Turco
Lewis P. Turco (born May 2, 1934), is an American poet, teacher, and writer of fiction and non-fiction. Turco is an advocate for Formalist poetry (or New Formalism) in the United States. Turco took a keen interest in poetry as a teenager, and by the time he was a young adult, he had had work published. After serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Hornet, …
- Herbert Aaron Hauptman
Herbert A. Hauptman , Ph.D. President, Nobel Laureate Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
- George C. Williams
Professor George Christopher Williams (b. May 12, 1926) is an American evolutionary biologist. Williams is a professor emeritus of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is best known for his vigorous critique of group selection. In his first book, "Adaptation and Natural Selection", he argued that adaptation was an "onerous" concept that should only be invoked when necessary, and, that, when it is necessary, …
- Randy Daniels
Randy Daniels is the former Secretary of State of New York. Daniels was appointed Secretary of State by Governor George Pataki on April 12 2001. He stepped down from the Cabinet post in 2005 in order to pursue his campaign for Governor of New York. He is currently the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York.
- M Stanley Whittingham
M. Stanley Whittingham is an American chemist. He is currently a professor of chemistry and director of both the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials Science and Engineering program at Binghamton University, a part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system.
- Imani Coppola
Imani Francesca Coppola born on April 4, 1978 in New York City is a singer/songwriter/violinist probably best known for her 1997 hit "Legend of a Cowgirl" which sampled the instrumentals from Sunshine Superman by Donovan. While just a sophomore at the State University of New York (studying orchestra and later studio composition), Imani Coppola gained a record contract for her surrealistic, sample-laden pop/rockvision of hip-hop, …
- Ralph Raico
Ralph Raico is professor of European history at the State University of New York College at Buffalo. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought, where the head of his dissertation committee was F.A. Hayek. Among Dr. Raico's articles and essays are: "Rethinking Churchill" in The Costs of War, John V. Denson , ed.; "Austrian Economics and Classical Liberalism," in Advances in Austrian Economics , vol.
- Robert O'Connor
American novelist Robert O'Connor was born in 1959, and received a B.A. in English/Writing Arts from the State University of New York at Oswego. He also has an M.A. in English from Syracuse University, where he studied under Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff. He currently teaches English and fiction writing at SUNY Oswego and lives in upstate New York with his wife, Donna, and family. He is the author of one novel, 1993's "Buffalo Soldiers", …
- John S. Toll
John S. Toll is a physicist and well-known educational administrator. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Yale in 1944, after which he served in the Navy in World War II. He finished his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton in 1952. He then moved to the University of Maryland, where he became Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1953. During his tenure as Chair, he was responsible for a major increase in size and quality of the department.
- Rodolphe Gasché
Rodolphe Gasché holds the Eugenio Donato Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York.
- Adam Nagourney
Adam Nagourney (born October 10, 1954 in New York City) is an American journalist covering U.S. politics for "The New York Times". Nagourney graduated with a B.A. from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1977. Prior to joining the "Times" in 1996, he worked for the "Gannett Westchester Newspaper" (1977-83), …
- Lawrence Alloway
Lawrence Alloway (London, 1926 - New York, January 2, 1990) was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from the 1960s. In the 1950s he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the UK and in the 1960s was an influential writer and curator in the US.
- H. James Birx
H. James Birx (born June 1, 1941) is an American anthropologist. Birx took his M.A. in anthropology and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the State University of New York (SUNY) University at Buffalo, and is now professor of anthropology at Canisius College, as well as Distinguished research Scholar in the SUNY Geneseo's Department of Anthropology. He has been a visiting professor at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, twice a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, …
- Judith Fetterley
Judith Fetterley was born in New York City, New York, although she was raised in Toronto, Canada before moving to Franklin, Indiana with her family at the age of ten. Fetterley received her Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1969. From 1967 to 1973, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania. She then moved to the State University of New York at Albany, New York, where she is currently a professor of English and women's studies.
- Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is a professor in the Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, specializing in film studies, cultural studies, and Postfeminist Critical Theory. Her most recent books include *"Class-Passing: Social Mobility in Film and Popular Culture", (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005); *"Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/Constructions" (State University of New York Press, …
- Esther Newton
Esther Newton, (b. 1940, New York) is an American cultural anthropologist best known for her pioneering work on the ethnography of lesbian and gay communities in the United States. Newton was born in New York. She studied history at the University of Michigan, and received her BA with distinction in 1962 before starting graduate work in anthropology at the University of Chicago under David M. Schneider.
- Ann Kirschner
Dr. Ann Kirschner is the University Dean of the CUNY Honors College . She began her career as a lecturer in Victorian literature at Princeton University, where she earned a Ph.D. in English. ... A frequent contributor to conferences and publications on higher education and interactive media, Kirschner was named one of New York Magazine's "Millennium New Yorkers" and honored as a distinguished graduate of Princeton University.
- 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.
- Ron Scapp
Ron Scapp is a noted educator and author. His work focuses on urban education, educational leadership and policy, and teacher empowerment. He also writes on topics as varied as homelessness, American theater and continental philosophy. He is the founding director of the Graduate Program in Urban and Multicultural Education at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx, where he is professor of humanities and teacher education. Dr.
- W. Warren Wagar
W. Warren Wagar (1932 - November 16, 2004) was a historian and futures studies scholar. A specialist in alternative society futures and an expert in the work of pioneering science fiction writer H.G. Wells, Wagar served as history professor at Binghamton University, State University of New York, for 31 years. His courses on the history of the future and World War III earned him the title of Distinguished Teaching Professor at Binghamton.