- Eugene Lang
Eugene M. Lang or Gene Lang (In Hungarian: Láng Jenő) (New York City, 1919 –) is a Hungarian-American philanthropist who founded REFAC Technology Development Corporation in 1951. He created the I Have A Dream Foundation in 1981, and Project Pericles, Inc. in 2001. He has also made large donations to Swarthmore College, Eugene Lang College, and the Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School, which is part of Columbia University. - Justin Hall
Justin Hall (born December 16, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois), is an American freelance journalist who is best known as a pioneer blogger (internet-based diarist), and for writing reviews from game conferences such as E3 and the Tokyo Game Show. He graduated from Chicago's Francis W. Parker High School in 1993, and in 1994, while a student at Swarthmore College, started his web-based diary "Justin's Links from the Underground", … - Alice Paul
Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 - July 9, 1977) was an American suffragist leader. Along with Lucy Burns (a close friend) and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in granting the right to vote to women in the U.S. federal election in 1920. - Sally Ride
Sally Kristen Ride (born May 26 1951) is an American former astronaut who in 1983 became the first American woman to reach outer space. She was preceded by two Soviet women, Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). She was also the youngest American to enter outer space. She was married for a time to NASA Astronaut Steve Hawley. Sally Ride was born in Los Angeles, the oldest child of Dale and Joyce Ride. - Donna Jo Napoli
Donna Jo Napoli (born February 28, 1948) is an author of children's and young adult books, as well as a prominent linguist who has worked in syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, Romance studies, structure of Japanese, structure of American Sign Language, poetics, writing for ESL students, and mathematical and linguistic analysis of folk dance. - Carl Levin
Carl Milton Levin (born June 28, 1934) is a Democratic United States Senator from Michigan and is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. He has been in the Senate since 1979 and Michigan's senior senator since 1995. He is the longest ... - Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Coffin Mott was an American Quaker minister, abolitionist, social reformer and proponent of women's rights. She is credited as the first American "feminist" in the early 1800s but was, more accurately, the initiator of women's political advocacy. - Kenneth Gergen
Kenneth J. Gergen is a notable American psychologist and professor at Swarthmore College. He obtained his B.A. at Yale University in 1957 and his Ph.D. at Duke University in 1962. After completing graduate school in experimental social psychology, Gergen set off what has been dubbed the "crisis in social psychology" in 1973 with the publication of his article, "Social Psychology as History". - James Kurth
James Kurth , is the Claude Smith Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, where he teaches defense policy, foreign policy, and international politics. Professor Kurth serves as the chair of the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and as Editor of its journal, Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs . He also served as past Co-Chair of FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers . - Robert Zoellick
Robert Zoellick also serves or has served as a board member on a number of private and public organizations: Alliance Capital , Said Holdings , and the Precursor Group ; a member of the advisory boards of Enron and Viventures , a venture fund; as a Director of the Aspen Institute 's Strategy Group, Council on Foreign Relations , the German Marshall Fund of the United States , and the World Wildlife Advisory Council ; and a member of Secretary William Sebastian Cohen 's Defense Policy Board . - Benjamin West
Benjamin West (October 10, 1738 - March 11, 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence. He was born in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, in a house that is now on the campus of Swarthmore College, as the tenth child of an innkeeper. West told John Galt, with whom, late in his life, he collaborated on a memoir, "The Life and Studies of Benjamin West" (1816, 1820) that, when he was a child, … - Neil Gershenfeld
Let's start with the development of "personal fabrication." We've already had a digital revolution; we don't need to keep having it. The next big thing in computers will be literally outside the box, as we bring the programmability - David Baltimore
David Baltimore (b. March 7, 1938) is an American biologist and one of the recipients of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He is currently the Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was the president from 1997 to 2006. He is also currently the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Baltimore was born in New York City. - Michael Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis (born November 3, 1933) is an American Democratic politician, former Governor of Massachusetts, and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek-immigrant parents in Brookline, Massachusetts and was the longest serving governor in Massachusetts' history - Stephanie Nyombayire
Stephanie Nyombayire is a native of Rwanda and attends Swarthmore College. At the time of Rwanda's 1994 genocide, she lived in the Congo but felt the consequences. She lost more than 100 family members and friends because of it. She said her past makes her unable to be a bystander in the case of other genocides like the one occurring in Darfur. Because of her convictions about the crisis, Nyombayire went to the Darfurian refugee camps in Chad through MTVu in March 2005. - Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an award-winning American novelist and essayist. Franzen was born in Chicago, Illinois, raised in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, and educated at Swarthmore College. He lives on Upper East Side of New York City, and writes for "The New Yorker" magazine. - Michael Marissen
Michael Marissen (born July 31 1960, Hamilton, Ontario) is a professor of music at Swarthmore College. Raised in St. Thomas, Ontario, he attended Ebenezer Christian School (now called St Thomas Community Christian School) and London District Christian Secondary School. Marissen studied music history at Calvin College and received his PhD from Brandeis University. He has guest taught at Oberlin and Princeton University. - Frank Aydelotte
Frank Aydelotte (1880 - 1956) was a U.S. educator. He is known for redefining Swarthmore College as an institution while he was president between 1921 and 1940 and was also the director of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1939 until 1947. Aydelotte was born in a small town in Indiana and attended Indiana University where he was an English major, a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, earned a varsity letter in football and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1911. - Mark Hanis
Mark Hanis is the Founder & Executive Director of the Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net), an organization created with the mission to empower citizens and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. Mark graduated from Swarthmore College in 2005 with a major in Political Science and a minor in Public Policy. He is the grandchild of four Holocaust survivors and was raised in Quito, Ecuador. - Gerald Levinson
Gerald Levinson (b. Westport, Connecticut, June 22 1951) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. At university, he studied with George Crumb, Richard Wernick, and George Rochberg. After college, Levinson went to study with Olivier Messiaen. He was inspired by Messiaen's use of birdsong and his unique harmonic ideas, as well as the musics of Bali and India. Levinson has also worked with Simon Rattle, Ralph Shapey, and Seiji Ozawa. - Solomon Asch
Solomon E. Asch (September 14, 1907 - February 20, 1996) was a world-renowned American Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology. He was born in Warsaw, then in Russian Empire, and emigrated to the United States in 1920. He received his bachelor's degree from the College of the City of New York in 1928. At Columbia University, he received his master's degree in 1930 and Ph.D. in 1932. He was a professor of psychology at Swarthmore College for 19 years, … - Alfred Bloom
Alfred H. Bloom is an American psychologist and linguist. He is the president of Swarthmore College. According to his biography on the Swarthmore College website, under Bloom's leadership, Swarthmore has revitalized its academically rigorous Honors Program, undertaken extensive renovation and creation of academic buildings, broadened its multicultural curriculum, expanded foreign study and community empowerment programs, and established an intercultural center for students. - Nathaniel Deutsch
Nathaniel Deutsch is an American religious scholar. He is a specialist in Judaism, Gnosticism, and early Christianity and is on the faculty of Swarthmore College. - Peter Schickele
Peter Schickele (born Johann Peter Schickele, July 17 1935) is an American composer, musical educator and parodist, best known for his comedy music albums featuring music he wrote as P. D. Q. Bach. - Wolfgang Köhler
Wolfgang Köhler (January 21, 1887, Reval (now Tallinn), Estonia – June 11, 1967, New Hampshire) was a German Gestalt psychologist. In 1909 he received his PhD from the University of Berlin. He became an assistant at the Psychological Institute in Frankfurt where he worked with Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka. From 1913 to 1920 he worked at the Anthropoid Station at Tenerife in the Canary Islands. There he wrote his book "Mentality of Apes". - Joseph Wharton
Joseph Wharton was a prominent Philadelphia merchant, industrialist, and philanthropist, who was involved in mining, manufacturing, and education. He founded the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founded the Bethlehem Steel company, and was one of the founders of Swarthmore College. - Robert P. George
Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, where he teaches courses on constitutional interpretation, civil liberties and philosophy of law. He also serves as the director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He was educated at Swarthmore College (BA), Harvard Law School (JD), Harvard Divinity School (MTS), and New College, Oxford (DPhil). At Oxford he studied under John Finnis and Joseph Raz. - Dahlia Wasfi
Dahlia S. Wasfi is an Iraqi American activist who has spoken out against the war in Iraq. - Robert Putnam
Robert David Putnam (born 1941 in Rochester, New York) is a political scientist and professor at Harvard University. Putnam developed the influential two-level game theory that assumes international agreements will only be successfully brokered if they also result in domestic benefits. His most famous (and controversial) work, "Bowling Alone", argues that the United States has undergone an unprecedented collapse in civic, social, associational, … - Dean Baker
Dean Baker (born July 13, 1958) is an American macroeconomist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He previously was a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor of economics at Bucknell University. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. His B.A. is from Swarthmore College. He is the author of a number of books including: * "The United States Since 1980" (Cambridge University Press, … - Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan (1936-) is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work with and against Lawrence Kohlberg on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain subject-object problems in ethics. - Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is an American sociologist who examines the culture of schools, the patterns and structures of classroom life, socialization within families and communities, and the relationships between culture and learning styles. Lawrence-Lightfoot has pioneered portraiture, an approach to social science methodology that bridges the realms of aesthetics and empiricism. Lawrence-Lightfoot has written eight books, including "I've Known Rivers", … - Chris van Hollen
Christopher "Chris" Van Hollen, Jr. (born January 10 1959) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing since 2003. The district includes most of Montgomery County, an affluent suburban county adjacent to Washington, D.C. After the Democrats regained control of the House in the 2006 elections, Van Hollen became the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the fifth-ranking position among House Democrats. - Edward C. Prescott
Edward C. Prescott (born 26 December, 1940) is an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles". - Rudy Rucker
Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, 1946 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American computer scientist and science fiction author, and is one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which ("Software" and "Wetware") both won Philip K. Dick Awards. Rucker is the great-great-great-grandson of the philosopher G.W.F. Hegel. (Cf. - Paul Williams
Paul Williams (born May 19, 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts) created the first US magazine of rock music criticism ":Crawdaddy!" in January of 1966 on the campus of Swarthmore College with the help of some of his fellow science fiction fans (he had previously put out some science fiction fanzines). He left the magazine in 1968, reclaimed the title in 1993, but had to end it in 2003 due to financial difficulties. He is also the author of more than 25 books, … - Milton Babbitt
Milton Byron Babbitt (born May 10, 1916) is an American composer. He is particularly noted for his pioneering serial and electronic music. - Michael Schudson
Michael Schudson is arguably the country's most respected scholar writing about newspapers and their relationship to society, politics and culture. He is the author of five books and editor of two others concerning the history and sociology of the American news media including the seminal " Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers a; " The Power of News "; " The Sociology of News "; " Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion "; and " Rethinking Popular Culture ." - Michael Hardt
Michael Hardt (born 1960) is an American literary theorist and political philosopher based at Duke University. Perhaps his most famous work is "Empire" written with Antonio Negri. The sequel to "Empire", called "Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire", was released in August, 2004, and details the idea of the multitude (which Hardt and Negri initially elaborated in "Empire") as the potential site of a global democratic movement. - Christopher Edley Jr.
Christopher Edley, Jr. (born 1951) is Dean of University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). He served as a professor at Harvard Law School, went to Swarthmore College as an undergraduate, and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. He is married to Maria Echaveste, former deputy chief of staff for President Bill Clinton. He served as an advisor to President Clinton's One America Initiative, …
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