- Jean Mayer
Jean Mayer (February 19, 1920 - January 1, 1993) was a renowned French-American nutritionist and the tenth president of Tufts University from 1976 to 1992. During his lifetime, Mayer was known as a leading expert and activist on hunger issues. Mayer was the son of French physiologists Jeanne Eugenie Mayer and Andre Mayer, one of the founding members of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
- Daniel Dennett
Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Dennett is currently the Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University.
- Lawrence S. Bacow
Lawrence S. Bacow was appointed the twelfth President of Tufts University on September 1, 2001. He received his S.B. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his M.P.P. and Ph.D. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
- Vali Nasr
Vali Reza Nasr (b. 1960) is an Iranian-American academic and scholar, as well as Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. An expert in contemporary Middle Eastern affairs and Islam and politics, in January, 2006, Nasr was named the Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think-tank focusing on foreign policy.
- Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow ( April 25 , 1908 - April 27 , 1965 ) is viewed by historians as one of the great figures who stood for honesty and integrity in American broadcast journalism during the middle of the 20th Century . His radio news broadcasts during World War II were eagerly followed by millions of radio listeners.
- Robert Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg (born December 8, 1949), an American psychologist and psychometrician and the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University. He was formerly IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University and the President of the American Psychological Association. Sternberg currently sits on the editorial board of "Intelligence."
- Jessica Biel
Jessica Biel Actress Jessica Biel was born on March 3, 1982, in Ely, Minnesota. Jessica grew up in Boulder, Colorado with an early ambition to be in music theater. As a child, she starred in several musicals, including The Sound of Music and Annie . In 1994, Biel was awarded a scholarship to Diane Hardin's Young Actors Space in Los Angeles.
- Ryan Miller
Ryan Miller is Guster's lead singer. He also plays guitar and occasionally bass or piano. He met bandmates Adam Gardner and Brian Rosenworcel while the three were freshmen at Tufts University in August 1991, and met bandmate Joe Pisapia some years later. Ryan Matthew Miller was born November 21, 1972 in Lubbock, Texas. He was raised in Richardson, Texas and graduated from Berkner High School, where he had his own band, the Silents.
- Ayesha Jalal
Ayesha Jalal is a Pakistani-American historian. She is a professor of history at Tufts University and a MacArthur Fellow. The bulk of her work deals with the creation of Muslim identities in modern South Asia. She is the daughter of Hamid Jalal, a nephew of the famous Urdu fiction writer Manto and a civil servant. Ms. Jalal came to New York at the age of 16.
- Arthur M. Sackler
Arthur M. Sackler was an American physician, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He attended New York University School of Medicine and graduated with an M.D. In 1960 Sackler started publication of "Medical Tribune", a weekly medical newspaper. He established the Laboratories for Therapeutic Research in 1938.
- Alexander Vilenkin
Alexander Vilenkin is Professor of Physics and Director of the "Institute of Cosmology" at Tufts University. A theoretical physicist who has been working in the field of cosmology for 25 years, Vilenkin has written over 150 papers and is responsible for introducing the ideas of eternal inflation and quantum creation of the universe from nothing. His work in cosmic strings has been pivotal.
- Adam Gardner
Adam Gardner is a guitarist and vocalist for the band "Guster" and a member of the Tufts University "Beelzebubs". He grew up in Morristown, New Jersey and played for a band called "Royal Flush" while a student at The Pingry School. Adam and his wife, Lauren, started Reverb, an eco-friendly companion to summer rock tours. Gardner was interviewed about Reverb for the July 2006 issue of The Green Room magazine.
- Leonard Horowitz
Leonard Horowitz DMD, MA, MPH is a medical researcher who has written several books on topics of current medical interest, the most famous of which is "Emerging Viruses: Aids & Ebola - Nature, Accident or Intentional?". Other works include "Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism, and Toxic Warfare" and "DNA: Pirates of the Sacred Spiral". He also has a host of articles to his credit. His opinions and thinking fall well outside the mainstream of medical thought.
- Brian Rosenworcel
Brian Andrew Rosenworcel (born July 23, 1973) is the drummer for the band Guster. For many years, Rosenworcel played a combination of bongos, congas, djembe, hand snares and cymbals instead of using a traditional drumset. He now alternates between hand percussion and drum set. Rosenworcel is famous in the Guster community not only for his drumming technique, but also for the authorship of the band's Road and Studio Journals, …
- Thomas R. Pickering
Ambassador Pickering is senior vice president for international relations for Boeing. He has had a long career spanning five decades as a U.S. diplomat, serving as under secretary of state for political affairs, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and as U.S. ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, Nigeria, Jordan, and El Salvador. He also served on assignments in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
- John Holmes
John Holmes (January 6, 1904-June 22, 1962) born John Albert Holmes Jr., was a poet and critic. He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, and both attended and taught at Tufts University where he was a teacher of literature and modern poetry for 28 years. He wrote seven volumes of poetry and the lyrics to several Unitarian Universalist hymns.
- Amisha Patel
Amisha Patel (born June 9, 1977, also known as Ameesha Patel) is a Bollywood actress and model from Maharashtra, India.
- Issam Fares
Issam Fares is a Lebanese politician and international investment businessman. Fares was a member of the Lebanese Parliament and occupied the post of Deputy Prime Minister until February 28, 2005 when the government of Omar Karami submitted its resignation. He decided not to run for public office in the parliamentary elections of 2005. He is said to have donated a large piece of land that houses the Byblos campus of the Lebanese American University.
- Susan Decker
Susan L. Decker is the President of Yahoo! Inc.. Previously she was director of Costco Corporation. She graduated from Tufts University with Bachelor of Science in computer science and economics. She then graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School. Susan Decker is on the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway, Intel and Costco.
- Hank Azaria
Hank Albert Azaria (born April 25, 1964) is a four-time Emmy Award-winning American actor, comedian and voice artist.
- Charles Tufts
Charles Tufts was an American businessman. Tufts donated twenty acres (80,000 m²) of land in Medford, Massachusetts for what was to be named Tufts University. In time, Charles Tufts donated another 80 acres (320,000 m²), bringing the campus area to 100 acres (400,000 m²). Tufts made his fortune through his brickmaking factory. Tufts is a descendant of Peter Tufts, an early colonist who came to the US from England in 1638.
- Kishore Mahbubani
Kishore Mahbubani is dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He began his career as a diplomat, joining the Singapore Foreign Service in 1971 ending up as Singapore's Ambassador to the United Nations in 2002, in which he served as president of the United Nations Security Council.
- Eric Chaisson
Eric Chaisson , a cosmologist and head of the Wright Center, notes that the world around us is literally changing all the time. From galaxies and stars, to planets and life forms, change is constant. This is as true for social and economic systems as it is for the physical world. As Eric puts it, "Change is constant, time is irreversible, energy is ubiquitous, and adaptation is essential."
- Peter R. Dolan
Peter Dolan is Managing Director of PRDolan LLC, a limited liability company formed in 2008. He provides CEO advisory role services and board directorship to growing companies in the healthcare and health and wellness businesses. He is a former Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, with 18+ years with the company, the last 5 as CEO.
- Martin J. Sherwin
Martin J. Sherwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian. His scholarship mostly concerns nuclear proliferation. Sherwin received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. in history from University of California, Berkeley. He is the long-time Walter S. Dickson professor of English and American history at Tufts University. He and co-author Kai Bird shared the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 2006, for their book on Robert Oppenheimer's life, …
- Peter Tufts
Peter Tufts (1617-May 13 1700) was a prominent early citizen of Medford, Massachusetts, and ancestor of Charles Tufts who donated land for the Tufts University campus. Tufts' house is still standing; it is believed by some historians to be the oldest all-brick house in the United States. Peter Tufts (also spelled "Tuffts" and Tuffes") immigrated from Wilby, Norfolk, England to Charlestown, …
- Oliver Platt
Oliver James Platt (born January 12, 1960) is a Canadian film and television actor.
- Leonard Carmichael
Leonard Carmichael was a U.S. educator and psychologist. Born on November 9 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he received his B.S. from Tufts University in 1920 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1924. He was a brother in the Theta Delta Chi fraternity during his time at Tufts. After being part of the Brown University faculty, Carmichael served as the president of Tufts from 1938 to 1952.
- Winston Lord
Winston Lord is a United States diplomat and administrator. He served as the president of the Council on Foreign Relations between 1977 and 1985. Lord was a key figure in the restoration of relations between the United States and China in 1972. From 1969–73, as a member of the National Security Council’s planning staff, he was an aide to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, accompanying him on his secret trip to Beijing in 1971.
- Jonathan Tisch
Jonathan M. Tisch has been Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels since 1989, as well as being Co-Chairman of the Board and Member of the Office of the President of Loews Corporation, its parent company. Tisch also holds positions as: *Chairman of the "Travel Business Roundtable" (TBR), a travel industry lobbying group *Chairman of "NYC & Company", New York City's official tourism marketing organization *Trustee of Tufts University.
- Lauro Cavazos
L auro F. Cavazos (PhD '54, physiology) has devoted his life and his career to medicine and education, consistently breaking new ground along the way. Dr. Cavazos is a sixth-generation Texan who earned his BA and MA in zoology from Texas Tech University before earning his doctorate from Iowa State University. His academic career has been focused largely on medical education and research, and he is a recognized expert in several medical disciplines.
- Christopher Golden
Christopher Golden is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults, teens, and young readers. He has also written comic books and video games and co-written the online animated series Ghosts of Albion with actress/writer/director Amber Benson. He wrote the introduction to the now collectable 200 only copies slipcased edition to Joe Hill's book of short stories titled 20th Century Ghosts.
- Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a British historian and author of several popular works of history. He was born in London to a Spanish father and an English mother. Fernández-Armesto is Professor of Global Environmental History at Queen Mary, University of London, and a member of the Faculty of Modern History at Oxford University.
- Lorenzo Vidino
Lorenzo Vidino is a research analyst for the Investigative Project. The Investigative Project is a Washington-based thinktank, which focuses on militant islamic terrorism. Vidino has given a testimony at the United States House of Representatives concerning "Islamic Extremism in Europe". He has published the book "Al Qaeda in Europe: The New Battleground of International Jihad” ISBN 1-59102-433-1, and is currently writing a Ph.D. at Tufts University.
- Jamie Dimon
James "Jamie" Dimon (born March 13, 1956) became CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. on January 1, 2006. He succeeded William B. Harrison, Jr., who became the company's chairman. Dimon succeeded Harrison as Chairman of JPMorgan on January 1, 2007, following Harrison's retirement.
- Brian Camenker
Brian Camenker is a conservative activist in Massachusetts. Currently, he is the leader of The Article 8 Allianceand MassResistance.com, activist groups that seek to remove Massachusetts State Supreme Court judges who recognized a State constitutional right to same-sex Marriage in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health. In the past, he has gained attention for speaking out against a statewide conference, …
- Gregory Maguire
Gregory Maguire (born June 9, 1954 in Albany, New York) is an American author. He is the author of the novels "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West", "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister", and many other novels for adults and children. Many of Maguire's adult novels are revisionist retellings of classic children's stories: for example, …
- Bette Bao Lord
To book artists and talent such as Bette Bao Lord for your corporate event, convention, or fundraiser, just use our Find Talent Form or Contact us . Bette Bao Lord has earned accolades as a master storyteller who speaks with a true voice of China. Not only is she a best-selling author, she has held numerous positions associated with politics and the arts.
- Steve Tisch
Steven "Steve" Tisch is the chairman, executive vice president, and co-owner of the New York Giants, as well as a movie and television producer. He is the son of former Giants co-owner Bob Tisch. Tisch was born born February 2, 1949 in Lakewood, New Jersey. He attended Tufts University, during which he began his filmaking career. During his youth, Tisch created a number of small movies with backing by Columbia Pictures.
- Franklin M. Loew
Franklin Martin Loew, DVM, PhD, (b. Syracuse, NY, 1939; d. Boston, MA, 2003) was president of Becker College, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University and dean of Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine (now Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine).