- Robert H. Smith
Robert H. Smith (b. 19??) is a successful builder-developer. Smith is chairman of Charles E. Smith Co. Commercial Realty, a division of Vornado Realty Trust, and chairman of Charles E. Smith Co. Residential, a division of Archstone-Smith, both REITs listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Smith is best known for spearheading the development of the Crystal City complex in northern Virginia. Smith has given generously to the University of Maryland, College Park, … - A. James Clark
A. James Clark, an engineer and business executive, is chairman and chief executive officer of Clark Enterprises, Inc., headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. The company's largest subsidiary is Clark Construction Group, LLC, one of the United States' largest construction companies, founded in 1906 as the George Hyman Construction Company. Clark is a 1950 graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, and has given generously to the University's School of Engineering, … - Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman is an American computer scientist. He provided fundamental research in the field of human–computer interaction. Shneiderman currently holds a post as professor for Computer Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science; he received a B.S. in Mathematics/Physics from the City College of New York in 1968, … - Michael A'Hearn
Michael F. A'Hearn is an astronomer and professor at the University of Maryland who was the principal investigator for the NASA Deep Impact mission. He received his bachelors in science at Boston College and his Ph.D in Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin. He has aided in the development of systems for surveying abundances in coments as well as techniques for determining the sizes of cometary nuclei which uses opitical and infared measurments. - Shibley Telhami
Please see furthermore How The Fighting Stops: Achieving a Sustainable Ceasefire in Lebanon , to which Shibley Telhami explains (August 3, 2006): "You may note that in my most recent comment on Lebanon at the Brookings Institution, which was televised in the US, I highlighted the issue of humiliation and suggested that the solution to the problem must be based on a balance between deterrence on the one hand and dignity on the other. - Ron Walters
Ron Walters was born in Wichita, Kansas, on July 20, 1938. Walters is known throughout the world for his knowledge of African American politics and leadership and his writing. He is currently director of the African American Leadership Institute and Scholar Practitioner Program, Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, and respected professor in government and politics at the University of Maryland. - Thomas R. Holtz Jr.
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. is a vertebrate paleontologist and senior lecturer at the University of Maryland's Department of Geology. He has published extensively on the phylogeny, morphology, ecomorphology, and locomotion of terrestrial predators, especially on tyrannosaurids and other theropod dinosaurs. He is the author or co-author of "Saurischia", "Basal Tetanurae", and "Tyrannosauroidea" in the second edition of "The Dinosauria", … - Gary Williams
Gary B. Williams (born March 4, 1945 in Collingswood, New Jersey, United States) is the current head coach of the University of Maryland's Men's basketball team. - David C. Driskell
David C. Driskell (June 7, 1931) is a scholar in the field of African American art as well as an accomplished artist in his own right. Driskell is currently an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. A major publication, "David C. Driskell: Artist and Scholar" by Julie L. McGee detailing Driskell's life and work, was published in 2006. - Jeong H. Kim
Dr. Jeong H. Kim is a Korean-American electrical engineer and administrator who, since 2005, has served as President of Bell Labs. Jeong Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea. He came to the U.S. from Korea with his father and step-mother at the age of 14. He began school in Anne Arundel County, Maryland with no knowledge of English. At sixteen, he left home and supported himself with odd jobs while he completed high school. - James MacGregor Burns
James MacGregor Burns (b. August 3 1918) is a presidential biographer, authority on leadership studies, Woodrow Wilson Professor (emeritus) of Political Science at Williams College, and scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1971 for his "Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom 1940-1945". - Nariman Farvardin
Nariman Farvardin became dean of the A. James Clark University in 2001, after serving five years as chair of the department of electrical and computer engineering. He joined the university in January 1984, as a professor of electrical and computer engineering with a joint appointment with the Institute of System Research. Dean Farvardin was also a visiting professor at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France, during 1990-91. - Rita R. Colwell
Rita R. Colwell (born 1934) is an environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator. She became 11th Director of the United States National Science Foundation on August 4, 1998. Dr. Colwell has an undergraduate degree in bacteriology and an M.S. in genetics from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington. In 2004, she received an honorary Sc.D. from Bates College. - Steven Salzberg
Steven Salzberg is an American Biologist and Computer Scientist who since 2005 has been the Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is also the Horvitz Professor of Computer Science. He was previously the head of the Bioinformatics department at The Institute for Genomic Research, one of the world's largest genome sequencing centers, … - James A. Yorke
James A. Yorke is a Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a recipient of the 2003 Japan Prize for his work in chaotic systems. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States, Yorke and his co-author T.Y. Li coined the mathematical term "chaos" in a paper they published in 1975 entitled "Period Three Implies Chaos", … - Norbert Hornstein
Norbert Hornstein is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. Working within a generative framework, he has worked on the nature of logical form, and has recently proposed that control should, like raising, be analyzed in terms of movement. Hornstein graduated from McGill University in 1975 and took his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1979. He has been at the University of Maryland since 1986. - Karen Davis
Karen Davis is the President and Founder of United Poultry Concerns, Inc., which she founded in 1990 as a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl and includes a sanctuary for domestic fowl. She has a PhD in English from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she taught for 12 years in the English Department. At the University of Maryland, Davis founded the Animal Rights Coalition in 1989, … - Kent Norman
Kent L. Norman is an American cognitive psychologist and an expert on Computer Rage. He graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1969 and earned a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Iowa in 1973. In 1983, Norman co-founded the Laboratory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes (LAPDP) as an affiliate of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) and the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). - Gar Alperovitz
Gar Alperovitz is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park Department of Government and Politics. He is a former Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University; a founding Fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Politics; a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Alperovitz also served as a Legislative Director in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, … - Ira Berlin
Ira Berlin is an American historian, a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, and a past President of the Organization of American Historians. Berlin is the author of such books as "Many Thousands Gone" and "Generations of Captivity". He has written extensively on American history and the larger Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Berlin has focused in particular on the history of slavery. - Jeffrey Herf
Dr. Jeffrey Herf is a professor of history at the University of Maryland. His specialty is in 20th century European intellectual history, especially in Germany. Herf received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1980. Before joining the faculty at the University of Maryland, he taught at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He has published essays in "The New Republic", "Die Zeit", "Partisan Review" and elsewhere. - 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. - William Pugh
William Pugh (Bill Pugh) is the inventor of the skip list, and was highly influential in the development of the current memory model of the Java language. He is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park. - Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik (born July 3, 1945) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (B.S., 1967), Harvard University (M.A., 1969) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1972). He joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut in 1972, and took up his present post at University of Maryland in 2003. He has been a prominent contributor to the syntax literature within a Chomskian framework, … - Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr.
Thomas V. "Mike" Miller, Jr. (born December 3, 1942) is the current president of the state senate of Maryland in the United States. He has served as president since January 1987, and has been a state senator since 1975. He announced in November of 2006 that he will not seek reelection in 2010. Miller was born in Clinton, Maryland, and attended Surrattsville High School. - Ralph Friedgen
Ralph Harry Friedgen (b. April 4, 1947 in Harrison, New York) has been the head coach of the University of Maryland Terrapins football team since the 2001 season. - Charles Benedict Calvert
Charles Benedict Calvert (August 24, 1808 - May 12, 1864) was a U.S. Congressman from the sixth district of Maryland, serving one term from 1861-1863. Born in Riverdale, Maryland, Calvert completed preparatory studies at Bladensburg Academy of Maryland. His mother, Rosalie Eugenia Stier, was the daughter of a wealthy Belgian aristocrat, Baron Henri Joseph Stier (1743-1821) and his wife Marie Louise Peeters. - Mancur Olson
Mancur Olson, Jr. (1932 - February 19, 1998) was a leading American economist and social scientist who, at the time of his death, worked at the University of Maryland, College Park. Among other areas, he made contributions to institutional economics on the role of private property, taxation, public goods, collective action and contract rights in economic development. Olson focused on the logical basis of interest group membership and participation. - Tom Brown
Thomas William Brown (born December 12, 1940 in Laureldale, Pennsylvania) was an American football safety in the NFL. He started for the Green Bay Packers in the first two Super Bowls and later played for the Washington Redskins. He played college football for the University of Maryland. - Gary Lafree
Gary LaFree is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the Universities of Maryland, College Park and New Mexico. He is a former chairman of both the "Crime, Law, and Deviance" section of the American Sociological Society and a division of the American Society of Criminology. - Aaron McGruder
Aaron McGruder (born May 29, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American cartoonist best known for writing and drawing "The Boondocks", a Universal Press Syndicate comic strip about two young African-American brothers from inner-city Chicago now living with their grandfather in a sedate suburb. Through the leftist Huey (named after Huey P. Newton) and his younger brother Riley, a gangsta-wannabe, … - C. Lee Giles
Dr. C. Lee Giles is the David Reese Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. He is also Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, and Director of the Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory. He has been associated with Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, the University of Pisa, … - Larry David
Larry David, born July 2, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, is an Emmy-winning actor, writer, comedian, producer and film director. David was co-creator, head writer and executive producer (as well as the voice of New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner) for the television series "Seinfeld". He also created and stars in the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm". - Kevin Plank
Kevin A. Plank (born August 13, 1972 in Kensington, Maryland) is an American entrepreneur and businessperson. In 1996 he founded Under Armour, a sports apparel brand. A football player with the University of Maryland who eventually became special teams captain for the Terrapins, Plank thought up the idea because he "got tired of having to change out of the sweat-soaked T-shirts he wore under his jersey, … - George Ritzer
George Ritzer (born 1940) is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. A largely self-taught sociologist, Ritzer is most widely known in the scholarly community for his distinctive contributions to the study of consumption, globalization, metatheory, and modern and postmodern social theory generally. - David Simon
David Simon (born 1960) is an American author, journalist, and writer/producer of television shows based on his books. He is the creator and head writer of the highly acclaimed original HBO series "The Wire" - Doug Duncan
Douglas M. Duncan (born October 25, 1955) is a Democratic politician from Maryland who served as County Executive of Montgomery County from 1994 to 2006. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Maryland in the 2006 elections until he abruptly dropped out of the race on June 22, 2006, citing clinical depression. Duncan attended St. - Len Bias
Leonard Kevin Bias (November 18, 1963 - June 19, 1986) was an American college basketball player who suffered a fatal cardiac arrhythmia that resulted from a cocaine overdose less than 48 hours after being selected by the Boston Celtics in the 1986 NBA Draft. Bias was the second player selected in the draft, after Brad Daugherty of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Bias was known to his family, friends, teammates, … - Benjamin Barber
Benjamin R. Barber (b. August 2, 1939) is the Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Policy, as well as president and director of the international NGO CivWorld, and its annual Interdependence Day event, and distinguished senior fellow at Demos. Barber is perhaps best known for his 1996 bestseller, "Jihad vs. McWorld". - Patricia Hill Collins
‘Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park and former head of the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She came to national attention for her book "Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment," originally published in 1990. Collins is widely regarded as one of America's leading black feminists.
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