- Anna Nagurney
Anna Nagurney is an Ukrainian-American mathematician, economist, educator and author. She attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and received her AB degree in Russian Language and Literature, and her ScB, ScM, and PhD degrees in Applied Mathematics (1977-1983). She is now the John F. Smith Memorial Professor in the Department of Finance and Operations Management in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, …
- Lynn Margulis
Dr. Lynn Margulis (born March 15, 1938) is a biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is best known for her theory on the origin of eukaryotic organelles, and her contributions to the endosymbiotic theory-which is now generally accepted for how certain organelles were formed.
- Daphne Patai
Daphne Patai is a professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
- Paul Hollander
Paul Hollander (born 1932 in Hungary, escaped 1956) is an American scholar, journalist, and political writer. He has a Ph.D in Sociology from Princeton University, 1963 and a B.A. from the London School of Economics, 1959. He is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Center Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.
- Julius Lester
Julius Lester (born January 27 1939), also known as "Julius Bernard Lester" or by his Hebrew name "Yaakov Daniel", is an award winning American author of books for children and adults, and was an occasionally controversial professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Lester is Black and Jewish. He has recorded two albums of folk music.
- Jeff Corwin
Jeffrey Samuel Corwin (born July 11, 1967 in Norwell, Massachusetts), better known as Jeff Corwin, is the host and executive producer of "The Jeff Corwin Experience" and "Corwin's Quest", two American television shows about animals airing on the Animal Planet cable channel. He previously appeared in "Going Wild With Jeff Corwin" on the Disney Channel. He also made a cameo appearance in an episode of "CSI: Miami", …
- Samuel R. Delany
Samuel Ray Delany, Jr. is an award-winning American science fiction author. He has written works that have garnered substantial critical acclaim, including the novels "The Einstein Intersection", "Nova", "Hogg", "Dhalgren", and the Return to Nevèrÿon series. Since January 2001 he has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is widely known in the academic world as a literary critic.
- Silvio O. Conte
Silvio Ottavio Conte was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1959 until his death. Born to Italian immigrants in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he represented Massachusetts's first congressional district for seventeen consecutive terms. Conte attended Pittsfield High School, graduating in 1940. He served in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1944, during World War II, then attended Boston College under the G. I. Bill, …
- Andrew Barto
Andrew Barto is a professor of Computer science at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and chair of the department since January 2007. His main research area is reinforcement learning. Professor Barto is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow and Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Society for Neuroscience.
- David Wright
David Wright is an American writer who grew up in Borger, Texas. He holds a B.A. from Carleton College, and an M.F.A. from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He also studied at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Before he started teaching creative writing, he was a player/coach on various American football teams in Paris and London. He teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Barry Moser
Barry Moser is a renowned artist, most famous as a printmaker and illustrator of numerous works of literature. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Moser studied at the Baylor School, Auburn University, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and did post-graduate work at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
- Joseph Duffey
Dr. Joseph Duffey, the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1977-1982), and former assistant Secretary of State for education and cultural affairs, served as director of the United States Information Agency from 1993 to 1999. Before that, he was president of American University (1991-1993) and chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1982-1991).
- William Monahan
William Monahan (born November 3 1960) is an American novelist and screenwriter. After attending the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he studied Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Monahan, already a professional writer while an undergraduate, as well as a musician in Northampton, Massachusetts, moved to New York City to pursue a career as a journalist, writer and critic. He wrote several scabrous pieces for the "New York Press", …
- Edmund Gettier
Edmund L. Gettier III (born 1927 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; he famously owes his reputation to a single three-page paper published in 1963 called "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" Gettier was educated at Cornell University, where his mentors included the ordinary language philosopher Max Black and the controversial Wittgensteinian Norman Malcolm.
- Daniel R. Anderson
Daniel R. Anderson, Ph.D. is part of the faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Anderson was involved in the creation of children's television series including "Allegra's Window", "Gullah Gullah Island", "Bear in the Big Blue House", "Blue's Clues", and "Dora the Explorer". He has also acted as an advisor to "Captain Kangaroo", "The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss", "Sesame Street", "Fimbles", …
- Dana Gould
Dana Gould (born August 24, 1964) is an American comedian and comedy writer born and raised in Hopedale, Massachusetts. His upbringing in the "weird little" factory town and the backward eccentricities of his extended family lent themselves to his stand-up routine, which has been seen on HBO, Showtime, and Comedy Central, among other places. After high school, he studied communications and theatre at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
- Peri Tarr
Peri Tarr received her BS in Zoology from the University of Massachusetts in 1986, and her MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1992 and 1996, respectively). Between her BS and MS/PhD, she worked full-time at the University of Massachusetts Physical Plant, attempting to introduce an automated system to help with the Plant's operations.
- Susan Straight
Susan Straight (born October 19, 1960 in Riverside, California) is an American author and National Book Award finalist.
- Herbert P. Bix
Herbert P. Bix is the author of "Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan", an acclaimed account of the Japanese Emperor and the events which shaped modern Japanese imperialism. Bix earned his Ph.D. in history and Far Eastern language from Harvard University and a B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. For several decades, he has written about modern and contemporary Japanese history in the United States and Japan.
- Mike Flanagan
Michael Kendall Flanagan (born December 16, 1951 in Manchester, New Hampshire) is a former left handed pitcher and current front office executive of the Baltimore Orioles. Flanagan attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 7th round of the 1973 draft. He made his major league debut with the Orioles on September 27, 1975. One the team's most dependable pitchers for the next nine years, …
- Kimo Wall
William James "Kimo" Wall was born in Hawaii in 1943. ("Kimo" is the Hawaiian equivalent of "Jim".) At the age of six he began training in Goju-ryu karate under teachers who had studied with Miyagi Chojun during his three-year stay in Hawaii. In 1961 he joined the US Marine Corps and was stationed in Okinawa, where he trained Goju-ryu karate in the dojo of Higa Seiko. Matayoshi Shinho taught kobudo (ancient weapons) in the same building, and Kimo studied under him as well.
- Roman Yakub
Roman Yakub (b. 1958) is a composer received his early musical training in Lviv, Ukraine. He graduated from Lviv State Conservatory in 1982 with a diploma in Music Composition. In 1991 he moved to the United States, where he earned Master's Degree in Music Composition at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Composition at Boston University. In 2006 he won 1st Prize in the Ithaca College Choral Composition Copmpetion for "Wynken, …
- Maura Hennigan
Maura Hennigan (Maura A. Hennigan) is the Clerk Magistrate of the Suffolk County, Massachusetts Superior Court Criminal/Business Division; she is the ninth elected official to hold this position and the first female. Hennigan is decended from a long line of politicians beginning with her great uncle who served on the Boston Common Council. Hennigan ran for Mayor of Boston in 2005. She was defeated by incumbent Thomas Menino.
- Gil Penchina
Penchina is currently CEO of Wikia Inc. He was formerly vice president and general manager, international at eBay. He attended the Kellogg School of Management and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
- Carmen Hooker Odom
Carmen Hooker Odom is the secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Governor Mike Easley appointed her Secretary in January 2001. Odom, a former Massachusetts legislator and health care lobbyist, has spent her professional life working in health and human services. As a lawmaker, she was the primary legislative author of both the 1991 Massachusetts comprehensive health reform legislation and the Children's Medical Security Plan, …
- Peter G. Torkildsen
Peter Gerard Torkildsen is the Massachusetts Republican State Committee Chairman and is also a former member of the United States House of Representatives. He is a Republican from Massachusetts. Torkildsen was born in to a Roman Catholic family with ten children in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on January 28, 1958. He attended high school at St. John's Preparatory School in Danvers, …
- Rachel Weston
Rachel M. Weston of Burlington, Vermont, is a 2007–8 member of the Vermont House of Representatives who was born in Hampden, Massachusetts on July 26 1981. She is the youngest serving member of the Vermont State Legislature. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2003 (BA, Anthropology) and the University of Vermont in 2006 (MPA, Public Administration).
- Luis Cernuda
Luis Cernuda, was a Spanish poet and literary critic. The son of a military man, Cernuda received a strict education as a child, and then studied law at the University of Seville, where he met the poet and literature professor Pedro Salinas. In 1928, after his mother died, Cernuda left his hometown, with which he had all his life an intense love-hatred relationship. He briefly moved to Madrid, where he quickly became part of the literary scene.
- Douglas Cliggott
Douglas "Doug" Cliggott (1956-) is the CIO of Dover Management LLC. He joined the Greenwich, CT based firm in December 2006. Cliggott was a managing director and chief investment strategist at J.P. Morgan & Company and JPMorgan Chase between September 1996 and February 2002. In 2002 he left JP Morgan to head up the U.S. office of Swedish asset management firm Brummer & Partners, a J.P. Morgan client.
- Robert Charles Anderson
Robert Charles Anderson Director of the Great Migration Study Project, was educated as a biochemist and served in the United States Army in electronics intelligence. In 1972 he discovered his early New England ancestry and thereafter devoted his time and energies to genealogical research. He published his first genealogical article in 1976, and about the same time began to plan for what eventually became the Great Migration Study Project.
- Bertram Forer
Bertram R. Forer was an American psychologist best known for describing the Forer effect, also known as subjective validation. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Forer graduated from University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1936. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from University of California, Los Angeles. He served as a psychologist and administrator in a military hospital in France during World War II.
- Jeffrey Welch
Jeffrey M. Welch (b. December 21 1976) is chairman of the Plymouth County Commissioners in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Elected in 2004, by narrowly defeating incumbent Peter G. Asiaf, Jr. by 78 votes, Commissioner Welch is the youngest Plymouth County Commissioner ever elected. He is a graduate of Abington High School and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
- Dave Copeland
Dave Copeland (born March 10, 1973 in Malden, Mass.) is an American author and the first journalist to gain inside access to the Israeli Mafia, which operated in New York City in the 1980's. He is the author of "Blood & Volume: Inside New York's Israeli Mafia", as well as hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. Copeland writes nonfiction in a narrative style, thoroughly reporting his subject and digging out details that make his long-form nonfiction read like fiction.
- Panio Gianopoulos
Panio Gianopoulos (*1975) is a young up-and-coming writer and editor for Bloomsbury. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he has written both fiction and non-fiction and has been in the publishing field for nine years. Gianopoulos' work has appeared in various magazines and newspapers, including Details, Glamour, Tin House, Nerve, Everyday with Rachael Ray, The Hartford Courant, The Journal News, Northwest Review, and The Brooklyn Rail.
- Bill Cosby
He joined the Navy and served at the Marine Base at Quantico, Virginia and at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. It was there that he realized the importance of education and he finished his equivalency diploma through correspondence courses. In 1961, he won a track and field scholarship to the Temple University in Philadelphia. There, he studied physical education and was part of the track team and the football team.
- Dana Mohler-Faria
Not unlike many of the students who come to Bridgewater, President Mohler-Faria was the first member of his family to go to college. Three decades and four degrees later, he continues to cite the work ethic and moral fabric of his late father, a construction worker, and his late mother, a laborer in the cranberry bogs of Wareham and in the factories of New Bedford, as the standards by which he holds himself up to each and every day.
- Neal Boushell
- Brendan Lattrell
- Matthew Raycroft
- Jack Goncalves