- Vartan Gregorian
Vartan Gregorian (born April 8, 1934 in Tabriz, Iran) is a distinguished American academic, currently serving as the president of Carnegie Corporation of New York. After receiving his dual Ph.D. in history and humanities from Stanford University in 1964, Gregorian served on the faculties at several American universities before joining the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he became the founding dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1974, … - Lukas Foss
BPO Music Director: 1963-71 As a fifteen-year-old prodigy Lukas Foss arrived in America in 1937 where he enrolled at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music. By that time he had already been composing for eight years, with lessons in his native Berlin with his first piano teacher, Julius Herford . After his family fled Nazi Germany in 1933 Foss studied in Paris with Lazare Levy , Noel Gallon and Felix Wolfes , and advanced flute with Louis Moyse . - Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory. He is most famous for his ground-breaking book, "The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller," which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina. - Julius Rebek
Julius Rebek, Jr. (born April 11, 1944) is a Hungarian-born American chemist and expert on molecular self-assembly. Rebek was born in Beregszasz (Berehove), Hungary in 1944 and lived in Austria from 1945 to 1949. In 1949 he and his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Kansas. Rebek graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry. - Armin Shimerman
Armin Shimerman (born November 5, 1949) is an American actor who was born and raised in Lakewood, New Jersey. He is married to actress Kitty Swink. When he was 16 his family moved to Los Angeles, where his mother enrolled him in a drama group in an effort to expand his social circle. He later graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, then was selected to apprentice at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego. - Fred Lawrence Whipple
Fred Lawrence Whipple was an American astronomer. He is best known for writing an influential paper (published in "Astrophysical Journal " from 1950 to 1955) in which he proposed the "icy conglomerate" hypothesis of comet composition (later called the "dirty snowball" hypothesis). The basic features of this hypothesis were later confirmed, however the exact amount (and thus the importance) of ices in a comet is an active field of research, … - Tim Patterson
R. Timothy Patterson, Ph.D., is a professor of geology, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University as well as Director of the Ottawa Geoscience Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow in the School of Geography, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. He holds a B.Sc. in Biology, B.A. in Geology, both from Dalhousie University, Halifax, … - Armen Alchian
Armen Albert Alchian (born April 12, 1914, Fresno, California) is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of California at Los Angeles. Alchian was born into an Armenian-American family. He attended California State University, Fresno for two years before transferring to Stanford University in 1934, which awarded him the B.A. (1936) and Ph.D. (1944). He was a statistician with the USA Army Air Corps, 1942-46. In 1946, he joined the Economics Department at UCLA, … - Walter Cunningham
Ronnie Walter "Walt" Cunningham (born March 16, 1932) is a retired American astronaut. Cunningham was born in Creston, Iowa. After graduating from Venice High School (where he now has a building named for him) in California, Cunningham joined the U.S. Navy in 1951 and began flight training in 1952. He served on active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps from 1953 until 1956. Cunningham received bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees in respectively 1960 and 1961, … - Barbara Hammer
Barbara Hammer (born May 15, 1939 in Hollywood, California) is an American filmmaker in the genre of experimental films. - Harold Demsetz
Harold Demsetz (born 1930, Chicago, Illinois) is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). - William French Smith
William French Smith (August 26, 1917-October 29, 1990) was an American lawyer and the 74th Attorney General of the United States. Born in Wilton, New Hampshire, he received his A.B. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1939, and his LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School in 1942. From 1942 to 1946, Mr. Smith served in the United States Naval Reserve, reaching the rank of lieutenant. In 1946 he joined the law firm of Gibson, … - David J. Skorton
David J. Skorton became Cornell University's 12th president on July 1, 2006 and was formally inaugurated in ceremonies on Cornell's Ithaca campus on September 7, 2006. President Skorton holds faculty appointments in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Weill-Cornell Medical College (WCMC) in New York City and in Biomedical Engineering at the College of Engineering on Cornell's Ithaca campus. Cornell University President David J. Skorton - Marc Trachtenberg
Dr. Marc Trachtenberg is a professor of Political Science at the University of California at Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D from the University of California Berkeley in 1974. He is the author of several influential books including: "A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement", 1945-1963 (Princeton University Press, 1999), "History and Strategy" (Princeton University Press, … - Bruce Peterson
Bruce Peterson was a test pilot for NASA. A native of Washburn, North Dakota, he attended the University of California at Los Angeles, and California Polytechnic State University. Peterson received his Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the latter in 1960. Peterson joined NASA in August 1960 as an engineer at the Dryden Flight Research Center. - Nuh Ha Mim Keller
Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller, is an American Muslim translator of Islamic books and specialist in Islamic Law as well as an authorised sheikh in tasawwuf in the Shadhili Sufi order and in the Shafi Madhhab who currently lives in Amman, Jordan. - Catherine Opie
Catherine Opie (born 1961) is an American artist specializing in the photography of transgendered people. Most recently, she has turned to photographing architectural spaces (skyways and urban spaces) as well as landscapes (icehouses and surfers in the ocean). She is currently a professor of Photography at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Her works are displayed in museums in Los Angeles, Chicago, and London. - Kristine Gebbie
Kristine Moore Gebbie, DrPH, RN, is a Professor of Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing. She is best known for being the first AIDS Czar, from 1993 to 1994, during the Clinton Administration. Before joining the White House, she was the Secretary of the Department of Health for the State of Washington (1989-93) and was previously director of the Oregon Department of Health. She became well known as member of the Presidential Committee on AIDS, … - Sam Aanestad
Sam Aanestad (born July 16, 1946 in Bismarck, North Dakota) is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon who was elected to the California State Legislature in 1998 to represent the 3rd Assembly District. In 2002, Aanestad was elected to the California State Senate. He is a Republican. Dr. Aanestad and his wife, Susan, have lived in the 4th Senate District since 1980 and have three adult children. Dr. Aanestad has practiced oral and maxillofacial surgery full-time in Grass Valley, … - Arnold Harberger
Arnold Harberger (b. 1924 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American economist. He devised Harberger's Triangle, which is used largely in welfare economics. In tax policy circles, he is noted for popularizing the idea that a tax on corporate assets, … - 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, … - Jesse Dukeminier
Jesse Dukeminier (born in West Point, Mississippi, August 12, 1925 - April 20, 2003) was a professor of law for 40 years at the University of California, Los Angeles, and authored or co-authored a significant number of articles and textbooks in the areas of property law, wills, trusts, and estates. Dukeminier received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1948, … - Rosalind Hursthouse
Rosalind Hursthouse is a moral philosopher noted for her work on virtue ethics. Hursthouse is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Formerly, she has taught at the Open University in the United Kingdom, at the University of California at Los Angeles in the United States, and elsewhere. She received the M.A. degree from Auckland and she received the D.Phil. from Oxford University, having studied with Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot. - Roberto Madrazo
Roberto Madrazo Pintado is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was the candidate of the alliance between his party and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) in the 2006 Mexican presidential election. Madrazo was born in Villahermosa, Tabasco to Carlos A. Madrazo and Graciela Pintado Jiménez. His father, was a reformist politician at a time when the PRI was the only viable party. - Tony Lee
Tony Lee is an actor. He attended Le Conte High School in Los Angeles, went to college at the University of California at Berkeley, and graduated with a degree in law from the University of California at Los Angeles. He has been admitted to the State Bar of California. Nonetheless, he has been playing mostly non-recurring roles in various television series since 2000, except for "Lost", where he played Jae Lee for three episodes. - Mostafa El-Sayed
Mostafa A. El-Sayed is an Egyptian-American chemical physicist, a leading nanoscience researcher and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also known for the spectroscopy rule named after him, the El-Sayed rule. - Laurel Kenner
Laurel Kenner (born in California in 1954) is a financial writer and commentator in New York City whose columns have appeared on CNBC Money, worldlyinvestor.com, and TheStreet.com. She holds a degree in piano from the University of California at Los Angeles. During the period 1989-1994, she was an award-winning aerospace reporter for Copley Los Angeles Newspapers and subsequently, from 1995 to 2000, she was chief US stocks editor at Bloomberg News. - John Baumgardner
John R. Baumgardner (b. ?) is a geophysicist, creationist, religious fundamentalist, and proponent of catastrophic plate tectonics. Baumgardner has a Ph.D. in geophysics and space science from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and works at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is Adjunct Professor of Geophysics at the Institute for Creation Research. He became a Christian at 26 and has tried to prove Noah's Flood scientifically ever since, … - Sanford Berman
Sanford Berman (b. October 6, 1933) is an outspoken, radical librarian (cataloger) known for promoting alternative viewpoints in librarianship and acting as a pro-active information conduit to other librarians around the world, mostly via public speaking, voluminous correspondence, and unsolicited "care packages" delivered via the U.S. Postal Service. - Daniel Olivas
Daniel Olivas is a United States author and attorney. Olivas was raised near downtown Los Angeles. He is the middle of five children and the grandson of Mexican immigrants. Olivas received his BA in English literature from Stanford University and law degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the author of "Devil Talk: Stories" (Bilingual Press, 2004), "Assumption and Other Stories" (Bilingual Press, 2003), … - Larry M Hyman
Larry M Hyman is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a specialist in phonology, and has particular interest in African languages. He received his B.S., M.A, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles. He has received received numerous grants for his research, mostly from the National Science Foundation, and has won several awards, both within and beyond the University. - Elsie Ivancich Dunin
Elsie Ivancich Dunin is a dance ethnologist (ethnochoreologist), choreographer, professor and author specializing in folk dance from Croatia, Macedonia, and Romani (Gypsy) in Macedonia. She is a Professor Emerita of dance ethnology from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and is currently a dance research advisor with the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb, Croatia. - Casey Wasserman
Casey Wasserman (b. 1974) is an entertainment executive and owner of the Los Angeles Avengers Arena League football team. Born Casey Meyer, he is the son of the Los Angeles socialite and philanthropist Lynne Wasserman. Casey's parents were divorced and he took his mother's maiden name. His sister's name is Carol Ann Leif. - Maurine Brown Neuberger
Maurine Brown Neuberger (January 9, 1907-February 22, 2000) was an American Senator for the State of Oregon from November 1960 to January 1967. She was the third woman elected to the United States Senate. She and her husband, Richard L. Neuberger, are regarded as the United States' first husband-wife legislative team.She was the first and to date only woman to represent Oregon in the U.S. Senate. Brown was born in Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Oregon. - Sally Falk Moore
Sally Falk Moore is a legal anthropologist and Professor Emerita from Harvard University. She did her fieldwork in Tanzania and has published extensively on cross-cultural, comparative legal theory. Moore was trained as a lawyer and, after working on Wall Street, became a staff attorney at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg during the investigatin of Nazi war criminals. She then returned to the US and received her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. - Robert G. Neumann
Robert Gerhard Neumann (January 2, 1916-June 18, 1999) was a United States politician and ambassador. Born in Vienna, Austria, Neumann received degrees from the University of Rennes, the Consular Academy of Austria, the Geneva School of International Studies and the University of Michigan. While studying in Geneva, Neumann was arrested by the Nazis and spent two years in a concentration camp. - Flora Lewis
Flora Lewis was an American journalist. Lewis was born in Los Angeles and was a 1941 "summa cum laude" graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1942. She wrote for "The Washington Post" from 1956 to 1966. Her work landed her on the master list of Nixon political opponents. - Shiu-Yuen Cheng
Shiu-Yuen Cheng is a Hong Kong mathematician. He is now the Dean of Science of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Cheng studied his Ph.D. under Shiing-Shen Chern in University of California at Berkeley. After receiving Ph.D. in 1974, he spent some years as a post-doctoral fellow and assistant professor in Princeton University and State University of New York at Stony Brook. Then he became a full professor at University of California at Los Angeles. - Mary Ann Cohen
Mary Ann Cohen (born New Mexico, 16 July, 1943) is a judge of the United States Tax Court. Cohen attended public schools in Los Angeles before earning a B.S. from UCLA in 1964 and a J.D. from the University of Southern California School of Law in 1967. Cohen then practiced law in Los Angeles with the law firm of Abbott & Cohen. Cohen was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as Judge, United States Tax Court, on September 24, 1982, for a term ending September 23, 1997. - C. Anthony Anderson
Curtis Anthony Anderson is a contemporary philosopher, presently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at University of California at Los Angeles (1977), where he worked closely with the ground-breaking logician Alonzo Church. He also holds an M.S. in mathematics from the University of Houston (1965), where he had earned his undergraduate degree in physics and mathematics (1964). Dr.
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