- Joel Seligman
Joel Seligman is the current President of the University of Rochester, in Rochester, New York, and is one of the leading authorities on securities law in the U.S.. Seligman was named the tenth president of the University of Rochester on December 1, 2004. He assumed office on July 1, 2005, succeeding Thomas H. Jackson, and was formally inaugurated in a ceremony at the Eastman Theatre on October 23, 2005. Along with his service at the University of Rochester, as an academic, … - Tom Golisano
Blaise Thomas "Tom" Golisano (born 1942) is the billionaire founder of Paychex, the second-largest payroll processor in the United States, and owner of the Buffalo Sabres hockey team. He ran for governor of New York in 1994, 1998, and 2002 as the candidate of the Independence Party of New York. He lost all three elections, spending a combined $93 million over the three campaigns. - W. Allen Wallis
Wilson Allen Wallis (born 1912 in Philadelphia, died October 12, 1998 in Rochester, New York) was an American economist and statistician. He attended the University of Minnesota, Class of 1932, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. He served as the university president of the University of Rochester from 1962 to 1970 and as an economic advisor to U.S. presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. - Robert B. Goergen
Robert B. Goergen is an American corporate executive, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of Blyth, Inc. He is also the founder and chairman of The Ropart Group, a private-equity investment firm. Goergen earned a bachelors degree in physics from the University of Rochester in 1960. He also holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He began his career at Procter & Gamble before moving onto other firms, … - Steven Landsburg
Steven E. Landsburg (born 1954) is an American professor of economics at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. From 1989 to 1995, he taught at Colorado State University. - George Whipple
George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 - February 1, 1976) was an American physician, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia." Whipple was born to Ashley Cooper Whipple and Frances Anna Hoyt in Ashland, New Hampshire. He was the son and grandson of physicians. - H. Allen Orr
Dr. Orr is an evolutionary geneticist with several broad interests. Most of his research focuses on the genetics of speciation and the genetics of adaptation. In particular, he is interested in the genetic basis of hybrid sterility and inviability, e.g., how many genes cause reproductive isolation between species? What are the normal functions of these genes and what evolutionary forces drove their divergence? - Thomas H. Jackson
Thomas H. Jackson was the ninth president of the University of Rochester, preceded by Dennis O'Brien. Jackson held the position of president from 1994 until he formally stepped down on June 30, 2005 and was succeeded by Joel Seligman. Jackson's tenure was marked by the controversial "Renaissance Plan", which cut undergraduate enrollment while making admission more selective, and cut several graduate programs. - Charles Plosser
Dr. Plosser took office on August 1, 2006, as the tenth chief executive of the Third District Federal Reserve Bank, at Philadelphia. In 2008, he serves as a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee. Dr. Plosser was born September 19, 1948, in Birmingham, Alabama. He earned an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1972 and 1976, respectively. - David Douglass
David H. Douglass is an American physicist at the University of Rochester. Douglass is considered a global warming skeptic and his research appears to focus on the role of natural forces and the debunking of anthropogenic climate change. - Joanna Scott
Joanna Scott (born 1960) is an award-winning American author and Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester. Scott has received critical acclaim for her novels. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. Her stories have been included in Best American Stories (1993) and The Pushcart Prize (1993). - Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor (1919-2003) was an American philosopher renowned for his dry wit and his contributions to metaphysics. He was also an internationally-known beekeeper. Taylor took his PhD at Brown University, where his supervisor was Roderick Chisholm. He taught at Brown University, Columbia and the University of Rochester, and had visiting appointments at about a dozen other institutions. His best known book was "Metaphysics" (1963). - Stanley Engerman
Stanley Engerman is an economist and economic historian at the University of Rochester. He received his PhD. in economics in 1962 from Johns Hopkins University. Engerman is known for his quantitative historical work along with Nobel prize winning economist Robert Fogel. His first major book, co-authored with Robert Fogel in 1974, was "Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery." This significant work, winner of the Bancroft Prize in American history, … - Joseph C. Wilson
Joseph C. Wilson was the founder of the Xerox Corporation, a graduate of the University of Rochester and a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. As president of Xerox, he made an effort to integrate Xerox during the late 1960s. After the race riots that began in Detroit had reached Xerox headquarters in Rochester, New York, … - William H. Riker
William Harrison Riker (September 22, 1920 - June 26, 1993) was an American political scientist who applied game theory and mathematics to political science. Riker was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Ph.D at Harvard University in 1948. He took on a professorship at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin (then Lawrence College), where he published "The Theory of Political Coalitions" (1962). - Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell (born February 1, 1927) is one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems, such as "St. - Edward L. Deci
Edward L. Deci is a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, and director of its human motivation program. He is notable for his early work on subjective feelings of competence and autonomy, and their relation to what he terms 'intrinsic motivation', or people's desire to perform activities or jobs as ends in themselves, rather than as means to an end. He has expounded his theories in numerous psychology journal articles and also popular books, … - Michael Jensen
Michael C. Jensen joined the faculty of the Harvard Business School in 1990. Currently, he is the managing director in charge of organizational strategy at Monitor Group, a strategy consulting firm. Before that, he was a professor of finance and business administration at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. - Hiram Sibley
Hiram Sibley (February 6, 1807 - July 12, 1888), was an industrialist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist originally from Massachusetts, and later Rochester, New York. He became interested in the work of Samuel Morse involving the telegraph. In 1840, he joined with Morse and Ezra Cornell to create a Washington to Baltimore telegraph service. Sibley later served as first president of Western Union Telegraph Company. In 1861, Jeptha Wade, founder of Western Union, … - James Longenbach
James Longenbach is an American critic and poet. His early critical work focused on modernist poetry (he has written books on Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, and Wallace Stevens), but he writes extensively about contemporary poetry, too, and has authored two books of poems, "Threshold" and "Fleet River." His most recent book of criticism is "The Resistance to Poetry", … - Michael L. Scott
Michael Lee Scott (born 1959) is a professor of computer science at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. - Anthony Hecht
Anthony Evan Hecht, (January 16 1923 - October 20 2004), was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, and the Holocaust being recurrent themes in his work. - Ronald W. Jones
Ronald W. Jones is an influential international trade economist at the University of Rochester. His recent highly acclaimed book "Globalization and the Theory of Input Trade" (2000) summarizes much of his past work and also discusses the recent market trend toward fragmentation and outsourcing of the production process. Professor Jones also is an author of World Trade and Payments (with Richard E. Caves and Jeffrey A. Frankel), … - John Clark
John Clark is an American jazz horn player and composer. As one of only a handful of horn players proficient in non-classical genres, Clark has performed or recorded with a wide variety of musicians. These include Glen Velez, Jerome Harris, Anthony Jackson, Linda Ronstadt, B. B. King, Oliver Lake, Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Sting, Lew Soloff, David Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Akiko Yano, Leroy Jenkins, Gerry Mulligan, Isaac Hayes, Mike Richmond, Howard Johnson, Carla Bley, … - Richard Fenno
Richard F. Fenno, Jr. (born 12 December 1926) is an American political scientist known for his pioneering work on the U.S. Congress and its members. Fenno grew up in Boston and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war, he graduated from Amherst College in 1948 and completed a Ph.D. degree in political science at Harvard University in 1956. - Richard Thaler
Richard H. Thaler (b. September 12, 1945, in East Orange, NJ) is an economist perhaps best known as a theorist in behavioral finance and for his collaboration with Daniel Kahneman and others in further defining that field. He received his B.S. from Case Western Reserve University in 1967. At the University of Rochester, he received his M.S. in 1970 and his Ph.D. in Economics in 1974. He currently teaches at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, … - Werner Ploberger
Werner Ploberger is an Austrian economist. He graduated in mathematics from the Vienna University of Technology. Beginning in 1997, he was a professor of economics at the University of Rochester. Effective July 1, 2006, he is professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis. He is married to Gabriele Ploberger, and has a son Gregor W. Ploberger. - Ronald Jones
Ronald W. Jones is an influential international trade economist at the University of Rochester. His recent (2000) highly acclaimed book "Globalization and the Theory of Input Trade" summarizes much of his past work and also discusses the recent market trend toward fragmentation and outsourcing of the production process. Professor Jones also is an author of World Trade and Payments (with Richard E. Caves and Jeffrey A. Frankel), … - Zvi Hercowitz
Zvi Hercowitz was born Rosario, Argentina on December 21, 1945 and in December 1965 he emigrated to Israel. In October 1969, after serving in the army, he began his studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he received the Bachelors degree in Economics in February 1973 and the Master of Arts in Economics in July 1975. Immediately after that, he began graduate work at the University of Rochester. - Frederick Fennell
Frederick Fennell, born on July 2, 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio, and died December 7, 2004 in Siesta Key, Florida was an internationally recognized conductor, and one of the primary figures in promoting the wind ensemble as a performing group. He was also influential as a band pedagogue, and greatly impacted the field of music education in the USA and abroad. Fennell chose percussion as his primary instrument at the age of seven, … - Christopher Lasch
Christopher Lasch (born June 1, 1932, Omaha, Nebraska; died February 14, 1994, Pittsford, New York) was a well-known American historian, moralist, and social critic. - Leonard Mandel
Leonard Mandel (May 9, 1927 - February 9 2001) was the Lee DuBridge Professor Emeritus of Physics and Optics at the University of Rochester when he died at the age of 73 at his home in Pittsford, New York. He contributed immensely to theoretical and experimental optics. With Emil Wolf he published the highly-regarded book "Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics." Mandel was born in Berlin, Germany, where his father had emigrated from Eastern Europe. - Kenneth French
Kenneth R. French (born March 10, 1954) is the Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. He has previously been a faculty member at MIT, the Yale School of Management, and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Along with contributing articles to major journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the American Economic Review, … - Tim Kasser
Tim Kasser (August 1, 1966) is an American psychologist and book author known for his work on materialism and well-being. After receiving his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Rochester in 1994, Tim Kasser accepted a position at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he is currently an associate professor of psychology. He has authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters on materialism, values, and goals, among other topics. - Perez Zagorin
Perez Zagorin (May 20, 1920-) is a world-renowned historian specializing in 16th and 17th century English/British history and political thought, early modern European history, and related areas in literature and philosophy. In 1990 following a lengthy tenure, he was named the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Rochester, New York. - Sherwin Rosen
Sherwin Rosen was an American labor economist. He had ties with many American universities and academic institutions including the University of Chicago, the University of Rochester, Stanford University and its Hoover Institution. At the time of his death, Rosen was Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago and president of the American Economic Association. - Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics. The field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. - Lewis White Beck
Lewis White Beck (September 26, 1913 - June 7, 1997) was a scholar in German philosophy. Beck was Burbank Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at the University of Rochester and served as the Philosophy Department chair there from 1949 to 1966. He translated several of Immanuel Kant's works, including the "Critique of Practical Reason", and was the author of "Studies in The Philosophy of Kant" (1965). - George Abbott
George Abbott (June 25 1887 - January 31, 1995) was a theatre producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than seven decades. He was born George Francis Abbott in Forestville, New York, near the town of Salamanca, which twice elected his father mayor. In 1898 his family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he attended Kearney Military Academy. Within a few years his family returned to New York, … - Jeremy Glick
Jeremy Logan Glick was a Strategic Account Manager for Vividence, Inc. who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks, on board United Airlines Flight 93. It is believed that Glick fought back against the terrorists on that flight. Glick was a resident of West Milford, New Jersey. After hijackers took control of United Airlines flight 93, Glick called his wife Lyz, who connected him by conference call to the 9-1-1 system.
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