- Kc Johnson
Dr. Robert David Johnson (1968-), also known as KC Johnson, is a history professor at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is a prolific critic of Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong and some members of the Duke University faculty and administration throughout the Duke Lacrosse Scandal and writes a blog titled "Durham in Wonderland" about the case. Johnson is also co-writing a book about the case, …
- Abraham
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is an American/Israeli theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology. He is currently a professor of astronomy and the director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) at Harvard University. Loeb was born in Israel in 1962 and took part in the national Talpiot program before receiving a graduate degree in Plasma Physics at age 24 from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
- Frank Kermode
Sir John Frank Kermode (born 29 November, 1919), is a British literary critic. Frank Kermode was born on the Isle of Man, and was educated at Douglas High School and Liverpool University. He served in the Royal Navy during World War II, for six years in total, much of it in Iceland. He subsequently pursued an academic career, becoming in 1974 King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University.
- Eric Brewer
Eric Brewer is a former billionaire and main inventor of a wireless networking scheme called WiLDNet which promises to bring low-cost connectivity to rural areas of the developing world. He also was made a tenured professor at UC Berkely at the age of only 32.
- Franz Waxman
Franz Waxman (December 24 1906 - February 24 1967) was a Jewish German American composer, known for his bravura "Carmen Fantasie" for violin and orchestra, based on musical themes from the Bizet opera "Carmen", and for his musical scores for films.
- Arthur Butz
Arthur R. Butz (born 1933 in New York City) is an American Holocaust denier and an associate professor of electrical engineering at Northwestern University, where has been tenured since 1974. Butz attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from which he received both his Bachelor of Science and, in 1956, his Master of Science degrees. In 1965 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
- Peter Duesberg
Peter H. Duesberg (born December 2, 1936 in Germany) is a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for his controversial theories on the cause of AIDS. Duesberg initially gained note, at the age of 33, for being the first scientist to discover a cancer gene (oncogene), which he isolated from a virus.. At 36, he earned tenure at the University of California, Berkeley, …
- Ian Brodie
Dr. Ian Brodie, Ph.D (born July 25, 1967 in Toronto) is a Canadian political scientist and political functionary, who has been Chief of Staff in Stephen Harper's Prime Minister's Office since Harper's ascension to prime minister in 2006. He attended high school at the University of Toronto Schools. He earned a BA in political science from McGill University in Montreal, and an MA and a Ph.D from the University of Calgary.
- James McKeen Cattell
James McKeen Cattell (May 25, 1860-January 20, 1944), American psychologist, was the first professor of psychology in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania. At the beginning of his career, many scientists regarded psychology at best a minor field of study, or at worst a pseudoscience such as phrenology. Perhaps more than any of his contemporaries, Cattell helped establish psychology as a legitimate science, worthy of study at the highest levels of the academy.
- David Blanchflower
David Graham Blanchflower (born March 2, 1952) is a leading labour economist, currently a tenured economics professor at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and an external member of the Bank of England's interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). He is also a current Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, …
- Valery Fabrikant
Valery Fabrikant (born 1940 in Minsk, USSR), is a former associate professor of mechanical engineering at Concordia University. He was the gunman in the school massacre referred to as the Concordia University massacre in which he killed four colleagues. Born in the Soviet Union to a Jewish family, he immigrated to Canada in 1979 and began teaching at Concordia in 1980.
- Daniel Kevles
Professor Kevles recieved his BA from Princeton University (Physics) in 1960, training at Oxford University (European History) from 1960-61, and his PhD from Princeton (History) in 1964.
- William C. Powers
William Charles Powers Jr. is the 28th president of The University of Texas at Austin, a position he has held since February 1, 2006. Powers was selected in November 2005 as the sole finalist for the position of president of the University of Texas at Austin. In December 2005, Powers was officially named the next president of the University and succeeded Larry Faulkner when he left office in February 2006.
- Morton Horwitz
Morton J. Horwitz (born 1938) is a legal historian and law professor at Harvard Law School. The current dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan, relates that during her time at law school, students often nicknamed him as "Mort the Tort" since he taught the first-year subject Torts. Horwitz obtained a A.B. from the City College of New York (1959), an A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University (1962 and 1964), and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School (1967).
- Josephine Miles
Josephine Miles (June 11, 1911 - 1985), poet and literature critic, was the first woman to be tenured in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She wrote over a dozen books of poetry and several works of criticism. Born in Chicago in 1911, she moved around a lot with her family, eventually relocating to Southern California. Due to a disabling athritis, she was educated at home by tutors, …
- Noam Elkies
Noam D. Elkies (born 1966 in New York City) is a mathematician. While an undergraduate at Columbia University, he was a three-time Putnam Fellow. He won the 1982 competition at the age of sixteen years and four months, making him possibly the youngest Putnam Fellow in history. After graduating as valedictorian, he earned his Ph.D. under supervision of Benedict Gross and Barry Mazur at Harvard University.
- Don McKenzie
Don McKenzie is a drummer known to many through his tenure with Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid, in the band Masque. Reid the founder and leader of Masque has described its music as: “the place where rock, jazz, hip-hop and technology meet.” When asked for his views on McKenzie's drumming, Reid says "His sense of pocket is very firm. I've always been fortunate to work with great drummers, like Marlon Browden and Ronald Shannon Jackson and Will Calhoun.
- Emilio Bizzi
Emilio Bizzi is a neuroscientist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his MD from the University of Rome in 1958 and his PhD from the University of Pisa in 1968. He joined MIT as a Research Associate in 1966, was appointed Associate Professor in 1969, and tenured in 1972. He was Director of the Whitaker College of Health Sciences, Technology, …
- Paris Kanellakis
Paris Christos Kanellakis was a computer scientist. Kanellakis was born in Greece as the only child of general Eleftherios and Mrs. Argyroula Kanellakis. In 1976, he received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. He continued his studies at the graduate level in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received an MSc degree in 1978 and a PhD degree in 1982.
- William A. Martin
William A. Martin (1938-1981) was a computer scientist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. After graduating from Northwest Classen High School, where he was a state wrestling champion, he attended MIT where received bachelor's (1960), master's (1962), and PhD (1967) degrees in electrical engineering. While obtaining those degrees, he worked as a teaching assistant at MIT (beginning in 1960).
- Shalom Carmy
Rabbi Shalom Carmy is a tenured professor of Jewish Studies and Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva University. A Brooklyn native, he is a prominent Modern Orthodox theologian, historian, and philosopher. He received his B.A. and M.S. from Yeshiva University, and received his rabbinic ordination from its affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Carmy has written many articles; he is the editor of "Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Thought", …
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (May 10 1900 - December 7 1979) was an English-American astronomer. She was born Cecilia Helena Payne in England and studied botany, physics and chemistry at Cambridge University. She left England for the United States in 1922. In 1925, she became the first person to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard for her dissertation "Stellar Atmospheres, A Contribution to the Observational Study of High Temperature in the Reversing Layers of Stars".
- Robert Langlands
Robert Phelan Langlands (born October 6, 1936 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada) is one of the most significant mathematicians of the 20th century, with profound insights in number theory and representation theory. Langlands attended the University of British Columbia as an undergraduate and received his PhD from Yale University in 1960. During the early 1960s he developed the general theory of Eisenstein series for discrete groups, …
- Stanley J. Korsmeyer
Dr. Stanley J. Korsmeyer (1951 - March 31, 2005) was an American oncologist. Through his studies of apoptosis, Korsmeyer helped develop the concepts of the role of programmed cell death in carcinogenesis. In 1989 Korsmeyer was among the first to confirm that a particular form of lymphoma arose in certain B cells because they had a genetic flaw that caused them to overexpress a gene, Bcl-2, that was involved in the body's normal process for getting rid of them.
- L. Welch Pogue
Lloyd Welch Pogue (October 21, 1899 - May 10, 2003) was a pioneering aviation attorney and Chairman of the old Civil Aeronautics Board. Born in Iowa, Pogue eventually attended Harvard Law School, where noted law Professor and later United States Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter took him in as a protege. As a lawyer, Pogue was entranced by Charles Lindbergh's Trans-Atlantic flight and decided to focus his law career mainly on the "skies".
- Col Campbell
Colin "Col" Campbell is a presenter on Gardening Australia, a TV show on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Colin is also a presenter on Brisbane radio station "4BC Brisbane" as the "Gardening Guru" of weekend mornings (7-10am) where he answers a wide range of questions from callers. Common questions usually involve worries about 'yellowing leaves' (Nitrogen deficiency) or 'funny white fluffy stuff' (mealybug).
- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (born January 13, 1926 in East Orange, New Jersey; died October 9, 2003) was an American academic and feminist author who also wrote mystery novels under the pen name of Amanda Cross. Heilbrun graduated from Wellesley College in 1947, and attended graduate school in English literature at Columbia University, receiving her M.A. in 1951 and Ph.D in 1959. She taught English at Columbia from 1960 to 1993.
- John Bockris
John Bockris is a former professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University whose unorthodox views have provoked controversy. The school's inability to fire him has been cited as an example of the problems caused by academic tenure policies. He has authored or edited 15 books and more than 600 papers in the field. In the 1980s, he experimented with cold fusion and in separate research, …
- Paul Murray Kendall
Paul Murray Kendall (1 March 1911 - 21 November 1973) was an American academic and historian. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Frankford High School in 1928. In 1932 he received an A.B. from the University of Virginia. He received an A.M. in 1933, also from U of V. In 1937, while studying for a Ph.D he became an instructor in English at the Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He obtained a Ph. D. from the University of Virginia in 1939.
- Paul Marlor Sweezy
Paul Marlor Sweezy was a radical economist and the originator of a distinct brand of North American socialism. He was co-founder and co-editor of "Monthly Review" magazine. Sweezy attended graduate courses in economics at Harvard from 1931-32. In 1932, he attended the London School of Economics for a year, during which time he became strongly influenced by marxism.
- Robert M. Schoch
Robert M. Schoch is an American geologist and academic with a special interest in pyramid monuments around the world. He received his Ph.D. in geology and geophysics from Yale in 1983, and as of 2000 is a tenured professor of general studies at Boston University.
- Zoe Newman
Canadian actress Zoe Newman is best known for her role as Ida Lucas on the original Degrassi series, "The Kids of Degrassi Street", which ran from 1981 to 1986. The series was inspired by a 1979 short film titled "Ida Makes a Movie", starring Newman as Ida Lucas, Dawn Harrision as Ida's best friend Catherine "Cookie" Peters, and Allan Melusi as Fred Lucas, the older brother of Ida. Miss Newman became a professor at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
- Luc Sindjoun
Luc Sindjoun is a Professor of Political Science at University of Yaoundé in Cameroon and is currently the Head of the Political Science Department. He is the first African scholar trained in African universities to be successful at the French competition for the promotion to the title of "Agrégé de Science Politique" (Professor tenured). Luc Sindjoun has authored ten books and more than fifty articles in peer reviewed political science journals.
- Prince Albert Taylor Jr
Prince Albert Taylor Jr. (January 27, 1907 - August 15, 2001) was an American Bishop of The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church, elected in 1956. When he died he held the distinction of the longest tenure of all living United Methodist Bishops at that time. Only one other Bishop remained from those elected in 1956: Bishop Ralph Edward Dodge.
- Henri Gastaut
Henri Gastaut (*1915, Monaco - †1995) was a French neurologist. Henri Gastaut was educated in neurology and neuroanatomy at the University of Marseille, graduating M.D. in 1945. In 1953 he became head of the neurobiological laboratories. He was appointed professor of anatomical pathology in 1954 and director of the regional centre for epileptic children in 1960. In 1973 a chair of clinical neurophysiology was established for him, …
- Paul D. N. Hebert
Dr. Paul D.N. Hébert is a Canadian biologist at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada where he is a tenured full professor. He is also a Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biodiversity (Tier I) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Prof. Hébert earned his B.Sc. at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (1969) and his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom (1972). After his Ph.D. studies, Prof.
- Robert J. Kolenkow
Robert J. Kolenkow is an American physicist. He is best known for being the coauthor, along with Daniel Kleppner, of a popular undergraduate physics textbook. Kolenkow did his undergraduate work at MIT, graduating in 1955. For a time, he was an associate professor of physics at MIT. His departure in 1971 generated some controversy on campus; he was regarded as an excellent teacher by his students, however, …
- Jared Billings
- Russell Dykann
- Marisa Fierle