List of University of Michigan alumni

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Academic unit key
Symbol Academic unit
ARCH Taubman College
BUS Ross School of Business
COE College of Engineering
DENT School of Dentistry
GFSPP Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
HHRS Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies
LAW Law School
LSA College of LS&A
MED Medical School
MUSIC School of Music, Theatre and Dance
PHARM School of Pharmacy
SED School of Education
SNRE School of Natural Resources
SOAD School of Art & Design
SOI School of Information
SON School of Nursing
SOK School of Kinesiology
SOSW School of Social Work
SPH School of Public Health
MDNG Matriculated, did not graduate

There are more than 425,000 living alumni of the University of Michigan. Famous alumni include the first American to perform a space walk, the "father" of the iPod, the founders of Sun Microsystems and Google, the father of information theory, and the voice of Darth Vader.

Contents

[edit] Alumni

[edit] Nobel laureates

[edit] Activists

  • Mary Frances Berry (LAW: JD/Ph. D.) - former chairwoman United States Civil Rights Commission.
  • Willie Grace Campbell, (M.A. 1939: sociology). Spent five decades promoting human rights and women's empowerment from Indiana to Washington to Africa. Ms. Campbell launched voter education projects in six inner cities during the 1960s, served as vice chair of the federal African Development Foundation. In 1945 helped establish a chapter of the League of Women Voters. She served as the organization's state president, then rose to the national board in 1959. In the 1970s, she became president of the National Women's Education Fund, part of the National Women's Political Caucus.
  • Cindy Cohn (LAW: J.D 1988) - Attorney for Bernstein v. United States, legal director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
  • George William Crockett (LAW: JD 1934), was an African American attorney, a state court judge in Detroit, Michigan, a United States Representative, and a national vice-president of the National Lawyers Guild. Crockett participated in the founding convention of the racially-integrated National Lawyers Guild in 1937, and later served that organization as its national vice-president. As the first African American lawyer in the U.S. Department of Labor, from 1939-1943, Crockett worked as a senior attorney on employment cases brought under the National Labor Relations Act, a legislative program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Crockett also worked as a hearing officer in the Federal Fair Employment Practices Commission during 1943.
  • Clarence Darrow (LAW 1878) - Leopold and Loeb lawyer, defense attorney for John T. Scopes
  • Terry Davis (BUS: MBA 1962) - Member of the UK Parliament for 28 years, now Secretary General of the Council of Europe and human rights activist.
  • G. Edward Griffin is a documentary film producer and writer. He is Founder and President of The Coalition for Visible Ballots, The Cancer Cure Foundation, and Freedom Force International.
  • Tom Hayden, author of Port Huron Statement, member of Chicago Seven, co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society; later a member of each house of California's Legislature.
  • Scott Hollander (LAW: JD 1990) - Had a character based on his real-life job as a children's advocacy lawyer in the TV show The Guardian. Hollander heads KidsVoice, a nonprofit that gives neglected or abused children free legal services.
  • Alireza Jafarzadeh, Iranian activist and nuclear analyst.
  • Lyman T. Johnson, (AM 1931) history graduate. The grandson of slaves, Mr. Johnson successfully sued to integrate the University of Kentucky, opening that state's colleges and universities to African-Americans five years before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
  • Belford Vance Lawson, Jr. (b. July 9, 1909, Roanoke, Virginia, d. February 26, 1985), was a formidable attorney credited with making at least eight appearances before the Supreme Court. He attended University of Michigan and became the school's first African American varsity football player.
  • Michael Moore, (MDNG) filmmaker and political activist (Flint campus); did not graduate.
  • Michael Newdow (LAW: JD 1988) - Made headlines by challenging the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance
  • Raoul Wallenberg, (ARCH: B.Arch. 1935), rescuer of Jews in World War II.
  • Jerry White (BUS: MBA 2005) - Cofounder and executive director of the Landmine Survivors Network (LSN).
  • Hao Wu (BUS: MBA 2000) - Documentary filmmaker and blogger. Controversially imprisoned by Chinese government for 5 months in 2006.

[edit] Art, architecture, design

See List of University of Michigan arts alumni

[edit] Arts and entertainment

See List of University of Michigan arts alumni

[edit] Astronauts

A campus plaza was named for McDivitt and White in 1965 to honor their accomplishments on the Gemini IV spacewalk. (At the time of its dedication, the plaza was near the Engineering program's facilities, but has since been moved.) An all-University of Michigan crew commanded Gemini IV (James McDivitt and Edward White 1965) and an all-University of Michigan crew of Worden, Irwin and Scott flew aboard Apollo 15 (1971).

[edit] Belles lettres

See List of University of Michigan arts alumni

[edit] Business

See List of University of Michigan business alumni

[edit] Churchill Scholarship

The Churchill Scholarship is aimed at engineering, science and math students.

[edit] Computers, engineering, and technology

  • Claudia Alexander, (Ph. D. 1993), is a member of the technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she was the last project manager of NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and is currently project manager of NASA's role in the European led Rosetta mission to study comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. She was once named UM's Woman of the Year.
  • Frances E. Allen, (MA) First woman to win the Turing Award (2006). An IBM computer science veteran, she is being honored by the Association for Computing Machinery ACM for her work on program optimization and Ptran: program optimization work that led to modern methods for high-speed computing. In 1989, Allen was made the first female IBM Fellow. She is now an IBM Fellow Emeritus, recognized for her work in mentoring women and men in technology.
  • Benjamin Franklin Bailey, studied electrical engineering and later held the positions of chief engineer of the Fairbanks Morse Electrical Manufacturing Company and Howell Electrical Motor Company, director of Bailey Electrical Company, and vice-president and director of the Fremont Motor Corporation. He became professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan in 1913.
  • Arden L. Bement Jr., (Ph. D. 1963), Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF); awarded the ANSI's Chairman's award in 2005.
  • James Blinn (BS Physics) and Communications Science, (1970), MS Information and Control Engineering, (1972). 3D computer imaging pioneer. 1991, MacArthur Fellowship in recognition of and to allow continuation of his work in educational animation. "There are about a dozen great computer graphics people, and Jim Blinn is six of them." —Ivan Sutherland
  • Lee Boysel (BSE EE 1962, MSE EE 1963) Did pioneering work on Metal-oxide semiconductor transistors and systems during his years at IBM, Fairchild Semiconductor and McDonnell (now McDonnell-Douglas) Aerospace Corporation. He went on to found Four-Phase Systems Inc., a company that produced the computer industry's first LSI semiconductor memory system and the first LSI central processing unit (CPU) and began shipping them in data terminals as early as 1969. After founding Four-Phase, Boysel served as president, CEO and chairman of Motorola Inc. He purchased Four-Phase in 1982.
  • John Seely Brown, (Ph. D 1970), formerly Chief Scientist of Xerox, and co-author of "The Social Life of Information"
  • Jon Burgstone, (MSE), founder of the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at UC Berkeley
  • Robert Cailliau (COE: MSc Computer, Information and Control Engineering 1971) (b. 26 January 1947) is one of the co-developers of the World Wide Web. In December 1974 he started working at CERN as a Fellow in the Proton Synchrotron (PS) division, working on the control system of the accelerator. In April 1987 he left the PS division to become group leader of Office Computing Systems in the Data Handling division. In 1989, he and Tim Berners-Lee independently proposed a hypertext system for access to the CERN documentation. This led to a common proposal in 1990 and then to the World Wide Web. Won the 1995 ACM Software System Award with Tim Berners-Lee
  • Irwin Chase, (COE: BSE Marine Engineering 1906), Inventor of the PT boat, a designer who also served for 37 years in the U.S. Navy and was awarded a Silver Star.
  • Sureyya Ciliv, (COE: EECSE, IOE). CEO of Turkcell (NYSE: TKC) the only Turkish company on the New York Stock Exchange. Turkcell is the dominant mobile phone provider in Turkey, with almost two-thirds of the country's market share. He was most recently general manager of worldwide field readiness strategy and systems for Microsoft. He co-founded Novasoft Systems Inc. in Boston and for the next decade held positions as CEO as well as Chairman of the Board of the firm.
  • Harry H. Coll, president Chris-Craft Industries
  • Marcus J. Collier, BS naval architecture and marine engineering. President, systems engineering group, Anteon International Corp., a Fairfax-based information technology company serving the federal government and international customers.
  • Tony Fadell (COE: BSE CompE 1991) - "Father" of the Apple iPod. Created all five generations of the company's iPod digital music device and the Apple iSight camera.
  • James D. Foley (Ph.D. 1969) - Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Co-author of several widely-used textbooks in the field of computer graphics, of which over 300,000 copies are in print. ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow, recipient of 1997 Steven A. Coons Award.
  • Robert A. Fuhrman (COE: BSE AA 1945) - Prominent leader at Lockheed; retired as vice chair and chief operating officer; a member of the National Academy of Engineering; sat on the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and the Defense Science Board.
  • Jim Goodrich, (BS NAM 1937) guided Bath Iron Works Corporation, which designed 245 military ships for the U.S. Navy. He also served as The United States UnderSecretary of the U.S. Navy.
  • John Henry Holland, First UM Computer Science PhD, and originator of genetic algorithms.
  • Charles S. Hutchins (COE: BSE MEAM 1957) - Co-founder of Manufacturing Data Systems Inc. Widely recognized as the father of computer-aided manufacturing.
  • Clarence "Kelly" Johnson (COE: 1932 BSE, 1933 MSE, 1964 PhD (Hon)) - Founder of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works.
  • Gloria Jeff, (BSE CE 1974, MSE 1976, MUP 1976) has broken ground in two areas. In 2003, she became the first woman -- and the first African American -- to lead the State of Michigan Department of Transportation.
  • Bill Joy (COE: BSE CompE 1975, 2004 D.Eng. (Hon)) - Co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Dubbed by one publication "...the Edison of the Internet.". In 1986, Joy was awarded a Grace Murray Hopper Award by the ACM for his work on the UNIX Operating System.
  • Thomas (COE: BS EP 1982, MSE CI CE 1984) and John Knoll - Co-creators of Adobe Photoshop.
  • Bernie Lacroute, (COE: MS EE), involved in the development of the PDP-11, the Ethernet and VAX will at Digital Equipment Corporation; later, and EVP at Sun Microsystems. He has served on the boards of Flextronics, Aptix, Calico, CellNet, Escalade, NAT Systems and Zambeel. He is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a noted Silicon Valley VC firm.
  • Chris Langton (Ph. D.) Computer Science. “Father” of Artificial Life, described as: “…the study of man-made systems that exhibit behaviors characteristic of natural living systems". Founder of the Swarm Corporation. Distinguished Expellee of the Santa Fe Institute.
  • Eugene McAllaster, (BS 1889) Distinguished Seattle naval architect and marine engineer with his own firm McAllaster & Bennett. Designer of Seattle's historic fireboat Duwamish (1909) and consulting engineer on Seattle's massive Denny Hill and Jackson Street Regrades.
  • Thomas A. Mehlhorn (COE: BSE NE 1974, MSE 1976, PhD 1978) - Manager of high energy density physics and inertial confinement fusion target design at Sandia National Laboratories.
  • Sid Meier Considered by some to be the “…father of Computer Gaming.” Created the computer games Civilization as well as Pirates!, Railroad Tycoon and SimGolf.
  • James R. Mellor (COE: BSE EE 1952, MSE 1954) - Joined General Dynamics in 1981; served in various key capacities until retiring in 1997 as chairman and CEO.
  • Carl Page(COE: BSE CE 1986; MSE 1988) whose younger brother is Google co-founder Larry Page. Raised money in 2006 for a new company Handheld Entertainment of San Francisco, which makes a portable device for playing digital audio and video, a company that was co-founded -- and funded -- three years ago by Mr. Page, where he is Chief Technology Officer. In 1997, he co-founded eGroups in San Francisco, at about the same time his brother was launching Google. Egroups was sold to Yahoo in 2000 for $420 million worth of Yahoo stock.
  • Larry Page (COE: BSE 1995) - Co-founder of Google. In 2002, Page was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee (NAC) of the University of Michigan College of Engineering, and together with co-founder Sergey Brin, he was honored with the Marconi Prize in 2004. He is a trustee on the board of the X PRIZE and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.
  • Eugene B. Power (BUS: BA 1927, MBA 1930) - Founder of University Microfilms Inc. (now ProQuest). Power (K.B.E., hon.) was president of the Power Foundation and an honorary fellow of Magdalene College.
  • Claude E. Shannon (COE: BS EE 1936, BA Math 1936) - Considered by some to be "father of digital circuit design theory" and "father of information theory". A paper drawn from his 1937 master's thesis, A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits, was published in the 1938 issue of the Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. It also earned Shannon the Alfred Noble American Institute of American Engineers Award in 1940.
  • Joseph Francis Shea (BS 1946, MS 1950, PhD 1955). Manager of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office during Project Apollo.
  • Goff Smith (COE: BSE 1938), (BUS: MBA 1939). Chairman and CEO (emeritus) of Amsted Industries.
  • Michael Stonebraker (MA 1967, PH.D 1971). A computer scientist specializing in database research. He is also the founder of Ingres, Illustra, Cohera and StreamBase Systems, and was previously the CTO of Informix. Received the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 2005.
  • Hau Thai-Tang (MBA 1993), Director of Advanced Product Creation and Special Vehicle Team at Ford Motor Company, Chief Engineer of the 2005 Ford Mustang
  • Simon P. "Pete" Worden (A.B.), a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general, became the director of NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffet Field, Calif in 2006. Ames Research Center , withmore than $3 billion in capital equipment, 2,500 research personnel and an approximately $600 million annual budget, “… has a significant economic impact in the region…”. During his Air Force service, Worden held director and deputy director level positions with the Air Force Space Command, where he was responsible for developing new programs, including next generation launch concepts. He also was commander of the 50th Space Wing, U.S. Air Force Space Command. He also served as 2nd deputy for technology with the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, where he received the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal for directing the 1994 Clementine lunar probe mission.
  • Niklas Zennstrom, founder of Skype (recently sold to eBay) He has a dual degree in business and computer science from Uppsala University; spent his final year in the US at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

[edit] Educators

  • Charles Kendall Adams, graduated in 1861, obtaining the degree of M.A. from his Alma Mater in the following year. Historian and 2nd President of Cornell University (1885-1892).
  • Edgardo J. Angara (LAW: LLM 1964) Secretary of Agriculture (emeritus) of the Philippines and former Executive Secretary. He founded in the early 70's what “… eventually became the country's most prestigious law firm- the Angara, Concepcion, Cruz, Regala and Abello Law Offices, better known as ACCRA Law”. Angara gained recognition during his stint as President of the University of the Philippines from 1981 to 1987, where he defended the University's academic freedom and significantly improved its financial and human resources.
  • James Rowland Angell, (BA 1890), emeritus President of Yale University.
  • Dr. Khaled S. Al-Sultan (MS, applied mathematics; COE: Ph.D. in IOE), (born 1 January 1963 in Al-Gassim, Saudi Arabia) is the third rector of King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) a public university in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
  • Ida Louise Altman (A.B.) Author of Emigrants and Society, was born in Washington, D.C.
  • Robert F. Bacher, Ph. D. Member of the Manhattan Project. Subsequently professor of physics at Caltech and president of the Universities Research Association.
  • Sylvia Bashevkin, (MA) the first woman to be named principal of University of Toronto's University College (UC).
  • Willard L. Boyd III, (LAW: LL.M, SJD) University President Emeritus and Rawlins/Miller Professor University of Iowa, College of Law. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Law Institute, the Department of State Cultural Property Advisory Committee, and the board of National Arts Strategies.
  • Allen Britton, (Ph. D. 1949). American music educator. Former president of Music Educators National Conference.
  • George W. Breslauer, (A.B., A.M, Ph. D) a political science professor and Russia specialist at the University of California, Berkeley, was named Berkeley’s executive vice chancellor and provost, the campus's chief academic officer and the chancellor's second-in-command. Breslauer, 60, has been on the UC Berkeley faculty for 35 years. He will directly oversee a total budget of $500 million and close to 5,000 full time employees. Dr. Breslauer has written or edited 12 books. He currently is editor-in-chief of the quarterly publication "Post-Soviet Affairs."
  • Urie Bronfenbrenner, (Ph. D), helped create the federal Head Start program. Was credited with creating the interdisciplinary field of human ecology; and was widely regarded as one of the world's leading scholars in developmental psychology and child-rearing. Author, co-author or editor of 14 books and more than 300 articles and chapters. The American Psychological Association gives an annual award in his name for contributions to developmental psychology.
  • William Wallace Campbell, (COE: BSE 1886) astronomer and tenth President of the University of California (1923-30). In 1931, he was elected president of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • Katharine Coman (AB 1880) (1857 - 1915) was a social activist and distinguished economist. She specialized in teaching about the development of the American West. She was professor of history (1883-1900) and then chaired the Economics Department and was dean of Wellesley College. Wellesley College]] named a professorship in her honor.
  • Charles Horton Cooley (BA 1887; PhD 1894)(1864-1929) was an American sociologist. Cooley's concept of the "looking glass self" is undoubtedly his most famous, and is known and accepted by most psychologists and sociologists today. It expanded William James's idea of self to include the capacity of reflection on its own behavior.
  • Joanne V. Creighton (Ph.D. in English literature) is currently serving as president of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA.Was provost and professor of English from 1990-1994 at Wesleyan University and was Wesleyan's interim president from 1994 to 1995.
  • John DiBiaggio, (MA) served as president of the University of Connecticut from 1979 to 1985, Michigan State University from 1985 to 1992 and Tufts University from 1992 to 2001.
  • Aaron Dworkin (A.B. 1997, M.M. 1998), 2005 MacArthur Fellow and founder and president of Detroit-based Sphinx Organization, which strives to increase the number of African-Americans and Latinos having careers in classical music.
  • Richard A. English, (MA 1961, MSW 1964, PhD 1970). Formerly Dean and professor of social work at the Howard University School of Social Work from 1985 to 2003.
  • Yoon-Dae Euh (BUS: PhD 1975) - President of Korea University in Seoul. Awarded honorary doctorate from Waseda University of Japan.
  • Patrick Farrell, (COE: Ph. D. (mechanical engineering)). Named Provost, or chief academic officer, for the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006.
  • Edwin Francis Gay (AB 1890), First Dean of Harvard Business School. Served in that capacity during the years 1908-1919.
  • Stephen Goodman, (B.S. 1984, A.B.D.) a 2005 MacArthur Fellow is an adjunct research investigator in the U-M Museum of Zoology's bird division, and a conservation biologist in the Department of Zoology at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.
  • Roy Grow is the Kellogg Professor of International Relations and the director of the International Relations program at Carleton College. His specialty is the political economy of East Asia, specifically China and Southeast Asia. Grow's course topics at Carleton includes US Foreign Policy history, Intelligence Theory, Terrorism and Guerrilla Warfare, Chinese politics, Russian and Soviet Government, Political Economy, and Marxism. Professor Grow previously served as a military interpreter and analyst in Asia. He later earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1973.
  • Alice Hamilton, toxicologist, scientist and first female faculty member at Harvard Medical School.
  • David J. Herring (BUS: BBA 1980, JD 1985) - Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law (1998-2005).
  • Roger W. Heyns, (Ph. D. 1949). Chancellor, Berkeley, 1965-1971. "He came like a gift of heaven to leadership of the Berkeley campus. He was an ambassador of good will...." Joined the University of Michigan faculty in 1947, received the Outstanding Teaching Award in 1952, and the Faculty Distinguished Service Award in 1958.
  • Lyman T. Johnson, (AM 1931) history graduate. The grandson of slaves, Mr. Johnson successfully sued to integrate the University of Kentucky, opening that state's colleges and universities to African-Americans five years before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
  • Rosabeth Moss Kanter , (MA 1965, Ph. D 1967) first tenured female professor at Harvard Business School
  • Jeffrey S. Lehman (LAW: JD 1977) - 11th President of Cornell University (2003-2005 )
  • Rensis Likert , (B.A. 1926) in Sociology and Economics. Rensis Likert was a founder of The University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and was the director from its inception in 1946 until 1970, when he retired and founded Rensis Likert Associates to consult for numerous corporations.
  • Mayo Moran (LAW: LLM), named — in 2005 — the dean of the University of Toronto's Faculties of Law.
  • Norman Ornstein, (MA Political Science, PhD 1974 Political Science), Scholar: Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University.
  • Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer, (A.B. 1876, PhD. Hon 1882). Appointed to accept the post of head of the history department at Wellesley College in 1879 and was named the acting president of Wellesley in 1881. In 1882 she became president.
  • Henry Wade Rogers, (BA 1874, MA 1877). At Michigan: Professor of Law 1883; Law School Dean 1885-1890. President of Northwestern University 1890-1900.
  • Robert Rosenzweig, President (emeritus) Association of American Universities (AAU), a consortium of research universities.
  • Alexander Ruthven (PH.D) ; President of the University of Michigan.
  • Claude Steiner (Ph.D 1965) was born January 6, 1935 in Paris, France. In 1957 he met and became a follower of Eric Berne, psychiatrist and founder of the Transactional Analysis school of psychotherapy. He is founding member and teaching fellow of the International Transactional Analysis Association.
  • Leonard Suransky, winner of the Des Lee Visiting Lectureship in Global Awareness at Webster University.
  • Amos Tversky, (Ph. D. 1965). Long-time collaborator with Daniel Kahneman (who was the 2002 winner of Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his work in prospect theory) and co-founder of prospect theory in economics.
  • Charles M. Vest (COE: MSE 1964, PhD 1967) - President (emeritus) of MIT 1990-2004.
  • Robert W. Vishny (AB, highest distinction, 1981) is an American economist and the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is one of the prominent representatives of the school of behavioural finance. His research papers (many of them written jointly with Andrei Shleifer, Rafael LaPorta and Josef Lakonishok) are among the most often cited research works in the field of economic sciences in recent years.
  • Albert H. Wheeler (SPH: Ph.D) (1915-April 4, 1994) was a life-sciences professor and politician in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He became the city's first African-American mayor, serving in the office from 1975 to 1978. In 1952, he became an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Michigan, and eventually became the university's first tenured African-American professor.
  • B. Joseph White (BUS: PhD 1975) - 16th President of the University of Illinois
  • Robert Roy White (COE: BSE ChemE 1938, PhD ChemE 1941) - Former administrator at the National Academy of Sciences. In 1967, he became the first dean of the School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. A 1951 Life Magazine article, "Hope for the Future," profiled Dr. White, noting that he was the youngest full professor in the university's history. The article also mentioned his favorite hobby: playing several games of chess simultaneously while blindfolded. He was director of the University of Michigan Institute for Science and Technology in 1959-60 and a chemical engineering consultant for numerous companies.
  • Jerome Wiesner (COE: BS 1937, MS 1938, PhD 1950) - MIT Provost 1968-1971, President of MIT 1971-1980, (deceased)
  • Richard Wilson, (ED 1978), president of Illinois Wesleyan University.
  • Phyllis Wise, (M.S. 1969, Ph. D 1972), University of Washington provost or Chief Academic officer. Manages $3 billion annual budget.
  • Yi-Fang Wu, (Ph. D, 1928), was the first female college president in China, heading Ginling College from 1928 to 1951 before it was combined with the University of Nanking (Nanjing).

[edit] Fiction/non-fiction

See List of University of Michigan arts alumni.

[edit] Journalism/publishing/broadcasting

  • Roz Abrams MA, co-anchors "CBS 2 News at 5 PM" and "CBS 2 News at 11 PM." Abrams has been a reporter and anchor for almost 30 years, most recently with WABC in New York, where she spent eighteen years.
  • Ray Stannard Baker (MDNG LAW: 1891). Biographer of Woodrow Wilson
  • Richard Berke, New York Times political reporter
  • Donna Britt
  • Jon Chait, (BA 1994)- Senior Editor for The New Republic
  • Jeff Cohen Founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Left the group to produce Donahue on MSNBC.
  • Ann Coulter (LAW: JD 1988) - Conservative author and attorney
  • Wayne Dyer Sometimes called the “…father of motivation”
  • Larry Elder (LAW: JD 1977) - talk radio show host, author, and TV show host
  • Win Elliot, legendary Sports announcer and journalist.
  • John Fahey, (BUS: MBA 1975) and President and CEO of the National Geographic Society. During his tenure, Fahey has led an evolution of the National Geographic Society, including its entry into cable television with the National Geographic Channel, which airs in 27 languages and reaches over 285 million homes in 163 countries. Prior to joining National Geographic, Fahey was chairman, president and CEO of Time Life Inc. He was selected as one of Advertising Age's top 100 marketers.
  • James Russell Gaines, 1973, is managing editor of Time Magazine
  • Charles Gibson or Charles Dewolf Gibson (BA 1973). Journalist for Good Morning America
  • Arnold Gingrich, 1925, was a founder/publisher of Esquire.
  • Todd Alan Gitlin (MA 1966), Political Science. Professor of journalism and social critic.
  • Robin Givhan, (M.A. journalism) won a 2006 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Givhan is a staff writer for The Washington Post and was honored for writing "…essays that transform fashion criticism into cultural criticism…" . Prior to working for the Post in 1995, Givhan worked for the Detroit Free Press.
  • Gael Greene, noted food critic.
  • Sanjay Gupta, (MED: ), CNN anchor, reporter and senior medical correspondent.
  • Leon Jaroff, (COE: BSE EE, BS EM 1950), has been a mainstay for the Time, Inc. family of publications since he joined the company as an editorial trainee for LIFE magazine in 1951. He moved over to Time in 1954, and became its chief science writer in 1966. In 1970, he was named a senior editor, a post he kept until he semi-retired in 2000.
  • Paul Kangas A stockbroker for twelve years, Kangas has been host of Nightly Business Report since it was a local Florida program in 1979. The show is still hosted from Florida. Kangas's ham call sign is W4LAA.
  • William F. Kerby, (AB 192?), chairman, Dow Jones and Company
  • Laurence Kirshbaum, (AB 1966), is the chairman of Time Warner Book Group, which is responsible for Warner Books and Little Brown.
  • Melvin J. Lasky, (MA History), During WWII Lasky was a combat historian in France and Germany, and an assistant to the U.S. Military Governor of Berlin in early postwar years. Subsequently, he founded and was Editor of the anti-Communist journal Encounter, which was in April 1966 shown by The New York Times (Lasky claimed this was without his knowledge) to be secretly financed by the CIA, via the front organization Congress for Cultural Freedom.
  • Ann Marie Lipinski, Editor, Chicago Tribune
  • John Madigan (BUS: BBA 1958, MBA 1959) - Chairman and CEO (emeritus), Tribune Company.
  • Robert McHenry, encyclopedist and author. Editor-in-chief (emeritus) of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  • John J. Miller, National Political Reporter for the National Review
  • Pam Moore, Anchors KRON 4 News on weekdays. At KRON since 1991, Moore has “…garnered a bevy of prestigious honors…”, including a George Foster Peabody Award for her five-part series, “About Race,” an Emmy for her series on HMOs, and the Associated Press Television-Radio Award for “Mercury Rising.”
  • Sara Moulton (AB 1974) is the executive chef of Gourmet magazine and was host of the Food Network show Sara's Secrets and Cooking Live.
  • Daniel Okrent, 1969, public editor, New York Times and founding father of Rotisserie League Baseball.
  • Marvin Olasky, (Ph. D. 1976_, conservative pundit
  • Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow .
  • John Papanek, (AB 1973), is the Senior Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of ESPN.com and ESPN New Media.
  • P. Anthony Ridder, (AB 1962), president emeritus of the Knight Ridder newspaper chain
  • Rob Siegel, 1993, was the editor-in-chief of The Onion. Siegel led the editorial staff of 10 to come up with funny headlines and tongue-in-cheek stories mocking American life, society and media.
  • Carole Simpson, ABC News correspondent.
  • Bert Randolph Sugar (LAW: JD) - "…has become synonymous with boxing…" Served as editor at The Ring, Boxing Illustrated, and Fight Game magazines. Written more than 80 books on boxing, baseball, horse racing, and sports trivia.
  • Jerald F. ter Horst, also known as Jerald Franklin ter Horst. (BA 1947) Served as Gerald Ford's short-term press secretary
  • Mike Wallace, TV journalist, longtime host of 60 Minutes Winner of 20 Emmys and three Peabodys.
  • Margaret Wente (B.A.) “…one of Canada's leading columnists.” A writer for The Globe and Mail, she is the 2006 winner of the National Newspaper Award for column-writing. She has edited two leading business magazines, Canadian Business and ROB Magazine.
  • David Westin, (BA, with honors and distinction) (LAW: JD summa cum laude). President of ABC News.
  • Margaret Bourke White, (MDNG: 1922-1924), was a photographer and journalist
  • Roger Wilkens, (AB 1953, LAW: LLB 1956, HLHD 1993), was a journalist of the Washington Post. He shared the Pulitzer Prize for his Watergate editorials.
  • Bob Woodruff, (LAW: JD) ABC Nightly News anchor, who replaced Peter Jennings.
  • Robin Wright, Washington Post

[edit] Law, government, and public policy

See List of University of Michigan law and government alumni.

[edit] MacArthur Foundation award winners

  • James Blinn (BS Physics) and Communications Science, (1970), MS Information and Control Engineering, (1972).
  • Caroline Walker Bynum (BA 1962) is an American Medieval scholar and MacArthur Fellow.
  • W.A. Christian Jr., (1986), 1971 alumnus. religious studies scholar.
  • Philip DeVries, (1988), 1962 alumnus who won as a biologist.
  • William H. Durham, (1983), 1973 alumnus, anthropologist.
  • Aaron Dworkin, (2005) M.A. 1998, Fellow and founder and president of Detroit-based Sphinx Organization, which strives to increase the number of African-Americans and Latinos having careers in classical music.
  • Stephen Goodman, (2005) A.B.D., Fellow is an adjunct research investigator in the U-M Museum of Zoology's bird division, and a conservation biologist in the Department of Zoology at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.
  • David Green, (2004), alumnus, Executive Director, Project Impact.
  • John Henry Holland,(1992), alumnus and professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering; professor of psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
  • Thylias Moss, (1996) PhD 1975, Fellow and professor of English.
  • Cecilia Munoz, (2000), alumna, vice president of the National Council of La Raza.
  • Amos Tversky, (1984), (PhD. 1965) alumnus, psychologist.
  • Karen K. Uhlenbeck, (1983), alumna 1964, mathematician.
  • George Zweig, (1981), 1959 alumnus, physicist.

[edit] Marshall scholarship

  • Jacob Bourjaily 2005
  • Lyric Ingrid Chen 2007
  • Hans Hsu 1984
  • Anne Jellema 1987
  • Lauris Kaldjian 1984
  • Benjamin Novick 1996
  • Stephen O'Harrow 1962
  • Gregory Parston 1973
  • Philip Power 1962
  • David Rottenberg 1963
  • Heather Stoll 1997
  • Patti Waldmeir 1978
  • Michael Weiss 1994
  • Hugh Witemeyer 1961

[edit] Mathematics

  • Marjorie Lee Brown, (Ph. D. 1949/1950), arguably the first African-American woman to earn doctorate in math.
  • Edgar F. Codd (Ph. D. 1965). A mathematician and computer scientist who laid the theoretical foundation for relational databases. Dr. Codd's idea, based on mathematical set theory, was to store data in cross-referenced tables, allowing the information to be presented in multiple permutations. To his frustration, I.B.M. largely ignored his work, as the company was investing heavily at the time in commercializing a different type of database system. I.B.M. was beaten to the market by Lawrence J. Ellison of Oracle. In 1981, he received the Turing Award.
  • Stephen A. Cook (A.B. 1961). He received the Turing Award in 1982. Cook formalised the notion of NP-completeness in a famous 1971 paper "The Complexity of Theorem Proving Procedures", which also contained Cook's theorem, a proof that the boolean satisfiability problem is NP-complete. The paper left open theoretical computer science's greatest unsolved question - whether complexity classes P and NP are equivalent, the answer to which has eluded researchers since.
  • George Dantzig (M.A. Math 1937), father of linear programming. At UM, studied under T.H. Hildebrandt, R.L. Wilder, and G.Y. Rainer.
  • Sister Mary Celine Fasenmyer (Ph.D. 1946) a mathematician noted for her work on hypergeometric functions and linear algebra. After getting her Ph.D., Sister Celine published two papers which expanded on her doctorate work. These papers would be further elaborated by Doron Zeilberger and Herbert Wilf into "WZ theory", which allowed computerized proof of many combinatorial identities. After this, she returned to Mercyhurst to teach and did not engage in further research.
  • Walter Feit (P.h. D. 1955), winner of the 7th Cole Prize in 1965, and famous for proving the Feit-Thompson theorem. Seventh award, 1965: To Walter Feit and John G. Thompson for their joint paper, Solvability of groups of odd order, Pacific Journal of Mathematics, volume 13 (1963), pp. 775-1029.
  • Frederick Gehring, (AB 1946) the T. H. Hildebrandt Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, received one of the highest distinctions in his field from the American Mathematical Society (AMS) January 13 2006. Gehring was the recipient of the 2006 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, an annual award that honors those who have made outstanding contributions to research in mathematics. The prize was awarded at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Antonio. Taught at Michigan from 1955 until his retirement in 1996. He was invited three times to address the International Congress of Mathematicians and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989. In 1997, the Frederick and Lois Gehring Chair in Mathematics was endowed.
  • Theophil Henry Hildebrandt, or T.H. Hildebrandt. He spent the major portion of his professional career at the University of Michigan, where he went as an instructor of mathematics in 1909. He served as chairman of the department from 1934 until his retirement in 1957. Professor Hildebrandt received the second Chauvenet Prize of the Mathematical Association of America in 1929.
  • Theodore Kaczynski (PhD 1967) better known as the Unabomber, had been one of U-M's most promising mathematicians. He earned his Ph.D. by solving, in less than a year, a math problem that his advisor Piranian had been unable to solve. Kaczynski's specialty was a branch of complex analysis known as geometric function theory. In 1967, Kaczynski received a $100 prize recognizing his dissertation, entitled "Boundary Functions," as the school's best in math that year. At Michigan he held a National Science Foundation fellowship, he taught undergraduates for three years, and published two articles related to his dissertation in mathematical journals. He later chose to abandon his promising mathematics career to engage in a mail bombing campaign.
  • Donald John Lewis (PhD 1950) better known as D.J. Lewis, is an American mathematician specializing in number theory. Studied under the supervision of Richard Dagobert Brauer, and subsequently was an NSF Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1952–1953), an NSF Senior Fellow (1959–1961), a Senior Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University (1965, 1969), a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University (1976), and Humboldt Awardee (1980, 1983). He chaired the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan (1984-1994), and served as director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He was long active in the American Mathematical Society (AMS), and in 1995 received its Distinguished Public Service Award.
  • Leonard Jimmie Savage (B.S. 1938). Savage's book The Foundations of Statistics (1954) "…is perhaps his greatest achievement…". As recounted in Fortune's Formula, Savage rediscovered Bachelier and introduced his theories to Paul Samuelson, who corrected Bachelier and used his thesis on randomness to advance derivative pricing theory.
  • Isadore M. Singer, (B.A. 1944), winner of the Abel Prize, the "Nobel of mathematics" , and the Bôcher Memorial Prize
  • Stephen Smale (B.S. 1952 , M.S. 1953, Ph. D. 1957), Fields Medal Winner. Winner of the 2007 Wolf Prize in mathematics. Smale's other honors include the 1965 Veblen Prize for Geometry, awarded every five years by the American Mathematical Society; in 1988, the Chauvenet Prize by the Mathematical Association of America; and in 1989, the Von Neumann Award by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
  • Frank Spitzer (BA, PhD), a mathematician who made fundamental contributions to probability theory, including the theory of random walks, fluctuation theory, percolation theory, and especially the theory of interacting particle systems. Spitzer's first academic appointments were at the California Institute of Technology (1953 - 1958), but most of his academic career was spent at Cornell University, with leaves at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Sweden. Among many his many honors, Spitzer was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • Norman Steenrod (A.B. 1932), algebraic topologist and author of The Topology of Fiber Bundles. Believed to have coined the phrase abstract nonsense used in category theory.
  • Karen Uhlenbeck, (B.S. 1964), professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents' Chair in Mathematics. She is one of the world's foremost researchers on non-linear differential equations and their geometric properties and has made a commitment to young women mathematicians, and has received a MacArthur Fellowship and a National Medal of Science, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was the first woman mathematician elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
  • Robert Simpson Woodward (A.B. 1872). Professor of mechanics and mathematical physics at Columbia (1899-1904). President of the American Mathematical Society from 1899 to 1900. In 1904 became President of the newly formed Carnegie Institute of Washington.

[edit] Medicine

  • William Henry Beierwaltes, B.S. 1938, (MED: MD 1941). A national champion of the use of radioiodine together with surgery — now the standard of thyroid diagnosis and care. Lead author of first book on nuclear medicine: Clinical Use of Radioisotopes, published in 1957. Credited with the original idea to bind radioactive iodine, I-131, to the hormone-like substance called meta-iodobenzylguanadine (MIBG), as a way of carrying detectable radioactivity directly to cells in the center of the adrenal gland and related tissues. Co-holder of a patent on MIBG. Helped develop radiocholesterol. One of the first physicians to propose the detection of cancers using antibodies attached to radioactive elements.
  • David Botstein, (PhD 1967). Formed the insight that the human genome could be mapped. This insight, published in 1980, was a milestone in genetics. It laid the foundation for one of the most important scientific undertakings in recent history: the Human Genome Project. It also established Botstein — now director of Princeton's Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics — as a pioneer in genetics. "He is a towering intellect in the field of molecular genetics," says Princeton President Tilghman, "He's one of a handful of the greatest living geneticists." Botstein, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, has won numerous awards, including the Genetics Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation.
  • Alexa Canady, (AB 1971), (MED: MD 1975), became the first African-American female neurosurgeon in the country when she was 30. For almost 15 years, she served as chief of neurosurgery at Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit.
  • Benjamin S. Carson, MD 1977, is the director of the division of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University.
  • Chi Van Dang, (BA ) MD and Vice Dean of Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
  • Ronald M. Davis, (A.B.), Named President-Elect American Medical Association (AMA), the nation's largest and most influential physician organization. Dr. Davis served as the first resident physician member on the AMA Board of Trustees from 1984 to 1987. Dr. Davis has chaired the AMA Council on Scientific Affairs and the AMA Specialty and Service Society, a consortium of 100 national medical specialty societies represented in the AMA House of Delegates. Currently, he is the director of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.
  • Julio Frenk, (SPH: M.P.H. 1981, MA 1982, Ph. D. 1983). Minister of Health for Mexico.
  • Alice Hamilton, (MED: M.D. 1893), a specialist in lead poisoning and industrial diseases. Known as the "Mother of Industrial Health." In 1919, she became the first woman on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and also became the first woman ever to receive tenure there. She was recently honored with her picture on the 55-cent postage stamp.
  • Jerome P. Horwitz, PhD 1950, synthesized AZT in 1964, a drug now used to treat AIDS.
  • James B. Hudak (GFSPP: MPP) Chairman of its Board of Directors of MedAvant Healthcare Solutions (MedAvant) (NASDAQ:PILL) as of 2007, a leader in healthcare technology and transaction services. Hudak joined the MedAvant Board of Directors in June 2006, the same month he retired as Chief Executive Officer of Behavioral Solutions, a $1.2 billion business segment of UnitedHealth Group. He was CEO of UnitedHealth Technologies from 1999 to 2003. Prior to UnitedHealth, Hudak spent 19 years at Accenture, formerly Andersen Consulting, where he rose to the position of global managing partner of the healthcare practice.
  • Paul de Kruif, 1910-1912, (PhD 1916), is the author of Microbe Hunters.
  • Josiah K. Lilly Jr., 1914 college of pharmacy graduate. Chairman and President of Eli Lilly.
  • William James Mayo, (MED: MD 1883), co-founder of the Mayo Clinic.
  • Herman Webster Mudgett, a/k/a Henry H. Holmes, 19th-century serial killer.
  • Richard T. Miyamoto, (MED: MD 1970). Elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.
  • Leonard Andrew Scheele (BA 1931) (July 25, 1907–January 8, 1993) was the United States Surgeon General from 1948 to 1956.
  • Eric B. Schoomaker (BS 1970, MED: MD 1975) Major General is a Doctor of Medicine in the United States Army. On 2 March 2007, the Army announced that Schoomaker had been appointed the new commander of the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Schoomaker had been the commanding general of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command at Fort Detrick.
  • Thomas L. Schwenk, (MED: MD 1975). Elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002.
  • John Clark Sheehan, (MS 1938, PhD 1941), chemist who pioneered the first synthetic penicillin breakthrough in 1957.
  • Norman Shumway(MDNG) , heart transplantation pioneer, entered the University of Michigan as a pre-law student, but was drafted into the Army in 1943.
  • Parvinder Singh (PHARM: Ph.D. 1967), elevated to position of Chairman of Ranbaxy in 1993 until his death in 1999. The market capitalization of the Company went up from about Rs.3.5 Crores to over Rs. 7300 Crores during this period.
  • Dr. Homer Stryker, (MED: M.D. 1925), founder of Stryker Corporation
  • Dr. William Erastus Upjohn, (MED: M.D. 1875), Inventor of the first pill that dissolved easily in the human body
  • Mark W. Wilson, (COE: BS Chem Eng 1996), (MED: MD 1990), is a professor of Interventional Radiology at University of California, San Francisco and owner of several patents.

[edit] Newsmakers

  • Robert C. Atkins, (BA 1951), promoter of the Atkins Diet, a nutrition fad.
  • Bill Ayers, member of the radical Weathermen
  • Janet Guthrie (COE: B.Sc physics 1960) , “…was among the five racing legends inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame…” in 2006.She was the first woman to race in the Indianapolis 500 auto race. Guthrie is still is the only woman to ever lead a Nextel Cup race and her sixth-place finish at Bristol in 1977 remains the best by a woman in NASCAR's modern era. She was top rookie in five different races in 1977 including the Daytona 500 and at Talladega. She finished ninth at Talladega. She was the top rookie in the Indianapolis 500 in 1978. Her fifth place at Milwaukee in 1979 was the best by a woman until Danica Patrick finished fourth at Indy last year. Her Autobiography Janet Guthrie: A Life at Full Throttle, was released in 2005 and hailed by Sports Illustrated as "…one of the best sports books ever…" . Guthrie’s helmet and driver's suit are in the Smithsonian Institute, and she was one of the first athletes named to the Women's Sports Hall of Fame.
  • Carol Jantsch (BFA 2006) the sole female tuba player on staff with a major U.S. orchestra — and is believed to be the first in history. At 21, she's the youngest member of the Philedelphia Orchestra. Several months before her appointment in 2006, Jantsch was a senior at the University of Michigan, about to graduate and playing on the school's Ultimate Frisbee team during a season that took it to ninth in the nation.
  • Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Ph.D. (mathematics), 1967.
  • Jack Kevorkian, (MED: MD (Pathology) 1952)
  • Richard A. Loeb of Leopold and Loeb, at that time, the youngest graduate of the university in its history
  • Jeff Masters, (BS AOS 1982, MS 1983, PhD 1997) Founding member of The Weather Underground.
  • Robert Shiller (B.A. 1967) Economist: Author of Irrational Exuberance
  • Diane Swonk (M.A. 1985) Economist: Author The Passionate Economist

[edit] Not-for-profit

  • Larry Brilliant(SPH: MPH 1977) (Economic Development and Health Planning). Named to head Google Foundation (holds assets of $1Bn). Google.org is the umbrella term for Google's philanthropic efforts, which includes the work of the Google Foundation. A co-founder of The Well, an on-line community, Dr. Brilliant spent a number of years working with the World Health Organization to eradicate smallpox in India and prevent blindness in Africa. In 1979, he founded the Seva Foundation, which has given away more than $100 million. From 1998 to 2000, Brilliant was the CEO of SoftNet Systems Inc., a global broadband Internet services company in San Francisco that at its peak had more than 500 employees and $600 million capitalization.
  • Mark Malloch Brown, MA. In 2006, Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced the appointment of Mr. Brown, the current Chef de Cabinet (no.2 rank in the United Nations system), to the position of Deputy Secretary-General. Mr. Brown previously served as Chef de Cabinet to the UN Secretary-General, in 2005. He also served as the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, the UN's global development network, from July 1999 to August 2005. During that time he was the Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programmes and departments working on development issues. Prior to his appointment with UNDP, Mr. Brown served at the World Bank as Vice-President for External Affairs and Vice-President for United Nations Affairs from 1996 to 1999. He joined the World Bank as Director of External Affairs in 1994. A British citizen, Mr. Malloch Brown received a First Class Honours Degree in History from Magdalene College , Cambridge University.
  • Stephen Goldsmith (LAW: JD) - Marion County district attorney for 12 years and later two-term mayor of Indianapolis (1992-1999). Appointed to a senior fellow at the Milken Institute (a a nonprofit, independent economic think tank) in 2006. His work in Indianapolis has been cited as a national model.
  • Lisa Hamilton (LAW: JD), named, in 2007, as the president of The UPS Foundation, UPS (NYSE:UPS). Hamilton has been with UPS for 10 years and before her current post, served as The UPS Foundation's program director.
  • Bill Ivey, (BA) the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts 1998-2001 and the man who has been credited with restoring the agency's credibility with Congress. Ivey, who was appointed by President Clinton. As the NEA's seventh chairman, he spearheaded the development of a five-year strategic plan that targeted support to arts education, services for young people, cultural heritage preservation, community partnerships and expanded access.
  • Michael J. Smith, (BUS: MBA ) (COE: BSE), and CFA was named chief investment officer of the $2.5Bn Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in 2006. He is past president of the Financial Analysts Society of Detroit.
  • Sterling Speirn(LAW: JD) - President and CEO Kellogg Foundation (assets of $7.3 billion). In both 2003 and 2004, the Nonprofit Times named Speirn as one of the 50 most influential nonprofit leaders in the United States. Speirn serves on the Board of Advisors of Pacific Community Ventures and the Global Philanthropy Forum, and is on the Board of Directors of the Northern California Grantmakers.
  • Stacey Davis Stewart (BUS: MBA 1987) - President and CEO of Fannie Mae Foundation
  • Jack Vaughn, United States Peace Corps Director.
  • Mark Weisbrot (Ph.D) (b. 1954, Chicago) is an American economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is co-author, with Dean Baker, of "Social Security: The Phony Crisis" (University of Chicago Press, 2000), and has written numerous research papers on economic policy, with a focus on developing country economies.

[edit] Rhodes Scholars

  • Lawrence C. Hull 1907
  • Willard T. Barbour 1908
  • James K. Watkins 1911
  • Brand Blanshard 1913
  • William A. Pearl 1916
  • Ralph M. Carson 1918
  • Albert C. Jacobs 1921
  • Bertrand Bronson 1922
  • John P. Dawson 1924
  • Edgar H. Ailes 1927
  • Allan Seager 1930
  • Glen D. Gosling 1931
  • S. H. Beer 1932
  • George C. Tilley 1932
  • Wilfred S. Sellars 1934
  • Martin Wagner 1935
  • R. V. Roosa 1939
  • Robert L. Taylor 1947
  • David W. Baad 1957
  • Gary R. Noble 1958
  • Mark R. Killingswor1967
  • Ihor Fedorowycz 1980
  • Leah Niederstadt 1994
  • Fiona Rose 1998
  • Joseph Jewell 2005

[edit] Science

  • Werner Emmanuel Bachmann (November 13, 1901 - March 22, 1951) was a U.S. chemist. He is considered a pioneer in steroid synthesis, and carried out the first total synthesis of a steroidal hormone, equilenin.
  • Frank Benford (1910), an electrical engineer and physicist known for Benford’s Law, also devised in 1937 an instrument for measuring the refraction index of glass.
  • John W. Cahn, (B.A. 1949) - materials scientist, winner of the United States National Medal of Science in 1998
  • Kathryn Clark, PhD. 1990. NASA's Chief Scientist for Human Space Flight. Chief Scientist for the International Space Station. President of Docere LLC.
  • Williams G. Dow (COE: MSE 1929) - During the 1940s led Allied scientists in the design and construction of a 125-ton jamming device used to disable German and Japanese radar systems. Prior to his death on October 17, 2006 at the age of 104, Dow was an emeritus professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dow taught Electrical Engineering from 1938 to 1965 and served as department chair from 1960 to 1965. He was also the key driver behind the establishment of the Computer Engineering and Nuclear Engineering programs at Michigan, the first of their kind in the nation. During his years of service to the College of Engineering, Dow was responsible for creating and organizing 13 laboratories and research units, including Space Physics Research, Plasma Engineering, and the Cooley Electronics Laboratories. He co-founded the Willow Run Laboratories (now the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan) and created a new U-M unit to administer research grants. He also served on a panel of scientists who helped form NASA in the late 1950s.
  • Stephen Forrest. (MSc 1974, Ph. D. 1979) , a member of the National Academy of Engineering, former chair of the Princeton Electrical Engineering Department and former director of Princeton's Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials (POEM) now VP of research at the University of Michigan. A Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Optical Society of America; received the IEEE/Laser and Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecturer Award in 1996-97. In 1998 he was co-recipient of the Intellectual Property Owners National Distinguished Inventor Award as well as the Thomas Alva Edison Award for innovations in organic LEDs. In 1999, Prof. Forrest received the Materials Research Society Medal for pioneering contributions on organic semiconductor thin films. In 2001, he was awarded the IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award for advances made on photodetectors for optical communications systems. He has authored 371 scholarly papers, and has been awarded 134 patents.
  • Douglas Joel Futuyma Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. Futuyma is the author of the widely used textbook Evolutionary Biology and Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution, an introduction to the creation-evolution controversy. Futuyma has been president of the Society for the Study of Evolution, and of the American Society of Naturalists. He was the editor of Evolution and the Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. He was awarded the Sewall Wright Award from the American Society of Naturalists, has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Australia. He was made a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States on 25 April 2006.
  • Frank Gill, (BS, PhD 1969), One of the top ornithologists in North America. Author of the standard textbook Ornithology and editor of the encyclopedic series, Birds of North America. Past president of the American Ornithologists' Union.
  • Moses Gomberg, (PhD 1894), U-M professor of chemistry, discovered organic free radicals in 1900
  • David Michael Green, (SPH: M.P.H. (masters in public health) 1982), established Aurolab to manufacture intraocular lenses (IOLs) – plastic implants used to restore sight to patients suffering from cataracts and other eye diseases.
  • Isabella Lugoski Karle, (1941, MS 1942, PhD 1944, HSCD 1976), is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She was a member of the Manhattan Project.
  • Emil John Konopinski, (1933, MA 1934, PhD 1936), patented a device that made the first hydrogen bomb with Dr. Edward Teller. He was a member of the Manhattan Project.
  • Homer Martin (COE: MSE ChE 1936, PhD 1938) - One of the key figures in the development of aviation fuel for the Allies in World War II.
  • Antonia Novello, (MED: 1974), first female US surgeon general
  • Prof. Felix Pawlowski (COE: MSE 1914), an eyewitness to demonstrations by the Wright brothers and other early pioneers of aviation, and Prof. Herbert Sadler (Cooley's successor as dean) launch the nation's first program in aeronautical engineering.
  • Albert Benjamin Prescott (MED: 1864) (1832-1905) was an American chemist, born in Hastings, New York. Dean of the school of pharmacy in 1876, and director of the chemical laboratory in 1884. Professor Prescott served as president of the American Chemical Society in 1886, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1891, and president of the American Pharmaceutical Association in 1900.
  • Marie Tharp, (MS Geology) an oceanographic cartographer who drew pioneering maps of the world's oceans and whose observations from the late 1950s through the 1970s helped scientists reconsider the geology of the undersea floor. With longtime collaborator Bruce Heezen, Tharp published her best-known work -- the first global map of the bottom of the Earth's oceans -- in 1977. Over five years, as she pieced together a puzzle of the North Atlantic Ocean, an enormous mountain range with a puzzling peculiarity took shape. What became known as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge showed signs of a crack down the middle that led Tharp to conclude that the sea floor was spreading, a radical notion at the time. Her early observations and maps encouraged scientists to re-examine the theory of continental drift, the belief that the continents had been one large land mass pulled apart through tectonic plate movement. By the late 1960s, the theory of plate tectonics was on its way to near-universal acceptance, bolstered by seismic data that showed many earthquakes had occurred along the rift that Tharp had first illuminated with India ink and a ruler.
  • Juris Upatnieks, (MSE EE 1965), with Emmett Leith created the first working hologram in 1962
  • John V. Wehausen, (BS 1934, MS 1935, and Ph. D. 1938)"One of the world's leading researchers in hydrodynamics."
  • George Zweig (BS 1959) was still a graduate student when he published "the definitive compilation of elementary particles and their properties" in 1963, the work that led up to his theory about the existence of quarks in 1964. He is considered to have developed the theory of quarks independently of Murray Gell-Mann.

[edit] Sports

See List of University of Michigan sporting alumni.

[edit] See also

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