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The University of Michigan
has 6,200 faculty members and roughly 38,000 employees which include National Academy
members, and Nobel
and Pulitzer Prize
winners. Several past presidents have gone on to become presidents of Ivy League
universities.
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University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
has 6,200 faculty members and roughly 38,000 employees which include National Academy
United States National Academies
The United States National Academies comprises four organizations:* National Academy of Sciences * National Academy of Engineering * Institute of Medicine * National Research Council...
members, and Nobel
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
and Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
winners. Several past presidents have gone on to become presidents of Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...
universities.
Notable faculty: Nobel Laureates
- Joseph BrodskyJoseph BrodskyIosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...
, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
, Literature 1987 - Donald A. GlaserDonald A. GlaserDonald Arthur Glaser , is an American physicist, neurobiologist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his invention of the Bubble chamber used in subatomic particle physics....
professor of physics, developed in 1954 the world's first liquid bubble chamber to study high-energy subatomic particles and won the Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
in physics for his invention in 1960 - Charles B. Huggins, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
in Physiology or MedicineNobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
, 1966 - Lawrence R. Klein, '30 alumnus; a member of the economics department and the Institute for Social Research. Won the 1980 Nobel Prize in economics for his econometric models forecasting short-term economic trends and policies.
- Wolfgang PauliWolfgang PauliWolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. In 1945, after being nominated by Albert Einstein, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or...
, winner of Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
, Physics, 1945 - Martin L. Perl, Physics Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
1995 - Norman F. Ramsey, Physics Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
1989 - Peyton Rous, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
in Physiology or MedicineNobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
, 1966 - Hamilton O. SmithHamilton O. SmithHamilton Othanel Smith is an American microbiologist and Nobel laureate.Smith was born on August 23, 1931, and graduated from University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but in 1950 transferred to the University of California,...
Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
, for Physiology or MedicineNobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
, 1978 - Charles H. Townes, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
for PhysicsNobel Prize in PhysicsThe Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...
, 1964 - Martinus Veltman, Professor Emeritus, John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics. 1999 Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
for Physics. - Carl WiemanCarl WiemanCarl Edwin Wieman is an American physicist at the University of British Columbia and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the production, in 1995 with Eric Allin Cornell, of the first true Bose–Einstein condensate.-Biography:...
, one of three scientists who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics joined the U-M faculty immediately following his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1977 and was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics from 1979 to 1984. Now at Colorado.
- Nobel Laureates by University AffiliationNobel Prize laureates by university affiliationThis list of Nobel laureates by university affiliation shows the university affiliation of winners of the Nobel Prize...
Notable faculty: past and present
- Madeleine K. Albright, visiting scholar. Albright served as United States Secretary of StateUnited States Secretary of StateThe United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in line of succession and order of precedence...
from 1997 to 2001 and at the time was the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. From 1993 to 1997, Albright was the United States' Permanent Representative to the United NationsUnited NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
and a member of President Clinton's CabinetCabinet (government)A Cabinet is a body of high ranking government officials, typically representing the executive branch. It can also sometimes be referred to as the Council of Ministers, an Executive Council, or an Executive Committee.- Overview :...
and National Security CouncilUnited States National Security CouncilThe White House National Security Council in the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials and is part of the Executive Office of the...
. - W. H. AudenW. H. AudenWystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...
, poet - Charles Baxter, former director of the MFA program in creative writing; novelist, poet, and essayist; author of 2000 National Book Award finalist The Feast of Love.
- Ruth BeharRuth BeharRuth Behar is a Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, poet, and writer who teaches at the University of Michigan.After receiving her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1977, she studied cultural anthropology at Princeton University...
(born HavanaHavanaHavana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...
, CubaCubaThe Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
, 1956) is a Jewish Cuban AmericanCuban AmericanA Cuban American is a United States citizen who traces his or her "national origin" to Cuba. Cuban Americans are also considered native born Americans with Cuban parents or Cuban-born persons who were raised and educated in US...
anthropologistAnthropologyAnthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...
, poet, and writer who teaches at the University of MichiganUniversity of MichiganThe University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
. MacArthur FoundationMacArthur FoundationThe John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Based in Chicago but supporting non-profit organizations that work in 60 countries, MacArthur has awarded more than US$4 billion since its inception in 1978...
award winner. - R. Stephen BerryR. Stephen BerryR. Stephen Berry is a U.S. professor of physical chemistry.He is the James Franck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago and Special Advisor to the Director for National Security, at Argonne National Laboratory...
(born 1931 in Denver, ColoradoColoradoColorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
) is a U.S.United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
professor of physical chemistryPhysical chemistryPhysical chemistry is the study of macroscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems in terms of physical laws and concepts...
. MacArthur FoundationMacArthur FoundationThe John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Based in Chicago but supporting non-profit organizations that work in 60 countries, MacArthur has awarded more than US$4 billion since its inception in 1978...
award winner. He is the James FranckJames FranckJames Franck was a German Jewish physicist and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Franck was born to Jacob Franck and Rebecca Nachum Drucker. Franck completed his Ph.D...
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of ChicagoUniversity of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
and Special Advisor to the Director for National Security, at Argonne National LaboratoryArgonne National LaboratoryArgonne National Laboratory is the first science and engineering research national laboratory in the United States, receiving this designation on July 1, 1946. It is the largest national laboratory by size and scope in the Midwest...
. He joined the Chicago faculty in 1964, having been an Assistant Professor at Yale UniversityYale UniversityYale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
and, between 1957 and 1960, an Instructor at the University of MichiganUniversity of MichiganThe University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
. - William BolcomWilliam BolcomWilliam Elden Bolcom is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973–2008...
, composer. In 2006 he was awarded four Grammy Awards for his composition "Songs of Innocence and Experience": Best Classical Album, Best Choral Performance, Best Classical Contemporary Composition and Producer of the Year, Classical. - Kenneth Boulding, noted economist and faculty member 1949–1967
- Richard BrauerRichard BrauerRichard Dagobert Brauer was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory...
Accepted a position at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1948. In 1949 Brauer was awarded the Cole PrizeCole PrizeThe Frank Nelson Cole Prize, or Cole Prize for short, is one of two prizes awarded to mathematicians by the American Mathematical Society, one for an outstanding contribution to algebra, and the other for an outstanding contribution to number theory. The prize is named after Frank Nelson Cole, who...
from the American Mathematical Society for his paper "On Artin's L-series with general group characters". - Mark Burns, Carlos Mastrangelo, and David Burke invented a DNADNADeoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms . The DNA segments that carry this genetic information are called genes, but other DNA sequences have structural purposes, or are involved in...
analysis "lab on a microchip." - Evan H. CaminkerEvan CaminkerEvan H. Caminker is Dean of the University of Michigan Law School. He succeeded Jeffrey S. Lehman, who resigned to become president of Cornell University...
: Dean of Law School - Anne CarsonAnne CarsonAnne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987....
(born Toronto, Ontario June 21, 1950) is a CanadianCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
poetPoetA poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, essayist, and translator, as well as a professorProfessorA professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
of classicsClassicsClassics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...
and comparative literatureComparative literatureComparative literature is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups...
at the University of MichiganUniversity of MichiganThe University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
.MacArthur FoundationMacArthur FoundationThe John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Based in Chicago but supporting non-profit organizations that work in 60 countries, MacArthur has awarded more than US$4 billion since its inception in 1978...
award winner. - Carl CohenCarl CohenCarl Cohen is Professor of Philosophy at the Residential College of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He is co-author of "The Animal Rights Debate" , a point-counterpoint volume with Prof...
, notable for using Michigan Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 1996 to identify U-M's policy of racial categorization in admissions, leading to the Grutter and Gratz v. Bollinger lawsuits. Professor of Philosophy specializing in ethics for 50 years as of 2006, civil rights activist, proponent and founder of Michigan Civil Rights InitiativeMichigan Civil Rights InitiativeThe Michigan Civil Rights Initiative , or Proposal 2 , was a ballot initiative in the U.S. state of Michigan that passed into Michigan Constitutional law by a 58% to 42% margin on November 7, 2006, according to results officially certified by the Michigan Secretary of State. By Michigan law, the...
, and author of books on affirmative action and animal rights issues. - Wilbur Joseph Cohen (June 10, 1913, Milwaukee, WisconsinWisconsinWisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...
– May 17, 1987, SeoulSeoulSeoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
, South KoreaSouth KoreaThe Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
) was an AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
social scientistSocial sciencesSocial science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
and federalFederal government of the United StatesThe federal government of the United States is the national government of the constitutional republic of fifty states that is the United States of America. The federal government comprises three distinct branches of government: a legislative, an executive and a judiciary. These branches and...
civil servant. He was one of the key architects in the creation and expansion of the American welfare stateWelfare stateA welfare state is a "concept of government in which the state plays a key role in the protection and promotion of the economic and social well-being of its citizens. It is based on the principles of equality of opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for those...
and was involved in the creation of both the New DealNew DealThe New Deal was a series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They were passed by the U.S. Congress during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were Roosevelt's responses to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call...
and Great SocietyGreat SocietyThe Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States promoted by President Lyndon B. Johnson and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice...
programs. - Juan ColeJuan ColeJohn Ricardo I. "Juan" Cole is an American scholar, public intellectual, and historian of the modern Middle East and South Asia. He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. As a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, he has appeared in print and on...
, notable for his weblog "Informed Comment", covering events in the Middle East - Christopher ChetsangaChristopher ChetsangaChristopher J Chetsanga is a preeminent Zimbabwean scientist.- Education :* 1965 obtained a BSc degree at the University of California and Pepperdine University in California, USA...
, (full professor 1979), discovered two enzymes that repair DNADNADeoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms . The DNA segments that carry this genetic information are called genes, but other DNA sequences have structural purposes, or are involved in...
after x-irradiation. Pro Vice Chancellor 1991–1992 and acting Vice Chancellor 1992–1993 University of ZimbabweUniversity of ZimbabweThe University of Zimbabwe in Harare, is the oldest and largest university in Zimbabwe. It was founded through a special relationship with the University of London and it opened its doors to its first students in 1952. The university has ten faculties offering a wide variety of degree programmes...
. - Arthur Copeland, mathematician
- Brian CoppolaBrian CoppolaBrian P. Coppola is a chemistry professor at the University of Michigan.Raised in Methuen, Massachusetts, and Derry, New Hampshire, Coppola is the eldest of four children of Frank and Shirley Coppola. He graduated from Pinkerton Academy in 1974. In 1978, he received a B.S. from the University of...
, professor of chemistry, who was recognized as a 2009 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of EducationCouncil for Advancement and Support of EducationThe Council for Advancement and Support of Education is a nonprofit association of educational institutions. It serves professionals in the field of educational advancement...
. - Michael DaughertyMichael DaughertyMichael Kevin Daugherty is an American composer, pianist, and teacher. Influenced by popular culture, Romanticism, and Postmodernism, Daugherty is one of the most colorful and widely performed American concert music composers of his generation...
(born April 28, 1954) is an American composerComposerA composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, pianist, and teacher. Michael Daugherty went home with three awards from the 2011 Grammys. His “Metropolis Symphony,” inspired by the Superman comics, won for best classical contemporary composition, best orchestral performance (along with the composer’s “Deus ex Machina,” performed by the Nashville Symphony) and best engineering. - Michael Duff gained his PhD in theoretical physics in 1972 at Imperial College, London, under Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam. In September 1999 he moved to the University of Michigan, where he is Oskar Klein Professor of Physics. In 2001, he was elected first Director of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics and was re-elected in 2004. He has since become the Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences at Imperial College LondonImperial College LondonImperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...
in Spring 2005. - Francis CollinsFrancis Collins (geneticist)Francis Sellers Collins , is an American physician-geneticist, noted for his discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project . He currently serves as Director of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Prior to being appointed Director, he founded and...
led the Human Genome ProjectHuman Genome ProjectThe Human Genome Project is an international scientific research project with a primary goal of determining the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA, and of identifying and mapping the approximately 20,000–25,000 genes of the human genome from both a physical and functional...
and is the current Director of the National Institutes of HealthNational Institutes of HealthThe National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
. - Horace W. Davenport a gastric physiologist whose research explained how the stomach is able to digest food, but not itself. Davenport is also was the author of three best selling textbooks, and a former president of the American Physiological SocietyAmerican Physiological SocietyThe American Physiological Society was founded in 1887 with 28 members. Of them, 21 were graduates of medical schools, but only 12 had studied in schools that had a professor of physiology. Today, the APS has 10,500 members, most of whom hold doctoral degrees in medicine, physiology or other...
. - John DeweyJohn DeweyJohn Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology...
, co-founder of pragmatismPragmatismPragmatism is a philosophical tradition centered on the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice...
. During his time at Michigan, Dewey twice won the all-campus euchreEuchreEuchre or eucre, is a trick-taking card game most commonly played with four people in two partnerships with a deck of 24 standard playing cards. It is the game responsible for introducing the joker into modern packs; this was invented around 1860 to act as a top trump or best bower...
tournament. - Igor DolgachevIgor DolgachevIgor V. Dolgachev is a mathematician who introduced Dolgachev surface in 1981.-External links:*...
, mathematician - Sidney Fine (historian)Sidney Fine (historian)Sidney Fine was a professor of history at the University of Michigan. He authored many books on Frank Murphy, who served successively as mayor of Detroit, governor of Michigan, U.S. attorney general and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and twice the winner...
and longest serving faculty member. Chief biographer of Frank MurphyFrank MurphyWilliam Francis Murphy was a politician and jurist from Michigan. He served as First Assistant U.S. District Attorney, Eastern Michigan District , Recorder's Court Judge, Detroit . Mayor of Detroit , the last Governor-General of the Philippines , U.S...
. - William FrankenaWilliam FrankenaWilliam K. Frankena was an American moral philosopher. Frankena was a member of the University of Michigan's Department of Philosophy for 41 years and chair of the Department for 14 years...
, moral philosopher; Department of Philosophy 1937–78, Chair 1947–61; "renowned for his learning in the history of ethics"; "played an especially critical role in defense of fundamental academic freedoms during the McCarthy era." - Erich FrommErich FrommErich Seligmann Fromm was a Jewish German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory.-Life:Erich Fromm was born on March 23, 1900, at Frankfurt am...
, psychologist - Robert FrostRobert FrostRobert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...
Michigan Poet-in-Residence. - Alice FultonAlice FultonAlice Fulton is an American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.- Biography :Fulton was born and raised in Troy, New York, the youngest of three daughters. Her father was the proprietor of the historic Phoenix Hotel, and her mother was a visiting nurse. She began writing poetry in high school...
, United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
poetPoetA poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, authorAuthorAn author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
, and feminist.She received her undergraduate degree in creative writingCreative writingCreative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems...
in 1976 from Empire State CollegeEmpire State CollegeEmpire State College, one of the thirteen arts and science colleges of the State University of New York, is a multi-site institution offering associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees. It is primarily oriented towards the adult learner...
and her Master of Fine ArtsMaster of Fine ArtsA Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...
degree from Cornell UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
in 1982. In 1991, she was awarded a MacArthur FoundationMacArthur FoundationThe John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Based in Chicago but supporting non-profit organizations that work in 60 countries, MacArthur has awarded more than US$4 billion since its inception in 1978...
fellowship for her poetry. She taught creative writing at University of MichiganUniversity of MichiganThe University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
from 1983 to 2001. - Herman Heine GoldstineHerman Heine GoldstineHerman Heine Goldstine was a mathematician and computer scientist, who was one of the original developers of ENIAC, the first of the modern electronic digital computers.-Personal life:...
, a mathematician, a winner of the National Medal of Science, worked on the ENIACENIACENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic computer. It was a Turing-complete digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems....
, as the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was code named. Taught at the University of Michigan but left when war broke out to become a ballistics officer in the Army. - Samuel Goudsmit also known as Samuel Abraham Goudsmit. Was a Professor at the University of Michigan between 1927–1946. Conceived – with George Uhlenback – the idea of Quantum SpinSpin quantum numberIn atomic physics, the spin quantum number is a quantum number that parameterizes the intrinsic angular momentum of a given particle...
. During WWII he performed research at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, but most importantly served as the chief of the ALSOS group for the Manhattan ProjectManhattan ProjectThe Manhattan Project was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army...
, charged with assessing the German ability to build an atomic bomb. - Edward GramlichEdward GramlichEdward M. Gramlich was a professor of economics at the University of Michigan and a former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve....
, Professor of Economics and Member, Federal Reserve Board - Linda GregersonLinda GregersonLinda Gregerson is an American poet and member of faculty at the University of Michigan .-Life:Linda Gregerson received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1971, an M.A. from Northwestern University, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, and her Ph.D. from Stanford University...
is the Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor at University of Michigan. Among her collections of poetry are ‘’Waterborne" (2002)’’, ‘’The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep’’ (1996) and ‘’Fire in the Conservatory’’ (1982). She has won many awards and fellowships, among them Guggenheim, Mellon and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Isabel MacCaffrey Award. - Robert L. Griess is a mathematicianMathematicsMathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
working on finite simple groups. He constructed the monster groupMonster groupIn the mathematical field of group theory, the Monster group M or F1 is a group of finite order:...
using the Griess algebraGriess algebraIn mathematics, the Griess algebra is a commutative non-associative algebra on a real vector space of dimension 196884 that has the Monster group M as its automorphism group. It is named after mathematician R. L. Griess, who constructed it in 1980 and subsequently used it in 1982 to construct M...
. - William Donald "Bill" Hamilton, F.R.S. (August 1, 1936 — 7 March 2000) was a British evolutionary biologist, considered one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century. Worked with Robert AxelrodRobert AxelrodRobert M. Axelrod is an American political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan where he has been since 1974. He is best known for his interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation, which has been cited in numerous articles...
on the Prisoner's DilemmaPrisoner's dilemmaThe prisoner’s dilemma is a canonical example of a game, analyzed in game theory that shows why two individuals might not cooperate, even if it appears that it is in their best interest to do so. It was originally framed by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher working at RAND in 1950. Albert W...
. - Donald HallDonald HallDonald Hall is an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2006.-Personal life:...
, English Professor and current (as of October 2006) poet laureate of the USA. - Thomas HalesThomas Callister HalesThomas Callister Hales is an American mathematician. He is known for his 1998 computer-aided proof of the Kepler conjecture, a centuries-old problem in discrete geometry which states that the most space-efficient way to pack spheres is in a pyramid shape...
solved a nearly 4-century-old problem called the Kepler conjectureKepler conjectureThe Kepler conjecture, named after the 17th-century German astronomer Johannes Kepler, is a mathematical conjecture about sphere packing in three-dimensional Euclidean space. It says that no arrangement of equally sized spheres filling space has a greater average density than that of the cubic...
. Hales is now at the University of PittsburghUniversity of PittsburghThe University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...
. - Paul HalmosPaul HalmosPaul Richard Halmos was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis . He was also recognized as a great mathematical expositor.-Career:Halmos obtained his B.A...
, mathematician specializing in functional analysis. - Eric J. HillEric J. HillEric J. Hill, Ph.D., FAIA, is a Professor of Practice in Architecture at the University of Michigan. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Architecture in 1970 from the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters in Architecture from Harvard in 1972, and a Ph.D in Architecture from the University of...
, Professor of Practice in Architecture. - Melvin HochsterMelvin HochsterMelvin Hochster is an eminent American mathematician, regarded as one of the leading commutative algebraists active today. He is currently the Jack E. McLaughlin Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan.Hochster attended Stuyvesant High School, where he was...
, commutative algebraist. Among his many honors, received the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra in 1980; received a Guggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
in 1982. In 1992, he was elected to the both the American Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of SciencesUnited States National Academy of SciencesThe National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and...
. - Andrew HoffmanAndrew HoffmanAndrew J. Hoffman is a scholar of environmental issues and sustainable enterprise. He is the Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and where he is also associate-director of The Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise...
, an expert in environmental pollution and sustainable enterprise. Professor Hoffman is co-director of the MBA'MS Corporate Environmental Management Program. - Daniel Hunt Janzen(b. 1939 in Milwaukee, WisconsinWisconsinWisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...
, USA) is an evolutionary ecologist, naturalist, and conservationist. Before joining the faculty at the University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
he taught at the University of KansasUniversity of KansasThe University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...
(1965–1968), the University of ChicagoUniversity of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
(1969–72) and at the University of MichiganUniversity of MichiganThe University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
. MacArthur FoundationMacArthur FoundationThe John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Based in Chicago but supporting non-profit organizations that work in 60 countries, MacArthur has awarded more than US$4 billion since its inception in 1978...
award winner. - Gerome KamrowskiGerome KamrowskiGerome Kamrowski was an American artist and participant in the Surrealist Movement in the United States.He was born in Warren, Minnesota and begun to study art in the early 1930s at the St...
, worked in New York in the 1930s and early 1940s with such artists as William Baziotes, Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock, and was at the forefront of the development of American Surrealism and Abstract ExpressionismAbstract expressionismAbstract expressionism was an American post–World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris...
. His work from this period is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of ArtThe Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
, MOMAMomaMoma may refer to:* Moma , an owlet moth genus* Moma Airport, a Russian public airport* Moma District, Nampula, Mozambique* Moma River, a right tributary of the Indigirka River* Google Moma, the Google corporate intranet...
, The Guggenheim MuseumSolomon R. Guggenheim MuseumThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a well-known museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions...
, the Whitney Museum of American Art and other major museums worldwide. Faculty, University of Michigan School of Art 1948–82 (Emeritus) - Gordon Kane, Victor Weisskopf Collegiate Professor of Physics
- H. David Hume, inventor of the human nephron filter ("HNF"), or the artificial kidney.
- Peter J. Khan, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and as Head of the Microwave Solid-State Circuits Group of the Cooley Electronics Laboratory. Now a member of the Universal House of Justice, the nine-person international elected body which coordinates the activities of the Baha'i Faith throughout the world.
- Chihiro Kikuchi, professor of nuclear engineering, developed in 1957 the ruby maser, a device for amplifying electrical impulses by stimulated emission of radiation
- Oskar KleinOskar KleinOskar Benjamin Klein was a Swedish theoretical physicist.Klein was born in Danderyd outside Stockholm, son of the chief rabbi of Stockholm, Dr. Gottlieb Klein from Homonna in Hungary and Antonie Levy...
assumed a post at the University of Michigan, a post he won through the generosity and intervention of his friend Niels BohrNiels BohrNiels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in...
. His first work in Ann Arbor dealt with the anomalous Zeeman effectZeeman effectThe Zeeman effect is the splitting of a spectral line into several components in the presence of a static magnetic field. It is analogous to the Stark effect, the splitting of a spectral line into several components in the presence of an electric field...
. - Adrienne KochAdrienne KochAdrienne Koch was an American historian, a specialist in American history of the eighteenth century.-Education:After her bachelor's degree from New York University, Koch took her master's degree and a doctorate in history from Columbia.-Teaching career:Koch taught at Tulane, Berkeley, and the...
, historian, specialist in American history of the eighteenth century - Kenneth LieberthalKenneth LieberthalKenneth Lieberthal is an American academic.He is the director of the John L. Thornton China Center and a senior fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public-policy organization based in Washington, D.C.-Early life and...
, China expert and member of the National Security CouncilUnited States National Security CouncilThe White House National Security Council in the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials and is part of the Executive Office of the...
during the Clinton Administration. - Emmett LeithEmmett LeithEmmett Leith was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and, with Juris Upatnieks of the University of Michigan, the co-inventor of three-dimensional holography.Leith received his B.S. in physics from Wayne State University in 1949 and his M.S. in physics in 1952...
and Juris Upatnieks (COE: MSE EE 1965) created the first working hologram in 1962 - Catharine MacKinnonCatharine MacKinnonCatharine Alice MacKinnon is an American feminist, scholar, lawyer, teacher and activist.- Biography :MacKinnon was born in Minnesota. Her mother is Elizabeth Valentine Davis; her father, George E. MacKinnon was a lawyer, congressman , and judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit...
, feminist legal theorist. - Paul McCrackenPaul McCrackenPaul W. McCracken is an American economist born in Richland, Iowa. He is currently the Edmund Ezra Day Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Economics, and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. McCracken was chairman of the President's Council of Economic...
, Economist. Chairmen Emeritus: President's Council of Economic Advisers - George E. MendenhallGeorge E. MendenhallGeorge Emery Mendenhall is an author and Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan’s Department of Near Eastern Studies....
, Professor Emeritus: Department of Near Eastern Studies and author. - Gerald Meyers, professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business School, former chairman of American Motors Corporation
- William Ian Miller, legal and social theorist; author of The Anatomy of Disgust.
- Hugh L. Montgomery, Number Theorist. In 1975, with Robert Charles Vaughan, showed that "most" even numbers were expressible as the sum of two primes.
- Thylias MossThylias MossThylias Moss is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright, of African American, Indian, and European heritage, who has published a number of poetry collections, children’s books, essays, and multimedia work she calls poams, products of acts of making, related to...
developed Limited Fork Poetics, is Professor of English and Art & Design, author of Tokyo Butter (2006), Slave Moth (2004), and is a MacArthur FoundationMacArthur FoundationThe John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Based in Chicago but supporting non-profit organizations that work in 60 countries, MacArthur has awarded more than US$4 billion since its inception in 1978...
award winner. - Professor Gérard A. Mourou, Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Ultrafast Optical Science. With students D. Strickland, S. Williamson, P. Maine, and M. Pessot, demonstrated the technique known as Chirped pulse amplificationChirped pulse amplificationChirped pulse amplification is a technique for amplifying an ultrashort laser pulse up to the petawatt level with the laser pulse being stretched out temporally and spectrally prior to amplification...
or ("CPA"). - James V. NeelJames V. NeelJames Van Gundia Neel was an American geneticist who played a key role in the development of human genetics as a field of research in the United States. He made important contributions to the emergence of genetic epidemiology and pursued an understanding of the influence of environment on genes...
professor of human genetics, in 1940s discovered that defective genes cause sickle cell anemia - Nicholas NegroponteNicholas NegroponteNicholas Negroponte is an American architect best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop per Child Association ....
also known as Nicholas P Negroponte. Founder of MIT’s Media Lab. - Dirk ObbinkDirk ObbinkDirk D. Obbink is an American-born papyrologist and Classicist. He is the Lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Literature in the Faculty of Classics at Oxford University and is the head of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project...
, papyrologist, 2001 MacArthur Fellowship winner for his work at both OxyrhynchusOxyrhynchus PapyriThe Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a very numerous group of manuscripts discovered by archaeologists including Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus in Egypt . The manuscripts date from the 1st to the 6th century AD. They include thousands of Greek and...
and HerculaneumHerculaneum papyriThe Herculaneum papyri are more than 1,800 papyri found in Herculaneum in the 18th century, carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. After various methods of manipulation, a method was found to unroll and to read them....
. Holds appointments at both Oxford University and the University of Michigan - James OldsJames OldsJames Olds was an American psychologist who co-discovered the reward center of the brain with Peter Milner while he was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in 1954...
neuroscientist, co-discovered the Brain's Pleasure Center. - Anatol RapoportAnatol RapoportAnatol Rapoport was a Russian-born American Jewish mathematical psychologist. He contributed to general systems theory, mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion.-Biography:...
, From 1955 to 1970 Rapoport was Professor of Mathematical Biology and Senior Research Mathematician. He is the author of over 300 articles and of Two-Person Game Theory (1999) and N-Person Game Theory (2001), among many other well-known books on fights, games, violence and peace. His autobiography, Certainties and Doubts: A Philosophy of Life, was released in 2001. A founding member, in 1955, of the Mental Health Research InstituteMental Health Research Institute (Michigan)The Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan is an interdisciplinary research institute, which played a key role in the development of general systems theory...
(MHRI) at the University of Michigan. - Arthur Rich, professor of physics, developed in 1988 with research investigator James C. Van House first positron microscope
- Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Architect
- Jonas SalkJonas SalkJonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist, best known for his discovery and development of the first safe and effective polio vaccine. He was born in New York City to parents from Ashkenazi Jewish Russian immigrant families...
, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (deceased) (http://www.polio.umich.edu/history/salk.html) - Vojislav ŠešeljVojislav ŠešeljVojislav Šešelj, JD is a Serbian politician, writer and lawyer. He is the founder and president of the Serbian Radical Party and was vice-president of Serbia between 1998 and 2000...
, SerbiaSerbiaSerbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n political scientist and nationalist leader. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2317765.stm - Anton ShammasAnton Shammas-Biography:Anton Shammas was one of six children born to Hanna Shammas, a Palestinian Christian barber and shoemaker,and a Lebanese mother who moved to Fassuta in 1936 to teach French at the local girls' school...
, professor of comparative literature and modern Middle Eastern literature; Poet, playwright, essayist, and translator of Arab-Christian descent; acclaimed author of the novel Arabesques. - Lawrence SklarLawrence SklarLawrence Sklar is an American philosopher. He is the Carl G. Hempel and William K. Frankena Distinguished UniversityProfessor at the University of Michigan. He specialises in the Philosophy of Physics, approaching a wide range of issues from a position best described as highly sceptical of many of...
, William K. Frankena Collegiate Professor and Professor of Philosophy, Guggenheim fellow 1974. Author of "Space, Time, and Spacetime". - Andrea SmithAndrea Smith (academic)Andrea Lee Smith is a intellectual, feminist, and anti-violence activist. Smith's work focuses on issues of violence against women of color and their communities, specifically Native American women...
Cherokee activist and author - Elliot Soloway, software teaching tools, founder of GoKnow
- Kannan SoundararajanKannan SoundararajanKannan Soundararajan is an Indian mathematician. He currently is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Before moving to Stanford in 2006, he was a faculty at University of Michigan where he pursued his undergraduate studies...
was awarded the 2004 Salem PrizeSalem PrizeThe Salem Prize, founded by the widow of Raphael Salem, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Salem's field of interest, primarily the theory of Fourier series.-Past winners:...
,joint winner of the 2005 SASTRA Ramanujan PrizeSASTRA Ramanujan PrizeThe SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, founded by Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy University in Kumbakonam, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan's hometown, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Ramanujan's fields of interest... - Theodore J. St. AntoineTheodore J. St. AntoineTheodore J. St. Antoine is an American lawyer and legal scholar. He has served on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School since 1965 and is currently the James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor Emeritus of Law at the school. St. Antoine served as dean of the Law School from 1971 to...
, law school dean and labor arbitrator - Stephen TimoshenkoStephen TimoshenkoStanford University:* Bergman, E. O., * Kurzweil, A. C., * , * Huang, Y. S., * Wang, T. K., * Weber, H. S., * , * , * , -Publications:...
created the first US bachelor's and doctoral programs in engineering mechanics. His 18 textbooks have been published in 36 languages. - Amos TverskyAmos TverskyAmos Nathan Tversky, was a cognitive and mathematical psychologist, a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. Much of his early work concerned the foundations of measurement...
Deceased. Behavioral economist and frequent co-author with Daniel Kahneman 2002 Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
(http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/001025.html) - Douglas E. Van Houweling, President and CEO of Internet2Internet2Internet2 is an advanced not-for-profit US networking consortium led by members from the research and education communities, industry, and government....
- Raymond Louis WilderRaymond Louis WilderRaymond Louis Wilder was an American mathematician, who specialized in topology and gradually acquired philosophical and anthropological interests.-Life:...
, began teaching at the University of Michigan in 1926, where he remained until his retirement in 1967. Wilder's work focused on set-theoretic topology, manifolds and use of algebraic techniques. - Milford H. WolpoffMilford H. WolpoffMilford H. Wolpoff is a paleoanthropologist, and since 1977, a professor of anthropology and adjunct associate research scientist, Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan...
, professor of anthropology and adjunct associate research scientist, UM Museum of Anthropology; recognized globally as the leading proponent of the multiregional hypothesis for human evolution. - Trevor D. Wooley Department Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan. Salem PrizeSalem PrizeThe Salem Prize, founded by the widow of Raphael Salem, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Salem's field of interest, primarily the theory of Fourier series.-Past winners:...
, 1998. Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1993–1995.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the...
. Founded in 1848, AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. The tradition of AAAS Fellows began in 1874.
- Huda AkilHuda AkilHuda Akil is a neuroscientist whose pioneering research has contributed to the understanding of the neurobiology of emotions. She is the co-director of the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, and Gardner C. Quarton Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences in the Department of...
, (2000). Ph.D., Gardner C. Quarton professor of Neurosciences in psychiatry, professor of psychiatry and co-director and senior research scientist of the U-M Mental Health Research Institute. - Bernard W. Agranoff, (1998). Director of the Neuroscience Lab, the Ralph Waldo Gerard Professor of Neurosciences, professor of biological chemistry and research scientist in the Department of Psychiatry and the Mental Health Research Institute.
- Sushil Atreya, Ph.D., (2005). Professor of atmospheric and space sciences. Atreya is honored for contributions to planetary atmosphere structure.
- Laurence A. Boxer, (1998). Associate chair for research pediatrics and communicable diseases and professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases.
- George J. Brewer, (2000) M.D., professor of genetics and internal medicine.
- Charles M. Butter, (1992). Professor of psychology
- Valerie Castle, M.D., (2005). Chair and Ravitz Foundation Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases.
- Dimitri Coucouvanis, Ph.D., (2005). Lawrence S. Bartell Collegiate Professor of Chemistry.
- James Coward, (2004) Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry
- Jack E. Dixon, (2000). Ph.D., Minor J. Coon Professor of Biological Chemistry, chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry and new co-director of UM"s Life Sciences Institute.
- Rodney Ewing, (2004). Donald R. Peacor Collegiate Professor of Geological Sciences, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
- William R. Farrand, (1992). Professor of geological sciences and curator, Museum of Anthropology.
- Carol A. Fierke, Ph.D., (2006). Jerome and Isabella Karle collegiate Professor of Chemistry. Chair and Professor of Chemistry.
- Daniel FisherDaniel FisherDaniel Fisher may refer to:* Daniel Fisher of The Cooper Temple Clause*Daniel Fisher...
, (2004). Claude W. Hibbard Collegiate Professor of Paleontology, Professor of Geological Sciences, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Curator of Paleontology - Vincent L. Pecoraro, (2000). John T. Groves Collegiate Professor of Chemistry
- James Penner-Hann, (2004). Professor of Chemistry
- H. David Humes, (1998). Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and the John G. Searle Professor of Internal Medicine.
- James S. JacksonJames S. JacksonJames Streshly Jackson was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
, Ph.D., (2005). Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and director, Institute for Social Research. - Harold K. Jacobson, (2000). Jesse Siddal Reeves Professor of Political Science, and senior research scientist, Center for Political Studies.
- George W. Kling, (1998). Assistant professor of biology and assistant research scientist in the Center for Great Lakes and Aquatic Sciences.
- Arthur LupiaArthur LupiaArthur Lupia is an American political scientist. He is the Hal R. Varian Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.Lupia received a B.A. degree in economics from the University of Rochester and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in social science from the California Institute of...
, (2004). Professor of Political Science, Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, and Principal Investigator of the American National Election StudiesNational Election StudiesThe American National Election Studies is the leading academically-run national survey of voters in the United States, conducted before and after every presidential election. Though the ANES was formally established by a National Science Foundation grant in 1977, the data are a continuation of...
. - Henry Mosberg, (2004). Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
- Artur SchnabelArtur SchnabelArtur Schnabel was an Austrian classical pianist, who also composed and taught. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura...
Pianist and classical composer - Martin Sichel, (1998). Professor of aerospace engineering.
- Nicholas H. Steneck, (1992). Professor of history and director, Medical Center Historical Center for the Health Sciences.
- George Uhlenbeck also known as George Eugene Uhlenbeck. With fellow student Samuel Goudsmit at Leiden, Uhlenbeck proposed the idea of electron spin in 1925, fulfilling Wolfgang Pauli's stated need for a "fourth quantum number.” Served as Professor: University of Michigan (1939–43). Max Planck Medal 1964 (with Samuel Goudsmit).
- Stanley J. Watson, (2000). Ph.D., M.D., Raphael Professor of Neurosciences in Psychiatry and co-director and research scientist at MHRI.
- Max S. Wicha, (2000). M.D., professor of internal medicine and director of the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center.
- Milford Wolpoff, who has been elected to the rank of Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Youxue Zhang, Ph.D., (2005). Professor of geological sciences. Zhang was selected for making exceptional advances in a wide range of geological frontiers, including the origin and evolution of the Earth, explosive volcanism and gas-driven lake eruptions.
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- Greg Dailey, MBA PhD Co-Author "The Core Competence of the Corporation"
- Dave UlrichDave UlrichDavid Olson Ulrich is a university professor, author, speaker, management coach, and management consultant. Ulrich is a professor of business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and co-founder of ....
, Human Resources – Michigan (Ranked #1) - Noel TichyNoel TichyNoel M. Tichy is an American management consultant, author and educator. He has co-authored, edited or contributed to over 30 books and was the director of global development at GE's Crotonville He has been named one of the top "Management Gurus"...
, Leadership – Michigan, (Ranked #9) - C.K. Prahalad, C.K. Prahalad, Strategy, International Business – Michigan/ PRAJA, (Ranked #10)
Institute of Medicine
- Bernard W. Agranoff (1991), professor of biological chemistry; professor of psychiatry, Medical School
- Huda AkilHuda AkilHuda Akil is a neuroscientist whose pioneering research has contributed to the understanding of the neurobiology of emotions. She is the co-director of the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, and Gardner C. Quarton Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences in the Department of...
(1994), Gardner C. Quarton Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences in Psychiatry, Medical School - John D. Birkmeyer, M.D., George D. Zuidema Professor of Surgery, division of gastrointestinal surgery, department of surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Michael Boehnke, PH.D., Richard G. Cornell Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, department of biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Edward BoveEdward BoveEdward Bove is a Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, Michigan, United States. Dr. Bove is also the Head of the Section of Cardiac Surgery, the Director of the Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, and the Co-Director of the Michigan...
(1985), head, Section of Cardiac Surgery, Medical School - Noreen M ClarkNoreen M ClarkNoreen M. Clark is the Myron E. Wegman Distinguished University Professor, Director of the Center for Managing Chronic Disease, Professor of Health Behavior & Health Education, Professor of Pediatrics and at the University of Michigan. From 1995-2005 she served as Dean of Public Health and...
(2000), dean, Marshall H. Becker Professor of Public Health, School of Public Health - Mary Sue Coleman (1997), President, professor of biochemistry, Medical School, & chemistry, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
- Francis S. Collins (1991), professor of internal medicine; professor of human genetics, Medical School
- Jerome Conn (1970), Louis Harry Newburgh university Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine, Medical School
- Minor J. Coon (1987), Victor C. Vaughn Distinguished University Professor of Biological Chemistry, Medical School
- Jack Dixon (1993), Minor J. Coon Professor of Biological Chemistry, Medical School
- Avedis DonabedianAvedis DonabedianAvedis Donabedian was a physician and founder of the study of quality in health care and medical outcomes research.-Early life:...
(1971), Sinai Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Health, School of Public Health - Rhetaugh Dumas (1984), Dean Emerita, School of Nursing
- Stefan Fajans (1985), professor emeritus of internal medicine, Medical School
- Sid Gilman (1995), William J. Herdman Professor of Neurology, Medical School
- David GinsburgDavid GinsburgDavid Ginsburg was a British politician.Ginsburg was educated at University College School, Hampstead, and Balliol College, Oxford. During his time at Oxford University, he was Chair of the Oxford University Democratic Socialist Club...
(1999), professor of internal medicine & human genetics, Medical School - Lazar Greenfield (1995), Frederick A. Coller Distinguished Professor, Surgery, Medical School
- Ada Sue Hinshaw (1989), Dean, School of Nursing *Julian Hoff (1999), professor of surgery, Medical School
- James S. House (1999), professor of sociology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
- James JacksonJames JacksonJames Jackson may refer to:* James Jackson , football player* James Jackson , Georgia Congressman, grandson of Senator James Jackson...
(2002), professor of psychology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts - Robert L. Kahn (2002), professor emeritus of psychology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
- George Kaplan (2001), professor of epidemiology, School of Public Health
- David E. KuhlDavid E. KuhlDavid Edmund Kuhl isan American scientist specializing in nuclear medicine.He is well known for his pioneering work in positron emission tomography. Dr...
(1989), professor of internal medicine; professor of radiology, Medical School - Allen S. Lichter (2001), dean, professor of radiation oncology, Medical School
- Roderick Little (2011), Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health
- MARTHA L. LUDWIG, PH.D., research biophysicist and J. Lawrence Oncley Distinguished Professor, department of biological chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Rowena Matthews elected to The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
- CATHERINE G. MCLAUGHLIN, PH.D., professor, department of health management and policy, and director, Economic Research Institute on the Uninsured, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor
- James V. NeelJames V. NeelJames Van Gundia Neel was an American geneticist who played a key role in the development of human genetics as a field of research in the United States. He made important contributions to the emergence of genetic epidemiology and pursued an understanding of the influence of environment on genes...
(1972), Lee R. Dice distinguished university professor emeritus of Human genetics, Medical School - Gilbert S. Omenn (1979), professor of internal medicine & Human genetics, Medical School, and of public health, School of Public Health *Nancy Reame (1996), professor of nursing, School of Nursing
- June Osborn (1986), professor of epidemiology; professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases, Medical School
- Alan R. SaltielAlan R. SaltielAlan R. Saltiel is the Director of the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan; a professor at the Division of Molecular Genetics at the University of Michigan Medical School; a faculty member at the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center; a member of the Steering Committee...
, elected in 2005 to The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Saltiel is the John Jacob Abel Collegiate Professor in Life Sciences and Professor of Internal Medicine and Physiology. He is the third LSI faculty member to be named to the Institute of Medicine. - Thomas L. SchwenkThomas L. SchwenkThomas L. Schwenk, M.D., is dean of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, and vice president of the University of Nevada, Reno, Division of Health Sciences....
(2002), professor of family medicine, Medical School - Harold Shapiro (1989), former UM president
- Peter WardPeter Ward (paleontologist)Peter Douglas Ward is a paleontologist and professor of Biology and of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, and has written popular science works for a general audience. He is also an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum....
(1990), Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor of Pathology, Medical School - Kenneth Warner (1996), Richard D. Remington Collegiate Professor of Public Health; professor of health management & policy, School of Public Health
- Stanley J. Watson (1994), Theophile Raphael Collegiate Professor of Neurosciences, Medical School
- Stephen J. Weiss (2001), Upjohn Professor of Internal Medicine and Oncology, Medical School
- David R. Williams (2001), Harold W. Cruse Collegiate Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts, and professor of epidemiology, School of Public Health
- George Zuldema (1971), vice provost for medical affairs emeritus, and professor emeritus of surgery, Medical School
MacArthur Foundation award winners
- Susan Alcock, (2000), professor of classical anthropology and classics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
- Robert AxelrodRobert AxelrodRobert M. Axelrod is an American political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan where he has been since 1974. He is best known for his interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation, which has been cited in numerous articles...
, (1987) Fellow for public policy. Dr. Axelrod is a game theoretician. Author of "The Evolution of Cooperation". - Ruth BeharRuth BeharRuth Behar is a Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, poet, and writer who teaches at the University of Michigan.After receiving her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1977, she studied cultural anthropology at Princeton University...
, (1988) Fellow, and Anthropologist. - Joseph BrodskyJoseph BrodskyIosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...
, (1981), professor of Slavic languages and literature. - W.A. Christian Jr., (1986), 1971 alumnus. religious studies scholar.
- Philip DeVries, (1988), 1962 alumnus who won as a biologist.
- William H. DurhamWilliam H. DurhamWilliam H. Durham is an American biological anthropologist, and Bing Professor in Human Biology, at Stanford University.-Life:William Durham earned a B.A...
, (1983), 1973 alumnus, anthropologist. - Aaron DworkinAaron DworkinAaron Paul Dworkin is an African American violinist, and music educator.-Early life:Aaron Paul Dworkin was born on September 11, 1970 in Monticello, New York to Vaughn and Audeen Moore, but they decided to give their son up for adoption...
, (2005) M.A. 1998, Fellow and founder and president of Detroit-based Sphinx OrganizationSphinx OrganizationThe Sphinx Organization is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of young Black and Latino classical musicians. Based in Detroit, Michigan, it was founded by the American violinist Aaron Dworkin...
, which strives to increase the number of African-Americans and Latinos having careers in classical music. - Alice FultonAlice FultonAlice Fulton is an American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.- Biography :Fulton was born and raised in Troy, New York, the youngest of three daughters. Her father was the proprietor of the historic Phoenix Hotel, and her mother was a visiting nurse. She began writing poetry in high school...
, (1991) Fellow and Professor of English from 1983 to 2001, won the Library of Congress Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for PoetryBobbitt National Prize for PoetryThe Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry is awarded biennially by the Library of Congress on behalf of the nation in recognition for the most distinguished book of poetry written by an American and published during the preceding two years....
in 2002. - 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 GreenDavid GreenDavid Green or Dave Green may refer to:* David Green , film director* David Green , Busch Series race car driver* David Green , retired baseball player...
, (2004), alumnus, Executive Director, Project Impact. - Kun-Liang GuanKun-Liang GuanKun-Liang Guan , is an American biochemist. He won the MacArthur Award in 1998.-Career:In 1963, Guan was born in Tongxiang , China. In 1982, Guan graduated from the Department of Biology, Hangzhou University . He did his postgraduate study at Purdue University...
, (1998) Fellow and Biochemist and associate professor of biological chemistry and senior research associate at the Institute of Gerontology. - Ann Ellis HansonAnn Ellis HansonAnn Ellis Hanson is an American historian, and senior research scholar at the Papyrological Institute at Yale University.-Works:*, Before sexuality: the construction of erotic experience in the ancient Greek world, Editors David M. Halperin, John J. Winkler, Froma I...
, (1992), visiting associate professor of Greek and Latin. - John Henry HollandJohn Henry HollandJohn Henry Holland is an American scientist and Professor of Psychology and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a pioneer in complex systems and nonlinear science. He is known as the father of genetic algorithms. He was awarded...
,(1992), professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering; professor of psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. - Thomas C. HoltThomas C. HoltThomas Cleveland Holt is James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago; he has produced a number of works on the people and descendants of the African Diaspora....
, (1990), professor of history, director of Center for Afroamerican and African Studies. - Stephen LeeStephen Lee (chemist)Stephen Lee is a MacArthur Award winning chemist and son of Tsung-Dao Lee, the winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is currently a professor at Cornell University.-Education:Lee attended Yale University, and graduated with a BA in 1978...
, (1993) Fellow, solid state chemistry. - Michael A. Marletta, (1995) Fellow, Biochemist and John Gideon Searle Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy in the College of Pharmacy and professor of biological chemistry in the Medical School.
- Vonnie C. McLoyd, (1996) Fellow, professor of psychology and research scientist at the Center for Human Growth and Development
- Thylias MossThylias MossThylias Moss is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright, of African American, Indian, and European heritage, who has published a number of poetry collections, children’s books, essays, and multimedia work she calls poams, products of acts of making, related to...
, (1996), Fellow and Professor of English, also Professor of Art & Design (2006). - Erik MuegglerErik MuegglerErik Mueggler is an American anthropologist, and Professor at the University of Michigan.He attended Deep Springs College and graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in socio-cultural anthropology, and Johns Hopkins University with a Ph.D...
, (2002), professor of cultural anthropology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. - Cecilia MunozCecilia MuñozCecilia Muñoz has served as the Director of Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House since January 21, 2009. A longtime civil rights advocate, she worked as Senior Vice President for the Office of Research, Advocacy and Legislation at the National Council of La Raza , a nonprofit organization...
, (2000), alumna, vice president of the National Council of La Raza. - Sherry B. Ortner, (1990), professor of anthropology and women's studies
- Rebecca J. ScottRebecca J. ScottRebecca Jarvis Scott is an American historian, and Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law, at University of Michigan.-Life:...
, (1990) Fellow and Professor of History.won the 2006 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery. The $25,000 prize is awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and AbolitionGilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and AbolitionThe Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition is part of The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. The center was founded in November 1998 by David Brion Davis and funded by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman and the...
at Yale UniversityYale UniversityYale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
. - Bright ShengBright ShengBright Sheng is a Chinese-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He has lived in the United States since 1982 and is on faculty at the University of Michigan. In 1999, the White House commissioned Sheng to compose a piece to honor the Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji at a state dinner hosted by...
(2001), professor of composition and music theory, School of Music. - Amos TverskyAmos TverskyAmos Nathan Tversky, was a cognitive and mathematical psychologist, a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. Much of his early work concerned the foundations of measurement...
, (1984), 1965 alumnus, psychologist. - Karen K. Uhlenbeck, (1983), 1964, mathematician.
- Richard WranghamRichard WranghamRichard W. Wrangham is a British primatologist. He is the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and his research group is now part of the newly established Department of Human Evolutionary Biology....
, (1987), professor of anthropology. - Henry T. WrightHenry T. WrightHenry T. Wright is an American anthropologist, and professor at the University of Michigan, and at the Santa Fe Institute.He graduated from University of Michigan, and from the University of Chicago with a PhD.-Works:...
, (1993) Fellow, and Anthropologist. - George ZweigGeorge ZweigGeorge Zweig was originally trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman and later turned his attention to neurobiology...
, (1981), 1959 alumnus, physicist.
United States National Academy of Engineering
- Linda M. Abriola (2003), Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
- Peter BanksPeter BanksPeter Banks is an English guitarist. He was the original guitarist of the progressive rock band Yes.-Early career:When Banks was a young boy, his father bought him an acoustic guitar...
(1993), Dean, College of Engineering - William Brown (1992), adjunct professor of electrical engineering, College of Engineering
- Don B. Chaffin (1994), G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering, College of Engineering
- Lynn ConwayLynn ConwayLynn Conway is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, inventor, trans woman, and activist for the transgender community....
(1989), Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, College of Engineering - James W. Daily (1975), Professor Emeritus of Fluid Mechanics & Hydraulic engineering, College of Engineering
- Stephen W. Director (1989), Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering, College of Engineering
- James J. Duderstadt (1987), President Emeritus, Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, College of Engineering
- Gerard Faeth (1991), Arthur B. Modine Professor of Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
- Elmer G. GilbertElmer G. GilbertElmer G. Gilbert is an American aerospace engineer and a Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan.He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the 1994 IEEE Control Systems Award Elmer G. Gilbert is an American aerospace engineer and a...
(1994), professor of aerospace engineering and of electrical engineering & computer science, College of Engineering - Steven A. Goldstein (2005), Henry Ruppenthal Family Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering
- George Haddad (1994), Robert J. Hiller professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering
- Robert D. Hanson (1982), professor of civil engineering, College of Engineering
- Bruce G. Johnston (1979), professor emeritus of structural engineering, College of Engineering
- Donald Katz (1968), professor emeritus of chemical engineering, College
- Glenn Knoll (1999), Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, College of Engineering
- Ronald G. Larson (2003), George Granger Brown Professor of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering
- Emmett LeithEmmett LeithEmmett Leith was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and, with Juris Upatnieks of the University of Michigan, the co-inventor of three-dimensional holography.Leith received his B.S. in physics from Wayne State University in 1949 and his M.S. in physics in 1952...
(1982), Schlumberger Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering - Gerard A. Mourou (2002), A.D. Moore Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering & and Computer Science, College of Engineering
- Stephen M. Pollock (2002), Herrick Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering, College of Engineering
- Tresa M. Pollock (2005), the L. H. and F. E. Van Vlack Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
- Frank E. Richart, Jr. (1969), Walter Johnson Emmons Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering
- Albert Schultz (1993), Vennema Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mathematics, College of Engineering
- Chen-To Tai (1987), professor emeritus of electrical engineering & computer science, College of Engineering
- Fawwaz Ulaby (1995), R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, College of Engineering
- Walter Weber (1985), Earnest Boyce professor of Civil & Environmental engineering, College of Engineering
- Kensall D. Wise (1998), J. Reid & Polly Anderson Professor of Manufacturing Technology, College of Engineering
- Richard D. Woods (2003), professor of civil & environmental engineering, College of Engineering
- Ralph T. Yang (2005), Dwight T. Benton Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Chia-Shun YihChia-Shun YihChia-Shun Yih was the Stephen P. Timoshenko Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He made many significant contributions to fluid mechanics.-Biography:...
(1980), Stephen P. Timoshenko Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Fluid Mechanics, College of Engineering
United States National Academy of Sciences
- Mathew Alpern (1991), professor emeritus of physiological optics, Medical School
- Richard D. AlexanderRichard D. AlexanderRichard D. Alexander is an Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Curator of Insects at the Museum of Zoology of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Prof...
(1974), Theodore H. Hubell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Biology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts - Robert AxelrodRobert AxelrodRobert M. Axelrod is an American political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan where he has been since 1974. He is best known for his interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation, which has been cited in numerous articles...
(1986), Arthur W. Bromage Distinguished University Professor of Political Science & Public Policy, School of Public Policy - Hyman BassHyman BassHyman Bass is an American mathematician, known for work in algebra and in mathematics education. From 1959-1998 he was Professor in the Mathematics Department at Columbia University, where he is now professor emeritus...
(1982), professor of education, School of Education, & mathematics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts - Philip Bucksbaum 2004
- Jerome Conn (1969), Louis Harry Newburgh University Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine, Medical School
- Philip ConversePhilip ConversePhilip Ernest Converse is an American political scientist. He is a professor emeritus in political science at the University of Michigan, is a seminal figure in the field of public opinion. His article "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics" Philip Ernest Converse (born 1928) is an...
(1973), Robert Cooley Angell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Sociology & Political Science, College of Literature, Science & the Arts - Clyde CoombsClyde CoombsClyde Hamilton Coombs was an American psychologist specializing in the field of mathematical psychology. He devised a voting system, that was hence named Coombs' method....
(1982), professor emeritus of psychology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts - Minor J. Coon (1983), Victor C. Vaughn Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Biological Chemistry, Medical School
- H. Richard Crane (1966), George P. Williams Distinguished University, physicist
- Horace W. Davenport (1974), William Beaumont Professor Emeritus of Physiology, Medical School
- Thomas M. Donahue (1983), Edward H. White II Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Planetary Science, College of Engineering
- Lennard A. Fisk (2003), Thomas M. Donahue Collegiate Professor of Space Science, College of Engineering
- Kent V. FlanneryKent V. FlanneryKent Vaughn Flannery is a North American archaeologist who has conducted and published extensive research on the pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations of Mesoamerica, and in particular those of central and southern Mexico. He has also published influential work on origins of agriculture and...
(1978), James B. Griffin Distinguished University Professor of Anthropological Archaeology, College of Literature Science & the Arts - Ronald FreedmanRonald FreedmanDr. Ronald Freedman was an international demographer and founder of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. He led pioneering survey research on fertility in Asia.Freedman was the recipient of many honors and awards over his career...
(1974), Roderick D. McKenzie Professor Emeritus of Sociology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts, Professor Emeritus of Physics, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts - William FultonWilliam FultonWilliam Edgar Fulton is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1961 and his doctorate from Princeton University in 1966. Fulton worked at Princeton and Brandeis University from 1965 until 1970, when he began...
(1997), M. S. Keeler Professor, mathematics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts - Stanley M. Garn (1976), professor emeritus of nutrition, School of Public Health
- Frederick Gehring (1989), T.H. Hildebrandt Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics
- Melvin HochsterMelvin HochsterMelvin Hochster is an eminent American mathematician, regarded as one of the leading commutative algebraists active today. He is currently the Jack E. McLaughlin Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan.Hochster attended Stuyvesant High School, where he was...
(1992), Raymond L. Wilder Professor of Mathematics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts - Raymond Kelly 2004
- Martha L. Ludwig (2003), professor of biological chemistry, Medical School
- Joyce MarcusJoyce MarcusJoyce Marcus is a well-known American archaeologist, who has published extensively in the field of Latin American archaeological research. Her particular focus has been on the pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations of Mesoamerica, where much of her fieldwork has been concentrated on the Maya...
(1997), professor of anthropology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts - Vincent MasseyVincent MasseyCharles Vincent Massey was a Canadian lawyer and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 18th since Canadian Confederation....
(1995), professor of biological chemistry, Medical School - Rowena G. Matthews (2002), G. Robert Greenberg Distinguished University Professor, biological chemistry, Medical School
- James N. Morgan (1975), Professor emeritus of economics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
- James V. NeelJames V. NeelJames Van Gundia Neel was an American geneticist who played a key role in the development of human genetics as a field of research in the United States. He made important contributions to the emergence of genetic epidemiology and pursued an understanding of the influence of environment on genes...
(1963), Lee R. Dice Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics, Medical School - Richard Nisbett (2002), Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor, psychology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
- James OldsJames OldsJames Olds was an American psychologist who co-discovered the reward center of the brain with Peter Milner while he was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in 1954...
(1969) Professor of Psychology - J. Lawrence Oncley (1947), professor emeritus of biological chemistry, Medical School
- Kenneth Pike (1985), Professor emeritus of linguistics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
- Edward Smith (1996), professor of psychology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
- Martinus Veltman (2000), John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
- Warren Wagner (1985), Jr., professor emeritus of botany, School of Natural Resources & the Environment
- Henry WrightHenry WrightHenry Wright , was an architect and major proponent of the garden city, an idea characterized by green belts and created by Sir Ebenezer Howard....
(1994), professor of anthropology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts; curator, Museum of Anthropology
National Medal of Science
The National Medal of Science is the nation's highest honor for scientific achievement. Five other Michigan researchers won the award between 1974 and 1986. Congress established the award program in 1959. It honors individuals for pioneering scientific research.- Hyman BassHyman BassHyman Bass is an American mathematician, known for work in algebra and in mathematics education. From 1959-1998 he was Professor in the Mathematics Department at Columbia University, where he is now professor emeritus...
honored by President Bush in a White House ceremony for the National Medal of ScienceNational Medal of ScienceThe National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and...
in 2006. - H. Richard Crane (1986), George P. Williams Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Physics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
- Elizabeth Crosby (1979), professor of anatomy, Medical School
- Donald Katz (1982), professor emeritus of chemical engineering, College of Engineering
- Emmett LeithEmmett LeithEmmett Leith was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and, with Juris Upatnieks of the University of Michigan, the co-inventor of three-dimensional holography.Leith received his B.S. in physics from Wayne State University in 1949 and his M.S. in physics in 1952...
(1979), Schlumberger Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering - James Neel (1974), Lee R. Dice Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics, Medical School
Pulitzer Prize-winning faculty
- Leslie BassettLeslie BassettLeslie Bassett is an American composer of classical music, and the University of Michigan’s Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition...
(1966), professor of music; music, for Variations for Orchestra. - William BolcomWilliam BolcomWilliam Elden Bolcom is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973–2008...
(1988), professor of music composition; music, for Twelve New Etudes for Piano. - Ross Lee FinneyRoss Lee FinneyRoss Lee Finney Junior was an American composer born in Wells, Minnesota who taught for many years at the University of Michigan. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Edward Burlingame Hill, Alban Berg and Roger Sessions...
(1937), professor of music; music, for a string quartet. - Robert FrostRobert FrostRobert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...
, a former faculty member won four Pulitzer Prizes through the years. - Percival Price (1934), carillonneur and professor of campanology; music, for Saint Lawrence Symphony.
- Leland StoweLeland StoweLeland Stowe was a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist noted for being one of the first to recognize the expansionist character of the German Nazi regime.- Biography :...
(1930), professor of journalism; correspondence, for his work as a reporter on the foreign staff of the New York Herald Tribune. - Claude H. Van TyneClaude H. Van TyneClaude Halstead Van Tyne was an American historian and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He taught history at the University of Michigan from 1903–1930, and wrote a number of books on the American Revolution...
(1930), professor and chairman of the history department; American History, for The War of Independence.
Former administrators
- Erastus Otis HavenErastus Otis HavenErastus Otis Haven was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1880, and the president of several universities.-Biography:...
, second PresidentPresidentA president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
of U-M (1863–69), later BishopBishopA bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
of the Methodist Episcopal ChurchMethodist Episcopal ChurchThe Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes referred to as the M.E. Church, was a development of the first expression of Methodism in the United States. It officially began at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784, with Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke as the first bishops. Through a series of... - Lee BollingerLee BollingerLee Carroll Bollinger is an American lawyer and educator who is currently serving as the 19th president of Columbia University. Formerly the president of the University of Michigan, he is a noted legal scholar of the First Amendment and freedom of speech...
, former UM President, now 19th President of Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the... - Nancy CantorNancy CantorNancy Cantor is the 11th chancellor and president of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. She received her A.B. in 1974 from Sarah Lawrence College and her Ph.D. in psychology in 1978 from Stanford University. She became chancellor upon the retirement of Kenneth "Buzz" Shaw...
, former provost of U-M, now 11th Chancellor and President of Syracuse UniversitySyracuse UniversitySyracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College... - Paul Danos, UM Senior Associate Dean, now Dean at Dartmouth CollegeDartmouth CollegeDartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
's Tuck School of Business - Steven Director UM Engineering Dean, now Northeastern Provost
- Walter Harrison, Vice President for university relations and secretary, who left for the University of HartfordUniversity of HartfordThe University of Hartford is a private, independent, nonsectarian, coeducational university located in West Hartford, Connecticut. The degree programs at the University of Hartford hold the highest levels of accreditation available in the US, including the Engineering Accreditation Commission of...
in 1998 - Maureen Hartford, Vice President for student affairs, who went to Meredith CollegeMeredith CollegeMeredith College is a liberal arts women's college located in Raleigh, North Carolina. For the 2010-2011 academic year, there were approximately 2,300 students enrolled, including about 350 graduate students, making Meredith the largest women's college in the southeastern United States...
in 1999. - C. C. LittleC. C. LittleClarence Cook "C.C." Little was an American genetics, cancer, and tobacco researcher and academic administrator.-Biography:...
, President (1925–1929), noted cancer researcher and tobacco industry scientist. - J. Bernard "Bernie" MachenBernie MachenJames Bernard "Bernie" Machen is an American university professor and administrator. Machen is a native of Mississippi, and earned multiple academic degrees before becoming a university administrator and president...
, Provost, who went to the University of UtahUniversity of UtahThe University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...
in 1998; now at the University of FloridaUniversity of FloridaThe University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906... - Frank H. T. Rhodes, former UM VP for Academic Affairs was elected the ninth president of Cornell UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
- Harold Shapiro, UM President for eight years; 18th President of Princeton UniversityPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
from 1988 to 2001. - Edward A. Snyder, UM Senior Associate Dean, now Dean at University of ChicagoUniversity of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
Business School - Andrew Dickson WhiteAndrew Dickson WhiteAndrew Dickson White was a U.S. diplomat, historian, and educator, who was the co-founder of Cornell University.-Family and personal life:...
, former UM professor of literature became co-founder of Cornell UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions... - B. Joseph WhiteB. Joseph WhiteBernard Joseph White is President Emeritus of the University of Illinois and James F. Towey Professor of Business and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is Dean Emeritus of the Stephen M...
, PhD 1975, former Ross SchoolRoss School of BusinessThe Stephen M. Ross School of Business is the business school of the University of Michigan. Numerous publications have ranked the Ross School of Business' Bachelor of Business Administration , Master of Business Administration and Executive Education programs among the top in the country and the...
dean, now 16th President of the University of IllinoisUniversity of Illinois systemThe University of Illinois is a system of public universities in Illinois consisting of three campuses: Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, and Springfield. Across its three campuses, the University of Illinois enrolls about 70,000 students. It had an operating budget of $4.17 billion in 2007.-System:The... - Linda Wilson, Vice President for research at U-M and became president of Radcliffe CollegeRadcliffe CollegeRadcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the coordinate college for Harvard University. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges. Radcliffe College conferred joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas beginning in 1963 and a formal merger agreement with...
in 1989
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