People
500
Academia
Kelley Francis
Executive director
HITEC Foundation
Margaret Ng
UI associate professor of journalism
Institute of Communications Research and College of Media
Ronaldo Maghirang
Professor and head
UI Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Pinshane Huang
UI professor of materials science and engineering
Ivan Racheff Faculty Scholar
Paul Ellinger
VP, CFO and comptroller, UI System
2025 ACES Alumni Award of Merit
Hope Michelson
Professor, Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Urbana native
Mildred Barnes Griggs
UI College of Education's first Black dean
Died in 2025
Danielle Wilberg
Associate VP for development and executive director
Parkland College Foundation
Robert Jones
UI's 10th chancellor
(2016-2025)
Brooke Elliott
Dean, Gies College of Business
Josef and Margot Lakonishok Professor in Business
Alexandra Jones
Director of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Undergraduate Program, University of Maryland
Earned two UI degrees in atmospheric sciences and meteorology (master’s in 2010, Ph.D. in 2015)
Elaine Hsieh
Professor and Chair, Communication Studies, University of Minnesota
Earned Ph.D. in health communication from Illinois
Ross Erlebacher
Cognizant assistant VP
Earned computer science degrees in 1988, '89
Jaime Roundtree
Director of curriculum and instruction, Rantoul City Schools
Former principal at Champaign's Booker T. Washington STEM Academy
Sunil Kumar
President
Tufts University
Dr. Mark Cohen
Dean, Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Senior VP and chief academic officer, Carle Health
Stephanie Moore
Assistant dean of the arts
University of California-Santa Cruz
Shahzeen Attari
Associate professor
Indiana University’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Steven Wymer
Boston-based Fidelity investment portfolio manager
Namesake of UI's Steven S. Wymer Hall
J. Robert Rossman
Professor and dean emeritus
Illinois State University
Anjali Forber-Pratt
2-time Paralympian
Director, National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research
Tim Killeen
President
UI system
Andrew Bender
Director of operations
Chez Veterans Center
Craig Lundstrom
Head/professor
UI Department of Geology
