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Academia
Janet Hoffman Mathis
2021 ACES Award of Merit recipient
President/CEO, Elevate Illinois
Ken Schweizer
Morris Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Polymer Physics Prize recipient
George Danos
Auditor
Champaign County
Nell Bekiares
Animal biologist, conservation scientist, wildlife ecologist, zoologist
Research specialist, University of Wisconsin
Ugur Uygur
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
Loyola University of Chicago
Daniel Oerther
President-elect, American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists
Professor of environmental health engineering, Missouri University of Science & Technology
Michael Harmata
Norman Rabjohn Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
University of Missouri
Libby Tyler
Planning manager, City of San Pablo, Calif.
Former Urbana community development director
Raul Gouvea
Professor, International Management
University of New Mexico
Jack Groppel
Former Illini men’s tennis coach (1978-81)
Co-founder, Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute
Jennifer Lewis
Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering
Harvard University
Chathapuram ‘Ram’ Ramanathan
2020-21 Community Achievement Award, UI School of Social Work
Associate Professor,University of West Florida
Karle Flanagan
UI Senior Instructor of Statistics
2019 recipient of Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Trevor Riggen
Senior VP, Disaster Cycle Services
American Red Cross
Erica Bauer
Director of community relations , Chicago Bulls
Founder, Girl Power Songs
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Karin (Dommermuth) O'Connor
Clinical Assistant Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Northwestern U
Executive Director, Heizer Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital
Elaine Ricketts Hicks
Research support, education and public health librarian
Tulane University
Safiya Noble
2020 iSchool Distinguished Alumna Award
UCLA Associate Professor, Information Studies and African American Studies
Jay Rosenstein
Peabody and Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker
UI Professor, Media and Cinema Studies
Markita Landry
2020 UI Young Alumni Award winner
Assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, Cal-Berkeley
Ivory M. Berry
Assistant Dean, College of Education and Human Development
George Mason University
Kelvin Droegemeier
UI atmospheric sciences professor and special advisor to the chancellor
Former director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Dee Dlugonski
Assistant Professor
Sports Medicine Research Institute, University of Kentucky
Art Kramer
Beckman Institute director, 2010-16
Professor/center director, Northeastern University
