People
319
Award winners
Donald Nally
Award-winning conductor
The Chicago Bach Project
Judi Nash
Miss America 1969
Delta Gamma alumna
Laura Niklason
Yale professor
Alumni Achievement Award
Safiya Noble
2020 iSchool Distinguished Alumna Award
UCLA Associate Professor, Information Studies and African American Studies
Dan O’Neill
VP of corporate partnerships
Tepper Sports & Entertainment
Daniel Oerther
President-elect, American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists
Professor of environmental health engineering, Missouri University of Science & Technology
Mark Palmer
Chief Counsel
Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism
Roman Paluta
Ret. partner, business development director
Solve of Minneapolis
Landon Parvin
Famed GOP speechwriter
Wrote for Reagans, Bushes
Danielle Patterson
Associate attorney, Spiros Law
UI Law Alumni Professional Development Award winner
Deborah Paul
Pioneering researcher, biochemist
34-plus years at Abbott Laboratories
Ed Perkins
Canada research chair in probability
University of British Columbia
Henry Petroski
Civil engineering professor
Distinguished Alumni Award
Celene Peurye
Executive director
Hunter Family Foundation
Kathy Pherson
President
Globalytica
Alan Poeppel
VP/senior associate
Langan Engineering
Richard Powers
2019 Pulitzer Prize
Won 1989 ‘Genius’ grant
Lynn Price
Social entrepreneur
Alumni Humanitarian Award
Sylvia Puente
Leads Latino Policy Forum
Alumni Achievement Award
Cheryl Quinn
LAS Alumni Achievement Award
QnA Pharma Consulting, LLC
Rajeev Ram
ATP Tour pro
On ’03 national title team
Ritu Raman
Forbes’ 30 under 30
MIT postdoctoral fellow
Chathapuram ‘Ram’ Ramanathan
2020-21 Community Achievement Award, UI School of Social Work
Associate Professor,University of West Florida
Susan Rankaitis
Professor of art
Scripps College
