People
312
Award winners
Fontaine Richardson
Computer science pioneer
UI Engineering HOF
Jennifer Robbennolt
Alice Curtis Campbell Professor of Law
Co-Director, Illinois Program on Law, Behavior and Social Science
Britney Robbins
Founder/CEO, Gray Matter Experience
No. 2 on CS Magazine's 2020 Most Influential Chicagoans list
John Rogers
Bioelectronics pioneer
Held Swanlund chair at UI
Sylvia Ronsvalle
Executive VP
empty tomb, inc.
Jay Rosenstein
Peabody and Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker
UI Professor, Media and Cinema Studies
J. Robert Rossman
Professor and dean emeritus
Illinois State University
Al Roth
Shared Nobel in Economics
UI professor, 1974-82
Saiid Saiidi
Nevada engineering professor
Outstanding Alumni Award
Clifford Saper
Harvard professor
Groundbreaking neuroscientist
Reshma Saujani
Founder/CEO
Girls Who Code
Dan Savage
Sex-advice columnist
Writes ‘Savage Love´
Bill Schultz
Emmy-winning animator
CEO, Home Plate E'tainment
Ken Schweizer
Morris Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Polymer Physics Prize recipient
Don Scifres
Laser physics pioneer
UI Engineering HOF
Bill Self
3 seasons, 3 NCAA tournaments
78-24 as Illini basketball coach (2000-03)
Phillip Sharp
Renowned geneticist, biologist
Shared 1993 Nobel Prize
Scott Shearer
Bockorny Group VP
USDA deputy ass’t secretary (1993-96)
Charles Shields
Literary biographer, playwright
New York Times best-seller
Tom Siebel
Software entrepreneur
Donated $157 million-plus
Sheldon Siegel
Author
2012 Illini Comeback Award
Russel Simmons
CTO and co-founder
Yelp
Tim Simpson
4-year football starter
1992 Dike Eddleman Award
Angela Sinickas
2020 Alumni Achievement Award
International corporate communication researcher
