People
328
Award winners
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
Rebekah Ratliff
President
Capital City Mediations, LLC
Terri Reifsteck
VP of marketing
Visit Champaign County
Idun Reiten
Norwegian mathematician
Humboldt Research Prize
Sheila Repeta
Head of People
TeamSnap
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
Jaime Roundtree
Director of curriculum and instruction, Rantoul City Schools
Former principal at Champaign's Booker T. Washington STEM Academy
Adham Sahloul
2025 Young Alumni Award winner
Co-founder, North Star Policy Initiative
Saiid Saiidi
Nevada engineering professor
Outstanding Alumni Award
Clifford Saper
Harvard professor
Groundbreaking neuroscientist
Reshma Saujani
Founder/CEO
Girls Who Code
