People
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Award winners
Art Kramer
Beckman Institute director, 2010-16
Professor/center director, Northeastern University
Ed Krol
Internet Hall of Famer
‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Internet’ author
Heidi Ladd
Circuit court judge
Champaign County
Chris Landreth
Award-winning animator
2004 Oscar for ‘Ryan’
Markita Landry
2020 UI Young Alumni Award winner
Assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, Cal-Berkeley
Avis (Sampson) LaVelle
Former press secretary to Chicago Mayor Richard Daly
Executive director, Business Leadership Council
Ang Lee
Movie maker
3 Oscar wins with 3 movies
Daeyeol Lee
Professor of neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry
Yale University
Anthony Leggett
Nobel-winning physicist
On UI faculty since ’83
Jennifer Lewis
Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering
Harvard University
Qilin Li
Civil and environmental engineering professor
Rice University
Lou Liay
2023 honorary doctorate recipient
Namesake of UIAA's Lou Liay Spirit Award
Bob Liebeck
Pioneering Boeing aerodynamicist, aerospace engineer
Grainger College of Engineering Hall of Famer
Jeffrey Lieber
TV/film screenwriter/producer
‘Lost’ co-creator
Kelly Loeffler
Former U.S. senator for Georgia (2020-21)
Former WNBA team owner, Bakkt CEO
Stacy Walton Long
Indianapolis law partner
Krieg DeVault LLP
Rod Lovett
Director of championships
National Junior College Athletic Assn.
Don Lowe
Earth sciences professor
Stanford University
Jerry Marcyk
Director/components research
Intel (retired)
Carol Marin
Peabody Award-winning Chicago broadcast journalist
1997 Chicago Illini of Year
Stacy Marks
Big Ten Medal of Honor
Sr. director, Accruent
Diane Wolfe Marlin
Urbana mayor since 2017
Coordinator, UI Family Resiliency Program (2000-10)
Nancy Thies Marshall
1972 Olympic gymnast
Illini Athletics HOF
Jose Martinez
Cornell professor
Distinguished Alumni Award