People
319
Award winners
Mark Wolters
Teaching Associate Professor of Business Administration; Academic Director, Marketing Major
Globetrotting host of 'Wolters World' YouTube channel
Marni Boppart
Professor of Kinesiology and Community Health
Beckman Vision and Spirit Award winner
Jessica Conroy
Associate Geology Professor
2013 Arnold O. Beckman Award winner
Kelly Loeffler
U.S. senator (2020-21)
Former WNBA team owner, Bakkt CEO
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
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
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
James Blachly
Grammy-nominated conductor
Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, Experiential Orchestra
Karle Flanagan
UI Senior Instructor of Statistics
2019 recipient of Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Bob Liebeck
Pioneering Boeing aerodynamicist, aerospace engineer
Grainger College of Engineering Hall of Famer
Dr. Julie Morita
Executive VP, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public Health (2015-19)
Carol Marin
Peabody Award-winning Chicago broadcast journalist
1997 Chicago Illini of Year
Safiya Noble
2020 iSchool Distinguished Alumna Award
UCLA Associate Professor, Information Studies and African American Studies
Dr. Joel Geiderman
Co-chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center
2020 LAS Alumni Humanitarian Award
Craig Hella Johnson
Grammy-winning conductor, composer
Artistic director, Conspirare
Dr. Erik Antonsen
Assistant Director, Human Systems Risk Management
NASA
Jay Rosenstein
Peabody and Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker
UI Professor, Media and Cinema Studies
Diane Wolfe Marlin
Urbana mayor since 2017
Coordinator, UI Family Resiliency Program (2000-10)
Markita Landry
2020 UI Young Alumni Award winner
Assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, Cal-Berkeley
Ross Cavitt
Former Emmy-winning Atlanta TV reporter
Cobb (Ga,) County communications director
Myles Gage
COO and co-founder
Rapunzl Investments
