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Award winners
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
Angela Sinickas
2020 Alumni Achievement Award
International corporate communication researcher
Ann McBrien
First woman to serve as VP/sales at Procter & Gamble
Started UIAA Comeback program, Illini Pride founding board member
Craig Virgin
1975 NCAA Cross-Country champion
Illinois Athletics Hall of Famer
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Avis (Sampson) LaVelle
Former press secretary to Chicago Mayor Richard Daly
Executive director, Business Leadership Council
Art Kramer
Beckman Institute director, 2010-16
Professor/center director, Northeastern University
Meg Bates
U of Chicago senior research and evaluation scientist
Director of digital teacher learning research
Kevin Jackson
Hematology program manager
Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute
Mark Goldenberg
Managing partner, Goldenberg Heller & Antognoli
2019 College of Law Distinguished Alum
