University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Frederick Volkmar

Yale professor

Alumni Achievement Award

Bridgett Wakefield

Project architect, Reifsteck Reid & Co.

Parkland professor

Tony Waldrop

Former UI vice chancellor

South Alabama President

Dr. Garth Walker

Emergency physician

Jesse Brown Veteran Affairs

Grace Walsh

Senior analyst

United Airlines

Peter Weinstein

Executive director

Southern California Veterinary Medical Assn.

Mort Weir

UI’s fifth chancellor (1988-93)

Former psychology professor

Aaron Weiss

Filmmamer/content marketer

GoPro

Marty Welch

CEO

Hawaii Employers Mutual Insurance Company

Joe White

UI’s 16th President

Professor since 2009

Marc Williams

Principal product manager

Walmart Labs

John Williams III

Assistant Professor, Multicultural Education

Texas A&M University

Bob Wilson

Data science director

Mammoth Media

Joice Wirkus

Vice president, marketing

Petsmart

Larry Woiwode

N. Dakota’s poet laureate

Award-winning novelist

Grace Woo

Pixels.IO founder

Graduated at age 19

Mary Ellen Wuellner

Executive director

Champaign County Forest Preserve District

Zhida Xu

Sr. autopilot camera engineer

Tesla

Josh Yellin

Head of global operations

Google Launchpad

Symone Young

Clinical study coordinator

UNC-Chapel Hill

Harvey Yu

Data scientist

GIC of Singapore

Dan Zaharopol

Founder, director

Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics

Vivian Zapata

Visual artist

Teaches at Governors State

Vic Zimmerman

Superintendent

Monticello school district