University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Pat Draves

President

Graceland University

Kevin Howard

Principal research scientist 

Dow Chemical Company

Katie Tryon

Senior specialist

Mars Wrigley Confectionery

Stuart King

Christie Clinic anesthesiologist

UI trustee, 3-degree grad

Frederick Volkmar

Yale professor

Alumni Achievement Award

Stephan Wiet

Research director/fellow

McNeil Consumer Healthcare

Reshma Saujani

Founder/CEO

Girls Who Code

Shaila Kotadia

Director of Culture and Inclusion

Stanford School of Medicine

Greg Ruschau

Senior technical advisor

ExxonMobil

Amr Elnashai

Vice chancellor

University of Houston

Omar Kazi

Director, Pfizer

Global Sterile Injectables

Seth Wessels

Finance manage

Dow Chemical

Angel Rivera

Research microbiologist

CDC

Jessica Whitham

Animal welfare biologist

Chicago Zoological Society

Brian Berg

Medical science liaison

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals

Haylie Choi

Former RNC analyst

Secretary, DC Illini Club

Peter Dorhout

Vice president/research

Kansas State University

Mike VanBlaricum

Research engineer

‘14 Lou Liay Spirit Award

Karl Hess

Swanlund professor emeritus

Beckman Institute

Justin Hsia

Flight test engineer

Sierra Nevada Corp.

Jeff Uhrig

CEO

Sirrus Chemistry

Rajiv Shah

Data scientist

DataRobot

Bob Holmes

Hydrodynamics chief

U.S. Geological Survey

Chelsey Coombs

Writer, producer

The Weather Channel