University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Jason Mazzone

UI Albert E. Jenner Jr. Professor of Law

Director, Program in Constitutional Theory, History and Law

Tracey Meares

Walton Hale Hamilton Professor

Yale Law School

Jim Morrill

Political writer

Charlotte Observer

Chrystalla Mouza

Dean

UI College of Education

Fred Moyer

Principal architect

Moyer Associates

Malden Nesheim

Nutrition prof. emeritus

Cornell University

Laura Niklason

Yale professor

Alumni Achievement Award

David Otunga

Lawyer, wrestler, actor

WWE tag-team champ

Cordell Overgaard

President

Overgaard Broadcasting

Alan Poeppel

VP/senior associate

Langan Engineering

Vince Poor

Former Princeton dean

UI engineering prof, 1977-90

Misha Rezvi

Emmy/Outstanding research

PBS' ‘Outlawed in Pakistan'

Larry Samuelson

Professor of economics

Yale University

Mark John Sanchez

Lecturer of history, literature

Harvard University

Clifford Saper

Harvard professor

Groundbreaking neuroscientist

Artan Sheshmani

Associate professor, Center for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces

Mathematician, Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences And Applications

Scott Slimmer

Laboratory manager

Harvard University

Erica Knievel Songer

Chief counsel

United States Senate

Jim Stone

Chair, Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences

Princeton University

Robert Swieringa

Accounting prof. emeritus

Cornell University

Katie Thompson

Amazon VP

Associate general counsel

Alex Tirapelle

All-American wrestler

Former Penn coach

Jane Unrue

Award-winning novelist

Harvard writing professor

Gary Urton

Harvard professor

Won 2000 'Genius' grant