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Erika Harold
Miss America 2003
Champaign attorney
Jeanne Harris
Business analytics lecturer
Columbia University
Brian Wansink
Director
Cornell Food/Brand Lab
Vince Poor
Former Princeton dean
UI engineering prof, 1977-90
Frederick Volkmar
Yale professor
Alumni Achievement Award
Cordell Overgaard
President
Overgaard Broadcasting
Misha Rezvi
Emmy/Outstanding research
PBS' ‘Outlawed in Pakistan'
Jane Unrue
Award-winning novelist
Harvard writing professor
Jose Martinez
Cornell professor
Distinguished Alumni Award
Alan Poeppel
VP/senior associate
Langan Engineering
Katie Thompson
Amazon VP
Associate general counsel
Malden Nesheim
Nutrition prof. emeritus
Cornell University
Emily Vito
Asst. development director
Lincoln Center Film Society
Fred Moyer
Principal architect
Moyer Associates
Gary Urton
Harvard professor
Won 2000 'Genius' grant
Michael Van Valkenburgh
Award-winning architect
Hired for Obama library
Jim Morrill
Political writer
Charlotte Observer
Robert Swieringa
Accounting prof. emeritus
Cornell University
E.J. Corey
Won Nobel in chemistry
UI professor, 1951-59
Bruce Blair
Nuclear security expert
Won 1999 'Genius' grant
Allison Guth
Head basketball coach
Yale University
Alex Tirapelle
All-American wrestler
Former Penn coach
Tori Haring-Smith
Former president
Washington & Jefferson
