University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Bridgett Wakefield

Project architect, Reifsteck Reid & Co.

Parkland professor

Tony Waldrop

Former UI vice chancellor

South Alabama President

Tammie Walker

Director, School of Music

University of Iowa

William Wallace

Art history professor

Washington University

Chang Wang

Minnesota law partner

College professor

Shaowen Wang

Professor and Head

Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science

Xin Wang

Assistant professor, U of Wisconsin

Civil and environmental engineering

Brian Wansink

Director

Cornell Food/Brand Lab

April Warren-Grice

Founder/CEO

Liberated Genius, LLC

Kevin Warwick

Artificial intelligence pioneer

Former Beckman fellow

Kevin Waspi

Retired senior lecturer

Gies College of Business

Laurie Weingart

Interim provost

Carnegie Mellon U

Mort Weir

UI’s fifth chancellor (1988-93)

Former psychology professor

Paula Welander

Stanford assistant professor

Earth System Science

Cam Wesson

Professor of sociology and anthropology

Lehigh University

Joe White

UI’s 16th President

Professor since 2009

John Williams III

Assistant Professor, Multicultural Education

Texas A&M University

Abigail Williams-Butler

Assistant professor

Rutgers University

Joy Williamson-Lott

Dean, Graduate School

University of Washington

Don Wilmeth

Brown professor

Alumni Achievement Award

Barb Wilson

Executive VP, UI system

Former LAS dean, interim chancellor

Larry Woiwode

N. Dakota’s poet laureate

Award-winning novelist

Mark Wolters

Teaching Associate Professor of Business Administration; Academic Director, Marketing Major

Globetrotting host of 'Wolters World' YouTube channel

Amy Mays Woods

UI professor

College of Applied Health Sciences