University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Brian Wansink

Director

Cornell Food/Brand Lab

Ana Valderrama

Associate dean

Rosario National U

Rahul Panat

Engineering professor

Carnegie Mellon

Vince Poor

Former Princeton dean

UI engineering prof, 1977-90

Steve Beckett

Pillar of the Bar

Distinguished Alumni Award

Frederick Volkmar

Yale professor

Alumni Achievement Award

Tom Costello

Longtime MTD executive, communication instructor

Died in April 2020

Amr Elnashai

Vice chancellor

University of Houston

Dipesh Navsaria

Associate pediatrics professor

University of Wisconsin

Arnold Blockman

Former circuit judge

Now teaching at UI Law

Mort Weir

UI’s fifth chancellor (1988-93)

Former psychology professor

Idun Reiten

Norwegian mathematician

Humboldt Research Prize

Heidi Ladd

Circuit court judge

Champaign County

Ruchika Prakash

Psychology professor

Ohio State

Bertrand Clarke

Chair, Dept. of Statistics

University of Nebraska

John Rogers

Bioelectronics pioneer

Held Swanlund chair at UI

Steve Bachrach

Organic chemist

Monmouth science dean

Bruce Molitoris

Past president

Amer. Society of Nephrology

Peter Dorhout

Vice president/research

Kansas State University

Daliah Saper

Intellectual property attorney

Owner, Saper Law

Joe Bankoff

Chair, Georgia Tech

School of International Affairs

Susan Johnson

ACES Award of Merit

U of Colorado professor

Karl Hess

Swanlund professor emeritus

Beckman Institute

Saiid Saiidi

Nevada engineering professor

Outstanding Alumni Award