People
396
Professor
Stuart Umpleby
Past president
American Cybernetics Society
Robert Swieringa
Accounting prof. emeritus
Cornell University
Ed Cupp
World-renowned entomologist
Auburn professor emeritus
Tony Laing
Director, Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Men of Color Initiative
E.J. Corey
Won Nobel in chemistry
UI professor, 1951-59
Joe Alutto
Provost, interim president
Ohio State
Dan Halpin
Pioneering civil engineer
Distinguished Alumni Award
Julia Azari
American presidency expert
Author, Marquette professor
Brand Fortner
Software visionary
Distinguished Alumni Award
Daniel Dias
Senior economist
Federal Reserve Board
Donald Johanson
Paleoanthropologist
Discovered Lucy skeleton
Russell Dupuis
Chair, Electro-Optics
Georgia Tech
David Goldberg
Founder, Threejoy Associates
UI professor emeritus
Bruce Blair
Nuclear security expert
Won 1999 'Genius' grant
David Wrone
Author, historian, professor
Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Alexander Djordjevic
Concert pianist
Grace Welsh Prize for Piano
Steve Raquel
Chief Illiniwek 29
President, IOVMedia
Scott Brakenridge
Chief Illiniwek 32
Florida surgeon
Anthony Leggett
Nobel-winning physicist
On UI faculty since ’83
Richard Powers
2019 Pulitzer Prize
Won 1989 ‘Genius’ grant
Stan Ikenberry
UI’s 14th president, 1979-95
Longest-serving president
Kozo Yabe
Patent attorney
Yuasa & Hara, Tokyo
Tom Trone
Retired director/sales
John Deere
Constantine Curris
President at 3 universities
Clemson, Murray St., N. Iowa
