People
389
Professor
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
David Chicoine
ACES dean, 1995-2001
South Dakota State president, 2007-16
Paola Boivin
Selection committee member
College Football Playoff
Jean Driscoll
8 Boston Marathon wins
USOC Hall of Famer
Katharine Hayhoe
Climate scientist
One of Time’s 'Most influential'
Tom Caneva
Director, Marching Illini
1999-2006
Peter Griffin
Director, Marching Illini
2006-11
Steve Kang
Former UI engineering dean
Silicon Valley Hall of Famer
