People
385
Professor
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
Al Roth
Shared Nobel in Economics
UI professor, 1974-82
Richard Dunsworth
President
University of the Ozarks
Edna Greene Medford
Lincoln Laureate
2013 LAS Alumni Award
John Cioffi
‘The father of DSL’
Internet Hall of Famer