University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Anthony Leggett

Nobel-winning physicist

On UI faculty since ’83

Jennifer Lewis

Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering

Harvard University

Vincent Ling

Senior director

Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Ashley Llorens

Chief, Intelligent Systems Center

Johns Hopkins University

Don Lowe

Earth sciences professor

Stanford University

Shuyi Ma

Postdoc scientist

Center for Infectious Disease Research

Stephanie Majewski

Associate professor of physics

University of Oregon

Pat McAtee

Dept. of Pediatrics

Baylor College of Medicine

Nancy Moran

Assistant professor, USDA-ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center

Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Julie Morita

Executive VP, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public Health (2015-19)

Thyaga Nandagopal

Program director

National Science Foundation

Laura Niklason

Yale professor

Alumni Achievement Award

Chinonye Nnakwe

Molecular biologist

National Science Foundation

Guy Padbury

Senior VP, Merck

Preclinical Development

Deborah Paul

Pioneering researcher, biochemist

34-plus years at Abbott Laboratories

Ashley Predith

Senior technical advisor

U.S. Department of Energy

Cheryl Quinn

LAS Alumni Achievement Award

QnA Pharma Consulting, LLC

Dean Radin

Chief scientist

Institute for Noetic Sciences

Ritu Raman

Forbes’ 30 under 30

MIT postdoctoral fellow

Bob Rauber

Director, School of Earth, Society and Environment

Professor of atmospheric sciences

Ed Rezek

Retired engineer

Northrop Grumman

Fontaine Richardson

Computer science pioneer

UI Engineering HOF

Angel Rivera

Research microbiologist

CDC

John Rogers

Bioelectronics pioneer

Held Swanlund chair at UI