University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Mike Hopkins

NASA astronaut

UI football captain

Kimberly Kemper

U.S. Loyalty Manager

ExxonMobil

Richard Keene

3 NCAA trips as Illini

Director, MRC Global

Rex Miller

Award-winning author

Principal, mindSHIFT

Deb Neubek

Human systems engineering

NASA

Tonja Buford-Bailey

3-time Olympian

1992 NCAA hurdles champ

Andrew Farley

SiriusXM show host

Texas pastor

Katharine Hayhoe

Climate scientist

One of Time’s 'Most influential'

David Schmidly

President at 3 universities

Texas Tech, Okla. St., UNM

Larry Faulkner

UI provost, 1994-98

President, Texas, 1998-2006

Bob Berdahl

University president

Texas, '93-'97; Cal, '97-'04

Craig Cohen

WILL host, 1995-2002

Houston Public Media