EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Rochester, NY

Founding Date:
1850

Motto:
Meliora

Team:
Yellowjackets

Enrollment:
8500

Official Website:
http://www.rochester.edu/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
George Abbott	Playwright	25-Jun-1887	31-Jan-1995	Damn Yankees
Carolyn Berger	Judge	c. 1947		Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
Irving Bernstein	Historian	15-Nov-1916	25-Sep-2001	Labor historian
Myles Brand	Educator	17-May-1942	16-Sep-2009	President of the NCAA, 2003-09
Mary Calderone	Activist	1-Jul-1904	24-Oct-1998	Questions and Answers about Love and Sex
David R. Carlucci	Business	c. 1955		CEO of IMS Health
Steven Chu	Physicist	28-Feb-1948		US Secretary of Energy
Michel Coutu	Business	c. 1954		CEO, Jean Coutu Group USA
Gene Cretz	Diplomat	c. 1950		US Ambassador to Ghana
Henrik Dam	Scientist	21-Feb-1895	Apr-1976	Discovered Vitamin K
Susan S. Denison	Business	c. 1946		Partner, Cook Associates
Robert H. Dicke	Physicist	6-May-1916	4-Mar-1997	Dicke radiometer
Michael J. Durham	Business	c. 1951		Former CFO, American Airlines
George Eastman	Inventor	12-Jul-1854	14-Mar-1932	Inventor of the Kodak camera
Robert Forster	Actor	13-Jul-1941		Jackie Brown
D. Carleton Gajdusek	Scientist	9-Sep-1923	12-Dec-2008	Kuru (slow virus infections)
Mark B. Grier	Business	c. 1953		Vice Chairman of Prudential
Susan Hockfield	Educator	24-Mar-1951		President of MIT
Robert T. Huang	Business	c. 1945		CEO of Synnex
Shirley Jackson	Novelist	14-Dec-1916	8-Aug-1965	The Lottery
David T. Kearns	Business	11-Aug-1930	25-Feb-2011	CEO of Xerox, 1985-91
Kenneth B. Keating	Politician	18-May-1900	5-May-1975	US Senator from New York, 1959-65
Robert Keegan	Business	27-Jul-1947		CEO of Goodyear
Richard T. Kennedy	Diplomat	24-Dec-1919	11-Jan-1998	US Ambassador for Nuclear Energy Policy
Galway Kinnell	Poet	1-Feb-1927		Selected Poems
Arthur Kornberg	Scientist	3-Mar-1918	26-Oct-2007	Synthesized DNA
Masatoshi Koshiba	Physicist	19-Sep-1926		Detected cosmic neutrinos
Mary Anne Krupsak	Politician	26-Mar-1932		Lt. Governor of New York, 1975-78
Lawrence Kudlow	Economist	20-Aug-1947		Kudlow & Cramer
Chris Lee	Politician	1-Apr-1964		Congressman from New York, resigned
Lester A. Lefton	Educator	c. 1947		President, Kent State University
Richard C. Leone	Government	30-Apr-1940		President of the Century Foundation, 1989-2011
John E. Major	Business	c. 1945		CEO of Novatel Wireless, 2000-03
Joseph B. Martin	Doctor	1938		Dean, Harvard Medical School, 1997-2007
Janet Maslin	Critic	1948		New York Times film critic
William Masters	Scientist	27-Dec-1915	16-Feb-2001	Human Sexual Response
Kevin Mattson	Historian	25-Dec-1966		Intellectuals in Action
Thomas H. McLain	Business	c. 1957		CEO of Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, 2002-07
Cathy E. Minehan	Business	15-Feb-1947		President of the Boston Fed, 1994-2007
Denis J. O'Leary	Business	1956		EVP at JP Morgan Chase, 1994-2003
John W. Rowe	Business	20-Jun-1944		CEO of Aetna, 2000-06
Debra Jo Rupp	Actor	24-Feb-1951		Kitty Forman on That '70s Show
Bruce Schneier	Computer Programmer	15-Jan-1964		Applied Cryptography
Paul E. Singer	Business	1944		Billionaire, vulture capitalist
Hugo F. Sonnenschein	Economist	1941		President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000
Samuel S. Stratton	Politician	27-Sep-1916	13-Sep-1990	Congressman from New York
Charles Strouse	Composer	7-Jun-1928		Bye Bye Birdie
Vincent du Vigneaud	Chemist	18-May-1901	11-Dec-1978	Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin
Donald C. Winter	Government	c. 1947		US Secretary of the Navy, 2006-09
John L. Zabriskie	Business	c. 1940		CEO of Pharmacia & Upjohn, 1995-97
Robert Zubrin	Engineer	c. 1952		Mars Direct

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Norman O. Brown	Historian	25-Sep-1913	2-Oct-2002	Life Against Death
Leonard Carmichael	Educator	9-Nov-1898	16-Sep-1973	Smithsonian Chief, 1953-64
Alexander Eckstein	Economist	9-Dec-1915	4-Dec-1976	Sinologist, China's Economic Revolution
Robert W. Fogel	Economist	1-Jul-1926		Cliometrics
John Gardner	Novelist	21-Jul-1933	14-Sep-1982	Grendel
Anthony Hecht	Poet	16-Jan-1923	20-Oct-2004	The Hard Hours
David R. Henderson	Economist	c. 1952		The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
Johannes Holtfreter	Zoologist	9-Jan-1901	13-Nov-1992	Chemotaxis
Keith Lehrer	Philosopher	10-Jan-1936		Metamind
William E. Mayer	Business	1940		Former CEO of First Boston
Michael L. Mussa	Economist	15-Apr-1944		Council of Economic Advisers, 1986-88
Charles Plosser	Economist	19-Sep-1948		President and CEO, Philadelphia Fed
W. D. Snodgrass	Poet	5-Jan-1926	13-Jan-2009	Heart's Needle
Victor Weisskopf	Physicist	19-Sep-1908	21-Apr-2002	Head of CERN, 1961-65
George H. Whipple	Scientist	28-Aug-1878	2-Feb-1976	Bile, hemoglobin, and the liver

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
J. P. Bolduc	Business	c. 1941		CEO of W. R. Grace, 1993-95
Ursula M. Burns	Business	20-Sep-1958		CEO of Xerox
Steven Chu	Physicist	28-Feb-1948		US Secretary of Energy
Marion B. Folsom	Business	23-Nov-1893	27-Sep-1976	HEW Secretary, 1955-58
David T. Kearns	Business	11-Aug-1930	25-Feb-2011	CEO of Xerox, 1985-91
Sol Linowitz	Business	17-Dec-1913	18-Mar-2005	Negotiated return of the Panama Canal
Cathy E. Minehan	Business	15-Feb-1947		President of the Boston Fed, 1994-2007
Joel Seligman	Educator	11-Jan-1950		President, University of Rochester
Hugo F. Sonnenschein	Economist	1941		President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000
Samuel S. Stratton	Politician	27-Sep-1916	13-Sep-1990	Congressman from New York
George H. Whipple	Scientist	28-Aug-1878	2-Feb-1976	Bile, hemoglobin, and the liver
Mark A. Zupan	Educator	c. 1959		Dean of Business, University of Rochester

COACHES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jay Wright	Basketball	24-Dec-1961		Villanova Head Coach

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