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University of Rochester

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Rochester, NY

Founding Date:
1850

Motto:
Meliora

Team:
Yellowjackets

Enrollment:
8500

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

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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
Kinley J. Brauer
Historian
16-Apr-1935 12-Feb-2003 Cotton Versus Conscience
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, 2009-13
James B. Collins
Historian
c. 1949   The State in Early Modern France
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
Alice Denham
Author
21-Jan-1927 27-Jan-2016 Sleeping with the Bad Boys
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
Steven Hahn
Historian
18-Jul-1951   A Nation Under Our Feet
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
Lewis A. Kaplan
Judge
23-Dec-1944   US District Judge, NY Southern District
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
Morton Keller
Historian
1-Mar-1929   Regulating a New Economy
Richard T. Kennedy
Diplomat
24-Dec-1919 11-Jan-1998 US Ambassador for Nuclear Energy Policy
Galway Kinnell
Poet
1-Feb-1927 28-Oct-2014 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
John J. McCusker
Historian
12-Aug-1939   The Economy of British America, 1607-1789
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
William H. Pease
Historian
31-Aug-1924 20-Jun-2013 The Web of Progress
Milton Plesur
Historian
16-Apr-1927 1987 Jewish Life in Twentieth-Century America
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
22-Aug-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
Peter W. Wood
Anthropologist
1953   Diversity: The Invention of a Concept
John L. Zabriskie
Business
c. 1940   CEO of Pharmacia & Upjohn, 1995-97
Robert Zubrin
Engineer
c. 1952   Mars Direct

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Jules R. Benjamin
Historian
11-Jul-1938   The United States and Cuba
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 11-Jun-2013 Cliometrics
John Gardner
Novelist
21-Jul-1933 14-Sep-1982 Grendel
Eugene D. Genovese
Historian
19-May-1930 26-Sep-2012 Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
Anthony Hecht
Poet
16-Jan-1923 20-Oct-2004 The Hard Hours
David R. Henderson
Economist
21-Nov-1950   The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
Johannes Holtfreter
Zoologist
9-Jan-1901 13-Nov-1992 Chemotaxis
Akira Iriye
Historian
20-Oct-1934   Across the Pacific
Christopher Lasch
Author
1-Jun-1932 14-Feb-1994 The Culture of Narcissism
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
Dexter Perkins
Historian
20-Jun-1889 12-May-1984 The Monroe Doctrine
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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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, 2009-13
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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Jay Wright
Basketball
24-Dec-1961   Villanova Head Coach


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