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Douglas A. Melton, B.S. – biologist, Xander University Professor at Harvard University; Jennifer Mercieca, Ph.D.— American rhetorical scholar and professor at Texas A&M University, author of Demagogue for president: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump [3] Michael Moore – professor of theoretical physics at the University of Manchester
Rate My Professors (RMP) is a review site founded in May 1999 by John Swapceinski, a software engineer from Menlo Park, California, which allows anyone to assign ratings to professors and campuses of American, Canadian, and United Kingdom institutions. [1] The site was originally launched as TeacherRatings.com and converted to RateMyProfessors ...
Robert Arneson, professor emeritus of art, known for ceramics, artist of the Eggheads sculptures scattered through the UC Davis campus [1]; Larry Austin, professor of music, composer, and later taught at University of South Florida and University of North Texas [2]
In 1949, the University of Illinois created the Digital Computer Laboratory following the joint funding between the university and the U.S. Army to create the ORDVAC and ILLIAC I computers under the direction of physicist Ralph Meagher. [9] The ORDVAC and ILLIAC computers the two earliest von-Neumann architecture machines to be constructed.
Robert J. Jones (born 1951) [1] is an American crop physiology scientist, currently serving as the 10th chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since September 2016. He served as the 19th president of the State University of New York at Albany from 2013 to 2016.
The Steven Salaita hiring controversy was a 2010s controversy about an American professor who was un-hired [fn 1] by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign following a campaign by pro-Israel students, faculty and donors who contended that his tweets protesting Israel's bombardment of Gaza were antisemitic. [1]
Raised in Teaneck, New Jersey and a graduate of Teaneck High School, Weissberg earned an A.B. from Bard College and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin. [2] He was an assistant professor at Cornell University and later associate and full professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from where he retired ...
The Urbana-Champaign campus was founded in 1867 as the Illinois Industrial University. It was one of the 37 public land-grant institutions created shortly after Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862. [8] The university changed its name to University of Illinois in 1885, and then again to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1982.