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Chong Chi Tat

Chong Chi Tat is University Professor and the Head of the Department of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Eliot Frankel

Eliot Frankel (1923 – February 4, 1990) was a three-time Emmy Award recipient as a NBC producer and University Professor

Harriet Elam-Thomas

Harriet Elam-Thomas is a United States diplomat and university professor who directs the Diplomacy Program at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, Florida.

John Edward Thompson

John Edward Thompson (1882 – 1945) was an American painter and university professor who is credited with introducing modern art to Denver, Colorado in 1918, much to the chagrin of local critics.

Kenneth S. Apfel

Since 2006, he has held the position of Professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy.

Pierre Ngijol Ngijol

He was a university professor for four decades, a 3- times Dean of the faculty of letters and social sciences at the University of Cameroon (a.k.a. Yaounde University).

Rosanna Warren

Until July 2012 she was the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities and a University Professor at Boston University.

Wang Gungwu

In 2007, Wang became the third person to be named University Professor by the National University of Singapore.

Currently, Wang is University Professor at the National University of Singapore, and also Chairman of the Managing Board of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.


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69260 Tonyjudt

It is named after Tony Judt, a British historian, author, and university professor.

Anne Morgan Spalter

In Brown University’s Department of Computer Science, Spalter worked with Thomas J. Watson, Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science Andries van Dam as Artist in Residence and as a Visual Computing Researcher.

Antoine Faivre

Until his retirement, he held a chair in the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, University Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Haute-Normandie, director of the Cahiers del Hermétisme and of Bibliothèque de l'hermétisme, and is with Wouter Hanegraaff and Roland Edighoffer, the editor of the journal Aries.

Aritha Van Herk

As a university professor she has guided many of her graduate students to literary success, including Anita Rau Badami, Thomas Wharton, and Jessica Grant.

Auguste Achintre

After his father died when he was still young, Achintre's uncle Joseph Achintre, a university professor of humanities, raised him in Aix-en-Provence.

Baglioni

Piero Baglioni (1952-), Italian chemist and University professor at the University of Florence

Ballygar

He is Laurence Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University.

Behrangi

Mohammad Reza Behrangi (born 1944), Iranian educational scientist and university professor

Berkeley APEC Study Center

Research affiliates include Professor Cédric Dupont of the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland; Professor Seung Joo Lee at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea; Assistant Professor Min Gyo Koo at Seoul's Yonsei university, Professor John Ravenhill at Australian National University, and Professor Shujiro Urata at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan.

Brian Harris

Brian F. Harris, former university professor at the University of Southern California

Buarque

Cristovam Buarque (born 1944 ) - Brazilian politician and university professor

Carl Dix

He has held a series of public dialogues with Princeton University professor, and author, Cornel West.

Casilda

Enrique Fisman, cardiologist, university professor, researcher, cofounder of the scientific journal Cardiovascular Diabetology

David Crowe

David M. Crowe, Holocaust historian and Elon University professor

Dorothy Nelkin

She rose to the rank of University Professor at the New York University (NYU) despite holding no advanced degrees.

First Cousin Once Removed

Documentary about the life of poet, translator, critic and university professor Edwin Honig and his struggles with Alzheimer's disease.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

On March 9, 2007, Columbia University President Lee Bollinger appointed Spivak University Professor, the institution's highest faculty rank.

George Stoney

George C. Stoney, New York University professor of communications, the father of public-access television

Gordon Shepherd

Gordon M. Shepherd (born 1933), Yale University professor of neuroscience and neurobiology

Hisashi Kobayashi

Hisashi Kobayashi (Japanese: 小林 久志 Kobayashi Hisashi; born on June 13, 1938) is the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Emeritus

Ignas Jonynas

Ignas Jonynas (January 24, 1884 in Atesninkai near Simnas – July 14, 1954 in Kaunas) was a Lithuanian diplomat, historian, and university professor.

JRR

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), English writer, poet, philologist and university professor

Laurent de Brunhoff

In 1985 de Brunhoff moved to the United States, living in Middletown, Connecticut with writer and Wesleyan University professor Phyllis Rose.

Lightstone

A. H. Lightstone (1926 – 1976), Canadian logician, mathematician, and Queen's University professor

Marzieh

Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi, Iranian university professor and former parliamentarian and the first woman to be a minister after Islamic revolution.

Michael Schwartz

Michael Schwarz, Israeli university professor and recipient of a 2011 Israel Prize

Middleton Tract, California

Other notable personages who owned cabins in the Middleton Tract include famed Palo Alto Architect Birge Clark, Round Table Pizza founder Bill Larson, Stanford University Professor of Education Avlarez, and one of the Mozilla Foundation/Mozilla Corporation's founders Asa Dotzler.

Milivoj

Milivoj Solar, a Croatian literary theoretician, literary historian, essayist and a university professor

Minerva Mena

Minerva Mena (September 11, 1930 – December 10, 2004) was a Mexican actress and university professor.

National Cyber Security Hall of Fame

#Corey Schou - University Professor of Informatics - Idaho State University

Oswald Menghin

1948 was the year in which he went over to Argentina, where he became University Professor in Buenos Aires, and from 1957 also at the University of La Plata.

Philip Hubbard

Philip G. Hubbard (1921–2002), African American university professor and administrator

Philipp Gonon

From 1999 until 2004, Gonon was appointed to Full University Professor at the Chair of Vocational and Operational Further Education at the University of Trier in Germany.

Plettenberg

Rolf Steininger (born 1942 in Plettenberg) is a German historian and university professor for contemporary history

Purina Mills

Later, in 1902, he merged with university professor Webster Edgerly, founder of Ralstonism, who was at the time producing breakfast cereals, to form the “Ralston-Purina Company”.

Radoslav Večerka

Radoslav Večerka (born April 18, 1928 in Brno) is a Czech linguist, university professor, journalist, editor and literary scholar active in the field of Slavic studies with a focus on paleography, comparative studies of Slavic languages and Slavic history.

Remy P. Presas

Remy P. Presas holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Manuel L. Quezon University, Manila, Philippines, and worked as a university professor in the Philippines before moving to the United States.

Robert Bryan

Robert A. Bryan, American university professor and university president

Ron Dart

Ronald Samuel Dart (born 1950, Toronto), BA (Lethbridge); DCS, MCS (Regent College), MA (UBC), PhD studies at McMaster University, is a university professor, author, and ACC mountaineer.

Sabina Jeschke

Sabina Jeschke (born 27 July 1968 in Kungälv, Sweden) is a German university professor for Mechanical Engineering at the RWTH Aachen University.

SciLands

Founded in 1977 by Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill, Gerard O'Neill, Princeton University professor and author of The High Frontier, SSI sponsored and conducted research into areas such as solar power satellites, lunar bases, space colonies, asteroid mining, and mass drivers.

St. Francis Dam

The Santa Clara River Protective Association employed the geologist and Stanford University professor emeritus, Dr. Bailey Willis, and eminent San Francisco Civil Engineer and past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers Carl E. Grunsky.

Stanford Mendicants

Founding Mendicant John Frohnmayer, Politician and Oregon State University Professor

Stanley M. Truhlsen

Stanley M. Truhlsen (in full: Stanley Marshall Truhlsen, Sr., born November 13, 1920 in Herman, Nebraska) is an American ophthalmologist, university professor and philanthropist in Omaha who has served as president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, as a governor of the American College of Surgeons and led a number of distinguished Nebraska organizations.

The New York Times Book Review

A study published in 2012, by University professor and author Roxane Gay, found that 90 percent of the New York Times book reviews published in 2011 were of books by white authors.

Trbojević

Dušan Trbojević, pianist, composer, musical writer and university professor

Víctor Hugo Arévalo Jordán

Víctor Hugo Arévalo Jordán (born December 23, 1946 in Cochabamba) is a Bolivian writer and noted university professor.

Vinge

Vernor Vinge (born 1944), a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author

Walter Harding

2005: Ronald A. Bosco, Distinguished University Professor of English and American Literature at SUNY Albany.

William Snow

William Snow (academic), Stanford University professor affiliated with formation of the American Social Health Association