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Wayne State University Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan. It is Michigan's third-largest university. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 350 programs to nearly 25,000 ...

Alumni

Academia

Sandra Arlinghaus Sandra Lach Arlinghaus is an American educator who is adjunct professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. Her research concerns mathematical geography. Education Arlinghaus has an A.B. in Mathematics ...

, professor at

University of Michigan Ann Arbor , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

Rudine Sims Bishop Rudine Sims Bishop, professor emerita at Ohio State University, has been referred to as the "mother of" multicultural children's literature for her sociologically groundbreaking American children's literature research. Biography Bishop was born ...

, educator and "mother of" multicultural children's literature * Claire-Marie Brisson,

Preceptor A preceptor (from Latin, "''praecepto''") is a teacher responsible for upholding a ''precept'', meaning a certain law or tradition. Buddhist monastic orders Senior Buddhist monks can become the preceptors for newly ordained monks. In the Buddhi ...

in French at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

Arthur Danto Arthur Coleman Danto (January 1, 1924 – October 25, 2013) was an American art critic, philosopher, and professor at Columbia University. He was best known for having been a long-time art critic for ''The Nation'' and for his work in philosophi ...

, Emeritus Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

Wayne Dyer Wayne Walter Dyer (May 10, 1940 – August 29, 2015) was an American self-help author and a motivational speaker. Dyer completed a Ed.D. in guidance and counseling at Wayne State University in 1970. Early in his career, he worked as a high sch ...

, self-help author and motivational speaker * Paul M. Fleiss, pediatrician, father of

Heidi Fleiss Heidi Lynne Fleiss (born December 30, 1965) is an American former madam. She ran an upscale prostitution ring based in Los Angeles and is often referred to as the " Hollywood Madam". Fleiss has also worked as a columnist and was a television per ...

* William J. Kaiser, professor and former department chair of Electrical Engineering at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

Abdi Kusow Abdi Mohamed Kusow ( so, Cabdi Maxamed Kuusoow, ar, عبدي محمد كوسو) is a Somali scholar and writer. He studied at Michigan State University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1990. Kusow later earned a Master of Urban Plann ...

, professor of sociology and anthropology at

Oakland University Oakland University is a public research university in Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, Michigan. Founded in 1957 through a donation of Matilda Dodge Wilson, it was initially known as Michigan State University-Oakland, operating under the Mi ...

Emmett Leith Emmett Norman Leith (March 12, 1927 in Detroit, Michigan – December 23, 2005 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and, with Juris Upatnieks of the University of Michigan, the co-inventor ...

, Schlumberger Professor of Engineering at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

and recipient of the

National Medal of Science The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social scienc ...

Douglas McGregor Douglas Murray McGregor (September 6, 1906 – October 1, 1964) was an American management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954. He also taught at the Indian Institute of Management Ca ...

, management professor at the

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, ...

and president of

Antioch College Antioch College is a private liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Founded in 1850 by the Christian Connection, the college began operating in 1852 as a non-sectarian institution; politician and education reformer Horace Mann was its f ...

(1948 to 1954) * Nancy Milio, originated the notion of healthy public policy, Professor Emeritus of Nursing and Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

Godfrey Mwakikagile Godfrey Mwakikagile (born 4 October 1949 in Kigoma) is a prominent Tanzanian scholar and author specialising in African studies. He was also a news reporter for ''The Standard'' (later renamed the '' Daily News'') — the oldest and largest Eng ...

Tanzanian Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...

scholar, author, Africanist, academic and political theorist *

Saul K. Padover Saul Kussiel Padover (April 13, 1905 – February 22, 1981) was a historian and political scientist at the New School for Social Research in New York City who wrote biographies of philosophers and politicians such as Karl Marx and Thomas Jeffers ...

, historian and political scientist at

The New School of Social Research The New School is a Private university, private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1919 as The New School for Social Research with an original mission dedicated to academic freedom and intellectual inquiry and a home for pr ...

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...

* Sidney Ribeau, former President of

Bowling Green State University Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is a public research university in Bowling Green, Ohio. The main academic and residential campus is south of Toledo, Ohio. The university has nationally recognized programs and research facilities in the ...

, President of

Howard University Howard University (Howard) is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity" and accredited by the Middle States Commissi ...

Rita Richey Rita Carolyn Richey is a Professor Emeritus of Instructional Technology at Wayne State University. She is known for her work on instructional design and the history of the field of Instructional Technology. Education and academic career From th ...

, first woman to earn a Ph.D. in instructional technology * Dr. Michael Schwartz (attended), President of

Cleveland State University Cleveland State University (CSU) is a public research university in Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1964 and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the entirety of Fenn College, a private school that had been in operation since 1923. ...

, former President Emeritus of

Kent State University Kent State University (KSU) is a public research university in Kent, Ohio. The university also includes seven regional campuses in Northeast Ohio and additional facilities in the region and internationally. Regional campuses are located in As ...

* Jacquelyn Taylor, Helen F. Pettit Professor of Nursing; founder and executive director, Center for Research on People of Color at

Dennis Chima Ugwuegbu Dennis Chima Ugwuegbu is the first Nigerian professor of psychology. He is also the co-founder of the Department of Psychology University of Ibadan and served as the department’s first professor and chair for over fifteen years. He is one of 36 ...

, Nigeria's first professor of psychology *

Stanley E. Zin Stanley Eugene Zin is a Canadian economist. He is the William R. Berkley Professor Economics and Business at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. His research interests are in the areas of asset pricing and macroeconomi ...

Richard M. Cyert Richard Michael Cyert (July 22, 1921 – October 7, 1998) was an American economist, statistician and organizational theorist, who served as the sixth President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. He is know ...

and Morris H. DeGroot Professor of Economics and Statistics,

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

;

Frisch Medal The Frisch Medal is an award in economics given by the Econometric Society. It is awarded every two years for empirical or theoretical applied research published in ''Econometrica'' during the previous five years. The award was named in honor of Ra ...

winner

Broadcasting and journalism

* Tony Brown, journalist, comedian, and businessman * Rachelle Consiglio, executive producer, ''

The Jerry Springer Show ''Jerry Springer'' is an American scripted syndicated tabloid talk show that aired from September 30, 1991 to July 26, 2018. Produced and hosted by its namesake, Jerry Springer, it aired for 27 seasons and nearly 5,000 episodes. The television ...

'' and ''

The Steve Wilkos Show For the talk show hosted by Steve Harvey, see Steve (talk show) ''The Steve Wilkos Show'' is a syndicated American tabloid talk show hosted by Steve Wilkos. The series is a spin-off of the long-running ''Jerry Springer'' show. ''The Steve Wilk ...

''; wife of

Steve Wilkos Steven John Wilkos (; born March 9, 1964) is an American television personality, a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and a former law enforcement officer with the Chicago Police Department. He has been hosting ''The Steve Wilkos Show'' si ...

Hugh Downs Hugh Malcolm Downs (February 14, 1921July 1, 2020) was an American radio and television broadcaster, announcer and programmer; television host; news anchor; TV producer; author; game show host; talk show sidekick; and music composer. A regular t ...

, news anchor for ABC's ''

20/20 Visual acuity (VA) commonly refers to the clarity of vision, but technically rates an examinee's ability to recognize small details with precision. Visual acuity is dependent on optical and neural factors, i.e. (1) the sharpness of the retinal ...

'' *

, author, self-help advocate *

Sonny Eliot Marvin Schlossberg, known professionally as Sonny Eliot (December 5, 1920 – November 16, 2012), was an American Meteorology, meteorologist, actor and comedian, who was known for making jokes during his weather broadcasts. Biography Sonny ...

, weatherman, actor, and comedian

Mark Fritz Mark Fritz is a war correspondent and author. A native of Detroit and graduate of Wayne State University, he won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1995 for his stories concerning the Rwandan genocide. Journalism career As a staf ...

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...

-winning reporter *

Bob Giles Robert Bernard Giles (22 May 1930 – 12 October 2023) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Austr ...

, retired 40-year Detroit broadcast news manager for WWJ-TV News, WDIV-TV News, and WXYZ-TV Action News; inducted into Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame in 2012 *

Darren M. Haynes Darren M. Haynes is an eleven-time Emmy Award-winning sports anchor who joined CBS affiliate WUSA in Washington, D.C., in August 2017 as a sports director for that station. He was previously a sports anchor for ESPN's ''SportsCenter''. Broadc ...

SportsCenter ''SportsCenter'' (SC) is a daily sports news television show, television program that serves as the flagship program and brand of United States, American cable television, cable and satellite television television network, network ESPN. The show ...

anchor at

ESPN ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). The ...

in Bristol, Connecticut *

Jerry Hodak Jerry Hodak (born April 11, 1942)

, former Chief Meteorologist for WXYZ-TV Detroit *

Casey Kasem Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem (April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was an American disc jockey, actor, and radio personality, who created and hosted several radio countdown programs, notably '' American Top 40''. He was the first actor to voice Nor ...

, radio host * Carol Martin, news anchor and journalist *

Elvis Mitchell Elvis Mitchell (born December 6, 1958) is an American film critic, host of the public radio show ''The Treatment'', and visiting lecturer at Harvard University. He has served as a film critic for the ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'', the ''LA Weekly ...

, ''

New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...

'' film critic (1999-2004), entertainment critic for

NPR National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It differs from other ...

's ''Weekend Edition'', host of ''The Treatment'' on

KCRW KCRW (89.9 MHz FM) is a National Public Radio member station broadcasting from the campus of Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, where the station is licensed. KCRW airs original news and music programming in addition to programm ...

; programmer of the

LACMA The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961, ...

Film Screening Program *

Helen Thomas Helen Amelia Thomas (August 4, 1920 – July 20, 2013) was an American reporter and author, and a long serving member of the White House press corps. She covered the White House during the administrations of ten U.S. presidents—from t ...

, former White House correspondent; "First Lady of the Washington press corps"

Business

Tom Athans Tom Athans (born 1961) is an American media executive. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Democracy Radio, an organization that created and produced progressive talk radio shows that included ''The Ed Schultz Show'' and ''The Stephanie Mille ...

, co-founder and former CEO of the liberal-progressive

Democracy Radio Democracy Radio was an American nonprofit organization founded in 2002 by Tom Athans and Paul Fiddick, which aimed to address what its founders saw as political imbalance on American commercial radio. The concept was to develop and incubate progre ...

Mark Bertolini Mark T. Bertolini (born 1956) is an American businessman who is the Co-CEO of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds. He was previously the CEO of Aetna, a Fortune 50 diversified health care benefits company with over $60 ...

, CEO of

Aetna Aetna Inc. () is an American managed health care company that sells traditional and consumer directed health care insurance and related services, such as medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans, ...

Howard Birndorf Howard Civian Birndorf (born February 21, 1950) is a biotechnology entrepreneur and one of the founders of the biotech industry in San Diego, California. Early life Birndorf was born in Detroit in 1950. Birndorf received his B.A. in Biology from ...

, biotechnology entrepreneur, founding director of

Neurocrine Biosciences Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. is an American biopharmaceutical company founded in 1992. The company is headquartered in San Diego, California, and led by CEO Kevin Gorman. Neurocrine develops treatments for neurological and endocrine-related diseas ...

Larry Brilliant Lawrence Brilliant (born May 5, 1944) is an American epidemiologist, technologist, philanthropist, and author, who worked with the World Health Organization from 1973–1976 helping to successfully eradicate smallpox. Brilliant, a technology pate ...

, executive director of

Google.org Google.org, founded in October 2005, is the charitable arm of Google, a multinational technology company. The organization has committed roughly US$100 million in investments and grants to nonprofits annually. The organization is noted for se ...

* Bill Davidson, industrialist, billionaire, majority owner of the

Detroit Pistons The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Detroit. The Pistons compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division and play their home games at Li ...

Yousif Ghafari Yousif Boutrous Ghafari (sometimes Youssef B. Ghafari, born September 27, 1952) is an American businessman of Lebanese birth, owner of architectural firm Ghafari Associates LLC, former United States Ambassador to Slovenia. During the Senate con ...

, founder and chairman of Ghafari, Inc., philanthropist, and U.S. Ambassador *

Dan Gilbert Daniel Gilbert (born January 17, 1962) is an American billionaire businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and majority owner of Rocket Mortgage, founder of Rock Ventures, and owner of the National Basketball Association ...

, president and founder of Rock Financial and

Quicken Loans Rocket Mortgage, LLC (formerly known as Quicken Loans LLC) is a mortgage loan provider. It is headquartered in the One Campus Martius building in the financial district of Downtown Detroit, Michigan. In January 2018, the company became the larg ...

, majority owner of the

Cleveland Cavaliers The Cleveland Cavaliers (often referred to as the Cavs) are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland. The Cavaliers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference (NBA), Ea ...

Peter Karmanos, Jr. Peter Karmanos Jr. (born March 11, 1943) is an American businessman who was most recently the minority owner and alternate governor of the Carolina Hurricanes franchise until June 30, 2021. He served as their principal owner from 1994 (when the Hu ...

, founder and CEO of

Compuware Corporation Compuware Corporation was an American software company based in Detroit, Michigan. The company offers products aimed at the information technology (IT) departments of large businesses, and its services also include testing, development, automation ...

; owner of the

Carolina Hurricanes The Carolina Hurricanes (colloquially known as the Canes) are a professional ice hockey team based in Raleigh, North Carolina. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference, ...

Plymouth Whalers The Plymouth Whalers were a major junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League. They played out of Compuware Arena in Plymouth, Michigan, USA, a suburb of Detroit until 2015 when they were relocated to Flint, Michigan. History The Whalers ...

, and

Florida Everblades The Florida Everblades are a professional minor league ice hockey team based in Estero, Florida, in the Cape Coral-Fort Myers metropolitan area. They play in the ECHL and are affiliated with the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (N ...

hockey franchises * Madhusudhan Rao Lagadapati, chairman and CEO of

Lanco Infratech Lanco Infratech (Lagadapati Amarappa Naidu and Company Infratech) was a large Indian conglomerate that became insolvent in 2017. It was involved in construction, power, real estate, and several other segments. One of the first Independent Pow ...

. 29th richest person in India with US$2.3 billion in 2010 by ''

Forbes ''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also re ...

'' * David M. Overton, founder and CEO of The Cheesecake Factory, Inc. * Dhiraj Rajaram, founder and chairman of Mu Sigma, Inc. *

Stephen M. Ross Stephen Michael Ross (born May 10, 1940) is an American real estate developer, philanthropist, and sports team owner. Ross is the chairman and majority owner of The Related Companies, a global real estate development firm he founded in 1972. Rel ...

, law school graduate; real estate developer; provided $100 million naming gift for

Ross School of Business The Stephen M. Ross School of Business, also known as Michigan Ross, is the business school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1924, the school is ranked among the best business schools i ...

; ''Forbes'' 400 rank: #68 at $4.5 billion *

David Salzman David Elliot Salzman (born December 1, 1943) is an American television producer and businessman. Salzman has been involved in a number of industries that include television news and entertainment, feature films, live theater, sports, and musica ...

(1969), television producer and businessman

Computers, engineering, and technology

* Neal Vernon Loving (aeronautical engineering), turbulence specialist *

Harold Mertz Harold J. "Bud" Mertz is considered to be the driving force in the creation of the Hybrid III crash test dummy, the standard dummy used today. Working with General Motors in the late 1960s, Mertz designed and built the dummy which is today the only ...

(mechanical engineering), created the standard crash test dummy (

Hybrid III The Hybrid III is the standard crash test dummy for frontal crash tests as of the beginning of the 21st century. It was initially only a 50th percentile male (equal in height and weight to the average North American male at the time of its devel ...

) * Ali Nasle (electrical engineering), founder of EDSA Micro Corporation; wrote the world's first digital

short circuit A short circuit (sometimes abbreviated to short or s/c) is an electrical circuit that allows a current to travel along an unintended path with no or very low electrical impedance. This results in an excessive current flowing through the circuit ...

program *

Lawrence Patrick Lawrence Patrick (1920 – April 30, 2006) may well be considered one of the fathers of the crash test dummy. Between 1960 and 1975, while a biomechanics professor at Detroit's Wayne State University, Patrick described his work by saying "I was ...

(mechanical and aeronautical engineering), researcher in the area of automotive passenger safety; vice president for research and development of

Libbey Owens Ford The Libbey-Owens-Ford Company (LOF) was a producer of flat glass for the automotive and building products industries both for original equipment manufacturers and for replacement use. The company's headquarters and main factories were located in T ...

Company, the original manufacturer of laminated safety glass *

John Sawruk John Sawruk (November 23, 1946 – November 12, 2008) was an American executive. He was also the official historian of the Pontiac Motor Division of GM. John was a licensed engineer, receiving his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineerin ...

(mechanical engineering), engineer and executive with GM

Art and design

* Susan Aaron-Taylor, mixed media sculptor, professor (retired) at

Cranbrook Academy of Art The Cranbrook Educational Community is an education, research, and public museum complex in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This National Historic Landmark was founded in the early 20th century by newspaper mogul George Gough Booth. It consists of Cr ...

Edith Altman Edith Altman (23 May 1931 in Altenburg) is a German Jewish-American artist. She emigrated from Germany to the United States at a young age. Her work investigates the lowest and the highest levels of any hierarchy. She explores systems (government ...

, artist *

Diane Carr Diane Carr (born 1974) is an artist known for her relief sculptures incorporating natural materials and forms.Abt, Jeffrey. (2001). ''Up from the streets: Detroit art from the Duffy warehouse collection.'' Detroit: Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne S ...

, artist *

Niels Diffrient Niels Diffrient (6 September 1928 – 8 June 2013) was an American industrial designer. Diffrient focused mainly on ergonomic seating, and his most well known designs are the Freedom and Liberty chairs, manufactured by Humanscale. Biography D ...

industrial designer Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advance of the manufactur ...

Garth Fagan Gawain Garth Fagan, CD (born 3 May 1940) is a Jamaican modern dance choreographer. He is the founder and artistic director of Garth Fagan Dance, a modern dance company based in Rochester, New York. Biography Early years Fagan was born in K ...

, dancer and choreographer *

Tyree Guyton Tyree Guyton (born August 24, 1955) is an artist from Detroit, Michigan. He is married to Jenenne Whitfield and continues to live in Detroit. Before becoming an artist, Guyton worked as a firefighter and an autoworker and served in the U.S. Army ...

, artist, created the

Heidelberg Project The Heidelberg Project is an outdoor art project in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood on Detroit's east side, just north of the city's historically African-American Black Bottom area. It was created in 1986 by the artist Tyree Guyton, who was as ...

Ian Hornak Ian Hornak (January 9, 1944 – December 9, 2002) was an American draughtsman, painter and printmaker. He was one of the founding artists of the Hyperrealist and Photorealist fine art movements; credited with having been the first Photoreal ...

, founding artist of the hyperrealist and

photorealist Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. Although the term can ...

fine art movementsStephen Bennett Phillips, Eric Ian Hornak Spoutz, "Ian Hornak Transparent Barricades," exhibition catalogue, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Fine Art Program, Washington D.C., 2012Joan Adan, Eric Ian Hornak Spoutz, "Transparent Barricades: Ian Hornak, A Retrospective," exhibition catalogue, Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, California, May 2012 * Leonard D. Jungwirth, sculptor * Emeline King, industrial designer *

Stanley Lechtzin Stanley Lechtzin (born 1936) is an American artist, jeweler, metalsmith and educator. He is noted for his work in electroforming and computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacture (CAM). He has taught at Temple University in the Tyler Sc ...

, jewelry and metal artist, founding member of the

Society of North American Goldsmiths Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) is an organization of jewelers and metal artists in North America. It is located in Eugene, Oregon. Foundation The Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) was founded in Chicago in 1969. It was f ...

Hughie Lee-Smith Hughie Lee-Smith (September 20, 1915 – February 23, 1999) was an American artist and teacher whose surreal paintings often featured distant figures under vast skies, and desolate urban settings. Life and career Lee-Smith was born in Eustis, ...

, painter *

Oxana Narozniak Oxana Narozniak is a Ukrainian artist currently residing in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She participated in the international art exhibition "Progress of the World's Women," shown at the United Nations lobby as part of the U.N. "Women 2000" conference ...

, Ukrainian-Brazilian sculptor * Arthur Seigel, photojournalist, educator and artist * Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, photographer, curator *

Timothy Van Laar Timothy Van Laar (born 1951 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American artist, writer and full-time professor. Art career Van Laar produces art works in multiple formats including, paintings, drawings and installation pieces many of which have been ...

, artist * R. John Wright, doll designer and maker

Government and politics

John D. Altenburg John D. Altenburg Jr. (born June 10, 1944) is a lawyer for the U.S. Army and a retired major general. In December 2003,

Army An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

Major General Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a ...

, authority for military commissions covering detainees at Guantanamo *

Christine Beatty Christine Rowland Beatty (born May 1970) served as the Chief of Staff from 2002 to 2008 to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. In January 2008, Beatty resigned amid an emerging political-sex scandal and criminal charges of perjury related to a whistl ...

, former

Detroit Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at th ...

Chief of Staff The title chief of staff (or head of staff) identifies the leader of a complex organization such as the armed forces, institution, or body of persons and it also may identify a principal staff officer (PSO), who is the coordinator of the supporti ...

; involved in the

Kilpatrick and Beatty text-messaging scandal The Kilpatrick and Beatty text-messaging scandal was a political sex scandal in the United States emerging from a whistleblower lawsuit involving former Detroit Police chief Gary Brown, Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staf ...

Scott Boman Scott Avery Boman (born April 14, 1962) * Edited by WDIV Staff http://clickondetroit.com (website). is an American Libertarian politician from Michigan. He has consistently earned among the top votes of any third-party candidate in every Michiga ...

, Michigan politician * Louvenia Bright, first African American woman to serve in the

Vermont General Assembly The Vermont General Assembly is the legislative body of the state of Vermont, in the United States. The Legislature is formally known as the "General Assembly," but the style of "Legislature" is commonly used, including by the body itself. The G ...

Cora Brown Cora Mae Brown (born April 19, 1914 – December 17, 1972), was the first African-American woman elected (rather than appointed) to a state senate in the United States. She won her seat in the Michigan State Senate in 1952. Brown was a Democrat w ...

, first African American woman to be elected to a state senate (D-Michigan) * Chen Pi-Chao, former Vice Minister of National Defense for Taiwan, 2000–2002 *

Ken Cockrel Jr. Kenneth Vern Cockrel Jr. (born October 29, 1965) is an American journalist, nonprofit executive, businessman, and former politician who served as the 73rd mayor of Detroit, Michigan from September 2008 to May 2009. A member of the Democratic Par ...

, former

Mayor of Detroit This is a list of mayors of Detroit, Michigan. See History of Detroit, Michigan, for more information about the history of the incorporation of the city. The current mayor is Mike Duggan, who was sworn into office on January 1, 2014. History o ...

John Conyers John James Conyers Jr. (May 16, 1929October 27, 2019) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as a U.S. representative from Michigan from 1965 to 2017. The districts he represented always included part of western Detroit. ...

, former member of the

United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the Lower house, lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the United States Senate, Senate being ...

(D-Michigan) *

Keith Ellison Keith Maurice Ellison (born August 4, 1963) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 30th attorney general of Minnesota. A member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), Ellison was the U.S. representative for from 2007 to ...

, first

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

elected to the

United States Congress The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate. It meets in the U.S. Capitol in Washing ...

, currently the

Attorney General of Minnesota The attorney general of Minnesota is a constitutional officer in the executive branch of the U.S. State of Minnesota. Thirty individuals have held the office of Attorney General since statehood. The incumbent is Keith Ellison, a DFLer. Election ...

(D-Minnesota) *

William D. Ford William David Ford (August 6, 1927 – August 14, 2004) was a U.S. Representative from Michigan and namesake of the Federal Direct Student Loan Program. Ford was known for his support of workers and educational opportunity. Among his significant ...

, former member of the

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(D-Michigan) *

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* Bruce Patterson, former member of the

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; former Wayne County Commissioner *

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(D-Michigan) *

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, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Michigan) * Alma G. Stallworth, former member of the

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, former acting Minister of Healthcare of

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, one of the first two Muslim women elected to the U.S. Congress (D-Michigan) * John Townsend, member of the

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, lawyer, notable for pursuing human rights and civil liberties cases on the behalf of Arab Americans and Muslim Americans * Sam Bernstein, attorney, founded high-profile firm

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* Patricia Boyle, former U.S. federal judge *

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, member of the

, former member of the

, U.S. Representative since 1964 * George Cushingberry, Jr., member of the

, youngest ever elected *

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, senior U.S. federal judge *

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* Denise R. Johnson, first woman appointed to the

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, senior judge for the

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, former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court *

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Literature

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, author, founder of the Black Christian National Movement *

Dorothy Marie Donnelly Dorothy Marie Donnelly ( Boillotat; September 7, 1903 – May 2, 1994) was a poet and essayist, the author of six books of poetry and prose and numerous articles published in Europe and the United States. Biography She was born Dorothy Mari ...

, poet *

Paula Gosling Paula Gosling (born October 12, 1939) is a United States-born crime writer. She has lived in the United Kingdom since the 1960s. In 1957, Gosling graduated from Mackenzie High School in Detroit, Michigan. Following her high school career, she ob ...

, mystery novelist *

Mariela Griffor Mariela Griffor (born September 29, 1961, in Concepcion, Chile), is a poet, editor, publisher of Marick Press and diplomat. She is author of four poetry collections, ''Exiliana'', ''House'', ''The Psychiatrist'' and most recently, ''Declassified ...

, poet and novelist, journalist *

Robert Hayden Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978, a role today known as US Poet Laureate. He was the first African-Americ ...

, poet,

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* Philip Levine,

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and

winner *

Thomas Ligotti Thomas Ligotti (born July 9, 1953) is an American horror writer. His writings are rooted in several literary genres – most prominently weird fiction – and have been described by critics as works of ''philosophical'' horror, often formed into ...

, horror story writer * Raynetta Mañees, romance novelist *

Dudley Randall Dudley Randall (January 14, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an African-American poetry, poet and poetry publisher from Detroit, Michigan. He founded a African-American book publishers in the United States, 1960–80, pioneering publishing company cal ...

, poet and publisher * Warren Rovetch, travel writer

Magic

* Al Schneider, author and magician known for developing the Matrix magic trick

Military

* Christopher W. Lentz,

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Brigadier general (United States), brigadier general * Adolph McQueen, United States Army Major General (United States), major general; first commander of the Joint Detention Group at Joint Task Force Guantanamo; Deputy Commander of United States Army North

Motion pictures

*Deva Katta, director, screenwriter

Performing arts

* Al Aarons, jazz trumpeter * Pepper Adams (attended), jazz baritone saxophonist and composer * Patricia Alice Albrecht, actress, voice over actress, and writer, voice of Pizzazz in ''Jem (TV series), Jem'' * Dorothy Ashby, jazz harpist and composer * Madelon Baker (attended), actress, singer, record producer, music publisher * Anita Barone, actress, ''The War at Home (TV series), The War at Home'' * Cherie Bennett, novelist, actress, director, playwright, newspaper columnist, singer, and television writer for ''The Young and the Restless'' * Bob Birch, bassist for the Elton John Band * Ben Blackwell (attended), musician * Kenny Burrell, jazz guitarist * Donald Byrd, trumpeter * Larry Joe Campbell, actor and comedian, cast member of ''According to Jim'' * Council Cargle, theater and film actor * Toi Derricotte, poet * Chad Everett, actor, star of ''Medical Center (TV series), Medical Center'' and ''Mulholland Drive (film), Mulholland Drive'' *

choreographer, won Tony Award for ''The Lion King'' * Chris Fehn, custom percussionist for the metal band Slipknot * Artie Fields (attended), bandleader, songwriter, record producer and jazz trumpeter * Jeff Frankenstein (attended), keyboardist for Christian pop/rock band Newsboys, dropped out in 1994 to pursue his career with the band * Curtis Fuller, trombonist * Frank Gillis, jazz pianist, ethnomusicology, ethnomusicologist * Joe Henderson (attended), jazz musician * Sean Hickey, composer * Ernie Hudson, actor, ''Oz'', ''Ghostbusters'' * Art James, TV game-show host * Thorsten Kaye, actor, ''All My Children'', ''One Life to Live'', ''Port Charles'' * Yusef Lateef (attended), jazz musician * Lazarus (rapper), Lazarus, physician, rapper and songwriter from

* James Lentini, composer and guitarist * Philip Levine,

-winning poet; Distinguished Poet in Residence for the Creative Writing Program at New York University * Joseph LoDuca, Emmy Award-winning composer * Dave Marsh (attended), music writer, co-founder of ''Creem'' magazine * Tim Meadows, actor, ''Saturday Night Live'', ''Mean Girls'' * Barbara Meek, actress, ''Archie Bunker's Place'' * S. Epatha Merkerson, actress, ''Law & Order'', ''Lackawanna Blues (film), Lackawanna Blues'' * Kenya Moore, Miss USA 1993 and Miss Michigan USA 1993 * Martin Pakledinaz, costume designer, won Tony Awards for ''Thoroughly Modern Millie (musical), Thoroughly Modern Millie'' and the 2000 revival of ''Kiss Me, Kate'' * Bobby Pearce (designer), Bobby Pearce, Broadway costume designer * Bill Prady (attended), television writer and producer * David Ramsey, actor, ''Dexter (TV series), Dexter'', ''Blue Bloods (TV series), Blue Bloods'', ''Mother and Child (2009 film), Mother and Child'', and ''Arrow (TV series), Arrow'' * Crystal Reed, actress, ''Teen Wolf (2011 TV series), Teen Wolf'' * Della Reese, actress, singer, minister * Lloyd Richards, stage director, Tony Award for ''Seven Guitars'', ''Joe Turner's Come and Gone'', and ''A Raisin in the Sun'' * Sixto Rodriguez (BA Philosophy, 1981), folk musician, subject of documentary ''Searching for Sugar Man'' * Ruben Santiago-Hudson, ''Michael Hayes''; Tony Award for ''Seven Guitars'' * Kierra Sheard, contemporary gospel singer * George Shirley, opera singer, 2015 recipient National Medal of Arts * Darryl Sivad, actor and comedian * Tom Sizemore, actor, ''Saving Private Ryan'', ''Black Hawk Down (film), Black Hawk Down'' * Tom Skerritt, Emmy Award-winning actor; has appeared in more than 40 films and 200 television episodes * Avo Sõmer, musicologist, music theorist, and composer * Jeffrey Tambor, actor, ''The Larry Sanders Show'', ''Arrested Development (TV series), Arrested Development'' * Barbara Tarbuck, actress, ''General Hospital''; Fulbright Scholar * Sonya Tayeh, choreographer on ''So You Think You Can Dance'' * Ron Teachworth, educator, artist, writer, filmmaker (''Going Back (film), Going Back'') * Lily Tomlin (attended), actress, ''Nashville (film), Nashville'', ''The West Wing'', ''Murphy Brown'', ''Flirting with Disaster (film), Flirting with Disaster'', ''I Heart Huckabees''

Medicine

*Scott Dulchavsky, trauma surgeon and NASA researcher *Gerald May, psychiatrist *Robert Provenzano, nephrologist *Wolfram Samlowski, medical oncologist *Robert Williams (psychologist), Robert L. Williams, psychologist

Religion

*Charles H. Ellis III, former Presiding Bishop of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World Inc. * Dario Hunter, first Muslim-born person to be ordained a rabbi *John Drew Sheard, Sr., Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ

Science

*Werner Emmanuel Bachmann, chemist; pioneer in steroid synthesis: carried out the first total synthesis of a steroidal hormone, equilenin; his name is associated with the Gomberg-Bachmann reaction * Mary Kim Joh, author of a Korean anthem *

, co-inventor of three-dimensional holography; awarded the

in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter *Jerry Linenger, astronaut; spent five months living on the Russian space station Mir *Sultana N. Nahar, physicist, astronomer *Shirley E. Schwartz (M.S. 1962, Ph.D. 1970), chemist and research scientist at General Motors

Sports

* Anthony Bass, starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres; Major League Baseball draft (MLB) draft selection in 2008 Major League Baseball draft, 2008 (5th round) * Tom E. Beer, former linebacker for the Detroit Lions * Joique Bell, Wayne State all-time leading rusher; former running back for the Detroit Lions * Gregory Benko (born 1952), Olympic Foil (fencing), foil fencing, fencer * Ron Berger, former football player for the New England Patriots * Hunter Brown (baseball), Hunter Brown, 2019 Major League Baseball draft, 2019 MLB draft selection (5th round) who plays for the Houston Astros * Rick Byas, cornerback for the Atlanta Falcons * Ken Doherty (track), Ken Doherty, Olympic bronze medalist, decathlon (1928) * Phil Emery (American football), Phil Emery, former General Manager for the Chicago Bears * Ben Finegold, chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster * Byron Krieger (1920-2015), foil, sabre, and épée fencer; NCAA champion; two-time Pan Am gold medalist; two-time Olympian; two-time Maccabiah Games gold medalist * Allan Kwartler (attended; 1917–1998), sabre and foil fencer; Pan-American sabre champion and three-time gold medal winner; three-time Olympian, and two-time gold medal winner at the Maccabiah Games * Dan Larson, Major League Baseball pitcher (1976-1982) * Danny Lewis (basketball), Danny Lewis (born 1970), American-English basketball player *Stavros Paskaris, former professional ice hockey player * Fred Snowden, former assistant coach at the University of Michigan; former head coach of the University of Arizona men's basketball teams; first black head coach of a major university's basketball program in America's history * Otmar Szafnauer, team principal of Alpine F1 Team and former racing driver * Allen Tolmich, track and field athlete; established or tied 11 U.S. track and field records in 1938, set world hurdling records * Lorenzo Wright, track and field athlete; gold medal winner in the 1948 Olympics (400-meter relay)

Honorary graduates

* Ernie Harwell, sportscaster * Carl Levin, U.S. Senator * James Lipton, actor, television host * Jessye Norman, soprano *[ [Jack White, musician * Stephen Yokich, former UAW president

Faculty and staff

University presidents

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p. 7 of 67 # 1965 - 1971: William Rea Keast, William R. Keast # 1971 - 1978: George E. Gullen, Jr. # 1978 - 1982: Thomas Bonner # 1982 - 1997: David Adamany # 1997 - 2009: Irvin Reid # 2009 - 2010: Jay Noren # 2011 - 2013: Allan Gilmour (academic), Allan Gilmour # 2013 - 2023: M. Roy Wilson # 2023 - present: Kimberly Andrews Espy

Professors

*Norman Allinger, Computational chemistry, computational chemist, winner of the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry *Dora Apel, Professor Emerita of Modern and Contemporary Art *Jerry Bails, popular culturist; "father of comic book fandom;" former assistant professor of Natural Science *Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid, Albert T. Bharucha-Reid, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences; Markov chain theorist and statistician *Susan Bies, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Assistant Professor of Economics *Cynthia Bir, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery, Emmy Award-winning lead engineer on ''Sports Science'' (Fox Sports and ESPN) *Henry Billings Brown, instructor in Medical Law in the 1860s, later US Supreme Court Justice *Winifred B. Chase, botanist; Professor of Botany and Dean of Women *John Corvino, philosopher and author; Professor of Philosophy *Oliver Cox, sociologist; member of the Chicago School (sociology), Chicago School *Joanne V. Creighton, expert on women's education; President of Mount Holyoke College *Carl Djerassi, Professor of Chemistry, synthesized the first highly active ingredient for the pill (birth control) *Forest Dodrill, inventor of the Dodrill-GMR; first person to perform a successful open heart surgery *Julia Donovan Darlow, attorney; first woman president of the State Bar of Michigan; Adjunct Professor of Law *John M. Dorsey, Chairman of Psychiatry; author; first to be awarded title of University Professor * Sorin Draghici, Professor in Computer Science, Robert J. Sokol, MD Endowed Chair in Systems Biology in Reproduction, Director of the James and Patricia Anderson Engineering Ventures Institute, Associate Dean of College of Engineering *Scott Dulchavsky, trauma surgeon; Chief of Surgery at HFHS; NASA Principal Investigator *Joseph W. Eaton, sociologist; anthropologist; listed in ''Who is Who in the World'' for his published research and academic career in public and international affairs, social work and public health *Muneer Fareed, Islamic scholar, Secretary General of the Islamic Society of North America *David Fasenfest, Associate Professor of Sociology *Farshad Fotouhi, Professor of Wayne State University Computer Science Department, Computer Science; Dean of College of Engineering *Douglas Fraser, Adjunct Professor of Labor Relations; former president of the United Auto Workers *Edmund Gettier, philosopher; published ''Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?'' *Wallace Givens, mathematician; pioneer in computer science; namesake of the Givens rotation *Martin Glaberman, influential Marxist, Professor Emeritus *Morris Goodman (scientist), Morris Goodman, scientist' editor-in-chief of ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' journal, Distinguished Professor at the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Wayne State University School of Medicine *Neil Gordon, Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry, founded the Journal of Chemical Education and established the world-renowned Gordon Research Conferences *David Gorski, associate professor of surgery and oncology; known for his blogs critical of alternative medicine *Margaret Hayes Grazier, librarian, author, associate professor from 1965, professor from 1972 to 1983 *Suraj N. Gupta, Professor Emeritus, notable for his contributions to quantum field theory; known for developing the Gupta–Bleuler formalism of field quantization *Kermit L. Hall; legal historian *Carla Harryman, poet; essayist; playwright; Professor of Women's Studies and Creative Writing *Matthew Holden, political scientist *

, founding artist of the hyperrealist and

fine art movements *Jerome Horwitz, Wayne State University School of Medicine Professor of Internal Medicine and Karmanos Cancer Institute researcher; synthesized the first drug approved for the treatment of AIDS and HIV infection, Zidovudine; synthesized Zalcitabine (ddC) and Stavudine (d4T), the third and fourth drugs approved to treat AIDS *Adrian Kantrowitz, MD, performed the world's first pediatric heart transplant, and the first heart transplant in the United States; Chairman of the Department of Surgery *Ernest Kirkendall, chemist and metallurgist; discovered the Kirkendall effect *Henry E. Kyburg, Jr., expert in probability and logic; known for the Lottery Paradox and for the Kyburgian or epistemological interpretation of probability *Keith Lehrer, philosopher; former professor of Philosophy *M.L. Liebler, taught English, creative writing, world literature, American studies, and labor studies; authored several books of poetry *Jessica Litman, expert on copyright law, Professor of Law *David L. Mackenzie, educator and founding dean *Maryann Mahaffey, former member of the Detroit City Council, Professor Emerita at the School of Social Work *William V. Mayer, professor of Zoology; known for his work in promoting biology education *Forrest McDonald, historian, leading conservative scholar *Ron Milner, author of a Broadway play, professor of creative writing *Horace Mitchell Miner, Horace Miner, anthropologist *Boris Mordukhovich, mathematician in the areas of nonlinear analysis, Optimization (mathematics), optimization, and control theory; founder of modern variational analysis and generalized differentiation; Distinguished University Professor and Lifetime Scholar of the Academy of Scholars at Wayne State *Hidegorō Nakano, mathematician, after whom Nakano Spaces are named *Frederick Newmeyer, linguist; known for his work on the history of generative syntax and the evolutionary origin of language *Robert Peters (playwright), Robert Peters, poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor, and actor; received Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships; won the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America *Alexey A Petrov, physicist in the area of theoretical particle physics; known for his work in heavy quark phenomenology; received National Science Foundation CAREER Award *Alvin Plantinga, contemporary philosopher; known for his work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion *Ananda Prasad, biochemist, Distinguished Professor of Medicine *Earl H. Pritchard, Rhodes Scholar; Scholar of China; founder and president of the Association for Asian Studies; first recipient of the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal *Robert Provenzano, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine; expert on chronic kidney disease and kidney transplantation; former president of the Renal Physicians Association *Claude Pruneau, physicist in the area of heavy ion research; known for his work on particle correlation measurements in heavy ion collisions *

, professor emeritus of Instructional Technology *Shlomo Sawilowsky, Professor of Educational Statistics and Distinguished Faculty Fellow; founder and editor of the ''Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods'' *Matthew Seeger, Professor of Communication; Dean of the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts *Marvin Schindler, Professor emeritus of German and Slavic Studies *Steven Shaviro, prominent cultural critic *Melvin Small, historian of US Diplomacy; former President of the Peace History Society; author of several award-winning books *Renate Soulen, professor of radiology, 1989 - 2005; co-founder of Society of Interventional Radiology *Calvin L. Stevens, chemist, professor of Organic Chemistry; known for being the first to synthesize the drug ketamine *Mary Chase Perry Stratton, ceramic artist; founder of Pewabic Pottery *Emanuel Tanay, forensic psychiatrist *Athan Theoharis, expert on U.S. intelligence agencies, primarily the FBI *William Lay Thompson, Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, expert on bird vocalizations, past President of the Michigan Audubon Society and past Editor of the Jack Pine Warbler *Brian VanGorder, defensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons; former football head coach *Sergei Voloshin, physicist in the area of heavy ion research; known for his work on event-by-event physics in heavy ion collisions *Barrett Watten, poet; educator; professor of modernism and cultural studies *Joseph Weizenbaum, professor emeritus of computer science at MIT; created early computer in 1952 at Wayne State University *Frank H. Wu, lawyer and author; former dean of the law school *Robert Zieger, labor historian; recipient of the Taft Labor History Award; professor of history *Wolf W. Zuelzer, Professor of Pediatric Research

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