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The 2008 graduation ceremony at
Schoellkopf Field on the campus of
Cornell University
This list of Cornell University alumni includes notable education graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of
Cornell University , an
Ivy League
university located in
Ithaca, New York .
For other disciplines, see:
List of Cornell University alumni .
Founders and leaders of academic institutions
John Cranford Adams (B.A. 1926, Ph.D. 1935) – 2nd president of
Hofstra University (1944–1964)
Ilesanmi Adesida (postdoctoral researcher 1979–1984) – dean of College of Engineering (2005–2012) and provost (2012–2015) at
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ; member of
National Academy of Engineering (2006) and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
John Agresto (Ph.D. 1974) – president of
St. John's College in Santa Fe (1989–2000)
Joseph A. Alutto (Ph.D. 1968 organizational behavior) – dean of the
SUNY Buffalo School of Management (1976–1990) and of
Ohio State University 's
Max M. Fisher College of Business (1991–2007); executive vice president and provost of Ohio State University (2007–2013); interim president of Ohio State (2007, 2013–2014)
Elam Jonathan Anderson (M.A. 1915) – president of
Linfield College (1932–1938) and the
University of Redlands (1938–1944)
James A. Anderson (Ph.D. 1980) – chancellor and professor of psychology at
Fayetteville State University (2008–)
Alfred Atkinson (M.S. 1912) – 4th president of
Montana State University (1919–1937) and 12th president of
University of Arizona (1937–1947)
Nadine Aubry (Ph.D. 1987 mechanical and aerospace engineering) – dean of the College of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor at
Northeastern University ; member of the
National Academy of Engineering (2011)
[1]
Joel D. Baines (Ph.D. 1988) – dean of
Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine (2014–)
Michael Barber (Ph.D. 1972) –
vice chancellor (CEO) of
Flinders University ,
Australia (2008–2014)
James Francis Barker (mechanical engineering graduate 1893) – 2nd president of
Rochester Institute of Technology (1916–1919)
William S. Barker (M.A. 1959) – church historian who served as president of
Covenant Theological Seminary (1977–1984)
George Wells Beadle (Ph.D. 1930 genetics) – president of
University of Chicago , 1961–1968
Steven D. Bennion (MPA) – president of
Snow College (1982–1989),
Brigham Young University–Idaho (then Ricks College) (1989–1997) and
Southern Utah University (1997–2006)
Sherwood Berg (M.A. 1948) – president of
South Dakota State University (1975–1984)
Katherine Bergeron (M.A., Ph.D.) – 11th president of
Connecticut College (2014–) and former dean of the college at
Brown University
[2]
[3]
Ekanem Ikpi Braide (M.S., Ph.D., Parasitology) – founding vice chancellor of
Federal University Lafia (2011–2016)
Jamshed Bharucha (research associate 1982–1983) – 12th president of
Cooper Union (2011–2015)
Henry Bienen (B.S. 1960) – president of
Northwestern University , 1995–2009
Claude Bissell (Ph.D. English Literature) – president of
Carleton University (1956–1958) and the
University of Toronto (1958–1971); Companion of the
Order of Canada
William Fremont Blackman (Ph.D. 1893) – 4th president of
Rollins College (1902–1915)
Edward J. Bloustein (Ph.D. 1954, LL.B. 1959) – president of
Bennington College (1965–1971) and
Rutgers University (1971–1989)
John C. Bliss (A.B. 1889) – president of what is now
State University of New York at New Paltz (1908–1923)
John G. Bollinger (M.S. 1958 mechanical engineering) – former dean (1981–1999) and dean emeritus of College of Engineering at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison ; member of the
National Academy of Engineering (1983)
[4]
Karen Boroff (B.S. ILR) – dean of
Stillman School of Business ,
Seton Hall University
Jonathan M. Brand (J.D. 1996) – president of
Doane College (2005–2011) and of
Cornell College (2011–)
[5]
[6]
[7]
John Casper Branner (B.S. 1882) – president of
Stanford University , (1913–15);
geologist , member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1905)
Hilton Marshall Briggs (Ph.D.) – 13th president of
South Dakota State University (1958–1975)
Victor L. Butterfield (B.A. 1927, M.A. 1928) – 11th president of
Wesleyan University (1943–1967)
Colin G. Campbell (B.A.) – 13th president of
Wesleyan University (1970–1988)
[8]
Carlos Eugenio Chardón (B.A. 1919, M.S. 1921) – chancellor of the
University of Puerto Rico (1931–1935)
J. Richard Chase (Ph.D.) – president of
Biola University (1970–1982) and
Wheaton College (Illinois) (1982–1993)
Amrik Singh Cheema (Ph.D. Agriculture Extension) – vice chancellor of the
Punjab Agricultural University (1976–1981)
Stanley Chodorow (B.A. 1964 government, Ph.D. 1968 history) – provost of the
University of Pennsylvania (1994–1997) and Dean of Arts and Humanities at the
University of California, San Diego
Marc P. Christensen (B.S. 1993 engineering physics) – dean of
Lyle School of Engineering at
Southern Methodist University
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Lisa Staiano-Coico , aka Lisa S. Coico (Ph.D. 1981
Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences ) – dean of
New York State College of Human Ecology (2004–2007); provost of
Temple University (2007–2010); president of
City College of New York (2010–2016)
Elizabeth Coleman (M.A.) – president of
Bennington College (1987–2013)
Stirling Colgate (B.S. 1948, Ph.D. 1951) – president of
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (1965–1974) and co-founder of
Santa Fe Institute ; member of the
National Academy of Sciences
Theodore B. Comstock (B.S. 1870, D.Sc. 1886) – first president of
the University of Arizona (1894–1895)
Roger B. Corbett (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) – president of
New Mexico State University (1955–1970)
Edmund Cranch (B.A. 1945. Ph.D. 1951) – dean of
Cornell University College of Engineering (1972–1978), president of
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1978–1985)
Steven C. Currall (Ph.D. 1990 organizational behavior) – president of the
University of South Florida (2019−), provost and vice president for academic affairs at
Southern Methodist University (2016–2019) and former dean of the Graduate School of Management at
UC Davis (2009–2014); Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Paul D'Anieri (M.A., Ph.D. 1991) – dean of
University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2008–2014); executive vice president and provost of
University of California, Riverside (2014–)
Thomas B. Day (Ph.D. 1957 physics) – 6th president of
San Diego State University (1978–1996)
William W. Destler (Ph.D. 1972 applied physics) – president of
Rochester Institute of Technology (2007–2017)
Cathy Dove (MBA) – former vice president of
Cornell Tech ; 10th president of
Paul Smith's College 2014–present
Faye Duchin (B.A. 1965 experimental psychology) – dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1996–2002)
Hu Dunfu (B.A. 1909 mathematics) – Chinese mathematician who co-founded the
Chinese Mathematical Society and served as its first president; He co-founded
Utopia University in March 1912, which became one of the most reputable private universities in China, and served as its president for 20 years (1912–1928, 1941–1945)
Clyde A. Duniway (A.B. 1892) – president of the
University of Montana (1908–1912), the
University of Wyoming (1913–1917) and
Colorado College (1917–1924)
Edward D. Eddy (B.A. 1944, Ph.D. 1956) – provost of the
University of New Hampshire (1955–1960) and
Pennsylvania State University (1977–1983); president of
Chatham University (1960–1977) and
University of Rhode Island (1983–1991)
Henry Turner Eddy (Ph.D. 1872) – president of the
University of Cincinnati (1874–1875, 1884, 1889–1891)
[10]
Roger O. Egeberg (B.A. 1925) – dean of the
University of Southern California School of Medicine , assistant secretary of
Health and Scientific Affairs in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Kristin Esterberg (M.A. 1988, Ph.D. 1991 sociology) – provost and academic vice president at
Salem State University (2009–2014); president of the
State University of New York at Potsdam (2014–)
Gregory L. Fenves (B.S. 1979) – dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering (2008–2013), executive vice president and provost (2013–2015) and the 29th president of the
University of Texas at Austin (2015–2020), 21st president of
Emory University (2020-); member of
National Academy of Engineering (2014)
Glenn W. Ferguson (B.A. Economics 1950, MBA 1951) – chancellor of
Long Island University (1969–1970), president of
Clark University (1970–1973), the
University of Connecticut (1973–1978), the
American University of Paris (1992–1995) and
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City (1983), U.S. diplomat
Daniel Fischel (B.A. 1972) – former dean of the
University of Chicago Law School (1999–2001) and Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law and Business, emeritus at the
University of Chicago
Daniel Mark Fogel (B.A. 1969 English, M.F.A. 1974 creative writing, Ph.D. 1976 English) – president of the
University of Vermont (2002–2011)
George K. Fraenkel (Ph.D. 1949) –
physical chemist , chairman of the chemistry department (1965–1968) and Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1968–1983) at
Columbia University
Sharon Gaber (Ph.D.) – provost of the
University of Arkansas (2009–2015), president of the
University of Toledo (2015–)
Zvi Galil (Ph.D. 1975) – president of
Tel Aviv University (2007–2009); dean of the
Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science at
Columbia University (1995–2007) and of
Georgia Tech 's
College of Computing since April 9, 2010; member of the
National Academy of Engineering (2004), fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005) and of the
ACM (1995)
Maria Gallo (B.S. Agronomy) – 13th president of
Delaware Valley University (2016–)
[11]
James C. Garland (Ph.D. 1968 physics) – 20th president of
Miami University (1996–2006)
Charles Garside (Law School Graduate, 1923) – former president of the
State University of New York (1951–1952)
John W. Gilmore (B.S. 1898, MSA 1906) – president of the
University of Hawaii , 1908–1913
Milton Glick (postdoctoral fellow 1965–1967) – president of the
University of Nevada, Reno (2006–2011)
Joseph Glover (B.A. 1974 mathematics) – provost of the
University of Florida 2008–present
Jeffrey P. Gold (B.S.E 1974, M.D. 1978) – chancellor of the
University of Nebraska Medical Center (2014–) and the University of Toledo Health Sciences Campus (2010–2014)
Richard Alton Graham (B.S. 1942 mechanical engineering) – president of
Goddard College in
Plainfield, Vermont (1975–1976); equal rights leader who served as founding commissioner of the United States
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1965–1966)
John C. Green (Ph.D. 1983) – dean of the Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences (2017–) and interim president (2018–) at the
University of Akron
Wang Guosong (M.S. 1931, Ph.D. 1933) – co-founder of the
Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering in 1934; head of the electrical engineering of
Zhejiang University , vice president (1950–1951, 1952–1957) and acting president (1951–1952) of Zhejiang University
Carl A. Hanson (Ph.D. 1948 ILR) – president of the
Gettysburg College (1961–1977)
Zhang Hanying (M.S. 1925) – president of what is now
Tianjin University (1948–1949)
Fred Harvey Harrington (B.A. 1933) – president of the
University of Wisconsin–Madison (1962–1970)
Franklin S. Harris (Ph.D.) – president of
Brigham Young University (1921–1945) and
Utah State University (1945–1950)
William Williams Henderson (M.A. 1905) – president of what is now
Weber State University (1910–1914)
Albert Ross Hill (Ph.D. 1896 philosophy) – president of the
University of Missouri (1908–1921)
[12]
Carl McClellan Hill (M.S., Ph.D.) – president of
Kentucky State University (1962–1975) and
Hampton University (1976–1978)
Linnaeus N. Hines (attended Graduate School, 1899) – president of
Indiana State University (1921–1934) and
Ball State University (1921–1924)
Jerome H. Holland (B.S. 1939, M.S. 1941) – president of
Delaware State University (1953–60) and
Hampton University (1960–70); U.S. diplomat
Julia Irvine – 4th president of
Wellesley College (1894–1899)
Leslie Jacobs (B.A. 1981) – founder of
Educate Now , Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education; instrumental in transforming the moribund Orleans Parish School System after
Hurricane Katrina
Emil Q. Javier (Ph.D. 1969) – president of the
University of the Philippines , 1993–99
Walter H. Johns (Ph.D. 1934 classics and ancient history) – president of the
University of Alberta , 1959–1969; Officer of the
Order of Canada
David Starr Jordan (M.S. 1872, honorary LL.D. 1886) – founding president of
Stanford University (1891–1913), president of
Indiana University (1885–91),
Smithsonian Institution associate
Horace A. Judson (Ph.D.) – president of the
State University of New York at Plattsburgh (1994–2003),
Grambling State University ,
Louisiana (2004–2009) and
Knoxville College (2010–2013)
Charnvit Kasetsiri (Ph.D. 1972) – president of
Thammasat University , 1994–95
Dexter Keezer (M.A. 1923) – president of
Reed College (1934–1942)
William Jasper Kerr – president of
Utah State University (1900–1907) and
Oregon State University (1907–1932)
Rakesh Khurana (B.S. 1990) – dean of
Harvard College (2014–)
Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (Ph.D. 1950) – chancellor of
Aligarh Muslim University ,
Aligarh (1983–1992)
Lawrence A. Kimpton (Ph.D. 1935 philosophy) – president of
University of Chicago , 1951–1960
John E. King (Ph.D. 1941) – provost of the
University of Minnesota Duluth , president of what is now
Emporia State University (1953–1966) and the
University of Wyoming (1966–1967)
P.C. King (1913) – president of what is now
China Agricultural University (1917–1920) and
Tsinghua University (1920–1922)
Joseph T. Kingsbury – president of the
University of Utah (1892–1894, 1897–1916)
Steven Knapp (M.S. 1977, Ph.D. 1981) – provost of
Johns Hopkins University (1996–2007); president of
The George Washington University (2007–2017)
Warren Powers Laird (architecture 1985–1987) – founding dean of the school of fine arts at the
University of Pennsylvania (1920–1932)
Frank Lazarus (M.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1972) – president of the
University of Dallas (2004–2009)
Patrick F. Leahy (Masters in Business Administration and Labor Relations) – 6th president of
Wilkes University (2012–) and president-elect of
Monmouth University
Robert C. T. Lee (Ph.D. Veterinary Medicine) – president of
National Chung Hsing University (1981–1984)
Jeffrey S. Lehman (A.B. 1977) – president of
Cornell University , 2003–2005; dean of the
University of Michigan Law School, 1994–2003; Founding Vice Chancellor and CEO of
NYU Shanghai , 2012–present
Charles A. LeMaistre (M.D. 1947) – chancellor of the
University of Texas System (1971–1978), president of the
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (1978–1996)
E.L.Li (Ph.D. 1941) – civil engineer and educator; former vice-president of
Zhejiang University and former president of the
Zhejiang University of Technology
Shu-tian Li (Ph.D. 1928) – studied hydraulic issues in China; grandfather of
Steven Chu ; president of what is now
Southwest Jiaotong University (1930–1932) and of what is now
Tianjin University (1932–1939)
Wendy B. Libby (B.A. 1972, MBA 1977) – president of
Stephens College (2003–2009) and
Stetson University (2009–)
Winthrop C. Libby – president of the
University of Maine , 1969–1973
Jay O. Light (B.S.E. 1963) – dean of
Harvard Business School , 2006–2010
Franklin M. Loew (B.S., V.M.D.) – dean of the
Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine (1982–1995) and of the
Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine (1995–1997); president of
Becker College (1998–2003)
Wallace Loh (M.A.) – president of the
University of Maryland , 2010–present
Richard P. Longaker (Ph.D.) – provost and vice president of academic affairs of
Johns Hopkins University (1976–1986)
Katharine Culbert Lyall (B.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1969) – president of the
University of Wisconsin System (1992–2004)
Louis L. Madsen (Ph.D. 1934) – president of
Utah State University (1950–1953)
C. Peter Magrath (Ph.D.) – president of
Binghamton University (1972–1974, 2010–2012); president of the
University of Minnesota (1974–1984); president of the
University of Missouri System (1985–1991); president of
West Virginia University (2008–2010)
Tomas Mapua (B.Arch. 1911) – founder of the
Mapúa Institute of Technology and architect
Robert Marshak (Ph.D.1939) – president of
City College of New York (1970–1979); fourteen-year chairmanship of physics department at
University of Rochester
Dale Rogers Marshall (B.A. 1959 government) – 6th president of
Wheaton College (Massachusetts) (1992–2004)
Burton Clare Matthews (Ph.D. 1952) – president of the
University of Waterloo (1970–1981) and the
University of Guelph (1983–1988), chairman of the Ontario Council of University Affairs (1982–1984)
Stuart McCutcheon (postdoctoral fellow 1982–1984) – vice-chancellor of
Victoria University of Wellington (2001–2004) and of the
University of Auckland (2005–)
[13]
Michael C. McFarland (B.A. 1969 physics) – president of
College of the Holy Cross (2000–2012)
Alexander Meiklejohn (Ph.D. 1897) – president of
Amherst College (1912–1924); dean of
Brown University (1901–1912)
Thomas Noel Mitchell (Ph.D.) – provost (president) of
Trinity College Dublin (1991–2001)
Fred Tom Mitchell (Ph.D.) – president of
Mississippi State University (1945–1953)
Mary Molloy (Ph.D. 1907) – president of the
College of Saint Teresa (1928–1946)
Carlo Montemagno (B.S. 1980 agricultural and biological engineering) – chancellor of
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2017–2018)
[14]
[15]
[16]
Don Moon (B.S. 1957) – president of
Shimer College , 1978–2004
Harcourt A. Morgan – 13th president of the
University of Tennessee (1919–1934)
Steven Muller (Ph.D. 1958 political science) – president of
Johns Hopkins University , 1972 to 1990
Keith Murray (Ph.D.) – rector of
Lincoln College, Oxford (1944–1953) and chancellor of
University of Southampton (1964–1974)
Priscilla Nelson (Ph.D. 1983 geotechnical engineering) – provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the
New Jersey Institute of Technology (2005–2008); department head and professor of mining engineering at the
Colorado School of Mines (2014–)
Claudia Neuhauser (Ph.D. 1990 mathematics) – vice chancellor for academic affairs at the
University of Minnesota Rochester (2008–2013); fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011)
Ernest Fox Nichols (M.S. 1893, Ph.D. 1897) – president of
MIT (1921–22) and
Dartmouth (1909–16), professor of physics at
Colgate (1892–98),
Dartmouth (1898–1903),
Columbia (1903–09), and
Yale ; recipient of
Rumford Prize for his proof that
light exerts pressure using
Nichols radiometer , member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1908)
S. Georgia Nugent (Ph.D.) – 18th president of
Kenyon College (2003–2013); interim president of the
College of Wooster (2015–2016)
Lynn Okagaki (Ph.D. developmental psychology) – former commissioner of Education Research in the
Institute of Education Sciences at the
U.S. Department of Education ; dean of the College of Education and Human Development and deputy provost for academic affairs at the
University of Delaware
[17]
Archie Palmer (A.B. 1920) – 8th president of the
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (1938–1942)
Marc Brendan Parlange
[18] (M.S. 1987 agricultural engineering, Ph.D. 1990 civil and environmental engineering) – dean of faculty of applied science,
University of British Columbia ,
[19] provost and senior vice-president at
Monash University (2017–);
[20] member of the
National Academy of Engineering (2017)
[21]
Frederick D. Patterson (Ph.D. 1933) – president of what is now
Tuskegee University (1935–53); founder of the
United Negro College Fund ; 1987
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Raymond A. Pearson (B.S. 1894, M.S. 1899) – president of
Iowa State University (1912–1926) and the
University of Maryland, College Park (1926–1935)
Eduardo Peñalver (B.A. 1994) – 16th Dean of
Cornell Law School (2014–2021), president of
Seattle University (July 1, 2021)
Joseph B. Platt (Ph.D. 1942) – founding president of
Harvey Mudd College (1956–1976); 8th president of
Claremont Graduate University (1976–1981)
Jennifer Raab (class of 1977) – president of
Hunter College (2001–)
Richard M. Ramin (B.A. 1951) – vice president for Public Affairs at
Cornell University
Charles H. Rammelkamp (B.A. 1896, Ph.D. 1900) – president of
Illinois College (1905–1932)
Wendy Raymond (A.B. 1982 chemistry) – 16th president of
Haverford College (2019–); vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at
Davidson College (2013–2019)
George Rea (1915) – president of what is now
Drexel University (1942–1944)
Hermengildo B. Reyes (B.Eng. 1918) – co-founder and president of
Far Eastern University (1946–1947) and of
University of the East (1951)
Melody Rose (M.A., Ph.D.) – 15th president of
Marylhurst University (2014–present); former chancellor of the
Oregon University System (OUS)
Brian C. Rosenberg (B.A.) – 16th president of the
Macalester College (2003–)
John R. Rosenberg (M.A. 1984, Ph.D. 1985) – dean of the College of Humanities (2005–2015) and Washington Irving Professor of Spanish and American Relations at
Brigham Young University
Neil Albert Salonen (attended, transferred) – president of the
University of Bridgeport (2000–)
Eugene G. Sander (M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1965 biology) – president of the
University of Arizona (2011–2012)
Carlos E. Santiago (Ph.D. 1982 economics) – chancellor,
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Charles Madison Sarratt (Bachelor's 1911) – chair of the department of mathematics (1924–1946), dean of students (1939–1945) and vice-chancellor (1946–1958) at
Vanderbilt University
Earl Rogers Sayers (M.A. 1961, Ph.D. 1964) – president of the
University of Alabama (1988–1996)
George L. Scherger (Ph.D. 1899) – 3rd president of
Columbia College Chicago (1927–1929)
Robert A. Scott (Ph.D.) – former president of
Ramapo College (1985–2000); 9th president of
Adelphi University (2000–2015)
Werner Seligmann (B.Arch. 1955) – dean and professor of architecture at
Syracuse University (1976–1990)
Mary Antoinette Brown Sherman (Ph.D. 1967) – first woman to serve as president of the
University of Liberia (1978–1984)
Hu Shih (B.A. 1914) – chancellor of
Peking University (1946–1948)
Michael Sipser (B.A. 1974 mathematics) – Donner Professor of Mathematics and dean of science at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the
American Mathematical Society and the
Association for Computing Machinery
Arthur K. Smith (Ph.D. 1970) – president of the
University of Utah (1991–1997) and the
University of Houston (1997–2003); chancellor of the
University of Houston System (1997–2003); provost/executive vice president/interim president of the
University of South Carolina (1988–1991); vice president for administration at the
Binghamton University
[22]
Robert L. Sproull (B.A. 1940 English, Ph.D. 1943 physics) – president and CEO of
University of Rochester (1975–1984)
Harvey G. Stenger (B.S. 1979 chemical engineering) – 7th president of
Binghamton University (2012–)
Bertha Stoneman (Bachelor's, Ph.D.) – botanist and university professor in South Africa; 3rd president of
Huguenot College (1921–1933)
Kathleen Sullivan (B.A. 1976) – professor of law at
Harvard Law School (1984–93), dean (1999–2004) and professor (1993–2012) of
Stanford Law School
Louis Wade Sullivan (Medical College Resident) – founder, dean (1975–1981) and president (1981–1989, 1993–2002) of
Morehouse School of Medicine ;
Secretary of Health and Human Services under
George H. W. Bush (1989–1993)
Raghu Sundaram (Ph.D. 1988 economics) – dean of the
New York University Stern School of Business (2018–)
Samuel O. Thier – president of
Brandeis University (1991–1994), of
Massachusetts General Hospital (1994–1996) and of the
Institute of Medicine (1985–1991); CEO of Massachusetts General Hospital (1996–2002); Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
M. Carey Thomas (B.A. 1877) – founder and second president of
Bryn Mawr College (1894–1922);
suffragist
George R. Throop (Ph.D. 1905) – chancellor of
Washington University in St. Louis (1927–1944)
Adrian Tinsley (Ph.D. 1969 English literature) – president of
Bridgewater State University (1989–2002)
[23]
Martha Van Rensselaer (1909) – co-founder of Cornell's College of Home Economics which later became the
College of Human Ecology
[24]
Suzanne Elise Walsh (B.S.W.) – 19th president of
Bennett College (2019–)
[25]
W. Clarke Wescoe (M.D. 1944) – dean of the
University of Kansas School of Medicine (1952–1960) and 10th Chancellor of the
University of Kansas (1960–1969)
Joan Wexler (born 1946) – dean and president of
Brooklyn Law School
Warren Elvin Wilson (M.C.E.) – president of
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (1948–1953)
Crystal Williams (MFA) - 18th president of the
Rhode Island School of Design (2022–)
Kenneth E. Wing (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) – former president of the
State University of New York at Cobleskill
[26] (1992–2002)
Lynton Wilson (M.A. Economics) – chancellor of
McMaster University (2007–2013)
George T. Winston (B.A. 1874 literature, professor) – president of
University of North Carolina (1891–1896), the
University of Texas at Austin (1896–1899), and
North Carolina State University (1899–1908)
Randy Woodson (M.S. and Ph.D. Horticulture) – former provost of
Purdue University ; 14th Chancellor of
North Carolina State University (2010–)
Carl R. Woodward (Ph.D. 1926) – president of the
University of Rhode Island (1941–1958)
Gregory S. Woodward (Ph.D. Doctor of Musical Arts) – 22nd president of
Carthage College (2012–2017)
[27] and 6th president of the
University of Hartford (2017–)
[28]
[29]
Harry Woolf (Ph.D. 1955) – provost of
Johns Hopkins University (1972–1976), fifth director of
Institute for Advanced Study (1976–1987)
Henry T. Yang (Ph.D.) – president of
University of California, Santa Barbara (1994–); member of the
National Academy of Engineering (1991)
Mao Yisheng (M.S. 1917) – former president of
Southwest Jiaotong University ,
Tianjin University etc.;
Structural engineer , member of the
National Academy of Engineering (1982)
J. Meejin Yoon (B.Arch. 1995) – professor (2001–2018) and department head (2014–2018) of the department of architecture at
MIT School of Architecture and Planning , first female dean-elect of
College of Architecture, Art and Planning at
Cornell University (07/2018)
E.T. York (Ph.D. 1955) – president of the
University of Florida (1973–1974); chancellor of the
State University System of Florida (1974–1980)
H. C. Zen (B.S. 1916) – Chinese politician, academic who served as president of
National Sichuan University (1935–1937)
George F. Zook (Ph.D. 1913 European history) – 9th president of the
University of Akron (1925–1933);
United States Commissioner of Education (1933–1934) and president of the
American Council on Education (1934–1950)
Rawi Abdelal (M.A. 1997, Ph.D. 1999 government) – Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at
Harvard Business School
Amanda Anderson (Ph.D.) – Andrew W. Mellon Professor for the Humanities at
Brown University , former faculty member at the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and Caroline Donovan Professor of English Literature and the head of the English department at
Johns Hopkins University ;
Guggenheim Fellows (2009)
Paul Avrich (B.A. 1957) – professor and historian; taught at
Queens College, City University of New York for most of his life
William Bagley (Ph.D. 1900 psychology and education) – educator and editor
Jacques Bailly (Ph.D. 1997 classics and philosophy) – winner of
Scripps National Spelling Bee (1980) and the Bee's chief pronouncer (2003–); recipient of the
Fulbright Scholarship (1988–1990) and associate professor of classics at the
University of Vermont (2004–)
Brian A. Barsky (M.S. Computer Science) – professor of computer science and vision science at the
University of California, Berkeley
Shlomo Benartzi (Ph.D. 1994) – behavioral economist at the
UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles, California
Lauren Berlant (Ph.D. 1985) – George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the
University of Chicago
Laurie Brown (Ph.D. 1951) – theoretical physicist and historian of quantum field theory and elementary particle physics at
Northwestern University
Lawrence Buell (Ph.D.) –
Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Emeritus at
Harvard University
Millar Burrows (class of 1912) – biblical scholar; professor, and later department chairman of Biblical literature and history of religions at
Brown University (1925–1934); Winkley Professor of Biblical theology at
Yale Divinity School (1934–1950) and chairman of near eastern languages and literatures at
Yale Graduate School (1950–1958)
Hannah Buxbaum (J.D. 1992) – John E. Schiller Chair in Legal Ethics at
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Yuen Ren Chao (B.A. 1914) – Chinese-American linguist, educator, scholar, poet, and composer; president of
Linguistic Society of America (1945)
Gregory Chow (B.A. 1951) – Chinese American economist, Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy at
Princeton University , known for
Chow test
Paul A. Cohen (attended 1952–1953, transferred) – Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies and History Emeritus at
Wellesley College
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (B.A. 1981) – professor of law at
Columbia Law School and
UCLA Law School and Centennial Professor at the
London School of Economics ; critical race scholar, civil rights advocate, introduced and developed
intersectional theory
Alan Deardorff (M.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1971 economics) – John W. Sweetland Professor of International Economics and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the
University of Michigan
Mary Ann Doane (B.A. 1979 English) – Class of 1937 Professor of Film and Media at the
University of California, Berkeley and former George Hazard Crooker Professor of Modern Culture and Media at
Brown University
Theodore Drange (Ph.D. 1963) –
philosopher of religion and
Professor Emeritus at
West Virginia University
Cliff Eisen – professor of music at
King's College London (1997–)
Herman LeRoy Fairchild (B.S. 1874) – co-founder of
Geological Society of America (GSA), secretary (1891–1906) and president (1912) of GSA
[30]
[31]
Joel S. Fetzer (B.A. 1988) – distinguished professor of political science at
Pepperdine University
Jill Fisch (B.A. 1982) – professor at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Marc A. Franklin (LL.B. 1956) – Frederick I. Richman Professor of Law at
Stanford Law School
Guillermo Gallego (
Sandra Gilbert (B.A. 1957) – professor emerita of English at the
University of California, Davis
Martin D. Ginsburg (A.B. 1953) – former professor of law at
Georgetown University Law Center in
Washington, D.C. (M.S. 1987) - Liu Family Emeritus Professor at Columbia University
Michael Goldsmith (B.S. 1972, J.D. 1975) – Woodruff J. Deem Professor of Law at
Brigham Young University 's
J. Reuben Clark Law School .
Paul S. Goodman (Ph.D. 1966 organizational psychology) – Organizational psychologist, author, filmmaker, and the Richard M. Cyert Professor of Organizational Psychology at
Carnegie Mellon University
Rema Hanna (B.S. 1999 policy analysis) – Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South East Asia Studies at
Harvard University
John Fillmore Hayford (1889) –
geodesist ; the crater
Hayford on the far side of the Moon and Mount Hayford, a 1,871 m mountain peak near Metlakatla, Alaska, United States, are named after him; member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1911)
Steven Handel (M.S. 1974 and Ph.D. 1976 ecology and evolutionary biology) – distinguished professor of ecology at Rutgers University
Hollis Dow Hedberg (M.S. 1926 geology) – geologist specializing in petroleum exploration, professor of geology at
Princeton University (1959–1971); recipient of
Wollaston Medal (1975) and
Penrose Medal (1980), member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1960)
Ernest L. Hettich (1919) – scholar of
classics
Paul Horwich (Ph.D. 1974) – professor of philosophy at
New York University , best known for his work Truth (1990); on faculties of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1973–1995),
University College London (1995–2000), and the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York (2000–2005)
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Jane Humphries (Ph.D. 1973) – professor of economic history and Fellow of
All Souls College at the
University of Oxford
Bruce Jentleson (B.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1983) – professor of public policy and political science at
Duke University
Lilian Wyckoff Johnson (Ph.D., 1902) – professor of history at the
University of Tennessee ; president of the
Western College for Women (1904–1906)
Kevin Lane Keller (A.B. 1978 economics and mathematics) – E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing at the
Tuck School of Business at
Dartmouth College
Steven Klepper (B.A. 1970, M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1975 economics) – Arthur Arton Hamerschlag Professor of Economics and Social Science at
Carnegie Mellon University
Justin Kruger (Ph.D. 1999 social psychology) – social psychologist and professor at
New York University Stern School of Business
Cornelius C. (Neil) Kubler (B.A. 1972; M.A. 1975; Ph.D. 1981) – principal, American Institute in Taiwan Chinese Language & Area Studies School, Taipei (1981–87), Language Training Supervisor (1987–88) and chair of the Dept. of Asian & African Languages,
Foreign Service Institute ,
United States Department of State (1988–91); chair of the Department of Asian Studies,
Williams College and former American co-director of the
Hopkins–Nanjing Center .
Robert Kurzban (B.A. 1991 psychology) – professor of psychology at the
University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey R. Long (B.A. 1991) – professor of chemistry and of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the
University of California, Berkeley ,
[33] member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2019)
[34]
Mary Ting Yi Lui (M.A. 1995, Ph.D. 2000) – professor of history and American studies at
Yale University
Joseph Margulies (B.A. 1982) – professor of law and government at
Cornell University (2015–)
Emil Martinec (Ph.D. 1984) – professor at the
Enrico Fermi Institute at the
University of Chicago ; specialist in
string theory
Clifford F. Mass (B.S. 1974 physics) – professor of atmospheric sciences at the
University of Washington
Edwin Mims (Ph.D. 1990) – professor of English literature who served as the chair of the English Department from 1912 to 1942 at
Vanderbilt University
Asoke Nath Mitra (Ph.D. 1955) – Indian physicist at
Delhi University ; received the
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1969
David S. Moore (Ph.D.) – Shanti S. Gupta Distinguished Professor of Statistics, emeritus at
Purdue University known for his leadership in
statistics education ; president of the
American Statistical Association (1998)
David A. Moss (B.A.) – John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration at
Harvard University
Daniel L. Nagin (B.A.) – clinical professor of law and the vice dean for experiential and clinical education at the
Harvard Law School
Paul M. O'Leary (Ph.D. 1929, faculty 1924–1967) – economist and educator; the first dean of the
S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
Julie O'Sullivan (J.D. 1984) – professor of law at
Georgetown University Law Center
Leonard Radinsky (B.A. 1958) – professor (1967–1985), chairman of the department of anatomy (1978–1983) at the
University of Chicago
John W. Reed (LL.B. 1942) – Thomas M. Cooley Professor of Law at the
University of Michigan Law School
Susan Mokotoff Reverby (B.S. 1967 labor history) – Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at
Wellesley College ; known for uncovering the
syphilis experiments in Guatemala
Michelle Rhee (B.S. 1992 government) – founder and president of
The New Teacher Project ; appointed superintendent of
Washington, DC
Public Schools in 2007
Gretchen Ritter (B.A. 1983), dean of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences
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John Rodgers (B.A. 1936, M.S. 1937)
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[37] – Silliman Professor of Geology emeritus at
Yale University ; member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1969), fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Dennis A. Rondinelli , Ph.D. 1969 – professor and researcher of public administration at the
Sanford School of Public Policy .
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Serge Rudaz (Ph.D. 1979) – theoretical physicist, professor of physics and director of undergraduate honors at the
University of Minnesota ; Fellow of the
American Physical Society , recipient of the
Canadian Association of Physicists Herzberg Medal
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (class of 1971) – an American academic scholar in the fields of
gender studies ,
queer theory (
queer studies ), and
critical theory
Sydney Shoemaker (Ph.D. 1958) – Susan Linn Sage Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at
Cornell University
Daniel Simons (Ph.D. 1997) – professor of psychology at the
University of Illinois , known for Gorillas in Our Midst ;
Ig Nobel Prize winner (2004) for "demonstrating that even gorillas can become invisible when people are attending to something else"
Elaine Sisman (B.A. 1972) – Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music who served as department chair from 1999 to 2005 at
Columbia University , president of the
American Musicological Society (2005–2006); member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014)
G. William Skinner (B.A. 1947, Ph.D. 1954) − anthropologist and scholar of China at
Columbia University (1958−1960),
Cornell University (1960−1965),
Stanford University (1965−1989),
University of California, Davis (1990–2005); member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1980) and president of
Association for Asian Studies (1983−1984)
Eleonore Stump (M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1975) – Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at
Saint Louis University ; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012)
Sridhar Tayur (Ph.D. 1990 operations research and industrial engineering) – Ford Distinguished Research Chair Professor of Operations Management at
Carnegie Mellon University ; member of the
National Academy of Engineering (2017)
George B. Thomas (Ph.D. 1940) – professor of mathematics at
MIT for 38 years, known for being the author of the widely used calculus textbook Calculus and Analytic Geometry
Barry Voight – professor emeritus of geology and geological engineering at
Pennsylvania State University ; member of the
National Academy of Engineering (2017)
Michael Wachter (B.S. 1964) – professor at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Michael S. Wald (B.A. 1963) – professor (1967–2005), Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, emeritus (2005–) at
Stanford Law School
Huang Wanli (M.S. 1935 hydrology) – Chinese hydrologist and professor at
Tsinghua University (1953–2001)
Richard H. Weisberg (Ph.D. 1970) – Walter Floersheimer Professor of Constitutional Law at
Cardozo School of Law , founding director at Cardozo of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Program and the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy, and a recipient of France's
Legion of Honour (2008)
Eric W. Weisstein (B.A. 1990 physics, minor astronomy) – encyclopedist, created and maintains
MathWorld ,
ScienceWorld , and other encyclopedias
John W. Wells (Ph.D. 1933, professor 1948–1973) – paleontologist, biologist and geologist; president of
Paleontological Society (1961–1962), member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1968)
Robert C. West (B.A. 1950) – E. G. Rochow Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison ; Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (1978)
David White (1886) – geologist; served as president of the
Geological Society of America in 1923; recipient of the
Thompson Medal (1931) and the
Walcott Medal (1934); Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1921); member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1912)
Eliot Wigginton (B.A. 1965) – high school teacher; founder and editor of the
Foxfire books ;
MacArthur Fellow (1989)
Stephen Yale-Loehr (B.A. 1977, J.D. 1981) – professor of immigration law practice at
Cornell Law School (1991–)
Raymond W. Yeung (B.A. 1984, MEng 1985, PhD 1988) – professor of information engineering at
Chinese University of Hong Kong .
E-An Zen (B.A. 1951) – geologist;
Roebling Medal recipient, fellow of the
Geological Society of America (president, 1991–1992); the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the
Mineralogical Society of America , member of the
Geological Society of Washington (president 1973) and the National Academy of Sciences
Qing Zhao (Ph.D. 2001 electrical engineering) – professor of electrical and computer engineering at
Cornell University , Fellow of
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2013)
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