EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Rochester, NY

Founding Date:
1850

Motto:
Meliora

Team:
Yellowjackets

Enrollment:
8500

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

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
George Abbott	Playwright	25-Jun-1887	31-Jan-1995	Damn Yankees
Carolyn Berger	Judge	c. 1947		Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
Irving Bernstein	Historian	15-Nov-1916	25-Sep-2001	Labor historian
Myles Brand	Educator	17-May-1942	16-Sep-2009	President of the NCAA, 2003-09
Kinley J. Brauer	Historian	16-Apr-1935	12-Feb-2003	Cotton Versus Conscience
Mary Calderone	Activist	1-Jul-1904	24-Oct-1998	Questions and Answers about Love and Sex
David R. Carlucci	Business	c. 1955		CEO of IMS Health
Steven Chu	Physicist	28-Feb-1948		US Secretary of Energy, 2009-13
James B. Collins	Historian	c. 1949		The State in Early Modern France
Michel Coutu	Business	c. 1954		CEO, Jean Coutu Group USA
Gene Cretz	Diplomat	c. 1950		US Ambassador to Ghana
Henrik Dam	Scientist	21-Feb-1895	Apr-1976	Discovered Vitamin K
Alice Denham	Author	21-Jan-1927	27-Jan-2016	Sleeping with the Bad Boys
Susan S. Denison	Business	c. 1946		Partner, Cook Associates
Robert H. Dicke	Physicist	6-May-1916	4-Mar-1997	Dicke radiometer
Michael J. Durham	Business	c. 1951		Former CFO, American Airlines
George Eastman	Inventor	12-Jul-1854	14-Mar-1932	Inventor of the Kodak camera
Robert Forster	Actor	13-Jul-1941		Jackie Brown
D. Carleton Gajdusek	Scientist	9-Sep-1923	12-Dec-2008	Kuru (slow virus infections)
Mark B. Grier	Business	c. 1953		Vice Chairman of Prudential
Steven Hahn	Historian	18-Jul-1951		A Nation Under Our Feet
Susan Hockfield	Educator	24-Mar-1951		President of MIT
Robert T. Huang	Business	c. 1945		CEO of Synnex
Shirley Jackson	Novelist	14-Dec-1916	8-Aug-1965	The Lottery
Lewis A. Kaplan	Judge	23-Dec-1944		US District Judge, NY Southern District
David T. Kearns	Business	11-Aug-1930	25-Feb-2011	CEO of Xerox, 1985-91
Kenneth B. Keating	Politician	18-May-1900	5-May-1975	US Senator from New York, 1959-65
Robert Keegan	Business	27-Jul-1947		CEO of Goodyear
Morton Keller	Historian	1-Mar-1929		Regulating a New Economy
Richard T. Kennedy	Diplomat	24-Dec-1919	11-Jan-1998	US Ambassador for Nuclear Energy Policy
Galway Kinnell	Poet	1-Feb-1927	28-Oct-2014	Selected Poems
Arthur Kornberg	Scientist	3-Mar-1918	26-Oct-2007	Synthesized DNA
Masatoshi Koshiba	Physicist	19-Sep-1926		Detected cosmic neutrinos
Mary Anne Krupsak	Politician	26-Mar-1932		Lt. Governor of New York, 1975-78
Lawrence Kudlow	Economist	20-Aug-1947		Kudlow & Cramer
Chris Lee	Politician	1-Apr-1964		Congressman from New York, resigned
Lester A. Lefton	Educator	c. 1947		President, Kent State University
Richard C. Leone	Government	30-Apr-1940		President of the Century Foundation, 1989-2011
John E. Major	Business	c. 1945		CEO of Novatel Wireless, 2000-03
Joseph B. Martin	Doctor	1938		Dean, Harvard Medical School, 1997-2007
Janet Maslin	Critic	1948		New York Times film critic
William Masters	Scientist	27-Dec-1915	16-Feb-2001	Human Sexual Response
Kevin Mattson	Historian	25-Dec-1966		Intellectuals in Action
John J. McCusker	Historian	12-Aug-1939		The Economy of British America, 1607-1789
Thomas H. McLain	Business	c. 1957		CEO of Nabi Biopharmaceuticals, 2002-07
Cathy E. Minehan	Business	15-Feb-1947		President of the Boston Fed, 1994-2007
Denis J. O'Leary	Business	1956		EVP at JP Morgan Chase, 1994-2003
William H. Pease	Historian	31-Aug-1924	20-Jun-2013	The Web of Progress
Milton Plesur	Historian	16-Apr-1927	1987	Jewish Life in Twentieth-Century America
John W. Rowe	Business	20-Jun-1944		CEO of Aetna, 2000-06
Debra Jo Rupp	Actor	24-Feb-1951		Kitty Forman on That '70s Show
Bruce Schneier	Computer Programmer	15-Jan-1964		Applied Cryptography
Paul E. Singer	Business	22-Aug-1944		Billionaire, vulture capitalist
Hugo F. Sonnenschein	Economist	1941		President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000
Samuel S. Stratton	Politician	27-Sep-1916	13-Sep-1990	Congressman from New York
Charles Strouse	Composer	7-Jun-1928		Bye Bye Birdie
Vincent du Vigneaud	Chemist	18-May-1901	11-Dec-1978	Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin
Donald C. Winter	Government	c. 1947		US Secretary of the Navy, 2006-09
Peter W. Wood	Anthropologist	1953		Diversity: The Invention of a Concept
John L. Zabriskie	Business	c. 1940		CEO of Pharmacia & Upjohn, 1995-97
Robert Zubrin	Engineer	c. 1952		Mars Direct

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jules R. Benjamin	Historian	11-Jul-1938		The United States and Cuba
Norman O. Brown	Historian	25-Sep-1913	2-Oct-2002	Life Against Death
Leonard Carmichael	Educator	9-Nov-1898	16-Sep-1973	Smithsonian Chief, 1953-64
Alexander Eckstein	Economist	9-Dec-1915	4-Dec-1976	Sinologist, China's Economic Revolution
Robert W. Fogel	Economist	1-Jul-1926	11-Jun-2013	Cliometrics
John Gardner	Novelist	21-Jul-1933	14-Sep-1982	Grendel
Eugene D. Genovese	Historian	19-May-1930	26-Sep-2012	Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
Anthony Hecht	Poet	16-Jan-1923	20-Oct-2004	The Hard Hours
David R. Henderson	Economist	21-Nov-1950		The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
Johannes Holtfreter	Zoologist	9-Jan-1901	13-Nov-1992	Chemotaxis
Akira Iriye	Historian	20-Oct-1934		Across the Pacific
Christopher Lasch	Author	1-Jun-1932	14-Feb-1994	The Culture of Narcissism
Keith Lehrer	Philosopher	10-Jan-1936		Metamind
William E. Mayer	Business	1940		Former CEO of First Boston
Michael L. Mussa	Economist	15-Apr-1944		Council of Economic Advisers, 1986-88
Dexter Perkins	Historian	20-Jun-1889	12-May-1984	The Monroe Doctrine
Charles Plosser	Economist	19-Sep-1948		President and CEO, Philadelphia Fed
W. D. Snodgrass	Poet	5-Jan-1926	13-Jan-2009	Heart's Needle
Victor Weisskopf	Physicist	19-Sep-1908	21-Apr-2002	Head of CERN, 1961-65
George H. Whipple	Scientist	28-Aug-1878	2-Feb-1976	Bile, hemoglobin, and the liver

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
J. P. Bolduc	Business	c. 1941		CEO of W. R. Grace, 1993-95
Ursula M. Burns	Business	20-Sep-1958		CEO of Xerox
Steven Chu	Physicist	28-Feb-1948		US Secretary of Energy, 2009-13
Marion B. Folsom	Business	23-Nov-1893	27-Sep-1976	HEW Secretary, 1955-58
David T. Kearns	Business	11-Aug-1930	25-Feb-2011	CEO of Xerox, 1985-91
Sol Linowitz	Business	17-Dec-1913	18-Mar-2005	Negotiated return of the Panama Canal
Cathy E. Minehan	Business	15-Feb-1947		President of the Boston Fed, 1994-2007
Joel Seligman	Educator	11-Jan-1950		President, University of Rochester
Hugo F. Sonnenschein	Economist	1941		President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000
Samuel S. Stratton	Politician	27-Sep-1916	13-Sep-1990	Congressman from New York
George H. Whipple	Scientist	28-Aug-1878	2-Feb-1976	Bile, hemoglobin, and the liver
Mark A. Zupan	Educator	c. 1959		Dean of Business, University of Rochester

COACHES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jay Wright	Basketball	24-Dec-1961		Villanova Head Coach

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