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
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
Michel Coutu	Business	c. 1954		CEO, Jean Coutu Group USA
Henrik Dam	Scientist	21-Feb-1895	Apr-1976	Discovered Vitamin K
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
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
Susan Hockfield	Educator	c. 1951		President, MIT
Robert T. Huang	Business	c. 1945		CEO of Synnex
Shirley Jackson	Novelist	14-Dec-1916	8-Aug-1965	The Lottery
David T. Kearns	Business	11-Aug-1930		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	1947		CEO of Goodyear
Galway Kinnell	Poet	1-Feb-1927		Selected Poems
Arthur Kornberg	Scientist	3-Mar-1918	26-Oct-2007	Synthesized DNA
Lawrence Kudlow	Economist	20-Aug-1947		Kudlow & Cramer
Chris Lee	Politician	1-Apr-1964		Congressman, New York 26th
Lester A. Lefton	Educator	c. 1947		President, Kent State University
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
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
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	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
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
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
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		Cliometrics
John Gardner	Novelist	21-Jul-1933	14-Sep-1982	Grendel
Anthony Hecht	Poet	16-Jan-1923	20-Oct-2004	The Hard Hours
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
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		President of Xerox
Steven Chu	Physicist	28-Feb-1948		US Secretary of Energy
Marion B. Folsom	Business	23-Nov-1893	27-Sep-1976	HEW Secretary, 1955-58
David T. Kearns	Business	11-Aug-1930		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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