Katharine C. Lyall was the fifth president of the University of Wisconsin System and its first woman president. The UW System has 26 campuses and serves 160,000 students. Prior to her appointment as president in 1992, she served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and as Executive Vice president of the UW System, and earlier as director of the Graduate Program in Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Maki is the Ovid O. Meyer Professor of Medicine, Head of the Section of Infectious Diseases at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison, Wisconsin, and Attending Physician in the University of Wisconsin Center for Trauma and Life Support. In his activities as an infectious disease consultant, intensivist and hospital epidemiologist, Dr.
Athan George Theoharis is an American historian, professor of history emeritus at Marquette University in Milwaukee, and a Wisconsin Academy Fellow.
Dr. Hector DeLuca earned a BA in chemistry (with honors) from the University of Colorado in 1951, and a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1955 with Dr. Harry Steenbock, a pioneer in vitamin D research. In 1959, DeLuca joined the Biochemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin as an Assistant Professor, and in 1965-2011, he was promoted to full Professorship (Harry Steenbock Research Professor); 6/2011 became Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry.
Ray Gloeckler, best known for his wood block prints, is a Wisconsin artist whose university education began as a pharmacy major. His subjects are generally satirical commentaries based on the complexities of human nature. They are usually bold caricatures, which stylistically use bold patterns and linear contours in the depictions. Gloeckler grew up in Portage and enjoyed drawing as a child, receiving encouragement from family members but particularly from his aunts.
Sister Esther Heffernan is a widely respected leader in the areas of peace and social justice. Her 1972 book, Making It in Prison: The Square, The Cool and The Life, is a seminal work in the field. She has amassed an impressive collection of research and has published works on the history of women and prisons, the development of the American penal system, and co-correctional policies in American prisons.
James A. Thomson, is an American developmental biologist whose pioneering work in isolating and culturing non-human primate and human embryonic stem cells has made him one of the most prominent scientists in stem cell research.
Allen M. Young is Curator Emeritus of Zoology at the Milwaukee Public Museum and one of the founding board members of the Tirimbina Rainforest Center in northeastern Costa Rica. He is the author of several books, including The Chocolate Tree (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2007) and Small Creatures and Ordinary Places: Essays on Nature (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), and the author or co-author of more than 300 scientific papers and popular articles.
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