80 Notable alumni of
Clark University
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Clark University is 743rd in the world, 276th in North America, and 256th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 80 notable alumni from Clark University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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John Heard
- Occupations
- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
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John Heard Jr. was an American actor. Heard made his debut appearance in film with the ensemble Between the Lines (1977). He appeared in a number of successful films, including Heart Beat (1980), Cutter's Way (1981), Cat People (1982), Beaches (1988), and Deceived (1991). Other films include The Trip to Bountiful (1985), Big (1988), The Pelican Brief (1993), White Chicks (2004), and his role as Peter McCallister in Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992). From 1995 to 1996, he played the role of Roy Foltrigg in the television series The Client. From 2005 to 2006, Heard played the role of Governor Frank Tancredi in Prison Break. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999 for guest-starring as Vin Makazian on The Sopranos (1999–2004).
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Padma Lakshmi
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- modelwritertelevision produceractorphilanthropist
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Padma Parvati Lakshmi is an Indian-American author, model, activist, and television host. Born in India, Lakshmi immigrated to the United States as a child and was raised in California. She became a model before embarking on a career in television. Lakshmi hosted the cooking competition program Top Chef on Bravo continuously from 2006 to 2023. For her work, she received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Reality Host in 2009 and 2020 through 2022. She is also the creator, host, and executive producer of the docuseries Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi, which premiered in June 2020 on Hulu. The series covers the food and culture of immigrant and indigenous communities across America.
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Xu Zhimo
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- translatorwriterpoet
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Xu Zhimo was a Chinese romantic poet and writer of modern Chinese poetry who strove to loosen Chinese poetry from its traditional forms and to reshape it under the influences of Western poetry and the vernacular Chinese language. He died in a plane crash.
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Robert H. Goddard
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- aerospace engineerastronomerphysicistinventorengineer
- Biography
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Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926. By 1915 his pioneering work had dramatically improved the efficiency of the solid-fueled rocket, signaling the era of the modern rocket and innovation. He and his team launched 34 rockets between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km (1.6 mi) and speeds as fast as 885 km/h (550 mph).
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Jeffrey Lurie
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- film producer
- Biography
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Jeffrey Robert Lurie is an American businessman and the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL), as well as an occasional motion picture producer.
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Mitch Glazer
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- film directorscreenwriteractorfilm producer
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Mitchell Aram Glazer is an American writer, producer, and actor.
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Edward B. Titchener
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- university teacherpsychologistphilosopher
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Edward Bradford Titchener was an English psychologist who studied under Wilhelm Wundt for several years. Titchener is best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind: structuralism. After becoming a professor at Cornell University, he created the largest doctoral program at that time in the United States. His first graduate student, Margaret Floy Washburn, became the first woman to be granted a PhD in psychology (1894).
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Thomas Peterffy
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Thomas Peterffy is a Hungarian-born American billionaire businessman. He is the founder, chairman, and the largest shareholder of Interactive Brokers. Peterffy worked as an architectural draftsman after emigrating to the United States, and later became a computer programmer. In 1977, he purchased a seat on the American Stock Exchange and played a role in developing the first electronic trading platform for securities. Forbes's 2023 list of The World's Billionaires estimated his net worth at US$25.3 billion, making him the 57th richest man in the world.
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Lewis Terman
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- university teacherwriterpsychologist
- Biography
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Lewis Madison Terman was an American psychologist, academic, and proponent of eugenics. He was noted as a pioneer in educational psychology in the early 20th century at the Stanford School of Education. Terman is best known for his revision of the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales and for initiating the longitudinal study of children with high IQs called the Genetic Studies of Genius. As a prominent eugenicist, he was a member of the Human Betterment Foundation, the American Eugenics Society, and the Eugenics Research Association. He also served as president of the American Psychological Association. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Terman as the 72nd most cited psychologist of the 20th century, in a tie with G. Stanley Hall.
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Amy Dickinson
- Occupations
- columnist
- Biography
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Amy Dickinson is an American newspaper columnist who writes the syndicated advice column Ask Amy. Dickinson has appeared as a social commentator on ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's The Today Show.
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Henry H. Goddard
- Years
- 1866-1957 (aged 91)
- Occupations
- pedagoguepsychologist
- Biography
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Henry Herbert Goddard was an American psychologist, eugenicist, and segregationist during the early 20th century. He is known especially for his 1912 work The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, which he himself came to regard as flawed for its ahistoric depiction of the titular family, and for translating the Binet intelligence test into English in 1908 and distributing an estimated 22,000 copies of the translated test across the United States. He also introduced the term "moron" for clinical use.
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Mark Bittman
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- chefjournalist
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Mark Bittman is an American food journalist, author, and former columnist for The New York Times. Bittman has promoted VB6 (vegan before 6:00), a flexitarian diet.
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Solomon Lefschetz
- Enrolled in Clark University
- Studied in 1910-1911
- Occupations
- university teachertopologistmathematician
- Biography
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Solomon Lefschetz was a Russian-born American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations.
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Ronald Kessler
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- biographerjournalist
- Biography
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Ronald Borek Kessler is an American journalist and author of 21 non-fiction books about the White House, U.S. Secret Service, FBI, and CIA.
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Michael Marcus
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- foreign currency tradertrader
- Biography
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Michael Phillips Marcus was a commodities trader who, in less than 20 years, is reputed to have turned his initial $30,000 into $80 million.
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Budi Djiwandono
- Enrolled in Clark University
- In 2004 graduated with bachelor's degree in business management
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gerardus Budisatrio Djiwandono is an Indonesian politician who has been serving in the People's Representative Council since 2017. A member of the Gerindra party, he is currently a Deputy Chairman of the legislature's fourth commission on agriculture, environmental, forestry, and maritime affairs.
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Frederick M. Smith
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- writer
- Biography
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Frederick Madison Smith, generally known among his followers as "Fred M.", was an American religious leader and author and the third Prophet-President of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (renamed the Community of Christ in 2001), serving from 1915 until his death.
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E. Franklin Frazier
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- historianwriteruniversity teachersociologist
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Edward Franklin Frazier, was an American sociologist and author, publishing as E. Franklin Frazier. His 1932 Ph.D. dissertation was published as a book titled The Negro Family in the United States (1939); it analyzed the historical forces that influenced the development of the African-American family from the time of slavery to the mid-1930s. The book was awarded the 1940 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for the most significant work in the field of race relations. It was among the first sociological works on Black people researched and written by a black person.
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Mohammad Hassan Ganji
- Occupations
- climatologistgeographerfaculty membermeteorologist
- Biography
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Mohammad Hassan Ganji Ph.D, (June 11, 1912 – July 19, 2012) was an Iranian meteorologist and academic. He was born in Birjand. He is credited as being the father of modern geography in Iran.
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Sonia Gardner
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Sonia Gardner is an American businesswoman, hedge fund manager and the co-founder of Avenue Capital Group.
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Olta Xhaçka
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Olta Xhaçka is an Albanian politician and Socialist Party member of Parliament. She served as the minister of Europe and foreign affairs from January 2021 to September 2023. She served as Albanian minister of social welfare and youth between March 2017 to August 2017 and as minister of defense from September 2017 to December 2020.
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Steven A. Kandarian
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Steven A. Kandarian was the president, chairman, and chief executive officer of MetLife. He became president and CEO on May 1, 2011, and chairman in January 2012 succeeding Robert Henrikson, who retired from those roles. Kandarian retired from MetLife on April 30, 2019 and was succeeded as president and CEO by Michel Khalaf and as chairman by Glenn Hubbard.
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P. C. Chang
- Occupations
- diplomatwritereducatorhuman rights activistphilosopher
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Peng Chun Chang, commonly known as P. C. Chang, was a Chinese academic, philosopher, playwright, human rights activist, and diplomat. He was born in Tianjin, China, and died at his home in Nutley, New Jersey.
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Libby Pataki
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- First Lady
- Biography
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Libby Pataki is the former First Lady of New York and the wife of former New York Governor George Pataki. She served as First Lady from 1995 to 2006 during the three terms of her husband's administration.
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Vjačeslavs Dombrovskis
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- university teacherpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Vjačeslavs Dombrovskis is a Latvian Russian politician and economist, who has previously served as the Minister for Education and Science and as Minister of Economics of Latvia.
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William L. Langer
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- university teacherhistorian
- Biography
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William Leonard Langer was an American historian, intelligence analyst and policy advisor. He served as chairman of the history department at Harvard University. He was on leave during World War II as head of the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services. He was a specialist on the diplomacy of the periods 1840–1900 and World War II. He edited many books, including a series on European history, a large-scale reference book, and a university textbook.
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Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr
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- military personnel
- Biography
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Edwin Eugene "Gene" Aldrin Sr. was an aviator and officer in the United States Army during World War I and World War II. He was assistant commandant of the Army's first test pilot school at McCook Field, Ohio, from 1919 to 1922, and founded the engineering school there that later became the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) at Wright-Patterson AFB. The Edwin E. Aldrin Sr. Award is presented to an AFIT graduate for leadership and accomplishing AFIT's educational objectives in an outstanding manner. He was the father of astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
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Li Ji
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- anthropologistuniversity teacherart historianarchaeologist
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Li Ji, also commonly romanized as Li Chi, was an influential Chinese archaeologist. He is considered to be one of the foremost figures in modern Chinese archaeology and his work was instrumental in proving the historical authenticity of the Shang Dynasty.
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Grayson L. Kirk
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- political scientist
- Biography
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Grayson Louis Kirk was an American political scientist who served as president of Columbia University during the Columbia University protests of 1968. He was also an advisor to the State Department and instrumental in the formation of the United Nations.
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Alan Kotok
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- engineercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Alan Kotok was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Steven Levy, in his book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, describes Kotok and his classmates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the first true hackers.
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Terri Bonoff
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Terri E. Bonoff is an American politician from the U.S. state of Minnesota. She is a former member of the Minnesota Senate, representing District 44, which included portions of Minnetonka, Plymouth and Woodland in Hennepin County in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Minnesota's 3rd congressional district in 2016. She was defeated by incumbent Republican Erik Paulsen in the general election. She now resides in Atlanta, Georgia and serves as CEO of Jewish Family & Career Services.
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Evelyn G. Lowery
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- activist
- Biography
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Evelyn Gibson Lowery was an American civil rights activist and leader.
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Moti Bodek
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Moti Bodek is an Israeli architect. He is the CEO of Bodek Architects based in Tel Aviv and a Professor of Architecture at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem & at Tel Aviv University.
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Matthew Sands
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- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Matthew Linzee Sands was an American physicist and educator best known as a co-author of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. A graduate of Rice University, Sands served with the Naval Ordnance Laboratory and the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
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Adelbert Ames, Jr
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- physiologistphysicistpsychologistphilosopherophthalmologist
- Biography
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Adelbert Ames Jr. was an American scientist who made contributions to physics, physiology, ophthalmology, psychology, and philosophy. He pioneered the study of physiological optics at Dartmouth College, serving as a research professor, then as director of research at the Dartmouth Eye Institute. He conducted important research into aspects of binocular vision, including cyclophoria and aniseikonia. Ames is perhaps best known for constructing illusions of visual perception, most notably the Ames room and the Ames window. He was a leading light in the Transactionalist School of psychology and also made contributions to social psychology.
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Harriette L. Chandler
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Harriette L. Chandler is an American politician who was the 94th President of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts State Senator for the 1st Worcester district, which includes parts of the city of Worcester, where she resides, and the towns of Boylston, Holden, Princeton, and West Boylston, and parts of Clinton and Northborough. She is a Democrat who has served since January 2001. From 1995 to 2001 she was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Prior to serving in the Massachusetts legislature, she was a member of the Worcester school committee from 1991 to 1994. She is the first woman from Worcester ever to be elected to the Massachusetts Senate.
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Leah Penniman
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- climate activistfarmer
- Biography
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Leah Penniman is a farmer, educator, author, and food sovereignty activist. Penniman is co-founder, co-director and Program Manager of Soul Fire Farm, in Grafton, New York.
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Joseph I. France
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Joseph Irwin France was a Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1917 to 1923.
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Lillian Rosanoff Lieber
- Enrolled in Clark University
- In 1914 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- authoruniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Lillian Rosanoff Lieber was a Russian-American mathematician and popular author. She often teamed up with her illustrator husband, Hugh Gray Lieber, to produce works.
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Floyd McKissick, Jr
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Floyd Bixler McKissick Jr. is an American attorney who served as a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate. He was appointed to the Senate by Governor Mike Easley on April 18, 2007 to replace the late Jeanne Hopkins Lucas and was later elected and re-elected in his own right. In 2011, he became Deputy Minority Leader in the Senate and chairman of the North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus. He resigned in 2020 after having been appointed by Gov. Roy Cooper to the state Utilities Commission.
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Vance Randolph
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- writer
- Biography
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Vance Randolph was a folklorist who studied the folklore of the Ozarks in particular. He wrote a number of books on the Ozarks, as well as Little Blue Books and juvenile fiction.
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Ruth Polsky
- Occupations
- music promoter
- Biography
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Ruth Polsky was a booker and music promoter in New York City.
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Michael P. Ross
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 52)
- Biography
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Michael P. Ross is an American lawyer and former politician from Boston, Massachusetts, who represented District 8 on the Boston City Council from 2000 through 2013. He was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Boston in 2013. Ross is now a real estate lawyer at Prince Lobel Tye LLP, and is a regular contributor to The Boston Globe.
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Margaret Morse Nice
- Occupations
- naturalistuniversity teacherornithologist
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Margaret Morse Nice was an American ornithologist, ethologist, and child psychologist who made an extensive study of the life history of the song sparrow and was author of Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow (1937). She observed and recorded hierarchies in chicken about three decades ahead of Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe who coined the term "pecking order". After her marriage, she made observations on language learning in her children and wrote numerous research papers.
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Alexander Francis Chamberlain
- Enrolled in Clark University
- In 1892 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- anthropologist
- Biography
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Alexander Francis Chamberlain was a Canadian anthropologist, born in England. Under the direction of Franz Boas he received the first Ph.D. granted in anthropology in the United States from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. After graduating, he taught at Clark, eventually becoming full professor in 1911. Under the auspices of the British Association, his area of specialty was the Kootenay (British Columbia) Indians.
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Anthony Thirlwall
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- 1941-2023 (aged 82)
- Occupations
- economistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Anthony Philip Thirlwall was a British economist who was Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Kent. He made major contributions to regional economics; the analysis of unemployment and inflation; balance of payments theory, and to growth and development economics with particular reference to developing countries. He was the author of the bestselling textbook Economics of Development: Theory and Evidence (Palgrave Macmillan) now in its ninth edition. He was also the biographer and literary executor of the famous Cambridge economist Nicholas Kaldor. Perhaps his most notable contribution was to show that if long-run balance of payments equilibrium is a requirement for a country, its growth of national income can be approximated by the ratio of the growth of exports to the income elasticity of demand for imports (Thirlwall's Law).
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Jay Ash
- Occupations
- politicianbasketball player
- Biography
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Robert "Jay" Ash, Jr. is an American political figure who served as Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development under Governor Charlie Baker from 2015 to 2018. He previously served as City Manager of Chelsea, Massachusetts.
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Spencer Platt
- Occupations
- journalistphotojournalistwar photographerphotographer
- Biography
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Spencer Platt is an American photojournalist.
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Margaret R. Guzman
- Enrolled in Clark University
- In 1989 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Margaret Rose Guzman is an American attorney serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She previously served as a judge of the Ayer District Court in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
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Bernard H. Lavenda
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Bernard Howard Lavenda is a retired professor of chemical physics at the University of Camerino and expert on irreversible thermodynamics. He has contributed to many areas of physics, including that of Brownian motion, and in the establishment of the statistical basis of thermodynamics, and non-Euclidean geometrical theories of relativity. He was the scientific coordinator of the "European Thermodynamics Network" in the European Commission Program of Human Capital and Mobility. He was also a proponent for the establishment of, and scientific director of, a National (Italian) Centre for Thermodynamics, and has acted as scientific consultant to companies such as the ENI Group, where he helped to found TEMA, a consulting firm for SNAM Progetti, ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment), and the Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado. He has had over 130 scientific papers published in international journals, some critical of the new fashions and modes in theoretical physics.
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William Lowe Bryan
- Occupations
- philosopherwriter
- Biography
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William Lowe Bryan was the 10th president of Indiana University, serving from 1902 to 1937.
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Keith R. Hall
- Enrolled in Clark University
- Graduated with Master in Public Administration
- Occupations
- military officercivil servant
- Biography
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Keith Ralph Hall is a United States government official who served as the 12th director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
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Richard T. Moore
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Richard T. Moore is a Democratic politician from Massachusetts and a former member of the Massachusetts State Senate.
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Miriam Van Waters
- Occupations
- psychologistwriter
- Biography
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Miriam Van Waters was an American prison reformer of the early to mid-20th century whose methods owed much to her upbringing as an Episcopalian involved in the Social Gospel movement. During her career as a penologist, which spanned most of the years from 1914 through 1957, she served as superintendent of three prisons: Frazier Detention Home for boys and girls in Portland, Oregon; Los Angeles County Juvenile Hall for girls, and the Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Framingham, then called the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women. While in California, Van Waters established an experimental reformatory school, El Retiro, for girls age 14 to 19. In each case, Van Waters developed programs that favored education, work, recreation, and a sense of community over unalloyed incarceration and punishment.
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Michael A. Brown
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael Arrington Brown is an American politician in Washington, D.C. In 2008, he was elected an at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia, and he served one four-year term.
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Amy Tanner
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Amy Eliza Tanner was an American psychologist who became well known for discrediting the then-famous medium Leonora Piper after Tanner was allowed to attend six séances with a fellow researcher.
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Yoav Avni
- Occupations
- writertranslator
- Biography
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Yoav Avni is a prominent Israeli author and translator. His books HaHamishit Shel Chong Levi (Chong Levi's Fifth) and Herzl Amar (Herzl Said) have earned him national recognition and both received the Geffen Award in 2010 and 2012 respectively.
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Michel Brunet
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Michel Brunet was a Quebec historian and essayist. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the Université de Montréal and received his Ph.D. from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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Ragnar Löfstedt
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- university teacherprofessorscientist
- Biography
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Ragnar E. Löfstedt is the Professor of Risk Management at King's College London and the Director of King's Centre for Risk Management (KCRM) and is the President-Elect (2022) of Society for Risk Analysis.
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Willard Stewart Paul
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Lieutenant General Willard Stewart Paul was a senior United States Army officer who commanded the 26th Infantry Division during World War II.
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Pinkhos Churgin
- Years
- 1894-1957 (aged 63)
- Occupations
- historianacademic
- Biography
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Pinkhos Churgin was an Israeli scholar who was the first President of Bar-Ilan University.
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Jon Ljungberg
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Jon Ljungberg is a Winnipeg television personality and comedian, most known as the host of Breakfast Television, on Citytv Winnipeg.
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Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune
- Enrolled in Clark University
- In 1939 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in geography
- Occupations
- geographer
- Biography
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Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune was an American geographer.
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Melanie Killen
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- researcherpsychologist
- Biography
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Melanie Killen is a developmental psychologist and Professor of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, and Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. She is supported by funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her research. In 2008, she was awarded Distinguished Scholar-Teacher by the Provost's office at the University of Maryland. She is the Director of the Social and Moral Development Lab at the University of Maryland.
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Robert Atwood
- Occupations
- businesspersoneditorpublisher
- Biography
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Robert Bruce Atwood was an American journalist who served as the long-time editor and publisher of the Anchorage Times. He was also an early advocate of Alaska statehood.
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Meredith Evans
- Occupations
- librarianarchivist
- Biography
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Meredith Evans is an archivist, historian and scholar and the director of the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum in Atlanta. Her work focuses on the African-American experience in the United States, including the documentation of archival records from African-American churches in the Atlanta area, and the preservation of social media from recent civil rights protests such as those of the Ferguson unrest in Ferguson, Missouri after the shooting of Michael Brown.
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Frederick Grinnell
- Occupations
- philosopherresearcher
- Biography
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Frederick Grinnell is an American cell biologist, also known for his work in bioethics and science education. Currently, he is a Distinguished Teaching Professor and the Robert McLemore Professor of Medical Science in the department of cell biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Grinnell took his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Clark University (1966) and Ph.D. in biochemistry at Tufts New England Medical Center (1970). Subsequently, he moved to Dallas for postdoctoral work in the UTSW Biochemistry Department. In 1972, he joined the UTSW faculty in the Department of Cell Biology where he has developed a multidisciplinary research and teaching program, on one hand doing scientific research and on the other explaining what doing research entails. For additional information see the Grinnell laboratory website.
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Henry Sheldon
- Occupations
- historianteacher
- Biography
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Henry Davidson Sheldon was an American educator and historian. Sheldon was born while his parents were en route to Oregon from the New York area. He was educated at the University of the Pacific and Stanford University. He continued his education at Clark University, where he received a doctorate in education.
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Walter Elmer Ekblaw
- Occupations
- geologistornithologistbotanist
- Biography
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Walter Elmer Ekblaw was an American college professor who served as geologist, ornithologist and botanist on the Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917).
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Jackalyne Pfannenstiel
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Jackalyne Pfannenstiel served as the United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Environment) from March 5, 2010. until her resignation in July 2012.
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Edward Conradi
- Biography
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Edward Conradi served as President of Florida State College for Women from 1909 to 1941, and as President Emeritus from 1941 until his death in 1944.
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Thu Nguyen
- Born in
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Vietnam - Enrolled in Clark University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- community organizerpolitician
- Biography
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Thu Nguyen is a Vietnamese-born American politician and community organizer who is a member of the Worcester City Council, serving since 2022. Nguyen is the first openly non-binary candidate elected to public office in Massachusetts history.
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Henry H. Proctor
- Occupations
- minister
- Biography
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Henry Hugh Proctor was a minister of the First Congregational Church in Atlanta, the second-oldest African American Congregational church in the United States. He was also an author and lecturer.
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Valerie Barsom
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Valerie Barsom is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 13th Hampden district from 1993 to 1996.
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Shannon Savick
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shannon Savick is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represented District 27A in southern Minnesota.
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Kevin O'Sullivan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kevin O'Sullivan is an American non-profit executive and politician who served as president and CEO of Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives from 2003 to 2018 and represented the 13th Worcester District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1987 to 1995.
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Clifford E. Horton
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Clifford Emory "Pop" Horton was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He was the ninth head football coach at Illinois State Normal University—now known as Illinois State University—in Normal, Illinois, serving for two seasons, from 1923 to 1934, and compiling a record of 4–8–4.
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William Metzler
- Enrolled in Clark University
- Studied in 1892-1893
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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William Henry Metzler was a Canadian mathematician.
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Burchard Woodson DeBusk
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Burchard Woodson DeBusk was a professor of education at the University of Oregon, United States.
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Walter Ristow
- Enrolled in Clark University
- In 1937 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- geographermap curatorauthorlibrariancartographer
- Biography
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Walter William Ristow was the head librarian of the map library at the New York Public Library and later the Library of Congress. Ristow graduated with a degree in geography from the University of Wisconsin in 1931. He went on to earn a master's degree in geography from Oberlin College and a doctorate from Clark University. Ristow joined the Library of Congress in 1946 and became chief of its map department in 1967. He retired in 1978.
