10 Notable alumni of
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
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The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry is 3313th in the world, 1136th in North America, and 1077th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 10 notable alumni from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Enrolled in the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- environmentalistnaturalistbotanistplant ecologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Robin Wall Kimmerer is a Potawatomi botanist, author, and the director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).
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Roger Donlon
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Roger Hugh Charles Donlon was a United States Army officer. He was the first person to receive the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War, as well as the first member of the United States Army Special Forces to be so honored.
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Bob Marshall
- Occupations
- writerconservationistforester
- Biography
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Robert Marshall was an American forester, writer and wilderness activist who is best remembered as the person who spearheaded the 1935 founding of the Wilderness Society in the United States. Marshall developed a love for the outdoors as a young child. He was an avid hiker and climber who visited the Adirondack Mountains frequently during his youth, ultimately becoming one of the first Adirondack Forty-Sixers. He also traveled to the Brooks Range of the far northern Alaskan wilderness. He wrote numerous articles and books about his travels, including the bestselling 1933 book Arctic Village.
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Bruce Shelley
- Occupations
- publishertelevision producergame designervideo game developer
- Biography
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Bruce Campbell Shelley is an American board and video game designer. He is primarily associated as the co-designer of the video games Railroad Tycoon and Civilization with Sid Meier, and later the Age of Empires series.
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Bonnie Thunders
- Occupations
- roller derby player
- Biography
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Nicole Williams, known as Bonnie Thunders, is a roller derby skater. Widely considered to be the greatest player of modern roller derby, Bonnie Thunders has been referred to by multiple writers as "the LeBron James of roller derby".
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Rachel May
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rachel May is an American academic, university administrator, and politician. She is a member of the New York State Senate, representing the 48th district since 2023, and the 53rd district from 2019-2022. The district comprises Syracuse, New York and surrounding communities. A Democrat, May defeated incumbent David Valesky in a 2018 primary election and was first elected to the State Senate in November 2018.
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William Shemin
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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William Shemin was a Sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War I. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery in action at Vesle River, near Bazoches, France. On June 2, 2015, William Shemin's daughters Elsie Shemin-Roth and Ina Bass accepted the nation's highest military award for valor on behalf of their father from President Barack Obama at the White House. Shemin was assigned to Company G, 47th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, American Expeditionary Forces. The reason of the belated award is that in 2001, the U.S. Army began a review of all WWI awards to Jewish soldiers, and Shemin's previous Distinguished Service Cross was upgraded to the Medal of Honor.
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Moshe Levy
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Moshe Levy was an Israeli professor of chemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
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Robert Lee Gilbertson
- Occupations
- mycologistexplorerbotanist
- Biography
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Robert Lee Gilbertson was a distinguished American mycologist and educator. He was a faculty member at University of Arizona for 26 years until his retirement from teaching in 1995; he was a Professor Emeritus at U of A until his death on October 26, 2011, in Tucson, Arizona. 2011. He held concurrent positions as Plant Pathologist, Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Arizona (1967–95) for a project Research on wood-rotting fungi and other fungi associated with southwestern plants and was collaborator and consultant with Center for Forest Mycology Research, US Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin (1957–1981).
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Harry Frederick Recher
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- ornithologist
- Biography
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Emeritus Professor Harry Frederick Recher RZS AM (born 27 March 1938, New York City) is an Australian ecologist, ornithologist and advocate for conservation.
