51 Notable alumni of
University of Texas at Arlington
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The University of Texas at Arlington is 952nd in the world, 351st in North America, and 329th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 51 notable alumni from the University of Texas at Arlington sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Kalpana Chawla
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Arlington
- 1982-1984 graduated with Master of Science in aerospace engineering
- Occupations
- aerospace engineeramateur radio operatorastronaut
- Biography
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Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-born American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator aboard STS-87.
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Lou Diamond Phillips
- Occupations
- film actorfilm producerscreenwritervoice actoractor
- Biography
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Louis Diamond Phillips is a Filipino-American actor and film director. His breakthrough came when he starred as Ritchie Valens in the biographical drama film La Bamba (1987). For Stand and Deliver (1988), Phillips was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and won an Independent Spirit Award.
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Charles Baker
- Occupations
- film actorfilm producerwritervoice actoractor
- Biography
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Charles Baker is an American actor, writer, and director. He is best known for playing Skinny Pete on the AMC series Breaking Bad, and he has had a recurring role on the NBC series The Blacklist.
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Morgan Woodward
- Occupations
- television actorscreenwriterfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Thomas Morgan Woodward was an American actor who is best known for his recurring role as Marvin "Punk" Anderson on the television soap opera Dallas and for his portrayal of Boss Godfrey, the sunglasses-wearing "man with no eyes", in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke. On TV, he was a familiar guest star on cowboy shows. On the long-running Western Gunsmoke, he played 16 different characters in 19 episodes (including a pair of two-part stories), the most such appearances of any actor on the show. He also had a recurring role on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.
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John Lackey
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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John Derran Lackey is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher who played in Major League Baseball from 2002 through 2017 for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs. A three-time World Series champion with three different teams, Lackey is regarded as a key figure in his clubs' postseason success, winning the title-clinching games of two out of the three Series. Selected to the MLB All-Star Game in 2007, he won that year's American League (AL) earned run average (ERA) title. After missing the 2012 season due to ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction surgery in his pitching elbow, and helping the Red Sox win the 2013 World Series, Lackey was named the winner of the Tony Conigliaro Award.
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Tommy Franks
- Occupations
- army officer
- Biography
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Tommy Ray Franks is a retired United States Army general. His last army post was as the Commander of the United States Central Command, overseeing United States military operations in a 25-country region, including the Middle East. Franks succeeded General Anthony Zinni to this position on 6 July 2000 and served until his retirement on 7 July 2003. Franks was the United States general leading the attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in 2001. He also oversaw the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
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Sajeeb Wazed
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed, also known as Sajeeb Wazed Joy (Bengali: সজীব ওয়াজেদ জয়), is a Bangladeshi businessman and politician. He is a member of the Awami League and serves as Advisor to the Government of Bangladesh on Information and Communication Technology.
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Caitlin Glass
- Occupations
- television actorsingerfilm actoractorvoice actor
- Biography
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Caitlin Tiffany Glass is an American voice actress, ADR director, and script writer who provides voices for English versions of Japanese anime series and video games.
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Trey Hillman
- Occupations
- baseball coachbaseball player
- Biography
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Thomas Brad "Trey" Hillman is an American professional baseball coach. He has also served as the manager of the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in Japan's Pacific League, the Kansas City Royals in the American League and the SK Wyverns in the KBO League. Therefore, he is the only person to have served as manager in these three countries. He has also been a coach with the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, Houston Astros, and the Miami Marlins.
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Ron Wright
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ronald Jack Wright was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 6th congressional district from 2019 until his death from COVID-19 in 2021. He was a member of the Republican Party.
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Roland G. Fryer, Jr
- Occupations
- economistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. is an American economist and professor at Harvard University. Following a difficult childhood, Fryer earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas at Arlington, but once there chose to concentrate instead on academics. Graduating cum laude in 2+1⁄2 years, he went on to receive a Ph.D. in economics from Pennsylvania State University in 2002 and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago with Gary Becker. He joined the faculty of Harvard University and rapidly rose through the academic ranks; in 2007, at age 30, he became the second-youngest professor, and the youngest African-American, ever to be awarded tenure at Harvard. He has received numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2011 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 2015.
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Kelcy Warren
- Occupations
- civil engineerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Kelcy Lee Warren is an American billionaire and the chairman and chief executive officer of Energy Transfer Partners.
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Chris Cagle
- Occupations
- singersinger-songwritermusician
- Biography
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Christopher Norris Cagle is an American country music artist. He was first known for writing songs for David Kersh before signing to Virgin Records Nashville in 2000. Cagle made his debut on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts with "My Love Goes On and On", the first single from his debut album Play It Loud. The album, which was certified gold in the US, also produced the Top 10 "Laredo" and "I Breathe In, I Breathe Out", his only No. 1 hit.
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Lupe Valdez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Guadalupe Valdez is an American law enforcement official who served as Sheriff of Dallas County, Texas, from 2005 to 2017, and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas in the 2018 gubernatorial election. She lost to the incumbent, Greg Abbott.
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Richard E. Cavazos
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Richard Edward Cavazos was a United States Army 4-star general. He was a Korean War recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross as a first lieutenant and advanced in rank to become the United States Army's first Hispanic four-star general. During the Vietnam War, as a lieutenant colonel, Cavazos was awarded a second Distinguished Service Cross. In 1976, Cavazos became the first Mexican-American to reach the rank of brigadier general in the United States Army. Cavazos served for 33 years, with his final command as head of the United States Army Forces Command. On May 25, 2022, The Naming Commission recommended that Fort Hood be renamed to Fort Cavazos, in recognition of Gen. Cavazos' military service. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the renaming on October 6, 2022. The re-designation as Fort Cavazos occurred on May 9, 2023.
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Royce West
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Royce Barry West is an American politician who serves as a member of the Texas Senate, representing the Dallas-based 23rd District.
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Jonny Cruz
- Occupations
- actorvoice actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Jonny Cruz is an American actor, scriptwriter, producer, filmmaker and musician. He has been featured as an actor in movies like Walking Tall: Lone Justice, Infiltrators and Haunting at the Beacon. He has also appeared on television series like General Hospital, Prison Break and Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23. As producer, Jonny has run films such as Small Timers, Hold, the web series Cool Wheels and plays the guitar with his musical team Power Up in Los Angeles and Hollywood, California in the United States. He is also the voice of Lúcio in the video game Overwatch and the voice of Lucas Rivera in Need for Speed Heat. His experience in filmmaking has also covered activities as producer, director, writer, editor, SFX artist, voice artist and cinematographer.
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Pat Choate
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Pat Choate is an American economist who is most known for being the 1996 Reform Party candidate for Vice President of the United States, the running-mate of Ross Perot. Following the 1996 election, the Federal Election Commission certified the Reform Party as a national political party eligible for federal campaign matching funds, a historic first.
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Kenny Bernstein
- Occupations
- motorcycle racerracing automobile driverNASCAR team owner
- Biography
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Kenneth Dale Bernstein is an American drag racer and former NASCAR and IndyCar team owner. He is nicknamed the "Bud King" for his success in the Budweiser King funny car and dragster. He has also been nicknamed the "King of Speed," because he was the first driver to break 300 miles per hour in the standing-start quarter mile. Bernstein owned King Racing, which he drove for in the NHRA and fielded various cars in other racing series such as IndyCar and NASCAR. Bernstein retired from full-time competition in 2002 and moved his son Brandon into the Bud King Top Fuel dragster, but returned to finish the season in place of his son after Brandon suffered a severe injury. With the exception of a brief return to Funny Car in 2007, Bernstein did not return to the car and instead continued to run his team until the end of the 2011 season when he left drag racing altogether.
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Kevin Hervey
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Kevin Hervey is an American professional basketball player for Pallacanestro Reggiana of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played college basketball for UT Arlington.
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Norman Buckley
- Occupations
- film editorfilm directortelevision director
- Biography
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Norman L. Buckley is an American television director best known for his work on The O.C., Chuck, Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars and The Fosters.
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Robert L. Stewart
- Occupations
- astronaut
- Biography
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Robert Lee Stewart is an American retired military officer and NASA astronaut who was a brigadier general of the United States Army.
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Monty McCutchen
- Occupations
- basketball official
- Biography
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Monty McCutchen is a former professional basketball referee who has worked in the National Basketball Association (NBA) since the 1993-1994 season. He is now the league Senior Vice President of Referee Development and Training.
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Daryush Shokof
- Occupations
- painterphilosopheractorfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Daryush Shokof is an Iranian writer, film director, artist and film producer based in Germany. His first feature film was Seven Servants which featured Anthony Quinn in one of his last roles.
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Gene Summers
- Occupations
- guitaristrecord producercomposersinger-songwriterbandleader
- Biography
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David Eugene Summers was an American rockabilly singer, songwriter and guitarist. His most famous recordings include the late 50s "School of Rock 'n Roll", "Straight Skirt", "Nervous", "Gotta Lotta That", "Twixteen", "Alabama Shake", "Fancy Dan" and his biggest-selling single "Big Blue Diamonds". Summers was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Southern Legends Entertainment & Performing Arts Hall of Fame in 2005. He still performed worldwide and celebrated his 50th anniversary as a recording artist in 2008 with the release of Reminisce Cafe.
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Roger Krone
- Occupations
- international forum participantchief executive officer
- Biography
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Roger A. Krone is the president and chief executive officer of the Boy Scouts of America. He was previously CEO of Leidos. An aerospace engineer, Krone worked for 45 years in the aerospace industry, holding senior program management and finance positions at Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, and General Dynamics.
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Safi Qureshey
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Safi Urrehman Qureshey is a Pakistani-American entrepreneur. He was the co-founder and CEO of AST Research, Inc., a personal computer manufacturer acquired by Samsung Electronics in 1997. Qureshey is involved with several start-up technology companies as an advisor, board member and seed investor. Qureshey currently serves as regent's professor at the University of California, Irvine's Graduate School of Management, and also actively supports U.C. Irvine's Bonney Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. Qureshey graduated from The University of Texas at Arlington in 1975 as a Computer Science Major. In 2000, he created the eponymous "Safi Qureshey Foundation" to provide "a conduit of support for socially and economically underserved children and adults to build better and more secure futures".
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Waded Cruzado
- Biography
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Waded Cruzado is a Puerto Rican professor of Spanish language and Spanish literature. She served as Interim President of New Mexico State University from 2008 to 2009, and since 2010 has served as the 12th President of Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.
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Howard Ahmanson, Jr
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Howard Fieldstad Ahmanson Jr. is an American heir to a banking fortune. He is the son of Howard F. Ahmanson Sr., the founder of Home Savings Bank, whose fortune Ahmanson Jr. is an heir to. He writes on issues including housing affordability, land use, the abuse of eminent domain, and the rule of law.
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Scott Cross
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coachhead coach
- Biography
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Scott Michael Cross is an American college basketball coach who is currently head men's basketball coach at Troy. He is the former head men's basketball coach at the University of Texas at Arlington (UT Arlington), where he played college basketball.
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Lanny Bassham
- Occupations
- sport shooter
- Biography
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Lanny Robert Bassham is an American sport shooter who won a gold medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics, and a silver medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
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Jim Wilkinson
- Biography
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James Richard Wilkinson is an American political advisor who served as the chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson during the George W. Bush administration. He had previously served in the White House as deputy communications director and as an aide to then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. Overall, Wilkinson was a "well-traveled utility man for the Bush administration's PR team".
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Lori S. Glaze
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Arlington
- 1982-1985 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- 1985-1988 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Lori Glaze is an American scientist and the director of NASA's Science Mission Directorate's Planetary Science Division. She was a member of the Inner Planets Panel during the most recent Planetary Science Decadal Survey, and has had a role on the Executive Committee of NASA's Venus Exploration Analysis Group for several years, serving as the group's Chair since 2013.
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Karol Gruszecki
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Karol Gruszecki is a Polish professional basketball player for Spójnia Stargard of the Polish Basketball League (PLK) and the Polish national basketball team.
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Derrick Obasohan
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Derrick Osamuyi Obasohan is a Nigerian-American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the University of Texas at Arlington.
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Anthony Michael Brooks
- Years
- 1993-.. (age 31)
- Occupations
- speedcuber
- Biography
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Anthony Michael Brooks is an American speed cubing champion. He specializes in the 2x2 cube and classic 3x3 cube, and has been officially ranked in the top five in the world in both categories as recognized by the World Cube Association. Since learning to solve the cube in March 2008, Brooks has become known for developing advanced speedsolving methods as well as frequently promoting speedcubing in the media. While working as the Liberty Science Center's Speedcuber-in-Residence, Brooks set the Guinness World Record for most Rubik's Cubes solved underwater in a single breath, and also led the team that currently holds the world record for solving the Groovik's Cube, the world's largest functioning Rubik's Cube. In July 2017, Brooks was featured on the debut season of FOX's Superhuman TV show.
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Siddharth Katragadda
- Occupations
- novelistfilm producer
- Biography
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Siddharth Katragadda is an Indian American Abstract Figurative Artist, Writer, Filmmaker, Poet and Engineer.
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Bill Madden
- Occupations
- singersinger-songwriterguitarist
- Biography
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Bill Madden is an American singer-songwriter, also regarded as an indie musician and an activist. Madden is best known for his environmental song and music video Gone which was in rotation on television networks, MTVU in America and MuchMusic in Canada. As a short film and music video, Gone also won numerous film festival awards and commendations. Madden's music is typically labeled as alternative folk rock or neofolk. Vocally, Madden's voice has been described as a "deep breathy voice serenades listeners," full of range, melodic, and "reminiscent of Jeff Buckley." In his lyrics he often uses metaphor, verse and poetry, to articulate his socio/political and spiritual themes. Madden currently resides in the Lower East Side / Chinatown neighborhood of New York City.
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Robert Treviño
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Robert Treviño is an American conductor. He is currently music director of the Basque National Orchestra in Spain, principal guest conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, and artistic advisor of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra in Sweden.
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James L. Haley
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- historianwriterpolitical scientist
- Biography
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James L. Haley is an American writer on Texas and Western history. He has also written several novels. Haley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, attended L. D. Bell High School in Hurst, Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a degree in political science. He attended the University of Texas School of Law for two years before resigning to become a full-time writer. Haley's work has garnered many awards, including two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America.
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Roy Williams
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- Chief Scout Executive
- Biography
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Roy Williams is the former Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America. He is the tenth person to hold that position, serving between 2000–2007.
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Mahmood Bijankhan
- Occupations
- linguistmathematician
- Biography
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Mahmood Bijankhan is an Iranian linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of Tehran. He is the creator of Bijankhan Corpus and a winner of Khwarizmi International Award. Bijankhan received his BSc in applied mathematics from the University of Texas at Arlington (1981) and his MA (1990) and PhD (1996) in linguistics from the University of Tehran. He is known for his research on Persian phonetics and phonology and creating Persian corpora.
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Abby Dunkin
- Occupations
- wheelchair basketball player
- Biography
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Abigail Dunkin is an American 3.5 point wheelchair basketball player who won gold at the 2015 Parapan American Games in Toronto, Canada, the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Suphanburi, Thailand.
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Ann Wynia
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ann Wynia is an American politician who served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1977 to 1989. A member of the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party, Wynia represented portions of the city of St. Paul and served as Majority Leader from 1987 to 1989. In 1989 Governor Rudy Perpich appointed her Commissioner of Minnesota's Department of Human Services until 1990. She was the Democratic Party's nominee for United States Senate in the 1994 election. After a defeat by U.S. Congressman Rod Grams, Wynia served as the President of North Hennepin Community College in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota from 1997 until her retirement in 2010.
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Gary Metcalf
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- business theorist
- Biography
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Gary S. Metcalf is an American systems scientist, organizational theorist, management consultant, and university professor. He has served as president of the International Federation for Systems Research 2010-2014.
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Erick Jones
- Biography
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Dr. Erick Christopher Jones Sr. is an industrial engineer and professor in the Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is an expert in radio-frequency identification, quality engineering, and Lean Six Sigma. He is the George and Elizabeth Pickett Endowed Professor, as well as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Jones joined UTA in 2010 after eight years at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, where he rose to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. He previously served as the deputy director of the UT Arlington's homeland security focused University Center Security Advances via Applied Nanotechnology (SAVANT) Center and he serves as the current director of the Radio Frequency & Auto Identification (RAID) labs at UTA. Jones was the program director of The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering Research Centers. He is currently Chair of the Supply Chain Technology Committee of International Supply Chain Education Alliance's (ISCEA) International Standards Board (IISB) and Editor in Chief of the International Supply Chain Technology Journal (ISCTJ).
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Larry J. Sechrest
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Larry James Sechrest was an American economist who advocated the ideas of the Austrian School. He was a professor of economics at Sul Ross State University and was director of the university's Free Enterprise Institute.
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Prince Varughese Thomas
- Biography
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Prince Varughese Thomas is a multi-media artist who is part of what has come to be known as the Indian Diaspora. Thomas had actually been born in Kuwait, the son of Christian, Malayalam-speaking guest workers from India's southern Kerala state. Being Indian by birth, born in Kuwait, naturalized in the US, and raised primarily between India and the United States, he has always felt outside the dominant culture in which he exists. This sense of being the ‘Other’ has influenced how he views the world, approaches his conceptual concerns, and creates art. With an educational background and degrees in both psychology and art, he investigates and deconstructs complex sociopolitical issues from the interstices in personally expressive ways that humanize his subjects by incorporating a variety of photographic, video, drawing, and installation techniques into his artwork. Thomas currently resides in Houston, Texas. He is an associate professor of art at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. He is represented by Hooks-Epstein Galleries in Houston, Texas.
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Tom D. Miller
- Enrolled in the University of Texas at Arlington
- Graduated with Bachelor of Business Administration in management
- Occupations
- military leader
- Biography
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Tom D. Miller is a United States Air Force lieutenant general who serves as the deputy chief of staff for logistics, engineering, and force protection of the U.S. Air Force. He previously commanded the Air Force Sustainment Center from 2021 to 2022.
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Rebecca M. Calisi Rodriguez
- Occupations
- neuroendocrinologist
- Biography
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Rebecca M. Calisi Rodriguez is an American neuroendocrinologist, wildlife biologist, and National Geographic Explorer. She is an Associate professor of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior in the College of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Davis. Calisi leads a research team that studies how the brain controls sexual behavior, reproduction, and parental care, and how this changes under stress. As the Director for Science Communications at UC Davis, Calisi also studies science communication and advocates for inclusivity, equity, and diversity in STEM.
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Sala Senkayi
- Born in
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Uganda - Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Sala Nanyanzi Senkayi is an African environmental scientist at the United States Environmental Protection Agency. She was the first Ugandan-born woman to win the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
