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List Of University Of Delaware People
The following is a list of University of Delaware people, which includes alumni, current and former faculty, and recipients of honorary degrees. Alumni Business * Kurt Akeley (b. 1958), computer graphics engineer * Barry J. Bentley, Co-Founder, Bentley Systems * Keith A. Bentley, Co-Founder, Bentley Systems * Mary Pat Christie (b. 1963), investment banker * John P. Costas (b. 1957), CEO, UBS Investment Bank * Michael F. Koehler, Chief Executive Officer, Teradata * Michael Mignano, American businessperson * Adam Osborne (1939–2003), computing pioneer * Larry Probst (b. 1950), Chairman of the Board, Electronic Arts (formerly CEO); Chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee and member of the International Olympic Committee * Ömer Sabancı (b. 1959), Turkish businessman * Carl Truscott, Senior Vice President, ASERO Worldwide * William Wascher, economist * Wang Xing (b. 1979), CEO, Meituan-Dianping Authors * Steve Alten (b. 1959), science fiction author * Jarret Brachman, ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Delaware
The University of Delaware (colloquially known as UD, UDel, or Delaware) is a Statutory college#Delaware, privately governed, state-assisted Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Newark, Delaware, United States. UD offers four associate's programs, 163 bachelor's programs, 136 master's programs, and 64 doctoral programs across its ten colleges and schools. The main campus is in Newark, with satellite campuses in Dover, Delaware, Dover, Wilmington, Delaware, Wilmington, Lewes, Delaware, Lewes, and Georgetown, Delaware. With 24,221 students , UD is the List of colleges and universities in Delaware, largest university in Delaware by enrollment. UD is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". According to the National Science Foundation, UD spent $186 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 119th in the nation. It is recognized with the Community Enga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Alten
Steven Robert Alten (born August 21, 1959) is an American science fiction, science-fiction author. He is best known for his ''Meg'' series of novels set around the fictitious survival of the megalodon, a giant, prehistoric shark. Biography Alten holds a bachelor's degree from the Pennsylvania State University, a master's in sports medicine from the University of Delaware, and a doctorate in sports administration from Temple University. Alten is the founder and director of Adopt-An-Author, a nationwide secondary-school free-reading program promoting works from six authors, including his own. Bibliography Novels ''Meg'' series: # ''Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror'' (1997), revised and expanded edition published by Tsunami books in 2005, republished in 2015 as an anniversary edition with the addition of ''Meg: Origins'' by Viper Press #: 1.1. ''Meg, Angel of Death: Survival'' (2020), novella # ''The Trench (novel), The Trench'', or ''The Trench: Meg 2'' (1999) # ''Meg: Primal Water ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Cutler
Craig Cutler is an American Photographer. His work has been featured in Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Bon Appétit, Best Life, Details, Dwell, and Men's Journal. He has photographed Advertisements for a wide range of clients, including Starbucks, Vanguard, Xbox 360, Mobil, Microsoft, and Sprint. His photos were featured in the book ''International Harvester, McCormick, Navistar: Milestones in the Company That Helped Build America'' (Graphic Arts Center Publishing, 2007). In 2008, Cutler was selected for inclusion in the book ''American Photography 23'', and in 2009, he won a Graphis Gold Award. Cutler's work has been exhibited at Galerie-Atelier Beeld in the Hague. Cutler's first documentary film, "The Boxer," premiered in November of at three film festivals: DOC NYC, the Big Apple Film Festival, and New York Short Film Festival. The subject of the short is 2015 National Men's Elite Boxing champion Chordale Booker Chordale Booker (born May 7, 1991) is an American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Barone (photographer)
Michael Barone is a Bucks County, Pennsylvania art photographer who has been working in the medium since an Introduction to Photography course at the University of Delaware in the early 1980s. Barone's photographs of the nude form are often charged with social and political themes. His work has been critically acclaimed and has appeared in solo and group shows throughout the United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 .... He recently released his first book, ''Contours and Shadows'', which is a retrospective collection of his over twenty years of work. Barone also brings his artistic eye to the public through his wedding, portrait and commercial photography. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American photographers Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Tuttle Pritchard
Esther Pritchard (, Wood; after first marriage, Tuttle; after second marriage, Pritchard; January 26, 1840 – August 6, 1900) was a 19th-century American minister and editor. Pritchard was the daughter of a minister of the Society of Friends. She was one of the leading preachers of the Friends' Society in the United States, and was the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's Superintendent of the Department of Systematic Giving. Pritchard edited for some years the ''Friend's Missionary Advocate'', and was a teacher in the Chicago Training School for Missions. Her husband's removal from Chicago to the pastorate of the Friends church, Kokomo, Indiana, severed her connection with the school and left her free to push the special work of her department. Seventeen State Unions subsequently adopted the department, while outside the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, ten Woman's Missionary Boards were influenced to create a similar agency. She died in 1900. Early life and education Esther B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Pearlman
Jeff Pearlman (born 1972) is an American sportswriter. He has written nine books that have appeared on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list: four about football, three on baseball and two about basketball. He authored the 1999 John Rocker interview in ''Sports Illustrated''. Personal life and career Pearlman was born and raised in Mahopac, New York. He got his start in journalism in 1989, when he interned at a weekly newspaper in Cross River, titled ''The Patent Trader''. After graduating from the University of Delaware, he was hired as a food and fashion writer by ''The Tennessean'' in Nashville. In 1996, Pearlman was hired by ''Sports Illustrated'', where he spent nearly seven years as a baseball writer. In 2002, Pearlman left ''Sports Illustrated'' and spent the next two years at ''Newsday'', but left to focus on writing books. He also keeps a personal online blog, where he posts a weekly Q&A series, The Quaz, with athletes, politicians, actors, singers and many random p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Leitch
Thomas M. Leitch (born June 23, 1951) is an American academic and film scholar, the author of several authoritative books on film studies and one on Wikipedia. Early life Leitch was born in Orange, New Jersey, and educated at Columbia University, where in 1972 he graduated BA ''magna cum laude'' in English and Comparative Literature, and then at Yale University, where he became an MA in 1973 and a PhD in 1976.Thomas Leitch cv at udel.edu (), accessed 28 March 2020 Academic career Leitch's first academic post was as assistant professor in the department of English at Yale, from 1976 to 1983. He then had the same position at the dep ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Johnson
Maureen Johnson (born February 16, 1973) is an American author of young adult fiction. Her published novels include series leading titles such as ''13 Little Blue Envelopes'', ''The Name of the Star'', '' Truly Devious,'' and ''Suite Scarlett''. Among Johnson's works are collaborative efforts such as '' Let It Snow,'' a holiday romance novel of interwoven stories co-written with John Green and Lauren Myracle, and a series of novellas found in ''New York Times'' bestselling anthologies ''The Bane Chronicles'', ''Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy'', and ''Ghosts of the Shadow Market.'' Early life and education Johnson was born in Philadelphia and attended an all-girl Catholic preparatory high school. She graduated from the University of Delaware in 1995 with a degree in English. Johnson later worked variously as literary manager of a Philadelphia theater company, a waitress in a theme restaurant, a secretary, a bartender in Piccadilly, and an occasional performer in New York Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Cook And Ron Herzman
Ronald B. Herzman and William R. Cook are both ''Distinguished Teaching Professors'' at the State University of New York at Geneseo, and are collaborators on numerous intellectual projects about Medieval and Renaissance literature, history, and culture. Herzman is a professor of English, and Cook is a professor of History. Herzman earned his PhD from the University of Delaware and joined the Geneseo faculty in 1969. Cook earned his PhD from Cornell University and joined the Geneseo faculty in 1970; he has specialized in the history and art history of the early Franciscans. Cook and Herzman have been working closely together since 1973 when they co-taught a course at Geneseo called "The Age of Chaucer". They developed similar courses on "The Age of Dante" and "The Age of Francis of Assisi". Their co-authored Oxford University Press book, ''The Medieval World View'', grew out of a text they initially wrote for students they took abroad to Italy. In 2003, Cook and Herzman were awarded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morrison Heckscher
Morrison Harris Heckscher (born December 12, 1940) is an American retired curator and art historian who served as the Lawrence A. Fleischman Chair of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2001 to 2014. He had worked in various curatorial roles at the Met since 1966. As chair, he oversaw a complete renovation of the interior and exhibits. He is a recipient of the Antique Dealers' Association Award of Merit and the Winterthur Museum's Henry Francis du Pont Award. Early life and education Heckscher was born and raised west of Philadelphia and educated at the Episcopal Academy. His grandfather, Morris Harris, made furniture as a hobby and inspired his grandson's youthful dream of moving to rural Vermont to become a cabinetmaker. Heckscher received his BA degree in American history from Wesleyan University in 1962, his MA from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture at the University of Delaware in 1964, and his PhD in art history from Columbia University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Gandy Fales
Martha Lou Gandy Fales (October 31, 1930 – February 24, 2006) was an American art historian, museum curator, and author specializing in historic American silversmithing and jewelry. She worked as a curator and keeper of the silver at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library during the late 1950s and worked mostly as an independent historian and consultant after that. Her seminal book ''Jewelry in America'' (1995) received the Charles F. Montgomery Prize from the Decorative Arts Society. Biography Fales, who went by M'Lou, was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, on October 31, 1930. Her father, Preston Boehner Gandy, was a physician. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wilson College in 1952 and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Delaware in 1954, as one of the first graduating class of the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. An expert on silver, she wrote her master's thesis on the Joseph Richardson family of silversmiths based in Philadelphia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Ezell
Edward Clinton Ezell (7 Nov 1939, Indianapolis, Indiana – 23 Dec 1993, Northern Virginia) was an American author and professor who served as National Firearms Collection curator at the National Museum of American History, administered by the Smithsonian Institution. He was also the founding Director of the Institute for Research on Small Arms in International Security. Background Ezell received an A.B. from Butler University in 1961 and M.A. from the University of Delaware two years later, where he was a Hagley Fellow. In 1969, he received his Ph.D. in the history of science and technology from Case Institute of Technology. He taught at North Carolina State University and Sangamon State University, Springfield, Illinois. Publications Ezell created the first oral histories on a pair of respected assault rifle designers — Mikhail Kalashnikov and Eugene Stoner of the AK47 and M16 respectively. Prior to his stint with the Smithsonian Institution, Ezell was employed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
