List of University of Michigan faculty and staff

The University of Michigan has 6,200 faculty members and roughly 38,000 employees which include National Academy members, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners. Several past presidents have gone on to become presidents of Ivy League universities.

Notable faculty: Nobel Laureates

*Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Prize, Literature 1987
* Donald A. Glaser professor of physics, developed in 1954 the world's first liquid bubble chamber to study high-energy subatomic particles and won the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention in 1960
* Charles B. Huggins, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1966
*Lawrence R. Klein, '30 alumnus;a member of the economics department and the Institute for Social Research. Won the 1980 Nobel Prize in economics for his econometric models forecasting short-term economic trends and policies
*Wolfgang Pauli winner of Nobel Prize, Physics, 1945
* Martin L. Perl, Physics Nobel Prize 1995
* Norman F. Ramsey, Physics Nobel Prize 1989
*Peyton Rous, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1966
*Hamilton O. Smith Nobel Prize, in Physiology or Medicine, 1978
* Charles H. Townes,Nobel Prize for Physics 1964
* Martinus Veltman Professor Emeritus, John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics. 1999 Nobel Prize for Physics.
* Carl Wieman, one of three scientists who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics joined the U-M faculty immediately following his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1977 and was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics from 1979 to 1984. Now at Colorado.

*Nobel Laureates by University Affiliation

Notable faculty: past and present

* Madeleine Albright, WDI visiting scholar. Madeleine K. Albright served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001. At that time, she was the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. From 1993 to 1997, Albright was the United States' Permanent Representative to the United Nations and a member of President Clinton's Cabinet and National Security Council.
* W. H. Auden, poet
* Charles Baxter, former director of the MFA program in creative writing; novelist, poet, and essayist; author of 2000 National Book Award finalist "The Feast of Love".
* Ruth Behar (born Havana, Cuba, 1956) is a Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, poet, and writer who teaches at the University of Michigan. MacArthur Foundation award winner.
* R. Stephen Berry (born 1931 in Denver, Colorado) is a U.S. professor of physical chemistry. MacArthur Foundation award winner. He is the James Franck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago and Special Advisor to the Director for National Security, at Argonne National Laboratory. He joined the Chicago faculty in 1964, having been an Assistant Professor at Yale University and, between 1957 and 1960, an Instructor at the University of Michigan.
* William Bolcom, composer. In 2006 he was awarded four Grammy Awards for his composition "Songs of Innocence and Experience": Best Classical Album, Best Choral Performance, Best Classical Contemporary Composition and Producer of the Year, Classical.
* Kenneth Boulding, noted economist and faculty member 1949-1967
* Richard Brauer Accepted a position at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1948. In 1949 Brauer was awarded the Cole Prize from the American Mathematical Society for his paper "On Artin's L-series with general group characters".
* Mark Burns, Carlos Mastrangelo, and David Burke invented a DNA analysis "lab on a microchip."
* Evan H. Caminker: Dean of Law School
* Anne Carson (born Toronto, Ontario June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, and translator, as well as a professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan.MacArthur Foundation award winner.
* Carl Cohen, notable for using Michigan Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in 1996 to identify U-M's policy of racial categorization in admissions, leading to the Grutter and Gratz v. Bollinger lawsuits. Professor of Philosophy specializing in ethics for 50 years as of 2006, civil rights activist, proponent and founder of Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, and author of books on affirmative action and animal rights issues.
* Juan Cole, notable for his weblog "Informed Comment", covering events in the Middle East
* Christopher Chetsanga, (full professor 1979), discovered two enzymes that repair DNA after x-irradiation. Pro Vice Chancellor 1991-1992 and acting Vice Chancellor 1992-1993 University of Zimbabwe.
* Michael Duff gained his PhD in theoretical physics in 1972 at Imperial College, London, under Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam. In September 1999 he moved to the University of Michigan, where he is Oskar Klein Professor of Physics. In 2001, he was elected first Director of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics and was re-elected in 2004. He has since become the Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences at Imperial College London in Spring 2005.
* Francis Collins led the Human Genome Project.
* Horace W. Davenport a gastric physiologist whose research explained how the stomach is able to digest food, but not itself. Davenport is also was the author of three best selling textbooks, and a former president of the American Physiological Society.
* John Dewey, co-founder of pragmatism. During his time at Michigan, Dewey twice won the all-campus euchre tournament.
* Erich Fromm, psychologist
* Robert Frost Michigan Poet-in-Residence.
*Alice Fulton, United States poet, author, and feminist.She received her undergraduate degree in creative writing in 1976 from Empire State College and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Cornell University in 1982. In 1991, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship for her poetry. She taught creative writing at University of Michigan from 1983 to 2001.
* Herman Heine Goldstine, a mathematician, a winner of the National Medal of Science, worked on the ENIAC, as the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was code named. Taught at the University of Michigan but left when war broke out to become a ballistics officer in the Army.
* Samuel Goudsmit also known as Samuel Abraham Goudsmit. Was a Professor at the University of Michigan between 1927-1946. Conceived – with George Uhlenback -- the idea of Quantum Spin. During WWII he performed research at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, but most importantly served as the chief of the ALSOS group for the Manhattan Project, charged with assessing the German ability to build an atomic bomb.
* Edward Gramlich, Professor of Economics and Member, Federal Reserve Board
* Linda Gregerson is the Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor at University of Michigan. Among her collections of poetry are ‘’Waterborne" (2002)’’, ‘’The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep’’ (1996) and ‘’Fire in the Conservatory’’ (1982). She has won many awards and fellowships, among them Guggenheim, Mellon and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Isabel MacCaffrey Award.
* Robert L. Griess is a mathematician working on finite simple groups. He constructed the monster group using the Griess algebra.
* William Donald "Bill" Hamilton, F.R.S. (1 August 1936 — 7 March 2000) was a British evolutionary biologist, considered one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century. Worked with Robert Axelrod on the Prisoner's Dilemma.
* Donald Hall, English Professor and current (as of October 2006) poet laureate of the USA.
* Thomas Hales solved a nearly 4-century-old problem called the Kepler conjecture. Hales is now at the University of Pittsburgh.
* Paul Halmos, mathematician specializing in functional analysis.
* Eric J. Hill, Professor of Practice in Architecture.
* Melvin Hochster, commutative algebraist. Among his many honors, received the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra in 1980; received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982. In 1992, he was elected to the both the American Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
* Andrew Hoffman, an expert in environmental pollution and sustainable enterprise. Professor Hoffman is co-director of the MBA'MS Corporate Environmental Management Program.
* Daniel Hunt Janzen(b. 1939 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) is an evolutionary ecologist, naturalist, and conservationist. Before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania he taught at the University of Kansas (1965-1968), the University of Chicago (1969-72) and at the University of Michigan. MacArthur Foundation award winner.
* Gerome Kamrowski, worked in New York in the 1930s and early 1940s with such artists as William Baziotes, Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock, and was at the forefront of the development of American Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. His work from this period is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, The Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and other major museums worldwide. Faculty, University of Michigan School of Art 1948–82 (Emeritus)
* Gordon Kane, Victor Weisskopf Collegiate Professor of Physics
* H. David Hume, inventor of the human nephron filter ("HNF"), or the artificial kidney.
* Peter J. Khan, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and as Head of the Microwave Solid-State Circuits Group of the Cooley Electronics Laboratory. Now a member of the Universal House of Justice, the nine-person international elected body which coordinates the activities of the Baha'i Faith throughout the world.
*Chihiro Kikuchi, professor of nuclear engineering, developed in 1957 the ruby maser, a device for amplifying electrical impulses by stimulated emission of radiation
*Oskar Klein assumed a post at the University of Michigan, a post he won through the generosity and intervention of his friend Niels Bohr. His first work in Ann Arbor dealt with the anomalous Zeeman effect.
*Adrienne Koch, historian, specialist in American history of the eighteenth century
*Kenneth Lieberthal, China expert and member of the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration.
*Emmett Leith and Juris Upatnieks (COE: MSE EE 1965) created the first working hologram in 1962
*Catharine MacKinnon, feminist legal theorist.
*Paul McCracken, Economist. Chairmen Emeritus: President's Council of Economic Advisers
*George E. Mendenhall, Professor Emeritus: Department of Near Eastern Studies and author.
* Gerald Meyers, professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business School, former chairman of American Motors Corporation
* William Ian Miller, legal and social theorist; author of "The Anatomy of Disgust".
* Hugh L. Montgomery, Number Theorist. In 1975, with Robert Charles Vaughan, showed that "most" even numbers were expressible as the sum of two primes.
* Thylias Moss developed Limited Fork Poetics, is Professor of English and Art & Design, author of "Tokyo Butter" (2006), "Slave Moth" (2004), and is a MacArthur Foundation award winner.
* Professor Gérard A. Mourou, Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Ultrafast Optical Science. With students D. Strickland, S. Williamson, P. Maine, and M. Pessot, demonstrated the technique known as Chirped pulse amplification or ("CPA").
* James V. Neel professor of human genetics, in 1940s discovered that defective genes cause sickle cell anemia
*Nicholas Negroponte also known as Nicholas P Negroponte. Founder of MIT’s Media Lab.
* Dirk Obbink, papyrologist, 2001 MacArthur Fellowship winner for his work at both Oxyrhynchus and Herculaneum. Holds appointments at both Oxford University and the University of Michigan
*James Olds neuroscientist, co-discovered the Brain's Pleasure Center.
*Anatol Rapoport, From 1955 to 1970 Rapoport was Professor of Mathematical Biology and Senior Research Mathematician. He is the author of over 300 articles and of Two-Person Game Theory (1999) and N-Person Game Theory (2001), among many other well-known books on fights, games, violence and peace. His autobiography, Certainties and Doubts: A Philosophy of Life, was released in 2001. A founding member, in 1955, of the Mental Health Research Institute (MHRI) at the University of Michigan.
* Arthur Rich, professor of physics, developed in 1988 with research investigator James C. Van House first positron microscope
* Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Architect
* Jonas Salk, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (deceased) ( [http://www.polio.umich.edu/history/salk.html] )
* Vojislav Šešelj, Serbian political scientist and nationalist leader. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2317765.stm]
* Anton Shammas, professor of comparative literature and modern Middle Eastern literature; Poet, playwright, essayist, and translator of Arab-Christian descent; acclaimed author of the novel "Arabesques".
* Lawrence Sklar, William K. Frankena Collegiate Professor and Professor of Philosophy, Guggenheim fellow 1974. Author of "Space, Time, and Spacetime".
* Andrea Smith Cherokee activist and author
* Elliot Soloway, software teaching tools, founder of GoKnow
* Kannan Soundararajan was awarded the 2004 Salem Prize,joint winner of the 2005 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
* Stephen Timoshenko created the first US bachelor's and doctoral programs in engineering mechanics. His 18 textbooks have been published in 36 languages.
* Amos Tversky Deceased. Behavioral economist and frequent co-author with Daniel Kahneman 2002 Nobel Prize ( [http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/001025.html] )
* Douglas E. Van Houweling, President and CEO of Internet2
*Raymond Louis Wilder, began teaching at the University of Michigan in 1926, where he remained until his retirement in 1967. Wilder's work focused on set-theoretic topology, manifolds and use of algebraic techniques.
* Milford H. Wolpoff, professor of anthropology and adjunct associate research scientist, UM Museum of Anthropology; recognized globally as the leading proponent of the multiregional hypothesis for human evolution.
* Trevor D. Wooley Department Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan. Salem Prize, 1998. Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1993-1995.

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Founded in 1848, AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. The tradition of AAAS Fellows began in 1874.

* Huda Akil, (2000). Ph.D., Gardner C. Quarton professor of Neurosciences in psychiatry, professor of psychiatry and co-director and senior research scientist of the U-M Mental Health Research Institute.
* Bernard W. Agranoff, (1998). Director of the Neuroscience Lab, the Ralph Waldo Gerard Professor of Neurosciences, professor of biological chemistry and research scientist in the Department of Psychiatry and the Mental Health Research Institute.
* Sushil Atreya, Ph.D., (2005). Professor of atmospheric and space sciences. Atreya is honored for contributions to planetary atmosphere structure.
* Laurence A. Boxer, (1998). Associate chair for research pediatrics and communicable diseases and professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases.
* George J. Brewer, (2000) M.D., professor of genetics and internal medicine.
* Charles M. Butter, (1992). Professor of psychology
* Valerie Castle, M.D., (2005). Chair and Ravitz Foundation Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases.
* Dimitri Coucouvanis, Ph.D., (2005). Lawrence S. Bartell Collegiate Professor of Chemistry.
* James Coward, (2004) Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry
* Jack E. Dixon, (2000). Ph.D., Minor J. Coon Professor of Biological Chemistry, chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry and new co-director of UM"s Life Sciences Institute.
* Rodney Ewing, (2004). Donald R. Peacor Collegiate Professor of Geological Sciences, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
* William R. Farrand, (1992). Professor of geological sciences and curator, Museum of Anthropology.
* Carol A. Fierke, Ph.D., (2006). Jerome and Isabella Karle collegiate Professor of Chemistry. Chair and Professor of Chemistry.
* Daniel Fisher, (2004). Claude W. Hibbard Collegiate Professor of Paleontology, Professor of Geological Sciences, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Curator of Paleontology
* Vincent L. Pecoraro, (2000). John T. Groves Collegiate Professor of Chemistry
* James Penner-Hann, (2004). Professor of Chemistry
* H. David Humes, (1998). Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and the John G. Searle Professor of Internal Medicine.
* James S. Jackson, Ph.D., (2005). Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and director, Institute for Social Research.
* Harold K. Jacobson, (2000). Jesse Siddal Reeves Professor of Political Science, and senior research scientist, Center for Political Studies.
* George W. Kling, (1998). Assistant professor of biology and assistant research scientist in the Center for Great Lakes and Aquatic Sciences.
* Arthur W. Lupia, (2004). Professor of Political Science, Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, and Principal Investigator of the American National Election Studies.
* Henry Mosberg, (2004). Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
*Artur Schnabel Pianist and classical composer
* Martin Sichel, (1998). Professor of aerospace engineering.
* Nicholas H. Steneck, (1992). Professor of history and director, Medical Center Historical Center for the Health Sciences.
*George Uhlenbeck also know as George Eugene Uhlenbeck. With fellow student Samuel Goudsmit at Leiden, Uhlenbeck proposed the idea of electron spin in 1925, fulfilling Wolfgang Pauli's stated need for a "fourth quantum number.” Served as Professor: University of Michigan (1939-43). Max Planck Medal 1964 (with Samuel Goudsmit).
* Stanley J. Watson, (2000). Ph.D., M.D., Raphael Professor of Neurosciences in Psychiatry and co-director and research scientist at MHRI.
* Max S. Wicha, (2000). M.D., professor of internal medicine and director of the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center.
* Milford Wolpoff, ( ) who has been elected to the rank of Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
* Youxue Zhang, Ph.D., (2005). Professor of geological sciences. Zhang was selected for making exceptional advances in a wide range of geological frontiers, including the origin and evolution of the Earth, explosive volcanism and gas-driven lake eruptions.

Business Week "Management Gurus"

* Greg Dailey, MBA PhD Co-Author "The Core Competence of the Corporation"
* Dave Ulrich, Human Resources - Michigan (Ranked #1)
* Noel Tichy, Leadership - Michigan, (Ranked #9)
* C.K. Prahalad, C.K. Prahalad, Strategy, International Business - Michigan/ PRAJA, (Ranked #10)

Institute of Medicine

* Bernard W. Agranoff (1991), professor of biological chemistry; professor of psychiatry, Medical School
* Huda Akil (1994), Gardner C. Quarton Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences in Psychiatry, Medical School
*JOHN D. BIRKMEYER, M.D., George D. Zuidema Professor of Surgery, division of gastrointestinal surgery, department of surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
*MICHAEL BOEHNKE, PH.D., Richard G. Cornell Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, department of biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
* Edward Bove (1985), head, Section of Cardiac Surgery, Medical School
* Noreen Clark (2000), dean, Marshall H. Becker Professor of Public Health, School of Public Health
* Mary Sue Coleman (1997), President, professor of biochemistry, Medical School, & chemistry, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
* Francis S. Collins (1991), professor of internal medicine; professor of human genetics, Medical School
* Jerome Conn (1970), Louis Harry Newburgh university Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine, Medical School
* Minor J. Coon (1987), Victor C. Vaughn Distinguished University Professor of Biological Chemistry, Medical School
* Jack Dixon (1993), Minor J. Coon Professor of Biological Chemistry, Medical School
* Avedis Donabedian (1971), Sinai Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Health, School of Public Health
* Rhetaugh Dumas (1984), Dean Emerita, School of Nursing
* Stefan Fajans (1985), professor emeritus of internal medicine, Medical School
* Sid Gilman (1995), William J. Herdman Professor of Neurology, Medical School
* David Ginsburg (1999), professor of internal medicine & human genetics, Medical School
* Lazar Greenfield (1995), Frederick A. Coller Distinguished Professor, Surgery, Medical School
* Ada Sue Hinshaw (1989), Dean, School of Nursing *Julian Hoff (1999), professor of surgery, Medical School
* James S. House (1999), professor of sociology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
* James Jackson (2002), professor of psychology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
* Robert L. Kahn (2002), professor emeritus of psychology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
* George Kaplan (2001), professor of epidemiology, School of Public Health
* David Kuhl (1989), professor of internal medicine; professor of radiology, Medical School
* Allen S. Lichter (2001), dean, professor of radiation oncology, Medical School
*MARTHA L. LUDWIG, PH.D., research biophysicist and J. Lawrence Oncley Distinguished Professor, department of biological chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
* Rowena Matthews elected to The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
*CATHERINE G. MCLAUGHLIN, PH.D., professor, department of health management and policy, and director, Economic Research Institute on the Uninsured, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor
* James V. Neel (1972), Lee R. Dice distinguished university professor emeritus of Human genetics, Medical School
* Gilbert S. Omenn (1979), professor of internal medicine & Human genetics, Medical School, and of public health, School of Public Health *Nancy Reame (1996), professor of nursing, School of Nursing
* June Osborn (1986), professor of epidemiology; professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases, Medical School
* Alan R. Saltiel, elected in 2005 to The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Saltiel is the John Jacob Abel Collegiate Professor in Life Sciences and Professor of Internal Medicine and Physiology. He is the third LSI faculty member to be named to the Institute of Medicine.
* Thomas L. Schwenk (2002), professor of family medicine, Medical School
* Harold Shapiro (1989), former UM president
* Peter Ward (1990), Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor of Pathology, Medical School
* Kenneth Warner (1996), Richard D. Remington Collegiate Professor of Public Health; professor of health management & policy, School of Public Health
* Stanley J. Watson (1994), Theophile Raphael Collegiate Professor of Neurosciences, Medical School
* Stephen J. Weiss (2001), Upjohn Professor of Internal Medicine and Oncology, Medical School
* David R. Williams (2001), Harold W. Cruse Collegiate Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts, and professor of epidemiology, School of Public Health
* George Zuldema (1971), vice provost for medical affairs emeritus, and professor emeritus of surgery, Medical School

MacArthur Foundation award winners

* Susan Alcock, (2000), professor of classical anthropology and classics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
* Robert Axelrod, (1987) Fellow for public policy. Dr. Axelrod is a game theoretician. Author of "The Evolution of Cooperation".
* Ruth Behar, (1988) Fellow, and Anthropologist.
* Joseph Brodsky, (1981), professor of Slavic languages and literature.
* W.A. Christian Jr., (1986), 1971 alumnus. religious studies scholar.
* Philip DeVries, (1988), 1962 alumnus who won as a biologist.
* William H. Durham, (1983), 1973 alumnus, anthropologist.
* Aaron Dworkin, (2005) M.A. 1998, Fellow and founder and president of Detroit-based Sphinx Organization, which strives to increase the number of African-Americans and Latinos having careers in classical music.
* Alice Fulton, (1991) Fellow, English.
* Stephen Goodman, (2005) A.B.D.,Fellow is an adjunct research investigator in the U-M Museum of Zoology's bird division, and a conservation biologist in the Department of Zoology at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.
* David Green, (2004), alumnus, Executive Director, Project Impact.
* Kun-Liang Guan, (1998) Fellow and Biochemist and associate professor of biological chemistry and senior research associate at the Institute of Gerontology.
* Ann Ellis Hanson, (1992), visiting associate professor of Greek and Latin.
* John Henry Holland,(1992), professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering; professor of psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
* Thomas C. Holt, (1990), professor of history, director of Center for Afroamerican and African Studies.
* Stephan Lee, (1981) Fellow, chemistry.
* Michael A. Marletta, (1995) Fellow, Biochemist and John Gideon Searle Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy in the College of Pharmacy and professor of biological chemistry in the Medical School.
* Vonnie C. McLoyd, (1996) Fellow, professor of psychology and research scientist at the Center for Human Growth and Development
* Thylias Moss, (1996), Fellow and Professor of English, also Professor of Art & Design (2006).
* Erik Mueggler, (2002), professor of cultural anthropology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
* Cecilia Munoz, (2000), alumna, vice president of the National Council of La Raza.
* Sherry B. Ortner, (1990), professor of anthropology and women's studies
* Rebecca J. Scott, (1990) Fellow and Professor of History.won the 2006 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for "Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery". The $25,000 prize is awarded by the Gilder Lehman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University.
* Bright Sheng (2001), professor of composition and music theory, School of Music.
* Amos Tversky, (1984), 1965 alumnus, psychologist.
* Karen K. Uhlenbeck, (1983), 1964, mathematician.
* Richard Wrangham, (1987), professor of anthropology.
* Henry T. Wright, (1993) Fellow, and Anthropologist.
* George Zweig, (1981), 1959 alumnus, physicist.

United States National Academy of Engineering

* Linda M. Abriola (2003), professor of civil & environmental engineering, College of Engineering
* Peter Banks (1993), dean, College of Engineering
* William Brown (1992), adjunct professor of electrical engineering, College of Engineering
* Don B. Chaffin (1994), G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson professor of engineering of industrial and operations engineering, College of Engineering
* Lynn Conway (1989), professor of electrical engineering & computer science, College of Engineering
* James W. Daily (1975), professor emeritus of fluid mechanics & hydraulic engineering, College of Engineering
* Stephen W. Director (1989), Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering, College of Engineering
* James J. Duderstadt (1987), professor of nuclear engineering, College of Engineering
* Gerard Faeth (1991), Arthur B. Modine Professor of Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
* Elmer G. Gilbert (1994), professor of aerospace engineering and of electrical engineering & computer science, College of Engineering
* Steven A. Goldstein (2005), Henry Ruppenthal Family Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering
* George Haddad (1994), Robert J. Hiller professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering
* Robert D. Hanson (1982), professor of civil engineering, College of Engineering
* Bruce G. Johnston (1979), professor emeritus of structural engineering, College of Engineering
* Donald Katz (1968), professor emeritus of chemical engineering, College
* Glenn Knoll (1999), professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences, College of Engineering
* Ronald G. Larson (2003), George Granger Brown Professor of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering
* Emmett Leith (1982), Schlumberger Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering
* Gerard A. Mourou (2002), A.D. Moore Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering & and Computer Science, College of Engineering
* Stephen M. Pollock (2002), Herrick Professor of Manufacturing, College of Engineering
* Tresa M. Pollock (2005), the L. H. and F. E. Van Vlack Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
* Frank E. Richart, Jr. (1969), Walter Johnson Emmons Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering
* Albert Schultz (1993), Vennema Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mathematics, College of Engineering
* Chen-To Tai (1987), professor emeritus of electrical engineering & computer science, College of Engineering
* Fawwaz Ulaby (1995), R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, College of Engineering
* Walter Weber (1985), Earnest Boyce professor of Civil & Environmental engineering, College of Engineering
* Kensall D. Wise (1998), J. Reid & Polly Anderson Professor of Manufacturing Technology, College of Engineering
* Richard D. Woods (2003), professor of civil & environmental engineering, College of Engineering
* Ralph T. Yang (2005), Dwight T. Benton Professor of Chemical Engineering
* Chia-Shun Yih (1980), Stephen P. Timoshenko Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Fluid Mechanics, College of Engineering

United States National Academy of Sciences

* Mathew Alpern (1991), professor emeritus of physiological optics, Medical School
* Richard D. Alexander (1974), Theodore H. Hubell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Biology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
* Robert Axelrod (1986), Arthur W. Bromage Distinguished University Professor of Political Science & Public Policy, School of Public Policy
* Hyman Bass (1982), professor of education, School of Education, & mathematics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
*Philip Bucksbaum 2004
* Jerome Conn (1969), Louis Harry Newburgh University Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine, Medical School
* Philip Converse (1973), Robert Cooley Angell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Sociology & Political Science, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
* Clyde Coombs (1982), professor emeritus of psychology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
* Minor J. Coon (1983), Victor C. Vaughn Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Biological Chemistry, Medical School
* H. Richard Crane (1966), George P. Williams Distinguished University, physicist
* Horace W. Davenport (1974), William Beaumont Professor Emeritus of Physiology, Medical School
* Thomas M. Donahue (1983), Edward H. White II Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Planetary Science, College of Engineering
* Lennard A. Fisk (2003), Thomas M. Donahue Collegiate Professor of Space Science, College of Engineering
* Kent V. Flannery (1978), James B. Griffin Distinguished University Professor of Anthropological Archaeology, College of Literature Science & the Arts
* Ronald Freedman (1974), Roderick D. McKenzie Professor Emeritus of Sociology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts, Professor Emeritus of Physics, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
* William Fulton (1997), M. S. Keeler Professor, mathematics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
* Stanley M. Garn (1976), professor emeritus of nutrition, School of Public Health
* Frederick Gehring (1989), T.H. Hildebrandt Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics
* Melvin Hochster (1992), Raymond L. Wilder Professor of Mathematics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
*Raymond Kelly 2004
* Martha L. Ludwig (2003), professor of biological chemistry, Medical School
* Joyce Marcus (1997), professor of anthropology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
* Vincent Massey (1995), professor of biological chemistry, Medical School
* Rowena G. Matthews (2002), G. Robert Greenberg Distinguished University Professor, biological chemistry, Medical School
* James N. Morgan (1975), Professor emeritus of economics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
* James V. Neel (1963), Lee R. Dice Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics, Medical School
* Richard Nisbett (2002), Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor, psychology, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
* James Olds(1969) Professor of Psychology
*J. Lawrence Oncley (1947), professor emeritus of biological chemistry, Medical School
* Kenneth Pike (1985), Professor emeritus of linguistics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
* Edward Smith (1996), professor of psychology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
* Martinus Veltman (2000), John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics, College of Literature, Science, & the Arts
* Warren Wagner (1985), Jr., professor emeritus of botany, School of Natural Resources & the Environment
* Henry Wright (1994), professor of anthropology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts; curator, Museum of Anthropology

National Medal of Science

The National Medal of Science is the nation's highest honor for scientific achievement. Five other Michigan researchers won the award between 1974 and 1986. Congress established the award program in 1959. It honors individuals for pioneering scientific research.

*Hyman Bass honored by President Bush in a White House ceremony for the National Medal of Science in 2006.
* H. Richard Crane (1986), George P. Williams Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Physics, College of Literature, Science & the Arts
* Elizabeth Crosby (1979), professor of anatomy, Medical School
* Donald Katz (1982), professor emeritus of chemical engineering, College of Engineering
* Emmett Leith (1979), Schlumberger Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering
* James Neel (1974), Lee R. Dice Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Human Genetics, Medical School

Pulitzer Prize-winning faculty

* Leslie Bassett (1966), professor of music; music, for Variations for Orchestra.
* William Bolcom (1988), professor of music composition; music, for Twelve New Etudes for Piano.
* Ross Lee Finney (1937), professor of music; music, for a string quartet.
* Robert Frost, a former faculty member won four Pulitzer Prizes through the years.
* Percival Price (1934), carillonneur and professor of campanology; music, for Saint Lawrence Symphony.
* Leland Stowe (1930), professor of journalism; correspondence, for his work as a reporter on the foreign staff of the New York Herald Tribune.
* Claude H. Van Tyne (1930), professor and chairman of the history department; American History, for The War of Independence.

Former administrators

* Erastus Otis Haven, second President of U-M (1863-69), later Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
* Lee Bollinger, former UM President, now 19th President of Columbia University
* Nancy Cantor, former provost of U-M, now 11th Chancellor and President of Syracuse University
* Paul Danos, UM Senior Associate Dean, now Dean at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business
* Steven Director UM Engineering Dean, now Northeastern Provost
* Walter Harrison, Vice President for university relations and secretary, who left for the University of Hartford in 1998
* Maureen Hartford, Vice President for student affairs, who went to Meredith College in 1999.
* C. C. Little, President (1925-1929), noted cancer researcher and tobacco industry scientist.
* J. Bernard "Bernie" Machen, Provost, who went to the University of Utah in 1998; now at the University of Florida
* Frank H. T. Rhodes, former UM VP for Academic Affairs was elected the ninth president of Cornell University
* Harold Shapiro, UM President for eight years; 18th President of Princeton University from 1988 to 2001.
* Edward A. Snyder, UM Senior Associate Dean, now Dean at University of Chicago Business School
* Andrew Dickson White, former UM professor of literature became co-founder of Cornell University
* B. Joseph White, PhD 1975, former Ross School dean, now 16th President of the University of Illinois
* Linda Wilson, Vice President for research at U-M and became president of Radcliffe College in 1989

ee also

*List of University of Michigan faculty and staff
*List of University of Michigan arts alumni
*List of University of Michigan business alumni
*List of University of Michigan law and government alumni
*List of University of Michigan sporting alumni

References

External links

* [http://www.umich.edu/facstaff.php Faculty and staff at the University of Michigan]
* [http://www.umich.edu/facstaff_res.php UM Faculty and staff resources]
* [http://www.umich.edu/facstaff_serv.php UM Faculty and staff services]
* [http://www.chetlyzarko.com/umichigan-salary-analysis.html A list of U-M's roughly 38,000 employees] published by alumni and publisher Chetly Zarko.