Michael Graves, DAAP '58, HonDoc '82, awarded the National Medal of Arts.
ARTISTS
Walt Handelsman, A&S '79, '07 Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist at Newsday, syndicated in hundreds of U.S. newspapers.
Jim Dine, att. '50s, ground-breaking avant-guard painter, sculptor, printmaker.
Tom Wesselmann, att. '50s, in the forefront of America's Pop Art movement with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
P. Craig Russell, DAAP '74, award-winning graphic novelist who began with Marvel Comics, then became famous for comic adaptations of operas.
ATHLETES
Read about UC Olympic athletes in this issue's sports story.
ATTORNEY
Stanley Chesley, A&S '58, JD '60, HonDoc '93, nationally recognized attorney for defining class action law, initially from the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire.
BALLERINA
Suzanne Farrell, CCM prep '50s, HonDoc '90, one of the most noted dancers of the 20th century, once principal dancer with the New York City Ballet.
COMEDIAN
Julius "Nipsey" Russell, att. '36, best known for making up poems while a panelist on game shows, such as "Hollywood Squares."
ENGINEER
Joseph Strauss, Eng 1892, engineered and built the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Stan Herman, DAAP '50, pioneered the "designer uniform" with clients such as FedEx and McDonalds, designs upscale cloths for QVC.
FOOD CONNECTIONS
Paul Herget, A&S '31, MA (A&S) '33, PhD (A&S) '35, HonDoc '78, former UC astronomer, designed the stackable shape for Pringles potato chips.
Mel Schulman, A&S '47, developed Frisch's tartar sauce.
GRAPHIC DESIGNERS
Sam Lucente, DAAP '81, Hewlett-Packard's first and current VP of design, previously produced IBM's Thinkpad 560 and 710, Leapfrog and Netscape's Constellation platform; his work is part of permanent collections at the New York Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian National Design Museum.
John Lutz, DAAP '95, created the FedEx logo while a co-op student. (Below, notice how the negative space between the "E" and "X" creates an arrow.)
HUMAN RIGHTS CHAMPION
Pamela Bridgewater, MS (A&S) '70, HonDoc '06, the longest-serving U.S. diplomat in South Africa, who worked closely with Nelson Mandela as apartheid came to an end.
INVENTORS
Vinod Dham, MS (Eng) '77, developed the Pentium processor.
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George Rieveschl Jr., A&S '37, MS (A&S) '39, PhD (A&S) '40, HonDoc '56, developed Benadryl, the first FDA-approved prescription antihistamine.
Bill Wiesmann, A&S '68, holds more than 30 patents, led research teams that developed a bandage to stop uncontrolled bleeding on the battlefield.
David Laughridge, DAAP '56, developed the Nerf Ball for Parker Brothers.
RADIO
Jill Casagrande, CCM '83, senior VP, general manager, Radio Disney.
NOVELIST
Thomas Berger, A&S '48, author of 24 books, including "Little Big Man," adapted for a '70 motion picture starring Dustin Hoffman; also wrote "Neighbors," adapted for an '81 movie starring John Belushi.
Jonathan Valin, att. late '60s, former UC faculty, known for his 11 Harry Stoner detective mysteries set in Cincinnati, including the book "Final Notice," which was made into a TV movie.
OPERA SINGER
Kathleen Battle, CCM '70, MM '71, HonDoc '83, named "the best lyric coloratura soprano in the world" by Time Magazine.
PIONEERS
Louise McCarren Herring, Eng '32, pioneered the concept of credit unions, helped organize more than 500 credit unions.
Sally Priesand, A&S '68, America's first ordained female rabbi in '72, now a rabbi emerita.
Arnold Spielberg, Eng '49, a computer-engineering pioneer who holds 12 patents, longtime amateur filmmaker who bankrolled first feature film production of his son, Steven.
Liang Sili, PhD (Eng) '49, specialist in missile-control systems, led efforts to establish the Chinese astronautical industry.
POLITICIANS
William Howard Taft, Law 1880, HonDoc '25, 27th U.S. president, 10th chief justice.
Charles Dawes, Law 1886, 30th U.S. vice president, Nobel Peace Prize winner for the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations.
SCIENTISTS
Lucy Braun, A&S '10, MS (A&S) '12, PhD (A&S) '14, HonDoc '64, UC faculty member who wrote a groundbreaking 1950 book on ecology "The Eastern Deciduous Forest," named one of the country's 50 foremost botanists.
VIDEO GAME DEVELOPERS
Randy Pagulayan, PhD (A&S) '00, manager, User Research Group, Microsoft Game Studios; led research efforts on Xbox games, including Halo 2 and 3.
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