For most people, the name Georges Lemaître probably doesn’t ring any bells. Yet Lemaître –Belgian Catholic priest, WWI military hero, theoretical physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics –- was one of the most influential scientists of his generation. Born in 1894, Lemaître was a pioneer in offering a new conception of the cosmos, in a career that spanned the better part of forty years…
While many U.S. colleges and universities produce high-achieving graduates every year, it is important to pay tribute to those educational institutions that excel in developing students who go on to contribute immensely to the strength of the country’s economy. With that in mind, Alumni Spotlight has created a list of U.S. universities that are succeeding in building and educating leaders for today’s fast-paced world…
Since the publication of his first novel in 1967, Thomas Pynchon has established himself as a artificer of postmodernist literature – and arguably the most important American writer since Melville. Lauded by readers, critics, and his literary peers alike, he has only produced eight novels in the past 50 years…
In 2018, Ronan Farrow won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service because of his investigative reporting, which exposed rampant sexual misconduct in Hollywood during the nascent stages of the #MeToo movement. No stranger to Tinseltown, he is the son of actress Mia Farrow and renowned filmmaker Woody Allen…
For more than four decades, Kerry Kennedy has devoted her life to human rights activism, leading delegations into places such as Haiti, Kenya, South Korea, and Gaza. Kerry, the seventh of Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy’s eleven children, started working in the field of human rights in 1981 as an intern with Amnesty International…
As heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, billionaire J.B. Pritzker is currently the wealthiest officeholder in America. Pritzker, who has an estimated net worth of $3.6 billion, handily defeated incumbent Bruce Rauner in 2018 to become the 43rd governor of Illinois…
Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce The Top 100 Engineers of 2022. These individuals have played a significant role in the technology and development of today’s modern world. Through research and development in their respective technical field or through their leadership of an enterprise, they have excelled in their industry…
According to TV lore, when actor David Schwimmer was offered the role on a new NBC sitcom – about a group of friends who live together in New York City – he turned it down, explaining that a sitcom “felt like a prison sentence.” Lucky for viewers around the globe, he changed his mind…
Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce The Top 100 Engineers of 2022. These individuals have played a significant role in the technology and development of today’s modern world. Through research and development in their respective technical field or through their leadership of an enterprise, they have excelled in their industry…
Celebrated astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has spent much of his career bringing the complexities of science and space exploration to the general public. Aside from his prolific writing, he is a well-known popularizer of science on television and radio…
