University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi and is located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. UMMC, also referred to as the Medical Center, is the state's only academic medical center.
The Texas A&M University System is a state university system in Texas and is one of the state's six independent university systems.
David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium is a football stadium located in Lawrence, Kansas, on the campus of the University of Kansas. The stadium is dedicated as a memorial to Kansas students who died in World War I, and is one of seven major veteran's memorials on the campus. The stadium is at the center of all seven war memorials - adjacent to the stadium, further up the hill is a Korean War memorial honoring Kansas students who served, just a few hundred feet south of the stadium stands the University of Kansas World War II Memorial, the Kansas Memorial Campanile and Carillon, the University of Kansas Vietnam War Memorial sits adjacent to the Campanile to the west, the Victory Eagle - World War I statue located on Jayhawk Boulevard, southeast of the stadium, and the Kansas Memorial Union, a veteran's memorial that also houses the main university student union and bookstore, located east of the stadium. The stadium is the home stadium of the Kansas Jayhawks football team.
Robert Emery Hemenway was the 16th chancellor of the University of Kansas (KU).
The University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine—known as the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (DGSOM)—is an accredited medical school located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The School was renamed in 2001 in honor of media mogul David Geffen who donated $200 million in unrestricted funds. Founded in 1951, it was the second medical school in the UC system, after the UCSF School of Medicine.
Kermit Edward Krantz was a surgeon, inventor and faculty member at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is most known as the co-developer of the Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz (MMK), a medical procedure for stress urinary incontinence which he performed over 5000 times. He served as Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Kansas.
The University of Kansas School of Business is a public business school on the main campus of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. The KU School of Business was founded in 1924 and has more than 100 faculty members and approximately 1500 students.
Bernadette Gray-Little is a retired academic administrator most recently serving as the 17th chancellor of the University of Kansas, where she was the first African-American and female to serve as the chancellor. She oversaw the university's main campus in Lawrence, its medical center campuses in Kansas City, Salina and Wichita, the Edwards Campus in Overland Park, and other facilities around Kansas. She replaced chancellor Robert Hemenway in August 2009, and retired in June 2017.
The University of Kansas School of Medicine is a public medical school located on the University of Kansas Medical Center campuses in Kansas City, Kansas, and also Salina, Kansas, and Wichita, Kansas. The Kansas City campus is co-located with the independent University of Kansas Hospital, and they are commonly known collectively as KU Med.
Sheahon Jay Zenger is an American former university sports administrator and an assistant American football coach. Zenger was most recently the athletic director at the University of Kansas, serving from 2011 to 2018. He was previously the athletic director at Illinois State University.
Jeffrey Philip Gold, M.D. is an American surgeon, medical educator, and academic administrator who has been the chancellor and chief executive officer of the University of Nebraska Medical Center since February 1, 2014. In May 2017, he also was named interim chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and will serve as chancellor for both institutions concurrently.
Delbert Merrill Shankel was an American microbiologist and academic administrator. He served as the interim chancellor of the University of Kansas in 1994. Shankel, a microbiologist, was educated at Walla Walla College and University of Texas. He started teaching at the University of Kansas' Department of Microbiology in 1959. He retired in 1996 and was named professor and chancellor emeritus
W. Clarke Wescoe was an American medical educator, physician, pharmacologist and academic administrator. He was selected as the dean of the University of Kansas School of Medicine at the age of 32 and served in that capacity from 1952 to 1960. He was the 10th chancellor of the University of Kansas from 1960 to 1969, leading the University during a time of both campus growth with the near doubling in enrollment and unrest during the 1960s. More than $40 million in new construction was completed, including most of the Daisy Hill residence halls.
Donald Floyd Hagen was a vice admiral in the United States Navy. He was Surgeon General of the United States Navy from 1991 to 1995. Hagen was commissioned in 1964 as an ensign and retired June 29, 1995 as a vice admiral.
John F. Alksne is a Professor Emeritus of Neurosurgery and former Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.
Edward H. Hammond is an American educator and former president of Fort Hays State University. Prior to his position at Fort Hays State, Hammond served in student affairs at various institutions including Seton Hall University and the University of Louisville. Hammond completed just two months shy of 28 years, making him the longest serving president at Fort Hays State and leader in the Kansas Board of Regents schools.
Neeli Bendapudi is an American academic and the 18th president of the University of Louisville.
Bernd Girod is a German-American engineer and the Robert L. and Audrey S. Hancock Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is a Faculty Co-Director of the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering (SCIEN) and a Director of the Max Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication. He was also the Founding Director of David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovations (2012-2015), a Senior Associate Dean for the Online Learning and Professional Development, School of Engineering at Stanford University (2012-2015), and a Senior Associate Dean at large for the School of Engineering at Stanford University (2015-2016). Prior to Stanford, he was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Erlangen– Nuremberg and an assistant professor of media technology at the MIT Media Lab.
