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Melvin Ellis Calvin was an American biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham,for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California,Berkeley.
James Johnston Blanchard is an American politician,attorney,and former diplomat from Michigan. A Democrat,Blanchard has served in the United States House of Representatives,as the 45th Governor of Michigan,and as United States Ambassador to Canada.
Calvin University, formerly Calvin College,is a private Christian university in Grand Rapids,Michigan. Founded in 1876,Calvin University is an educational institution of the Christian Reformed Church and stands in the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition. Known as Calvin College for most of its history,the school is named after John Calvin,the 16th-century Protestant Reformer.
John Patrick "Pat" Crecine was an American educator and economist who served as President of Georgia Tech,Dean at Carnegie Mellon University,business executive,and professor. After receiving his early education at public schools in Lansing,Michigan,he earned a bachelor's degree in industrial management,and master's and doctoral degrees in industrial administration from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. He also spent a year at the Stanford University School of Business.
Calvin William Verity Jr. was an American government official and steel industrialist who served as the 27th United States secretary of commerce between 1987 and 1989,under President Ronald Reagan.
William Marion Jardine was a U.S. administrator and educator. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1925 to 1929 and as the U.S. Minister to Egypt from 1930 to 1933.
Paul Brentwood Henry was an American professor of political science and politician from Michigan. He was elected to five terms and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 until his death from brain cancer in Grand Rapids,Michigan in 1993.
Guido Calabresi is an Italian-born American legal scholar and Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is a former Dean of Yale Law School,where he has been a professor since 1959. Calabresi is considered,along with Ronald Coase and Richard Posner,a founder of the field of law and economics.
Columbia College Chicago is a private art college in Chicago,Illinois. Founded in 1890,it has 5,928 students pursuing degrees in more than 60 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty is an American research and educational institution,or think tank,in Grand Rapids,Michigan,whose stated mission is "to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles". Its work supports free market economic policy framed within Judeo-Christian morality. It has been alternately described as conservative and libertarian. Acton Institute also organizes seminars "to educate religious leaders of all denominations,business executives,entrepreneurs,university professors,and academic researchers in economics principles."
Philip Lader,is a former US Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s and former Chairman of WPP plc,the global advertising/communications services firm.
Marina von Neumann Whitman is an American economist,writer and former automobile executive. She is a professor of business administration and public policy at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business as well as The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Henry Schultze was an American academic and former president of Calvin College in Grand Rapids,Michigan. Having been born in Sully,Iowa,Schultze graduated from Calvin College in 1915. He also attended Calvin Theological Seminary and went on to study at Yale University and graduated in 1920. After his graduation,he taught Greek and education at Grundy College and in 1924 was ordained as a minister in the Christian Reformed Church. In 1926 he was appointed a professor at Calvin Theological Seminary. Schultze served ten years as president of the National Union of Christian Schools,beginning in 1930. Because of his skill as a teacher and his long-standing support for Christian education,Schultze was appointed Calvin College president in 1940.
Johannes Broene was an academic and twice served as president of Calvin College in Grand Rapids,Michigan,US. He was born in Muskegon,Michigan,and his father was a minister of the Christian Reformed Church. Broene attended the University of Michigan and Valparaiso University,from which he graduated in 1906. He went on to do graduate work at Clark University and pursued his doctorate at Clark,while working as a teacher and later principal of Christian schools in Paterson,New Jersey,and Chicago,Illinois. He joined the Calvin College faculty in 1908,teaching primarily in Philosophy and Education. In 1925 he was asked to serve one year as the interim president of Calvin College. He reluctantly accepted the appointment,and was re-appointed the next year. In 1928 he was appointed as acting president.
James K. A. Smith is a Canadian-American philosopher who is currently Professor of Philosophy at Calvin University,holding the Gary &Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology &Worldview. He is the current editor-in-chief of the literary journal Image.
John Feikens was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Carl J. Strikwerda is an American historian. He was the president of Elizabethtown College until 2019.
Janel Curry is a geographer,educator,and visionary leader originally from Canton,Illinois.
