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The University of Michigan is a public research university in Ann Arbor,Michigan,United States. Founded in 1817,it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Michigan is one of the earliest American research universities and is a founding member of the Association of American Universities. In the fall of 2023,the university employed 8,189 faculty members and enrolled 52,065 students in its programs.
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 attorney,diplomat,and politician who served as the 45th governor of Michigan from 1983 to 1991. A member of the Democratic Party,Blanchard previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1983,and later as the United States Ambassador to Canada from 1993 to 1996.
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.
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 jurist who serves as a senior 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.
The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty is an American conservative and libertarian think tank in Grand Rapids,Michigan,with an office in Rome. Its 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. 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 and communications services firm.
George Heartwell is an American politician. He was the mayor of the city of Grand Rapids in the U.S. state of Michigan. He was sworn in on January 1,2004,and exited his mayoral duties after ending his third term on January 16,2016.
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 Kenneth Alexander 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.
Robert William Davis was an American politician from the state of Michigan. He represented the state's 11th congressional district,which at that time included the Upper Peninsula and a large portion of Northern Michigan,in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 until 1993.
Paul Gordon Goebel was an American football end who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1920 to 1922. He was an All-American in 1921 and was the team's captain in 1922. He played professional football from 1923 to 1926 with the Columbus Tigers,Chicago Bears,and New York Yankees. He was named to the NFL All-Pro team in 1923 and 1924.
Carl J. Strikwerda is an American historian. He was the president of Elizabethtown College until 2019. He currently lives in Washington,D.C.
Janel Curry is a geographer,educator,and academic leader originally from Canton,Illinois.
Harry Gerard Broadman is an international investment executive and global business strategist;an authority on trade,antitrust,corporate governance,sustainability,and innovation;and a non-executive corporate director. He is a Partner,managing director,and Chair of the Emerging Markets Practice and Chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) Practice at the Berkeley Research Group LLC and on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University.
