Kean University is a public university in Union and Hillside,New Jersey. It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education.
Owen D. Young was an American industrialist,businessman,lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929,as a member of the German Reparations International Commission.
The College at Brockport,State University of New York is a public college in Brockport,New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY).
The State University of New York College at Oneonta,also known as SUNY Oneonta,is a public college in Oneonta,New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system.
Irving McNeil Ives was an American politician. A Republican,he served as a United States Senator from New York from 1947 to 1959. He was previously a member of the New York State Assembly for sixteen years,serving as Minority Leader (1935),Speaker (1936),and Majority Leader (1937–1946). A liberal Republican,he was known as a specialist in labor and civil rights legislation. Ives voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Carroll Vincent Newsom (1904–1990) was an American educator who served as the eleventh NYU president and president of Prentice Hall.
Sir John Frank Charles Kingman is a British mathematician. He served as N. M. Rothschild and Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge from 2001 until 2006,when he was succeeded by David Wallace. He is known for developing the mathematics of the Coalescent theory,a theoretical model of inheritance,which is fundamental to modern population genetics.
Ormond Stone,was an American astronomer,mathematician and educator. He was the director of Cincinnati Observatory and subsequently the first director of the McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia,where he trained a significant number of scientists. He served as the editor of the Annals of Mathematics and towards the end of his life made donations which led to the founding of the Fairfax Public Library System.
Isaac Ben-Israel is an Israeli military scientist,general,politician and state official. He currently serves as the chairman of the Israeli Space Agency and the National Council for Research and Development,under the auspices of the Ministry of Science,Technology and Space of Israel. He finished his service in the IDF ranked General,serving as head of the military Administration for the Development of Weapons and the Technological Industry. Between 2010 and 2012 he served as chief Cybernetics adviser to PM Netanyahu,during which period he founded the National Cyber Bureau in the PM office and launched the National Cyber Initiative. Ben-Israel is now head of the Security Studies program in Tel Aviv University,where he also heads the annual international Cyber Security conference. Between 2007 and 2009 he served as a member of the Knesset for Kadima. Ben-Israel is one of Israel's top experts on Space,Cyber and technological related security. He holds a PhD in Philosophy and a BSc in Physics and Mathematics from Tel Aviv University. In 2020,he declared that Covid-19 would play itself out within seventy days,regardless of intervention levels.
Herbert Brown Maw was an American politician and educator who was the eighth Governor of Utah. He served as governor from 1941 to 1949. He was a Democrat and was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
John Maclean Jr.,D.D. was an American Presbyterian clergyman and educator who served as the tenth President of Princeton University,then known as the College of New Jersey. Maclean,the son of the first professor of chemistry at the College of New Jersey,grew up in Princeton,New Jersey. He attended the College and later Princeton Theological Seminary. At age 23,he became full professor of mathematics at the university. Six years later,he became university vice president. He was responsible for bringing a number of renown scholars and academics to the college. During this time,he also left mathematics and became professor of ancient languages. Maclean was one of the chief architects of the state's public education system. His plan for a state normal school,local boards of education and nonsectarian public schools was adopted by the state legislature. He became president of the College of New Jersey in 1854. He led the university through the 1855 burning of Nassau Hall and the American Civil War. After retiring from his post after 14 years in office,he wrote a two-volume history of the university. He served as the honorary president of the university's Alumni Association until his death.
Alonzo Barton Hepburn was an American politician from New York,famed for being the Chairman of the New York State Legislature's eponymous Hepburn Committee of 1879 that investigated the operations of what became known later as the Railroad Trust based in New York State. He was Comptroller of the Currency from 1892 to 1893.
Cyrus Colton MacDuffee from Oneida,New York was a professor of mathematics at University of Wisconsin. He wrote a number of influential research papers in abstract algebra. MacDuffee served on the Council of the American Mathematical Society (A.M.S.),was editor of the Transactions of the A.M.S.,and served as president of the Mathematical Association of America (M.A.A).
Ernest Otto Holland was an American academic,the superintendent of public schools for Louisville,Kentucky,and the fourth and longest-serving president of Washington State University,leading the institution from 1915 until 1945.
James McMahon was an Irish mathematician whose career was spent at Cornell University in Ithaca,New York. He was a committed educator,and an early proponent of professionalization in the teaching of advanced mathematics in America. A professor and Chairman of the Mathematics Department in Cornell University's College of Arts &Sciences,McMahon was one of the earliest members of the American Mathematical Society in 1891. For seven years he served as associate editor of the Annals of Mathematics. He was also the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Secretary (1897),Section A;General Secretary (1898),and Vice-President (1901). McMahon was also featured in the publication,American Men of Science.
Orlo Epps was an American architect,mathematician,physicist,and socialist writer.
Philip Lindsley (1786–1855) was an American Presbyterian minister,educator and classicist. He served as the acting president of the College of New Jersey from 1822 to 1824,and as the first president of the now-defunct University of Nashville from 1824 to 1850.
George Washington Hoss was an American educator serving many positions at several institutions. Hoss was most notable for being an Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Kansas State Normal School's (KSN) second president.
James M. Milne was the first principal of the State University of New York at Oneonta. The library at SUNY Oneonta is named in his honor.
Charles Wesley Hunt was an American educator and academic administrator. He served as the 3rd President of the State University of New York at Oneonta. During his tenure as president,the college transitioned from being known as Oneonta State Normal School to Oneonta State Teachers College. The Hunt Union building on the SUNY Oneonta is named in his honor,as well as some of the school-sponsored comedy events being called "Chuck's Comedy Club".
