UVA swimmers Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass have been competing against each other since their formative years. However, the pair recently made headlines as teammates in Tokyo. During their Olympic debut, Walsh and Douglass captured medals in the 200-meter individual medley, which involves each swimmer doing each of the four primary strokes — butterfly, back, breast, and free — through one length of the pool…
Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce The Top 100 Cornell Alumni in Technology of 2021. Stretching across a campus of thousands of acres, Cornell University has educated some of the Continue Reading
Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce The Top 100 Cornell Alumni in Technology of 2021. Stretching across a campus of thousands of acres, Cornell University has educated some of the brightest minds of today’s society in their 16 colleges and schools…
Prominent finance expert Gary Gensler is the current Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Gensler is a veteran of both public service and the private sector, and has been a proponent of reform and transparency in financial markets…
Studs Terkel was an award-winning author and broadcast personality who was best known for chronicling the lives of Americans from the Great Depression to the early 21st century. Beginning his 50-plus year career in Chicago, Terkel first worked with the radio division of the WPA Writers Project…
Impressively, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has earned national recognition for creating bipartisan coalitions in a time when political divisiveness is the norm. An attorney by training, Gillibrand worked in New York City-based private practices for more than a decade and then decided to pursue a path of public service leadership…
From 2005 to 2009, Condoleezza Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State of the U.S. A member of the Republican Party, Rice was the first African-American to hold this post. As the nation’s top diplomat, Rice dedicated her department to “transformational diplomacy,” placing American diplomats throughout the Middle East — especially in areas of major turmoil…
In 1967 Thurgood Marshall made history when he became the first African-American Supreme Court Justice in the U.S. In this position, he served for more than two decades, promoting racial equality and leaving an indelible impression on the country’s judicial system…
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich lends new luster to the term Renaissance man. During his time in government, he served in three national administrations, including President Bill Clinton’s, for which Time Magazine named Reich one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the 20th century…
Rachel Carson was one of the pioneering modern environmentalists whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmentalist movement. A zoologist by training, Carson started as a biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, only the second woman the bureau had ever hired…
