List of University of Nevada, Reno people

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Over the years, the University of Nevada, Reno has had an assortment of people gain regional, national, and international prominence in various fields of study.

Professors[]

Anne Henrietta Martin
  • R. Jacob Baker – inventor, author, and professor[1]
  • William Dwight Billings – preeminent ecologist who served as faculty in the Department of Biology from 1938 to 1952 and is known as the father of physiological ecology and for his contributions in desert and arctic ecology. In 1989 he received the Nevada medal presented by Governor Bob Miller.[2]
  • Bryan E. Bledsoe – DO, FACEP, EMT-P – clinical professor, School of Medicine Emergency Department; emergency physician, University Medical Center
  • T. Brian Callister, M.D. – Associate Professor, Internal Medicine; physician; health care quality and policy expert
  • James E. Church – best known for having developed the Mount Rose snow sampler (1906), the first instrument for measuring snow water content
  • Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D. – foundation professor, clinical psychology; developer of acceptance and commitment therapy;[3] also known for his work on relational frame theory
  • John Marini, professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno and senior fellow at the Claremont Institute[4]
  • Anne Henrietta Martin – established the university's department of history; first woman to run for United States Senate
  • James Richardson, Ph.D. – sociologist, critic of "cultic brainwashing" theories
  • Wolfram Samlowski – clinical professor of medicine; member of the Research Developmental Therapeutics and Genitourinary Committees for the US Oncology Network
  • James G. Scrugham – professor of mechanical engineering, 1903-1914; dean, 1914-1917; served as Governor, Representative, and Senator from Nevada
  • C. Richard Tracy – professor of biology; director of the Biological Resources Research Center; Vada Trimble Outstanding Mentor (1999); UNR Graduate Advisor of the Year (2008); Nevada System of Higher Education Most Outstanding Graduate Advisor (2008)
  • Glenn Wilson, Ph.D. – Adjunct Professor of Psychology, 1994–2002; taught and established the field of psychology for performing artists; produced the standard text on the topic
  • Esmail Zanjani – in 2007, led scientists at the School of Medicine and created a sheep with 15% human cells and 85% animal cells, the world's first "human-sheep chimera", which has the body of a sheep but half-human organs[citation needed]

Pulitzer Prize winners[]

  • , 1955 – awarded in 1966 for coverage of the Watts Riot
  • Susan Forrest, 1982 – awarded for general news reporting in 1988
  • , 1998 – awarded in 1998 for her coverage of the Columbine High School shootings
  • , 1961 – awarded in 1977
  • , 1934 – awarded for distinguished local reporting in 1952
  • , 1931 – awarded for public service in 1956

Arts and media[]

Politics and public service[]

Judge Gershwin A. Drain

Sports[]

Lyle Overbay

Other notables[]

  • Susan Desmond-Hellmann – CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,[11] first woman to hold position of Chancellor at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)[12]
  • John Etchemendy – philosopher and Stanford provost
  • Jennifer Harman – professional poker player; first woman to win two bracelets in World Series of Poker open events
  • Diane Kennedy – CPA, speaker, and financial writer
  • Charlton Laird – linguist and writer; created the 1971 edition of the Webster's New World Thesaurus, which became the standard edition still used today
  • Irena Scott, author and physiologist
  • Ron Toomer, 1961 – developed the first upside-down roller coaster, the Corkscrew
  • Washoe – first chimpanzee to successfully learn American Sign Language

References[]

  1. ^ "Professor R. Jacob Baker's biography". cmosedu.com.
  2. ^ Strain, Boyd R. (April 1, 1997). "William Dwight Billings, 1910‐1997". The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 78 (2): 115–117. JSTOR 20168134 – via esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com.
  3. ^ "NevadaNews – University of Nevada, Reno". Archived from the original on April 18, 2008.
  4. ^ Baskin, Jon (March 17, 2017). "The Academic Home of Trumpism". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved March 28, 2017. John Marini, a professor of political science at the University of Nevada at Reno, praised Trump in July for having grasped that neither political party any longer provided a "meaningful link between the people and the government."
  5. ^ King, Susan; Baker, Bob (April 25, 2003). "Charles Douglass, 93; Inventor Brought Canned Laughs to TV". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 11, 2019.
  6. ^ "Grant Harvey". IMDb. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  7. ^ "Assemblywoman Robin L. Titus". Nevada Legislature. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  8. ^ "Gina Carano MMA Bio". Retrieved January 1, 2014.
  9. ^ "Jorge Alberto Cordova". Pro-Football-Reference.Com. Archived from the original on January 6, 2013. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  10. ^ "Lise Mackie (1995-98/Swimming)". University of Nevada Athletics.
  11. ^ "Sue Desmond-Hellmann". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved May 8, 2017.
  12. ^ "Susan Desmond-Hellmann | UCSF Profiles". profiles.ucsf.edu. Retrieved May 8, 2017.
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