List of Florida Atlantic University people

This list of Florida Atlantic University people includes graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Florida Atlantic University

Florida Atlantic University

Florida Atlantic University, also referred to as FAU or Florida Atlantic, is a public, coeducational, research university located in , United States. The university has six satellite campuses located in the Florida cities of Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, Port St. Lucie, and in Fort...

and its graduate programs. Since its opening in 1964, Florida Atlantic has awarded over 100,000 degrees to more than 95,000 alumni worldwide.

Alumni

Basketball

Athlete	Notability
Yolanda Griffith Yolanda Griffith Yolanda Evette Griffith is a former American professional basketball who played in both the ABL, and WNBA. A Former WNBA MVP she is considered one of the greatest rebounders and defensive players in the history of Women's Basketball. She last played in the WNBA as a member of the Indiana Fever...	professional basketball player in the WNBA Women's National Basketball Association The Women's National Basketball Association is a women's professional basketball league in the United States. It currently is composed of twelve teams. The league was founded on April 24, 1996 as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association...

Gridiron football

Athlete	Notability
Charles Pierre	professional football player for the BC Lions BC Lions The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team competing in the West Division of Canadian Football League . Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, the Lions play their home games at BC Place Stadium in Downtown Vancouver, having previously played at Empire Stadium in East Vancouver from 1954...
Rusty Smith Rusty Smith (American football) -Tennessee Titans:Smith was selected by the Tennessee Titans in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He was the first ever player from FAU to be drafted.He was signed to a four-year contract on June 17, 2010....	professional football player for the Tennessee Titans Tennessee Titans The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. They are members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Previously known as the Houston Oilers, the team began play in 1960 as a charter...
Rob Housler	professional football player for the Arizona Cardinals Arizona Cardinals The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
Mike Lockley	professional football player for the Jacksonville Jaguars Jacksonville Jaguars The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
Lestar Jean	professional football player for the Houston Texans Houston Texans The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. The team is currently a member of the Southern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

Athlete	Notability
Daniel Bomback	Professional MLB player
Anthony Bradley	Professional MLB player
Carmen Cali Carmen Cali Carmen Salvatore Cali is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher, who is currently a free agent.Cali graduated in 1997 from Naples High School after lettering and starring four years in both football and baseball. He went on to graduate, and letter in baseball, at Florida Atlantic University.He...	Professional MLB pitcher
Brandon Cooney	Professional MLB player
Jeff Fiorentino Jeff Fiorentino Jeffrey Philip Fiorentino is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball. He attended Florida Atlantic University and Nova High School in Davie Florida...	Professional MLB outfielder
Tim Harikkala Tim Harikkala Timothy Allan Harikkala is a Major League Baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He is an alumnus of Florida Atlantic University....	Professional MLB pitcher
Justin Martin	Professional MLB player
Tommy Murphy	Professional MLB outfielder
Justin Phillabaum	Professional MLB player
Robbie Widlansky	Professional MLB player

Rugby

Athlete	Notability
Mark Zupan	Captain of the United States quadriplegic wheelchair rugby Wheelchair rugby Wheelchair rugby, , is a team sport for athletes with a disability. It is currently practiced in over twenty countries around the world and is a Paralympic sport.... team

Tennis

Alumni	Notability
Fern "Peachy" Kellymeyer Peachy Kellmeyer Fern 'Peachy' Kellmeyer was born February 19, 1944 in West Virginia, USA. As a tennis player she captured numerous titles, and as an administrator she helped change the face of women's tennis... (M.A. 1974)	Professional tennis player Tennis Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all... , administrator, and 1999 ITA Hall of Fame inductee

Business

Alumni	Notability
Richard DiMarchi Richard DiMarchi Richard D. DiMarchi is the current Chairman in Biomolecular Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University. He is most notable for his work as a former Vice President at Eli Lilly and Company.... (B.S. 1974)	Former Vice President at Eli Lilly and Company Eli Lilly and Company Eli Lilly and Company is a global pharmaceutical company. Eli Lilly's global headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States... , and current Chairman in Biomolecular Sciences and Professor of Chemistry Chemistry Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds.... at Indiana University
Patricia McKay Patricia McKay Patricia A. McKay is a Partner with the public accounting firm of Templeton & Company which provides accounting, audit, tax and consulting services to clients from its South Florida offices in West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale... (B.B.A. 1978)	Executive Vice President, and Chief Financial Officer of Office Depot Office Depot Office Depot is a supplier of office products and provides many services. The company's selection of brand name office supplies includes business machines, computers, computer software and office furniture, while its business services encompass copying, printing, document reproduction, shipping,...
Robert "Skip" Orr Robert Orr (executive) Robert "Skipp" Orr is the former President of Boeing Japan, and former Vice President of Motorola's European Affairs Division. At Motorola he also served as Vice President and Director of Government Relations, and also Government Relations Director for Nippon Motorola in Tokyo... (B.A. 1978)	Former President of Boeing Boeing The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001... Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... , and former Vice President of Motorola Motorola Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...
Maynard Webb Maynard Webb Maynard Webb is a current member of the Board of Directors of LiveOps, a company that specializes in cloud based contact center technology. Maynard was also on the Board of Directors of Salesforce.com until his term expired in 2009. Previously, he has held the positions of Chief Operating Officer,... (B.A. 19??)	Member of the Board of Directors of Salesforce.com Salesforce.com Salesforce.com is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications off-site... , and former Chief Operating Officer, and President of Technologies for eBay EBay eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...
Phil Zimmermann Phil Zimmermann Philip R. "Phil" Zimmermann Jr. is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy , the most widely used email encryption software in the world. He is also known for his work in VoIP encryption protocols, notably ZRTP and Zfone.... (B.S. 1978)	Creator of Pretty Good Privacy Pretty Good Privacy Pretty Good Privacy is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting texts, E-mails, files, directories and whole disk partitions to increase the security...
George Zoley George Zoley Dr. George C. Zoley is the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and founder of the GEO Group. Zoley established The GEO Group as a division of The Wackenhut Corporation in 1984 when the company was named Wackenhut Corrections Corporation... (B.A. 1972, M.P.A. 1975)	Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, & Founder of The GEO Group, Inc. a publicly traded company that became independent from The Wackenhut Corporation Wackenhut G4S Secure Solutions is a private security company. It was founded as The Wackenhut Corporation in 1954, in Coral Gables, Florida, by George Wackenhut and three partners ....
Ralph de la Vega Ralph de la Vega Ralph de la Vega, a native of Cuba, since October 2008 is president and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, which includes wireline as well as wireless networks. Previously, he had been in charge at Cingular Wireless and assumed further responsibilities when AT&T consolidated... (B.S.M.E. 19??)	Chief Operating Officer of Cingular Wireless, and former President of BellSouth BellSouth BellSouth Corporation is an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after the U.S... 's Latin America Latin America Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area... n operations\
Daniel B. O'Connor (B.S. 1998)	Project Director at Sprint Nextel Sprint Nextel Sprint Nextel Corporation is an American telecommunications company based in Overland Park, Kansas. The company owns and operates Sprint, the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, with 53.4 million customers, behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility... , mobile advertising innovator and creator of first mobile advertising system in the world. Currently holds patent for mobile web log filtering - enabling behavioral profiling of mobile users.
Mark Dean (M.S.E.E. 1982)	Vice President Technical Strategy and WorldWide Operations for IBM IBM International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas... Research. Holds three of the original 9 patents on the IBM PC as well as developing the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) "bus," which permitted add-on devices like the keyboard, disk drives and printers to be connected to the motherboard

Education

Alumni	Notability
Arthur C. Brooks Arthur C. Brooks Arthur C. Brooks is an American social scientist and musician. He is the president of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. Brooks is best known for his work on the junctions between culture, economics, and politics... (M.A., 1995)	Social scientist, economist, professor, author, and professional musician
Alberto "Al" Cardenas (B.A. 1969)	Attorney, Republican Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S... lobbyist, and trustee of Florida A&M
Keith Hamm Keith Hamm Keith Hamm is an American political scientist and Edwards Professor of political science at Rice University. He's an expert on state legislatures... (M.A., 1973)	Edwards Professor of Political Science at Rice University Rice University William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
George L. Hanbury (Ph.D. 19??)	Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Nova Southeastern University Nova Southeastern University Nova Southeastern University, commonly referred to as NSU or Nova, is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian, research university located in Broward County, Florida, with its main campus in the town of Davie...

Entertainment

Alumni	Notability
Kevin Allesee (B.A. 2005)	Actor
Ana M. Azcuy (B.A. 1976)	First Hispanic Hispanic Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ... television anchor in South Florida, and three time Emmy Award Emmy Award An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various... winner
Allen Berman (B.A. 1977)	Former Senior Producer for CBS Evening News, and Executive Producer for Media Street Productions
Don Brewer Don Brewer Don Brewer is the drummer and co-lead singer for American rock band Grand Funk Railroad.- Early life :Brewer was born in Flint, Michigan on September 3, 1948 and is a graduate of Swartz Creek High School.... (B.B.A. 1990)	Drummer and founding member of the band Grand Funk Railroad Grand Funk Railroad Grand Funk Railroad is an American rock band that was highly popular during the 1970s. Grand Funk Railroad toured constantly to packed arenas worldwide. A popular take on the band during its heyday was that, although the critics hated them, audiences loved them...
Mary Carey (A.A. 2002)	Adult entertainer
Chris Carrabba Chris Carrabba Christopher Ender Carrabba is the lead singer and guitarist of the band Dashboard Confessional, and is the vocalist for the American emo/indie rock band Further Seems Forever.-Biography:...	Singer-songwriter, Dashboard Confessional Dashboard Confessional Dashboard Confessional is an American rock band from Boca Raton, Florida, led by singer-songwriter Chris Carrabba. The name of the band is derived from the song "The Sharp Hint of New Tears" from the debut album The Swiss Army Romance....
Marc Kudisch Marc Kudisch Marc Kudisch is an American stage actor, who is best known for his musical theatre roles on Broadway.-Early life and education:... (B.F.A. 1988)	Broadway Broadway theatre Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City... actor and two-time Tony Award Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway... nominee
Dean Peterson Dean Peterson Dean Peterson was the seventh head football coach for the Frostburg State University Bobcats in Frostburg, Maryland and he held that position for six seasons, from 1981 until 1986. His overall coaching record at Frostburg was 27 wins, 29 losses, and 3 ties...	Internationally-known opera star
Carrot Top Carrot Top Scott Thompson , better known by his stage name Carrot Top, is an American comedian known for his bright red hair, prop comedy, and self-deprecating humor.-Early years:... (B.B.A. 1989)	Prop comedian Prop comedy Prop comedy is a comedy genre that makes use of humorous objects, or conventional objects used in humorous ways. The stage and film term "prop", an abbreviation of "property", refers to any object handled by an actor in the course of a performance. Although some form of prop comedy has likely... famous for his red hair and television commercial Television advertisement A television advertisement or television commercial, often just commercial, advert, ad, or ad-film – is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization that conveys a message, typically one intended to market a product... s

U.S. Senators, Governors, Lt. Governors

Alumni	Notability
Frank Brogan Frank Brogan Frank T. Brogan is the current Chancellor of the State University System of Florida and the former President of Florida Atlantic University. He was also the 15th Lieutenant Governor of Florida... (M.Ed. 1981)	Chancellor Chancellor Chancellor is the title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the Cancellarii of Roman courts of justice—ushers who sat at the cancelli or lattice work screens of a basilica or law court, which separated the judge and counsel from the... of the State University System of Florida State University System of Florida The State University System of Florida is a system of eleven public universities in the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2011, over 320,000 students were enrolled in Florida's state universities... , Former Lieutenant Governor of Florida Lieutenant Governor of Florida The Lieutenant Governor of Florida is a statewide elected office in the government of the U.S. state of Florida. According to the Florida Constitution, the lieutenant governor is elected to a four-year term congruent with that of the Governor of Florida, and succeeds to the office of Governor if it... and President of Florida Atlantic University

Cabinet Members and Federal Officials

Alumni	Notability
R. David Paulison R. David Paulison Robert David Paulison is a former fire chief who served as the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency . Paulison was appointed by President George W. Bush on September 12, 2005 to replace the embattled Michael D. Brown, who resigned amid controversy over his handling of disaster... (B.A. 19??)	Current Under Secretary of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Federal Emergency Management Agency The Federal Emergency Management Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, initially created by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders...

U.S. Congressmen

Alumni	Notability
Carrie P. Meek Carrie P. Meek Carrie P. Meek is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida.-Background and early life:Meek, the granddaughter of slaves and daughter of former sharecroppers, was born and raised in segregated Tallahassee, Florida... (Hon Ph.D. 19??)	Former U.S. Congresswoman from Florida's 17th Florida's 17th congressional district Florida's 17th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida. Located in South Florida, the majority African American district includes the southern parts of Broward County and the eastern parts of Miami-Dade County... district
Daniel A. Mica Daniel A. Mica Daniel Andrew Mica is an American politician and businessman. He was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing from Florida's 11th district from 1979 to 1989, and was the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association from 1996... (B.A. 1966, Hon Ph.D. 19??)	Former U.S. Congressman, President and CEO of the Credit Union National Association Credit Union National Association The Credit Union National Association, commonly known as CUNA , is a national trade association for both state- and federally-chartered credit unions located in the United States. CUNA provides member credit unions with trade association services, such as lobbying, professional development, and... .

Judges, Lawyers, State Officials

Alumni	Notability
Carol W. Hunstein Carol W. Hunstein Carol W. Hunstein is the Chief Justice of the U.S. State Supreme Court of Georgia. She took office as chief justice on July 1, 2009 and has served on the court since 1992.-Education:... (B.S. 1972)	Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
Scott Henderson Scott Henderson Scott Henderson is a fusion and blues guitarist best known for his work with the band Tribal Tech.-Early days:Born in West Palm Beach, Florida, Henderson began playing guitar at an early age... (B.A. 19??)	Famous Jazz/Blues/Fusion Guitarist http://www.scotthenderson.net/ Tribal Tech Tribal Tech Tribal Tech is a progressive fusion band, originally formed in 1984 by guitarist Scott Henderson and bass player Gary Willis. From 1993 forward the band included Scott Kinsey on keyboard and Kirk Covington on drums, and has produced nine albums that stretch the borders between blues, jazz, and rock...
Ken Jenne Ken Jenne Kenneth C. "Ken" Jenne II , is a former Democratic member of the Florida State Senate and a former sheriff of Broward County, which encompasses Fort Lauderdale in southeastern Florida. Jenne resigned as sheriff in September 2007, after having pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion and mail fraud... (B.A. 1968)	Former Sheriff of Broward County, Florida Broward County, Florida -2000 Census:As of the census of 2000, there were 1,623,018 people, 654,445 households, and 411,645 families residing in the county. The population density was 1,346 people per square mile . There were 741,043 housing units at an average density of 615 per square mile... and former state legislator
Henry Latimer Henry Latimer (judge) Henry Latimer was the first African-American circuit court judge in Broward County, and was in line to become the first African-American president of the Florida Bar when he was killed in a car accident in South Florida... (M.A. 19??)	First African American circuit court judge in Broward County, Florida Broward County, Florida -2000 Census:As of the census of 2000, there were 1,623,018 people, 654,445 households, and 411,645 families residing in the county. The population density was 1,346 people per square mile . There were 741,043 housing units at an average density of 615 per square mile...

Literature

Alumni	Notability
Charles Ghigna Charles Ghigna Charles Ghigna is an American children's author, poet, speaker and nationally syndicated feature writer....	Poet and children's author known as "Father Goose" http://www.charlesghigna.com/fgfaq.html
Judith Ortiz Cofer Judith Ortiz Cofer Judith Ortiz Cofer is a Puerto Rican author. Her work spans a range of literary genres including poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and Young-adult fiction.-Early years:... (M.A. 1977)	Puerto Rican author

Medicine, science and technology

Alumni	Notability
Steven Swanson Steven Swanson Steven Ray Swanson is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. Swanson is married and has 3 children. Steven has received numerous awards and honors. These include the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and the JSC Certificate of Accommodation and many others... (M.A. 1986)	NASA NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research... astronaut Astronaut An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
Dr. Christopher McKay (B.A.)	Currently a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center NASA Ames Research Center The Ames Research Center , is one of the United States of America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration 10 major field centers.The centre is located in Moffett Field in California's Silicon Valley, near the high-tech companies, entrepreneurial ventures, universities, and other...

Others

Alumni	Notability
Theresa LePore Theresa LePore Theresa LePore is a former Supervisor of Elections for Palm Beach County, Florida. She is most notable as the person who designed the infamous "butterfly ballot", used in the 2000 presidential election...	Former Supervisor of Election Election An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the... s for Palm Beach County, Florida Palm Beach County, Florida Palm Beach County is the largest county in the state of Florida in total area, and third in population. As of 2010, the county's estimated population was 1,320,134, making it the twenty-eighth most populous in the United States... , most notable for her role in the 2000 Presidential Election United States presidential election, 2000 The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Republican candidate George W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush , and Democratic candidate Al Gore, then-Vice President.... controversy United States presidential election in Florida, 2000 The 2000 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 7, 2000 as it did in the other 49 states and D.C., which was part of the 2000 United States presidential election...
Mirta Ojito Mirta Ojito Mirta Ojito is a Marielito and a newspaper reporter. She is also the author of Finding Mañana, a memoir of the Mariel boatlift.Ojito was born in Havana, Cuba and lived there before emigrating to Miami in 1980 when she was 16 years old1...	Cuban Cubans Cubans or Cuban people are the inhabitants or citizens of Cuba. Cuba is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds... -born Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City... winning journalist for the New York Times and professor of journalism Journalism Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and... at the University of Miami University of Miami The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
Gerard John Schaefer Gerard John Schaefer Gerard John Schaefer was an American serial killer from Florida. He was imprisoned in 1973 for murders he committed as a Martin County, Florida Sheriff's deputy....	Former Martin County sheriff's deputy and serial killer convicted of two murders in 1973 and believed responsible for over thirty others

Faculty

Dr. J.A. Scott Kelso
J. A. Scott Kelso
J. A. Scott Kelso is a neuroscientist, and Professor of Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, Professor of Psychology, Biological Sciences and Biomedical Science at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida and The University of Ulster in Derry, N...

, Noted neuroscientist and founder of the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
The Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences is a multi-disciplinary research institute, internationally active in the fields of complexity science and neuroscience. The center is located in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida. This center was founded by J. A...
Dr. Walid Phares
Walid Phares
Walid Phares an American scholar of Lebanese origins, he is a professor and commentator on global terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs.Phares has testified before committees of the U.S. State, Justice, Defense and Homeland Security Departments, the United States Congress, the European Parliament,...

, author, national media commentator, and expert on global terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs.
Dr. Robert P. Watson
Robert P. Watson
Dr. Robert P. Watson is a professor, author, frequent media commentator, and former candidate for the United States House of Representatives.-Background and education:...

, alumnus of FAU, author, national media commentator, former candidate for the United States House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

. Formerly associate professor of political science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

at FAU.
Dr. David F. Bjorklund
David F. Bjorklund
David F. Bjorklund is a professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University. His areas of research interest include cognitive development and evolutionary developmental psychology. His works include authoring several books and over 130 scientific papers...

, psychology professor, author, pioneer in evolutionary developmental psychology
Evolutionary developmental psychology
Evolutionary developmental psychology, , is the application of the basic principles of Darwinian evolution, particularly natural selection, to explain contemporary human development...

Dr. Martin K. Solomon
Martin K. Solomon
Martin K. Solomon is an award-winning professor of Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University since 1981, and is currently Assistant Chair for the Computer Science and Engineering Department. He authored two books on Oracle8i and one on Oracle9i that were published by McGraw-Hill. Dr...

, computer science professor, author, assistant chair of the Computer Science Engineering Department, expert on Oracle and databases.
Dr. Jie Wu
Jie Wu
Jie Wu is currently a distinguished professor of Computer Science at the Temple University. He currently serves as Program Director of Networking Technology and Systems at The National Science Foundation from 2005. He is noted for his research in routing for wired and wireless networks.Dr...

, professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, Program Director for the Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) program of the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Cecilia Campoverde, associate professor of social work in the College of Architecture, Urban and Public Affairs; founder and volunteer Director of the Guatemalan Project, Inc. that worked to create a new community in Guatemala called El Triunfo for survivors of Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane Mitch was the most powerful hurricane and the most destructive of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season, with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph . The storm was the thirteenth tropical storm, ninth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the season. Along with Hurricane Georges, Mitch...
Dr. Ramaswamy Narayanan, bioinformatics expert, Director of GeneChip Core Facility, and Acting Director for the FAU Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology.
Dr. Maria Fadiman
Maria Fadiman
Maria Grace Fadiman is an ethnobotanist and professor of Geosciences at Florida Atlantic University.-Biography:Fadiman was raised in Palo Alto by documentary filmmaker, Dorothy Fadiman, and psychologist and published author, James Fadiman. She received her BA from Vassar College, her MA from...

, associate professor, an ethnobotanist and member of the 2006 National Geographic Emerging Explorers
Richard Shusterman
Richard Shusterman
Richard Shusterman is an American pragmatist philosopher, currently the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. He is internationally known for his contributions to philosophical aesthetics.-Biography and career:Richard...

, Professor of Philosophy, American pragmatist philosopher, Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, and Founder and Director of the FAU Center for Body, Mind, and Culture.

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.