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Areas Of Involvement higher education • public education
Notable Alumni Jim Harbaugh • Moses Coit Tyler • Marshall Sahlins • David Daniels • Mary Frances Berry • Rosabeth Moss Kanter • Tom Brady • Gerald Ford • Madonna • Jesmyn Ward • Lori Lightfoot • Ben Carson • Sanjay Gupta • Edmund White • Paul Milgrom • James Earl Jones • Arthur Miller • Bill Joy • Jack Kevorkian • Rob Portman • Celeste Ng • Sam Zell • Ted Kaczynski • Margaret Bourke-White • Tom Hayden • H.H. Holmes • Christopher Paul Curtis • Lawrence Wong • Ann Coulter • Todd Gitlin • Marshall Warren Nirenberg • Stephen Smale • Robert J. Shiller • Larry Page • Nancy Kassebaum • Philip C. Curtis • Cathy Guisewite • Michael Stonebraker • Ken Salazar • Arden L. Bement, Jr. • Edgar Frank Codd • Janet Guthrie • Donald Kuspit • Thomas McGuane • Frances E. Allen • Jerome Karle • James Comer • Isadore Singer • Max Apple • Stanley Cohen • Jessye Norman • Samuel C.C. Ting • Charles B. Huggins • Al Worden • Ross Macdonald • R.S. Crane • James Rowland Angell • Lewis Ralph Jones • Stephen Arthur Cook • Peyton Rous • George O. Curme • James McDivitt
Related People Jim Harbaugh • Moses Coit Tyler • Fritz Crisler • John Davis Pierce • Fielding Yost • Benny Friedman • Willie Heston • James Burrill Angell • Bennie Oosterbaan

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