Amory Lovins – 1964 Scholar
/Physicist Amory Lovins, a Massachusetts Scholar from the Program’s inaugural year, is cofounder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute and Chairman Emeritus of Fiberforge, Inc.
Read MorePhysicist Amory Lovins, a Massachusetts Scholar from the Program’s inaugural year, is cofounder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute and Chairman Emeritus of Fiberforge, Inc.
Read MoreAcclaimed actor/producer on TV, in film and on the stage; the host of NPR’s “Jazz at Lincoln Center”; author of "The Wind in the Reeds"; and rebuilder of his native New Orleans. Wendell Pierce is all of these things, and a Presidential Scholar who also served as advisor to later Presidential Scholars during National Recognition Week in 1982 and 1983.
Read MorePerhaps Bruce Reed, currently a Senior Advisor at the Broad Foundation and former Assistant to President Obama and Chief of Staff to Vice President Biden, already had plans to change the American political landscape when he traveled to Washington as one of Idaho’s Presidential Scholars.
Read MoreJust eight years after he took the stage at the Kennedy Center as a Presidential Scholar from New York, the New York Times hailed Desmond Richardson as “one of the great modern dancers of his time.”
Read MoreIt must have seemed like destiny when this great-great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt was named a Presidential Scholar from the District of Columbia.
Read MoreAs a high school student in Worthington, Ohio, Richard Alley enjoyed both his English and science classes. Since being named one of Ohio’s Presidential Scholars in 1976, he has combined these loves as a distinguished professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University.
Read MoreThe Presidential Scholars program seeks out and rewards academic rigor, and journalist Charles Shepard was honored for this as Connecticut’s Scholar in 1972.
Read MoreSrinija Srinivasan chairs the Board of Trustees of SFJAZZ, a nonprofit organization in San Francisco dedicated to jazz creation, presentation, and education. She also serves on the White House Commission on U.S. Presidential Scholars.
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