Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, and author of the internationally best-selling book, On Death and Dying (1969), where she first discussed her theory of the five stages of grief, also known as the "Kübler-Ross model."
Kübler-Ross was a 2007 inductee into the National Women's Hall of Fame, was named by Time as one of the "100 Most Important Thinkers" of the 20th century, and was the recipient of nineteen honorary degrees. By July 1982, Kübler-Ross taught 125,000 students in death and dying courses in colleges, seminaries, medical schools, hospitals, and social-work institutions. In 1970, she delivered an Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard University on the theme On Death and Dying.
Kübler-Ross was one of the central figures in the hospice care movement, believing that euthanasia prevents people from completing their "unfinished business." In 1977 she persuaded her husband to buy forty acres of land in Escondido, California, near San Diego, where she founded "Shanti Nilaya" (Home of Peace). She intended it as a healing center for the dying and their families. She was also a co-founder of the American Holistic Medical Association.
In the late 1970s, after interviewing thousands of patients who had died and been resuscitated, she became interested in out-of-body experiences, mediumship, spiritualism, and other ways of attempting to contact the dead. This led to a scandal connected to the Shanti Nilaya Healing Center, in which she was duped by Jay Barham, founder of the Church of the Facet of the Divinity.
Claiming he could channel the spirits of the departed and summon ethereal "entities," he encouraged church members to engage in sexual relations with the "spirits." He may have hired several women to play the parts of female spirits for this purpose.
Kubler-Ross' friend Deanna Edwards was invited to attend a service to ascertain whether allegations against Barham were true. He was found to be naked and wearing only a turban when Edwards unexpectedly pulled the masking tape off the light switch and flipped on the light. Despite the accusation of sexual misconduct, Kübler-Ross protected him for over a year. Then she announced the ending of her association with both Jay Barham and his wife Martha in her Shanti Nilaya Newsletter (issue 7) on June 7, 1981.
Kübler-Ross also dealt with the phenomenon of near-death experiences. She was also an advocate for spiritual guides and the afterlife, serving on the Advisory Board of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS).
Kübler-Ross reported her interviews with the dying for the first time in her book, On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Families (1969). Kübler-Ross went on to write more about near-death experiences (NDEs) in her books, On Life After Death 1991 and The Tunnel and The Light 1999.

Elisabeth

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque. Stephenson's work explores mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. He has written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury.
Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (founded by Jeff Bezos) developing a spacecraft and a space launch system, and is also a cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He was Magic Leap's Chief Futurist from 2014 to 2020. Born on October 31, 1959, in Fort Meade, Maryland, Stephenson came from a family of engineers and scientists; his father was a professor of electrical engineering, while his paternal grandfather was a physics professor. His mother worked in a biochemistry laboratory, and her father was a biochemistry professor.&nbsp;
Stephenson's family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, in 1960 and then in 1966 to Ames, Iowa. He graduated from Ames High School in 1977. Stephenson studied at Boston University, first specializing in physics, then switching to geography after he found that it would allow him to spend more time on the university mainframe. He graduated in 1981 with a B.A. in geography and a minor in physics. Since 1984, Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently lives in Seattle with his family.
Stephenson's first novel, The Big U, published in 1984, is a satirical take on life at American Megaversity, a vast, bland, and alienating research university beset by chaotic riots. His next novel, Zodiac (1988), is a thriller following a radical environmentalist in his struggle against corporate polluters. Neither novel attracted much critical attention on first publication but showcased concerns that Stephenson would further develop in his later work.
Stephenson's breakthrough came in 1992 with Snow Crash, a cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk novel fusing memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology, along with a sociological extrapolation of extreme laissez-faire capitalism and collectivism. Mike Godwin would later describe Stephenson at this time as "a slight, unassuming grad-student type whose soft-spoken demeanor gave no obvious indication that he had written the manic apotheosis of cyberpunk science fiction." In 1994, Stephenson joined with his uncle, J. Frederick George, to publish a political thriller, Interface, under the pen name "Stephen Bury"; they followed this in 1996 with The Cobweb.
Stephenson's next solo novel, published in 1995, was The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. The plot involves a weapon implanted in a character's skull, near-limitless replicators for everything from mattresses to foods, smart paper, and air and blood-sanitizing nanobots. It is set in a world with a neo-Victorian social structure. Cryptonomicon followed this in 1999, a novel including concepts ranging from Alan Turing's research into codebreaking and cryptography during the Second World War to a modern attempt to set up a data haven. In 2013, Cryptonomicon won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.
The Baroque Cycle is a series of historical novels set in the 17th and 18th centuries and is, in some respects, a prequel to Cryptonomicon. It was originally published in three volumes of two or three books each – Quicksilver (2003), The Confusion (2004), and The System of the World (2004) – but was subsequently republished as eight separate books: Quicksilver, King of the Vagabonds, Odalisque, Bonanza, Juncto, Solomon's Gold, Currency, and System of the World. (The titles and exact breakdown vary in different markets.) The System of the World won the Prometheus Award in 2005.
Following this, Stephenson wrote Anathem (2008), a long and detailed novel of speculative fiction. It is set in an Earthlike world, deals with metaphysics, and refers heavily to Ancient Greek philosophy. Anathem won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2009. In May 2010, the Subutai Corporation, of which Stephenson was named chairman, announced the production of an experimental multimedia fiction project called The Mongoliad, which centered upon a narrative written by Stephenson and other speculative fiction authors.
Stephenson's novel REAMDE was released on September 20, 2011. The title is a play on the common filename README. This thriller, set in the present, centers around a group of MMORPG developers caught in the middle of Chinese cyber-criminals, Islamic terrorists, and the Russian mafia. On August 7, 2012, Stephenson released a collection of essays and other previously published fiction entitled Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing. This collection also includes a new essay and a short story created specifically for this volume.
In late 2013, Stephenson stated that he was working on a multi-volume work of historical novels that would "have a lot to do with scientific and technological themes and how those interact with the characters and civilization during a particular span of history." He expected the first two volumes to be released in mid-to-late 2014. However, at about the same time, he shifted his attention to a science fiction novel, Seveneves, which was completed about a year later and was published in May 2015. On June 8, 2016, plans were announced to adapt Seveneves for the screen.
In May 2016, as part of a video discussion with Bill Gates, Stephenson revealed that he had just submitted the manuscript for a new historical novel—"a time travel book"—co-written with Nicole Galland, one of his Mongoliad coauthors. This was released as The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. on June 13, 2017. In June 2019, his novel Fall, or Dodge in Hell, was published. It is a near-future novel that explores mind uploading into the cloud and contains characters from 2011's Reamde, 1999's Cryptonomicon, and other books. Termination Shock, published in November 2021, is a climate fiction novel about solar geoengineering.

Neal

Thiele Fred Harvey, age 98, passed away on Wednesday, January 5, 2022, in San Antonio, Texas. Born on October 29, 1923, in Memphis, TX, to parents Thiele Fowler Harvey ad Jessie Lee Searcy. Fred, his seven sisters, and one brother grew up in Abilene and Odessa, Texas. He served in the US Marine Corps in WWII until he was wounded on Iwo Jima.
He went to college at Panhandle A&amp;M and earned his master's degree at West Texas State. In the 1950s, he coached baseball and football at Ysleta High School in El Paso, Texas. In the 1960’s he coached football at Eastwood High School in El Paso. In the 1970s, he coached football at Littleton High School in Littleton, Colorado.&nbsp;&nbsp;
He spent the rest of his career in education with the Department of Defense in South Korea and Turkey. In his retirement, he wrote a book, “Hell Yes I’d Do It All Again,” traveling to book signings, speaking engagements, and presentations to school groups.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Thiele and Jessie Harvey, six sisters and his brother, and his daughter Mary Lou Harvey Sauriol. T Fred is survived by his son, Charles R. Harvey “Chuck,” his sister Pattie Maddox, his granddaughters Kerry Gossman, Katie Brown, and Kendra Fortner, and four great-grandchildren.&nbsp;

Frank Stewart has been editor of Mānoa: a Pacific Journal of International Writing since 1989. He is also an essayist, translator, and author of four books of poetry. For his poetry, he was awarded the prestigious Whiting Writers’ Award in New York in 1986 and other awards, including the Hawai'i Governor's Award for Literature.&nbsp;
He has also edited eight anthologies on the contemporary literature and environment of Hawai‘i, Asia, and the Pacific. These include Wao Akua: The Sacred Source, 2003, and The Poem Behind the Poem: Translating Asian Poetry into English, 2004.&nbsp;
He represented American writers at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Indigenous and Contemporary Poetry in Manila; was a U.S. representative to the Taipei International Poetry Festival in Taiwan; the American representative to the Commonwealth Games/Literature in New Delhi, and he's been invited to other conferences in Seoul, New Delhi, and several cities in Japan.

Frank

Gary Brozek is a freelance writer and the author of more than 20 books, including 6 New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Colorado.

Gary

Richard Betts is a renowned British artist who has been working in the art world since the early 1980s. He is renowned for his vibrant, abstract pieces that often incorporate a variety of mediums, such as paint, fabric, and other mixed media. His work is often described as a combination of expressionism and minimalism, combining bold colors and shapes with intricate detailing.
Richard Betts was born in London in 1958 and began his career as an artist when he was sixteen. His early works were mainly abstract paintings, often involving intense colors and textures. He was inspired by the vibrant works of the early 20th-century abstract expressionists, and he found solace in the work of artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem De Kooning.
Throughout his career, Richard Betts has explored various mediums, including painting, sculpture, and even photography. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and museums around the world, including the Tate Modern in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His work is part of the permanent collections of many prestigious institutions, such as the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the British Council.
Richard Betts has also been associated with the British Pop Art movement and often explores the relationship between art and popular culture in his works. His art is often full of vibrant, contrasting colors and shapes that evoke a sense of motion and energy. He is also known for his use of textiles and fabrics in his art, often incorporating fabrics from different cultures and places around the world.
Richard Betts has been awarded numerous honors, including the Turner and Jerwood prizes. He has also lectured and taught at various universities, including the Royal College of Art in London and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. His work is highly sought after by collectors and museums around the world, and his pieces are often featured in auctions and art fairs.
Richard Betts has also been involved in many philanthropic initiatives and has supported numerous charities and organizations. He was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2015 for his services to art and culture. He is also a patron of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and a member of the Tate Gallery's International Council.
Richard Betts is an internationally acclaimed artist who has been praised for his unique and vibrant works. He continues to produce art that is both aesthetically pleasing and thought-provoking, exploring the relationship between art and popular culture through his pieces. He is an important figure in the art world, and his work will continue to inspire and delight viewers for years to come.

Richard

Thomas Berry Brazelton (May 10, 1918 – March 13, 2018) was an American pediatrician, author, and developer of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS). Brazelton hosted the cable television program What Every Baby Knows and wrote a syndicated newspaper column. He wrote more than two hundred scholarly papers and twenty-four books.&nbsp;
Brazelton was born in Waco, Texas. He graduated in 1940 from Princeton and in 1943 from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, where he accepted a medical internship at Roosevelt Hospital. In 1945, after war service in the U.S. Navy, he completed his medical residency at Boston Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) before undertaking pediatric training at Children's Hospital of Boston.
He entered private practice in 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His interest in child development led to training in child psychiatry at MGH and the James Jackson Putnam Children's Center. He subsequently served as a Fellow with Professor Jerome Bruner at the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard University, then combined his interests in primary care pediatrics and child psychiatry. In 1972 established, the Child Development Unit, a pediatric training and research center at Children's Hospital in Boston. From 1988, he was a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus at Harvard Medical School.
Brazelton was president of the Society for Research in Child Development (1987–1989) and of the National Center for Clinical Infant Programs (1988–1991). He appeared many times before Congressional committees in support of parental and medical leave bills. He continued to work with the Alliance for Better Child Care for a more comprehensive daycare bill. He was a co-founder of Parent Action and served on the National Commission on Children.
Brazelton is widely known for developing a "child-oriented" approach suggesting to start toilet training not earlier than 24 months of child's age while looking for "readiness signs" for mature toilet behavior. In his work, he shared his opinion that "...there is little innate in the child that leads him to want to be clean and dry; it must be understood as a kind of compliance to external pressure" and that parents should withstand "external pressure" of grandparents to start toilet education around 9 months of age and postpone it until a child is demonstrating sure "readiness signs".&nbsp;
Later Brazelton served as Chairman of Pampers Parenting Institute, funded by P&amp;G Corporation, a global disposable diaper market leader. He also participated in Pampers advertising for Toddler diapers N6. Brazelton appeared several times on The Oprah Winfrey Show and the Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus's Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His recent books include Complicit; Decision Leadership (with Don A. Moore); Better, Not Perfect; The Power of Experiments (with Michael Luca); The Power of Noticing; Judgment in Managerial Decision Making (with Don Moore); and Blind Spots (with Ann Tenbrunsel).
Max received an honorary doctorate from the University of London, the Life Achievement Award from the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program, the Distinguished Educator Award from the Academy of Management, the Academy of Management Career Award for Scholarly Contributions to Management, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. In addition, Max was named as Ethisphere's 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics and as one of Daily Kos' Heroes for going public about how the Bush Administration corrupted the RICO Tobacco trial.
Max’s former doctoral students have accepted positions at leading business schools throughout the United States, including the Kellogg School at Northwestern, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the Fuqua School at Duke, the Johnson School at Cornell, Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Columbia, and the Harvard Business School.
His professional activities include projects with Abbott, Aetna, AIG, Alcar, Alcoa, Allstate, Ameritech, Amgen, Apax Partners, Asian Development Bank, AstraZeneca, AT&amp;T, Aventis, BASF, Bayer, Becton Dickenson, Biogen, Boston Scientific, BP, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Business Week, Celtic Insurance, Chevron, Chicago Tribune, City of Chicago, and additional companies that start with letters between D and Z. Max's consulting, teaching, and lecturing includes work in 30 countries.

Maxwell W Nurnberg is the author of books such as Fun With Words.

Maxwell

Kazuo Uyeda is a Japanese bartender, and the proprietor of Tokyo’s internationally-renowned Tender Bar. Since 1966, Kazuo Uyeda has been bartending in Tokyo’s most popular establishments. After serving as bartender at Kaikan for eight years, Uyeda graduated to the upscale Bar l’Osier in Tokyo’s famous Shiseido Parlor. It was here that Uyeda developed a cult following for his “hard shake” cocktail shaking technique—a procedure devised by Uyeda to maximize aeration and elevate the flavor of his cocktails.
In 1997, Uyeda opened Tender Bar in Tokyo’s Ginza district. As owner and head bartender, he mixes up an award-winning menu of classic drinks and Uyeda originals. Enthusiasts travel from around the world to sample offerings from Japan’s “hard shake” master.
In 2010, Kazuo Uyeda’s seminal cocktail book, Cocktail Techniques, was translated into English, giving Westerners an inside look at the relatively unknown world of Japanese bartending culture and techniques. Kazuo Uyeda has won numerous cocktail competitions, earning him a reputation as Japan’s best bartender and as the “grandfather of Japanese bar service.”

Kazuo

Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, was a Polish Jewish educator, children's author, and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor"). After spending many years working as a principal of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused sanctuary repeatedly. He stayed with his orphans when the entire institution population was sent from the Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp during the Grossaktion Warschau of 1942.
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit[ (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish Jewish educator, children's author, and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor"). After spending many years working as a principal of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused sanctuary repeatedly.&nbsp;
He stayed with his orphans when the entire institution population was sent from the Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp during the Grossaktion Warschau of 1942. Korczak's best-known writing is his fiction and pedagogy; his most popular works have been widely translated. His main pedagogical texts have been translated into English, but of his fiction, as of 2012, only two of his novels have been translated into English: King Matt the First and Kaytek the Wizard.

Janusz

Dominic Ottaviano was a Republican candidate in the November 8, 2011, special election for the Georgia House of Representatives, District 25. The special election was called to fill the vacancy created when James Mills (R) resigned to accept an appointment to the State Pardons and Paroles board.

Dominic

Steven Strogatz is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. After graduating summa cum laude in mathematics from Princeton in 1980, Strogatz studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He did his doctoral work in applied mathematics at Harvard, followed by a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard and Boston University. From 1989 to 1994, Strogatz taught in the Department of Mathematics at MIT. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1994.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Strogatz has broad research interests. Early in his career, he worked on a variety of problems in mathematical biology, including the geometry of supercoiled DNA, the dynamics of the human sleep-wake cycle, the topology of three-dimensional chemical waves, and the collective behavior of biological oscillators, such as swarms of synchronously flashing fireflies. In the 1990s, his work focused on nonlinear dynamics and chaos applied to physics, engineering, and biology. Several of these projects dealt with coupled oscillators, such as lasers, superconducting Josephson junctions, and crickets that chirp in unison.&nbsp;
In each case, the research involved close collaborations with experimentalists. He also likes branching out into new areas, often with students taking the lead. Over the years, this has led him to such topics as the role of crowd synchronization in the wobbling of London’s Millennium Bridge on its opening day and the dynamics of structural balance in social systems.&nbsp;
Perhaps his best-known research contribution is his 1998 Nature paper on "small-world" networks, co-authored with his former student Duncan Watts. It has now been cited more than 50,000 times, according to Google Scholar. As of 17 October 2014, it was the 63rd most highly cited research article of all time.&nbsp;
Strogatz has received numerous awards for his research, teaching, and public communication, including: a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation (1990); MIT's highest teaching prize, the E. M. Baker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1991); the J.P. and Mary Barger '50 Teaching Award (1997), the Robert '55 and Vanne '57 Cowie Teaching Award (2001), the Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award (2006), and the Swanson Teaching Award (2009), all from Cornell's College of Engineering; the Communications Award from the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (2007), a lifetime achievement award for the communication of mathematics to the general public; the AAAS Public Engagement with Science Award (2013), whose previous winners include Carl Sagan, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and E.O. Wilson; the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2015), which honors "the scientist as poet" and whose previous awardees include Freeman Dyson, Oliver Sacks, and Atul Gawande; Cornell's highest teaching prize, the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship (2016); and the SIAM George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition (2019).&nbsp;
Strogatz is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012), the American Physical Society (2014), and the American Mathematical Society (2016).
He has spoken at TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and the World Government Summit, and he is a frequent guest on Radiolab and Science Friday. In the spring of 2010, he wrote a weekly blog about mathematics for the New York Times; the Harvard Business Review described these columns as “a model for how mathematics needs to be popularized." His second New York Times series, Me, Myself and Math, appeared in the fall of 2012.&nbsp;
Strogatz also filmed a series of 24 lectures on Chaos for the Teaching Company’s Great Courses series. In 2020 and 2021, he hosted a podcast for Quanta Magazine called The Joy of x, in which he interviewed some of the world’s leading scientists and mathematicians. In 2022 he began hosting a new podcast for Quanta called The Joy of Why, which explores some of the biggest unanswered questions in math and science today.
Strogatz is the author of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (1994), Sync (2003), The Calculus of Friendship (2009), and The Joy of x (2012). His most recent book, Infinite Powers (2019), was a New York Times Best Seller and was shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize.&nbsp;

Steven

A survivor of sexual assault turned advocate and educator- As a freshman in college, Kimberly started her work with sexual abuse prevention as a women’s health Peer Counselor and Human Sexuality teaching assistant to the renowned Dr. Sandra Caron. But after more than a decade of teaching kindergarten and proactive momming, her son had a body safety scare with a friend, triggering a shift. She realized she wanted to take the scare out of sexual abuse prevention.
I Said No! A kid-to-kid guide to keeping private parts private was created to solve problems and protect children. Now, Kimberly helps parents, and all who care for kids, learn to talk about body safety easily to prevent abuse and protect their kids.&nbsp;
Her work has been featured in various magazines, podcasts, and blogs, including; ABC, NBC, NBC, Capeless Hero, Ticker News, The Chicago Tribune, Women’s Fitness, Child Mind Institute, Social Work Now, US News and World Report, The Health Journal, Modern Mom, PopSugar, Child Life Mom, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Thrive Global, Medium, Yahoo News, Hollywood Entertainment, NY Post, and Executive Contributor for Brainz Magazine.
Podcasts: The Mom Room, Dad's Divorce, MomTalks, Split, Consent Parenting, Pretty Wellness Podcast, Shock Your Potential, I Heart Radio, Hearts Happiness Podcast, and it is highly recommended as a resource by national prevention organizations.

Kimberly

Maria Magdalene Tatar is an American academic whose expertise lies in children's literature, German literature, and folklore. She is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University.&nbsp;
Maria Tatar was born in Pressath, Germany. Her family emigrated from Hungary to the United States in the 1950s when she was a child. She grew up in Highland Park, Illinois, and graduated from Highland Park High School in 1963.&nbsp;
Tatar earned an undergraduate degree from Denison University and a doctoral degree from Princeton University. In 1971, after finishing her doctorate at Princeton University, Tatar joined the faculty of Harvard University. She received tenure in 1978. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Maria

John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is an American writer. He is considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. He is a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the category of General Nonfiction. He won that award on the fourth occasion in 1999 for Annals of the Former World (a collection of five books, including two of his previous Pulitzer finalists).&nbsp;
In 2008, he received the George Polk Career Award for his "indelible mark on American journalism during his near half-century career." Since 1974, McPhee has been the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. McPhee has lived in Princeton, New Jersey, for most of his life. He was born in Princeton, the son of the Princeton University athletic department's physician, Dr. Harry McPhee.&nbsp;
He was educated at Princeton High School, then spent a postgraduate year at Deerfield Academy before graduating from Princeton University in 1953 with a senior thesis titled "Skimmer Burns" and spending a year at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. McPhee was a member of the University Cottage Club while he was a student at Princeton.
While at Princeton, McPhee went to New York once or twice a week to appear as the juvenile panelist on the radio and television quiz program Twenty Questions. One of his roommates at Princeton was 1951 Heisman Trophy winner Dick Kazmaier.
Twice married, McPhee is the father of four daughters from his first marriage to Pryde Brown: the novelist's Jenny McPhee and Martha McPhee, photographer Laura McPhee, and architecture historian Sarah McPhee.

John

Taylor

Over the past decade, a small revolution has taken place at some of the worlds leading universities, as they have started to provide free access to undergraduate course materials--including syllabi, assignments, and lectures--to anyone with an Internet connection.  Yale offers high-quality audio and video recordings of a careful selection of popular lectures, MIT supplies digital materials for nearly all of its courses, Carnegie Mellon boasts a purpose-built interactive learning environment, and some of the most selective universities in India have created a vast body of online content in order to reach more of the countrys exploding student population.  Although they dont offer online credit or degrees, efforts like these are beginning to open up elite institutions--and may foreshadow significant changes in the way all universities approach teaching and learning.  Unlocking the Gates is one of the first books to examine this important development. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including extensive interviews with university leaders, Taylor Walsh traces the evolution of these online courseware projects and considers the impact they may have, both inside elite universities and beyond.  As economic constraints and concerns over access demand more efficient and creative teaching models, these early initiatives may lead to more substantial innovations in how education is delivered and consumed--even at the best institutions.  Unlocking the Gates tells an important story about this form of online learning--and what it might mean for the future of higher education. 

Bill Gates is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, and humanitarian who co-founded Microsoft Corporation, one of the world's largest and most successful technology companies, in 1975. Gates has been regularly ranked as one of the world's wealthiest people and was the richest from 1995 to 2017. As of November 2020, Gates had a net worth of US$132.1 billion, making him the fourth-wealthiest person in the world.
Gates held the positions of Chairman, CEO, and Chief Software Architect at Microsoft until 2000 when he stepped down from day-to-day operations. After leaving Microsoft, Gates and his wife, Melinda Gates, co-chaired the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, a private charitable foundation dedicated to improving healthcare and education worldwide. Gates remains a board member of Microsoft and a Technology Advisor to its current CEO, Satya Nadella.
Gates is one of the most influential figures in technology and business. He has received numerous awards and honors for his philanthropic work, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the Aztec Eagle. He is also a member of the Giving Pledge, an organization created by billionaires Warren Buffett and Gates to promote charitable giving.
Gates has been a passionate advocate for using technology to improve the world. His vision of a computer on every desk and home has been realized. He is one of the most vocal proponents of using technology to address social and environmental challenges. He has also been outspoken in supporting government funding for scientific research, particularly renewable energy and artificial intelligence.
Gates' philanthropic efforts have been focused on improving global health, providing access to technology for underserved populations, and promoting educational opportunities for children and young adults. He has made significant investments in initiatives to fight poverty and increase access to medical care, particularly in the developing world. In addition, the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation has partnered with numerous organizations to promote improved sanitation, clean water, and disease prevention among the world's poorest people.
Gates' commitment to giving back has been an inspiration to many. His dedication to using technology and business to improve the lives of people around the world is an example of how successful people can use their resources to make a difference.
Gates has also been a vocal proponent of open-source technology, advocating for the development of software and hardware that is freely available to the public. He has also been a vocal proponent of the open internet and a leader in the fight against censorship and government surveillance. In addition, he has been a strong advocate for using technology to combat climate change and has invested in numerous renewable energy initiatives.
Gates has also been a vocal proponent of net neutrality and has spoken out in favor of increased competition in the technology sector. His efforts to improve people's lives worldwide have earned him the admiration of many, and his commitment to philanthropy and innovation has made him one of the world's most influential and respected figures.

Bill

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In 'Unlocking the Gates', Taylor Walsh explores the potential of online education. He shows how it can reach more students, provide flexible learning options, and reduce costs. It's a great read if you're interested in the future of education.

The Power of Online Education

Walsh digs into the role of elite universities in online education. He finds that their involvement can boost the credibility and quality of online courses. So, if you're curious about how top universities are shaping online education, check out this book.

The Role of Elite Universities

While online education has many benefits, it's not without challenges. Walsh takes a look at issues like student engagement, course quality, and accreditation. If you're considering online education, it's important to understand these challenges.

The Challenges of Online Education

Walsh also explores how online education is impacting traditional education. He sees it as a complementary tool rather than a replacement. This book will help you understand how online and traditional education can work together.

The Impact on Traditional Education

In 'Unlocking the Gates', Walsh doesn't just research the current state of online education. He also looks into its future. If you're interested in where education is headed, this book is a must-read.

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