Like most Scholars, Jack Wolfgramm, 2015 Presidential Scholar from Hawaii, was surprised and pleased to be invited to be a candidate, and even more surprised to have been selected. His trip from Hawaii to Washington D.C. for the National Recognition Program, though, was much different than for other Scholars.
Read MoreSince being named a U.S. Presidential Scholar in 1975, Rear Admiral (RADM) Patrick O’Carroll has worked in medicine and public health – writ large and writ small - from seeing individual patients, to investigating disease outbreaks, to helping the federal government efficiently and effectively promote health and prevent disease.
Read MoreJust three years after being named New Jersey’s Presidential Scholar in 1981, Suzette Charles DeGaetano claimed another national honor – the title of Miss America 1984.
Read MoreWhen poet Rita Dove was named Ohio’s Presidential Scholar in 1970, she surely didn’t know it was only the first of many national academic and literary honors. She served as Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995...
Read MoreIn 1988, Kristin Forbes was honored by President Reagan as New Hampshire’s Presidential Scholar; in 2003, she returned to Washington as President Bush’s appointee to the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), and its youngest member ever.
Read MoreLeezie Kim proudly completed her term as a political appointee in the Obama Administration in July 2011. She had served as the Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security...
Read MoreIn 1983, Sallie Krawcheck was named South Carolina’s Presidential Scholar; in 2004 Fortune.com ranked her seventh among the 10 most powerful women in business.
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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