About UB

Continued Excellence

Among our celebrated graduates you will find NASA’s lead astronaut for medical issues, the Minister for Higher Education in the People’s Republic of China, the cofounder of Miramax Films, and the Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.

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    Robin Li—cofounder of Baidu.com, largest Chinese search engine and second-largest independent search engine in the world.

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    Allan Gerson—brought the first lawsuit against Libya on behalf of the families of Pan Am Flight 103 victims.

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    Ellen Shulman Baker—an astronaut/NASA mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Atlantis in 1989.

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    Harvey Weinstein—cofounder of Miramax Films.

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    Wolf Blitzer—an award-winning journalist for CNN.

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    Wilson Greatbatch—the inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker.

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    Tom Toles—the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist at the Washington Post.

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    Ron Silver—an actor who has had prominent roles on "Rhoda," "Hill Street Blues," and "The West Wing."

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