After 2000

Nadya Mason
Nadya Mason joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois in 2005. She became the ...
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Cynthia Oliver
Cynthia Oliver joined the College of Fine and Applied Arts’ faculty in 2000 and is now the Director of the ...
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Clair Sullivan
Clair Sullivan joined the Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering Department in 2012 as the first female faculty member. Her presence ...
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Cinda Heeren
Cinda Heeren received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 2004, and became a senior lecturer ...
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Christie Gilson
Christie Gilson received her BS in 2001 and her PhD in 2008 both in Special Education. President Barack Obama nominated ...
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Carolyn Tomchik
Carolyn Tomchik received all of her degrees from the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering in the College of ...
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Barbara Wilson
Barbara Wilson came to Illinois in 2000 as a faculty member in the Department of Communication. She served as Department ...
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Assata Zerai
Assata Zerai came to the University of Illinois in 2002 as a faculty member in Sociology. In spring 2015, as ...
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Ashlynn Stillwell
Ashlynn Stillwell joined the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department in 2013, and is one of two female professors in the ...
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Ann-Perry Witmer
Ann-Perry Witmer, nominated by over ten individuals, graduated from the University of Illinois in 2002 with a degree in Engineering ...
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Alicia P. Rodriguez
Alicia P. Rodriguez, an alumna of the University of Illinois, joined the Latina/Latino Studies faculty in 2003. She served as ...
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Princess Imoukhuede
Princess Imoukhuede joined the Bioengineering Department in 2012. She is bringing her passion and expertise to solving the problem of ...
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Perdita Felicien
Perdita Felicien graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from the University of Illinois in 2004. She was an ...
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Parisa Tabriz
Parisa Tabriz received her Bachelor of Science in 2005 and her Master of Science in 2007, both in Computer Science ...
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Nancy Cantor
Nancy Cantor became the first female Chancellor of the University of Illinois serving from 2001 to 2004. During her time ...
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Isabel Molina Guzma
Isabel Molina Guzman came to campus in the early 2000s as a postdoc in Latina/Latino Studies and was hired as ...
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Heidi Hurd
Heidi Hurd joined the College of Law faculty at the University of Illinois in 2002, becoming the college’s first female ...
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Erika Harold
Erika Harold graduated from the University of Illinois in 2001 with an undergraduate degree in political science. As a student, ...
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Elizabeth Hsiao-Wecksler
Elizabeth Hsiao-Wecksler is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, where she began as an assistant professor ...
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Yemaya Bordain
Yemaya Bordain received her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois in 2015, becoming ECE's first ...
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Tatyana McFadden
Tatyana McFadden graduated in 2016 with an undergraduate degree in Human Development and Family Studies. She competed for the USA ...
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Suja Thomas
Suja Thomas joined the College of Law faculty in 2008. Suja studies the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Amendment jury provisions, ...
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Robin Wilson
Robin Wilson is Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law. She is director of the program in Family Law and ...
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Rebecca Ginsburg
Rebecca Ginsburg came to the University of Illinois in 2004 as an Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture. She was promoted ...
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Zahra Mohaghegh
Zahra Mohaghegh joined the College of Engineering’s Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiology Engineering Department faculty around 2012, bringing a new research ...
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