Below is a list of Pi Lambda Phi notable Alumni Brothers. Pi Lambda Phi is a fraternity in the United States.
Academia Name Original chapter Initiationyear Notability ReferencesHarvey Burstein NE Chi 1941 David B. Schulman Professor Emeritus of Security at Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice where he taught for 15 years, a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Chief, Foreign and Domestic Investigations, Surveys, and Physical Security, U.S. Department of State. Since leaving federal service Mr. Burstein has practiced law, been a security management consultant for various Fortune 500 companies, and worked as a corporate security director. He is the author of nine books on various aspects of security management and investigations.Mark EisnerNY Beta 1905 grad Chairman of the Board of Higher Education, New York from 1931 to 1953 and New York State Assembly IL Omicron 1919 neurophysiologist and behavioral scientist known for his wide-ranging work on the nervous system, nerve metabolism, psychopharmacology, and biological basis of schizophrenia. Gerard was a professor at several universities including, the University of South Dakota, the University of Chicago, the College of Medicine, at the University of Illinois, Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford California, and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he helped to establish the Mental Health Research Institute. He helped to organize the newly forming Irvine campus of the University of California, and became its first Dean of its Graduate Division until his retirement in 1970. After retirement he initiated the activities, under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, which led to the founding of the highly successful Society for Neuroscience. Online Archive of California, Guide to the Ralph Waldo Gerard Papers, 2006Abraham GillowPA Epsilon Zeta 1939Dean of the Stern School of Business at New York University from 1965 to 1985 and currently Dean Emeritus and Professor in Economics Emeritus. Author of numerous books including Corruption in Corporate America: Who is Responsible? Who Will Protect the Public Interest? and Being the Boss: The Importance of Leadership and Power.The Tripod, Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity, 1945, p.5A Documentary History of the Communist Party of the United States: Unite and fight, 1934–1935, Bernard J. Johnpoll, p.307 MA Theta 1960 mathematician. He was the Percey F. Smith Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. Orszag specialized in fluid dynamics, especially turbulence, computational physics and mathematics, electronic chip manufacturing, computer storage system design, and other topics in scientific computing. His work included the development of spectral methods, pseudo-spectral methods, direct numerical simulations, renormalization group methods for turbulence, and very-large-eddy simulations. He was the founder of and/or chief scientific adviser to a number of companies, including Flow Research, Ibrix (now part of HPQ), Vector Technologies, and Exa Corp. He has been awarded 6 patents and has written over 400 archival papers. OH Alpha Epsilon 1949 Anarchist is known for his extensive writings on nonviolent struggle: he has been called both the "Machiavelli of nonviolence" and the "Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare."Weber, Thomas. Gandhi as Disciple and Mentor. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004 Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He held a research appointment at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs for almost 30 years. In 1983 he founded the Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit organization devoted to studies and promotion of the use of nonviolent action in conflicts worldwide. VA Psi1958 Dean of the Tulane University Law School, a president of the College of William and Mary, and a dean of Cardozo School of Law. He also served as the CEO of the Automobile Association from 1992 to 1995. He is currently on the faculty of the Cardozo School of Law. In 2009, Verkuil was nominated by President Barack Obama to be head of the Administrative Conference of the United States. OH Beta Sigma 1951 Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, emeritus at Harvard University. He started his career in 1960 as an assistant professor at Yale University and then as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard, studying Chinese language and history. He remained at Harvard, becoming professor in 1967 and succeeded John Fairbank as second director (1972–1977) of Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard. He was the second chairman of the Council for East Asian Studies (1977–1980). He was director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Center for International Affairs (1980–1987) and, since 1987, honorary director. He was director of the Undergraduate Concentration in East Asian Studies from its inception in 1972 until 1989. In 1993 he took a two-year leave of absence, serving as national intelligence officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council. He returned to Harvard in September 1995 to direct the Fairbank Center until 1999 and was head of the Asia Center from 1997 to 1999. The Japanese edition of Professor Vogel's book Japan as Number One: Lessons for America (1979) remains the all-time best-seller in Japan of non-fiction by a Western author.
Art and architecture Name Original chapter Initiationyear Notability References CA Tau 1931 Cartoonist and writer, and creator of the cartoon series Hazel. Joe NovakNH Pi1950Lawyer who served as a consultant to Puerto Rico Governor Luis A. Ferré turned artist, his works are on exhibit in over 100 public and private collections. Author of Something To Do With Wings: A MemoirSomething To Do With Wings: A Memoir, Joe Novak 2010CA Upsilon1959President of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., since 2001. He was previously a Los Angeles City Councilman who authored the nation's first law prohibiting discrimination against persons with AIDS.
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