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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UMD . Alumni

Created Google/Underarmour /Seinfeld / the Muppets /  Sirius satellite / pulse Dopplar radar/ the Universal Product Code/ the Octane System/ The miniaturized insulin pump/ the hybrid engine / linear programming .

[b]Please provide the influential / creative alumni of UVA and Unc more impactful.[/b]  Let me guess  Michael Jordan and Andy Griffith?   [/quote]

You might have heard of William Faulkner. He won a Nobel and two Pulitzer prizes and was on the faculty of UVA. So were numerous other Nobel winners in economics, physics (hey, isn't that a STEM subject? Like Maryland has?!) and medicine.

How about RFK? And Thurgood Marshall? They were pretty influential AND graduated from UVA. So did Franklin Delano Roosevelt - hard to think of many people who had more of an impact on the US in the 20th century than he did. (Even more than the creator of the Muppets!) Woodrow Wilson? Another arguably influential alumnus of UVA.

The heads of NASDAQ and AT&T and United Technologies all graduated from UVA.

The inventor of FORTRAN walked across the Lawn. So did one of the 5 physicists selected for the Manhattan Project, and the head of the Human Genome Project. Edgar Allen Poe LIVED on the Lawn.

Here's one last one...the founder of the University of Maryland got his certificate of completion from UVA!

[i]Really, this is too easy. [/i]

UNC also has its share of notable alumni. Perhaps the list is not quite as long as UVA's, but there are plenty of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning faculty and alumni.

Look, the point is - these are all big schools with plenty of smart students and alumni. Each one has its strengths and weaknesses, even the Johnnie-come-lately UMD. Maybe it doesn't get the love it should, but UMD Booster hasn't helped its case at all by constantly slinging mud at other schools. Stay positive and stay classy, UMD Booster, and maybe people will do more than roll their eyes when you post.

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Uva has one famous alumnus: Michael hughley...[/quote]

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