Singer, who graduated from Swarthmore andreceived her Ph. D. from Yale University, is theauthor of two books on molecular biology.
Singer was awarded an honorary degree fromRadcliffe College in 1990. She has also previouslyreceived honorary degrees from Williams, Dartmouthand other Schools. In addition, she has served astrustee of Wesleyan University and as a member ofthe Yale Corporation.
James Q. Wilson
Wilson, who was the Shattuck professor ofgovernment from 1961 to 1986, is currently aprofessor of management at UCLA.
Wilson is the another of more than a dozenbooks, including The Moral Sense (1993),Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and WhyThey Do It (1989), and a popular introductorytextbook called American Government.
He is the former chair of the National AdvisoryCouncil for Drug Abuse Prevention and a formermember of the Attorney General's Task Force onViolent Crime.