later worked on the Space Shuttle Main Engine John Hoke III, Chief Design Officer of Nike Jim Keller, engineer, AMD, Apple Inc. and Tesla Motors John Mashey, computer scientist and entrepreneur; developed the ASSIST (computing) assembler language teaching software while at Penn State Jef Raskin, engineer, Apple Inc. Der Scutt, architect; designed a number of major and notable buildings throughout New York City and the United States Harry Shoemaker, pioneer radio engineer Ross William Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road, as "Dread Pirate Roberts" Education Michael Anesko, literary critic, writer and professor; best known for his studies of Henry James and William Dean Howells Danielle Bassett, professor at the University of Pennsylvania; youngest individual to be awarded a 2014 MacArthur fellowship Samuel Preston Bayard, musicologist; established the folklore program at Penn State Robert D. Braun, academic and aerospace engineer; Space Sector Head at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and former NASA Chief Technologist M. Christopher Brown II, President of Alcorn State University T. Colin Campbell, chemist and professor; Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University Jason De León, professor at UCLA; MacArthur Fellow (2017) Walter Dobrogosz, professor; best known for his discovery and further research on the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus reuteri Paul M. Doty, former Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry at Harvard University Thomas R. Dye, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Florida State University John Friedlander, mathematician; fellow of the American Mathematical Society A. Roberto Frisancho, biological anthropologist; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan Roland Fryer, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University, a MacArthur fellow, and recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal. Edwin R. Gilliland, chemical engineer; former Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology James T. Harris III, president of Widener University Marci Hamilton, professor at the University of Pennsylvania John W. Heston, president of Washington State University, South Dakota State University and Dakota State University David C. Hodge, President of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio Richard Hoover, former president of Hastings College Kate Hutton, seismologist; monitored earthquakes at California Institute of Technology for 37 years Dugald C. Jackson, electrical engineer; headed the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1907 to 1935 William Jaco, mathematician; known for his role in the JSJ decomposition theorem M. Eric Johnson, Dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University Mark