boasts 49 NCAA postgraduate scholars and 87 Academic All-Americans. Career center In the spring of 2016, Denison University announced that the Austin E. Knowlton Foundation pledged $9.3 million towards the Center for Career Exploration, now known as The Austin E. Knowlton Center for Career Exploration. According to the Newark Advocate, this money is devoted to supporting the college's work in creating the "benchmark program" for transitioning students from the liberal arts into the professional world. In 2017, the Knowlton Center was honored by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) when President Adam Weinberg was given the Career Services Champion Award. The Knowlton Center provides programs beginning in a student's first year to prepare them for life after college including job and graduate school search assistance, career exploration, alumni mentoring, "first look" trips, and internship assistance. The center also provides internship funding to students on an application basis, ranging from $100-$4,000 to offset costs incurred during an internship. Denison University is one of the eight members of the CLIMB internship program. A prestigious internship program in Denver that only partners with Denison, Harvard, Middlebury, M.I.T., Northwestern, Stanford, Wesleyan, and Yale. Alumni can also take advantage of programming including networking, career coaching and a program called "Designing Your Next Five" based on the book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Notable faculty and alumni Denison alumni include scholars (such as the former president of Princeton University William G. Bowen), Hollywood superstars, entrepreneurs, presidents and executives of Fortune 500 companies. Among the faculty, its current economics professor Sohrab Behdad founded the Economics Department of the University of Tehran, and the former professor William Rainey Harper served as the first president of The University of Chicago. Faculty David Baker (1984–) Paul Alfred Biefeld (1911–1943) Theodore Burczak (1995–) Andy Carlson (1999–2018) Asa Drury (1834–1836) Peter Grandbois (2010–) William Rainey Harper (1876–1878) Anthony J. Lisska (1969–) Kirtley Fletcher Mather (1918–1924) Margot Singer (2005–) Alumni Notable alumni include actors Steve Carell, Hal Holbrook, and Jennifer Garner; SNL comedian Alex Moffat; entertainer John Davidson; Hall of Fame college football coach Woody Hayes; ESPN president George Bodenheimer; Turner Broadcasting System Senior Vice President James Anderson; drag queen and activist Nina West, former member of Turkish Parliament and current consultant to The Coca-Cola Company Mehmet Cem Kozluformer; United States Senator Richard Lugar; Indy car racer Bobby Rahal; playwright Jeffrey Hatcher; artist Ned Bittinger; author Pam