interacting particle systems. Michael Stryker an American neuroscientist specializing in studies of how spontaneous neural activity organizes connections in the developing mammalian brain Kapila Vatsyayan was a leading scholar of Indian classical dance, art, architecture, and art history. She served as a member of parliament and as a bureaucrat in India, and also served as the founding director of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. Mary Jane West-Eberhard is an American theoretical biologist noted for arguing that phenotypic and developmental plasticity played a key role in shaping animal evolution and speciation. Eugene C. Whitney was a celebrated power engineer who designed hydroelectric turbines and generators at Westinghouse Electric Company. The pinnacle of his career was the machinery for the expansion of the Grand Coulee Dam to add the #3 Powerhouse in 1966–74. Henry T. Wright He serves as the Albert Clanton Spaulding Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, and Curator of Near Eastern Archaeology in the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Robert Wurtz is an American neuroscientist working as a NIH Distinguished Scientist and chief of the section on visuomotor integration at the National Eye Institute. James Wyngaarden served as director of National Institutes of Health between 1982 and 1989. Melinda A. Zeder is an American archaeologist and curator emeritus in the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. George Zweig is a Russian-American physicist. He was trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman. He introduced, independently of Murray Gell-Mann, the quark model (although he named the constituent components "aces"). Newsmakers Bill Ayers (BA 1968), co-founder of the radical Weathermen Benjamin Bolger (BA 1994), holds what is said to be the largest number of graduate degrees held by a living person Mamah Borthwick (BA 1892), mistress of architect Frank Lloyd Wright who was murdered at his studio, Taliesin Napoleon Chagnon (Ph.D.), anthropologist, professor of anthropology Rima Fakih (BA), 2010 Miss USA Geoffrey Fieger (BA, MA), attorney based in Southfield, Michigan Robert Groves (Ph.D. 1975), 2009 Presidential nominee to head the national census; nomination stalled by Republican opposition to use of "sampling" methodology, which Groves had already stated would not be used Janet Guthrie (COE: BSc Physics 1960), inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2006; first woman to race in the Indianapolis 500; still is the only woman to ever lead a Nextel