Natalie Cole, Julius "Dr. J" Erving, Rick Pitino, Bill Pullman, Betty Shabazz, Briana Scurry, Jack Welch, John F. Smith Jr., Jean Worthley, Jeff Reardon, Brandon Tory, Mike Flanagan, Serena Williams, Lawrence Mestel and Richard Gere. Faculty Notable faculty have included Sheila Bair, the former Chairman of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Chuck Close, celebrated photorealist; Samuel R. Delany, author and critic; Vincent Dethier, pioneer physiologist; Ted Hughes, British poet laureate; Max Roach, considered one of the most important jazz drummers in history; Lynn Margulis, famed biologist; Stephen Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, heterodox economists; James Tate, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet; and Robert Paul Wolff, in both philosophy and African-American studies. Current faculty of note include poet Peter Gizzi, T.S. Eliot Prize–winning poet Ocean Vuong, media critic Sut Jhally, and feminist economist Nancy Folbre. See also University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Food Science William P. Brooks (1851–1938), professor, eighth president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and second vice president of Sapporo Agricultural College, Japan Campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Explanatory notes References Further reading External links University of Massachusetts Athletics website 1863 establishments in Massachusetts Business schools in Massachusetts Educational institutions established in 1863 Flagship universities in the United States Land-grant universities and colleges University of Massachusetts Amherst Schools of education in Massachusetts Schools of public health in the United States Universities and colleges in Hampshire County, Massachusetts University of Massachusetts Amherst schools Amherst University subdivisions in Massachusetts