Jeffery L. Zaslow (DC 1980)

2009 Alumni Achievement (Merit) Award

Bio

A senior writer for The Wall Street Journal, Jeffery A. Zaslow launched fellow Carnegie Mellon alumnus and Professor Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture" into the international spotlight through his "Moving On" column and subsequent book. He has returned to Carnegie Mellon on many occasions to share his "Last Lecture" experiences with the university community. In 2000, Zaslow received the first Will Rodgers Humanitarian Award while at the Chicago Sun Times for raising millions of dollars for local children in need. He followed Ann Landers as the Sun's advice columnist, a position he won when, to get a story angle, he entered a competition with 12,000 other applicants. The National Society of Newspaper Columnists named "Moving On" the nation's best general-interest column in 2003 and 2005, and the New York Newspapers Publishers Association awarded Zaslow its Distinguished Column Writing Award in 2008. His most recent books include "The Girls from Ames" and "Highest Duty" with co-author and pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger.