John R. Bach M.D. is an internationally known pioneer of noninvasive positive pressure ventilatory support. He is professor and vice chair of physical medicine and rehabilitation and professor of neurology at the New Jersey Medical School. As a researcher, he has published more than 400 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has lectured in more than 60 countries. As a clinician, he has been recognized with awards for excellence in both patient care and humanism in medicine.

Robin Bernstein Ph.D. combines field and laboratory research to understand how nutrition, disease, and environment shape growth patterns in infants and children, across generations and within species. An associate professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder, she heads a longitudinal study of rural African infants studying causes of growth failure in low-income countries. She also works with the American Association of Physical Anthropologists to expand opportunity for women in science.

Terry S. Bienstock J.D. was executive vice president and general counsel for Comcast Cable Communications, responsible for its video-on-demand platform, Comcast University, and claims management. At Comcast, he invented patented products, started Emmy-winning programming, and grew its video-on-demand and digital phone services. Earlier in his career, he served as lead counsel on such high-visibility cases as the first fully televised trial in the United States and the “Noriega tapes” case for CNN.

Rebecca A. Borden J.D. serves as senior vice president and associate general counsel for CBS. She advises on copyright and brand protection, helping the company adapt to new technology. She oversees the global trademark portfolio for all divisions of CBS, including the CBS Television Network, Showtime Networks, and Simon & Schuster Books. Among the company’s assets are Star Trek, The Good Wife, CSI, NCIS, America’s Next Top Model, I Love Lucy, The Twilight Zone, and Ray Donovan.

Douglas P. Boyd Ph.D. is a pioneer in imaging innovation, exploiting the computed tomography (CT) concept to advance fields as diverse as medicine and homeland security. He led the development of fan-beam CT technology, Xenon detector arrays, and electron beam tomography scanners that are used in hospitals, medical imaging centers, and airports. He is a former professor of radiology at the University of California, San Francisco, and currently CEO of TeleSecurity Sciences, a venture company developing advanced solutions for airport security, and Imatrex Inc., a related company developing innovations in radiotherapy and medical imaging.

Rebecca M. Bresnik J.D. is assistant chief counsel for international matters at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and lead attorney for the International Space Station. She advises on a host of legal issues: multimillion-dollar negotiations and purchases of crew transportation, rescue, and launch services; international agreements and contracting with partners, including the European, Japanese, Russian, and Canadian space agencies; and agreements that further NASA exploration below low Earth orbit.

Jim Cahill J.D., a lifelong resident of New Brunswick, has served the city continuously since 1980, first as assistant city attorney and, since 1991, as its seven-term mayor. During his tenure, New Brunswick has experienced a transformative period of growth and investment, the result of targeted community collaborations and innovative public-private partnerships. Today, this once-struggling city is recognized as the state’s premier health care hub and its fastest-growing urban center.

Dorothy Cantor Psy.D., a psychologist in private practice, serves as the president of the American Psychological Foundation and is a past president of the American Psychological Association. She has published six books and many articles on women’s issues and has appeared on Good Morning America, Prime Time Live, and Today, among others. A 2009 inductee of Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni, she serves on the Rutgers Board of Governors and is a past chair of the Rutgers Board of Trustees.

Donald C. Clark Jr. J.D. is an attorney, adjunct professor at Rutgers Law School, and entertainment entrepreneur. In January 2017, he will begin serving as acting president of the Chicago Theological Seminary, having retired after 15 years as general counsel and nationwide special counsel for the United Church of Christ, a denomination with one million members nationwide. He practiced complex litigation as a partner in Chicago law firms from 1979 to 2001, and is a coproducer of The Encounter on Broadway.

William R. Clark Ph.D. is the Charles Puryear Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University and head of its Department of Political Science. While focused on political business cycles, monetary policy, and central bank independence, he also publishes on political methodology, party systems, and the political economy of development. His paper “An Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Model of Politics” won the British Academy’s Brian Barry Prize and is forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science.

Flora D. Darpino J.D. serves as the 39th judge advocate general of the U.S. Army and is the first woman to hold the position since the first judge advocate general was appointed by George Washington in 1775. She has served with distinction in a variety of operational and staff assignments, including two tours to the combat theater in Iraq. She has also commanded the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, the only American Bar Association-accredited military law school with an LL.M. program.

Bhairavi Desai is the executive director and a founding member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA). In 1998, she helped to organize the NYTWA with an initial membership of 700 workers; today, the union represents 18,000 taxi drivers in New York City and is working under a charter from the AFL-CIO to build a national union. A native of Gujarat, India, Desai has also worked for the rights of battered women and won the Leadership for a Changing World Award from the Ford Foundation in 2005.

Scientist, adventurer, and motivational speaker, Michelle Dickinson Ph.D. is senior lecturer in engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. A respected nanotechnologist, she studies nanomaterials and thin films as well as standard macro-sized materials. Through her Nanogirl live stage show and OMGTech! nonprofit education organization, she makes hands-on science fun and accessible to children, especially girls. She was appointed to the New Zealand Order of Merit for her service to the nation.

Lawrence A. Dobrin D.D.S. is a diplomat of the American Board of Forensic Odontology and serves as the chief forensic dentist for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York as well as a consultant to both the Union County and Newark regional medical examiners. He has worked to identify victims of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and other disasters and specializes in cases of child abuse. He also maintains a private practice and is active in educating health care professionals about child abuse.

Joseph Dominguez J.D. is the executive vice president of governmental and regulatory affairs and public policy at Exelon Corporation, one of the nation’s largest electric companies. He leads the development and implementation of federal, state, and regional governmental, regulatory, and public policy strategies for Exelon, which has approximately $34 billion in annual revenues.

Mike DuHaime is among the most accomplished political operatives in the country and was named the 2014 Campaign Strategist of the Year by the American Association of Political Consultants. DuHaime has served as political director of the Republican National Committee and in senior positions for President George W. Bush, Governor Chris Christie, Senator John McCain, and Mayor Rudy Giuliani, among others. A Rutgers adjunct faculty member, he teaches a popular course on political campaigning.

Maggie Moran has served in senior roles for major public affairs campaigns in New York and New Jersey, worked for two U.S. senators, managed statewide presidential and gubernatorial campaigns, and served as chief of management and operations for the State of New Jersey. Her work has placed her on Campaigns & Elections’ “Influencers 500” list and PolitickerNJ’s “Power List” five times. She is co-managing partner of Kivvit, a leading national public affairs firm, and a Rutgers visiting professor.

Olga Anna Duhl Ph.D. is the Oliver E. Williams Professor of Languages and founder and co-chair of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies Program at Lafayette College. An internationally recognized scholar of French literature, she has published seven books including, in 2013, a critical edition of La Nef des folles (“The Ship of Foolish Maidens”). She studies, translates, and reviews late medieval and early Renaissance French drama, rhetoric, textual criticism, and comparative literature.

Rich Edson is a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for the Fox News Channel, where he covers the White House, Congress, politics, and breaking news. He previously worked for the Fox Business Network, joining the startup channel months before the financial crisis. As a reporter, he has broken details of the U.S. auto bailout, the 2011 debt-ceiling deal, and the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, among others. He was also the winner of the 2010 Funniest Journalist stand-up comedy competition.

Mike Emanuel joined the Fox News Channel in 1997 and currently serves as senior political and chief congressional correspondent. In the 2016 presidential race, he covered the campaigns of both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Previously he was a White House correspondent for Fox, covering almost five years of the Bush administration and an early period of the Obama administration. This proud Rutgers alumnus has fond memories of broadcasting sports on WRSU-FM.

Wendy Gillette is a reporter, anchor, and producer who has worked as a freelancer in New York City for more than a decade. She juggles multiple roles at CBS Newspath, which provides national and international stories to affiliate stations nationwide; anchors business reports for NY1 and other Time Warner stations across the country; and fills in as an anchor at FiOS1 News, Verizon’s local news for New Jersey and New York. She also produces stories for her online travel channel.

T. Sean Herbert is an award-winning journalist who has traveled to many parts of the world telling stories for ABC News, CBS News, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, and more. He was news director of the cable channel RNN TV and helped to launch CNBC’s news magazine, Business Nation, as well as ESPN’s news magazine, E:60. He has worked with the late Mike Wallace, Ed Bradley, and Morley Safer, as well as Dan Rather, Scott Pelley, and Charlie Rose, and is a frequent guest lecturer on press freedoms, ethics, and interview techniques at Rutgers.

Jessica Kurdali is the senior director of talent recruitment and development for NBC News. Kurdali’s responsibilities include scouting and recruiting all on-air and production talent for NBC and MSNBC. She develops new talent, tracks prospective talent, and produces talent auditions. Kurdali has also been involved with coverage of major news events, including Hurricane Katrina, the Olympics, the Paris terror attacks, and the presidential elections.

After working a few years as a bouncer at a Philly nightclub, then a few more as an engineer, Craig Fennie Ph.D. quit his job and returned to graduate school to study theoretical materials physics, armed only with a freshman-year physics course taken 10 years earlier. He hasn’t looked back since. Today, he is an associate professor in the Department of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a 2013 MacArthur Fellow.

Faustino J. Fernandez-Vina J.D. joined the New Jersey Supreme Court as an associate justice in 2013. Previously, in 2004, he was appointed to the Superior Court bench, where he first sat in the civil division of the Camden Vicinage. He moved to the family division before being named presiding judge of the civil division in 2007 and assignment judge of the vicinage in 2012. On the Supreme Court bench, he has served on the Ad Hoc, Code of Judicial Conduct, and Civil Practice committees, among others.

William Gaudelli Ed.D. is a leader in the field of global citizenship education and teacher education and development. He currently serves as associate professor and chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities at Teachers College of Columbia University. He has published more than 50 scholarly articles and is the author or editor of three books, including, this year, Global Citizenship Education: Everyday Transcendence. He is also cofounder of the Global Competence Certificate Program for educators and served a term as a member of the South Orange-Maplewood Board of Education.

Karl Gebhardt is the Herman and Joan Suit Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 2006, he has been project scientist on the $40-million Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment, a major research effort to search for dark energy, the mysterious substance that is causing the universe to expand faster as it ages. Data from the experiment will allow science to better understand the formation, evolution, and long-term fate of the universe.

Frank J. Giordano is president and CEO of America’s legendary pops orchestra, The Philly POPS, and of Atlantic Trailer Leasing Corp., a full-service semi-trailer and container leasing business that has been in the Giordano family since 1949. Additionally, he provides leadership and philanthropic support to many area nonprofit organizations, including Goodwill Industries, Abraham Lincoln Foundation, Coriell Institute, and The Salvation Army. He is a past president of the Union League of Philadelphia.

Mike Graziano Ph.D. is currently vice president of drug safety evaluation at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS). Prior to joining the company in 2003, he was a director of toxicology programs at Pfizer/Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After graduating from Rutgers, he received a master of science in veterinary toxicology from Louisiana State University and a doctorate in toxicology from the University of Kentucky and was a postgraduate research toxicologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Sandra Harding Ph.D. is a distinguished research professor at UCLA with scholarly interests in the philosophy of science and feminist and postcolonial theory. She has authored or edited 17 books and special journal issues, including The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader (2011) and Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research (2015). A past coeditor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, she consults to such international agencies as UNESCO and the United Nations.

Herbert D. Hinkle J.D. has represented the elderly and people with disabilities continuously since 1974. He has argued precedent-setting disability rights cases in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, including five cases before the New Jersey Supreme Court. He has been a consultant to Rutgers’ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the New Jersey Commission on Bioethics. He teaches courses at Rutgers Law School in Camden, where he twice was voted Adjunct Professor of the Year.

Raymond Iezzi Jr. M.D. is an associate professor of ophthalmology at the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education and conducts preclinical and clinical translational trials in many research areas. His work in the field of retinal prosthesis extends to methods for restoring vision to patients with advanced retinal degeneration, including contributions to the development of a “bionic eye” that uses EEG signals to help patients “see” again. He is the recipient of the Visionary Award from Foundation Fighting Blindness.

Robin Jeshion Ph.D., a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California, focuses on philosophy of language, specializing in general versus singular thought, the semantics of proper names, and the nature of pejorative expressions. Her research extends to the epistemic foundations of mathematics and logic. She has been a Burkhardt Fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies and received a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences.

As chief operating officer of DiversityInc Media, Carolynn Johnson is responsible for the production of the company’s DiversityInc magazine, web properties, and events as well as sales management, information technology, circulation, and business development. She also develops and executes the annual DiversityInc Top 50 competition and will soon take the helm as DiversityInc’s next CEO. She serves as a director of the DiversityInc Foundation and as a trustee of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Lenny Kaye is the longtime lead guitarist for the poet-rocker Patti Smith. He is a noted record producer for artists from Suzanne Vega to Pussy Riot, and musical historian with books including Waylon, the life story of Waylon Jennings, and You Call It Madness, a study of the romantic singers of the 1930s. His anthology of 1960s garage rock, Nuggets, was chosen by Rolling Stone as one of the most important albums of all time. Next year he and Rutgers’ Class of 1967 celebrate their 50th anniversary.

Thomas A. Kennedy is chair and CEO of Raytheon Company, which specializes in defense, civil government, and cybersecurity solutions. A former U.S. Air Force captain, Kennedy joined Raytheon as an engineer on the B-2 bomber radar development program, advancing to president of the Integrated Defense Systems business, which makes the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System, among other products. He holds several patents and is a recipient of the Aviation Week Laureate Award for his achievements.

Alice Kessler-Harris Ph.D. is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History at Columbia University. After earning her doctorate from Rutgers, she returned to the university to teach from 1989 to 1999. Kessler-Harris writes about women and work and the influence of gender on social policy. Her prize-winning books include the classic Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States and In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America.

Edward P. Kiessling spent 35 years in the insurance industry before retiring. He spent many years with the second-largest global insurance broker, Aon, and its predecessor companies, managing regions and offices across the country. He served subsequently for six years as president and chief operating officer of Commerce Insurance Services, a subsidiary of Commerce Bank. Prior to retirement, Kiessling spent eight years with and ultimately served as executive vice president of Frank Crystal & Company, a private brokerage firm in New York City.

Norman Kleeblatt is the Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator of The Jewish Museum in New York. He has curated such major exhibitions as Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976, The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth, and Justice, and Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities. His articles have appeared in major art journals and his work has been supported by the Getty Research Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Rockefeller Foundation.

Kenneth H. Klipstein II is director of Watershed Protection Programs for the New Jersey Water Supply Authority, where he manages the watersheds of the Raritan and Manasquan rivers and advises on water issues statewide. He serves as president of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, cofounded by his grandfather in 1960. His philanthropic work, through the E.C. Klipstein Foundation, supports environmental education, conservation policy, and innovative environmental solutions.

Eric J. LeGrand, the former Rutgers football player, suffered a severe spinal cord injury in a game against Army in 2010. Today, LeGrand works tirelessly on his recovery and his life mission: to inspire others to test their limits. A sought-after motivational speaker and nonprofit leader, he has been presented with the Unsung Hero Award by the New Jersey Hall of Fame and the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance. His jersey number, 52, is the first to be retired in the history of Rutgers football.

Sarah-Jane Leslie Ph.D., the Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, studies how we categorize and generalize information about the world around us. Most recently, she has examined gender gaps in educational and career choices, work recognized by Edge as among the most interesting scientific findings of 2015. Her work is covered extensively in the media, including by the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist, and she has appeared on NPR, WHYY, and CBC Radio.

Joseph S. Lopez retired as president of ILEX Systems, a subsidiary of L-3 Communications ILEX Systems Inc., a company that provides communications software support and related products to the military and government intelligence markets; he cofounded the company in 1982. Previously, he held positions with General Electric, RCA, Philco-Ford, and the Swiss firm Landis and Gyr. In recognition of “the degree that launched [his] career,” he funded Rutgers–Camden’s first endowed chair, the Joseph and Loretta Lopez Chair in Mathematics.

Kam-Biu Luk Ph.D. completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Washington at Seattle. He joined Fermilab as a R.R. Wilson Fellow from 1986 to 1989 before moving to the University of California, Berkeley, where he is professor of physics and faculty senior scientist of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A fellow of the American Physical Society, he was awarded the 2014 Panofsky Prize and the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

Walter B. MacDonald Ph.D. is president and CEO of Educational Testing Service (ETS), the world’s largest nonprofit educational research and assessment organization. Since joining the Princeton, New Jersey-based company in 1984, he has held several leadership positions and led many key programs. He says his top priority with ETS is to advance quality and equity in education.

A former Superior Court judge in Delaware, Joshua W. Martin III J.D. has enjoyed a varied career in industrial science, business, and law as well as in key public service appointments. He helped review state government spending and oversaw the overhaul of medical and mental health care in four state corrections facilities. He is currently counsel at the Wilmington law firm Potter, Anderson & Corroon; previously, he was president and CEO of Verizon Delaware.

As head of NOAA Research—the research office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—Craig McLean J.D. directs the agency's entire research enterprise, including all programs and laboratories. Over a 30-year career with NOAA, he has served as a commissioned officer on board hydrographic, oceanographic, and fisheries research ships and was the founding director of its Office of Ocean Exploration. An attorney practicing marine resource law, he has been awarded the U.S. Department of Commerce Silver and Bronze Medals.

John H. McWhorter V Ph.D., an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, specializes in language change and language contact. He writes and speaks widely on language and its relation to race, politics, and cultural history. His books include The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language; The Word on the Street, about dialects and Black English; and Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music in America and Why We Should, Like, Care.

Anne Milgram J.D. is a professor of practice and distinguished scholar in residence at NYU School of Law, focusing on criminal justice reform through smart data and technology. Attorney General of New Jersey from 2007 to 2010, she served as the state’s chief law enforcement officer and led investigations into street gangs, public corruption, gun violence, and securities and mortgage fraud. Earlier in her career, she was counsel to U.S. Senator Jon Corzine and a state, local, and federal prosecutor.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad Ph.D. is professor of history, race, and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. Focused on racial criminalization in modern U.S. history, he is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, which won the 2011 John Hope Franklin Best Book Award in American Studies. He is former director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Elora Mukherjee J.D. is an associate clinical professor of law at Columbia Law School, where she directs the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. She will be a visiting clinical associate professor of law at Yale Law School in the spring of 2017. Her areas of research include immigration law, civil rights, police misconduct, prisoners’ rights, and housing discrimination. She was previously a staff attorney at the ACLU Racial Justice Program and is the founder of the Refugee Reunification Project.

President, CEO, and founder of Flying Fish Brewing Company Eugene Muller developed the web’s first “virtual” microbrewery in 1995, generating enough investor interest to turn Flying Fish into a reality. Today it is the largest craft brewery in New Jersey, operating a 45,000-square-foot brewery on five acres with a focus on sustainability. Flying Fish beers are almost exclusively distributed within 100 miles of the brewery, which has twice been named among New Jersey’s 25 fastest-growing companies.

Kagendo Murungi is a Kenyan feminist writer, community activist, video producer, and founder of Wapinduzi Productions. She is director of food programs at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Harlem, volunteer coordinator at African Film Festival of New York, a nonteaching adjunct at Hunter College and CUNY, and a research assistant at Pace University. She helped to launch the Africa Program at OutRight Action International and works extensively with LGBTQA social and economic justice organizations.

Shane Myers served as director for immigration and visa security on the staff of the National Security Council, the principal forum used by the White House for consideration of national security and foreign policy. He has served abroad in Mexico, Germany, Bolivia, and Venezuela and is currently assigned to the staff of the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs. In 2012, he was nominated for the American Foreign Service Association’s William R. Rivkin Constructive Dissent Award. In addition to his Rutgers degree, he holds a master of arts in diplomacy from Norwich University.

James M. Oleske M.D. is the François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Pediatrics at New Jersey Medical School and director of the Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases. He also serves as medical director of both the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Children in Newark, one of the nation’s largest treatment, education, and research centers for childhood HIV/AIDS, and the Circle of Life Foundation in Newark, which provides palliative care to children with chronic diseases.

Paul M. Pietroski Ph.D. focuses his research on questions of linguistic meaning: What are word meanings? How are they related to concepts and our capacity to understand complex expressions? How do children acquire this remarkable capacity? He is the author of three books and numerous articles on topics that span philosophy, linguistics, and psychology. After receiving his doctoral degree from MIT, he taught at McGill University before moving to Maryland, where he is a professor of philosophy and linguistics at the University of Maryland. He has held visiting positions at Harvard University and the École Normale Supérieure.

Dominic J. Pileggi Sr. is former chair and chief executive officer of Thomas & Betts Corporation, positions he held from 2006 and 2004, respectively, until 2012, when ABB, Ltd., acquired the company. After the acquisition, Pileggi was named chair and director of the board of Thomas & Betts Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of ABB, Ltd., from 2012 to 2013. He currently serves on the board of Acuity Brands, Inc., and is lead director of Omni Cable.

Charles Ray, a Los Angeles-based artist, is best known for his sculptures of altered and refashioned familiar objects. His recent work pioneers the use of solid aluminum and stainless steel in life-sized—and larger—figural sculpture. He has had solo exhibitions around the world, including recent 18-year retrospectives at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland. His work has been featured in venues including Documenta IX, the Venice Biennale, and the Whitney Biennial.

Dana L. Redd has been mayor of the City of Camden since 2010. She has more than 20 years of service in the public sector, ranging from local government to the New Jersey State Senate. In her role as mayor, she successfully transitioned Camden from state takeover to local control and has led the Camden Rising movement that is revitalizing the city. As a state senator, she served on the Budget Appropriations Committee, the Joint Committee on Public Schools, and the Urban Affairs Committee.

Victoria Reed Ph.D. is the Monica S. Sadler Curator of Provenance at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, making her the first endowed curator of provenance at an American museum. She has conducted provenance research at the museum since 2003, researching and documenting the ownership history of its encyclopedic collection. She also investigates and resolves ownership claims on the museum’s holdings, and has overseen the return or restitution of works of art, including objects that were looted during the Nazi period, to their rightful owners.

Dragana Rogulja Ph.D. is an assistant professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and directs a research lab studying the brain’s role in sleep. After earning her Rutgers degrees, she completed postdoctoral training in the genetics lab of Michael W. Young at Rockefeller University. In 2015, she was named an NYSCF–Robertson Neuroscience Investigator by the New York Stem Cell Foundation, an award supporting early career scientists in expanding their labs and training new researchers.

Edgar A. Sandoval is chief operating officer for World Vision U.S., the world's largest Christian humanitarian organization helping children, families, and communities reach their full potential by addressing poverty and injustice. Previously, in a 20-year career at Procter & Gamble, he held various leadership positions, most recently vice president of Global Feminine Care, where he advocated for girls and women around the world. A former scholar of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, he now serves on its board of directors.

Gene Saragnese retired as CEO of Philips Imaging Systems, a division of Philips Healthcare, and was formerly vice president of molecular imaging and computer tomography at GE Healthcare. Today, he focuses on three professional roles: chair and CEO of MedyMatch Technology, an artificial intelligence health care startup; chair of the board of directors for Mirada Medical, a medical imaging software company; and independent consultant with his own firm, Saragnese Innovation and Insights.

Brian Scholl Ph.D. is professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University, where he directs the Yale Perception and Cognition Laboratory. He and his group work on several research topics, with a special focus on how seeing relates to thinking. In selecting Scholl for an Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology, the American Psychological Association praised him for setting “a breath-taking agenda that inspires junior and senior researchers alike.”

Jared Speck Ph.D. is the Cecil and Ida P. Green Career Development Associate Professor of Mathematics at MIT. He is the recipient of an NSF Fellowship at Princeton University (2011), a Sloan Research Fellowship (2014), and an NSF CAREER Award (2015). Speck is an analyst of nonlinear partial differential equations arising in mathematical physics. He has made research contributions to the mathematical theory of shock waves, general relativity, fluid mechanics, kinetic theory, and nonlinear electrodynamics.

David L. Spector Ph.D. is director of research and head of the gene regulation and cell proliferation program of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center, where he has been on the faculty since 1985. His research centers on understanding the organization and regulation of gene expression in living cells, with a focus on how misregulation of non-coding RNAs contributes to human disease. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Matthew Sponheimer Ph.D. is professor of anthropology and director of the Nutritional and Isotopic Ecology Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research focuses on using chemical (and other) approaches to study the ecology of early humans and their antecedents. He also studies other mammals, both living and dead, large and small, on the African continent. He publishes and lectures widely and is the coeditor of the book Early Hominin Paleoecology.

Manfred B. Steger Ph.D. is a professor of sociology and political science at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and an honorary professor of global studies at RMIT University in Australia. He has served as an adviser on globalization to the U.S. State Department and sits on the advisory boards of globalization research centers around the world. His academic work, including 25 books, has been translated into 20 languages and has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others.

Laurie S. Stelmaski contributes to the advancement of nursing science through exemplary clinical practice. She readily mentors students and colleagues to build a stronger nursing workforce. The skin and wound care system that Stelmaski developed is considered a national model. She was asked by the Pennsylvania Hospital Engagement Network to serve as a skin care safety adviser to assist member hospitals in analyzing their wound care programs and making recommendations for improvement.

Sandy J. Stewart, now retired, is a founder or cofounder of several biotechnology companies, including Paradigm Genetics (now Cogenics Icoria, Inc.) and Immunovation. These companies spanned functional genomics, proteomics, and immunology into drug development and diagnostics. Stewart began his biotech career at Novartis and most recently helped advance technology at Metabolon; both are in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He has also worked with the American Red Cross and the United Nations.

J. Scott Thomson has been chief of the Camden County Police Department since 2013. Before the creation of the county police department, he had served since 2008 as chief of the former Camden Police Department. In 2011, he received the Gary P. Hayes Memorial Award for innovation and leadership in policing from the Police Executive Research Forum, a police research and policy organization located in Washington, D.C. Thomson began his law enforcement career in 1992.

Amy R. Tuininga Ph.D. is the director of the PSEG Institute for Sustainability Studies at Montclair State University. She builds partnerships across academic, corporate, and community spheres to promote project-based, data-driven solutions that advance sustainability science and build resilient communities. Previously, at Fordham University, she held various executive leadership positions and was an associate professor of biology with a focus on the relationship between ecosystems and human actions.

Stephen A. Tullman’s career spans more than 25 years of biopharmaceutical global commercialization and drug development. He is managing partner and cofounder of NeXeption and chair and cofounder of Aclaris Therapeutics. He has served as chair and CEO of Ceptaris Therapeutics; chair and cofounder of Vicept Therapeutics; president, CEO, and cofounder of Ception Therapeutics; and co-founder of Trigenesis Therapeutics. Tullman started his career at SmithKline Beecham, where he held several executive positions.

Omaida C. Velazquez M.D. of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine is professor and chair of the DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery and the first surgeon-in-chief for UHealth, the University of Miami Health System. A surgeon and a scientist, she also serves as executive dean overseeing research, research education, and innovative medicine. She is a member of the American Surgical Association, an elite group of surgeons from the country’s leading academic medical institutions.

Gregory L. Wade Ph.D. retired as global chief supply chain officer of Molson Coors Brewing Company after a long career as an executive involved in mergers and spin-offs of large food and beverage companies. He spent much of his career at Camden-based Campbell Soup Company, leaving in 1998 to help launch a business then known as Vlasic Foods International. Later in his career, he was involved in major brewing industry mergers and in supply chain management. Along the way, he also was a basketball referee and baseball umpire.

In 2014, Ella Watson-Stryker was featured on the cover of Time magazine, selected to represent the thousands of unsung heroes collectively named Person of the Year for their efforts to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Over the past decade, as a health promoter and educator, she has worked with displaced persons in Thailand and Myanmar, on child immunization and disease surveillance programs in West Africa, and on the Ebola response in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

Wei-Hua Wu Ph.D. is a professor at China Agricultural University, the top university in the area of agricultural science in China. His research at the university's State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry focuses on plant responses to nutrient deficiency and abiotic stress. He is an accomplished scientist and has had significant impact on plant science research and education within China and internationally.

William Yosses was executive pastry chef at the White House for seven years. He planned desserts for the First Family and their guests over two administrations and worked closely with Michelle Obama on her Let's Move initiative to improve healthy eating. His foundation, Kitchen Garden Laboratory, creates curricula to teach science through cooking and has run workshops for the New York City Board of Education and Harvard Medical School. He is also chef/owner of an artisanal pie-making company.