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Mitchell Begelman is a professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and a fellow of JILA. He received A.B. and A.M. degrees in physics from Harvard University in 1974 and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Cambridge in 1978, and joined the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder faculty in 1983, following postdoctoral work at Berkeley and Cambridge. 

Christopher Braider received his BA (1973) and PhD (1982) from Trinity College, Dublin, and came to ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder as an associate professor in 1992 after 10 years on the faculty at Harvard. He was promoted to professor of French and comparative literature in 2003, has chaired the Departments of French and Italian and Comparative Literature and Humanities, and served as transitional dean of the College of Media, Communication, and Information in 2014-15. 

Janet Jacobs is a professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies and holds an appointment in the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on ethnic and religious violence, gender, mass trauma and collective memory. Her studies in the field cover a wide range of areas on gendered and racialized violence in the Americas and in eastern and western Europe.  

Mark Amerika's artwork has exhibited internationally at venues such as the Whitney Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and the Walker Art Center. In 2009-10, The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, hosted Amerika’s comprehensive retrospective exhibition titled UNREALTIME. In 2009, Amerika released �������Dz���������é, often considered the first feature-length art film ever shot on a mobile phone. He is the author of many books including remixthebook (University of Minnesota Press, 2011 — ), META/DATA: A Digital Poetics (The MIT Press, 2007), remixthecontext (Routledge, 2017) and the novels The Kafka Chronicles and Sexual Blood (both with FC2/University of Alabama). His transmedia art work, Museum of Glitch Aesthetics, was commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices in conjunction with the London 2012 Olympics. In the spring of 2017, Amerika was the first American artist to have a survey exhibition of digital artwork in Havana. He is the founding director of the Doctoral Program in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance and a professor of art and art history.

Martha Palmer is a professor of linguistics, and the Helen & Hubert Croft Professor of Engineering in the Computer Science Department. She is also an Institute of Cognitive Science Faculty Fellow, a co-Director of CLEAR and an Association of Computational Linguistics Fellow. She received a BFA 2010 Research Award, was the director of the 2011 Linguistics Institute at ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder and was named an outstanding graduate advisor in 2014. She was the first woman to obtain a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1985, and was an associate professor in computer and information sciences at Penn for six years before coming to ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ in 2005. Her research is focused on capturing elements of the meanings of words that can comprise automatic representations of complex sentences and documents. In artificial intelligence, supervised machine-learning techniques rely on vast amounts of annotated training data, so she and her students provide data with semantic annotation for English, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Hindi and Urdu, funded by DARPA and NSF, both manually and automatically. A more recent focus is the application of these methods to biomedical journal articles and clinical notes, funded by NIH, and the geosciences, funded by NSF. She co-edits LiLT, Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, and has been a co-editor of Natural Language Engineering and on the Computational Linguistics Editorial Board.

Mark C. Serreze is a professor of geography at the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Boulder, a fellow of the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and director of the CIRES National Snow and Ice Data Center. He specializes in Arctic climate research, including atmosphere-sea ice interactions, synoptic climatology, boundary layer problems, numerical weather prediction and climate change. His research over the past decade has increasingly focused on making sense of the rapid environmental changes unfolding in the Arctic. He has conducted fieldwork in the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic on tundra, sea ice and glaciers. Serreze has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed literature, and is recognized as a Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher. In 2014, he was elected fellow of the American Meteorological Society. He has published an award-winning textbook, The Arctic Climate System (now in its second edition), and teaches a course in the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Department of Geography under the same title. His popular science book, Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North, is in production as of summer 2017. Serreze has testified before the U.S. Congress, is a frequent media contact on issues of climate and climate change, and has appeared in television documentaries.

Warren Motte received an A.B. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, a Maîtrise in Anglo-American Literature from the Université de Bordeaux, and an A.M. and Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. He came to ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ in 1987 as an Associate Professor, having spent the first five years of his career at the University of Nebraska. Professor of French and Comparative Literature, he specializes in contemporary writing, with particular focus upon experimentalist works that put accepted notions of literary form into question. He is the author of The Poetics of Experiment: A Study of the Work of Georges Perec (1984), Questioning Edmond Jabès (1990), Playtexts: Ludics in Contemporary Literature (1995), Small Worlds: Minimalism in Contemporary French Literature (1999), Fables of the Novel: French Fiction Since 1990 (2003), Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century (2008), and Mirror Gazing (2014). He is the editor of nine other volumes, and he serves on a variety of editorial boards and advisory committees, in this country and in France. He has received awards for teaching, for service, and for scholarship. In 2015, the French Republic named him a Knight in the Order of Academic Palms for career services rendered to French culture.

Susan Kent is a professor of history at ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ-Boulder. She earned her Ph.D. in comparative history at Brandeis University in 1984. After a few stints as a visiting professor, she took up a postdoc at the University of Rochester in 1987 and 1988. She moved to the University of Florida in 1988 and then to ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ in 1993. That year, she also held a National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She has spent most of her career as a British historian, specializing in gender and empire, but lately she has broadened her scope to encompass global or world history. She is the author of 11 books (two of them co-authored) and is currently writing a global history of the 1930s with a former student. She worked as associate vice chancellor for faculty affairs between 2001 and 2005 and served as chair of the Department of History from 1998 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2014.

Richard K. Olson is a professor of psychology and neuroscience and a fellow of the Institute for Behavioral Genetics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1970 and joined the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ-Boulder faculty that same year. Professor Olson is a developmental cognitive psychologist with expertise in the area of genetic and environmental influences on reading and related skills. He has served as president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading and received the society’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award in 2006. He has also been an active member of the International Dyslexia Association and received its Norman Geschwind Memorial Lecture Award in 2005. His highly collaborative research program on reading ability and disability has been continuously supported by the National Institutes of Health since 1979. In 1990, he co-founded the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Learning Disabilities Research Center (CLDRC) with John DeFries, and he has served as the center’s principal investigator and director since 2005. In 2000, he co-founded the International Longitudinal Twin Study (ILTS) of reading and attention with Brian Byrne in Australia and Stefan Samuelsson in Sweden. The CLDRC and ILTS research with identical and fraternal twins and their DNA has shown that most of the population variance in reading ability and disability is due to genetic influences, although as co-investigator Janice Keenan has shown, genes influencing word reading differ somewhat from those influencing comprehension. Together with co-investigators Bruce Pennington and Erik Willcutt, they have also shown that there are shared genetic influences on attention, executive function and reading ability. Evidence for genetic influences emphasizes the need for extraordinary environmental support for many children with reading disabilities. Professor Olson has worked with his former Ph.D. student Barbara Wise to show how computer programs in the Boulder Valley schools can help provide this support.

Jeffrey N. Cox received his B.A. from Wesleyan University (1975) and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia (1981) and rose through the ranks at Texas A&M University. He moved to ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ-Boulder in 1998 as the first full-time Director of the Center for Humanities and the Arts; he is a Professor of English, of Comparative Literature, and of Humanities. Recognized by the Keats-Shelley Association of America with its Distinguished Scholar Award in 2009, he is the author or editor of 10 volumes, including In the Shadows of Romance: Romantic Tragic Drama in Germany, England, and France (1987), acknowledged in 2011 by the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism as a “Book that Shaped the Field,” Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Shelley, Keats, Hunt, and their Circle(1998), granted the Best Book Award of the South Central Modern Language Association, and Keats’s Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition (2008). His Romanticism in the Shadow of War: The Culture of the Napoleonic War Years will appear Fall 2014 from Cambridge University Press. He currently serves as Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs.

John P. Cumalat is a Professor of Physics and past-Chair of the Department of Physics (1996-2008). He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, served as a postdoc and Wilson Fellow at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and joined the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ-Boulder faculty in 1981. Dr. Cumalat is an experimentalist in high-energy physics and particle physics. He has worked on several experiments. He was spokesperson for two Fermilab experiments studying charm quarks and played a leading role in designing and constructing the highest energy photon beam. Since 2005, he has worked at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, on the Compact Muon Spectrometer (CMS) experiment, and he is a co-discoverer of the Higgs boson. Currently he is searching for evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model. He also works on developing radiation-tolerant sensors.

Barbara Demmig-Adams was born and raised in Germany, and received her degrees in plant biology (doctorate in 1984 and habilitation in 1989) from the University of Würzburg, Germany. She was postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Plant Biology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington (Stanford) from 1984-1986. After returning to the University of Würzburg, she discovered that a group of plant carotenoids acts to avert damage from excess absorbed sunlight in a photoprotective process, without which photosynthetic organisms would not be able to provide food, fuel, materials, and other services to all other lifeforms. In 1989, she moved to the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ at Boulder, USA, with her husband William W. Adams III, together with whom she discovered differences in the manifestation of the photoprotection of photosynthesis in different plant species and environments. Her current research focuses on integrating photosynthesis with other plant functions, and on algal biofuels. She has been a professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology since 1990. She is recipient of a 1992-1997 Packard Fellowship, of BFA awards in research (2006) and teaching (2010), was elected to Leopoldina (joint National Academies of Sciences of Germany, Austria and Switzerland) in 2011. She is a Highly Cited Researcher (<0.5% of publishing researchers) in the Plant & Animal Science category (ISI).

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Natalie Ahn received her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Washington (1979), and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley (1985), where she studied mechanistic enzymology with Judith Klinman. She carried out postdoctoral studies at the Univ. of Washington, first as an NRSA fellow with Christoph de Haën and later as a Merck Fellow with Edwin Krebs, where she discovered key regulators of the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathway, which are important targets for anti-cancer therapies. She came to ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ-Boulder in 1992, and is Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Director of the Predoctoral Training Program in Signaling and Cellular Regulation, and Associate Director of the BioFrontiers Institute. Current research investigates enzymatic and cellular mechanisms underlying cell signaling, uses technologies in functional proteomics and hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry for signal transduction research.

Keith Maskus received his BA from Knox College in 1976 and his PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1981, when he joined the faculty at the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ at Boulder. He has had visiting appointments as Senior Economist at the U.S. Department of State, Lead Economist at the World Bank, and as Visiting Scholar at the University of Bocconi, Peking University, and the CES-Ifo Institute at the University of Munich. He holds the rank of Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide and is a Research Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Kiel Institute for World Economics. Maskus consults widely on issues of international trade policy and intellectual property rights, including for the World Bank, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the World Trade Organization. He is the author of over 100 published articles and author or editor of 14 books and monographs. His most recent authored volume is Private Rights and Public Problems: the Global Economics of Intellectual Property Rights, which is to be published in late 2012 by the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Maskus currently serves as the Associate Dean for Social Sciences.

Chris Greene grew up in eastern Nebraska and attended Ashland-Greenwood High School, and then went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1976. He earned a PhD in theoretical atomic physics from the University of Chicago in 1980 under Ugo Fano, followed by a postdoctoral stint at Stanford University with Richard Zare. His first faculty appointment was at Louisiana State University, from 1981-1988, and he has been on the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ faculty as Professor of Physics and a Fellow of JILA since 1989, serving as Chair of JILA during 2005-2006.

Professor Chan received his B.A. from Tulane University in 1970, and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1976. He joined the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ in 1984. He was the recipient of two Fulbright awards, and the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Foreign Policy Section of the International Studies Association. Most recently, he received fellowship grants from the East Asia Institute and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation. He has taught as visiting faculty in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and France. His publications include fourteen books, the latest of which is entitled Looking for Balance: China, the United States, and Power Balancing in East Asia (Stanford University Press, 2012). His broad research and teaching interests pertain to theories of international relations and political economy, especially as they are applied to East Asia. He is currently serving as the director of the Farrand Residence Academic Program.

Dr. Leinwand is a Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) Professor and Director of the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology at the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ, Boulder. She was recruited to be Chair of MCDB in 1995. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, her PhD from Yale University and did post-doctoral training at Rockefeller University. She joined the faculty at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York in 1981 and remained there until moving to ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ. While at Albert Einstein she became a Full Professor and was Director of the Cardiovascular Research Center. Once moved to ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ, along with Michael Bristow, she founded the intercampus University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Cardiovascular Institute which promotes research and training in cardiovascular disease. They, along with Eric Olson at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, founded Myogen, Inc. which was recently sold to Gilead Pharmaceuticals. More recently, she was a co-founder of Hiberna, Inc, a biotechnology company using pythons and hibernating ground squirrels to develop novel pharmaceuticals. Her work as a cardiac biologist is of importance to both basic scientists and clinicians. The interests of Dr. Leinwand’s laboratory are the genetics and molecular physiology of inherited diseases of the heart and how gender and diet modify the heart. The study of these diseases has required multidisciplinary approaches, involving molecular biology, mouse genetics, mouse cardiac physiology, and the analysis of human tissues. To accomplish this, Dr. Leinwand has developed a highly collaborative group in Boulder, bringing together specialized basic scientists and clinical cardiologists. Her laboratory’s efforts are well-funded by multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health and her teaching is recognized by funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Professor Program. She is also the Principle Investigator of the HHMI program called the Biological Sciences Initiative which supports undergraduate research, K-12 outreach and educational programs for high school teachers.

Fred Anderson received his B.A. from ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ State University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981. He has taught in the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ History department since 1983. In addition to two ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Faculty Fellowships, he has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Charles Warren Center of Harvard University, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He is the author or editor of five books, including Crucible of War: The Seven Years War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (2000), which won the Francis Parkman Prize and inspired the Public Broadcasting System television series The War That Made America(2005). Together with Andrew Cayton, Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) he has most recently published The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000 (2005). He and Cayton are currently writing Imperial America, 1672-1764, a volume that they hope to live long enough to see published in the Oxford History of the United States.

Juri Toomre is intrigued by the complex fluid motions within stars like our Sun that allow such great balls of gas to rotate differentially and to build strong magnetic fields that burst out of their surfaces. Such work in theoretical astrophysics is aided by Juri’s research group carrying out major numerical simulations of the interaction of turbulent convection with rotation and magnetism, now feasible with massively parallel supercomputers. To guide and challenge such theory, Juri is an active participant in helioseismology that deduces the inner workings of our nearest star by observing its oscillations from space and ground. He did his undergraduate studies at M.I.T (1963) and his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge (1967). Juri joined ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ in 1971, and is a Professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and a Fellow of JILA.

John Wahr is a Professor of Physics and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. He received his PhD from the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ in 1979, and joined the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ faculty in 1983. Wahr is a geophysicist. He has worked on a wide variety of topics, ranging from the Earth’s core and mantle, to groundwater and ice sheets, to the atmosphere and oceans, to planetary moons. During the last few years, much of his research has involved using various kinds of satellite observations to monitor and better understand ongoing changes in the distribution of water on Earth, in both liquid and solid (snow and ice) form.

John O’Loughlin is Professor of Geography and Faculty Research Associate in the Political and Economic Change Program of the Institute of Behavioral Science. He received his BA (Hons) degree from University College Dublin (1969) and his PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in 1973. He was at the University of Illinois for 15 years before joining the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ-Boulder faculty in 1988. Professor O’Loughlin’s specialty is political geography with a concentration on the geographic distributions and causes of conflict. His field research has focused on the post-Communist societies of the former Yugoslavia and the former Soviet Union, with a particular interest in nationalist mobilization, inter-ethnic relations, and the dynamics of local wars. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and by fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Alexander von Humboldt foundations. He teaches introductory human geography classes as well as advanced classes for International Affairs and Geography majors. He has served as Chair of the geography department and has been editor of Political Geography since its founding in 1981.

Jerry W. Rudy, Professor, received his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1970 from the University of Virginia. He joined the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Department of Psychology and Neuroscience in 1980, after holding faculty positions at the University of Rochester and Princeton University. He served as chair of the department from 1995 to 2003. Dr. Rudy’s work is in the area of learning and memory and his research has focused on understanding the contribution of the hippocampus to memory. He is the author of a recently published book, The Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. Outside of his academic pursuits he has been actively engaged as a tennis player and coach and in honing his skills as a guitarist, including a two-year stint in a local gypsy jazz band. He has twice served as President of the Board of Directors of Imagine!, for the Boulder County center for developmental disabilities.

Alison Jaggar established her reputation as both a pioneer in feminist philosophy and a founder of the discipline of women and gender studies. She arrived at ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ-Boulder in 1990 and currently teaches in both Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies. During the 1990s, Jaggar’s research focused mainly on moral epistemology, exploring the possibility of cross-cultural social criticism in contexts of diversity and inequality. For the past ten years, Jaggar has been working in the area of global gender justice, investigating the gendered dimensions of the moral and political issues that are raised by increasing integration of the global economic and political order.

Michael Shull is Professor of Astrophysics and past-Chair of the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ at Boulder. He received his B.S. in Physics from Caltech (1972) and his Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University (1976). After working as a researcher at UC Berkeley, he joined the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ faculty in fall 1977. Dr. Shull’s research is in theoretical astrophysics and space astronomy. His astronomical interests include studies of gas between the stars and galaxies, exploding stars (supernovae), and galaxy formation. He and his studentsand postdocs are frequent users of the Hubble Space Telescope, including a new ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ instrument to be installed on Hubble in 2009.

Payson Sheets, who earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, is a leading expert in the archeology of Mesoamerica and the Intermediate Area of lower Central America, focusing on the interrelationships between human societies and volcanic processes in tropical climates. He has incorporated remote sensing with geophysical data to detect and explore the remains of human activity in Central America. His recent research has focused on the Ceren site, catastrophically buried by the eruption of nearby Loma Caldera volcano in AD 590. At this remarkable site, structures are preserved, including their thatch roofs and their entire artifactual contents, and fields with their cultigens are intact. Undergraduate and graduate students are included in field and laboratory research. Professor Sheets has won numerous research grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, NASA and the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Historical Society. He has published 10 books, more than 20 book chapters, and dozens of refereed journal articles.