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Charles Kittel

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Karin Knisely

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Andrew H. Knoll

Andrew H. Knoll is the Fisher Professor of Natural History in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is also Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Dr. Knoll teaches introductory courses in both departments. His research focuses on the early evolution of life, Precambrian environmental history, and the interconnections between the two. He has also worked extensively on the early evolution of animals, mass extinction, and plant evolution. He currently serves on the science team for NASA’s mission to Mars. Dr. Knoll received the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science for Life on a Young Planet. Other honors include the Paleontological Society Medal and Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society, London. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He received his Ph.D from Harvard University and then taught at Oberlin College before returning to Harvard.

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Peter Kohn

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Stephen Kokoska

Stephen Kokoska is a Professor of Mathematics at Bloomsburg University, where he has been teaching for 20 years. He received his undergraduate degree from Boston College and his M.S. and PhD from the University of New Hampshire. His initial research interestes included the statistical analysis of cancer chemoprevention experiments. Stephen has published a number of research papers in mathematics journals, including Biometrics, Anticancer Research, and Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine; presented results at national conferences; and written several books. He has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation, the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, and the Ben Franklin Program. Stephen is also a longtime consultant for the College Board, is an Exam Leader for the grading of the Advanced Placement Calculus test, and has been involved with calculus reform and the use of technology in the classroom. In addition to teaching at Bloomsburg, he regularly uses Mathematica and LaTeX and has recently become involved with cell phone and GPS forensics.

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Karen Kortz

Karen Kortz has been teaching a variety of introductory geoscience classes at the Community College of Rhode Island for ten years and received the 2008 Biggs Award for Excellence in Earth Science Teaching. Karen received her Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island, her M.S. from Brown University, and B.A. from Pomona College, all in geology. Her research interests include geoscience education research, and in particular, students' conceptions of rocks and plate tectonics and ways to reduce their misconceptions. Karen has led multiple workshops, both on national and local levels, on student misconceptions and teaching pedagogy.

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Robert J. Kosinski

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Monty Krieger

Monty Krieger is the Whitehead Professor in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For his innovative teaching of undergraduate biology and human physiology as well as graduate cell biology courses, he has received numerous awards. His laboratory has made contributions to our understanding of membrane trafficking through the Golgi apparatus and has cloned and characterized receptor proteins important for the movement of cholesterol into and out of cells, including the HDL receptor.

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Herbert Kroemer

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Julie Ellefson Kuehn

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Daniel T. Larose

Since his days of collecting baseball cards as a youngster, Dan Larose has felt a lifelong passion for statistics. He completed his PhD in statistics from the University of Connecticut in Storrs in 1996. Today, Larose is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Central Connecticut State University. There, he designed, developed, and directs the world’s first online Master of Science degree in data mining. He has published three books on data mining, and is a consultant in statistics and data mining. His fondest wish is to impart a love of statistics to a new generation. Larose lives in Tolland, Connecticut, with his wife Debra, daughters Chantal and Ravel, and son, Tristan.

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Ron Larson

Dr. Ron Larson is Professor of Mathematics at Penn State University at Erie. He received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Colorado in 1970. Starting with Calculus in 1978, Larson has authored or coauthored over 200 mathematics textbooks and media products, including, in 1998, the first mainstream calculus textbook to go online. In 1983, Larson started his own publishing enterprise devoted to producing student-friendly math textbooks from sixth grade through college level calculus. Larson Texts, Inc., now includes a separate division for online mathematics learning materials, TDLC.COM, as well as Big Ideas Learning, LLC, which focuses on middle school math.

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Leroy Laverman

Leroy E. Laverman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Washington State University and received his Ph.D. from U.C. Santa Barbara where he worked on ligand exchange reaction mechanisms in metalloporphyrins. He has been teaching chemistry at UCSB since 2000 and continues to instruct students in general chemistry and honors level courses.

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John J. Lee

John Lee has read more than one hundred audiobooks. He's garnered multiple Audies and Earphones Awards and won AudioFile's Best Voice in Fiction & Classics in both 2008 and 2009. He has read for such authors as Jack London, John Banville, Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Ken Follett, Alexandre Dumas, Orhan Pamuk, Patrick O’Brian, and Barbara Taylor Bradford. In addition, John narrates video games, does voice-over work, and writes plays. He is also an accomplished stage actor and has written and co-produced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit.

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Julie M. Legler

Julie Legler earned a BA and MS in Statistics from the University of Minnesota and later a doctorate in biostatistics from Harvard. She has taught statistics at the undergraduate level for nearly 20 years. In addition, she spent 7 years at the National Institutes of Health, first as a postdoc and then as a mathematical statistician at the National Cancer Institute. She has published in the areas of latent variable modeling, surveillance modeling, and undergraduate research. Currently she is professor of statistics and director of the Statistics Program at St. Olaf College. Recently she was named the Director of Collaborative Undergraduate Research and Inquiry at St. Olaf.

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