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  • Stan Gehrt

    Associate professor of wildlife ecology; extension wildlife specialist, The Ohio State University

    Wildlife biologist Stan Gehrt studies various aspects of mammalian ecology, especially urban systems, and the dynamics of wildlife disease. He is principal investigator of the largest urban coyote study conducted to date, in which he has tracked more than 800 coyotes in the Chicago area for over a decade. He also studies coyote and deer ecology in Cleveland, Ohio, and has a collaborative project on the ecology of eastern coyotes in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia. As an expert on human-coyote conflicts, Gehrt has consulted with cities across the U.S. and Canada. His research has been featured in numerous print, radio, and television outlets, including ABC, PBS, and the History and National Geographic channels. He is senior editor of the book Urban Carnivores, published in 2010 by Johns Hopkins University Press. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri studying the social organization of raccoons in south Texas. He joined the OSU faculty in 2003.

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  • Stephen Gillen

    Lawyer concentrating in publishing, media, and copyrights at Wood Herron & Evans 

    Steve Gillen worked for nearly 20 years in publishing prior to entering private practice in the middle 1990’s. He is currently a partner at Wood, Herron & Evans (a 145-year-old Cincinnati law firm focused on intellectual property) where he concentrates his practice on publishing, media, and copyright matters. Steve also teaches Electronic Media Law at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.

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  • Maura Gillison

    Professor of medicine, epidemiology and otolaryngology, Division of Medical Oncology; Jeg Coughlin Chair of Cancer Research, OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University

    Maura Gillison is a medical oncologist and molecular epidemiologist. She was among the first scientists to establish an association between human papillomavirus infection and head and neck cancer. Her body of work has caused a paradigm shift in concepts of risk and management of head and neck cancer and has had significant implications for prevention, screening, diagnostics, prognostics and therapy. Gillison earned an M.D. and Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University before joining the Hopkins faculties in oncology, epidemiology and molecular microbiology and immunology. She was recruited to Ohio State in 2009 to occupy the Jeg Coughlin Chair of Cancer Research at the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center. Gillison has published extensively in journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the National Cancer Institute and Journal of Clinical Oncology. She continues this work through broad collaborations spanning public health, oncology and genomic analysis.

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  • Josh Goldberger

    Assistant professor of chemistry, The Ohio State University

    After completing a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Ohio State, Josh Goldberger went to the University of California at Berkeley as an NSF graduate fellow and completed his Ph.D. with Peidong Yang in 2006. Named an NIH-NRSA postdoctoral fellow, he worked with Professor Sam Stupp at Northwestern University’s Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine. He has received many awards, including the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists. Since joining the OSU Chemistry Department in 2010, he has been working on materials at the atomic scale.

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  • Cynthia Graber

    Freelance print and radio journalist

    Cynthia Graber is an award-winning print and radio journalist whose reporting has appeared in venues such as Fast Company, Slate, BBC Future, Matter, Scientific American, PRI's The World, Studio 360, and many others. She also writes for children's magazines and is a regular contributor to Scientific American's 60-Second Science podcast. She was a 2012-2013 Knight Fellow at MIT and received one of the inaugural Food and Farming fellowships at the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 2013. Awards for her work include the IOP-STFC International Physics Journalism prize, the AAAS Kavli award (for radio), and the Society of Environmental Journalists award for in-depth reporting. In September, she will be co-launching a new podcast called Gastropod, about food through the lens of science and history. Find her on twitter at @cagraber.

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  • Fred Guterl

    Executive Editor, Scientific American

    Fred Guterl is executive editor of Scientific American and author of The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It (Bloomsbury 2012). He has won writing awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (for “Riddles in the Sand” in 1998, in Discover), the Overseas Press Club (for The Wasteland in 2002, in Newsweek International), and others. He led Scientific American to its first-ever award for General Excellence from the American Society of Magazine Editors in 2011. Guterl was formerly deputy editor at Newsweek International. He has appeared on Charlie Rose, the Today Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and others. Guterl holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester and has taught science writing at Princeton University.

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  • Doug Haddix

    Director, Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism

    Doug Haddix is the director of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at Ohio State University. The program is one of the nation's leading journalism fellowship for social media and digital reporting tools. Previously, he worked for three years as a training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors. Prior to joining the IRE staff, Doug worked for 10 years as projects editor at The Columbus Dispatch, where he directed investigations and computer-assisted reporting.

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  • Josette Hammerstone

    Production manager, Philadelphia Science Festival, The Franklin Institute

    Josette Hammerstone is the Production Manager at the Philadelphia Science Festival, a 10-day city-wide celebration of science coordinated by The Franklin Institute. The Science Festival produces over 100 hands-on and engaging events for people of all ages. Josette recently began managing a new year-round pilot program at the Franklin Institute aimed exclusively at attracting an adult audience, due largely to the success of the Science Festival. Prior to her years of producing live science events, Josette was a freelance producer/coordinator in the film and television industry, where her experience ranged from webisodes to feature films. She was recently awarded two Mid-Atlantic Emmy awards for video content that she produced. She holds a BA in Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media from Temple University.

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  • Laura Helmuth

    Science and Health Editor, Slate

    Laura Helmuth is the science and health editor for Slate magazine and the incoming vice president of NASW. She was previously the science editor for Smithsonian magazine and an editor and writer for Science magazine's news department. She has a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California, Berkeley.

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  • Elise Hu

    Reporter, NPR

    Elise Hu covers technology and its impact on culture for NPR's on-air and online platforms. She joined NPR in 2011 to head up the digital and editorial launch of StateImpact, a Columbia-DuPont award winning public policy reporting network.

    Previously, she was a founding journalist at the non-profit digital news startup, the Texas Tribune. While working as a political reporter, she also oversaw the Tribune's social and multimedia journalism, statewide television partnerships and toyed around with new story forms.

    An honors graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia's School of Journalism, Elise's work has earned a Gannett Foundation Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism, a National Edward R. Murrow award, and the Austin Chronicle once dubiously named her the "Best TV Reporter Who Can Write." Outside of work, she's an adviser to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and teaches at Georgetown University.

  • Jude Isabella

    Freelance journalist & vice president, CSWA

    A journalist for over 20 years, Jude Isabella has spent the bulk of her science writing career editing and writing science for kids, mostly as managing editor of YES Mag, Canada's Science Magazine for Kids. As a freelance journalist, she has written for numerous publications, including Nautilus, Archaeology Magazine, Ensia, Slate, New Scientist, British Columbia Magazine, Wild, Muse, and Spirituality and Health. As well, Isabella is a semi-regular contributor to the Tyee, Vancouver’s online magazine, covering science and environment. She continues to write science for kids; her fifth book Chit Chat: A Celebration of the World’s Languages (Kids Can Press) was released in fall 2013. Her next book, The Red Bicycle (Kids Can Press) will be released in fall 2015. A book for grown-ups, Salmon: A Scientific Memoir (RMB Publishing), will be published this fall.

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  • Erich Jarvis

    Associate professor of neurobiology and HHMI Investigator, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University

    Since turning down an audition with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater to pursue science, Erich Jarvis has studied molecular pathways in avian brains as a window into how the brain controls complex behavior. He has proposed theories about the evolution of vocal production and learning in birds and how it relates to the origins of human language. A graduate of Hunter College, he earned his PhD in molecular neurobiology and animal behavior in 1995 at the Rockefeller University, where he did graduate and postdoctoral work in the lab of Fernando Nottebohm. Using a method he termed "behavioral molecular mapping" to determine how a bird's motor activities influence the resulting changes in gene expression in the brain, Jarvis has traced out the brain pathways for vocal learning in three distantly related birds - parrots, hummingbirds, and songbirds - and is now exploring evolutionary connections to understand how these pathways develop. Awards for his work include the NSF's Alan T. Waterman Award, the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award; his work made Discover’s top 100 science discoveries of 2005, and he was chosen one of Popular Science’s Brilliant 10 of 2006. Twitter

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  • Donald C. Johanson

    Virginia M. Ullman Chair in Human Origins; professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change; founding director, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University

    Don Johanson fulfilled a childhood dream when in 1974 he earned his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Chicago and joined Case Western Reserve University as a junior faculty member. That same year, on a search for hominid fossils at Hadar in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia, Johanson found Lucy, the 3.2-million-year-old partial fossil skeleton that changed the conventional account of human evolution. Returning the following year, the group found the remains of at least 13 individuals that Johanson argued were a new species, Australopithecus afarensis, a likely common ancestor to subsequent species of both Australopithecus and Homo. Johanson analyzed the fossils at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where he was appointed curator of physical anthropology in 1975. He went on to found the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, Calif., in 1981 and directed IHO until 2009, moving it to Arizona State University in 1997. Johanson has used the Lucy story extensively to excite and inform the public about human origins research. He has authored or co-authored several books, including Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind (1991); Ancestors: In Search of Human Origins (1994); From Lucy to Language (2006); and Lucy’s Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins (2010). His Webby-winning website www.becominghuman.org is used worldwide as a powerful learning tool for students from elementary school through the university level. Today he continues to conduct research at Hadar and teach at ASU. Recipient of many international prizes and awards, he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Siena Academy of Sciences. With support from the National Science Foundation, the L. S. B. Leakey Foundation and the National Geographic Society, he has carried out field research in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Tanzania as well as Ethiopia. Twitter

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  • Marc Kamionkowski

    Professor of physics and astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University

    Marc Kamionkowski is a theoretical physicist who specializes in cosmology. He earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Chicago, followed by postdoctoral study at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and faculty positions at Columbia University, where from 2006 to 2011 he was the Robinson Professor of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics. In 2011 he joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins. Kamionkowski’s most significant research contributions are in the theory of dark matter, dark energy and the cosmic microwave background, but he has also worked in other areas of astrophysics and early-Universe and physical cosmology. His recent honors include the E. O. Lawrence Award for Physics (2006), an American Physical Society Fellowship (2008) and a Miller Visiting Research Professorship at Berkeley (2010). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013 and in 2014 named a Simons Foundation Investigator. Editor-in-chief and astrophysics and cosmology editor for Physics Reports, he has also served as an editor of the Journal of High Energy Physics and the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. In addition to his service on national committees and external advisory panels, he is a member and trustee at the Aspen Center for Physics.

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