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Juan Andrade Laborde

Associate ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Juan Andrade Laborde develops sustainable strategies and technologies that can be used to deliver nutrition to vulnerable populations.

Food AidMicronutrientsInternatinal DevelopmentHuman NutritionFood Science and Technology
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Marie Coppola, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Psychological SciencesUniversity of Connecticut

Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences focused on language acquisition, ASL, deaf culture, and cognitive science.

Lange AcquisitionNumber CognitionHomesignLanguage EmergenceCognitive Development
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Bruce Compas

Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Professor of Pediatrics, Co-Director of Clinical Psychology Training, and Director of Psychology at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer CenterVanderbilt University

An expert on how stress affects the physical and mental health of children and families, and the power of coping and preventative measures.

Neurocognitive DeficitsDepressionStress Coping and ResilienceHuntington DiseaseChildhood Cancer Survivorship
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Sergey Klimenko

ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Sergey Klimenko’s research interests include detection of gravitational waves, gamma-ray bursts and as-yet-unknown systems.

Gravitational WavesAstrophysicsLIGOBlack HolesSpace
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Melissa Beck, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical SciencesCedarville University

Pharmaceutical sciences professor specializing in toxicology, developmental toxicology and drug safety assessment.

Pharmaceutical SciencesToxicologyDrug SafetyPharmacologyBiomedical Research
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Susan Prentice

ProfessorUniversity of Manitoba

Professor Prentice's primary specialization is contemporary and historical childcare policy and advocacy

Social InequalitySocial ChangeSystemic DiscriminationHistorical SociologyChildcare Policy
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Lindsay Distefano, Ph.D

Professor, Department of Kinesiology, and Associate Vice President for Research DevelopmentUniversity of Connecticut

Lindsay DiStefano works to promote safe physical activity in children through physical literacy development and sport-injury prevention.

ACLYouth AthletesInjury PreventionMotor DevelopmentPhysical Literacy
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Alma Roy

Laboratory DirectorLouisiana State University

Dr. Roy’s research focuses on West Nile virus ecology and control.

West Nile VirusVaccine DevelopmentMosquito-Borne VirusesViral ImmunologyZoonotic Diseases
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Tamara Erickson

Founder & CEOTammy Erickson Associates

Top 50 global business thinker, award-winning author, and expert on organizations, the changing workforce, and generations at work

Executive DevelopmentOrganizational LeadershipLeadership EducationStrategic PlanningManagement Consulting
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Taghi Khoshgoftaar, Ph.D.

Motorola ProfessorFlorida Atlantic University

Taghi Khoshgoftaar researches computer security and intrusion detection systems.

Computer Security and Intrusion Detection SystemsSoftware EngineeringMachine LearningData MiningBig Data Analytics