students Experts

Qin Wang, PhD

Professor of Neuroscience & Regenerative MedicineAugusta University

Qin Wang researches the neuropharmacology and signaling mechanisms underlying neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Marie Shanahan

Associate ProfessorUniversity of Connecticut

Professor Shanahan is an expert in the intersection of journalism and digital communication technology, online news and digital discourse.

Emma "Mickey" MacKie

Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Mickey MacKie uses geophysical observations and machine learning techniques to study the topography, geology and hydrology of glaciers.

Kristin Joys

Director | LecturerUniversity of Florida

Kristin Joys is an impact strategist who has spent 25 years educating high impact innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders.

Trent M. Kays, PhD

Assistant Professor and Director of Professional Writing and Rhetoric and faculty affiliate in Women's and Gender StudiesAugusta University

Welson Tremura

Professor | DirectorUniversity of Florida

Welson Tremura specializes in musicology-ethnomusicology and is a professor at the School of Music & Center for Latin American Studies.

Lynn Salsi

Author, Storyteller, Teacher, Historian, SpeakerLynn Salsi Consulting

With boundless enthusiasm, Southern history and folktales come alive with this Pulitzer Prize Nominated author & storyteller

Aaron M. Bauer, PhD

Professor Emeritus, BiologyCollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Villanova University

Aaron Bauer, PhD, is a leading expert on reptiles, with a specialty in geckos, systematics and biogeography.

Carl Hjelmen, Ph.D.

Associate ProfessorUtah Valley University

Hjelmen is an expert in genome size evolution, insect genomics, and bioinformatics

Jay Heslen, PhD

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Cyber Institute facultyAugusta University

Dr. John “Jay” Heslen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and serves on faculty at Augusta University’s Cyber Institute