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Katherine Kortes-Miller

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work and Palliative Care Division Lead, Centre for Education and Research on Aging and Health (CERAH)Lakehead University

An unconventional death educator and researcher with a passion for palliative care and improving end of life care for all

GerontologyPalliative CareEnd-Of-Life CareInterprofessional Education and CareLGBTQ
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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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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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Jed McCaleb

CTO and CofounderStellar Develoment Foundation

Recognizing that the world’s financial infrastructure is broken and that too many people are left without resources, I cofounded Stellar.org

EntrepreneurStartupNonprofitTechTechnology
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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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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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Dean Krusienski, Ph.D.

Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Biomedical Engineering | B.S., M.S., Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State UniversityVCU College of Engineering

Focusing on neural signal processing and analysis for the development of brain-computer interfaces and neuroprosthetic devices.

Deep-brain StimulationNeuroprostheticsMachine LearningSignal ProcessingBrain-Computer Interfaces
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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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Lukasz Kurgan, Ph.D.

Dean Robert J. Mattauch Chair | Vice Chair of Computer ScienceVCU College of Engineering

Data scientist specializing in high-throughput structural bioinformatics of proteins & small RNAs.

Structural BioinformaticsIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsProtein-ligand(drug) interactionsComputer-aided molecular modeling Big Data Analysis