Adriene is an assistant professor of Psychology and a research assistant professor of Data Science. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Psychology at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, and her Ph.D. in Psychology with a concentration in Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience from the Pennsylvania State University. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses focused on quantitative methodology. In her research in the Methods, Sex differences, and Development – M(SD) – Lab, she uses time-indexed statistical analyses to understand how the brain functionally mediates sex hormone (e.g., androgen, estrogen) influences on gendered behavior- uniquely for each person. Thus, a key aspect of her work is person-specific data analysis, which produces findings that have implications for individualized education and precision mental health care. She is an associate editor for methods journals and has received several awards for her work, including the Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science and an Early Career Research Fellowship from the Jacobs Foundation. When not working, Adriene enjoys spending time with her husband, two young children, and labradoodle.

Sunita is a Postdoctoral Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan.  She earned her BA at Bowdoin College and her MS and PhD at the University of Minnesota.  Sunita's research is in algebraic combinatorics, a field that uses algebraic techniques to answer combinatorial questions.  More specifically, she works with total positivity, which can be thought of as the study of matrices that meet certain positivity conditions, and cluster algebras, which are algebraic objects that arise from the relations between these positivity conditions.  In her free time, Sunita enjoys participating in fantasy leagues of all types (March Madness, Iditarod, The Bachelor,...), doing (currently virtual) pub trivia with her friends, and ice cream.

Shreyasi is a Postdoctoral Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. She did her Ph.D. at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. Her research area comprises the number theory and dynamics. More specifically, her work involves using results from dynamics to solve number theory problems. Besides work, she loves to spend her time in the gym, doing yoga, and drawing sketches.

Glenn is a Lecturer in the Division of Anatomical Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Michigan. Glenn teaches Gross Anatomy (M1), Head and Neck Anatomy (DENT 545), and Human Anatomy (ANAT 403). His research focuses on pedagogical approaches to anatomy, and he has a special interest in the the evolution and ecology of squamate reptiles (specifically snake evolution and origins). In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, nature photography, travel, and spending time with his wife, sons, and their two dogs.

Trachette (Trace) Jackson is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics. She earned her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington and her postdoctoral studies were conducted at Duke University. Trace's research interests can be described as turning cancer discoveries into effective treatments with the aid of mathematical modeling. It is an exciting time to work in the interdisciplinary field of Mathematical Oncology.  Even TIME magazine agrees that, “A team-based, cross disciplinary approach to cancer research is upending tradition and delivering results faster.”  Trace is an award-winning educator and scholar whose research in mathematical oncology has received international attention.  In 2003, she became the second African American woman to receive the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Award in Mathematics; in 2005 she received the James S. McDonnell 21^st Century Scientist Award; in 2008 Diverse Magazine honored her as one of the year’s Emerging Scholars.  In 2010 she received the Blackwell-Tapia Prize, which recognizes a mathematician who has contributed significantly to research, and who has contributed in significant ways to addressing the problem of underrepresentation of minorities in mathematics.

Dr. Michener is the Associate Curator at the UM Nichols Arboretum and Matthaei Botanical Gardens and is active in the Program in the Environment as well as Museum Studies. David's professional responsibilities are for the endemic to exotic living plant collections and related landscapes managed by the "Arb and Gardens." His work has taken him from Brazil to the Russian Far East. David is active and published in the management of living collections according to museum standards. Currently, he is working to make the institution's rich resources digitally available to students and researchers. David has been with the University of Michigan since 1990. His undergraduate degree is in botany from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in botany are from the Claremont Graduate School / Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. He spent six years on a NSF-funded postdoctoral position at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. David's outside interests include gardening, fishing with friends, and travel.

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Jun is a postdoc at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Milan. He earned his Ph.D. degree from C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University, and was a postdoc in Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Michigan. During his Ph.D. at Stony Brook University, he taught the lab courses for both undergraduate and graduate students. These include both elementary physics courses such as mechanics and more advanced ones like lasers, superconductors and nuclear physics. At the University of Michigan, he was the organizer of the journal club and one of the coordinators of the seminars on theoretical physics. He is broadly interested in theoretical physics and mathematical physics, and his current research focuses on quantum field theory, gravity and string theory

Janice received her B.A., B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, with a M.A. from Drake University. She is a theoretical biologist and mathematical paleobiologist, conducting research on the evolution of organisms modeled by shape analysis and 3D surface morphologies. Some of the modeled organisms include diatoms, ostracods, mollusks, echinoderms, anthropods, and annelids. Modeling is accomplished using implicit functions and partial differential equations. She is also an aquatic ecologist with studies of the Great Lakes on board research vessels and in the lab, including fish distributions in coastal wetlands, effects of nitrogen on phytoplankton, and seasonal succession of phytoplankton. Other research interests include graph theory and morphospace analysis, fuzzy logic in systematics, biological symmetry, and geometric spaces in ecosystem analysis. In her spare time, she enjoys baking prize winning cakes for the Michigan State Fair, aviculture, antiques, sewing and being with friends and family.

Sheila is a lecturer in UM's School of for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), where she teaches ecology and conservation biology courses to masters-level students, and has been an instructor in the MMSS program since 2002. She has also taught undergraduate students at Eastern Michigan University and UM's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, written a book on animal behavior for middle and high school students, and served as an instructional consultant for UM's Center for Research on Learning and Teaching. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, where she studied the ecology and evolution of plant-animal interactions (especially pollination and invasive species) in Michigan, the California Channel Islands, and Greece. Beyond academia, she learns from and works with many practitioners doing on-the-ground conservation and restoration work, including serving as an evaluation and adaptive ecosystem management consultant and by research and learning partnerships with private and public land owners and planners. She enjoys all aspects of ecology, especially outdoors!

Nina White is a Lecturer and Research Scientist in the Department of Mathematics. She received her B.A. from University of California Berkeley, and her M.A and Ph.D from the University of Michigan. In graduate school, Dr. White’s research area was geometric topology, but since graduate school she started publishing in Math Education. She still loves geometry of all kinds, and greatly enjoys teaching Euclidean Geometry at UM every Fall. She has also taught a wide variety of geometric courses at the high school summer program Canada/USA Mathcamp. She lives with her family on a small livestock farm outside of Ann Arbor and enjoys (among other things) swinging kettlebells, riding her bike, solving crosswords, sewing clothes, singing all kinds of songs, and cooking up a storm.