Marjorie G. Bardeen

Marjorie is Manager of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Education Office and President of Friends of Fermilab. Marge holds a B.A. in Mathematics, 1963, University of Minnesota and an Educational Certificate (Mathematics,) 1984,Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL. Marge is the recipient of the1984 "Those Who Excel" Award of the Illinois State Board of Education and was named the 1989 Outstanding Woman Leader in Education by the Suburban YWCA. She received the 1990 Max Bieberman Distinguished Alumni Award.

David Heil

David is well known throughout the country as an innovative science educator, new enterprise developer, lecturer,author and host of the Emmy Award-winning PBS science series,Newton's Apple. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) and the Keystone Center.Prior to establishing DHA, David was affiliated with the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI) for 13 years,serving as associate director from 1988-1996.

Sarah Johnson Redlich

Educated at St. Lawrence University (BS Biology, 1982) andUniversity of San Francisco, Sarah has dedicated herself to education, science and conservation, recently spearheading thedrive to build a $40M state-of-the-art Science Facility for St Lawrence. She is a trustee of St Lawrence, Vice-Chair ofcapital campaign, Vice Chair architecture and physical plant,and has been a member of the executive committee from1999-present. Sarah advances science-based environmental legislation as the Chair/National Affairs and Legislation for the Hillsborough Chapter of the Garden Club of America. At Conservation International, Wash. DC, Sarah is a member of the sub-committee of the Chairman's Council. As Chair of the Ethel Walker School Capital Campaign, Sarah has launched a 5-year program to enable Ethel Walker to maintain and extend excellence in education.

David Micklos

Dave is founder and director of the DNA Learning Center, a science museum that provides lab instruction to 21,000 precollege students per year. The nationwide training program he began in 1985 and the DNA Science text he coauthored have introduced thousands of high school and college faculty to laboratory methods in molecular biology. In the last several years, he has focused on developing lab and Internet resources to allow students to use their own DNA polymorphisms as anentrée to studying human evolution, available online at the Genetic Origins site. He is editor of three other Internet sites: Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement, DNA from the Beginning, and Your Genes/Your Health, a multimedia site on genetic disorders. In 1990, Dr. Micklos received the Dana Award for Pioneering Achievement in Higher Education

Andrei Ruckenstein

Andrei is the current President of the Aspen Center for Physics and a co-founder of the Aspen Science Center. He holds a B.S.from Harvard College 1978 and a PhD in Physics from Cornell 1984. He was the founding Director of BioMaPS, a Rutgers University program focused on research and education in the area of interdisciplinary biology (2000-2001); and has served as the co-Director of the BioMaPS Institute and the founding Director of the BioMaPS Graduate Program (2001-2004) while a Professor of Physics at Rutgers University. He is trained as a theoretical condensed matter physicist and is well known for his work in strongly correlated quantum systems. Since 2000 he has redirected his interests towards biology-driven research.He was recognized by an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship,an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award and a Humboldt Foundation Senior Prize. He is currently Professor of Physics and Associate Provost and Vice President for Research at Boston University.

L. M. Simmons, Jr.

Mike has a long-standing interest in innovative research and education enterprises. He was founding Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Santa Fe Institute, where he had responsibility for the research, education, and publishing programs, founded the public lecture series, summer school, and the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral programs. Previously, he was Staff Member, Associate Theoretical Division Leader, and Deputy Associate Director for Physics and Mathematics at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a co-founder of the Center for Nonlinear Studies. He is a past President and Honorary Trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics, where he initiated the public lecture series. In addition to his research on particle theory, he has consulted and lectured on technology, complex systems, and management with numerous organizations. He was educated in theoretical physics at Rice University (BA, 1959), Louisiana State University (MS, 1961), and Cornell University (Ph. D., 1965).

George Stranahan

George was one of the founders of the Aspen Center for Physics and has spent over 30 years championing Science Education. He has a B.S in Physics from California Institute of Technology, (M.S. 1953), a Ph.D in Physics, from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1961, a Postdoctoral fellowship from Purdue University, (1962-1965) Associate Professor, Michigan State University, 1965-1972.

Kevin P Ward

Kevin is the Executive Director of the AspenScience Center. Kevin holds a B.A. cum laude from Harvard College(1975) and a Juris Doctor from the University of California (1981). He has been involved in advanced interactive education for 20 years--- with Apple, The Discovery Channel,the American Museum of Natural History, IBM Research and Development, EpCot Center and other institutions. He instructed as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University from 1999-2002 and was awarded the Derek Bok Award----The Harvard University Certificate of Distinction for Excellence in Teaching----for every year of that period.