Shikha Nangia is the Milton and Ann Stevenson Endowed Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University in New York. A faculty member since 2009, she currently chairs the college’s department of biomedical and chemical engineering. Her research centers on developing computational methods for studying biological interfaces.
Dr. Nangia earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Minnesota and completed postdoctoral research at Pennsylvania State University.
Stacey Philbrick Yadav has been named the Joseph P. DiGangi Professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. She joined the liberal arts school in 2007 and currently teaches as a full professor of international relations. Her work specializes in comparative politics of the Middle East and North Africa. She is the author of numerous scholarly publications, including Yemen in the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Dr. Philbrick Yadav is a graduate of Smith College, a liberal arts institution for women in Northampton, Massachusetts. She earned her master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Connie Sung is the inaugural Annmarie Hawkins Research Professor in Disability Justice at the University of Michigan. Before joining the university’s School of Social Work in January, she was an associate professor, program director of the master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling, and co-director of the Center for Services, Training, and Research for Independence and Desired Employment at Michigan State University. Throughout her career, she has authored more than 100 publications in the areas of disability justice and rehabilitation.
Dr. Sung received her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and her Ph.D. in rehabilitation counseling and psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Amanda Demmer was recently appointed to the Paul and Linda Austin Military History Professorship at Virginia Tech. A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2018, she works closely with the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets and the Army ROTC program to develop courses that help cadets develop skills and knowledge of U.S. military history. Her own research focuses on war, diplomacy, and human rights.
Dr. Demmer holds a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Fredonia and a Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire.
Wendy V. Gilbert is the new Maxine F. Singer ’57 Ph.D. Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. A former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she holds appointments in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Yale School of Medicine. Her research focuses on regulatory elements in messenger RNA that control the cellular expression of the information stored in the genetic code.
Dr. Gilbert received her bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California, San Francisco.
D. Betsy McCoach was appointed to the Anne Anastasi Endowed Chair in Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology at Fordham University in New York. For the past two decades, she taught in the educational psychology department at the University of Connecticut. She has a wide range of research interests, including applied measurement, affective instrument design, latent variable modeling, multilevel modeling, and gifted education.
Dr. McCoach is graduate of the University of Delaware, where she double-majored in economics and French. She holds a master’s degree in secondary education from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, as well as a second master’s degree and Ph.D. both in educational psychology from the University of Connecticut.