Carmala Garzione is the inaugural Sarah Brown Smallhouse Endowed Dean of the University of Arizona College of Science, which she has led since 2021. Before her dean appointment, she was associate provost for faculty affairs at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. An earth scientist, Dr. Garizone studies the interaction between climate and tectonics, stable isotopes in terrestrial paleoclimate-paleoenvironmental studies, and sedimentary basin evolution and tectonic history of mountain belts.
Dr. Garizone received her bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Maryland. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in geoscience from the University of Arizona.
Janet Currie is the David Swensen Professor of Economics and co-director of the Tobin-Cowles Health Economics and Policy Program at Yale University. Before joining the Yale faculty in 2025, Dr. Currie was the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and co-director of the Center for Health and Well Being at Princeton University. She held previous appointments at Columbia University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, In addition to her current role at Yale, she directs the program on children and families at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
A two-time graduate of the University of Toronto in Canada, Dr. Currie earned her Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Cecilia Diniz Behn is the inaugural Joe and Jane Gray University Chair at the Colorado School of Mines. The title is the university’s highest faculty honor. A professor in applied mathematics and statistics, Dr. Diniz Behn is an expert in the field of mathematical biology. Her research applies mathematical modeling to investigate key research questions in metabolism, sleep, and circadian rhythms. Dr. Diniz Behn teaches at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the University of Colorado Boulder.
Dr. Diniz Behn received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. She earned a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Texas and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Boston University.
Kimberly Noble is the Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child and Parent Development and Education at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Dr. Noble is a neuroscientist and pediatrician who specializes in how socioeconomic inequities relate to children’s cognitive, emotional, and brain development across infancy, childhood, and adolescence. In addition to teaching as a professor of neuroscience and education, she directs the Neurocognition, Early Experience and Development (NEED) lab, as well as the college’s program in developmental psychology.
Dr. Noble earned her bachelor’s degree in the biological basis of behavior, a Ph.D. in neuroscience, and a medical doctorate all from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a residency in pediatrics at the New York Presbyterian Hospital and the Columbia University Medical Center.
Holly Harris is the inaugural Bus Family Endowed Chair at thr Fred Hutch Cancer Center, an independent organization that also serves as the cancer program for University of Washington Medicine. Dr. Harris, an associate professor of epidemiology in the center’s public health sciences division, studies the impact of lifestyle, nutrition, and genetic factors on women’s health. Her work has a particular focus on ovarian and breast cancer, as well as the hormonally related conditions that share reproductive risk factors with these diseases such as endometriosis and uterine fibroids.
Dr. Harris holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She earned a master of public health degree in epidemiology and biostatistics from the University of Southern California and a doctorate in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.