Bart Bartlett is an Arthur F Thurnau Professor of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. He received his AB in Chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis, graduating summa cum laude. He earned his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a post-doctoral fellow at University of California, Berkeley. He served as the Associate Director for Science and Technology at the UM Energy Institute from January 2014 – December 2019. He is the recipient of many awards for his research and teaching including LSA Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award, the Seyhan N. Eğe Faculty Development Award and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Excellence in Education Award. His research focuses on understanding chemistry-related basic science needed in the large-scale production of clean, efficient, renewable fuels. His research program addresses these problems in synthesizing compounds that will have immediate impact in fundamental science needs for energy conversion and storage: 1) semiconductor materials that are stable under extremely oxidizing environments under a wide-range of pH to generate solar-derived fuels; 2) high stability electrolytes for next-generation magnesium batteries. Beyond these energy implications, a unifying theme of this research is the synthesis of solid-state materials with well-defined, but easily-tuned structures and compositions that allow electrons or ions to flow within the solid.

Sarah Burgard is a professor of Sociology and by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She is also a Research Professor in the Population Studies Center (PSC). She earned a BA at Reed College and MA and MS degrees in Sociology and Epidemiology and a PhD in Sociology at UCLA. She has been a faculty member at UM since 2005. She studies the life course social determinants of health and wellbeing and related health disparities, and has received funding for survey data collection in these areas from the National Institutes of Health and private foundations. She has been deputy editor or an editorial board member of the American Sociological Review, Demography and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. At UM she has served as Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology and co-directed the PSC postdoctoral program, was Implementation Lead of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategic Plan for ISR, and will be director of the Population Studies Center starting in July 2020. She has received multiple teaching and mentoring awards including the John Dewey Award for long-term commitment to undergraduate education from the College of LSA, the Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award, and the Mentoring Award from the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health (IAPHS).

Lilia Cortina is Professor of Psychology, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Management. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Pomona College and A.M. and PhD. in Psychology (with a graduate minor in Quantitative Methods) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Cortina has been a faculty member at UM since 2000. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Using survey and experimental methods, she researches sexual harassment and incivility in the workplace. In addition, Dr. Cortina occasionally serves as an expert witness in forensic venues, translating findings from the scientific literature to inform law and policy.

Mike Liemohn is a Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering. He teaches SPACE 101, Introduction to Rocket Science and SPACE/CLIMATE 405-002, Data Analysis and Visualization for Geoscientists. His research focuses on plasma transport in the ionosphere and magnetosphere of the Earth and other solar system bodies. As of March 2019, Mike has authored or co-authored 204 peer-reviewed publications in print, press, or submitted. He currently serves as Chair for the NASA Heliophysics Advisory Committee, a member of the NASA Science Committee, and he is an Executive Committee Member for the AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy Section. He also currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for JGR-Space Physics journal.   His awards include the U-M College of Engineer Ted Kennedy Family Team Excellence Award, the 2018 U-M College of Engineering Monroe-Brown Foundation Education Excellence Award, and the 2002 U-M Outstanding Research Scientist Award.

Jennifer Linderman is the Pamela Raymond Collegiate Professor of Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering.  She has served as Director of the UM ADVANCE Program since 2016.  She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a recipient of the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award and a Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award. Her research centers on developing mathematical and computational models that integrate different types of experimental data, typically over multiple scales, to address fundamental questions about cell signaling pathways, the diseases of cancer and tuberculosis, pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics, and drug delivery.

Professor Mora’s principal research interests focus on the historical construction of race, gender, and sexuality in the U.S. His book Border Dilemmas explores how the first generations of Mexicans living in the United States grappled with the racial and national ideologies that circulated along the nineteenth-century border. He currently has two major research projects underway. The first explores the relationship between African Americans and Mexican Americans in the early-twentieth-century urban Midwest. He also is writing a history of the fictional character of Zorro from 1919 to the present.  The iconic character serves as a means of tracing changing representations of Mexican Americans, historical memory, and U.S. regionalism.

Kevin Pipe is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Since 2016 he has directed the College of Engineering’s Bridge-to-Ph.D. program, and since 2017 he has served as the Director of Graduate Degree Programs in the College of Engineering. His research focuses on heat transfer for electronic and medical applications. For the former, his lab applies solid state thermal physics, molecular design principles, computational techniques, and high-resolution thermal measurement techniques to manage heat flow in engineered materials and high-power devices. For the latter, his lab develops technologies to cool tissue for various clinical applications.

Deborah Rivas-Drake is a Professor of Education and Psychology at the University of Michigan. She earned her B.A. from Pace University and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Dr. Rivas-Drake has been a faculty member at U-M since 2013. Her research, which has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and William T. Grant Foundation, among others, examines how school, peer, family, and community settings support adolescents in navigating issues related to race and ethnicity, and how these experiences inform their academic, socioemotional, and civic development. In addition to her academic publications, she has lent her expertise more broadly by developing materials for K-12 educators; in writings and webinars for parents and educators; and by consulting on race and ethnicity issues in youth for non-profit organizations, youth program developers, and industry.

Patrick Schloss is a Professor of Microbiology & Immunology. He received his B.S. in 1997 and his Ph.D in 2002 from Cornell University in Biological and Environmental Engineering. He then pursued postdoctoral training at the University of Wisconsin. In 2006 he joined the Microbiology faculty of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. In 2009, he moved to the University of Michigan Medical School. His research investigates the role of gut microbiota in preventing bacterial infections and the formation of colonic tumors. In 2014 he was named the Frederick G. Novy Collegiate Professor of Microbiome Research. He is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology. Beyond his research, Dr. Schloss has helped create a community of learning and peer-to-peer teaching around the development of computational skills through the development of a local chapter of the Carpentries Organization.

Isis Settles is Professor of Psychology and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She received her BA from Harvard College and her PhD in Psychology from the University of Michigan. After working at Michigan State University for 15 years, Dr. Settles joined the faculty of UM in 2016. Using an intersectional framework, her research focuses on the experiences, perceptions, and consequences of unfair treatment (e.g., sexual harassment, racial discrimination) directed at devalued social group members (e.g., racial minorities, women). Dr. Settles is a fellow of the Society for the Psychology of Women, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation.

Priti Shah is an Arthur F Thurnau Professor of Psychology, Information, and Education and a Faculty Associate in the Research Center for Group Dynamics of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She received her BA from the University of North Carolina and her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. Her research focuses on higher level cognition (thinking, reasoning, problem solving), the basic cognitive mechanisms supporting these abilities (executive functions, attention), and educational application. She has edited 3 volumes and published over 75 articles and chapters. Her work has been funded by the Institute for Educational Sciences, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Office of Naval Research, the Spencer Foundation, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation. She is an Associate Editor at Memory & Cognition and has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Educational Psychology and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. She has received awards for her research, mentoring, and teaching.

Kristen Verhey is the A. Kent Christensen Collegiate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in the Medical School and Professor of Biophysics in LS&A. She received her B.S. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from Harvard University where she also did her postdoctoral work. She has been on the UM faculty since 2002. She served as Interim Chair of Cell and Developmental Biology and is currently the Associate Chair. She serves on several editorial boards, study sections, and committees for the American Society of Cell Biology and the Biophysical Society. Her research interests include the role of cytoskeletal filaments and motor proteins in cellular organization, chemomechanical coupling in kinesin motor proteins, and assembly and function of primary cilia.