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Barnaby Evans is an artist who works in many media, including site-specific sculpture installations, photography, film, garden design, architectural projects, writing, and conceptual works. His original training was in the sciences, but he has been working exclusively as an artist for more than 25 years. Evans is best known for WaterFire, a sculpture that he installed on the three rivers of downtown Providence. In 1994, he created First Fire to celebrate the tenth anniversary of First Night Providence; in June 1996, he created Second Fire for the International Sculpture Conference and the Convergence International Arts Festival in Providence. With hundreds of volunteers and the broad support of the community, he established WaterFire as an on-going installation in 1997. Evans also created WaterFire Houston in 1998 and installed Moving Water for the Institute of Contemporary Arts Vita Brevis Program in Boston in 2001. Evans is currently exploring art installations for a number of other cities including St. Petersburg. Barnaby Evans received his Bachelors degree in biology and environmental science from Brown University in 1975. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humanities by Brown University and an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by Rhode Island College, both in 2000.rnational Triennial Exhibition (in Switzerland) and Providences Renaissance Award in 1997.

Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. is a professor of economics at Harvard University. In addition to being affiliated with Harvard University he maintains offices at the National Bureau of Economic Research and WEB DuBois Institute. In January 2008, at age 30, he became the youngest African-American to ever receive tenure at Harvard. Fryer is widely regarded to be one of black America and Harvard's rising stars, having published numerous economics-related papers in prominent academic journals over the past few years. The New York Times ran an extensive profile of Fryer, entitled "Toward a Unified Theory of Black America," in March of 2005 that dealt extensively with Fryer's rough upbringing.

Marc Hauser is professor of psychology, organismic and evolutionary biology and biological anthropology at Harvard University. He is also co-director of the Mind, Brain and Behavior Program, a fellow at the Center for Ethics and director of the Cognitive Evolution Lab. His research focuses on the evolutionary and developmental foundations of the human mind, with the specific goal of understanding which mental capacities are shared with other nonhuman primates and which are uniquely human. Among his publications are *Moral Minds: How nature designed a universal sense of right and wrong* (2006, Harper Collins, New York and Time Warner, London) and the forthcoming *Evilicious: explaining our evolved taste for being bad* (Viking/Penguin-USA; Random House-UK).

Hugh Herr directs the Biomechatronics group at The MIT Media Lab. His research program seeks to advance technologies that promise to accelerate the merging of body and machine, including device architectures that resemble the body's musculoskeletal design, actuator technologies that behave like muscle, and control methodologies that exploit principles of biological movement. His methods encompass a diverse set of scientific and technological disciplines, from the science of biomechanics and biological movement control to the design of biomedical devices for the treatment of human physical disability. Professor Herr's work impacts a number of academic communities. He is associate editor for the *Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation*. He has been invited to participate in joint funding proposals from other universities and corporations, and has served on research review panels including the National Institute of Health, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. His work has been featured by various national and international media, including *Scientific American Frontiers*, *Technology Review*, *National Geographic*, and the *History Channel*.

Known as the wild woman of the harp, Deborah Henson-Conant is a Grammy-nominated composer/performer. When she found herself chafing under the confines of the classical music world, she developed her own style of swing and Latin jazz by emulating jazz pianists, guitarists and horn players. She explored her instrument's fascinating roots in other cultures, from Mexico to the Celtic Isles. She then incorporated these elements into her own compositions, landed a record contract with the pre-eminent contemporary jazz label at the time (GRP) and became known as the world's premiere jazz harpist.

Neil Gershenfeld is the director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms and heads the Media Lab's Physics & Media research group. His unique laboratory investigates the relationship between the content of information and its physical representation, from molecular quantum computers to virtuosic musical instruments. Technology from his lab has been seen and used in settings including New York's Museum of Modern Art, rural Indian villages, the White House/Smithsonian Millennium celebration, automobile safety systems, the World Economic Forum, inner-city community centers, Las Vegas shows, and Sami reindeer herds. He is the author of numerous technical publications, patents, and books including *Fab*, *When Things Start To Think*, *The Nature of Mathematical Modeling*, and *The Physics of Information Technology*, and has been featured in media such as *The New York Times*, *The Economist*, CNN, and *the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour*. Gershenfeld has a BA in physics with high honors from Swarthmore College, a PhD from Cornell University, was a junior fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows, and a member of the research staff at Bell Labs.

Organic farmer and businessman who is building the Farmer's Diner in Barre, VT into a national model for economically viable and environmentally sound restaurants that support local family farms.

Lisa Randall is an American theoretical physicist and a leading expert on particle physics and cosmology. She works on several of the competing models of string theory in the quest to explain the fabric of the universe, and was the first tenured woman in the Princeton University physics department and the first tenured female theoretical physicist at MIT and Harvard University.

Robert Pozen is an economist who over the years has worked as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, as the head of Fidelity Investments, and on several political projects for Republicans, including US President George W. Bush's 2001 Social Security commission. He currently chairs MFS Investment Management, a Boston based fund management company.

Richard Bushman received his AB, AM, and PhD degrees from Harvard University, where he studied with distinguished early American historian Bernard Bailyn. Bushman taught at Harvard, Brigham Young University, Boston University, and the University of Delaware before joining the history faculty at Columbia. During the 2007-08 academic year, Bushman served as Howard W. Hunter Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University and held a Huntington Library fellowship. Bushman is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He interrupted his undergraduate studies at Harvard to serve as a missionary in New England and Atlantic Canada, and he has held various lay positions within the Mormon Church, including Seminary teacher, bishop, stake president, and Stake Patriarch.

**Professor Eliga H. Gould** has taught at University of New Hampshire since 1992. His books include *The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution* (2000), which won the Jamestown Prize from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, and *Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World* (2005), co-edited with Peter Onuf. In 2004, the American Society for Legal History named his article "Zones of Law, Zones of Violence: The Legal Geography of the British Atlantic, circa 1772", *William and Mary Quarterly* (2003), co-winner of the Sutherland Prize for best article in English legal history.