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Jack Neuhauser has served as an educational consultant for several colleges and universities, and has been active in professional and regional accrediting associations for business schools in the United States. Currently, he is a director of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business and Saucony, Inc., and a trustee of several mutual funds at The Colonial Group and Liberty Financial Services Co. A graduate of Manhattan College with a degree in physics, he holds a master's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in operations research/statistics, as well as a doctorate from RPI in operations research/statistics and mathematics. Among Neuhauser's accomplishments during his tenure as CSOM dean has been the establishment of the Retirement Research Center at Boston College, with a five-year, $5.2 million grant from the Social Security Administration. He is also credited with helping to establish the Chief Executives' Club of Boston, recently named the number one speaking club for business executives in the United States. During his time as dean, the University also sponsored the 1994 "Conference on Financial Markets and The Economy," featuring Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, and the 1996 "Conference on Prospects for a Global Economy," which featured Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Labor Secretary Robert Reich. He has also overseen BC's Center for Work and Family, the Center for Corporate Community Relations, and the Small Business Development Center.

Norman Smith, director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Blue Hills Trailside Museum, has been studying snowy owls since 1981. He has established a collaborative partnership between Blue Hills Trailside Museum and the USGS Forest & Rangeland Ecosystem Center Snake River Field Station, based on owl research as it relates to snowy owls, their migration patterns, and their ecological requirements.

Prior to joining Burns & Levinson LLP in January 2006, Mr. Cohen was a partner with the firm Perkins Smith & Cohen LLP. He has more than 40 years experience as a lawyer dealing with patent, copyright, trademark, unfair competition, licensing/franchising, visual arts, software, databases and publication law, formation and operation of business enterprises and not-for-profit organizations, international trade, litigation/ADR, and legal ethics. He handles acquisition, licensing and litigation of intellectual property rights. He has also served as an expert witness, arbitrator and mediator in intellectual property matters.

Edward Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright best known for works, *Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?*, *The Zoo Story*, *The Sandbox*, and *The American Dream*. His works are considered well-crafted and often unsympathetic examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and Eugne Ionesco. Albee was one of the early American contributors to Theatre of the Absurd. His play, *The Zoo Story*, was written and debuted in 1958. While Theatre of the Absurb spans a wide range of work, Albee's work tends to focus on the problem of alienation, anomie and isolation in modern society. Even his famous *Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?*, which appears to be a simple dinner party between two couples, displays the profound alienation and interpersonal, emotional violence in the relationship between its main pair, "George and Martha."

Ed Siegel was theater critic, television critic and an arts editor for *the Boston Globe* from 1971 to 2006. He now is a regular contributor to *the Globe*'s op-ed page and to WBUR-FM as well as a feature writer and essayist for *Berkshire Living* magazine.

Joseph Cirincione joined Ploughshares Fund as president in March 2008. He is author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons and served previously as senior vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress and as director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for eight years. He worked for nine years in the US House of Representatives as a professional staff member of the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations, and served as staff director of the bipartisan Military Reform Caucus. He teaches at the Georgetown University Graduate School of Foreign Service and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His previous books include two editions of Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats, (2005 and 2002), and previous reports include Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security (co-author, March 2005) and WMD in Iraq (co-author, January 2004). He is the author of over 200 articles on defense issues, the producer of two DVDs on proliferation, the former publisher of the comprehensive proliferation website, Proliferation News, and is a frequent commentator in the media. In the past two years has delivered over 150 speeches around the world and appeared in the 2006 award-winning documentary, Why We Fight. Cirincione is an expert advisor to the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, chaired by former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry and former Secretary of Energy and Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger. He also serves as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism, headed by former Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) and former Senator Jim Talent (R-MO). Cirincione is an honors graduate of Boston College and holds a Masters of Science from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.

Ian Hutchinson is a professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT and has spoken widely about the intersection of science, faith, and culture. Hutchinson focuses on the theoretical and cultural issues beneath the historic relationship between science and Christianity. His most recent popular material focuses on the notion of scientism, the expansion of the methodology of science beyond its natural limits. Hutchinson is the author of *Principles of Plasma Physics* and an International Advisor to *Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion*, one of the leading plasma physics journals in the world.