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Jay M. Pasachoff specializes in studying the sun at total solar eclipses, working closely with Dr. Steven Souza and Dr. Bryce Babcock. They carry out experiments to study the million-degree-temperature of the solar corona in order to find out how the corona gets so hot. Their work has been supported by the National Geographic Society, the National Science Foundation, and the Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium. Dr. Pasachoff, along with Dr. Souza, and Dr. Babcock carried out an extensive expedition to Kastellorizo, in the Greek Dodecanese islands, for the March 29, 2006, total solar eclipse. They included a half dozen astrophysics and astronomy majors. Dr. Pasachoff and Babcock had a similar expedition to Siberia for the August 1, 2008, total solar eclipse. They are now planning an expedition for the July 22, 2009, total solar eclipse in China.

Alfred L. Goldberg, PhD has served as a director of Repligen since July 2008. Dr. Goldberg is currently a professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Goldberg has been associated with Harvard University during his entire academic career. He was appointed an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in 1969 and Dr. Goldberg has been a professor at Harvard Medical School since 1977. Dr. Goldberg has served as a consultant to many biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and on numerous Scientific Advisory Boards including the Michael J. Fox Foundation, The American Foundation for Aging Research, The Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease at The University of California Medical School, and The Center for Neurodegenerative Disease at Brigham and Women"s Hospital. Dr. Goldberg earned an AB in 1963, studied at Cambridge University and Harvard Medical School, and earned his PhD in 1968 from Harvard University.

Alan Keyes was one of the U.S. representatives to the United Nations during the Ronald Reagan administration. In the 1990's he became one of the more well-known conservative African-Americans, thanks to his radio talk program, *The Alan Keyes Show*. His career as a political pundit on the TV and lecture circuit included a 2002 program on MSNBC, *Alan Keyes Making Sense*, but has been periodically interrupted by campaigns for elected positions. A Republican, Keyes ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in Maryland in 1988 and 1992, for the Senate in Illinois in 2004 (against Barack Obama), and for U.S. president in 1996 and 2000.

As Communications Director of Clinton's 1992 campaign, George Stephanopoulos helped set up the War Room that responded aggressively to attacks. He then became an advisor at the White House, but left after Clinton's first term. He wrote a 1999 book on his experiences in the Clinton campaign and presidency, *All Too Human: A Political Education*.

Frank McCourt taught in the New York City public schools for twenty-seven years, the last seventeen of which were spent at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. After retiring from teaching, Frank and his brother, Malachy, performed their two-man show, *A Couple of Blaguards*, a musical review about their Irish Youth. His memoir, *Angela's Ashes*, was published in 1996 by Scribner and has spent over three years on *The New York Times* bestsellers lists. There are nearly six million copies in print in North America alone and the book is available in eighteen countries. Frank McCourt was the winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award in Biography/Autobiography, the Boston Book Review's Non-Fiction prize, the ABBY Award, and The Los Angeles Times Book Award. *Time* magazine and *Newsweek* chose *Angela's Ashes*, as the best nonfiction book of 1996. The sequel to *Angela's Ashes*, *Tis: A Memoir*, was published by Scribner in September, 1999 and hit *The New York Times* bestsellers list at number one and remained on the list for 37 weeks. A feature film of *Angela's Ashes*, starring Emily Watson, was made by Alan Parker. Frank lives in Connecticut with his wife, Ellen.

Professor Linda Heywood is the author of *Contested Power in Angola*, editor of and contributor to *Central Africans Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora*, and co-author with John Thornton of *Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of America *(Cambridge University Press, July, 2007). Her articles on Angola and the African Diaspora have appeared in *The Journal of African History*, *Journal of Modern African Studies*, *Slavery and Abolition*, and the *Journal of Southern African Studies*. She has served as a consultant for numerous museum exhibitions, including "African Voices" at the Smithsonian Institution, "Against Human Dignity" sponsored by the Maritime Museum, and the new exhibit at Jamestown, Virginia. She was also one of the history consultants and appeared in the PBS series *African American Lives* (2006) and *Finding Oprah's Roots* (2007).

Lois Brown joined the Department of English at Mount Holyoke College in 1998. Currently, she is the Director of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts at Mount Holyoke College, a center dedicated to creating invigorating public programs, supporting the leadership potential of students, and creating events that allow dynamic and productive consideration of vital contemporary issues and significant historical questions. A recipient in 2004 of one of the college's two Distinguished Teaching Awards awarded that year, she also was a Baccalaureate speaker in 2004 and delivered the faculty address at the 2002 Convocation. Brown's research and teaching focuses on nineteenth-century African American and American literature and culture, abolitionist narratives, and evangelical juvenilia. A 2000 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Award recipient, she has been affiliated with the Harvard University Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research where she also has been a visiting fellow. Brown has lectured widely and published articles on African American literature, women's writing, early American education, and African American history and religion. In 2001, the Museum of Afro-American History in Boston recognized her work with one of its first African American History Awards and lauded her for her "extraordinary commitment to American history" and her "obvious commitment to education and equality." Brown's biography, *Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution*, published by the University of North Carolina Press in June 2008, has been hailed as the definitive Hopkins biography for decades to come. Photo courtesy of Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo.

Dr. Ruth Herndon, Associate Professor (Ph.D., American University, 1992). Dr. Herndon's teaching and research focus on early American social history, with a special emphasis on marginalized people in the colonial and Revolutionary eras--children, women, the poor, servants, and slaves. Her major publications include a monograph on the transient poor in the eighteenth century, Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), an essay in the Journal of Economic History (co-authored with John E. Murray), "Markets for Children: The Political Economy of Pauper Apprenticeship" (2002), and an anthology (co-edited with John E. Murray), Children Bound to Labor: Pauper Apprenticeship in Early America (Cornell University Press, 2009). For over ten years, Dr. Herndon has been collaborating with Dr. Ella Wilcox Sekatau, medicine woman, ethnohistorian and genealogist of the Narragansett Tribe, on a project to re-tell New England history using both Euro-American and Narragansett sources. They have published several jointly-authored essays, one of which won the Heizer prize from the American Society for Ethnohistory in 1998. Dr. Herndon's current project is Children of Misfortune: The Fates of Boston's Poor Apprentices, a study that traces the lives of children bound out from the Boston almshouse in the eighteenth century. More information can be found on Dr. Herndon's webpage: http://personal.bgsu.edu/~rwhernd/ [Source: http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/history/faculty/page36357.html]