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A native of North Dakota, Mr. Jenkinson is a writer, lecturer, and award-winning first-person interpreter. He is the host of a nationally syndicated radio program, *The Thomas Jefferson Hour*, and of a weekly television book review program. He has appeared on *the Today Show*, *Politically Incorrect*, and CNN, and was a main commentator for Ken Burnss PBS documentary on *Thomas Jefferson* as well as the on-camera host of the documentary *Travelin' on the Lewis & Clark Trail*.

Lisa Jardine CBE is Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, and holds honorary doctorates from the University of St Andrews, Sheffield Hallam University and the Open University. She is a Trustee of the V&A Museum, a member of the Council of the Royal Institution, and sits on the Library Committee of the Royal Society. In April 2008 she took up the post of Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Professor Jardine writes and reviews for all the major UK national newspapers and magazines and for *the Washington Post*, and has presented and appears regularly on arts, history and current affairs programs for TV and radio. She is a regular writer and presenter of *A Point of View*, on BBC Radio 4: a book of the first two series of her talks was published by Preface Publishing in March 2008 and a second *Another Point of View* will appear in 2009. Lisa Jardine has published over fifty scholarly articles in refereed journals and books, and seventeen full-length books, both for an academic and for a general readership, a number of them in co-authorship with others. She is the author of a number of best-selling general books, including *Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance*, *Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution*, and biographies of Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. Her most recent book on Anglo-Dutch reciprocal influence in the seventeenth century, entitled *Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory*, was published by HarperCollins in April 2008.

Having originally specialized in English Romanticism, James Heffernan has published studies of all six major Romantic poets, on the cultural impact of the French Revolution, and on the relations between English Romantic poetry and landscape painting. The latter topic led him to examine more generally the relation between visual art and language in his latest book, *Cultivating Picturacy*.

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).