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Conor Walsh, winner of a competition to be the IDEAS from the Next Generation speaker at the conference, is a Ph.D candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT. His winning idea is a high-tech medical device called Robopsy, a robotic surgical aid for doctors performing biopsies that could make the procedure safer and more accurate. It has already received $80,000 in prize and development money and a provisional patent. Walsh's goal to develop practical engineering technologies that directly help humanity is realized in the lightweight, disposable plastic structure that holds and manipulates a biopsy needle.

Barry Zuckerman is a medical professor and chair of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine and chief of pediatrics at Boston Medical Center. Also a co-founder of Reach Out and Read, a national program that has put more than 20 million free books in the hands of children through doctor's offices. He is currently serving as chairman of the Read Early, Read Aloud campaign sponsored by the Southern California First 5 Children and Families Commission. Dr. Zuckerman has been a national leader in expanding pediatric health care to more effectively address the needs of low income and minority children. In addition to Reach Out and Read, he started the Medical-legal Partnership for Children (MLPC) at Boston Medical Center, which uses legal advocacy to address the social causes of the health and developmental problems in low-income children. He also co-founded the Healthy Steps Program for Children, a strategic program designed to keep pediatricians informed of new findings in early childhood development. An author of more than 200 scientific publications, Dr. Zuckerman has also served as the editor for nine books. He has served on prestigious national committees, including the National Commission on Children and the Carnegie Commission on Meeting the Needs of Young Children. Dr. Zuckerman has been a consultant for UNICEF, providing technical assistance to Turkey and Bangladesh as they strengthen their child health services.

Wayne Franklin is a Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature who was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on American writer James Fennimore Cooper. Franklin is Northeastern's second English faculty member in its history to garner such an award and was one of 185 grantees chosen from among 3,200 applicants to the Guggenheim Foundation in New York City. Franklin's Guggenheim fellowship will enable the continuation of his work and research on American writer James Fenimore Cooper, the American novelist credited with the invention of the frontier novel, the sea novel, and the American historical romance.

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.

Professor of History and Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies. Professor Calloway first taught at the College of Ripon and York, St John in England. After moving to the United States, he taught high school in Springfield, Vermont, served for two years as associate director and editor of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and taught for seven years at the University of Wyoming. He has been associated with the Native American Studies program since 1990 when he first came to Dartmouth as a visiting professor. He became a permanent member of the faculty in 1995. Professor Calloway serves as the President of the American Society for Ethnohistory, 2007-08.

Pamela Wilkinson Fox is a preservation consultant and author of the award winning Farm Town to Suburb: The History and Architecture of Weston, Massachusetts, 1830-1980. Her career has included work for the Boston Landmarks Commission and Rhode Island Historical Society. She is a consultant to the Weston Historical Commission, a member of Weston's Planning Board, Community Preservation Committee, and Land Trust, and is president of the Weston Historical Society.

Anne Sebba is a biographer, lecturer, journalist and former Reuters foreign correspondent. Her first job was at the BBC World Services in the Arabic Department. She has written eight books, several short stories and introductions to reprinted novels. She is a member of the Society of Authors Executive Committee and is working on a biography of Wallis Simpson. In September 2007 she launched her major new biography - *Jennie Churchill: Winston's American Mother* published by John Murray in the UK to widespread acclaim. In November W.W. Norton published it in the US as *American Jennie: the Remarkable Life of Winston Churchill's Mother*. In 2008 Anne was consultant for the Channel 4 film, *Lady Randy: Churchill's Mother*, broadcast to coincide with the launch of the paperback. Anne started her working life as a foreign correspondent for Reuters, partly in Rome, and in 1993 wrote a history of women reporters called *Battling for News: The Rise of the Woman Reporter* and is regularly invited to lecture on the subject in university media departments. In 1990 *Laura Ashley: A Life By Design* was published in UK and US and also reached several bestseller lists. This was a biography of a businesswoman, wife, mother and proto-feminist who became one of the leading influences on British twentieth century design and marketing.

The first of her biographies, *Eliot's Early Years* (1977), began as a student thesis. The British Academy awarded it the Rose Mary Crawshay prize. A sequel, *Eliot's New Life*, was published at the time of the poet's centenary (1988). The two books were rewritten as one, *T.S.Eliot: An Imperfect Life* (1999), with new material collected over twenty years. A memoir of three women who died young, *Shared Lives* (1992), is about women's friendship going back to schooldays in the Cape Town of the fifties. The last book was *Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft* (2005). Lyndall is now approaching Emily Dickinson by way of the Dickinson feud. The feud exploded over adultery, but came to focus on the poet. Rival ca Lyndall is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and member of PEN. She is married to Professor of Cellular Pathology, Siamon Gordon; they live in Oxford and have two grown-up daughters.