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Paul Mariani is an American poet and a professor at Boston College, who was born in New York City in 1940. He grew up on Long Island, the eldest of seven children. His published work includes biographies on the confessional poets; Robert Lowell, John Berryman, William Carlos Williams, and, most recently, on the poet Hart Crane. He has also published six books of poetry: *Timing Devices*, *Crossing Cocytus*, *Prime Mover*, *Salvage Operations: New and Selected Poems*, *The Great Wheel*, and *Deaths & Transfigurations*. His latest book is a biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins (2008). He has been honored with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Foundation for the Humanities.

Gary Y. Okihiro is a professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, where he was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. His research interests are Asian American studies and southern Africa . He is the author of nine books in U.S. and African history, six of which have won prizes, most recently of *The Columbia Guide to Asian American History* (2001) and *Common Ground: Reimagining American History* (2001). Others include *A Social History of the Bakwena* and *Peoples of the Kalahari of Southern Africa, 19th Century* (2000), *Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II *(1999), *Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II* (1996), and *Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture* (1994). Professor Okihiro received his PhD in African history from the University of California , Los Angeles , in 1976. He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Studies Association, and is a past President of the Association for Asian American Studies.

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."

As the Biotechnology Markets Leader, Scott is responsible for all aspects of Ernst & Young's global marketing, communication and go-to-market strategies for the biotechnology industry. In this role, Mr. Sarazen and his team serve as the primary conduit between the firm and the biotechnology and medical device industries for the purposes of identifying and tracking the changing landscape of these dynamic sectors. The Markets Leader also oversees thought leadership, including the production of Beyond Borders, Ernst & Young's annual report on the biotechnology industry. Scott is resident at Ernst & Young's Global Biotechnology Center based in Boston. Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Mr. Sarazen has enjoyed over 18 years of experience supporting strategic operations and business development in the biotechnology and biomedical industries in roles including: Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Straumann, North America and Director of Global Planning and Development at Genzyme Corporation. Scott has also served in public roles as both the Senior Vice President for Life Sciences with MassDevelopment and as a special consultant to the Chief Economic Development Officer of the City of Boston for the purposes of advocating the expansion of the biomedical economies in Massachusetts. Mr. Sarazen has a BS in Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a MS in Management from Lesley University.

Heuser serves as the deputy editor for the Ideas section, which appears weekly in the Boston Sunday Globe. Ideas features colorful reporting and probing commentary on the ideas, people, books and trends that are shaking up the intellectual world. Prior to his current role, specialized in coverage of biotechnology -- including the business of life science, medical devices, nanotechnology and pharmaceuticals in the New England region -- for the Boston Globe business section. He has been member of the paper's editorial staff since 2001. [Source: http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/resources/bio.aspx?id=3956]

Oliver Peoples is a co-founder of Metabolix, a company which delivers sustainable solutions for the world's need in plastics, chemicals, and energy. He has served as Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President of Research and Development since January of 2000, and was previously Director of Research and Vice President. Before founding Metabolix, Peoples was a research scientist with the Department of Biology at the MIT where he was a pioneer of the new field of metabolic pathway engineering and its applications in industrial biotechnology.