Peter Armenti
Peter is a member of the Library of Congress’s Digital Reference Section and a subject specialist in American and British poetry and literature. He develops online resources, leads presentations, and responds to reference questions on a variety of literary subjects. He is one of the administrators of the Library’s Ask a Librarian service and a regular contributor to From the Catbird Seat, official blog of the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library.
Eric Boyd
Eric Boyd is the Senior Director of Strategic Projects at Internet2. As a member of the Network Services division, Eric is responsible for driving innovation on the Internet2 Network and in the Internet2 community. His responsibilities include directing software development efforts, developing the SDN-enabled architecture on which the Internet2 Advanced Layer2 Service is built. He works closely with the GENI community to support an environment for network research on the Internet2 backbone. He works closely with science communities such as the LHC to create a networking environment that supports data intensive science. He works with collaborators in advanced networking around the globe in his role as GLIF Tech co-chair. Eric led the initial development of perfSONAR, a performance monitoring framework now widely adopted around the globe. He also led Internet2’s efforts to co-develop OSCARS to support the provisioning of circuits through software. Eric’s past grant activities include the NSF-funded DyGIR and IRIS projects, the NSF-funded DYNES project, the GENI OpenFlow project, the GENI Shadownet project, and the GENI iDREAM project.
Nancy Brickhouse
Nancy Brickhouse is Deputy Provost at the University of Delaware. Her entire academic career has been at UD. She was promoted to Full Professor in 1998 and then proceeded through a series of increasingly complex administrative appointments: Associate Director and Director of the School of Education, Deputy Dean and Interim Dean of the College of Education and Human Development, and Deputy Provost. In 1992 she was a visiting Fellow at the University of Leeds. She holds a B. A. in Chemistry from Baylor University (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude) and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. Prior to attending Purdue, she taught chemistry, physics, and physical science in Van Texas, a rural school district in northeast Texas.
Dr. Brickhouse’s research has focused on access and equity in science education. Dr. Brickhouse’s research develops theories of science teaching and learning that link these practices to epistemologies of the sciences. She posits that learning science implicates the development of individuals as persons within larger cultural contexts. More recently, her work has focused on issues of science education policy, particularly as they relate to the implementation of standards and assessment and the provision of equitable access to science literacy. Her research is well known internationally. Her contributions to the Font D Scientific Committee led to the creation of the first doctoral program in science education throughout Sweden where she was also awarded the Svend Petersen Lecture Award.
The National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Spencer Foundation have supported her research. She has been the Principal Investigator or co-principal investigator on over $10 million in externally funded projects. Her work has been published in the premier journals in her field, including Science Education, the Journal for Research in Science Teaching, and Educational Theory. Her work is widely cited and informed the National Academy of Sciences K-12 framework for science education as well as their report on informal learning of science. Dr. Brickhouse served a five-year term as editor-in-chief of Science Education, an ISI top 20-ranked journal in Education and Education Research.
Kevin Brinson
Kevin Brinson is the Associate State Climatologist for Delaware and Director of the Delaware Environmental Observing System (DEOS) (http://www.deos.udel.edu) at the University of Delaware. Kevin received a Bachelor’s in Atmospheric Science from the University of North Carolina at Asheville and has a Master’s in Geography from the University of Delaware where he conducted research on precipitation variability. Kevin directs the operation of a network of environmental monitoring platforms distributed throughout the state of Delaware and surrounding region. DEOS is one of the most comprehensive, state-of-the-art meteorological mesonets in the United States and is the densest statewide mesonet in the United States. As Associate State Climatologist, Kevin provides assistance with climate data applications and information to the businesses and citizens of Delaware. Also in this role, he provides meteorological expertise to public officials during weather emergencies and collaborates with other researchers in climate-related activities.
H Timothy Bunnell
Dr. Bunnell received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University in 1983, concentrating in human speech perception and the acoustic properties of speech (acoustic phonetics). From 1983 to 1989, he worked as a Research Scientist in the Sensory Communication Research Laboratory (later Center for Auditory and Speech Sciences) at Gallaudet University conducting research on the application of digital speech processing techniques to hearing enhancement, primarily for acoustic hearing aid users. In 1989 he became the director of the Speech Processing Laboratory at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children where his research interests expanded to include text to speech synthesis and speech recognition. Dr. Bunnell is now the director of the Nemours Center for Pediatric Auditory and Speech Sciences (CPASS) and head of the Speech Research Laboratory within the CPASS. Since 2000, he has also served as director of the Nemours Biomedical Research Department’s Bioinformatics Core. The Bioinformatics Core maintains computing infrastructure for Nemours Biomedical Research, and provides expertise in applications development, biostatistics, data mining, and numerical analysis. Dr. Bunnell’s primary research interests are in biomedical and clinical applications of speech technology for the diagnosis and remediation of hearing and speech disorders, particularly in pediatric patients.
Areas of Research:
- Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering
- Bioinformatics/Clinical Informatics
- Biostatistics/Biometrics
- Psychology, Cognitive
- Speech Science
Christina Callahan
Christina Callahan is an Environmental Informatics Specialist with the Delaware Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Center (DEMAC) located at the University of Delaware. As the manager, coordinator, and specialist, Tina works to coalesce a myriad of environmental data products from disparate data sources into value-added applications that can help state and local governments, researchers, and K-20 students and faculty understand environmental factors influencing our region. With over 15 years of Web and GIS experience, Tina works closely with numerous data formats from local and federal agencies. In addition to her degrees in Geography, Tina has worked for EarthSat (MDA Information Systems, Inc.), New Jersey Office of GIS, and University of Delaware Information Technologies in the fields of GIS, Remote Sensing, Climatology, and Web technologies. Tina is also an advocate for Science and Technology in K-16 education.
Jason Cash
Jason Cash is Director of IT-Infrastructure. The Infrastructure group in IT-NSS manages the operation, maintenance, and support of networking and computing systems. The group is responsible for the organization and general management of the central technical systems and data center groups. These systems include enterprise class client/server, and data storage and retrieval systems. This unit also maintains the learning management and e-mail servers.
Susan Garfinkel
Susan is a member of the Library of Congress’s Digital Reference Section, with subject specialties in early American cultural history, the built environment, and the digital humanities. She also holds an M.A. degree from Delaware’s Winterthur Program (as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania). She is especially interested in the ways that computing in all its manifestations affects practice in the humanities–changing the ways we teach, do research, publish, and interact with each other across time and distance.
Steve Goldfarb
Steve Goldfarb is one of 3000 physicists working on the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. He first came to CERN as a Michigan graduate student to work on the L3 experiment on the Large Electron-Positron collider (LEP), and defended a thesis in 1991 that determined there are three families of fundamental particles in the universe. Steve continued the analysis of L3 data for several years before joining his Michigan colleagues in 1998 on ATLAS to develop software for the new experiment. Along the way, Steve took an interest in the complexities of communication for a collaboration of 38 different countries. He chaired an LHC-wide committee to determine how to effectively develop and deploy collaborative tools to handle the demands, thus taking advantage of that “web-thing” that was developed at CERN a decade earlier. Once the LHC took the spotlight, by not destroying the world in 2010, Steve found that collaborative tools provide an excellent means to communicate to (even converse with) the public. He and his colleagues have since developed several platforms to get the good word out, including ATLAS Live information streams, ATLAS Virtual Visits, and Hangout with CERN.
Steve has appeared in a wide variety of media, from NPR to 60 Minutes to the BBC, Vanity Fair and even the Wall Street Journal, simply because he loves to discuss the physics of ATLAS. He currently serves as Education and Outreach Coordinator, meaning he has the pleasure of communicating the goals and achievements of the collaboration to the public. Since discovery of the Higgs boson, this has become the best job in the world.
Daniel Leathers
Dr. Dan Leathers is a Professor of Geography at the University of Delaware where he has also served as the Chair of the Department of Geography and as Deputy Dean of the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment. He received his undergraduate degree in physics from Lycoming College and his Masters and Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University. His major research interests include understanding the role of snow cover in the global climate system, the influence of land-surface changes (natural and human induced) on regional climates, environmental monitoring, and the regional climate of the northeast United States. Dr. Leathers serves as the Delaware State Climatologist, as Director of the Delaware Environmental Monitoring and Analysis Center and as an Associate Director of the Delaware Environmental Observing System.
Jan Lee
Dr. Jan Lee is the Chief Executive Officer of the Delaware Health Information Network (DHIN). She is a board certified Family Practice physician with a Master of Medical Management degree and a wealth of leadership experience. Prior to joining DHIN, she was Vice President of Knowledgebase and Content for NextGen Healthcare, a leading vendor of health information technology products and services, where she was responsible for the development of clinical content in 26 medical specialty areas for the NextGen electronic health record. She transitioned to NextGen from a career in the United States Air Force, where she had worldwide assignments in clinical settings from outpatient clinics to medical centers, several academic appointments, and varied leadership and command assignments. She served in a senior leadership capacity at Headquarters, Air Force as the Chief Information Officer of the Air Force Medical Service. She steered management of a $3.2B IT portfolio supporting 130K Department of Defense healthcare employees and 9.1M beneficiaries worldwide. She led implementation of the Department of Defense EHR throughout the Air Force to 75 facilities of all sizes supporting all medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties. She has served on a range of national level committees and workgroups, and is frequently sought as a speaker on health and health IT topics. Her specific areas of interest are health policy and the use of health IT to improve clinical practice and population health. Recent recognition includes listing in “Guide to America’s Top Family Doctors” and “Who’s Who in America” and selection by “Cambridge Who’s Who” as Executive of the Year.
Greg has been in the communications industry since 1980 In 1988 he received a business degree in Operations Management from LaSalle University. In 1990, he collaborated with the Okidata parent company, OKI Electric in Tokyo Japan, to build an international network that included Japan, Thailand, Australia, five sites in the United States, and one in the United Kingdom. He later took a position as Director of Global Computing Operations at Christian Dalloz, Ltd, headquartered in Paris, France, overseeing 42 sites worldwide. He then chose to return to the academic community at the University of Pennsylvania as the Executive Director of MAGPI, the regional aggregation point for Internet2. MAGPI now connects over 700 research and educational communities in PA, NJ, and DE to an advanced regional network and is dedicated to the proliferation of initiatives and applications requiring a high performance infrastructure.
He is a former member of the Board of Directors of PACIE, (http://www.pacie.org) and is a member of the Board Advisory council for The Asian Studies Collaborative at the Berks County, PA Intermediate Unit. Within Internet2, he is on the Internet2 International Task Force, The Arts & Humanities Working Group, and is the current chair of the Africa Regional Interest Group. In addition, Greg was part of an 11 member consortium in Pennsylvania that received an ARRA grant of $99.6M towards the construction of a research and education network in PA. Most recently, Greg is the MAGPI representative for the Internet2 led U.S. UCAN initiative. In addition, he has written several papers on advanced networking and high performance applications in the United States and has presented on several occasions to EUNIS, (European UNiversity Information Systems, http://www.eunis.org/).
Lee Ann Potter
Lee Ann leads a dynamic team committed to developing programs and materials that engage learners in building content knowledge, developing critical thinking strategies, and practicing analysis skills—all based on primary sources.
Christine Pruzin
Christine is a member of the Library of Congress’s Digital Reference Section and a subject specialist in Women’s History and Transportation History. She develops online resources, leads presentations, and responds to reference questions on a variety of subjects through the Library’s Ask a Librarian service. She has a great interest in how to use the Internet for research and to that end participated in the development of a workshop that looks at ways to evaluate websites.
Louis Rossi
Louis Rossi is a Professor of Mathematical Science at the University of Delaware. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvey Mudd College, his Master’s degree from UC Berkeley and his Ph.D from the University of Arizona. His research interests include numerical methods for partial differential equations, analysis of dynamical systems, vorticity dynamics and swarming. He and Prof. Chien-Chung Shen direct the interdisciplinary Swarm Dynamics Group at UD that focuses on biologically-inspired methods for solving problems associated with wireless networks. The group has designed and analyzed wireless protocols based on the behavior of ants, protocols for sensor networks based on the growth of slime mold, and new covert leadership models for swarms of robots.
Chien-Chung Shen
Chien-Chung Shen is a Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Delaware. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, and his Ph.D. degree from UCLA, all in computer science. He was a research scientist at Bellcore Applied Research working on management of broadband networks. His research interests include mobile wireless networks, management of broadband networks, and distributed computing. Together with Louis Rossi, they have been working on bio-inspired networking and swarming protocols.