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Judith Sheine, MArch

Professor, Architecture; Director of Design, TallWood Design Institute

University of Oregon

Mass Timber Design, architecture + design, Architecture, Southern California 20th Century Architectural History, design technologies, construction technologies, Housing

Judith Sheine is an academic expert in mass timber design, Southern California 20th century architectural history, design and construction technologies, and housing. At the University of Oregon, she is a professor in the Department of Architecture and the Director of Design for the TallWood Design Institute (TDI), a collaboration between the UO’s College of Design and Oregon State University’s Colleges of Forestry and Engineering focused on the advancement of timber products and their application in building systems.

Since 2008, Sheine has worked in interdisciplinary teams of architecture and engineering faculty and students focused on advanced timber products and their applications. This work led to her involvement in the formation of the TallWood Design Institute in 2015. Sheine is engaged in TDI research, outreach, and education; current research projects include the development of single-family mass timber workforce housing and façade retrofits for energy and seismic resilience, both projects employing prefabricated mass timber panel assemblies, and the re-use potential of mass timber building components. Sheine has expertise in affordable housing, having won several prizes in the 1990s for competition entries and one built project, expertise that she is now applying to the new timber technologies. Her background in the examination of Southern California architects and the connection of their design theories to construction technologies serves as an underpinning of her more recent work in the field of design and construction technologies in timber.

Sheine is also an award-winning architect whose projects have been published internationally and she has been recognized as the leading authority on the work of R.M. Schindler; her publications on the architect include R.M. Schindler (Phaidon Press, 2001) and her most recent book, Schindler, Kings Road and Southern California Modernism (University of California Press, 2012), co-authored with Robert Sweeney.

Peggy Stover, MPS

Associate Professor of Practice and Director

University of Iowa Tippie College of Business

clinical professor, Analyzing, retail trends, Advertising, Mintel Research, Market Research, Consumer Insights and Sales, Brand Management

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Boleslaw Szymanski, PhD

Claire & Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor, Computer Science

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Social Network, Computer Science, Network Science, Sensor Networks, computation and information technology, computer wireless

Dr. Boleslaw K. Szymanski is the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Director of the ARL Social and Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from National Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, in 1976. Dr. Szymanski published over four hundred scientific articles. He is a foreign member of the National Academy of Science in Poland, an IEEE Fellow and a member of the IEEE Computer Society, and Association for Computing Machinery for which he was National Lecturer. He received the Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award in 2003 and the Wilkes Medal of British Computer Society in 2009. His research interests cover the broad area of network science with current focus on social and computer networks.

Tobias Gerhard, BSPharm, PhD, FISPE

Interim Director, Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research; Director, Rutgers Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science

Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers University

Pharmacoepidemiology, Pharmacoepidemiology And Drug Safety

Tobias Gerhard is a pharmacoepidemiologist and the Founding Director of the Rutgers Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science (PETS). He received his pharmacy degree from the University of Freiburg, Germany (2002), and his PhD in pharmacoepidemiology from the University of Florida (2007). Dr. Gerhard’s work focuses on the development and evaluation of modern pharmacoepidemiologic methods with applications in mental health and geriatric pharmacotherapy. He has extensive experience working with large claims and EHR datasets and has published widely on use, safety, and outcomes of therapeutics, particularly of psychotropic medications in vulnerable populations. His work has been funded by NIA, NIMH, AHRQ, PCORI, and by multiple foundations. Currently, he serves as PI of two R01 awards from the NIA and as subcontract PI for several other NIH-funded projects. His work has been recognized with a NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, a NCDEU New Investigator Award from the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, and the 2020 Sternfels Prize for Drug Safety Discoveries. Dr. Gerhard is a Fellow of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) and its current President-Elect and serves on committees for FDA and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). Dr. Gerhard was appointed Acting Director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research in December 2021 and appointed Interim Director in June 2022.

Christopher Hendon, PhD

Assistant Professor, Computational Materials Chemistry

University of Oregon

Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, coffee expert, espresso expert, science of coffee, precious metals, Catalysis, Energy Conversion, porous materials

Computational chemist Christopher Hendon (aka Dr. Coffee) is an international expert on the science of coffee. He can talk about how to brew the best cup according to science.

He authored the book, “Water For Coffee,” with Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood, a world champion level barista. Together, the two have won barista championships and transformed the art and science of espresso worldwide. Hendon studies material properties that emerge from chemical imperfections. His work on these defects has applications in energy storage and conversion. Collaborating with colleagues from across disciplines, he’s looking for ways to create new designer materials that reduce the dependence on precious metals.

His coffee research has become a permanent fixture in the university. The Oregon Coffee Laboratory is a public laboratory where Hendon studies the electrical properties of coffee extracts. He continues to work with and support local businesses, while maximizing his research impact within the coffee industry.

Margaret McGuire , University of Massachusetts Medical School

Surgical director Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Hackensack Meridian Health

Pediatric Surgery, single-incision laparoscopy

Board certified:
Pediatric General Surgery
Surgical Critical Care
General Surgery

After earning her medical degree at University of Massachusetts, Dr. McGuire completed her residency in surgical critical care at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She then completed a fellowship in pediatric surgery at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Dr. McGuire has patient-care experience at some of the best children’s hospitals in the country and has performed thousands of surgeries. She has also contributed nearly 30 publications to medical literature.

Ellen Peters, PhD

Director, Center for Science Communication Research; Philip H. Knight Chair, School of Journalism and Communication

University of Oregon

Psychology, psychology & social behavior, Social Behavior, science communication, Risk Assessment, Cancer Treatment, Decision Making, Decision Research, health decision-making, Innumeracy, Numeracy, Emotions, communication techniques

Ellen Peters is an academic expert in decision making and the science of science communication. Her primary research interests concern how people judge and decide, and how evidence-based communication can boost comprehension and improve decisions in health, financial, and environmental contexts. She is especially interested in the basic building blocks of human judgment and decision making—such as emotions and number abilities—and their links to effective communication techniques. These processes are also central to the effects of adult aging on decision making as well as to public policy issues, such as how to communicate about the health effects of smoking or about the pros and cons of cancer screenings and treatments. She is also interested in methods to increase number ability, a.k.a. numeracy, to improve decision making and, in turn, health and financial outcomes. 

As Philip H. Knight Chair, Director of the Center for Science Communication Research (SCR), and Professor in both the School of Journalism and Communication and the Psychology Department at the University of Oregon, she explores how policy makers, physicians, and other experts can enhance public understanding of science and technology by advancing the science of science communication.

Her book, Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers, was published by Oxford University Press.

Neil O'Brian, PhD

Assistant Professor, Political Science

University of Oregon

Midterms, Public Opinion, Midterm Elections, U.S. Politics, Oregon politics, Congress, Public Opinion and Polling, political parties, Polarization, partisan politics, abortion politics

Political scientist Neil O’Brian is an academic expert in U.S. politics with focus on public opinion, political parties and polarization. Neil can comment on public opinion and political participation in Oregon’s congressional and statewide races as well as national politics. His research agenda and expertise also include the partisan politics of abortion in the United States.

Alayna Park, PhD

Assistant Professor, Psychology; Director, ADDRESS Mental Health Laboratory

University of Oregon

Psychology, Mental Health, youth mental health, Youth Behavioral Health, Mental Health Disparities, mental health literacy

Dr. Alayna Park is an expert in youth mental health and behavioral health, evidence-based psychotherapies, mental health literacy, and mental health disparities. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and her predoctoral internship at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System. A licensed clinical psychologist and an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, her research is driven by the goal of improving the accessibility, quality, and effectiveness of mental health services. She is particularly interested in re-designing, disseminating, and implementing evidence-based mental health programs for diverse and dynamic school and community mental health settings. Dr. Park has published more than 30 scientific papers on the topics of clinical decision-making, racial and ethnic mental health disparities, and the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based psychotherapies. Her work has been recognized with awards from the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Delaware Project, Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (SCCAP), Society of Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC) and Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP).

Josh Roering, PhD

Professor, Earth Sciences

University of Oregon

Landslides, Wildfires, landslides after fires, Geomorphology, Erosion Mitigation, Erosion, Geology, Volcano expert, Landscapes, Mudslides

Josh Roering holds degrees from Stanford and University of California, Berkeley. He uses field observations, laboratory experiments, computer models, and remote sensing to conduct his investigations. Roering specializes in geomorphology, which addresses the evolution of landscapes, including mountain building by tectonic and volcanic processes and erosion by rivers, glaciers, landslides, and other processes. His research has led to fundamental insights on why many landscapes have an orderly appearance, with distinctive and evenly spaced valleys and ridges. He has also investigated the influence of land use practices, such as timber harv

Susan Gary, JD

Professor Emerita of Law

University of Oregon

Trusts and estates, estate planning, Charitable Donations, Nonprofit donors, Nonprofit Organizations, Purpose Trusts, Stewardship Trusts, Nonprofits, Estates

Susan N. Gary has taught trusts and estates, estate planning, nonprofit organizations, and an undergraduate course on law and families. As a professor emerita and formerly Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, Gary has written and spoken about the regulation of charities and fiduciary duties, including the prudent investor standard, purpose trusts (also known as stewardship trusts) as a new form of business ownership, the definition of family for inheritance purposes, donor intent in connection with restricted charitable gifts, and the use of mediation to manage conflict in the estate planning context. 

Gary received her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Columbia University. Before entering academia, she practiced with Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago, and with DeBandt, van Hecke & Lagae in Brussels. She is a member of the American Law Institute and an Academic Fellow and former Regent of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, the preeminent U.S. organization for estate planning lawyers and academics. She has also served on the Council of the Real Property, Trust and Estate Section of the American Bar Association. She served as the Reporter for three projects of the Uniform Law Commission: the Electronic Wills Drafting Committee, the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, and the Model Protection of Charitable Assets Act. She is currently a member of the Fiduciary Duty Working Group of the Intentional Endowments Network and has served as a member of the Advisory Board of the NYU National Center on Philanthropy and the Law. She has held leadership positions in three sections (trusts and estates, elder law, and nonprofits) of the Association of American Law Schools.

Significant recent articles are “Best Interests in the Long Term: Fiduciary Duties and ESG Investing,” 90 Univ. of Colorado L. Rev. 731 (2019) and “The Oregon Stewardship Trust: A New Type of Purpose Trust that Enables Steward-Ownership of a Business,” 88 Univ. of Cincinnati L. Rev. 707 (2019). Both are available on SSRN.

Whitney Phillips, PhD, MFA

Assistant Professor, Digital Platforms and Ethics

University of Oregon

Midterms, Midterm Elections, Rightwing Media Cultures, Political Communication, Conspiratorial Belief, Political Communication Expert, Digital Culture, Media Ethics, Online Ethics, moral panic, Narrative and Identity, Narrative and the Politics of Identity

Journalism professor Whitney Phillips studies where political communication, interpersonal communication, and information dysfunction collide. Her research shows that, while we need to be plugged into the news cycle, we also need to consider issues of citizen wellbeing and mental health, since nothing shuts down engaged citizenship faster than stress and overwhelm. Equally critical is interpersonal communication; According to her research, we need to focus on strategies for having difficult conversations about issues that make us angry and people we fundamentally disagree with.

Mark Bourassa, PhD

Professor of Meteorology and Associate Director of the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies

Florida State University

Hurricane, Meteorology, Forecasting

Bourassa uses on-site and remote observations as well as meteorological models to research air-sea interactions and how satellites measure what is happening on the Earth’s surface. He is an expert in surface water waves and the identification of tropical disturbances, which are possible precursors to tropical cyclones. Bourassa is also a team leader for the NASA Ocean Vector Wind Science Team.

Ming Cai, PhD

Professor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science

Florida State University

Atmosphere, Hurricane, Climate Change

Cai studies the relationship between tropical storm size and intensity and how that relationship can improve forecasting. A recent publication examined how polar ice and atmospheric water vapor influence variations in climate models.

Allison Wing, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science

Florida State University

Hurricane, Climate Change, Emergency Management

Wing is an expert on climate and hurricanes. Her research group studies atmospheric dynamics and climate, with a special interest in tropical cyclones and tropical convection, the clustering of clouds and thunderstorms. She was named to Popular Science’s Brilliant 10, a recognition for early career scientists conducting groundbreaking work.

David Merrick, MS

Director of the Emergency Management and Homeland Security Program; Director of the Center for Disaster Risk Policy

Florida State University

Hurricane, Emergency Management, Climate Change

Merrick has worked in state emergency management for more than 15 years in roles such as planning, external affairs and air operations. He developed and currently oversees the Emergency Management and Homeland Security Program’s Disaster Incident Research Team, which deploys to disaster impact areas to perform field research on disaster and emergency management. This team has deployed to disasters such as hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Michael to assist state and local agencies, perform data collection, and complete research projects. His research interests include emergency management planning and policy, remote sensing and unmanned aircraft systems and information technology in emergency management.

Shi-Ling Hsu, PhD

D’Alemberte Professor, College of Law

Florida State University

Environmental Law, Climate Change, Hurricane

Hsu is an expert in the areas of environmental and natural resource law, climate change, law and economics, and property. He has published in a wide variety of legal journals and co-authored the casebook Ocean and Coastal Resources Law. Before entering academia, he was a senior attorney and economist for the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. He teaches Property and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Change.

Eren Ozguven, PhD

Associate Professor, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and Director of the Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Response (RIDER) Center

Florida State University

Climate Change, Disaster Response, Hurricane

Ozguven directs the Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Response Center, which promotes all-inclusive and equitable disaster resilience for vulnerable populations. His research interests include transportation accessibility, modeling of emergency evacuation operations, urban mobility and smart cities and the simulation of transportation networks. Recent scholarship focuses on the relationships among different infrastructure networks in Florida and how that contributes to disaster preparation.

Patricia Born, PhD

Payne H. & Charlotte Hodges Midyette Eminent Scholar in Risk Management & Insurance

Florida State University

insurance market, Hurricane, Risk Management

Born researches insurance market structure and performance, professional liability, health insurance and the management of catastrophic risks, such as hurricanes and other natural disasters. She is a past president of the American Risk and Insurance Association and the Risk Theory Society and is editor of Risk Management and Insurance Review.

Charles Nyce, PhD

Robert L. Atkins Associate Professor of Risk Management & Insurance and Research Director of the Center for Risk Management Education & Research

Florida State University

Risk Management, Climate Change, Natural Disaster

Nyce’s main research area is catastrophic risk financing, and he has authored numerous articles on a variety of risk management and insurance topics, including title insurance, enterprise risk management, predictive analytics and natural hazards.

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