James G. Clawson
Professor of Business Administration
Chair, First Year Program Committee
Area Coordinator, Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
University of Virginia

James Clawson has been a Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia since 1981. Author of Level Three Leadership, Dr. Clawson has helped executives and managers at all levels learn how to be more effective leaders in today's rapidly changing environment.

Dr. Clawson received degrees from Stanford University (Japanese Language and Literature with great distinction), Brigham Young University (MBA in marketing), and Harvard University Graduate School of Business (DBA Organizational Behavior). He taught for three years at the Harvard Business School before joining the Darden School . He also taught as a visiting professor at the International University of Japan in 1991.

Jim has been an active writer on issues of leadership, career management, management development and mentoring. His most recent book with Mark Haskins is Teaching Business Management: A Field guide for professors, consultants and corporate trainers.

Prof. Alexander Fedorikhin
Associate Professor of Marketing
Kelley School of Business
Indian University

Prof. Alexander Fedorikhin is an associate professor of Marketing in Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. His research interests concentrates on the intersection of the areas of affect and consumer decision making. According to Prof. Fedorikhin, the judgment and decision making literature has been overly cognitive in nature and the role of affect has been traditionally under-emphasized. His area of interest also lies in knowing how the relationship between effective and cognitive aspects of consumer decision making vary internationally.

He is also an Ad Hoc Reviewer of various Journals and associations such as Journal of Consumer Research (2001 - present); Journal of Marketing (2002 - present)

Journal of Marketing Research (2005 - present); Marketing Science (2004 - present)

Journal of Advertising (2005 - present); American Marketing Association Summer Educators Conference (2003-present); Association for Consumer Research conference (2002-present) and Society for Consumer Psychology conference (2004-present)

Prof. Anuradha Mathur
Associate Professor of Landscape
Architecture
School of Design
University of Pennsylvania

Associate professor Anuradha Mathur is the co-author of Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (Yale University Press, 2001). Her design firm Mathur/da Cunha received the Young Architects award for 2000 by the Architectural League of New York.

Her awarded projects are part of a publication by Princeton architectural Press and the Architectural League titled, Second Nature. Mathur's work is directed toward design and the representation of landscapes as shifting and dynamic. Mathur is currently investigating the landscape of the Deccan Plateau in South India, providing the basis for an innovative design strategy for the city of Bangalore .

Dr. L. A. Post, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Research
College of Communication Arts and Sciences
Michigan State University

Dr. Post is the Assistant Dean for Research in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences. In this capacity, she is involved in research development and extramural funding at both the college and university level. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media. She directs several violence prevention research projects

Prof. Christopher Agnew
Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
Purdue University
Department of Psychological Sciences

Prof Christopher Agnew is an associate professor & director of graduate studies in Purdue University . His research interests include (1) social psychological dimensions of health behavior, including the attitudes, attributions, and biases of individuals and couples concerning reproductive health; and (2) interpersonal relations, including couple decision-making, the cognitive representation of relationships, commitment processes, and social network interactions and influence.

Prof. Ikuko Acosta
Director - Graduate Art Therapy Program New York University

Prof. Ikuko Acosta, Ph.D., ATR-BC. Director of the Graduate Art Therapy Program has extensive clinical experiences as an art therapist as well as an art therapy educator for the past twenty years. She has worked with a wide range of populations including geriatrics, adults, adolescents and children. She has lectured widely,and has presented workshops and in-services throughout the United States and other countries including Italy , Korea , Iceland , and Turkey . She has published articles in "American Journal of Art Therapy" and currently serves as an Educational Committee member at American art Therapy Associations, Inc

Her research interests include New Directions in Art Therapy; Art Therapy in Non-Clinical Settings and International Development of Art Therapy. Prof. Acosta received degrees from Rutgers University (BA - Fine Arts); New York University (MA - Art Therapy and PHD- arts & Humanities.

Prof. Kent Choquette
Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

Kent D. Choquette received his B.S. degrees in engineering physics and applied mathematics from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1984, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in materials science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985 and 1990, respectively.

From 1990 through 1992 he held a postdoctoral appointment at AT&T Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill , NJ , where he developed vacuum integrated processes for opto electronic device fabrication. In 1993 he joined Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque , NM , where he pursued the design, fabrication, and characterization of vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) and other optoelectronic devices. He also investigated selective oxidation of AlGaAs alloys and its application to high performance VCSELs and has developed hybrid integration technologies for Optoelectronics.