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R. Grant Gilmore III, College of Charleston

Anne Toomey McKenna, Penn State

Michael Bruening, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Pamela K. Starr, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Thomas Adam, University of Arkansas

Eric Palkovacs, University of California, Santa Cruz

Rotem Rozental, University of Southern California

Stephen DiKerby, Michigan State University

Bridget K. Daleiden, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton

Daniel Milowski, Arizona State University

Allison M. Prasch, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Morgan Marietta, University of Tennessee

Manuel A. Gómez, Florida International University

Anne Toomey McKenna, Penn State

Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton

Graham G. Dodds, Concordia University

Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon

Farah N. Jan, University of Pennsylvania

Robert Kubinec, University of South Carolina and Alexis Montambault-Trudelle, Université Laval

Asher Kaufman, University of Notre Dame

Brian O'Neill, Georgia Institute of Technology

Eric Zillmer, Drexel University

Kirk Bowman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Achim Zeileis, University of Innsbruck

Andrés Henao, University of Colorado Anschutz

Peter C. Mancall, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Carolyn Zola, California State University, East Bay

Steven K. Green, Willamette University

Robert Parkinson, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Dmitri Kalashnikov, University of California, Merced; Cong Yin, University of California, Merced; Madhulika Gurazada, University of California, Merced, and Mukesh Kumar, University of California, Merced

Dillon Amaya, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Weizhi Deng, University of Iowa; Jun Wang, University of Iowa, and Meng Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Ivis García, Texas A&M University

Stephen Bagwell, University of Missouri-St. Louis and Susan Randolph, University of Connecticut

Sylvain Barbot, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky

Amy McAuliffe, University of Notre Dame

Sally Ibrahim, Case Western Reserve University

Alex Krasnok, Florida International University

Guy German, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Oregon State University and Ana K. Spalding, Smithsonian Institution

Krupa Shandilya, Amherst College

Nan Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ross Channing Reed, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Michael Helbing, Penn State

Sean Murphy, Shenandoah University

Jabari M. Evans, University of South Carolina

Kelley Cours Anderson, College of Charleston; Ashley Hass, University of Portland, and Breanne A. Mertz, University of Tampa

Jeremy David Engels, Penn State