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Judges
Bruce Ackerson
K. Darrell Berlin
Debra Burris
Gordon Emslie
Warren Ford
Jeff Hadwiger
Robert Miller
Charlotte Mulvihill
Sheena Murphy
Ann Nalley
Rolf Prade
Tarek Rashed
Tom Ray
W. A. Rosche
Scott Russell
Khaled Sallam
Kay Scheets
Fritz Schmitz
LeGrande Slaughter
Gil Summy
Eric Terdal
Bruce
J. Ackerson 
Physics - Oklahoma State University
Bruce Ackerson is a Regents Professor of Physics at Oklahoma
State University. He received his ----Ph.D., Physics at the
University of Colorado at Boulder in May 1976. He has received
several awards and a couple of patents. He is married to Elaine
and has two children, Christopher and John.
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K. Darrell Berlin
Chemistry - Oklahoma State University
Dr. K. Darrell Berlin is a Regents Professor in Bioorganic Chemistry
at Oklahoma State University. He received his Ph.D. in 1958
at the University of Illinois. He was also a WADC Postdoctoral
Fellow in 1958-60 at the University of Florida His interest
includes: Organophosphorus chemistry; heterosteroids in cancer
chemotherapy; NMR spectroscopy; new methodology for reactions;
heterocycles in medicinal chemistry, especially new antiarrhythmic
agents, synthetic organic chemistry.
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Debra Burris
Physics - Oklahoma City Community College
Debra L. Burris has a PhD in Physics (Astrophysics Emphasis
from the University of Oklahoma. She has been a professor of
Physics at OKCCC since 1999. She is a member of the American
Astronomical Society and the American Association of Physics
Teachers. She was recently awarded the NISOD (National Institute
of Staff and Organizational Development) 2004 Excellence Award
and is a member of Who's Who Among College and University Professors.
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Gordon Emslie 
Physics - Oklahoma State University
Dr. Emslie is Associate Vice President for Research, Dean of
the Graduate College, and Professor of Physics at Oklahoma State
University. He received his B.S. degree in Physics and Astronomy
in 1976, his Ph.D. in Astrophysics in 1979, and a D.Sc. in 1997.
He also has masters degrees in Atmospheric Science, Materials
Science, and Mechanical Engineering, and he is a Licensed Professional
Engineer. Dr. Emslie was one of the first recipients of a National
Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in
1984. He has advised eight students to successful completion
of their Ph.D. studies, authored or coauthored over one hundred
forty papers in refereed journals, and co authored one book
on "The Physics of Solar Flares." He is a member of
the American Astronomical Society, an officer in its Solar Physics
Division, and a co-investigator on the Ramaty High Energy Solar
Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) mission, launched in February,
2002.
Warren Ford 
Chemistry - Oklahoma State University
Warren Ford is a Regents Professor of Chemistry at Oklahoma
State University and the Project Coordinator for the EPSCoR-supported
Oklahoma Network for Nanostructured Materials (NanoNet). He
served on the EDGE panel on Advanced Materials. His research
focuses on the preparation of colloidal particles, carbon nanotubes,
and dendritic polymers as catalysts and as building blocks for
optical materials, sensors, and ultrastrong composites. He teaches
beginning organic chemistry and graduate courses in organic
and polymer chemistry.
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Jeff Hadwiger 
Microbiology & Molecular Genetics - Oklahoma
State University
Dr. Hadwiger received his Ph.D. from University of California,
Santa Barbara in 1989 and then did his post-doctoral training
at University of California, San Diego before taking a faculty
professor position at Oklahoma State University in 1993. His
research interests include the characterization of cellular
responses to signals that regulate cell movement and differentiation.
Dr. Hadwiger and his colleagues use molecular genetic approaches
to identify and characterize genes important for the reception
and transduction of these external signals.
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Robert Miller
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Charlotte Mulvihill
Biotechnology- Oklahoma City Community
College
Dr. Charlotte Mulvihill has been a member of biology faculty
and director of the Biotechnology program at Oklahoma City Community
College since 1998. Her educational background includes graduate
work in microbiology and science education. She is a lifelong
community college educator. She is currently Principal Investigator
on an NSF and an NIH grant to promote biotechnology and biomedical
research in Oklahoma high schools through teacher development
and support.
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Sheena Murphy
Physics and Astronomy - University of Oklahoma
Sheena Murphy moved to New York City at age two and grew up
there. She attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
and graduated from there with a BS in Physics in 1984. She then
moved to Ithaca NY to do low temperature physics at Cornell.
She with a PHD in Physics in 1990 completing her thesis on superfluid
helium. She then worked at the research labs of both IBM (Yorktown
Heights, NY) and AT&T (Murray Hill, NJ) before coming to OU
in January 1995. She now holds the rank of associate professor
of physics.
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Ann Nalley
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Chemistry - Cameron University
Dr. Ann Nalley is currently a Professor of Chemistry in the
Physical Science Department at Cameron University, a position
which she has held since 1969. She directs research in the area
of cosmetic analysis, nanostructural materials,enhanced oil
recovery and molecular modeling. Her research is currently funded
through the Oklahoma OCAST (Oklahoma Center for the Advancement
of Science and Technology) program. In 1992, she was honored
by the five sections of the American Chemical Society as the
Oklahoma Chemist of the Year. She was the first and only woman
to be so honored. In 1999 she was honored by the Oklahoma s
State Science Teacher's Association as the Oklahoma State Science
Teacher of the Year.
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Rolf Prade 
Microbiology & Molecular Genetics - Oklahoma
State University
Rolf is a biologist with a traditional education in biochemical
genetics applied to microorganisms. Accordingly, he has learned
how to simplify elaborate biological phenomena, and focus on
elementary gene-protein subsets. His scientific interest emphasizes
biological views of how and why simple eukaryotes decide to
convert from one functional cell-type, or genetic condition
into another.
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Tarek Rashed 
Geography - University of Oklahoma
Dr. Rashed is an assistant professor of geography and associate
director, Center for Spatial Analysis at the University of Oklahoma.
He holds degrees in Architectural Engineering (BS, 1993), Computation
(MS 1998), Disaster Management (Post Graduate Diploma 2000),
and Geography (Ph.D. 2003). Dr. Rashed's research interests
span many interdisciplinary areas, including the use of GIS
and remote sensing for risk analysis and hazards modeling, virtual
reality, modeling population dynamics, systems analysis and
design, fuzzy logic, and techniques of urban remote sensing.
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Tom Ray 
Zoology - University of Oklahoma
Dr. Ray earned undergraduate degrees in biology and chemistry
at Florida State University. He received his Masters and Doctorate
in Biology from Harvard University, specializing in plant ecology.
He was a member of the Society of Fellows of the University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor. In 1981 he joined the faculty of the
University of Delaware, School of Life and Health Sciences.
In 1993, he received a joint appointment in Computer and Information
Science at U. of Delaware, and was appointed to the External
Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute. In August of 1993, he joined
the new Evolutionary Systems Department at ATR (Advanced Telecommunications
Research Institute International) Human Information Processing
Research Labs in Japan, as an invited researcher. In August
1998 he became a Professor of Zoology at the University of Oklahoma,
with an adjunct appointment as Professor of Computer Science.
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W. A. Rosche
Biological Science - University of Tulsa
Dr. Rosche was raised in Milwaukee, WI and has participated
in science fairs since 7th grade. In his first fair he won second
place, and racked up a series of first places in high school,
going to the regional science fair three times. Dr. Rosche received
his B.A. in Biological Sciences DePauw University. After a short
time as a Research Associate at Northwestern University Medical
School Cancer Center, he did his graduate work at the Institute
of Bioscience and Technology, part of the Texas A&M Health Sciences
System. After receiving his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics,
he did a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Boston University
Medical Center. Dr. Rosche currently teaches microbiology and
molecular biology at The University of Tulsa. Dr. Rosche has
focused his research on spontaneous mutagenesis using microbes
as a model system. Current work in the lab is detailing the
role of repeated DNA in mutagenesis and examining the population
dynamics of altered mutation rates. A new line of research for
the laboratory is the bioremediation of acid mine drainage.
Details of the research ongoing in the laboratory can be found
at http://www.bio.utulsa.edu/Rosche.htm
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Scott Russell 
Botany/Microbiology - University of Oklahoma
Scott Russell is a George Lynn Cross Research Professor in the
Department of Botany and Microbiology at the University of Oklahoma,
where he also serves as the Director of the Samuel Roberts Noble
Electron Microscopy Laboratory. He instructs courses in structural
botany and electron microscopy; his current research interests
are in the molecular biology of sexual reproduction in flowering
plants. He received his undergraduate degree at the University
of Wisconsin (Madison), masters degree at Northern Arizona University
(Flagstaff) and his doctorate degree at the University of Alberta
(Edmonton, Canada). He has had sabbaticals in Lyon France, and
Melbourne Australia and has served as host to a Fulbright scholar
from Buenos Aires. He served as President of the Botanical Society
of America in 2002-03, and is currently Vice President of the
International Association of Sexual Plant Reproduction Research
in 2002-06, Managing Editor of the international journal, Sexual
Plant Reproduction, Editor of the Electronic Version of American
Journal of Botany, and has served as an Intel Special Awards
judge for the International Science and Engineering Fair in
2003 and 2004.
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Khaled Sallam 
Mechanical & Aero-Space Engineering - Oklahoma
State University
Prof. Khaled Sallam has worked in the area of fluid Mechanics
for approximately 11 years since he started his graduate studies
at Cairo University, Egypt in 1993. He moved to the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1997 for his PhD studies where he
worked in the area of laser diagnostics for atomization and
sprays, including shadowgraphy, holography and PIV. 2002-2003,
he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University
of Michigan. From August 2003 he has been Assistant Professor
of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University.
His current research interests are in Microfluidics and Nanotechnology.
His teaching experience includes Compressible Flow, Micro Flows
and Heat Transfer, Automatic Control of Energy Systems, New
and Renewable Energies, Experimental Fluid Mechanics. Prof.
Sallam is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the
American Physical Society and the Institute for Liquid Atomization
and Spray Systems. He is a reviewer for the International Journal
of Multiphase Flow, Journal of Fluids Engineering, Atomization
and Sprays and the AIAA Journal. He has been MS and PhD theses
examiner for Oklahoma State University.
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Kay Scheets
Botany - Oklahoma State University
Kay Scheets grew up in the Oklahoma panhandle at Goodwell. She
received a BS in Chemistry (1976) from Oklahoma Panhandle State
University and a PhD (1986) in Biochemistry from Kansas State
University working in plant molecular biology. In 1987 she began
a postdoctoral position in the Dept. of Plant Pathology at Oklahoma
State University working on viruses that infect corn. She was
an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Microbiology
and Molecular Genetics (1991-1999) and has been an Adjunct Assistant
Professor in the Dept. of Botany at OSU since 2000. Her research
interests involve understanding the molecular biology of plant
RNA viruses that infect cereal crops and is currently working
to design virus-based vectors for expressing foreign genes in
cereals or for silencing endogenous plant gene expression.
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Fritz Schmitz
LeGrande Slaughter
Chemistry - Oklahoma State University
Dr. Slaughter was born and raised in Levelland, TX, and decided
to become a chemist at age 10 after receiving a chemistry set
for Christmas. He earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Drew University
in 1994 and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Cornell University
in 2000. Subsequently, he spent two years as a Postdoctoral
Fellow at Stanford University before beginning his appointment
as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Oklahoma State University
in the fall of 2002. Dr. Slaughter's research is focused on
designing transition-metal based catalysts that are useful for
the synthesis of organic molecules with potential applications
in pharmaceuticals and technologically important materials.
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Gil Summy 
Physics - Oklahoma State University
Gil got his PhD from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.
He did a postdoc at the University of Oxford in the Clarendon
Laboratory. He has been an assistant professor at OSU since
January 2002. His fields of interest are Bose-Einstein condensation,
quantum chaos, and atom optics.
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Erik Terdal 
Biology - Northeastern State University
- Broken Arrow
Dr. Erik Terdal is a field biologist and is an Associate Professor
of Biology at Northeastern State University, where he has taught
since 1997. His doctorate is in Environmental Sciences from
Portland State University in Oregon. He teaches wildlife and
ecology classes to students who will become wildlife professionals.
He also takes students to study "tropical ecology" and "coral
reef ecology" in Belize, Central America. Prior to is work with
NSU, Dr. Terdal worked in Africa with monkeys and apes who were
orphaned when their mothers were shot by poachers. He also worked
at the Oregon Zoo trying to teach zoo monkeys how to live in
the wild before they were set free in Brazil.
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