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Janelle Johnson
Janelle Johnson-Lester is the Director of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity Office at the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST).
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Laurie E. Locascio
Dr. Laurie Locascio is currently the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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William Phillips
Dr. William D. Phillips is a Distinguished University and College Park Professor of Physics and Nobel Laureate.
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Julianne Pollard-Larkin
Dr. Julianne Pollard-Larkin is an associate professor of medical physics and leads her clinical group as the Service Chief medical physicist at MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Thoracic Radiation Oncology Clinic.
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Steve Rolston
Dr. Steve Rolston serves as the Physics Department Chair and Professor at the University of Maryland.
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Jim Gates
Dr. Sylvester James “Jim” Gates, Jr., currently serves as a Professor of Physics, Clark Leadership Chair in Science, Distinguished University Professor, and Professor of Public Policy.
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Willie S. Rockward
Dr. Willie Rockward serves as the Chair of the Department of Physics & Engineering Physics at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland.
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Efrain Rodriguez
Efrain E. Rodriguez is Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland College Park, where he has established a program in solid-state chemistry with a multidisciplinary approach for the preparation and study of functional inorganic materials.
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Amethyst Barnes
Amethyst Barnes is a Post-Baccalaureate Researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño
Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University's Gravity Initiative.
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Brian Clark
Dr. Brian Clark is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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