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Sarah Dees, Iowa State University

Julia Cole, University of Michigan

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Matthew Facciani, Yale University; Aleeza Gerstein, University of Manitoba; Kristi Heather Kenyon, University of Winnipeg, and S. Michelle Driedger, University of Manitoba

Ella Siegrist, Washington University in St. Louis

Amy J. Mathers, University of Virginia

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Christopher Lieu, University of Colorado Anschutz

Carolina Rossini, UMass Amherst

Don Figer, Rochester Institute of Technology

Prayan Pokharel, University of Hohenheim

Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University

Jason M. Blazakis, Middlebury College

Sarah Wilson Sokhey, University of Colorado Boulder; Gerard Toal, Virginia Tech, and John O’Loughlin, University of Colorado Boulder

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Farah N. Jan, University of Pennsylvania

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

Kristina P. Brant, Penn State

Sarah Porter, Arizona State University

Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, University of North Dakota

Regan E. Dunn, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Irus Braverman, University at Buffalo

Abigail Boggs, Wesleyan University

Kim S. Bernard, Oregon State University

Kathryn H. Jacobsen, University of Richmond

Nolan Roth, The Ohio State University and Tieyuan Zhu, Penn State

Matthew Kurtz, Wesleyan University

Danny G. Winder, UMass Chan Medical School and Marie Doyle, UMass Chan Medical School

Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, University of Florida

Anna Liljedahl, University of Alaska Fairbanks and Ingmar Nitze, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver

Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina – Greensboro

Phoebe S. Moore, UMass Chan Medical School; Megan Kelly, UMass Chan Medical School, and Yael Dvir, UMass Chan Medical School

Masha Remskar, Arizona State University

Hilary Smith, University of Denver

Jennifer D. Kobrin, University of Tennessee

Yetimoni Kpeebi, University of North Carolina – Charlotte and Brandon Marc Finn, University of Michigan