Pomona College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont,California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925,it became the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium of adjacent,affiliated institutions.
Patricia Smith Churchland is a Canadian-American analytic philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. She is UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California,San Diego (UCSD),where she has taught since 1984. She has also held an adjunct professorship at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies since 1989. She is a member of the Board of Trustees Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies of Philosophy Department,Moscow State University. In 2015,she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts &Sciences. Educated at the University of British Columbia,the University of Pittsburgh,and Somerville College,Oxford,she taught philosophy at the University of Manitoba from 1969 to 1984 and is married to the philosopher Paul Churchland. Larissa MacFarquhar,writing for The New Yorker, observed of the philosophical couple that:"Their work is so similar that they are sometimes discussed,in journals and books,as one person."
Pitzer College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont,California. It was founded in 1963 and is part of the Claremont Colleges. The college has a curricular emphasis on the social sciences,behavioral sciences,international programs,and media studies. Pitzer is known for its social justice culture and experimental pedagogical approach.
Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress,playwright,and professor. She is known for her roles as National Security Advisor Dr. Nancy McNally in The West Wing (2000–06),hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus in the Showtime series Nurse Jackie (2009–15),and as U.S. District Court Clerk Tina Krissman on the ABC show For the People (2018–19).
David William Oxtoby is an American academic who served as the President of American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 2019 to 2024,as well as the ninth president of Pomona College from 2003 to 2017.
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Canadian-American psychologist. She is a University Distinguished Professor of psychology at Northeastern University,where she focuses on affective science and co-directs the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. She has received both of the highest scientific honors in the field of psychology,the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science for 2025,and the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions from the American Psychological Association for 2021. Along with James Russell,she is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Emotion Review. Along with James Gross,she founded the Society for Affective Science.
Mahzarin Rustum Banaji FBA is an American psychologist of Indian origin at Harvard University,known for her work popularizing the concept of implicit bias in regard to race,gender,sexual orientation,and other factors.
Anna Christina Nobre FBA,MAE,fNASc is a Brazilian and British cognitive neuroscientist working at Yale University in New Haven,CT,USA.
Yuko Munakata is a professor of psychology at the University of California,Davis. She has specialized in developmental cognitive neuroscience,taking a connectionist approach to cognitive development. Her research investigates the processing mechanisms underlying cognitive development,using converging evidence from behavior,computational modeling,and cognitive neuroscience. She also focuses on understanding the prevalence of task-dependent behaviors during the first years of life. Munakata received a B.S. in symbolic systems at Stanford University in 1991 and a PhD in psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in 1996 under James McClelland;and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1996–1997. She worked at the University of Denver from 1997–2001,University of Colorado Boulder from 2002-2019,and UC Davis from 2019-present
Marisa Carrasco is a Mexican psychologist,who is a professor of psychology and neural science at New York University. She uses human psychophysics,neuroimaging,and computational modeling to investigate the relation between the psychological and neural mechanisms involved in visual perception and attention.
Francesca Gabrielle Elizabeth Happé is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the MRC Social,Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry,Psychology and Neuroscience,King's College London. Her research concerns autism spectrum conditions,specifically the understanding social cognitive processes in these conditions.
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and co-director of the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme Neuroscience at University College London.
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham is an American bioengineer and neuroscientist. She is the founding Director of the Carnegie Mellon University Neuroscience Institute,the George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Auditory Neuroscience,and Professor of Psychology,Electrical and Computer Engineering,and Biomedical Engineering.
Martha Elizabeth Pollack is an American computer scientist who served as the 14th president of Cornell University from April 2017 to June 2024. From 2013 to 2017,she was the 14th provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan.
Pamela H. Smith is an American historian of science specializing in attitudes to nature in early modern Europe (1350-1700),with particular attention to craft knowledge and the role of craftspeople in the Scientific Revolution. She is the Seth Low Professor of History,founding director of the Making and Knowing Project,founding director of the Center for Science and Society,and chair of the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience,all at Columbia University. Smith is serving a two-year term (2016-2018) as president of the Renaissance Society of America.
Wendy Suzuki is an American neuroscientist. She is a professor at the New York University Center for Neural Science. She is the author of Healthy Brain,Happy Life:A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better. Since September 1,2022,she has served as Dean of the New York University College of Arts &Science.
Dora Angelaki is a Professor of Neuroscience in the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. She previously held the Wilhelmina Robertson Professorship of Neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine. She looks at multi-sensory information flow between subcortical and cortical areas of the brain. Her research interests include spatial navigation and decision-making circuits. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.
Cristina Maria Alberini is an Italian neuroscientist who studies the biological mechanisms of long-term memory. She is a Professor in Neuroscience at the Center for Neural Science in New York University,and adjunct professor at the Departments of Neuroscience,Psychiatry,and Structural and Chemical Biology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.
Moses V. Chao is a neuroscientist and university professor at NYU Langone Health Medical Center. He studies the mechanisms of neuronal growth factor and teaches courses in cell biology,neuroscience,and physiology. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was President of the Society for Neuroscience in 2012.
Catherine Hartley is an American psychologist and an Associate Professor of Psychology within the Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science at New York University in New York City. Hartley's research explores how brain development impacts the evaluation of negative experiences,decision-making,and motivated behavior. Her work has helped to elucidate how uncontrollable aversive events affect fear learning and how learning to control aversive stimuli can improve emotional resilience.
