Previously Bonnell worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. She has authored or coauthored over 180 papers and edited several books. Bonnell received three degrees from the University of Michigan: a B.S.E. in materials science and engineering, an M.S. in engineering materials, and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering.

Conant’s exhibition history includes shows at the New York Academy of Sciences, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the DeCordova Museum, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, and Le Lieu Unique. She earned an M.F.A. in computer art from the School of Visual Arts and a B.A. in art history from Boston University.

Robert S. Langer is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has pioneered many new technologies, including transdermal delivery systems, which allow the administration of drugs through the skin without needles or other invasive methods.

Langer has written nearly 1,000 articles, holds more than 600 patents, and has collected over 160 major awards. Forbes, Time, and CNN have named him on lists of the world’s most important people. Langer is one of few people elected to all three U.S. National Academies and, at age 43, was the youngest person to earn this distinction. He received a B.S. from Cornell University and a Sc.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in chemical engineering.

Roston holds an M.A. in Russian history and a B.A. in modern European history, both from Columbia University. He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers and the Society of Environmental Journalists.

A cancer survivor herself, Steingraber also wrote Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood, which is both a memoir of her pregnancy and an investigation of fetal toxicology. Currently a distinguished scholar at Ithaca College, Steingraber holds an M.A. in English from Illinois State University and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Michigan.