Holly Dunsworth, Ph.D

Assistant Professor at Northeastern Illinois University

Her work focuses on paleoanthropology, human and non-human primate evolution, paleobiology and paleoecology; reconstructing behavior and life history from fossils; encephalization (the development of large brains); locomotion; bipedalism and science education.  She regularly hunts for human fossils in Africa is the author of Human Evolution 101.

Ross H. Nehm, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biology Education and Organismal Biology
The Ohio State University

Ross Nehm is an associate professor of biology education and organismal biology at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.  He maintains an active research agenda in student and teacher cognition in the nature of science and evolution, as well as multicultural approaches to teaching science.  In addition to his work as a science educator, Dr. Nehm also maintains an active research agenda in the natural sciences, maintaining a directing a thriving research laboratory, investigating marine snails and fossils of the Dominican Republic.  He is currently the Principal Investigator of three projects funded by the National Science Foundation and a Life Sciences Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.  He has published many articles on science education, and was the co-editor of a Evolutionary Stasis and Change in the Dominican Republic Neogene, a text published by Springer in 2008.  After earning his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and completing a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in Switzerland, Dr. Nehm completed a masters degree in science education from Columbia University Teachers College, directed undergraduate biology teaching laboratories at Barnard College, and was a faculty member in biology and biology education at The City College, CUNY.

Brian Regal, Ph.D.

Assistant professor of the history of science at Kean University. 

Brian Regal has written on the history of evolutionary studies, creationism and pseudoscience.  His books include Henry Fairfield Osborn: Race and the Search for the Origins of Man (2002) and Human Evolution: A Guide to the Debates (2005).  His latest book is Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia (2009) and is currently working on a history of evolution and modern day monster hunting.

Sylvio Codella, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Kean University

Dr. Sylvio Codella is an evolutionary ecologist. He studies the strategies by which forest insects defend themselves against predators, in the hope of understanding how such behaviors are shaped and constrained by evolutionary forces. He holds degrees in Zoology from Rutgers University-Newark and a Ph.D. in Entomology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 
Dr. Codella began his career at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, where he received the Outstanding Teaching Award in 1994 and the Outstanding Faculty Award in both 1994 and 1996. He joined the Kean faculty in 1996 and is currently Associate Professor of Biological Sciences.  In 2004, he received Kean’s inaugural Schering-Plough Research Mentor Award for his continued collaboration with undergraduates. Dr. Codella is active as a scientific editor and has reviewed manuscripts for many highly regarded journals, as well as for the National Science Foundation.  He is a topic editor in Animal Behavior for the Encyclopedia of Earth website and a curator for Harvard University’s Encyclopedia of Life database.  He has also served as a consultant for the PBS television series “The Secret World of Gardens.”  On a local level, he has been active in the Union County “BioBlitz” initiative for many years and currently sits on the County’s Parks Advisory Board. 
When not thinking about biology, Dr. Codella enjoys his family, lower Manhattan, very old and very new music, and reading (anything, as long as it’s good).