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Raised the image and reputation of 2 colleges by generating 12 Academic Minutes to date which aired on NPR: 6 for Hartwick College and 6 for Allegheny College.

Brian M. Harward, Ph.D. is Professor and Robert G. Seddig Chair in Political Science at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA where he has taught for 10 years. He is also the Director of the Center for Political Participation on campus. He is a well-known and prolific writer who just published his fifth book entitled The Presidency in Times of Crisis and Disaster. He has published more than 50 articles and presented at over 50 conferences on topics as varied as presidential campaigns, local and national elections, presidential power, congressional oversight, civic and political engagement. He earned his PhD from the University of Georgia, Athens, GA in 2003.

Dr. Stephanie Carr is an assistant professor of biology at Hartwick College. As a microbiologist and a geochemist, Stephanie aims to understand how microorganisms impact our environment. Stephanie focuses on discovering how microorganisms survive extreme conditions, such as the oxygen-free and nutrient-limiting environments at the bottom of the ocean. The seafloor covers 70% of our planet, and the microorganisms in the seafloor live by recycling the elements of the ocean. Learning about these organisms is an important step towards understanding our planet. Dr. Carr earned her Ph.D. at the Colorado School of Mines. Her most recent research on Hydrothermarchaeota will be published this year in the International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal.

Regenerating lost heart tissue would be a boon to our health.

Stanley K. Sessions, professor of biology, looks to the salamander to find out how.

For the last 30 years, Dr. Stanley K. Sessions has worked in the Department of Biology at Hartwick College where he teaches Animal Development, Vertebrate Zoology, Genetics, and Evolution. S.K. Sessions began his career and life-long passion for salamanders at the University of Oregon, where he was an undergraduate and also worked as a laboratory technician in a developmental biology lab. Expeditions to Mexico and Costa Rica to search for Neotropical salamanders reinforced his interest, which he followed up with graduate work in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California Berkeley. After earning his Ph.D. at the University of California-Berkeley, Dr. Sessions worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leicester in the U.K. to learn molecular techniques, followed by another research position at the University of California-Irvine in order to study limb regeneration in salamanders.