Brian P.
Brian holds a PhD in English Literature at Rutgers University, where his research was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Modern Language Association, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. His prize-winning personal essays have appeared in Avidly, Literary Hub, TriQuarterly, and Electric Literature.
Alex S.
Alex holds a PhD in English Literature and an MA in English from Rutgers. Previously, he graduated from Rice University with a BA in English, magna cum laude. He is now an assistant teaching professor in the English Department at Rutgers.
Amnon
Amnon is a PhD in Computational Robotics and Reinforcement Learning at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been recognized as an Outstanding Teaching Assistant by his university for teaching Artificial Intelligence and Machine Perception.
Avina
Avina graduated summa cum laude and received her BA in Cell Biology and Neuroscience with minors in Psychology and Spanish at Rutgers University. She's currently an MD Candidate at Harvard Medical School.
Joshua
Josh earned his BS in Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University (summa cum laude, Tau Beta Pi and Alpha Eta Mu Beta). Currently, he is a research scientist at the Center for Engineering in Medicine at MGH.
Dov
Dov holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from Rutgers (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kapa) and a MEng from MIT in Advanced Manufacturing and Design. He works for Raytheon Company as a Manufacturing Engineer.
Erin
Erin holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She also holds an MA in Modern & Contemporary Literature (University of Virginia) and BA in English (Rutgers University, summa cum laude with high honors).
Viemma
Viemma attended Rutgers University-New Brunswick where she received two Bachelor’s degrees: one in Public Health and one in Biological Sciences, summa cum laude. After completing her MD at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, she is now a General Surgery resident at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Melissa
Melissa is currently a postdoc associate at the NYU Langone Skirball Institute. She holds a PhD in Biochemistry from The Rockefeller University and a BA in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Rutgers University.
Nora
Nora is a professor in the Psychology departments at Columbia and NYU, and a former National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow. She holds a BA in Linguistics (University College London), and a PhD in Cognitive Psychology (Rutgers).
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