Emi Aoki, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Bach Tran, University of Akron; Nathan Esosa Uhunsere, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Susan Thomson Tripathy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Charles Thompson, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Shivakumar Sastry, University of Akron; Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts, Lowell