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Sophia Barber is a second year Molecular and Cell Biology major at Pasadena City College with a 4.0 GPA. She currently works at Pasadena City College tutoring Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, is the External Vice President of the Pi Club, the Vice President, Event Coordinator, and ICC Representative for the Caduceus Club, is an active member of the Alpha Gamma Sigma Honors Society, is a Student Research Mentor, is a Dean’s Honors student, and also serves her community by sitting on the Academic Commission Committee, the Student Services Committee, and the ICC Funding Committee. Additionally, in her free time, Sophia decided to teach herself Python and is now leading the research project Studying Statistics in Python. In the future, she hopes to become a physician-scientist studying preventative measures for Alzheimer’s disease and treatments for Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease.

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Sophia Ibarguen is a first-generation college student of immigrant parents, who is majoring in Biology and minoring in Biomedical Research. She is a Dean's Honors student, Student Research Mentor, a hospital volunteer, Internal Vice President of the Pasadena City College Pi Club, an Academic Commission Committee Member, and an active member of PCC's Alpha Gamma Sigma Honors Society. In the fall of 2021, Sophia will continue pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of California, Los Angeles. In the future, she hopes to become a physician-scientist studying tumor immune microenviornments.

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Chloe Sharp is a Junior in High School at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science. She is the graphic design leader for Mississippi Youth Against Sexual Violence, an active member of the Mississippi High Schoolers for Biden campaign, a performer in the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science Drama Club, a member of the Mississippi State Superintendent’s Student Advisory Council, and a volunteer for the Elizabeth Gwin Special Needs Session at Camp Tik-A-Witha. In the future, she hopes to attend a university where she will major in Environmental Engineering and minor in either Spanish or Theatre.

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Dr. Aaron Reedy is an evolutionary biologist, entrepreneur, and former high school science teacher. Reedy studies the evolutionary dynamics of sex differences in aging. He recently founded DataClassroom to produce the DataClassroom web app to facilitate the teaching of quantitative skills in science education.

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Tanya Faltens is the Educational Content Creation Manager for the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) which created and manages the open access nanoHUB.org cyber-platform. Her technical background is in Materials Science and Engineering (Ph.D. UCLA 2002), and she has several years’ experience in hands-on informal science education, including working at the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley. While a faculty member at Cal Poly Pomona, she introduced nanoHUB simulation tools into the undergraduate curriculum in materials science and engineering and electrical engineering courses, mentored student capstone research projects and taught their first year engineering course, which employs a student development philosophy.

Much of her work has focused on introducing STEM concepts to broad audiences and encouraging students, including women and others in groups traditionally under-represented in STEM, to consider graduate school in STEM fields. She currently manages the NCN Undergraduate Research Experience (URE) program, which introduces undergraduates from 2-year and 4-year colleges to computational nanotechnology research projects each summer.

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Yu-Chung Chang-Hou obtained her Ph.D. in mathematics from UCLA in 1991. During her postdoc at New York University and at Caltech, she co-developed a very effective level-set method for computing multi-phase flows, which has generated a lot of excitements in the computational fluid dynamics community. Besides teaching mathematics at Pasadena City College, she has devoted herself to developing effective teaching and learning strategies.   Encouraging students to showcase their STEM learning with real life applications, she has initiated and led the annual Pi Day Student Conferences at Pasadena City College since 2013. She also joined the Undergraduate Research program at PCC to enhance student learning outcomes with active learning in STEM fields and bridge the gap between the undergraduate research opportunities provided to community college and university students.

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Jared Ashcroft graduated with a BS in Chemistry from Long Beach State in California and subsequently attended Rice University, where he worked for Dr. Lon J. Wilson, developing carbon based nano-bio immunoconjugates for use in medical applications. After earning his doctorate in Chemistry from Rice, he moved to Berkeley California to work in Dr. Carolyn Larabell’s National Center for X-ray Tomography at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Currently, he is a Professor of Chemistry at Pasadena City College and runs an undergraduate research program attempting to infuse active learning in conjunction with remotely accessible microscopes into K-12 and university science curriculum. He is actively involved in bring micro nanotechnology technician programs to Community College campuses being a part of the Remotely Accessible Instruments in Nanotechnology (RAIN) Network and the Nanotechnology Professional Development Partnership (NPDP) Program. Dr. Ashcroft is currently the Principal Investigator for the National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education Micro Nano Technology Education Center.

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