Edmund G. Seebauer is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Author of about 75 publications and one patent in surface science and microelectronic processing, he is the first to successfully use measurements of surface chemical kinetics in ultrahigh vacuum for quantitative a priori process development. He has received awards in both science and engineering including an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship in chemistry, and an Inventor Recognition Award from Semiconductor Research Corporation. He also holds two awards for undergraduate teaching.
Robert L. Barry is a well-known ethicist who has appeared on national television programs such as Face the Nation and Meet the Press. He holds the rank of Lt. Colonel in the US Air Force Reserve and regularly develops programs in ethics education for Air Force commanders. He has written extensively in various fields of ethics, contributing to more than 70 articles and three books. He was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow and has taught for many years, Most recently at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.