Aparna Higgins grew up in Bombay, India, where she did her undergraduate work in mathematics. She earned her Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame in 1983. Her dissertation was in universal algebra, but her current research interests are in graph theory. She has taught at the University of Dayton, Ohio, since 1984. Although she enjoys teaching the usual collection of undergraduate courses, her most fulfilling experiences as a teacher have come from directing undergraduates in mathematical research. In addition to advising honors theses and co-directing an NSF REU, she has presented workshops (often with Joe Gallian) at mathematics meetings on directing undergraduate research. Aparna has been the recipient of four teaching awards – College-wide and University-wide awards from the University of Dayton, an award from the MAA Ohio Section, and in 2005, the MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching. Aparna has served the MAA in many capacities, including chairing the Committee on Student Chapters and serving a five-year term as Director of Project NExT. She and her husband Bill Higgins, a mathematician at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, are currently on sabbatical at California Lutheran University.

Michael Dorff is the department chair and professor of mathematics at Brigham Young University. He earned his Ph.D in 1997 from the Univ. of Kentucky in complex analysis, has published about 35 refereed papers, and has given over 250 talks on mathematics. He is interested in undergraduate research, in non-academic careers in mathematics, and in promoting mathematics to the general public. Currently, he co-directs two NSF funded programs: CURM (the Center of Undergraduate Research in Mathematics) and PIC Math (Preparation for Industrial Careers in the Mathematical Sciences). He was a Fellow of the AMS, a Fulbright Scholar in Poland, and received a national Haimo Teaching Award from the MAA. He is married with 5 daughters. In any free time he has, he enjoys reading, running, and traveling.

Satyan Devadoss is a professor of mathematics at Williams, a visiting professor at Harvey Mudd, and holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins. He is an inaugural Fellow of the AMS and has received the Alder and Haimo national teaching awards from the MAA.  His works range from cartography and origami to phylogenetics and art, attracting support from the National Science Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Department of Defense.  In addition to invitations at Google, Pixar, and LucasFilm, he has held visiting positions at Ohio State, UC Berkeley, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and Stanford.

Dominic Klyve (KLEE-vee) is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Central Washington University, and the Director of the William O. Douglas Honors College. He is the author of more than 35 papers in number theory, the history of mathematics and science, and applied statistics. He is nationally recognized for promoting the use of primary sources in the teaching of mathematics. He is the founding director of the Euler Archive, and recently won a $1.5 Million grant from the National Science Foundation to design and disseminate classroom modules to teach standard topics in mathematics via primary sources.  Dr. Klyve also works in applied statistics, especially in the interdisciplinary contexts. His applied statistics have appeared in a wide variety of journals, ranging from Gastrointestinal Endoscopy to Shakespeare Quarterly.
Dr. Klyve has a deep commitment to undergraduate research. He has worked with more than 50 students, and has published seven peer-reviewed papers with thirteen distinct student co-authors. He currently serves as the Chair of the Mathematics/Computer Science Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), and as the Chair of the MAA Special Interest Group on Undergraduate Research (UR SIGMAA). In 2014 the MAA selected Dominic Klyve with the Alder Award, a national teaching award for young faculty who have a demonstrated impact within and beyond the classroom.