Amanda S. Harper-Leatherman received her bachelor's degree in Chemistry from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN and her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After a post-doctoral position at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, she joined the faculty of Fairfield University in 2006 as an Assistant Professor. She was promoted to Associate Professor and awarded tenure in 2013. Her current research involves studying protein interactions with nanomaterials and highly porous aerogels. Camille M. Solbrig completed her undergraduate degree in chemistry at Penn State, followed by training in SEM and X-ray analysis, as well as an MS in Textile Science and a Ph.D. in Polymer Science elucidating polymer surface chemistry from Cornell. She then held industrial positions in research and development around the USA, before becoming an Assistant Professor teaching undergraduate chemistry at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT.