M. CHANTALE DAMAS

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti when she was 11 and took Albert Einstein as her inspiration. She received her Ph.D. in Space Plasma Physics from the University of California at San Diego in 1993. She is currently employed in the Department of Physical, Environmental and Computer Sciences, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, N.Y., and her specialties are asteroids, comets, meteors, stellar evolution, normal galaxies, and astronomy education. She has designed an undergraduate physics course at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus that makes astronomy more accessible to non-science majors and has started an astronomy workshop for elementary school teachers so they can impart that knowledge in a meaningful way to schoolchildren.

STANLEY PETER DAVIS

Davis received his Ph.D. in Physics from The Catholic University of America and is now employed as a physicist at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight, Center-Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics. He is co-author of the web site: Dr. Davis’ web page

AARON S. EVANS

Evans (1968- ) was born in Texas and in 1996 earned his Ph.D. in Astronomy from the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, and has already published 30 articles since then. Evans is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, SUNY at Stony Brook, where his research focuses on supermassive nuclear black holes, ultraluminous infrared galaxies, radio galaxies/quasars, and superburst galaxies.

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JARITA C. HOLBROOK

Holbrook (1965- ) was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and in 1997 earned her Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Since June 1997, she has been a professor in the Physics Department at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, N.C. Holbrook’s interest is mainly in contemporary and historical African astronomy and cultural astronomy. She has traveled to Africa and the South Pacific to document celestial navigation techniques there and how new technologies have modified those techniques. Holbrook’s other research interests at these sites include documenting local names for celestial objects, examining the effect of light pollution on astronomical knowledge, and local starlore.