Ron Larson is the A.H. White Distinguished University Professor of Chemical Engineering and past chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He uses experimental and computational approaches to study the rheology and flow of complex fluids.

Taylor Flowers is a collaborative artist who currently works and teaches at Hillsdale College, the University of Michigan, and Temple Beth Emeth in Ann Arbor. He earned his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano from the University of Michigan. Taylor is particularly passionate about art song and operatic repertoire.

Thad Polk is the Samuel D. Epstein Collegiate Professor of Psychology and the Cognition and Cognitive Science Area Chair at the University of Michigan. His research uses neuroimaging and computation to investigate the neural architecture that underlies cognition.