Dr. Bang is a native of South Korea where he studied physics before he moved to Chicago, Illinois with his family. His interest in understanding humanity helped him explore various activities that people often focus on, especially arts and music during his college years. His nature of enjoying an intellectual challenge in addition to the curiosity of getting to know some unexplored fields eventually led him to medical and engineering fields where he spent some years after college. Through... (read more)








A product of Aberdeen, ID and Tilton, NH, Garrett Love received his BS degree in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991, followed by MS and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from Duke University in 1997 and 2000, respectively. His academic studies have been complemented by a tour of service as a high school mathematics teacher at Central High School in Helena, Arkansas as part of the Arkansas/Mississippi Delta Corps of Teach for America (1991-1994), and by a... (read more)


Tim Mulrooney is originally from Port Murray, New Jersey. He is a 1995 graduate of Columbia University in New York City, where he was a member of the wrestling team. After graduating from Columbia, he taught at the John Carroll School, a coeducational private high school in Bel Air, Maryland. While teaching at John Carroll, he earned his Master's degree in Computer Science at Loyola College in Baltimore. Those studies, combined with his teaching earth science, elicited an interest in the... (read more)








Gordana Vlahovic (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is associate professor of earth science at the North Carolina Central University. She was born in Croatia where she studied physics at the University of Zagreb. Dr. Vlahovic's primary research interests are in the area of seismotectonics and geohazards. She has worked extensively on the imaging of the intraplate seismic zones in North America by using tomography and potential field methods. Her secondary research interest is... (read more)