Francis Su is an associate professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, the science and engineering institution of the Claremont Colleges cluster. In his research, he has studied random walks on algebraic structures, and more recently, applications of combinatorial topology to problems in economics. He has been honored with teaching awards at Harvard and at Cornell, where he was a visiting professor, and now at Harvey Mudd he has found a satisfying balance between teaching and research. One of his papers was recently awarded the Hasse Prize from the Mathematical Association of America for outstanding mathematics writing.

Francis became a Christian while an undergraduate at the University of Texas. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard and served in many capacities in the InterVarsity graduate fellowship there. To encourage dialogue about faith among students at Harvey Mudd, he hosted a book-discussion group on campus last year in which both Christians and non-Christians met weekly to discuss a book by John Polkinghorne on science and theology. In his spare time, Francis enjoys songwriting as a way of expressing his non-mathematical experiences. (More info at his website.)

Terry Gustafson received his B.S. in chemistry and physics at Moorhead State University (Minnesota) in 1975 and his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Purdue University in 1979. He worked for nine years at Sohio Research and Development (later BP America Research and Development) before joining the faculty at Ohio State University in 1989. He has been a visiting scientist in the Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory at the Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology in Japan and a visiting professor at the Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille in France. He won the George Rappaport Award presented by the Ohio Valley Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy and the John T. Mount and Ruth Weimer Mount Award in 2000 for outstanding service to Ohio State University and its students. In 2001 he was presented with the Honors Faculty Service Award by the Arts and Sciences Colleges and the Outstanding Teaching Award by the Arts and Sciences Colleges Student Council.

Terry has over 110 peer-reviewed publications in various areas of chemical spectroscopy. His current research interests include the study of solvent/solute interactions using picosecond transient Raman spectroscopy, the elucidation of charge carrier mechanisms in electroluminescent conducting polymers using time-resolved spectroscopies, and the investigation of energy transfer and charge separation processes in photosystem II.