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by Bryan Penprase (Author), Noah Pickus (Author)
Author Biography
Bryan Penprase is vice president for sponsored research and external academic relations at Soka University of America. He was a founding faculty member of Yale-NUS College in Singapore and an American Council on Education (ACE) fellow at Yale University and taught physics and astronomy at Pomona College for over twenty years while conducting astrophysics research at Caltech. He is the author of STEM Education for the 21st Century, The Power of Stars, and Models of Time and Space: The Foundations of Astrophysical Reality throughout the Centuries. Noah Pickus is associate provost at Duke University and dean for academic strategy at Duke Kunshan University. He was formerly chief academic officer at Minerva Project, director of Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics, founding director of the Institute for Emerging Issues at North Carolina State University, and cohort codirector of the Arizona State University-Georgetown University Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership. He is the author of True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism (Princeton) and the coauthor of Liberal Arts and Sciences Innovation in China.
