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Annie Chen and friend
Hsuan-hsiu Annie Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan and moved to San Jose, California when she was ten years old. Annie will be graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a B.S. in Neuroscience with hon- ors in spring 2012. In addition, Annie has completed her
honors research in bipolar disorder neuroimaging and is an American Heart Association certified cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and First Aid instructor. In her spare time, Annie enjoys playing tennis, going to Disneyland, and is an occasional freelance event and portrait photographer.
Peter Narins and friend
Peter M. Narins received his B.S. and M.E.E. in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Neurobiology & Behavior from Cornell University, Ithaca. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Neuroethology in the Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research explores the mechanisms underlying the evolution of sound and vibration communi- cation in amphibians and mammals. He has led or partici- pated in more than 50 scientific overseas research expedi- tions to seven continents plus Madagascar, and has lectured on the evolution of communication systems both in English
worldwide and in Spanish to universities throughout Latin America and Spain. He is an editor of the Journal of Comparative Physiology, and has received the Senior U.S. Scientist Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a Fulbright Award (Montevideo, Uruguay). He was elect- ed Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, Acoustical Society of America, Animal Behavioral Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is an Honorary Member of the Cuban Zoological Society and Professor Ad Honorem at the University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay.
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