Bucknell University is known for its unique combination of liberal arts, science, management, and engineering. But Crossroads is about more than just the intersection of liberal arts and technology. It's about understanding the value of diverse perspectives and embracing the beauty of the creative mindset. Its about challenging convention and interpreting bold ideas in a new light. Crossroads is about a decision; a decision to dream, inspire, and share.

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Carmen Gillespie

Carmen Gillespie is a professor of English and founder and director of the Griot Institute for Africana Studies at Bucknell University. In addition to literary critical book and journal articles, creative non-fiction essays, and individual poem publications, Carmen is the author of the scholarly works A Critical Companion to Toni Morrison (2007), A Critical Companion to Alice Walker (2011), and the editor of Toni Morrison: Forty Years in the Clearing (2012).

Christopher Dunne

Christopher Dunne is a senior neuroscience major at Bucknell University. He is particularly interested in multiparty collaboration and cooperation, and hopes to work in a professional field that can help him continually learn from and support others around him to make an impact on our world. He is also extremely passionate about learning languages and meeting new people.

Gregory Wolf et al.

Gregory Wolf is a sophomore Bucknell student double majoring in Theatre and East Asian Studies (Japan emphasis). Greg entered Bucknell as a theatre Arts Merit Scholar and has since pursued acting, directing, and dance at Bucknell. In 2014, he received the BPIP Internship Fund stipend to work with Delaware All-State Theatre, where he organized workshops in which high-school actors could share their knowledge theatre with local children at a Boys & Girls club and Montessori School. Greg will spend his junior year studying abroad in Kyoto, Japan. He plans to further work to integrate knowledge of diversity and multiculturalism with a passion for art and theatre.

Jane Maas

Jane Maas, a 1953 Bucknell graduate, has spent her career in advertising as a creative director and agency president. Advertising Age magazine calls her “one of the most influential advertising women of the last 100 years.” She is best known for her direction of the famous I Love New York campaign. Mrs. Maas has also published six books, including her best-selling memoir Mad Women, the tell-all story of what it was like to be a woman in advertising in the sexy, sexist era of TV’s Mad Men.

Joseph Tranquillo

Joseph Tranquillo is an Associate Professor of Biomedical and Electrical Engineering at Bucknell University. Joe was the founder and inaugural chair of the Biomedical Engineering Society Undergraduate Research Track, and co-founder of the KEEN Winter Interdisciplinary Design Experience. His work has been featured on the Discovery Channel, TEDx, US News and World Report, and CNN Health.