Dr. Arion developed and directs the nation's first and longest-standing technology entrepreneurship program for undergraduates, ScienceWorks. Dr. Arion is also a member of the department of physics and astronomy, and conducts research with students at major observatories around the country, as well as developing scientific instrumentation for many different fields.

Dr. Arion came to Carthage in 1994 after a long career at Science Applications International Corporation, where he was assistant vice president and manager of the Applied Physics and Engineering Division. He was one of the senior experimenters in the US nuclear weapons survivability program, one of only a handful in the world to be involved in this research. Arion holds a patent on the Blast Induced Emission of Radiation (BIER) Gage (US Patent 5,315,364).

Dr. Arion helped found the Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation, a technology business development center in Racine, and as Senior Program Advisor provides strategic planning and technology evaluation for companies in the region. He is also heavily involved in technology business developed through academic partnerships with the National Collegiate Innovators and Inventors Alliance through the InovaED program that helped found at CATI.

Arion is also currently President of Galileoscope LLC, a company founded to provide telescopes worldwide for the 2009 International Year of Astronomy, sponsored by the UN/UNESCO and the International Astronomical Union.

He is an elected member of the International Astronomical Union, as well as a member of the American Physical Society, the American Astronomical Society, Sigma Xi, and Sigma Pi Sigma (physics honorary), and a life member of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, Appalachian Mountain Club, and the International Dark Sky Association.

He joined the Carthage faculty in 1994.

Tony Fredericks joined the Carthage faculty in the fall of 2005. He has a BSEE from Pratt Institute; a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts; master's degrees in Business Administration, Project Management and Telecommunications Management from the Keller Graduate School of Management; and an M.S. in Computing from Marquette University. He is currently working on a J.D. at Marquette University. Prof. Fredericks has previously held faculty positions at ITT Technical Institute, Robert Morris College, Columbia College and the University of Phoenix. He has more than 14 years of industry experience working as a Software Development Engineer and Manager for several major corporations such as Textron Defense Systems, IDEX and Motorola.

Thomas Groleau began his career teaching high school mathematics and working in the utility industry. After returning to school to earn his M.S.O.R. and Ph.D., he taught courses in information systems, operations and quantitative methods at a variety of institutions before settling at Carthage in 1999. He is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), and the Christian Business Faculty Association (CBFA).

Alexander Tiahnybok came to Carthage in 2007 as an adjunct faculty member. He has more than 20 years of experience in business, and owns a consulting firm that deals with chemical companies. He earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from Northwestern University in 1986, and an M.B.A. from DePaul University in 2003.

Kevin M. Crosby teaches in both the physics and computer science departments at Carthage, and has chaired both departments. Dr. Crosby has taught broadly across the physics department curriculum, including courses in planetary astronomy and global climate science. He is currently involved in a variety of undergraduate space science research initiatives including microgravity studies of lunar regolith, and near space exploration using sounding rockets and high altitude balloons.

Dr. Crosby also involves students in computational physics research. He and his students have published papers on several problems involving the physics of disordered materials and materials under mechanical and electrical stress. Computational physics research at Carthage makes use of molecular dynamics calculations to understand the behavior of atomic surfaces and boundaries. For term schedules and information on space sciences research opportunities at Carthage, visit Dr. Crosby's home page.

Arthur I. Cyr served as the President of the World Trade Center Chicago Association, the Vice President of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the faculty and international studies staff at UCLA, and a staff member of the Ford Foundation in the International and Education Divisions. He is the author of four books on international relations and British politics:

After the Cold War - American Foreign Policy, Europe and Asia (Macmillan/Palgrave and New York University Press, 1997; revised 2000)

Liberal Politics in Britain (John Calder Ltd. and Transaction Press, 1977; revised 1988)

U.S. Foreign Policy and European Security (Macmillan and St. Martin's, 1987)

British Foreign Policy and the Atlantic Area: The Techniques of Accommodation (Macmillan, 1979)

Dr. Cyr also has authored the monograph Taiwan: The Commercial State (Baltimore: University of Maryland School of Law, 2003, rev. ed. 2005)

His articles have appeared in professional journals and the popular press, including Scripps Howard News Service.

He is a graduate of UCLA and received a Ph.D. with distinction in political science from Harvard University. While at Harvard, he was a Frank Knox fellow in England, an NDEA Title IV fellow, and a teaching fellow.

He joined the Carthage faculty in 1998.

Ernestine Eger is a scholar of Chicano and other U.S. Hispanic literatures and cultures. Her research concerns Mexican immigrant writer María Cristina Mena de Chambers, Midwestern Latino literature and research collections, and the 1980 Cuban Mariel exodus. In addition to receiving several Carthage research grants, she has presented papers to the Modern Language Association, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, National Association of Chicano Studies, Popular Culture Association, and Floricanto. She also has published Bibliography of Criticism of Contemporary Chicano Literature. As bibliographic consultant for Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, she has collaborated in numerous scholarly editions. As a librarian, her interests include court interpretation, as well as literary and technical translation.

Ms. Eger joined the Carthage faculty in 1965.

Mr. Kulke joined the Carthage faculty in 1999. In addition to living and studying in Spain and Latin America, he has taught English in Spain and Mexico. Mr. Kulke teaches Spanish language, literature, and civilization courses, as well as cultural awareness and heritage. He has recently added Study Abroad to his responsibilities, working with Carthage students as they prepare for and participate in their international study experiences. His academic interests include Pre-Colombian civilizations, which has led him to travel throughout Latin America to explore numerous archeological sites from Mexico to Peru. Recently, he has traveled with groups of students to Mexico's Yucatan peninsula to study Mayan culture and civilization, exploring ruins throughout the peninsula. Mr. Kulke is active in promoting wellness and congeniality among faculty and staff members through the organization of such events as the All-Carthage Golf Outing.

Jean Preston earned her B.A. from Carthage College in English, with minors in Classics and Women’s/Gender Studies, and holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry from The University of Southern Maine Stonecoast Writing Program. Ms. Preston has worked as a presenter, instructor and tutor for various academic and community organizations including the Kenosha Literacy Council and the Racine Odyssey Project, and has facilitated several seminars and workshops on writing poetry. Presently, Ms. Preston is the Director of the Carthage College Writing Center and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English.

Julio Rivera teaches courses in geographic information systems (GIS); satellite imagery interpretation; and urban, economic and cultural geography. He administers and directs the Geographic Information Systems Laboratory. His research focuses on the development of suburban communities and how the design of the built environment enhances or impedes community life.

During a sabbatical in the 2004-05 academic year, Dr. Rivera worked with the Center for Environmental Studies at Arizona State University examining trends in the development of the urban fringe in the Phoenix metropolitan area. He has traveled with students during J-term to Nicaragua.

Dr. Rivera came to Carthage in 1997 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he taught geography and worked as a GIS specialist. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Phi Kappa Phi), where he held fellowships for three years. He earned his B.A. in journalism and theology at Marquette University, and M.A. in higher education and student affairs at The Ohio State University.

Dr. Rivera is the author of a number of papers and has presented his work at regional and national meetings of the Association of American Geographers, National Council on Geographic Education, and the North American Cartographic Information Society. He currently serves on the executive board and is chair of the social science division of the Council on Undergraduate Research. He is the recipient of the 2002 Carthage College Distinguished Teaching Award.

Dan Schowalter's academic interests include archaeology, the development of the New Testament, honors offered to the Roman Emperors, and the modern dialogue between science and religion. He serves on the steering committee for the Archaeology and Religion in the Greco-Roman World section for the Society of Biblical Literature, and is associate director of the Carthage College/Macalester College excavation at Omrit in northern Israel. He is a contributor to "The Cities of Paul: Images and Interpretations from the Harvard New Testament Archaeology Project," a DVD released by Fortress Press. Along with Steve Friesen, he is co-editor of "Urban Religion in Roman Corinth: Interdisciplinary Approaches," from Harvard University Press.

Prof. Schowalter was the featured Bible Lecturer at the 2005 annual meeting of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, and has lectured extensively at Biblical Archaeological Society programs for more than 10 years.

Prof. Schowalter's course offerings include Creation and Apocalypse, the Gospels and Acts, Women and the New Testament, Letters of the New Testament and Greek. He also teaches in the Heritage Studies program. He joined the Carthage faculty in 1989.

Mimi Yang is a speaker in Chinese, Spanish, and English. A native of China, she studied Spanish language and literature. Before coming to Carthage in 1996, Yang was a visiting assistant professor of Spanish at Illinois Wesleyan University. She has also held teaching posts at the University of Arizona, and Randolph-Macon Women's College. As an associate professor at Carthage, her current teaching and research fields focus on Spanish/Chinese languages, cross-cultural studies and themes related to international business. She is a recipient of numerous scholarships and awards including the 2004 Wisconsin Global Educator award. In language pedagogy, she is the author of "To be Human: Is the Rassias Method the Rassias Madness?" published in fall 1995 in The Ram's Horn and "Reflections on the Role of Foreign Languages Teachers in a Flat World" published in Voice: Journal of Wisconsin Foreign Language Teachers; in literature, she wrote "Una mirada oriental a las letras peruanas," which appeared in the February 1989 issue of Lundero; in philosophy, she published "Borges's Foundational Role in Postmodernism" in La Chispa (Spring 1997); in fine arts, she authored a series of articles on the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo including "Pain and Painting: Frida Kahlo's Autobiography" appeared in Autobiographic Studies (Spring 1998); in cross-cultural studies, her article "Para la la paz mundial: un acercamiento intercultural" was featured as the prologue to the journal Jornada para la paz mundial y los valores humanos (November 2005) in Argentina. She was brought up in Chinese-, Spanish- and English-speaking worlds and has traveled extensively to the countries where the three languages are spoken.