Bios
These are the members of Team BIOCOUNTER!
Kyle Jamolin
- Major: Government
and Politics
- Team role: Web
liaison
- Campus involvement:
Choral director for the UMD Gamer Symphony Orchestra (GSO);
Co-host of the Super GSO Bros. Super Show on WMUC Digital
- Future goals: I'd
like to go to law school, perhaps get a doctorate in
Political Science, but regardless live my life to the
fullest.
- Hobbies: Music,
poetry, video games, Catholic theology and canon law
- Email: kjamolin@terpmail.umd.edu
Jonathan Saltzman
- Major: Government
and Politics
- Team role: Team
Liaison, Financial Liaison
- Campus involvement:
Community advocate for the University Student Judiciary
- Future goals: I'd
like to graduate feeling like I've spent my time wisely.
- Hobbies:
Collecting music, stand-up comedy
- Email: jonnsaltzman@gmail.com
Darrell Schaeffer
- Major: English
- Team role:
Minute-keeper
- Campus involvement: Volunteerism
committee for the Primannum Honor Society; Bassist for the
UMD Gamer Symphony Orchestra; Co-host of the Super GSO Bros.
Super Show on WMUC Digital
- Future goals: Aside
from the success of our team's project and graduating
college, I'd like to start a band.
- Hobbies: Video
games, comic books, and especially music
- Email: darrell.schaefer3@gmail.com
Sebastian Serrano
- Major: Physics
- Team role: Team
Leader, Endnote Web Manager
- Campus involvement:
Volunteer at the Catholic Student Center; Captain of the
Conquistadors, an intramural soccer team; Volunteer with
Thirsty Turtles UMD
- Future goals:
I intend to
become a physics teacher. The success of my students
will be the reward for my work.
- Hobbies: United
States history, soccer
- Email: sebastiangserrano@gmail.com
Aaron Shim
- Major: Biology
- Team role: Biology
and Chemistry information and resources
- Campus involvement:
Stamp Student Union Multicultural Involvement and Community
Advocacy
- Future goals: I'd
like to go to graduate school.
- Hobbies: Guitar,
reading, volunteering
- Email: aarons016@gmail.com
Joshua Sloane
- Major: Aerospace
Engineering
- Team role: Plume
modeling, technology
- Campus involvement:
President Emeritus of the UMD Society of Inquiry, Co-host
of Science News Radio
- Future goals: I
intend to obtain a graduate degree and be either a research
professor or to work in industry
- Hobbies: Video
games, listening to music.
- Email: joshuabsloane@gmail.com
Team Mentor - Dr. Jeffrey Herrmann
- Education (selected):
B.S., Applied Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
1990; Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, University
of Florida, 1993; Post-doctoral Research Associate,
Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland,
1993-1995
- Current work and position
(selected): Associate Professor, Department of
Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research at
the University of Maryland; Associate Director of the QUEST
Honors Fellows Program; Department Editor of IIE
Transactions at the Homeland Security Department
- Awards (selected):
The Daily Record's Innovator of the Year Award, 2008; IEST
Maurice Simpson Technical Editors Award, 2009
- Research focus:
The improvement of decision-making through mathematical
modeling, typically in the field of operations research
- Email: jwh2@umd.edu
Team Librarian - Jim Miller