Dr. Tabuse received her Ph.D. in Foreign Language Studies from The Ohio State University. Currently, she is a Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Eastern Michigan University where she teaches courses at all levels of Japanese, business Japanese, teacher-certification courses and senior and graduate seminar courses. She is a frequent presenter and invited speaker at local, state, national, and international conferences and has given numerous workshops for students and teachers of foreign languages. She was President of the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT) in 2003, Director of Japanese National Honor Society (2000-2003), Board member of the Alliance of Associations of Teachers of Japanese among others. Since 2006, she has been working as the College Board consultant for the AP Japanese for the College Board, and has taught summer intensive programs at institutions such as Northwestern University in Illinois and Manhattan College in New York.

Dr. Hannan is a native of California and has a Ph.D. in Botany from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught biology and botany classes in the Department of Biology at EMU since 1982. His research specialties are evolutionary relationships of plants and plant reproductive biology. He has studied pollination biology of blue cohosh, pollination and genetic diversity in dwarf lake iris, resource allocation in starflower, flowering phenology and sex expression in annual mercury, and taxonomic relationships in of plants in the poppy and waterleaf families.

Sharon Crutchfield has been the Administrative Associate in the Honors College for 4 years, and an employee of EMU for 15. She holds a BA in Anthropology and an MS in Communication, both from Eastern. Her immediate family holds 3 undergraduate and 3 graduate degrees from EMU. She loves working in Honors, especially with the College staff and Honors students. In her spare time she reads, travels, and oil paints.