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444 MILLENNIUM N ow a retired mathematics professor, Dennis Glenn Collins imparted his knowledge and expertise to undergraduate and graduate students for two decades. Before helping students learn the fundamentals and develop the skills necessary to succeed, Dr. Collins earned a Bachelor of Arts at Valparaiso University and a Master of Science and PhD at the Illinois Institute of Technology. With a focus on symmetry and applied mathematics, Dr. Collins embarked on a teaching career as a temporary instructor at Michigan State University for one year and later worked as an instructor at the University of New Orleans from 1976 to 1979. He returned to Valparaiso in 1979 as an assistant professor before making a home at the University of Puerto Rico, where he served as an assistant professor, professor of mathematics, and chairman of the math department’s personnel committee until his retirement in 1995. During his career, Dr. Collins received patents for symmetry algorithms, earned the Visiting Scholar Award from Michigan State University on two occasions, and completed a National Science Foundation fellowship from 1966 to 1967. R esearch scientists like Josefino Cacas Comiso are responsible for designing, undertaking and analyzing information from controlled laboratory-based investigations, experiments and trials. Dr. Comiso has utilized his 55 years of experience to help answer scientific questions. After earning a Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Philippines in 1962, he began his professional career as a scientist at the Philippine Atomic Research Center in Quezon City and a year later began imparting his knowledge as an instructor at the University of the Philippines. He continued to excel in the field earning positions as an assistant research physicist at UCLA, research associate at the University of Virginia, senior member of the technical staff at Computer Sciences Corp, and currently as a physical scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center at NASA. Dr. Comiso has reached many achievements, including space-based assessments and studies of surface temperatures, sea ice distributions, heat and salinity fluxes in polynyas, and phytoplankton blooms in the Polar Regions and the development of satellite sensor algorithms. He remains a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and a member of many scientific organizations. Dennis Glenn Collins, PhD Mathematics Professor (Retired) Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Josefino Cacas Comiso, PhD Senior Research Scientist NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Bowie, MD