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Rory O'Neil
Dr. Rory O'Neil earned his B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. in biology and botany from the University of Texas at Austin. While attending graduate school, he was awarded the Harold C. Bold Award for Teaching Excellence. Dr. O'Neil has nearly twenty years experience teaching at the university level, including biology courses taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Southwest Texas State University, and the University of Houston-Downtown. Dr. O'Neil also served for three years as the curator of the Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published several scientific articles in academic journals and has presented his work at numerous conferences. Dr. O'Neil's academic interests include phycology (the study of algae), botany, marine biology, and environmental science. No stranger to military life, he was born in West Point, New York, and as a former military dependent, lived in Europe and Asia. Dr. O'Neil joined UMUC Asia in 2009.

Douglas Ostrom
Dr. Ostrom earned his B.A. in economics from the University of Washington in Seattle and his Ph.D., also in economics, from the University of Michigan. He also studied at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo. Dr. Ostrom has taught at Dartmouth College, Williams College, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at The Johns Hopkins University, Syracuse University, and The George Washington University. His experience includes service with organizations including the Japan Economic Institute and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. He has a number of professional publications and joined the UMUC faculty in 2006.