Tammy McGuire, Ph.D., professor, specializes in organizational communication. She taught English for many years at Sunnydale Academy (Missouri) and Upper Columbia Academy (Washington) and has written and presented extensively on communication topics, with several presentations at the National Communication Association Conventions. However, she is particularly proud of her communication research students winning numerous top paper awards themselves at these conventions. She loves mountain climbing, rock climbing, backpacking, mountain biking, bikepacking, and tennis.

Keith Neergaard, professor, has taught at PUC since 1988. His teaching specialization is in marketing, economics, and management; and his research specialty is consumer behavior and services marketing publications. Dr. Neergaard has worked as a consultant, worked in the health care field and the defense industry, and taught at the college/university level. He enjoys tennis, golf, scuba diving, and traveling, and is a ski patroller at Heavenly, spending about 30 days a year there.

Marie Pak, Ph.D., professor, began teaching at PUC in 1999. She specializes in biochemistry and spent six years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Pak enjoys reading, going to state fairs, and watching movies.

Robin E. Vance, Ph.D., professor, has taught at PUC since 2001. He specializes in physiology and neurobiology. Dr. Vance's research interests include Antimutagenesis & Anticarcinogenesis, and he advises in the areas of biology and medicine. He taught at Union College for twelve years and chaired their Division of Science & Mathematics from 1996 to 2000. He enjoys tennis, walking and snorkeling.

Aimee C. Wyrick-Brownworth, MSc, is Dean of the School of Sciences and Professor of Biology at Pacific Union College in Angwin, Napa County, California. She earned her MSc in Organismal Biology and Ecology from the University of Montana, where she studied the effects of introduced trout on native amphibian populations. Since joining PUC in 2004, Aimee has worked on a wide range of restoration and research projects focused on introduced, invasive, and rare plant species in the Napa Valley. Most recently, she and her students have established monitoring plots in the PUC forest, investigated salamander ecology in the wildlands surrounding campus, and partnered with Boston University on an oak woodland restoration project in the Napa Valley. Aimee teaches undergraduate courses in general biology, conservation biology, plant taxonomy, and geology, and she serves as curator of the PUC Herbarium (PUA). She is an active member of the California Native Plant Society and the Land Trust of Napa County. In October 2020, Aimee and several co-PIs were awarded an NSF-PEN grant, which has supported the digitization of PUC herbarium specimens, including the college’s extensive collection of Napa County species. She enjoys good food, gardening, and traveling—especially when shared with her husband, Gregory.