Michael Marder is Professor of Physics and Executive Director of UTeach at The University of Texas at Austin. His elementary school education was at Washington Elementary in Champaign Illinois under the tutelage of Max Beberman, his middle school education was at Uni High in Urbana Illinois under the tutelage of David Dennis and George Triplett, and he stayed in Telluride House as a Cornell undergraduate majoring in physics and mathematics. He was the first chair of the American Physical Society Ethics Committee 2019-2020.