Allnutt joined George Mason University in 2000 as the founding director of the MS in Telecommunications program after a research career in England, Canada and the U.S. with government agencies, private industry, an international organization, and universities in both the U.S. and England.  His research interests include all aspects of communications systems, in particular satellite communications and radiowave propagation, on which topics he has written three books and more than 100 refereed articles at conferences and in journals.  More recently, Allnutt has focused on techniques for minimizing the impact of propagation effects on satellite links, referred to generically as Fade Mitigation Techniques.  Allnutt is a fellow of the UK Institution of Technology and Engineering (formerly the IEE) and a fellow of the US Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

David Anderson is a professor of recreation, health and tourism and director of Mason's Center for the Advancement of Public Health. During his 35-year career in higher education, he has promoted positive youth development and healthy living. Some of his specialty areas include health promotion, strategic planning and mobilization, health communication and needs assessment and evaluation.

His specialization in drug and alcohol abuse prevention, particularly with colleges and universities, has earned him a national reputation for promoting comprehensive, innovative and accountable programs and polices.

Working with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Anderson and his colleagues developed the Best of CHOICES Alcohol Education resource guide. Best of CHOICES includes some of the best examples of the various ways institutions have made use of grant funding they received to develop programs that would help address the importance of alcohol abuse prevention on college campuses. In addition, the guide includes recommendations made by Anderson that can help campuses to design and implement meaningful campus-based efforts to reduce alcohol-related problems.

During his 20 years at Mason, Anderson has acquired more than $8.3 million in grants for over 150 research and applied projects.

Currently the director of the Center for Sport Management, Baker has had extensive experience in the sport industry, serving as an administrator and coach in both scholastic and collegiate settings. 

Baker’s current research agenda focuses on stakeholder dynamics in sport, including leadership in sport (e.g. altruism, strategies, coaching); contextual issues in sport (e.g. trash talking’ athletic inclusion); governance and policy in sport (e.g. systemic dysfunction in college athletics, sponsorships, Final Four impacts, human resources, facility management); and sport management professional preparation (e.g. field experiences, cooperative-competitive learning, outcomes assessment).

Behrmann is a local, state, and national leader/innovator in special education. He has devoted 35 years to improving services and personnel preparation in the field of special education with his innovative work in teaching, research and service. He believes in collaborative research/training enhanced by technology. An early adopter of microcomputer technology, his pioneering pursuits are known worldwide. He wrote two of the first books on assistive and instructional technology.

He is currently the Helen A. Kellar Professor of Special Education in the Graduate School of Education and the coordinator of the special education programs.  He is the Director of the Helen A. Kellar Institute for Human disAbilities(KIHd), with over 50 funded faculty and staff of which over 15 percent have disabilities.

Bemak conducts research focused on cross-cultural counseling, social justice, refugee and immigrant mental health, at-risk youth, and post-disaster counseling. His recognition in these areas extends to 30 countries and throughout the United States. He is a former Fulbright Scholar, Kellogg International Fellow, and World Rehabilitation Fund Fellow. He is founder of Counselors Without Borders and received the 2004 O'Hana Social Justice Award by the Counselors for Social Justice, a division of the American Counseling Association.