She earned a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from a joint program of the University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University. Cheng comes to Benedictine from the Emergency Preparedness Resources for Native Americans organization in California, where she worked as principal investigator, project manager and environmental health and safety specialist. She currently resides in Naperville.Cynthia Kuck is a professor in the School of Education. She earned a Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis and School Administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has served as dean of the College of Education at Argosy University and Concordia University. At Benedictine, she serves as director of the graduate programs in Education in the School of Education and the Moser College of Adult and Professional Studies. Kuck, formerly of Pekin, Ill., lives in Chicago.