Provost Office: Memorandum
To: The Drexel University Community
From: Stephen W. Director, Provost
Subject: Recipients of the Lous and Bessie Stein Family Fellowships
Date: 24 May 2007
Recipients of the Louis and Bessie Stein Family Fellowships
It is my pleasure to announce the names of the recipients of four 2006-2007 Louis and Bessie Stein Family Fellowships. These fellowships support exchanges between Drexel and Israeli universities.
Ms. Shira Segal, an undergraduate student in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Sciences and Health Systems, receives a Stein award for her project entitled Biomaterials for Wound Healing Advancement. Her work under the supervision of Dr. Dror Seliktar, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Technion Israel Institute of Technology, will focus on a biosynthetic hydrogel matrix made from biological and synthetic constituents which are ideally suited for tissue regeneration.
Dr. Peter Lelkes, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems, Drexel University, and Professor Josef Itskovitz-Eldor, The Technion Israel Institute of Technology, receive a Stein award for their project entitled Use of NIH-approved Stem Cell Lines for Lung Tissue Engineering. They, along with one of their students, will visit each other's labs to work side-by-side on lung tissue engineering. This collaboration will encompass both a scientific and an educational component and will mutually benefit students and faculty at both institutions.
Dr. Thomas Hewett, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University, and Dr. Avraham Shtub, The Technion Israel Institute of Technology, receive a Stein award for their submission of Design of Problem Representations to Improve Complex Learning and Decision Making Processes in Project Management. This project is aimed at developing a Human-Computer interface for a simulation tool to enable self-learning of project planning, monitoring and control - The Project Management Trainer.
Dr. Mira Stone Olson, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Drexel University, and Dr. Brian Berkowitz, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, receive a Stein award for their project Quantifying Bacterial Transport in Fractured and Heterogeneous Porous Media. This project proposes a combined experimental and modeling approach for noninvasive imaging and mathematical quantification of bacterial response to trapped contaminants in fractured rock and heterogeneous porous media.
On behalf of Drexel University, I am pleased to offer congratulations to the Stein Fellows and to all the applicants. I also wish to express my sincere thanks to the Trustees of The Louis and Bessie Stein Foundation for their generosity. They are contributing to new advances in science and technology as well as to true advancement in international relations by supporting new research collaborations between Drexel and well-known Israeli institutions.