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Outlook The magazine for
the College of Science
and Technology
FALL 2012
A New Era: Science Education and Research Center
The Undergraduate Research Program offers CST students the opportunity to work
alongside Temple’s most experienced researchers. But many URP students have to work at jobs
off campus, and that means less time in the lab working on today’s most diffi cult challenges.
Your gift to URP will provide students with hourly stipends for lab work. CST will then match
your fi nancial contribution—on a one-to-one basis—so that your gift will go twice as far.
Together, we can help URP students spend more time in the lab, earn money for living expenses
and learn what it takes to excel in advanced research before they graduate.
To make a gift to the Undergraduate Research Program, use the enclosed envelope or go to
www.giving.temple.edu.
Talented students matched with exceptional researchers.
Advanced theory matched to hands-on experience.
Your contribution matched by our commitment.
f e a t u r e s SERC: A new era at the College of Science and Technology
The Science Education and Research Center is the most
visible sign of CST’s extraordinary growth
The critical role
CST’s advisors help students reach their goals, rethink their
career paths or just recharge their batteries
16 22OutlookOutlook is a magazine for all Temple
alumni who earned a degree in the sciences
and friends of the College of Science and
Technology.
College of Science and Technology
400 Carnell Hall
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Michael L. Klein
Acting Dean and Laura H. Carnell
Professor of Science
Victoria Blevins
Director of Development
Matthew Montekio
Assistant Director of Development
Victoria Vicente
Development Associate
Gregory Fornia
Director of Communications
Design and Photography
Temple University Creative Services
Ryan Brandenberg, Photographer
Joseph Labolito, Photographer
Betsy Manning, Photographer
d e p a r t m e n t s Dean’s Message 2
CST News 3
CST Metrics
and Milestones 12
Alumni & Friends 28
Class Notes 32
In Their Words 35
End Note 36
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This is an exciting time at the College of Science and Technology. Under the leadership of
Hai-Lung Dai, CST’s former dean who now serves as Temple’s interim provost, the college
made remarkable progress in research, teaching and engagement with the world. (You can
see CST’s “metrics and milestones” on page 12.) As acting dean, I will build on our growing
reputation and advance our standing as a renowned institution for research and education.
At the beginning of the academic year, I took part in CST’s “Meet the Dean” event. The college
welcomed more than 1,100 freshmen and transfer students, each highly qualifi ed and eager to
explore new opportunities. In this issue of Outlook, you will learn more about CST’s offi ces of
Student Services and Career Professional Development as they guide students through their time
at the college and prepare them for rewarding careers after graduation (see page 22).
New and returning students are seeing CST’s high-tech home for advanced exploration,
the Science Education and Research Center (SERC), rise at the heart of Main Campus
(see page 18). Central to the college’s progress, SERC became a reality through the dedica-
tion and collaboration of many people at Temple University and in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, including Governors Tom Corbett and Ed Rendell. We owe Hai-Lung Dai
many thanks for his leadership in making SERC a reality.
The construction of a new building dedicated solely to science is a once in a lifetime
opportunity. When completed in 2014, SERC will enable the college to amplify technology
commercialization and dramatically increase multidisciplinary research.
SERC will also help the college attract outstanding faculty members. Since 2007, forty-two
experienced researchers from around the world have joined CST. Yet, with recent retire-
ments, we have about the same total number of faculty as we had fi ve years ago. One of the
college’s great challenges is to continue to hire and retain talented researchers and teachers to
meet our enrollment and research needs.
In my new role, I have met many alumni and friends who share my passion for the
college. CST’s achievements are made possible by the growing involvement of alumni and
friends. Their support means the college will set new standards in innovative research and
teaching. Thank you for all that you do to advance the College of Science and Technology’s
mission of discovery.
Sincerely,
Michael L. Klein, FRS
Acting Dean
Laura H. Carnell Professor of Science
C S T O U T L O O K
2 DEAN’S MESSAGE
Duck-billed dinosaurs endured long, dark polar winters
Duck-billed dinosaurs that lived within Arctic latitudes approximately 70 million
years ago likely endured long, dark polar winters instead of migrating to more southern
latitudes, according to research by Allison Tumarkin-Deratzian, an assistant professor of earth
and environmental science, and researchers from the University of Cape Town and Museum of
Nature and Science in Dallas.
Anthony Fiorillo, a paleontologist at the Museum of Nature and Science, excavated
Cretaceous period fossils — mostly the duck-billed herbivore, Edmontosaurus — along Alaska’s
North Slope. Fiorillo hypothesized that the
microscopic structures of the dinosaurs’ bones
could show how they lived in polar regions.
He enlisted the help of Tumarkin-Deratzian,
who had the expertise and facilities to create
and analyze thin layers of bone microstructure.
When the two researchers discovered another
scientist at the University of Cape Town
doing similar work, they collaborated and
combined their datasets.
“The bone microstructure of these
dinosaurs is a record of how these animals
were growing throughout their lives,” said
Tumarkin-Deratzian. “It is similar to looking
at tree rings.”
What the researchers found were bands of fast growth and slower growth that seemed to
indicate a pattern. “Periodically, throughout their life, these dinosaurs were switching how fast
they were growing,” said Tumarkin-Deratzian. “We interpreted this as potentially a seasonal
pattern because we know in modern animals these types of shifts can be induced by changes in
nutrition. But that shift is often driven by changes in seasonality.”
The researchers questioned what was causing the dinosaurs to be under stress at certain times
during the year: staying in the polar region and dealing with reduced nutrition during winter, or
migrating to and from lower latitudes. They did bone-microstructure analysis on similar duck-
billed dinosaur fossils found in Canada, but didn’t see similar stress patterns, implying that those
dinosaurs did not experience periodic seasonal stresses.
Since the Alaska fossils had all been preserved in the same sedimentary horizon, Fiorillo
examined the geology of the bonebeds in Alaska from which the samples were excavated and
discovered that these dinosaurs had been preserved in fl ood deposits. “They are very similar to
modern fl ood deposits in Alaska when you get spring melt water,” said Fiorillo. “Animals get
caught in these fl oods, which appears to be what happened to these dinosaurs.”
– Preston Moretz, SCT ’82
NEWS FEED
Faculty expertise featured in local, national and international media
Biologist Erik Cordes
was featured in
Business Week, CNN
and others outlets,
defi nitively linking the
slow death of deep-sea
coral in the Gulf of Mexico to BP’s oil spill.
“It was like a graveyard of corals,” said
Cordes, one of several researchers who
used the Alvin research submarine.
Antonio Giordano,
director of the
Sbarro Institute for
Cancer Research and
Molecular Medicine,
was interviewed on
CBC Radio’s “As it Happens” and featured in
The Independent (UK) and other outlets for his
research linking illegal dumping of toxic waste
in southern Italy to increased cancer rates.
CST biologist
Tonia Hsieh’s study
of the locomotion
of lizards garnered media
attention in The Philadelphia
Inquirer, The Boston Herald and other
outlets. The study seeks to determine
how lizards remain upright on varied
terrain and what can be learned to prevent
falls among the aged. Early indications
show tendons in lizards’ feet play a key
role in balance. “It’s kind of
acting . . . like shock
absorbers in cars,”
Hsieh said.
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CST NEWS
Seeking effi cient, cost-eff ective renewable energy solutions
Nicholas C. Davatzes, assistant professor
of earth and environmental science, is
involved in about a dozen projects exploring
the use of natural and abundant heat below
the Earth’s surface to generate electricity.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey,
geothermal energy systems have potential
to generate nearly 600,000 megawatts of
electric power, but the technology to tap
these resources is still largely underdeveloped.
Each megawatt of geothermal-generated
electricity can power approximately 1,000
U.S. households for one year.
“Most of the technology for making elec-
tricity involves converting heat into work
and then work into electricity,” said Davatzes.
“Usually we burn things like fossil fuels to
make the heat, but Mother Earth provides
geothermal heat.”
Davatzes, who has received more than $3.5
million in geothermal research funding since
joining CST in 2008, said geothermal doesn’t
get as much attention as it should, but one of
its key advantages is that it provides a constant
output. “It doesn’t show the daily variation in
power output that most of the other renew-
ables show,” he said.
As with all energy technologies, the cost
of producing the energy relative to its return
plays a key role in its development. Davatzes
said that drilling success is relatively low, but
the cost to drill wells is high, so it can take
more than a decade to realize a return on
investment. That’s why he is working with
geothermal industry leaders like ORMAT,
AltaRock and Nevada Geothermal Power,
as well as the U.S. Department of Energy,
U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Navy, in
places like Nevada and Oregon to fi gure out
how to drill geothermal wells successfully.
In addition to where to drill the wells,
Davatzes is also studying ways to improve
water fl ow through the fractures in the hot
rock below the surface — a key component of
successful geothermal systems — by enhancing
existing fractures or creating new pathways to
circulate the fl uid through these natural systems.
“A couple of these projects are pretty close
to demonstrating that the technology is there
to turn huge volumes of the rock below the
surface of the western United States into clean,
sustainable energy,” he said.
– Preston Moretz, SCT ’82
CST NOTES
According to EES Professor Nicholas Davatzes, geothermal energy has the potential to transform electricity
production in the United States.
CST alumna judges science fair More than 400 Philadelphia middle and high
school students showcased their creativity and
innovation in science and engineering during
the George Washington Carver Science Fair
at Temple University. Rebecca Spandenberg
(BS ’07, Bio) has been serving as a judge for
the fair since her undergraduate days. The
annual event offers students the opportunity
to compete for awards and college scholar-
ships in more than a dozen scientifi c catego-
ries, from behavioral science to zoology.
Professor Dubeck receives service award Physics Professor
Leroy Dubeck was
one of 17 Temple
faculty members
honored for service
to their department,
college or the uni-
versity. The award
is presented by
the Offi ce of the Provost and Faculty Senate
Steering Committee. In the college, Dubeck
twice served as acting physics department
chair, as chair of the Faculty Assembly and
chair of the CST Budget Committee. At the
university level, he was chair of the Faculty
Senate Budget Committee, a faculty represen-
tative on the University Budget Committee,
and the fi rst president of the Faculty Union in
1972. Professor Dubeck retired this year.
Leroy Dubeck
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CST NEWSCST NEWS
CST NOTESAcid mine drainage technology could aid Marcellus Shale drilling
Technology being developed by Chemistry
Professor Daniel Strongin as a solution to
Pennsylvania’s historic problem with acid mine
drainage could have applications for the state’s
newest environmental challenge: hydraulic fractur-
ing of Marcellus Shale.
Rock left behind in abandoned mines after
coal is extracted contains sulfur impurities that
decompose and form sulfuric acid when exposed
to air, water and microbes. When water fi lls a
mine’s underground tunnels, sulfuric acid can leach off the walls and get into nearby groundwater.
While chemicals such as lime are often used to neutralize acidic runoff , they do not eliminate the
root cause. Strongin is developing a technology that uses a specifi c class of lipid molecules that bind
to the metal sulfi de, forming a hydrophobic layer that keeps water, oxygen and bacteria from causing
it to decompose.
Strongin, having worked on developing this lipid-based technology for the past eight years,
said that approximately 2,400 miles of waterways in Pennsylvania are aff ected by the contami-
nated water from abandoned mines, which is typically acidic and contains large amounts of
heavy metals that are deadly to aquatic species.
“Pennsylvania spends roughly $19 million a year to address this issue, largely due to the vast
number of abandoned mining areas,” he said. “It’s estimated that it would cost $50 billion to fi x
the entire problem.”
Strongin now believes that mitigating acid drainage using lipid technology could enable the
mine waters to be used in the process of extracting natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation.
During hydraulic fracking, highly pressurized water is pumped into the earth to break or fracture
the shale and extract the gas.
“The process requires a tremendous amount of water; essentially, in a given well you need 2 to
5 million gallons to fracture the rock and release the natural gas,” he said. “People don’t want to
waste fresh water on that process.”
Strongin said a panel commissioned by the governor of Pennsylvania has recommended using
water from abandoned mining areas for hydrofracking the Marcellus Shale. “It is my belief that
our lipid technology could be used to stop acid mine drainage, or the root cause of acid mine
drainage, in such a way that the waters emanating from these abandoned mining areas would be
more usable in the hydrofracking process,” he said.
In addition to cleaning the acid mine drainage for use in drilling, Strongin also believes the
lipid technology may be useful for cleaning the backfl ow water that is a result of hydrofracking.
“A lot of the same chemistry that these lipids carry out on the acid mine drainage may be
applicable to these contaminated backfl ow waters, which carry a lot of dissolved solids and
particulate matter,” he said.
– Preston Moretz, SCT ’82
Two CST students part of TASSEP Two CST students, Aseem Malhotra and
Janie Vandertoorn took part in the Trans-
Atlantic Science Student Exchange Program
(TASSEP), designed for Temple science
majors. TASSEP students study abroad for
one semester or a full academic year and can
choose from 19 different European universities
representing 10 countries. Through strong
academic advising by science faculty who
work in close cooperation with their study
abroad offi ces, TASSEP ensures that students
are properly advised about course selection,
and eases the problems of receiving credit for
science courses taken abroad.
Vandertoorn, a biology major, studied at
Trinity College in Dublin. “The program is
an affordable way for science students to
study abroad and still stay on track with their
degree,” she says. “The experience is one I
will never forget.”
Malhotra, a biology major, studied at Lund
University in Sweden. “Some of my courses
included molecular biomedicine, bioimaging,
Swedish social policy and an introductory
Swedish-language course,” he said. “My time
at Lund was an amazing experience.”
Daniel Strongin
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CST NEWS CST NEWS
CST NOTES Shohreh Amini named a Temple Great Teacher
Shohreh Amini, CST’s associate dean for
research and graduate programs who
holds professorships in neuroscience and
biology, received Temple University’s Great
Teacher Award.
Amini graduated from the University
of Tehran’s International Institute for
Biochemistry and Biophysics with a master’s
degree in cell and molecular biology. With a
scholarship from Iran’s Ministry of Science, she
immigrated to the United States to complete
her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania.
Four years later, with a doctorate in molecular
biology, she was publishing research articles.
Against that backdrop, Amini has developed
a deep commitment to STEM (science, tech-
nology, engineering and math) education. She
oversees the Scientists as Teachers - Teachers as
Scientists program, wherein Temple graduate
fellows in STEM pair with Philadelphia School
District science teachers to enhance science
teaching and learning. Many of the students
of those district teachers have gone on to
receive recognition in regional and national
science fairs.
As a member of the advisory board for
the National Institutes of Health-sponsored
Minority Access to Research Careers program,
Amini seeks ways for minority middle and
high schoolers to accrue laboratory time.
The 2009 Lindback Award winner and former
Department of Biology chair also serves as a
research mentor.
–Kevin Kaufman
Professors Kotochigova and Martoff named American Physical Society Fellows Two CST faculty members, Svetlana
Kotochigova and C.J. Martoff, have been
elected fellows of the American Physical
Society (APS). Fellowship in APS is limited to
no more than one half of one percent of the
society’s more than 46,000 members.
Election to APS fellowship means peer recog-
nition of outstanding contributions to physics.
APS noted Research Professor Kotochigova’s
“insightful theoretical description of the forma-
tion and control of ultracold molecules in
optical trapping potentials.” Professor Martoff
was singled out by APS for his many “inno-
vative contributions to the development of
detectors for dark matter, in particular for the
invention of negative ion DRIFT.”
Fellowship nominations are evaluated by
the fellowship committee of the appropriate
APS division, topical group or forum. After
review by the APS Fellowship Committee,
successful candidates are elected by the APS
Council. APS is active in public and govern-
mental affairs, and in the international physics
community. In addition, the society conducts
extensive programs in education, public out-
reach and media relations.
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CST NEWS
CST NOTESOwl’s Nest: A new era in high-performance computing
‘‘The Owl’s Nest,” a Linux-cluster supercomputer, has been fully operational for more than
a year, making cutting-edge research possible across disciplines in CST and beyond.
The Owl’s Nest began as a proposal by Jie Wu, chair of the CIS department, and several
faculty members from across the university to the National Science Foundation’s Major
Research Instrumentation program for the acquisition of a hybrid high-performance GPU/CPU
system. The Owl’s Nest was installed on the fourth fl oor of the Bell Building during the winter
of 2010 by a Computer Services team supervised by Axel Kohlmeyer, CST associate vice dean
for scientifi c computing. Since spring 2011, the supercomputer has been working at full capacity
and is currently available to researchers.
Hybrid high-performance GPU/CPU computing combines central processing units with graphic
processing units into “nodes” that are used to make parallel calculations of very large numbers or
complex algorithms. The Owl’s Nest has more than 100 nodes, each individual “computers” that
are networked and capable of CPU, GPU and GPU/CPU hybrid operations. By clustering CPUs
and GPUs, and interconnecting the nodes with an Infi niBand network, hybrid high-performance
units work faster and more effi ciently to solve larger and more complex problems because the
nodes are capable of fast parallel processing. A complex algorithm or simulation can be tested
numerous times or a large calculation can be broken into smaller segments and processed hetero-
geneously with speed.
Temple researchers from disciplines such as chemistry, mechanical engineering, physics, computer
science, business and medicine have published cutting-edge studies that would not have been
possible just two years ago in topics as diverse as mathematically predicting how a protein will fold
or creating stronger internet security algorithms.
The Owl’s Nest, used by researchers from University of Pennsylvania, University of the Sciences
in Philadelphia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and others, connects with the TeraGrid, a nation-
wide network of NSF-funded supercomputers. One of these, Drexel University’s “Draco,” will
create cross-town cooperation as Philadelphia becomes a hub for supercomputer talent in the
coming years.
– Kime Lawson
The Owl’s Nest was installed on the fourth fl oor of the
Bell Building during the winter of 2010 by a Computer
Services team supervised by Axel Kohlmeyer, CST associate
vice dean for scientifi c computing. Since spring 2011, the
supercomputer has been working at full capacity.
Math modeling course tackles cappuccino foam Math students recently took on several real-
world projects, including optimal cappuccino
foam, in the graduate mathematical modeling
course. In the course developed by professors
Yury Grabovsky, Benjamin Seibold and
Daniel Szyld, students work in groups on
projects that arise in industry or in other sci-
ence areas. A similar undergraduate course is
spearheaded by Professor Irina Mitrea.
In the graduate course, problems are
formulated in nonmathematical language.
For example: “How does stability of steam-
frothed milk foam on a cappuccino depend
on the milk properties, such as skim milk vs.
whole milk and steaming temperature?” The
research helped Elixr Coffee in Philadelphia
brew a better cup.
Students also worked on the automatic
detection of weather fronts from forecast data
of Meteomedia, a leading weather service in
Europe, and effi cient impedance measure-
ments at low frequency for Gamry Instruments,
a designer and manufacturer of electrome-
chanical instruments in Warminster, Pa.
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CST NEWS
CST NOTES CST’s 2012 graduation ceremony
The College of Science and Technology
held its graduation ceremony Thursday,
May 10, in the Student Pavilion on Main
Campus. CST’s Class of 2012 — one of its
largest and most accomplished — included 28
advanced-degree graduates and more than
400 bachelor’s degree candidates majoring in
biochemistry, biology, chemistry, computer
science, geology, mathematics, physics and more.
The ceremony featured remarks by Temple
University Board of Trustees member
Solomon Luo, director and founding partner
of Progressive Vision Institute and a clinical
professor of ophthalmology at Temple. Luo is
a nationally recognized expert in cataract and
refractive surgery and has performed more
than 30,000 ophthalmic surgical procedures.
The ceremony’s student speaker was
Nicole Haloupek, who earned a bachelor’s
degree in biochemistry and is now in the
doctoral program in molecular biology at the
University of California, Berkeley.
CST’s Class of 2012—one of its largest and most accomplished—included 28 advanced-degree gradu-
ates and more than 400 undergraduates majoring in biology, biochemistry, computer science, geology, math,
neuroscience, physics and more.
Jie Wu named Carnell Professor Jie Wu, chair
and professor in
the Department
of Computer
& Information
Sciences, has been
named Laura H.
Carnell Professor
of Computer
Engineering by Temple University. Wu will be
the fi fth Carnell Professor in the College of
Science and Technology.
Prior to joining CST, Wu was a program
director at the National Science Foundation.
From 1989 to 2009, he held an appointment
in the Department of Computer Science at
Florida Atlantic University, where he rose
to the rank of distinguished professor. His
research interests include wireless networks,
mobile computing, routing protocols, fault-
tolerant computing and interconnection
networks. Wu’s publications include more
than 550 papers in scholarly journals and
conference proceedings.
Established in 1985 by the Temple University
Board of Trustees, Carnell professorships honor
Temple’s fi rst dean, Laura H. Carnell, who
worked alongside founder Russell H. Conwell
from 1893 until his death in 1925, most of that
time as Temple’s chief administrator.
“I am honored to be included among such
a distinguished and inspiring group of
academics within the College of Science and
Technology and across Temple University,”
said Wu. CST’s other Carnell professors
are Dean Hai-Lung Dai; Franklin Davis and
Michael Klein, Department of Chemistry; and
Xiaoxing Xi, Department of Physics.
Jie Wu
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CST NEWS
Zoran Obradovic
CST NOTESResearcher to use data mining to help diagnose and treat sepsis
Computer & Information Sciences
Professor Zoran Obradovic, director
of Temple’s Center for Data Analytics
and Biomedical Informatics, has been
awarded a DARPA grant to use data
mining to develop an early diagnosis and
treatment of sepsis.
Sepsis is a severe infection in the
bloodstream that develops with little
or no warning and spreads rapidly. It is
treated mostly with antibiotics, but can
cause complications for the body’s major
organs and is often life-threatening.
Obradovic’s project is one of eight being funded by DARPA with the overall objective of devel-
oping a portable device that would clean a sepsis patient’s blood of infection, much like a dialysis
machine does for kidney patients. He will be collaborating with researchers from MIT, Harvard,
Yale, Northwestern and Boston universities, as well as Aethlon Medical and Semprus Biosciences.
Obradovic said that his project has three objectives: using data analysis models to develop
therapy optimizations for individual sepsis patients, developing a method for early diagnosis of
the infection, and identifying genes that can be used as biomarkers for the diagnosis and treat-
ment of sepsis.
“Sepsis develops very fast and patients have to be monitored continuously over a 24-hour
period,” said Obradovic. “So time is really critical for a positive outcome for the patient.”
By measuring and observing about 20 diff erent variables each hour from a large number of
sepsis patients, Obradovic said he hopes to be able to develop a method for early diagnosis.
“We want to know how early we can tell which direction the patient is going; if the patient is
going into the next stage of the illness, staying the same or improving,” he said. “The patient
doesn’t have 24 hours to wait, so if we can tell by measuring 10 variables over the fi rst three
hours, doctors will be able to begin implementing a more eff ective treatment to the patient.
“What we’re looking for are patterns that will allow us to tell the doctor why we can make
this prediction about the direction the infection is taking the patient after a short time instead
of waiting 24 hours,” said Obradovic.
Obradovic said based on his fi ndings, if a doctor sees a certain pattern develop over a short time,
they would be able to start a certain type of treatment immediately and automatically know how
to adjust and adapt the treatment as the patient’s condition changes in the hours that follow.
– Preston Moretz, SCT ’82
Diamond Research ScholarsEight CST students were named Diamond
Research Scholars in 2012. The program offers
a seven-month, including 10 weeks during the
summer, funded research experience under the
direction of a faculty mentor. Undergraduate
participants receive a summer stipend of $2,750
and tuition remission for up to three hours of
research or independent study in the fall for
their research or creative arts project. Diamond
Scholars also participate in the two-day
Undergraduate Research Institute. The 2012
Diamond Research Scholars are:
Elorm Agra, Biochemistry
“Bound Geodesics in Surfaces with
Cylindrical Ends”
Yueming Geng, Mathematical Economics
“Pricing Discrimination Strategies in the Pizza
Food Truck Market at Temple Main Campus”
Lifan He, Neuroscience: Cellular and Molecular
“Axonal Guidance Molecules in Regulation of
Neuronal Survival and Death after SCI”
Kevin Kuruc, Mathematical Economics
“Does the Winner’s Curse Exist in the Free
Agent Market of Major League Baseball?”
Shannon McGinnis, Biology
“An Epidemiological Comparison of Two
Fungal Pathogens: White-nose Syndrome in
Bats and Chytridiomycosis in Amphibians”
Sean McWilliams, Chemistry
“Novel Synthesis of Low-coordinate
Manganese Clusters”
Molly Mitchell, Neuroscience:
Cellular and Molecular
“The Effect of PTEN on Motor Axon Regeneration
in Acute and Chronic Injury Models”
Pegah Safabakhsh, Biochemistry
“An Enhanced Gene Trap for Transposon-
mediated Insertional Mutagenesis in Zebrafi sh”
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CST NEWS
New CST Faculty
Isaac KlapperProfessorDepartment of Mathematics
Isaac Klapper received his PhD in 1991 from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, a leading center for applied mathematics. Since 2007, he has been professor of mathematics at Montana State University. During his career, he has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Center for Biofi lm Engineering Faculty of the Year Award, and the MSU Charles & Nora L. Wiley Faculty Award for Meritorious Research in 2012.
Klapper is at the forefront in efforts to model microbial biofi lms mathematically, an emerg-ing area of biological and medical research. His work is truly interdisciplinary, involving both theoretical modeling and direct testing of those models in the fi eld and in labs. His research is well supported at the national level, currently in excess of $1 million in NSF grants. Klapper, an effective instructor, has a strong history of working with PhD students and lead-ing them to interdisciplinary research involving advanced mathematics, chemistry and biology.
Brian RiderProfessorDepartment of Mathematics
Brian Rider joined the department of math-ematics faculty at the University of Colorado in 2004, rising to the rank of associate professor in 2009. He earned his undergraduate math-ematics degree from MIT, then received his doctoral degree from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU. He has held postdoctoral positions at both Duke University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
Rider is an outstanding mathematician whose research encompasses information theory, wire-less networks, mathematical physics, statistical physics, mathematical statistics and probability theory. He has been awarded both an NSF research grant and an NSF CAREER grant. In
2008, he was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize at the University of Cambridge, and he is presently the recipient of a Simons Research Fellowship. Rider’s work, covering a broad, interdisciplinary, and important research area referred to as “Random Matrix Theory,” has been published in leading electrical engineering, physics and mathematics journals.
Bernd Surrow Associate Professor Department of Physics
Bernd Surrow received his PhD in 1998 from the University of Hamburg, earning the phys-ics department’s DESY PhD Thesis prize. From 1998 until 2000, Surrow worked as a CERN Fellow for the CMS and OPAL Collaboration where he served on the OPAL-run coordi-nation team and as convener of the OPAL Two-Photon physics working group. He was subsequently appointed a permanent staff member at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) before joining the Physics Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) as a Goldhaber Fellow.
Surrow joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty in 2004 as an assistant profes-sor of physics, starting a new involvement within the Hadronic Physics Group at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Spin Program within the STAR experiment at BNL and towards a future electron-ion collider at BNL. His research is focused on investigating the structure of the proton and its underlying dynamics.
Chiu-Chiang TanAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Computer & Information Sciences
After receiving his PhD in 2010 from the College of William and Mary, Tan joined CST as an assistant professor of research. Tan had already authored several publications in major journals and conferences as a graduate student. During his time at Temple, Tan estab-lished himself as a capable and independent researcher.
Recently, Tan has moved his research toward the fi eld of cloud-computing security. He has received two commercial grants from Amazon to study cloud security. In addition to his research, Tan is a dedicated teacher and mentor, holding regular weekly research meet-ings to help students develop research proj-ects matching their abilities and interests.
Tan’s strong background in computer secu-rity has played an important role in several ongoing projects, including an interdisciplin-ary project to design a wireless system for fetal health monitoring. Additional projects involve secure wireless video surveillance networks and verifi able cloud-computing monitoring.
Weidong YangProfessorDepartment of Biology
Since his appointment in the Department of Biological Sciences at Bowling Green State University in 2007, Weidong Yang has estab-lished himself as rising star in biophysical investigations of cell structure and function. He received outstanding undergraduate and graduate training in physics at Shanxi University, then received his doctoral degree in biophysics from Fudan University.
Yang’s doctoral research focused on spectroscopic techniques to study excited molecular and atomic states in the gas phase. He then applied his spectroscopic expertise to address important problems in cell biol-ogy, fi rst by receiving postdoctoral training at the University of Minnesota and then at Texas A&M University. These studies fi rst focused on the mechanism and application of dual-color fl uorescence fl uctuation spectroscopy in living cells, then zeroed in on how biomolecules transit across the nuclear pore complex.
Yang will be a key addition to CST’s under-graduate curriculum in cell biology and will help develop the graduate curriculum in biophysics and advanced courses in cell biol-ogy and microscopy.
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CST NOTESSbarro Institute research leads to greater understanding of cancer
An increasing understanding of molecular pathways that regulate breast and colorectal
cancer development and progression has produced new therapeutic agents, including the
biologic agents trastuzumab, bevacizumab and cetuximab. Identifying the indicators that are
likely to predict which patients will achieve the best responses to these agents represents a major
challenge for contemporary oncologists.
Researchers from CST’s Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine and
the Human Health Foundation report that in a multidisciplinary study of 420 nondiabetic breast
and metastatic colorectal cancer patients treated with targeted agents, lower levels of pretreat-
ment fasting glucose were predictive of longer times to disease progression. Such evidence was
signifi cant in breast cancer patients, according to results in Annals of Oncology.
“These fi ndings may have important clinical implications in the management and prognosis
of breast cancer patients,” said Maddelena Barba, lead author of the study. “This could poten-
tially aff ect time to disease progression and increase survival, leading the way to new avenues for
exploring underlying resistance to targeted agent-based regimens.”
“This study represents an important step towards understanding the complex biological behav-
ior of this type of aggressive cancer,” said Antonio Giordano, Sbarro director. “We must now
develop more knowledge about the function of key molecules involved in cell growth in order
to design smart drugs that could specifi cally block tumors.”
– Marie Basso
Using georadar to track dunes In 2011 and 2012, EES Professor Ilya
Buynevich collaborated with master’s student
Andrew Bentley and scientists from the
University of Pennsylvania and University
of Texas at Austin to image the subsurface
geology of gypsum dunes in the White Sands
National Monument in New Mexico. The
researchers used ground-penetrating radar,
or georadar, to image dune migration, cap-
ture biogenic structures like animal burrows
beneath the sand, and contrast barchans
dunes — formed when winds blow in only one
direction —and parabolic dunes, where veg-
etation holds part of a dune in place.
ACS awards honor CST facultyThis year, the American Chemical Society held
its national meeting in Philadelphia and hon-
ored several members of the CST faculty. The
ACS Division of Organic Chemistry named
Franklin Davis, Laura H. Carnell Professor
of Chemistry, the winner of the 2012 Paul G.
Gassman Distinguished Service Award. The
award, sponsored by Bayer, was established in
1994 to recognize outstanding service to the
organic chemistry community. Hai-Lung Dai,
Laura H. Carnell Professor of Chemistry, was
awarded the ACS Langmuir Lectureship, and
Professor Eric Borguet and Chemistry Chair
Robert Levis earned an ACS Philadelphia
Section Award.
TUteach graduates begin to make their mark
TUteach is a science and mathematics teacher training program that is preparing the next
generation of highly qualifi ed middle- and high-school science teachers. Begun in 2008,
today more than 200 students are enrolled in the program. TUteach students earn a math or sci-
ence degree and gain valuable teaching experience in the classroom.
Of the 11 TUteach graduates in January and May of 2012, fi ve are teaching high school in the
Philadelphia area, four are pursuing a professional or graduate degree, and two are working in
industry in positions that include signifi cant training and teaching duties.
TUteach recruited 44 students this past fall, one of its largest incoming cohorts to date.
According to a study, TUteach students are about ten times more likely to remain enrolled at
Temple compared to matched control students with similar “at-risk” factors. Most students
entering TUteach are seriously considering a teaching career; 69 percent of respondents in the
intro course indicated that they would “probably” or “defi nitely” teach, while 57 percent indi-
cated they planned to teach for at least 4 years, including 25 percent, the largest category, who
said that they expect to teach as a “lifetime” career.
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Metrics and Milestones:College of Science and Technology 2007–2012
Since 2007, the College of
Science and Technology has
grown in many ways, from
the number of students and faculty
members to increased external fund-
ing for research and fi nancial contri-
butions from alumni and friends. Two
areas that have been strengthened
considerably are student advising and
career professional development.
The college has also introduced
new programs, including a master’s
degree in information sciences
& technology, a Professional
Science Master’s of Biotechnology,
a doctoral degree in geology, and
3+2 dual-master’s programs. More
than 300 students have participated
in the college’s Undergraduate
Research Program, which offers
top students the opportunity to
work with faculty on real-world
research as well as earn a stipend
for lab work. In the community, the
college is host to the ExxonMobil
Bernard Harris Summer Science
Camp and TUteach, the innovative
method for training science majors
to become tomorrow’s great math
and science teachers.
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Increase in undergraduate enrollment: 20.3%
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(in millions)
Increase in sponsored-research funding: 118%
(in millions)
2012
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
2007
Hai-Lung Dai becomes dean
Distinguished Teaching and Research Awards
2008
TUteach
10th Anniversary
Research and Instructional Support Facility
2009
Undergraduate Research Program
$25 million Beury Hall renovation
Institute for Computational Molecular Science
2010
Alumni Board
Core instrumentation facilities
$3 million renovation of fourth fl oor of Bio-Life Building
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CST NOTES
New PSM in biotechnologyCST’s new Professional Science Master’s
degree in biotechnology program offers
students the knowledge and skills to tackle
today’s challenges in drug discovery for
persistent and emerging diseases, and envi-
ronmental remediation to reduce contaminants
in air and water. Under the direction of Professor
Mark Feitelson, the PSM Biotech program
draws from Temple’s faculty across disciplines,
including biology, engineering and pharma-
ceutical sciences.
Students can focus on human health, including
analyzing mechanisms of antibiotic and drug
resistance and designing novel drugs; or envi-
ronmental areas, which covers environmental
contaminants and remediation approaches
using plants, fungi and microorganisms to
reduce urban and industrial contamination,
like waste runoff from livestock, mining and
logging operations. Students can also add an
informatics concentration, which is focused on
decision-making based upon data accession,
manipulation and analysis over a broad range
of fi elds complementing the health and envi-
ronmental tracks. Developed by the Council
of Graduate Schools and industry, the PSM
degree is designed for students to pursue
advanced scientifi c training and develop skills
highly valued by employers.
Facts/Figures
2011
Research funding more than doubles since 2007
“Owl’s Nest” high-performance computer cluster
2012
Science Education and Research Center breaks ground
Number of college-sponsored faculty teaching and research awards introduced
9
Number of freshmen and transfer students, fall 2012
1,160
New tenured and tenure-track faculty members recruited and hired since 2007
42
Increase in yearly fi nancial contributions since 2007
135%
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Sonia Kovalevsky DayThe Department of Mathematics held its fi rst
Sonia Kovalevsky Day in 2012, offering young
women a day of mathematics enrichment
activities including projects, workshops and a
competition. The event attracted 27 students
in grades 6 to 10 from the Philadelphia region.
Kovaleksy was a Russian mathematician and
writer who made a valuable contribution to
the theory of partial differential equations.
She was the fi rst woman in modern Europe
to earn a doctorate in mathematics, the fi rst
to join the editorial board of a scientifi c
journal and the fi rst to be appointed professor
of mathematics.
Grant attracts undergrad researchersWith funding from the National Science
Foundation, the Department of Computer
& Information Sciences brought 10 top
undergraduate students in computer-related
disciplines to Temple for a summer research
experience. The group included students from
Carnegie Mellon University, Northeastern
University, Haverford College and Lehigh
University, as well as several Temple students.
The three-year, $319,932 Research Experience
for Undergraduates (REU) grant will support
up to 10 undergraduate students for eight
weeks, during which students will work with
Temple faculty on research projects in mobile
computing, wireless communication and
cloud computing.
Laser technology could help detect radioactive threats remotely
The Center for Advanced Photonics
Research (CAPR) received a $450,000,
three-year grant from the Defense Threat
Reduction Agency (DTRA) to further
develop laser-based technologies created by
CAPR for the detection of radioactive mate-
rials from a distance. “DTRA wants research-
ers to develop new ways to detect radioactiv-
ity in cargo containers, ships, vehicles and
airplanes,” said Robert Levis, professor and
chair of chemistry and director of CAPR.
“They also need a way to do this remotely.”
The technology CAPR researchers will
study as a potential remote detector of
radioactivity was born out of concepts that
emerged from previous research projects
to create standoff detection of improvised
explosive devices. CAPR researchers discov-
ered that they could detect molecules in the
air by using a commercially available laser and
a $50 lens to create one of the shortest laser
pulses in the world. “If you take the output
of one of these commodity lasers and put the
pulse through a 2-meter lens in air, after about
3 meters, you get a really short, few-cycle
pulse. This pulse duration used to cost up to
a $1 million to create,” he said, “but now you
can get this short pulse basically for free right
out in the air.”
Levis said that any molecules caught in
the short pulse start to move in perfect
unison, with each type of molecule creating
its own pattern or signature. The question is
whether or not radioactive decay in the air
creates enough new signature molecules to
allow detection.
“When the molecules begin moving as one
and you put a weak laser beam through the
same volume, you can identify the molecules
by their signature movement,” he said. “So we
realized we could use this process to perform gas
phase spectroscopy to identify the molecules.”
Levis likened this process for identifying the
molecules to trying to distinguish between
the Rockettes dancing and an army marching
across a fi eld without visually seeing them.
“If they are all moving as one then it’s easy
to tell the dance steps from soldiers marching,”
he said. “We ‘listen’ using the lasers.”
– Preston Moretz, SCT ’82
CAPR researchers discovered that they could detect molecules
in the air by using a commercially available laser and a $50 lens
to create one of the shortest laser pulses in the world.
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BIOLOGYShohreh Amini• Teachers as Scientists/Scientists as Teachers, National Science Foundation
Darius Balciunas• Transposon-based Insertional Mutagenesis & Genome Engineering Platform, National Institutes of Health
Erik Cordes• Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf, Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (University of Mississippi)
• Exploration/Research/Northern Gulf of Mexico, TDI-Brooks International
• Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Response, National Science Foundation
• Mississippi Canyon 252 Incident, Industrial Economics Inc.
Mark Feitelson• Beta-Catenin Signaling in HBxAG Mediated HCC, National Institutes of Health
• Combined Therapies: Chronic HVB, Liver Disease and Cancer, National Institutes of Health
• Early Antibody Markers of HCC, National Institutes of Health
Antonio Giordano• FDA/P130 in Lung Cancer, Sbarro Health Research Organization Inc.
Raymond Habas• Dissecting the Molecular Mechanisms of Canonical Wnt Signaling, National Institute of General Medical Sciences/NIH/DHHS
• Non-canoical Wnt Signaling and Cell Motility, National Institutes of Health/DHHS
• Understanding How Wnt Signaling Regulates Cell Motility During Gastrulation, March of Dimes
Cezary Marcinkiewicz• Interaction of Thrombospondin-1 with Alpha9beta 1 Integrin in Glioma Angiogenesis, National Institutes of Health/DHHS
Laszlo Otvos• Development/Universal Infl uenza A Virus Vaccine, Wistar Institute
• Peptide Agonist to Adiponectin Receptors, U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity
Karen Palter• ERFI-CBE: Integrated Computational and Experimental Model for Biochemical and Electrical Interactions in Ion Channels and the Impact of Sialic Acid on Neuronal Function, NSF (The Johns Hopkins University)
Robert Sanders• Collaborative Research: Alternative Nutritional Strategies in Antaractic Protists, National Science Foundation
Gregory Smutzer• Cellulose Based Strips for Human Taste Function, Osmic Enterprises Inc.
• Validation of the PROP Taste Strips for the NIH Toolbox Study, NorthShore University Health System Research Institute
Eva Surmacz• Diabetes Innovation Early Exploration Award, Novo Nordisk Inc.
• Exploring Leptin Antagonism in Diabetic Eye Models, Novo Nordisk Fonden
• Obesity and Breast Cancer Develop-ment: Role Leptin, W. W. Smith Charitable Trust
Jacqueline Tanaka• Achromatopsia-Disease Mechanisms and Cone-Directed Gene Therapy, NIH (University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania)
• Temple University Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program, National Institutes of Health
CHEMISTRY Rodrigo Andrade• Asymmetric Synthesis of Strychnos and Aspidosperma Alkaloids, National Science Foundation
• Discovery of Novel Macrolide Antibiotics, National Institutes of Health/DHHS
Eric Borguet• A Molecular Resolution Investigation/Electron, National Science Foundation
• Acid Base Chemistry at the Aqueous-Mineral, American Chemical
• Array Piezoelectric Nanocantilever Sensors, Benjamin Franklin Tech Partners
• CRC: Long Range Electron Transfer, National Science Foundation
• Development of a Novel Single Channel Biosensor Chip Utilizing Piezoelectric Acoustic Plate Waves, Aviana Molecular Technologies Inc.
Eric Borguet (continued)• Guidelines for the Preparation of Project Plans/Gas Analytical System Based on Nanosensor to Analyze Fire-Presage Gases, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
•Hypergol Sensor Using Passive Wireless Saw Devices, Applied Sensor Research and Development Corp.
• Nanoscale Cellular Probes, Benjamin Franklin Tech Partners
• Passive Wireless Saw Humidity Sensors and Systems, Applied Sensor Research and Development Corp.
Hai-Lung Dai• Molecular Interaction with Colloidal Surfaces Probed by Nonlinear Light Scattering, National Science Foundation
• Structure and Spectroscopy/Buried Interfaces/Organic, Air Force Offi ce of Scientifi c Research
Franklin Davis• Asymmetric Synthesis of Substituted Tropanes, Biostrategy Partners
Steven Fleming• Bio-organic Reaction Animations, National Science Foundation
Michael Klein• Advanced Modeling of Ions in Solutions, Department of Energy
• Building Computational Models to Probe Membrane Fusion, National Science Foundation
• Center of Excellence for Materials Research and Innovation, NSF (University of Pennsylvania)
• Collaborative Research: Cyberinfra-structure and Research Facilities Chemical Computations on Future High End Computers, National Science Foundation
• Design and Mechanistic Studies of Mimics of Antimicrobial Peptides, NIH (UCSF)
• Development of Drugs that Target the M2 Proton Channel from the Infl uenza A Virus, NIH (UCSF)
• Interaction of Inhaled Anesthetics with Membranes & Membrane Proteins: Insights from Simulation Study, NIH (University of Pennsylvania)
Robert Levis• Filament-Based Raman Detection of Radioactive Materials, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
• Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Validation of Ultrafast Nonlinear Light-Matter Coupling Associated with Filamentation in Transparent Media, Air Force Offi ce of Scientifi c Research (University of Arizona)
Robert Levis (continued)• Multidimensional Detection of Explosive Devices, Offi ce of Naval Research
• Shaped Intense Laser Detection and Surveillance, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command
• Strong Field Control of Molecular Processes, National Science Foundation
Spiridoula Matsika• Combining High Level Ab Initio Calculations/Laser, U.S. Department of Energy
• Theoretical Studies of Nonadiabiotic Photoinitiated Processes in Complex Systems, National Science Foundation
• Understanding Laser Control of Molecular Dynamics, U.S. Department of Energy
Allen Nicholson• Reactivity Epitomes of Ribonuclease III Substrates, National Institutes of Health
• Reactivity Epitopes for Ribonuclease III Substrates, National Institutes of Health
Christian Schafmeister• Development of Protein Surface Binding, Low Entropy Oligomers, National Institute of General Medical Sciences/NIH/DHHS
• Disrupting Protein-Protein Interactions with Bis-Peptides, National Institutes of Health
• Investigating Cell Membrane Permeation as a General Mechanism to Promote Bacterial Cell Death: Developing Antimicrobial Bis-Peptides, Cephalon Inc.
• Molecular Lego Based Catalysis, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Scott Sieburth• Silanediols Serine and Threonine Protease Inhibitors, National Institutes of Health
Francis Spano• Modeling the Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymer Assemblies: Interchain vs. Intrachain Interactions, National Science Foundation
• Using Circularly Polarized Light to Probe Optical Excitations in Organic Supramolecular Systems, National Science Foundation
Robert Stanley• Photoinduced Electron Transfer in DNA Photolyase, National Science Foundation
FUNDED RESEARCH AT CSTExternal funding for advanced research at CST continues to grow. Below is a list of grant expenditures, July 1, 2011, to June 30, 2012.
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Daniel R. Strongin• Astrobiology Biogeocatalysis Research Center at Montana State University, NASA
• Complexities Affecting the Rate and Mechanism of Pyrite Oxidation: An Interdisciplinary Approach, U.S. Department of Energy
• CRC: Structure-Sorption Relation/Iron Oxyhydroxide, National Science Foundation
• Inhibiting Oxidation of Metal Sulfi de-Containing Material Using Nano Bilayers of Phospholipids, Benjamin Franklin Tech Partners, NanoTechnology Institute
• Investigating the Surface Structure and Reactivity, XXX (University of Delaware)
• Reactivity of Iron-Bearing Minerals and CO2 Sequestration, U.S. Department of Energy
Ann Valentine• Ascidian Transferrins and the Evolution of Metal Traffi cking, National Science Foundation
Susan Varnum• Greater Philadelphia STEM Center Afterschool Program, McKean Defense Group
• Greater Philadelphia STEM Center Summer Science Camp, McKean Defense Group, Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center
• MSP: Chemistry Professional Develop-ment, Philadelphia School District
• Science in the City, National Science Foundation
• Teacher Professional Development Related to Injury, Philadelphia School District
• TU-CCP Academic Community/Expanding Opportunity, National Institutes of Health
• TU-Smart, National Science Foundation
Bradford B. Wayland• Alkaline Fuel Cell Membrane Design and Synthesis, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
• Catalytic Hydrogenation/Carbon Monoxide, US Department of Energy
• Metal-Centered Radicals and Organometallic Complex, National Science Foundation
Stephanie Wunder• Anion Exchange Polymer Membranes, Hybrid Plastics
• Bonding of Lithium Phosphate Glass, Max Power Inc.
• Layered Nanolaminated MAX Phases as Anodes for Lithium Ion Batteries, Ben Franklin Technology Partners (Drexel University)
• Self-Assembled Multi-Ionic Lithium Salts for Solid, National Science Foundation
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCESRichard Beigel• CCF: AF Student Travel Support for the IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity 2012, National Science Foundation
• IPA Agreement, National Science Foundation
Xiaojiang Du• CRI: Heterogeneous Sensor Network Lab for Integrated Research & Education, National Science Foundation
• Designing Robust and Secure Heterogeneous Sensor Networks, NSF (North Dakota State University)
• NeTS NOSS: Collaborative Research: Towards Robust and Self-Healing Heterogenous Wireless Sensor Networks, National Science Foundation
• MRI: Development of a Hybrid Wireless Network Infrastructure for Integrated Research & Education, National Science Foundation
Abdallah Khreishah• CCSS: An Architecture for Joint Intergration of Inter and Intrasession Network Coding in Lossy Wireless Multihop Networks, National Science Foundation
Rolf Lakaemper• World Modeling and Autonomous Navigation in Unstructured and Dynamic Environments: Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Longin Latecki• Automatic Human-like Perception and Navigation in the Natural Environment, Air Force Offi ce of Scientifi c Research (Purdue University)
• CDI-Type II: Collaborative Research: Perception of Scene Layout by Machines and Visually Impaired Users, National Science Foundation
• Collaborative Research: Recovery of 3D Shapes from Single Views, National Science Foundation
• Collaborative Research: Simultaneous Contour Grouping and Medial Axis Estimation, National Science Foundation
• Machine Learning Methods for Discovery of Relevant Features, Johnson and Johnson Healthcare Systems Inc.
• RADIUS: Rapid Automated Decompo-sition of Images for Ubiquitous Sensing, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Recovery of 3D Shapes from X-Ray Images, Sandia National Laboratories
• Robotic Navigation Emulating Human Performance: Equipment, Air Force Offi ce of Scientifi c Research (Purdue University)
Haibin Ling• EAGER: A New Framework for Balancing Deformability and Discriminablity in Computer Vision, National Science Foundation
• SOA Based ISR Testbed Development, Air Force Research Lab/IFE
Vasileios Megalooikonomou• III-COR: Mining Biomed and Network Data/Tensors, National Science Foundation
• III: Small: Collaborative Research: Modeling, Detection, and Analysis of Branching Structures in Medical Imaging, National Science Foundation
• Career: Extracting Patterns from Medical Image Data, National Science Foundation
• Large Scale Date Analysis for Brain Images, National Institutes of Health
Zoran Obradovic• N112-159 Auxillary System Sensor Fusion, Technical Documentation Inc.
• Collb Res/Mining Supp Retrieval and Analysis Geophys, National Science Foundation
• Drug Indications by Intergrating Multiple Data Sources, Glaxosmith-kline
• Predictive Modeling of Patient State and Therapy Optimization, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
Yuan Shi• Human Services Intergated Data Warehouse, City of Philadelphia
Miriam Solomon• Beyond the Art and Science of Medicine, National Science Foundation
Chiu Tan• REU Site: Enhancing Undergraduate Experience in Next Generation Networking Technologies, National Science Foundation
Slobodan Vucetic• A Discriminative Modeling Framework for Mining of Spatio-temporal Data, National Science Foundation
• Career: Memory-Constrained Predictive Data Mining, National Science Foundation
• Machine Learning Algorithms for Fault Detection and Diagnostics, ExxonMobil
Jie Wu• Effi cient and Localized Broadcasting in Ad Hock Wireless Networks, National Science Foundation
• EAGER: A New Algorithmic and Graph Model for Networking in Challenged Environments, National Science Foundation
• EAGER: A Meso-Scale GENI WiMAX Project, National Science Foundation
• EAGER: Mobile Multicore Computing, National Science Foundation
Jie Wu (continued)• MRI-R2: Acquisition: A Hybrid High-Performance GPU/CPU System, National Science Foundation
• NeTS-NBD: Dynamic Carrier-Assisted Routing in Mobile Networks, National Science Foundation
• NeTS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Mobile Content Sharing Networks: Theory to Implementation, National Science Foundation
• TF-SING: Energy Effi cient Design in Wireless Networks Using Cooperative Communication, National Science Foundation
Alexander Yates• Domain Adaption for Objection Resolution, Yahoo
• RI: Medium: Learning Representations of Language for Domain Adaptation, National Science Foundation
Wei Zhao• Data Dynamic Simulation for Disaster Management, National Science Foundation
• A Study of Architectural Models for Cyber-Physical Systems, National Science Foundation
• A Study of Security Countermeasures for Cyber-Physical Systems, National Science Foundation
OFFICE OF THE DEANDoug Baird• Alliance for Minority Participation Phase IV, NSF (Drexel University)
Bruce Conrad• Alliance for Minority Participation (Amp Phase III), NSF (Drexel University)
Hai-Lung Dai• TUteach, National Math and Science Initiative
Susan Varnum• ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp: Fundamental Elements, Harris Foundation
• ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp: From Molecules to Medicine and More, Harris Foundation
EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCEIlya Buynevich• Beach Sands as Archives of Ancient Black Sea Storms, National Geographic Society
Alexandra Davatzes• Workshop for Women Professor in STEM, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
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Nicholas Davatzes• An Integrated Geological and Geomechanical Characterization for the Analysis of MEQ in EGS Experiments (Geysers), DOE Geothermal Technologies Program (Texas A&M University)
• Brady’s Geothermal Field EGS Project Geomechanical Analysis, Ormat Nevada Inc.
• Evolution/Hydraulic and Mechanical Properties, Shell Petroleum Company
• Evolution of Fault Zone Permeability and Strength, Moab Fault, Utah, Shell Petroleum Company
• Fault Geometry, Geometry and Mechanics in the Coso Geothermal Field, U.S. Geological Survey
• Geologic Interpretation of Fallon Well, Epsilon Systems Solutions Inc.
• Integrated Temple University/USGS Component of Desert Peak, Nevada EGS Program, Ormat Nevada Inc.
• Monitoring EGS Stimulation and Reservoir Dynamics with InSAR and MEQ, U.S. Department of Energy
• Newberry Volcano EGS Demonstration, AltaRock Energy Inc.
Jeffrey Featherstone• Temple-Villanova Sustainable Stormwater Initiative; Phase IV, Integrated Stormwater Management, William Penn Foundation
• T-VSSI Breaking Down Barriers Phase III, William Penn Foundation
Jonathan Nyquist• Multifractal Characterization of Geologic Noise for Improved UXO Detection and Discrimination SPAF, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program
• Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory, NSF (Pennsylvania State University)
Dennis Terry• Protect Fossil Resources through the use of Rare Earth Element Analysis, National Park Service
• Rare Earth Element Finger Printing of Fossil Bone, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Laura Toran• Intergovermental Personnel Act, National Science Foundation
MATHEMATICSShiferaw Berhanu• Semilinear & Nonlinear PDES Motivated by Complex Variables & Cr Manifolds & The Bochner Extenstion Phenomenon, National Science Foundation
• Workshop on Partial Differential Equations and Several Complex Variables, National Science Foundation
Vasily Dolgushev• Puzzles of Homotopy Algebras Related to Deformation Theory, National Science Foundation
• Higher Algebraic Structures, Deligne’s Conjectures and Formality Theorems, NSF (University of California, Riverside)
David Futer • Collaborative Research: Hyperbolic Geometry of Knots & 3-Manifolds, National Science Foundation
Yury Grabovsky• Stability & Macroscopic Properties of Heterogeneous Media, National Science Foundation
Cristian Gutierrez• CAP – Excel – Excellence in Complex Analysis and PDE, University of Arkansas
• Nonlinear Equations of Monge-Ampere Type, National Science Foundation
Edward Letzter• Noncommuntative Algebras and Transformation Groups, National Security Agency
Maria Lorenz• Sonia Kovalewsky High School and Middle School Mathematics Day, Association for Women in Mathematics
• Noncommutative Algebras and Transformation Groups, National Security Agency
• Special Meeting: Braids in Algebra, Geometry & Topology, National Science Foundation
Gerardo Mendoza• Collaborative Research: Elliptic Partial Differential Equations on Singular Manifolds and Applications in Complex Geometry, National Science Foundation
Irina Mitrea• CAREER: Spectral Theory for Singular Integrals, Validated Numerics and Elliptic Problems in Non-Lipschitz Polyhedra: Research and Outreach, National Science Foundation
• Perspectives in Harmonic Analysis, Geometric Measure Theory, and Partial Differential Equations, and Their Applications to Several Complex Variables, National Science Foundation
Isaak Pesenson• A Framework/Regularizing Hyper-spectral Images, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (California Institute of Technology)
Igor Rivin• Collaborative Research: CDI-Type I: Discovery/Design, National Science Foundation
Benjamin Seibold• Capturing Subgrid Structures with Level Set Methods, NSF (Massachu-setts Institute of Technology)
• Collaborative Research: Numerical Approaches for Incompressible Viscous Flows with High Order Accurancy up to the Boundary, National Science Foundation
• Collaborative Research: Phantom Traffi c Jams, Continuum Modeling and Connections with Detonation Wave Theory, National Science Foundation
Daniel Szyld• Eigenvalues Problems, Krylov Subspace Methods, and Recycling, National Science Foundation
• Graduate Student Support for the 2010 Gene Golub Summer School in Italy, National Science Foundation
• Krylov Subspace and Schwartz Methods for PDEs, Control, and other Problems, National Institutes of Health/DHHS
• Schwarz Preconditioners for Krylov Methods, U.S. Department of Energy
PHYSICSMaria Iavarone• Vortex Matter in Confi ned Super-conductors and Mesoscopic Hybrid Heterostructures, U.S. Department of Energy
Svetlana Kotochigova• Creation and Control of Ultra-Cold Molecules in Optical Potential, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Production, Manipulation and Applications of Ultracold Polar Molecules, University of Connecticut
• Reactive Collisions & Interactions of Ultracold Dipolar Atoms & Molecules, Air Force Offi ce of Scientifi c Research
• Ultracold Neutral & Ionic Polar Molecules for Quantum Computing, National Science Foundation
A. Marjatta Lyyra• Control Molecular Properties by Coherence Effects, National Science Foundation
• Molecular Quantum Control Within the Frequency Domain, National Science Foundation
Jeffrey Martoff• ARI MA: “Green” Aqueous Liquid Scintillator for Nuclear Materials Interdiction, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security
• Collaborative Proposal: MAX-Multi-ton Argon and Xenon TPCS, NSF (Princeton University)
Jeffrey Martoff (continued)• Collaborative Research: Darkside: Direct Dark Matter Search, National Science Foundation
• Experiments in Particle Astrophysics, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• “Green” Liquid Scintillator Develop-ment, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• “Green” Liquid Scintillator for Nuclear Materials Interdiction, Department of Homeland Security
• MAX-Large Liquid Noble TPCS for Dark Matter, NSF (Princeton University)
Andreas Metz• Hard Scattering Processes in QCD, National Science Foundation
Zein-Eddine Meziani• EINN 2011 Conference at the University of Cyprus-Students Support, National Science Foundation
• Nuclear Research Using the Electromagnetic Probe, U.S. Department of Energy
Peter Riseborough• Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, U.S. Department of Energy
Nikolaos Sparveris• Jefferson Laboratory Contract, Jefferson Science Association
• Research in Experimental Nuclear Physics, Jefferson Science Association
Rongjia Tao• Development of Magneto-Optic Sensor Materials, Offi ce of Naval Research
• Magnetic and Electric Field Application to Confectionery Materials, Mars Chocolate U.K. Ltd.
• Research on Crude Oil Viscosity Reduction and Diesel Fuel Injection, Save The World Air Inc.
• Radioactive Materials and the Surrounding Atmosphere, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Xiaoxing Xi• Effects of Strain on Superconductivity in Iron Pnictide Thin Films, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Enhancement of Magnetoelectric Coupling in Nanoengineered Oxide Films and Heterostructures by Laser, Offi ce of Science/U.S. Department of Energy
• Magnesium Diboride Thin Films for Superconducting RF Cavities, U.S. Department of Energy
• Raman Spectoscropic Study of Coupling Btwn Magnetic Ferroelectric Orders in Nanoscaled Thin Film Superlattice, US Department of Energy
• Superconducting Circuits Using Magne-sium Diboride Josephson Junctions, Offi ce of Naval Research
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The College of Science and Technology,
launched in 1998, has become Temple
University’s fourth-largest school,
doubled its research funding since 2007,
and introduced innovative initiatives such as the
Undergraduate Research Program and TUteach.
The college renovated Beury Hall’s laboratories
and other spaces over the last several years, yet
its buildings and infrastructure are some of the
oldest on Main Campus.
Today, CST’s landmark Science Education and
Research Center (SERC) is rising on Polett Walk
adjacent to Gladfelter Hall and the Engineering
Building. Designed by USA Architects and
Architectural Resources Cambridge, the seven-
story, 246,000-square-foot structure is scheduled
to open in spring 2014. The project is funded by
a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania capital grant
and a Temple University bond issue.
SERC is part of Temple 20/20, an ambitious
framework for transforming Main Campus into a
21st-century environment that supports the goals
of the university’s Academic Strategic Compass.
SERC will enable the College of Science and
Technology to succeed in fi ve vital areas so that
the college will continue to increase enrollment,
improve rankings, and attract top talent and addi-
tional research dollars.
The Science Education and Research Center is the most visible sign of CST’s extraordinary growth
SERC: A new era at the College of Science and Technology
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Attract talented scholars and students Exceptional faculty and talented students are at the center of
CST’s mission to advance research and teaching. Over the past
six years, more than 40 top scholars have joined the college.
SERC will contain state-of-the-art laboratory and classroom
space to attract talented scholars to CST’s already outstanding
research community and provide CST students with abundant
opportunities for exploration and investigation.
Amplify exploration and technology commercializationCST researchers have accelerated their eff orts to move
technology and scientifi c breakthroughs from the laboratory
to the real world, having a dramatic impact on people’s lives
around the world. To fully support today’s — and tomor-
row’s — advanced scientifi c research, SERC will contain the
latest communications, safety, HVAC and other technologies,
including biosafety level 2 laboratories. SERC’s sixth fl oor
will off er fully hooded laboratories and other spaces for
chemical and biological research. The basement will house
a scanning tunneling microscope facility, one of just a few
vibration-free labs in the Northeast.
Expand interdisciplinary research Multidisciplinary research is the key to producing scientifi c
breakthroughs that are both dramatic and eff ective. CST is
already bringing together talented researchers across depart-
ments to take on today’s toughest challenges, and SERC will
further speed up this process. The fi fth fl oor will support
interdisciplinary eff orts in the fast-growing materials science
fi eld and will include level 100 and level 1000 clean rooms,
where the concentration of airborne particles is controlled to
specifi ed limits. The Institute for Computational Molecular
Science, one of the college’s research cores for collaborative
investigation, will be housed on the seventh fl oor.
Increase departmental resourcesSeveral CST departments lack suffi cient space for teaching
and research, making it diffi cult for people to collaborate
on new projects and create innovative initiatives. SERC’s
third fl oor will be the new home for the Department
of Computer & Information Sciences, with research
labs, break-out rooms, and offi ces for faculty, postdocs
and graduate students. The fourth fl oor, slated for the
Department of Physics, will have a similar layout. SERC’s
second fl oor will house teaching labs for the departments
of Physics, Computer & Information Sciences, and Earth &
Environmental Science, and storage and support areas.
Provide a focal point for college, campus and communitySpread over several buildings, CST lacks a central area for
college functions and a space that truly inspires tomor-
row’s scientists and students. SERC’s fi rst fl oor will feature a
420-seat lecture hall, the largest in the college and one of the
largest at the university. The fi rst fl oor also will include two
smaller lecture halls and a cafe.
Watch SERC construction live at www.temple.edu/cst.
SERC will attract talented scholars
and students to CST’s already
outstanding research community.
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Leslee Everett thought she wanted to be a science teacher —
until the fi rst semester of her freshman year. That’s when the
declared environmental science major took the introductory
course for TUteach, the College of Science and Technology’s program
for training math and science teachers.
Everett found herself in front of a fourth-grade classroom
teaching an earth science project that focused on constructing
dams to prevent fl ooding — and she really disliked it. “I guess
I don’t have the patience for explaining things in multiple
ways,” admits the senior from northeastern Pennsylvania.
In a panic, Everett emailed Stephanie Ballard, her CST
advisor. “I was terrifi ed and I didn’t know what I was going
to do,” recalls Everett.
“Calm down,” counseled Ballard. “Even if you don’t want
to teach, you still have a lot of time to fi gure out if environ-
mental science is going to work for you.”
One of Ballard’s ideas: take the physical geology course.
As a result, Everett — now a geology major — has been work-
ing in the laboratory of Associate Professor Dennis Terry,
studying phytoliths, silica fossils of microscopic plant cells,
a prelude to what Everett hopes will be graduate work in
paleoclimate/paleobotany.
Credit the nudge from Ballard. Says Everett, “Stephanie’s
been extremely helpful in so many ways. She’s kind of been
like a second mother or sister to me.”
ENHANCED ACADEMIC ADVISINGThe Chronicle of Higher Education highlighted Temple
University two years ago for being one of the fastest gain-
ers among U.S. public research institutions in signifi cantly
increasing its six-year graduation rates. One of Temple’s keys,
according to The Chronicle: enhancing the kind of student
advising services students receive.
Six years ago, CST’s student advising staff had shrunk to
three, including just one advisor. Since then, the advising
staff for the college’s 3,600 undergraduate students has grown
to 11, including two supervisors, eight advisors, and a career
and research opportunities director.
Besides introducing a performance-based career ladder
and training program to retain top advisors, two years ago
Temple launched two initiatives to make student advising
more proactive, strategic and focused. First piloted in CST,
the Critical Paths program creates eight-semester academic
maps for every major along with specifi c milestones which,
if not met, trigger an advisor intervention. The other initia-
tive is the Risk-Based Retention Project, based on the
responses of incoming students to survey questions that are
linked to the responses and performances of previous fresh-
men. The statistical model immediately identifi es and targets
high-risk fi rst-year students for additional interventions.
“The early signs are that the Risk-Based Retention
Project is having a signifi cant eff ect on reducing attrition,”
says Peter R. Jones, the university’s senior vice provost for
undergraduate studies.
CST’s advisors help students reach their goals, rethink their career paths or just recharge their batteries
By Bruce E. Beans Illustration by Jude Buffum
THE CRITICAL ROLE
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With CST’s demanding curriculum, academic advisors
play a critical role. They assure students that they can indeed
conquer signifi cant academic challenges. Other times they
serve as necessary reality checks when some students’ long-
term dreams, such as medical or pharmacy school admission,
need to be recalibrated.
According to Matthew Campbell, Offi ce of Student
Services director, sometimes the most obvious question —
“Why do you want to go to pharmacy school?” — is met with
a blank stare.
Campbell indicates that, in addition to undefi ned motiva-
tion or passion for a fi eld, adequate preparation can be a
stumbling block for many students.
“High school and even transfer preparation can be a huge
factor,” explains Campbell. “When students who were at the
top of their class come to Temple and then don’t get stel-
lar grades, it can be a big blow. We don’t want to discourage
students from pursuing these degrees or running away from
it when they have an initial bad experience. But for students
who are clearly spinning their wheels, our goal is to help them
fi nd something that they can pursue successfully” — and gradu-
ate from Temple, even if that means transferring out of CST.
Or, as Kenneth Ruff , another academic advisor, tells students,
“You’re not going to be that student who comes to Temple for
four, fi ve or six semesters and leaves with only a bill.”
COLLEGEWIDE ADVISING SEMINARWhen asked to introduce themselves to their classmates in
Ruff ’s one-credit freshman seminar course, Daren Kline,
from Collegeville, Pa., wrote a poem about himself. Then,
at the urging of a friend, he presented it as a rap. His class-
mates loved it. “I had never done anything like it before
but I learned a lot about being confi dent,” says Kline, who
is now a senior.
(left) Advisor Kenneth Ruff (left) met often with Daren Kline, a computer science major.
(right) Academic Advisor Stephanie Ballard (left) helped Leslee Everett focus on geology.
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To build relationships, the advisor to whom each student is
assigned also teaches that student’s one-credit freshman seminar.
This CST-based seminar requires students to meet with their
advisor and about two dozen other students twice a week for
50 minutes during the fall semester. The seminar covers time
management, studying skills and available support services.
“Engaging our students right from the beginning through
the seminar course jump-starts their successful navigation of
the diffi cult courses CST off ers,” says Ruff .
For Kline, the most important lessons involved discovering
himself. “Mr. Ruff forced us to think and write a lot about
ourselves,” he says. “That’s not something I do a lot, but
I think you need to know who you are before you can
choose a major or a career.” The process re-confi rmed
Kline’s plan to major in computer science and minor in
mathematics, a decision that was rewarded this past summer
with a paid internship at Lockheed-Martin.
FEEL LIKE A “PROUD PARENT”Stephanie Ballard came to CST three years ago after earning
a master’s degree in student aff airs and higher education
at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Says Ballard: “I like
building trusting relationships with students to the point
where they ask my opinion about things that are not directly
related to their courses and majors.”
She has developed that kind of relationship with Leslee
Everett. Last semester, Everett met with Ballard once again
in the student advising offi ces at 1810 Liacouras Walk. That
March day, the two followed the Critical Paths program to
plot Everett’s fall courses. Ballard also arranged for Everett to
switch from double-majoring in environmental science and
geology to just minoring in the former.
“I feel like a proud parent,” says Ballard. “In the freshman
seminar, Leslee wasn’t sure what she wanted to do career-
wise. But she explored a few things and now has narrowed it
down to what she wants to do.”
Everett also has been aided by Allison Tumarkin-Deratzian,
an assistant professor of earth and environmental science and
faculty advisor for both geology and environmental science
majors. Faculty advisors provide in-depth information
about course content and career options. When Everett was
double-majoring in both environmental science and geology,
Tumarkin-Deratzian showed her how to dovetail the two.
She also stressed taking prerequisites.
“Some students think they can skip prerequisites if they
don’t fi t into their schedules,” says Tumarkin-Deratzian.
“It helps to have someone say, ‘That’s not just a number in
the catalogue. It’s a prerequisite because without it you’re
going to be lost in a more advanced course.’”
MAKE AN ALTERNATIVE PLANAngela Biscanti, a CST academic advisor since 2008, met
with seven students in one day, including: a senior neuro-
science major in for his graduation review; a freshman
biochemistry major and football player who wanted to take
a summer English class to lessen his fall course load; and
three freshmen who wanted to switch their majors — one
from journalism to biology, another from psychology to
cellular and molecular neuroscience, and a third from biol-
ogy to chemistry.
She also met with a junior biology student hoping to
apply to medical school who was taking the required initial
calculus course for a second time. When she told Biscanti
she became anxious during exams, especially for biology, the
advisor suggested workshops and other services off ered by
Tuttleman Counseling Services. She also suggested switching
her major, since medical schools do not require undergradu-
ate science degrees. Unwilling to drop biology, the student
agreed to consider minoring in psychology, and to meet
with Neida Perez, director of pre-health advising, to better
understand medical school application requirements.
“These situations are tough,” admits Biscanti. “You have
to be sensitive, but it’s our job to point out the reality of the
situation. If the academics are not lining up for a student
to apply for medical or pharmacy school, much less get in,
we want to be sure they have an alternative plan.”
“I like building trusting relationships with students to the point where they ask my opinion about things that are not directly related to their courses and majors.” — Stephanie Ballard, CST academic advisor
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THE FINAL PIECE, CAREER COUNSELINGRose McGinnis, the director of student professional develop-
ment and the Undergraduate Research Program (URP),
provides the fi nal piece to the advising puzzle. Her offi ce
is a clearinghouse for internships and meaningful summer
employment opportunities, full-time positions following
graduation, and URP. McGinnis links interested undergrad-
uates with research opportunities, both with CST professors
and throughout the university.
“Undergraduate research gives students the chance to do real
research to see if they are cut out for it,” says McGinnis. “For
those interested in going on to either a professional school or
a graduate program, it signifi cantly enhances their resumes.”
Nicole Haloupek (BS ’12, Biochem) thought she had
wanted to be a scientist for a very long time — until the
assigned experiments in a general chemistry laboratory
bored her. “The answers were already known,” explains
Haloupek, who was the featured student speaker at CST
2012 graduation ceremony. “I thought ‘How am I going to
become a scientist if I don’t like my labs?’”
But then, thanks to a URP summer internship, three years
ago she began studying lipids in the laboratory of Parkson
Lee-Gau Chong, a biochemistry professor in the School of
Medicine. During the summer of 2011 she worked in Professor
Eric Borguet’s chemistry lab, researching sensors to detect
hydrazine, an extremely toxic, explosive rocket fuel component.
“Without URP it would have been a lot more diffi cult for
me to get involved in research,” says Haloupek, who is now
in the doctoral program in molecular biology at University
of California, Berkeley. “And without research experience,
there’s no chance I would have been accepted at Berkeley.”
Whether or not they pursue research opportunities,
McGinnis wants students to be thinking about their future
careers the minute they enter CST. From students, she wants
to know: What excites you? Which clubs have you joined?
Which leadership positions have you assumed? What research
have you done? “It’s not about writing a resume,” she tells
students. “It’s about building a resume.”
McGinnis off ers resume review sessions, interview
workshops and job fairs that attract organizations such
as the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Vanguard, the
investment giant.
Heather Vanselous (BS ’11, Chem) had no idea USDA-like
internship opportunities existed, or that the USDA had a
(left) Rose McGinnis, director of Student Professional Development
and the Undergraduate Research Program (URP), counseled Nicole
Haloupek (BS ’12, Biochem), who credits URP for helping her
enter graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley.
(right) Matthew Campbell, director of CST’s Offi ce of Student
Services, and Angela Biscanti, academic advisor
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Montgomery County, Pa., research facility, until she received
an email from McGinnis. After using a CST research grant
to study laser spectrocity in the chemistry laboratory of
Professor Eric Borguet, she worked two summers and
part-time during college for the USDA researching the
conversion of waste greases to biofuels; then spent the
past year as a physical science technician in the USDA’s
Sustainable Biofuels and CoProducts Research Unit.
“Research is critical for your grad school application,
and the fact that there are all these diff erent ways at Temple
of getting that research experience is great,” says Vanselous,
who recently left the USDA to enter a doctoral chemistry
program at Cornell University.
Vanguard, meanwhile, off ers most of its interns full-
time positions at its Malvern headquarters upon graduation.
“Whether we are looking for computer development or
design majors, we seem to get the cream of the crop
from Temple,” says Ashley E. Barton, a Vanguard university
relations specialist and college recruiter. “They have great
GPAs, their classes align with what we are looking for, they
have great work experience and they’re highly motivated
to work hard.”
A 2011 summer internship with Vanguard that Matthew
Folk obtained through McGinnis led to part-time work
throughout his senior year. After graduating in May with a
degree in information systems and technology, he became
a full-time computer programmer for Vanguard. “Rose,” says
the Landenberg, Pa., native, “is very adamant about helping
students get jobs.”
“If the academics are not lining up for a student to apply for medical or pharmacy school, much less get in, we want to be sure they have an alternative plan.” — Angela Biscanti, CST academic advisor
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The College of Science and
Technology is an extraordinary
place, where students and
faculty help to shape our
future and our lives. It’s the
same with CST alumni,
always pushing the boundaries
in science, business, technol-
ogy, medicine and dozens of
other fi elds.
The excitement of discovery
is one reason I wanted to be
a part of CST and Temple University. In my relatively brief time
at the college, I’ve met professors, students and graduates who are
leaders and innovators. I am looking forward to meeting many
more and to working with our alumni and friends to help shape
CST’s exciting future.
I want to hear your ideas for how we can advance the mission
of CST and continue to pursue our goal of making it one of the
top-ranked colleges of its kind in the world. I also invite you to
call or email to set up a time to talk about how you can support
today’s talented faculty and students and establish a lasting legacy
to sustain CST for future generations. Please let me know if you
want to contribute your time and expertise by being part of a
group of committed volunteers helping to move CST forward.
On behalf of the college, I want to thank all those alumni,
friends, corporations and foundations who supported CST in
FY 2012. I also want to thank the many alumni who have
mentored our students, off ered internships and jobs to recent grad-
uates, or returned to campus to talk about their work and careers.
Our future is brighter because of your commitment to CST.
Sincerely,
Victoria Blevins
Director of Development
215-204-4704
TRUSTEE’S CIRCLE(GIFTS OF $100,000 OR MORE)
Joseph C. Allegra, CST ’70American Chemical SocietyNational Math and
Science Initiative Inc.Sbarro Health Research OrganizationEstate of Helen Sholomskas
FOUNDER’S CLUB(GIFTS OF $50,000 TO $99,999)
ExxonMobil CorporationAntonio Girodano and Giacomina
Massaro-Giordano, MED ’94Italia-Eire FoundationStanley A. Lefkowitz, CST ’65 The Pindaros Foundation Inc.Irene N. Uzinskas, CST ’58
PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL(GIFTS OF $25,000 TO $49,999)
Christopher J. Gali, CST, ’94Falconwood Foundation Inc. Teva Pharmaceuticals
FELLOWS(GIFTS OF $10,000 TO $24,999)
Douglas BairdJanine N. Black and Barry ArklesAlbert B. Brown, CST ’64 and Marie KoalsRalph HillmanLorraine Heller Kligman, CST ’66, ’74A. Marjatta Lyyra and Benedict StavisNational GeographicRosemary A. PooleYang RanRichard B. Zackon
BENEFACTORS(GIFTS OF $5,000 TO $9,999)
Kenneth R. Brennen, CST ’62, ’66Franklin and Lynne DavisRobert Michael Fineman, CST ’66Madeleine Joullie Medtronic Inc.Merck and Company Inc.Martin Jay Spitz, CST ’60, MED ’64Seda K. Tarzian CST ’48
FRIENDS(GIFTS OF $2,500 TO $4,999)
Hai-Lung Dai and Surrina HuTerrence, CST ’74, and
Lydia Dougherty, CST ’74ExxonMobil FoundationJayne Gould Nathanson, CLA ’69,
CST ’74Melvin and Aileen Rothbard, CST ’64,
EDU ’69
MEMBERS(GIFTS OF $1,000 TO $2,499)
Joseph D. Andose, CST ’66Angelo Armenti, CST ’65, ’70Raymond E. Arvidson, CST ’69Ayoub Barsoum Ayoub,CST ’77, ’80John and Gladys Campolongo, CST ’92Paul G. Curcillo, CST ’84 ChevronTexaco Corp.Arthur Donovan Dawson, CLA ’67,
CST ’68, ’76John E. Desantis, CST ’78Susan DounceMarilena Downing, CST ’01, ’05
and Boris DatshovskyColleen A. Edwards, CST ’80Calvin Warren Ervin, CST ’58George D. Evans, CST ’50Mindie S. Factor, CST ’70Ting HerhJohnson & JohnsonErica D. Kar, MED ’01Mia LuehrmannSolomon C. Luo, MED ’86James E. McDonough CST ’82, ’84, ’87Susan PunnettRoland P. Roth, PHR ’68, CST ’66, ’71Roth FoundationRobert M. Sacco, CST ’67Margo ScavoneBruce Taggart, CST ’71Frank D. Verderame, CST ’51Harry W. Woodcock, CST ’72Sherwin E. Zitomer, CST ’71, SBM ’75
LAURA H. CARNELL ASSOCIATES(GIFTS OF $500 TO $999)
AlmacAWeber Systems Inc.Becton Dickinson FoundationWilliam R. Blanchard, CST ’73Derek Bradstreet, ENG ’69Bristol-Myers Squibb FoundationJames F. Callahan, CST ’81Robert A. Figlin, CLA ’70Joseph FongFrank L. FriedmanMark N. Gallagher, CST ’83GlaxoSmithKlineAmos G. GonaCora I. Goodman, CST ’82Hank Harrison, CST ’63Eva HavasEdward G. Howard, CST ’43, ’45Michael V. Intenzo, CST ’67, ’76Henry Price Kagey, CST ’70David K. Kalwinsky, CST ’69
Honor Roll of Donors
The College of Science and Technology extends its deep appreciation to the alumni, friends, parents, corporations and foundations that made donations to CST between July 1, 2011, and June 30, 2012. Their generos-ity means CST can continue to set new standards in research, teaching and engagement with the world.
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ALUMNI & FRIENDS
Elliot A. Lapan, CST ’65Linda J. LaRueCatherine Joy Lipka, CST ’98, PHR ’04Lockheed Martin CorporationDace Viceps Madore, CST ’71, ’74Harris I. Mann, CST ’82, DEN ’86Edward Murphy, CST ’90George H. MyerChristian Obasi, CST ’08Donald J. Resnick, SBM ’59John M. Rivers, CST ’95, ’02Joseph M. Tait, SBM ’82John Thich, CLA ’70Eric ThorntonThe Wassermann-Lindo FoundationRobert E. Weiner, CST ’75, DEN ’81Martin F. Urban, SBM ’87
DIAMOND ASSOCIATES(GIFTS OF $250 TO $499)
Francois G. Amar, CST ’75AT&T FoundationHenry Benz, CST ’67Michelle Bessett, CST ’92Victoria L. BlevinsAlicia M. Boyd, CST ’75Robert A. Brozdowski, CST ’83Arthur J. Butterwick, CST ’95Thomas W. CampoDavid Rock Castellani, CLA ’88Salvatore C. Catania, CST ’61Harry L. Cooper, CST ’98Paul L. Coppola, CST ’69Michael CrissBrian T. Dieffenbacher, CST ’90Jay S. FedermanShannon Allen Ferrante, SBM ’99, ’04Alfred L. Findeisen, CST ’78Charles J. Fuller, CST ’90, ’94Richard A. Gambescia, CST ’67Sean W. Gennett, CST ’95Herbert Green, EDU ’69, ’87Michael Grossman, CST ’58Homer Preston Hayward, CST ’74, ’78Giorgio P. IngargiolaElizabeth Moore Ingraham, CST ’84Jacob Daniel Kanofsky, CST ’69Kathryn I. Knauth, CST ’12Liang Lan, CST ’09Yu Jing Liu, CST ’11Ragini R. Mehta, CST ’90Daniel R. McGarry, CST ’82Rose Marie McGinnis, SBM ’82, ’91Brian J. Moldove,r CST ’93John E. Monahan, CST ’73Dara A. Monroe, CST ’07Douglas M. Midyette, CST ’91A. Omer Nawaz, CST ’02, ’03, ’05Daniel P. Neff, CST ’94Howard Wesley Nields CST ’58, ’62, ’69Novartis Pharmaceuticals CorporationThomas D. O’Connor, SBM ’91George John Piccirilli, CST ’67,
SBM ’71Claudia Pine-Simon
Arthur T. PoeRamesh Raghavachari, CST ’88Joseph Ragucci, CST ’94Radha A. Railkar, SBM ’00George A. Reichard, CST ’54, ’58Evelyn Rosario Runer, CST ’91Richard Sasin, CST ’49, ’54Milton E. Schwartz, CST ’57, CST ’46,
CLA ’47Joel B. Sheffi eldWilliam Shergalis, CST ’69Sandeep S. Sisodia, CST ’04Dorothy A. Slavin, CST ’83Joe Torre, CLA ’79Barbara E. Townson CST ’89Shannon Leigh Walford CST ’04Joseph A. Ward, CST ’78, CST ’82Roger W. Webster, SBM ’86, CST ’89Michael P. Wilson, CST ’84Gaoyong Zhang, CST ’95
SECOND CENTURY ASSOCIATES(GIFTS OF $100 TO $249)
Abbott LaboratoriesMonisola A. AdeyemoFidelis N. Akor, CST ’03Leslie L. Albor, CST ’83Omari E. Ansong, CST ’09George A. Articolo, CST ’63, ’67Dalfoni G. Banerjee, CST ’88Marshall L. Beeber, CST ’82Michael J. Bell, CLA ’93, POD ’01Herbert S. Beller, CST ’05Steven Bennett, CST ’82Therese L. Bennett, CST ’89Rae BergerMichael R. Berman, CST ’66Risa Joanoff BernsteinRobert E. Beyer, CST ’65Andrew BilottaJoseph L. Bingham, CST ’77Avis Bishop-ThompsonJoseph W. Booty, ENG ’73, ’76Irene T. Borgogno, SBM ’84Raymond J. Bransfi eld, CST ’76Kimberly Bridges-White, CST ’94,
MED ’98Randy Brister, CST ’74, MED ’79Christian S. Brosz, CST ’71, ’80Bruce Coburn Brotzman, CLA ’66, ’68,
LAW ’75John E. Bruynell, CST ’68Russell J. Buono, CST ’84, ’87, ’90Jeffrey S. Burdick, CST ’90Thomas J. Caggiano, CST ’83Donna L. CalendoCampo CommunicationsClive L. Carney, SBM ’78Arthur Carrieri CST ’75David M. Carvin, CST ’00Sheila M. Chappell CST ’62Sudha Chennasamudram, CST ’06, ’08Nicholas J. Colella, CST ’77Matthew Manning Collins, CST ’96Susan B. Copple
Richard J. Costine, CST ’83Edward H. Cottler, CST ’68Carlie W. DavisDeutsche Bank Americas FoundationRiham Khalil Diasti, CST ’96, DEN ’00Haresh A. Doshi, CST ’87David S. Douglas, CST ’68Michael F. Ennis, CST ’69Samuel F. Etris, CST ’47Evelyn R. RunerMaier O. Fein, CST ’63, ’67Joseph J. Felder, CST ’95William Feldman, CST ’50Frank G. Finch, CST ’80Jack Fink, CST ’62Marshall L. Fishman, CST ’59Maryann T. Fitzpatrick, CST ’83Jeffrey B. Flanigan, CST ’05William H. Flank, CST ’58Thomas A. Foglia, CST ’68Gregory A. Fornia, SCT ’92Paul A. Freyer, CST ’06Donald J. Frost, CST ’61Kalkidan T. G. Mariam, CST ’09Michael Gealt, CST ’70Jules M. Goodison, EDU ’52, ’53, ’62Betty A. Gottlieb, CST ’47Michael A. Gross, CST ’70Edward R. GrubergLeslie S. Grunes, CST ’68Chandrakant R. Gupta, CST ’58Gupta FoundationAnne M. Harvey, CST ’95, ’98Kyle L. Herrmann, CHPSW ’89Frank E. Hetzel, CST ’70Frank J. HeymannDonald M. Hilsee, CST ’80John C. Hoffmann, CST ’80Richard W. Hogg, CST ’63Carolan Hone, CST ’63, ’67Anita I. Horn, CST ’79Abby Selig Hornstein, CST ’86Fred Horrocks, CST ’87Angela S. HuangIBM International FoundationIntel CorporationDaniel L. Jacobs, CST ’95Anna Miklos Janisch, CST ’47John R. Jaskowiak, CST ’88Andrew O. Jones, CST ’89Janice M. Jost-Mazzeo, CST ’71Ronald L. Kabler, CST ’68, MED ’73Una Kang, CST ’01Norman P. Katz, CST ’85Todd K. Keay, CST ’83Robert J. Kelm, CST ’86Robert Stephen Kerner, CST ’59Harvey I. Kesselman, CST ’66Michael KleinRamakrishna Konidena, CST ’99Jan R. Kornilow, CST ’89Andrew S. Kostival, CST ’74John A. Krawiec, CST ’80G. William Kuhfuss, CST ’65
David E. Kuhl, CST ’51Peter LabiakC. Dwight Lahr, CST ’66Arthur Larson, CST ’78Anne Charlotte Lax-AntrimWayne W. Le, CST ’96Lewis L. Leonard, CLA ’72Marc C. Leonetti, CST ’82Walden S. Lester, CST ’88, ’00, ’08Bernard Levy, CST ’64Peter C. Lim, CST ’86Ronald ListerRobert M. LobueArthur P. Loeb, CLA ’61, EDU ’76Gregory J. Long, CST ’81Deborah Slotnik Lurie, CLA ’69, ’71,
MED ’76, ’81Craig A. MackridesMelissa Amy Magliocco, CST ’95,
MED ’99Charles T. McCullough, CST ’53Daniel G. McFadden, CST ’65, ’70Microsoft CorporationJoseph W. Nemec, CST ’43Paul M. Nutkowitz, CST ’62Chuck Pang, CST ’53Ursula T. Parker, CST ’90Mitul V. Patel, CST ’03Inna Sitkovetsky Pendrak, CST ’85Francis R. Pfeiffer, CST ’65Simon Pierre, SBM ’84Donato J. Pignetti, CST ’94Samuel Pitluck, CST ’65Tuantong Prasomsan, CST ’04Andrew PriceProtiviti Inc.Hope H. PunnettQuest DiagnosticsLouis Matthew Rakszawski, CST ’55Gwendalyn J. Randolph, CST ’91John F. Raziano, CST ’84Charles H. Reed CST ’87Marc S. Renault, CST ’02Mary Ann RieschPer Arne Rikvold, CST ’84Tammi D. Robinson, CST ’93Frederick W. Rogers, CST ’54Juana Romelus, CST ’08Juana Romelus, CST ’08Ellen A. Ross, CST ’85Patricia A. J. Rossi, CST ’75Jose Mark Rub, CST ’78William G. Rumble, CST ’59John J. Russell, CST ’86Robert E. SalomonAlan G. Saltzman, CST ’80Cheryl D. Sandas, CST ’01Nishith Sanghvi, CST ’06SAP Global Marketing, Inc.Jeffrey A. Satterthwaite, CST ’95James C. Satterthwaite,
CST ’89, ’92, ’96Marie P. Scheetz, CST ’83Doris Schroeder, CST ’48
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Patricia A. Schweinbenz, CST ’86Alfred G. Scottolini, CST ’50Henry M. Sendaula, CST ’08Christopher R. Seymour, CST ’85Frank J. Shannon, EDU ’62Jie Shao, CST ’96Nagabhusan Shashidhar, CST ’88Andrew ShermanFred Shocket, CST ’66, ’68Khwaja M. SiddiquiRobert C. Smith, CST ’74, ’77Marybeth S. Smuts, CST ’75Harriet Swern SolomonMichael J. Sperduto, CST ’88Charles Paul Strockbine, CST ’51Daniel R. StronginJoni D. Stutman, CST ’82David E. Tepper, CST ’64, CLA ’66, ’69Michelle M. Tiger, CST ’88Laura ToranChristine M. Trumpfheller, CST ’00Frederick R. Turoff, CST ’69,
CHPSW ’91Andrea M. Vayda, CLA ’68Mark Vogel, CST ’74John R. Walker, CLA ’87, LAW ’03, ’06Delana O. Wardlaw, CST ’96Harold Weinstock, CST ’56Bruce M. Wilson, CST ’98Melvyn A. Wolf, CST ’63Tianyou Xue, CST ’87, ’92Mario A. Zacharatos, CST ’03Terrye Greene Zaremba, CST ’64Alexander Zemtsov Artsi, CST ’81Chong Zhang, CST ’88Sanqi Zhang, CST ’93Xia Zhao, CST ’04
CONTRIBUTORS(GIFTS OF $1 TO $99)
Khalil Abbaszadeh, CST ’08Philip Ackerman, CST ’60, ’68Tammy AhadiTaslim Akhand, CST ’11Farah Ali, CST ’11Ally BankGladys B. AmandongJacques G. Amar CST ’75, ’86Ian E. AndreeGloria Katherine AndreeEdward Andrulis, CST ’95Maria AngelastroBrittany A. AngelastroMichael V. Angelino, CST ’12Justin P. Anstotz, CST ’12Leonard S. Anthony, CST ’51Duane R. Aston, CST ’69Seemal F. Awan, CST ’12Yelena BakJudy Hughes Bardsley, CST ’80Jay Justin Basch CST ’68Daniel R. Batezel, CST ’68, SBM ’72
Robert J. Baxter, CST ’10Zandria D. Beardslee, CST ’60Gillian S. Bedford, TYL ’91Nancy K. BeereDimitry Belogorodsky, CST ’12Lee C. Bennett, CST ’58David L. Berman, CST ’62Simmy S. Bhojwani, CST ’12Shalini S. BhojwaniTimothy W. Birbeck, CST ’11Ebonee S. Bizzell, CST ’12Gary W. Blackman, CST ’83, ’85Libby L. Blank, EDU ’58Morris A. Blueford, CST ’12Jeffrey C. Boehm, SBM ’77, CST ’90Joseph C. Bonafi glia, CST ’79Brian R. Bootel, CST ’69James Bowen, CST ’81Jerrod I. Bowling, CST ’12Stephen K. Boyer, CST ’71Heather A. BoyleEstelle G. Brand, CST ’71John J. Brennan, CST ’74Ruth V. BriggsJoanne Moore Brophy, CST ’67Evelyn C. Brown, CST ’76Leon C. Bryan, ENG ’65Helen R. Buczek, CST ’50David M. Cabelly, CST ’97William F. Cael, CST ’77Faye A. Camp, CST ’12Barbara A. CampbellPhilip S. Caplan, CST ’54Megan P. Caputo, CST ’10Mark T. Carleton, CST ’85Charles G. Carson, CST ’02Ashley E. Carter, CST ’09Joseph CatramboneDiana Chan, CST ’12Paul J. Chase, CST ’03Orin N. CheinAlvin Chen, CST ’10Gary Cheung, CST ’12Narath Chiev, CST ’10Curtis A. Cleveland, CST ’06Robert S. Cohen, CST ’71Carolyn CohenMichael D. Collini, CST ’90Sandra D. CollinsMaria T. Comunale, SCT ’10Chelsea L. Corradetti, CST ’12Bonnie A. Cortes, CST ’87Jemuel J. Curden, CST ’09Sally CurleyArnold I. Cutler, CLA ’70, DEN ’74Amit Dalvi, CST ’01Justin S. Darrow, CST ’12David A. Debarri, CST ’07Jonathan D. Decenzi, CST ’08Lavera C. DelisiAnthony J. Dennison, CST ’59Jaclyn Rhee Dering, CST ’73, SBM ’82Jacquelin C. Devlin, CST ’71Santo M. Diano, EDU ’60
Almoctar Djibo, CST ’11John P. Dougherty, CST ’98Renee DurbecqJames A. Dwyer, CST ’89Susan Elliott Edelman, SSW ’80Wilfried Reinhart Eder, CLA ’63,
CST ’68Philip Effraim, CST ’02Jeff E. EilenbergMiriam J. Eiseman, CST ’86Mona G. Elgawly, CST ’10William Crawford Elliott, CST ’81Karin A. Eppolito, CST ’04Nana Yaw A. Essuman, CST ’12Richard N. FeinbergMark A. FeitelsonDella S. FeldmanJillian N. Felton, CST ’12Chung Liao Feng, CST ’57Cassie M. Fennell, PHR ’12Ellen Hetland Fenwick, CST ’76Natasha L. Fonseka CST ’08, MED ’12Ruth W. Foster, CST ’88Ahmed Fouad, CST ’11Jane FrommerBogdan GankevichAndrew M. Gartner, CST ’02Michael P. Geary, ENG ’81Ellen B. Geller, CST ’72, ’74Misganaw Getaneh, CST ’92, ’96Joseph M. Giammarco, CST ’90Sherry J. Gillespie, CST ’75Herbert Joseph Gillis, CST ’53Lisa R. GippleGerald Goldberg, CST ’54, ’60Meyer H. Gordon, CST ’58William M. Gordon, CST ’76Eugene L. Green, CST ’65Garry N. Gregin, CST ’09Rachel Grochowski, CST ’05Richardson Guerrier, CST ’08Ernest W. Guerriero, CST ’58Vaneet Gupta, CST ’96Miriam Gwathney, CST ’93Jason W. Harding, CST ’03Jeffrey HarrisChristina N. Hart, CST ’03Patricia Yadock Hayes, CST ’68Ricky Heggan, CST ’86Harold L. Heller, CST ’71Lee Henderson, SCT ’80Nathan T. Henderson, CST ’12Timothy J. Henry, CST ’10Horace Herbsman, CST ’49Hector N. Hernandez-Lopez, CST ’54Marcda Hilaire, CST ’11Jessica L. HoffmanLisa R. Hogan, CST ’93John M. Holmes, CST ’07Leo F. HornerBen S. Hovne, CST ’12Julie Hua, CST ’10Wei Xin Huang, CST ’94Joshua R. Hummel, CST ’12
Zlatko HuseinbegovicD. HuynhStephen A. Idzik, CST ’65Anthony Infante, CST ’59ING FoundationAdedamola C. Isola, CST ’11Vincent E. Jacobs, CST ’94Marc E. Jacobson, CST ’81Kenneth A. Janoff, MED ’78Constance H. JanoffTristan J. Jenkins, CST ’12David A. Jenne, CST ’72, EDU ’74Matthew E. JirinecJoann Hagis Johnson, CST ’82Debra E. Johnson, CST ’86Bill Jones, CST ’94Beverly R. Jordan, CST ’06Rachel E. Kalter, CST ’83Michael David Karaim, CST ’68Natasha L. Kazor, CST ’06Charles KeckAnn M. Keiser, CST ’08, EDU ’09Nicholas J. Keith, CST ’12Thu T. Kieu, CST ’11DongMin Kim, CST ’12Kenneth E. King, CST ’97Thomas G. King, CST ’97Daniel I. Kirsch, CST ’89Irina Klein, CST ’00Cathy KochisNatalie G. Kohl, CST ’12S. Kalman Kolansky, CST ’59Paul L. Kornblith, CST ’58Gerald Krantweiss, CST ’63Thurman R. Kremser, CST ’68Sue E. Krisanda, CST ’11Lisa M. KrolDeborah L. Kumar, CST ’76Thanh-Duyen T. Lam, CST ’11Diana Landers, CST ’12John A. Landis, CST ’12Colleen E. Larmour, CST ’10John M. Layer, CST ’77Lionel J. Levarity, CST ’97Edwin R. Levin, CST ’59, ’49, ’51Guy F. Levin, CST ’92, ’97Jack J. Lewis, SCT ’73Kristopher S. LindseyJoshua Lipschutz, CST ’47David LittlePeter Lobue, CST ’11Mary C. LonghitanoRandolph B. LydeChristine M. Macolino, CST ’09Barbara H. Magee, CST ’12Nargiza Mahmudova, CST ’12Sidney Paul Maletzky, CST ’57Jerome Mandel, CST ’53Travis F. Manorek, CST ’12Leonard Markowitz, CST ’59, CLA ’51Laurence S. Martinez, CST ’12Fe S. MartinezAnnabel McInerney, CST ’50Warren Merkel, CST ’92
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Louis Milakofsky, CST ’62Robert J. Milby, CST ’12Eric J. Miller, CST ’80, ’81Katelyn D. Miller, CST ’12David Jay Miller, CST ’68Endris J. Mohammed, CST ’09Murray Harris Moliken, CST ’59Valerie M. Monastra, CST ’98Anthony L. Moncuso, CST ’84Jean E. Montgomerie, CST ’87Charles D. Moore, CST ’78Eleanora F. More, CST ’49Rhonda A. Morgenstern, CST ’85Mary Anne MorrisLouis G. Mourich, EDU ’71Mary Catherine Murphy, CST ’83Remington MurphyJoanne S. Murphy, CST ’70, ’74Kinnari Ramesh Narielwala, CST ’99,
SBM ’03, PHR ’11Nationwide FoundationLynda U. Ndukwu, CST ’10Barbara Toth Newman CST ’63Phong Nguyen, CST ’11Lana Nguyen, CST ’11Hongphuc V. Nguyen, CST ’09Jesse NguyenDeborah NortonFrances Norton, CST ’12Nora C. NugentJohn D. Odell, CST ’57Dewey Odhner, CST ’81Clifton A. Ogburn, CST ’51Amanda C. OhuabunwaBarbara Oneill, CST ’92Albert J. Oswald, CST ’94Zachary H. Owen, CST ’10Bola Oyedijo, CST ’96Alan C. Pace, CST ’12Debra PaceEugene J. PalovcakMichelle D. Papalini, CST ’95Karen D. Parenti, CST ’81Sachin C. Parikh, CST ’12Chintan Patel, CST ’07Rikin Patel, CST ’10Robert Patrick, CST ’67Andrew Y. Phung, CST ’12Robert W. Piccirilli, CST ’69Catherine Pierre-Rosia, CST ’90Jillian A. Ploof, CST ’09Bruce Pollack-Johnson, CST ’79Steven W. PortmanValeriya S. Poukas, CST ’02, MED ’06Jean-Francois PoulinEdward J. Prosick, CST ’87Allison K. Pymer, CST ’08Veronica Ralls, CST ’12Harish Ramachandra, CST ’03Marlene R. Ratner, CST ’63Robyn L. Reinmiller, CST ’03Michael A. Remaker, CST ’06Theodore M. Resnick, CST ’61Wesley Rhodes, CST ’63
Nicola RichardsRobert Richards, CST ’73Ilene B. Richmond, CST ’64Lawrence C. Ritter, CST ’58Melissa A. Robertson, CST ’12Paul A. Robinson, CST ’66Madelene RodriguezThomas D. Romando, CST ’79Sivya Spiegel Romisher, CHPSW ’58Robert Rosenfeld, CST ’60Frederick Rothwarf, CST ’53, ’60, ’51Clarence A. Royal, CST ’93Sonya B. Rozansky, CST ’64Raymond L. Ruberg, CST ’69Elliot D. Rubinsky, CST ’89Raymond Rumer, CST ’60Ruth R. Russell, SCT ’55Morgan L. RussellArlene R. SablowskySini Samuel, CST ’11James F. Sanzo, CST ’89, ’95Conrad J. Sarnecki, CST ’85Huguette E. Schaer, CST ’88Sandra H. Schmidt, CST ’93Anita Gloria Schmukler, CST ’64Carol B. Schreck, CST ’69Charles P. Schultz, CST ’81Edith L. Schwarz, CST ’47Clarence P. Scoboria, CST ’81Daniel Scotti, CST ’69Edward M. Sega,l CST ’57, DEN ’62Christian D. SenkoThomas J. Settefrati, CST ’06Mehul S. Shah, CST ’11Charles Shambelan, CST ’55, ’51Ronald S. Sheinson, CST ’64John R. Sion, CST ’69Jennifer L. Siple, CST ’12Bernard M. Sklar, CST ’57Christopher A. Smith, CST ’78, ’81Angela Snow, CST ’12Charles F. Snow, ENG ’86Roy A. Snyder, CST ’63Daniel S. SongWan Soon SongAllen Sonstein, CST ’68Tatiana J. Sotingco, CST ’93Mary Lou Southall, CHPSW ’50Debra SpeyerGerald D. Staffi n, CST ’55Katherine K. Steele, CST ’12Richard SteeleHerman M. Stein, CST ’68, ’71Asher E. Stutman, CST ’65Marina B. Suarez, CST ’05Eugene Sukonick, CST ’52, ’51Sokhomari Suon, CST ’06Judy SwerlickThomas A. Taglianetti, CST ’89Sue A. TatemRene TaylorThe GE FoundationAlbert TielebeinAlbert LeRoy Tielebein, CST ’12
William J. Timmins, MUS ’79, SBM ’93G. Stephen Tint, CST ’57, ’59, ’70Emily C. Tiwana, CST ’12Russell L. Tobias, CST ’70Ibrahim Toure, CST ’05Niema N. Trader, CST ’04Evgeniy V. Tsigankov, CST ’12Yanping Tu, CST ’93Ledio Turtulli, CST ’10Obot O. Uffen, CST ’12David B. Urban, CST ’98Alexander Q. Vallei CST ’87, SCT ’95Christopher W. VelasquezElena Ya VishikJennifer L. WainRyan M. WalshKaren WardTravis J. Warren, CST ’12Corinne WashikJeannette L. Watkins, CST ’95Marlena C. Watson, CST ’07Jay I. R. Weinberg, SBM ’69Jonathan A. Weinstock, SBM ’83,
CST ’97Katie L. Wichlinski, CST ’05Sandy Widura, CST ’12Vaughn M WiernickiThomas E. Willey, CST ’54Camella Wilson, CST ’04Gisela S. Withers, CST ’65Guy L. Woznicki, CST ’91R. Kristal Wright, CST ’84Yongzhong Wu, CST ’04,’05Ning Xin Yan, CST ’95Alfred F. Zappala, CST ’53Yuewen Zheng, CST ’96John E. Zimmerman, CST ’88, ’94
Alumnus gift to create chemistry’s fi rst endowed professorshipA $500,000 gift from the estates
of Robert L. Smith (Chem, MA
’49) and his wife, Lucretia K. Smith,
will be used to support promis-
ing young chemistry faculty and
to help jump start their research
careers.
Recipients for the Robert L. Smith
Early Career Professorship in
Chemistry, the fi rst named profes-
sorship in the department, will
be selected by the dean of the
college with recommendations
from the chair of the Chemistry
Department. The award will
rotate to a new recipient every
three years.
Most innovative research initia-
tives must secure initial results
before funding from govern-
ment and other outside sources
becomes available. The Smith
Professorship will provide young
faculty with seed money for
investigations that may have a
tremendous payoff and form the
foundation of a successful aca-
demic career. The award would
also provide the kind of fl exible
funding for curricular develop-
ment that would enable recipi-
ents to be more skilled teachers
in the classroom.
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1940sMarvin Berenson (BA ’48, MED ’52) is the author of numerous books that are available online. Most recently, he published Rescue, a novel that addresses the environmental crisis and offers solutions for renewable energy.
Theodore Largman (BA ’48, Chem) exhibited his shadow-box artwork in the Morris County Library in Whippany, N.J. An artist whose work comments on current events, he also was pro-fi led in The Star-Ledger, an online New Jersey news source.
1960sHerb Silverman (BA ’63, Math) published Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt with Pitchstone Publishing.
Eugene G. Stackhouse (BA ’65, Bio) published Germantown in the Civil War with History Press.
Edward N. Zissman (BA ’65, Math) was awarded the Howard Phillips Center for Children & Families Semper Fi Award, which annually honors advocates for children.
Kristin Bowman-James (BA ’68, PhD ’74, Chem) co-edited Anion Coordination Chemistry, published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
1970sArthur I. Wolk (BA ’70) published Bulb Forcing for Beginners and the Seriously Smitten, with AAB Publishing LLC. The book was “highly recommended” by Library Journal.
1990sJoseph M. Zavatsky (BS ’98, Bio) was appointed section chief of spine surgery in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans.
2000sKennita L. Burns-Johnson (BS ’01, Chem) earned a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Akilah C. Lindler (BA ’01, CIS) was appointed co-executive producer of Makin’ It in Philly, an independently produced reality television show that airs on WMCN-TV in Philadelphia.
Ethan E. Prout (MA ’01, Geo) was elected to the board of directors for the Pennsylvania Council of Professional Geologists. He also is a project manager and hydrogeologist at RETTEW, an engineering consulting fi rm.
Class Notes
New home for tomorrow’s science teachersJoseph Allegra (BA ’70, Chem), co-founder of
the Network for Medical Communication and
Research (NMCR), donated $300,000 to name
the new student and administrative home for
TUteach. Currently, the TUteach center is located
in Barton Hall but increased enrollment in the
program will mean a new, larger space must
be found. The TUteach center will be named
The Allegra Family Science Education Center
for TUteach and offers students the space and
resources to work on lesson plans, edit teaching
video and meet with mentor teachers.
TUteach meets its matchP. Roy Vagelos, retired chairman and CEO,
Merck & Co. Inc., helped TUteach meet its
million-dollar match with a $50,000 gift. In
2008, the National Math and Science Initiative
provided funding to establish TUteach, one
of only 13 programs nationwide and the only
one in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions
to prepare science teachers who thoroughly
understand advanced science. NMSI also pro-
vided a $1 million challenge grant to establish
a $2 million endowment to support student
scholarships, salaries for master teachers and
other important program features. TUteach is
a collaborative effort of the College of Science
and Technology and the College of Education,
and currently enrolls more than 200 students.
Gift will support biochem studentsA gift from Irene N. Uzinskas (BA ’58, Chem)
will establish an endowment to support
talented biochemistry students with fi nancial
need. Biochemistry, the study of the chemi-
cal dance that seeks to explain the function
of biological systems, is a rapidly expanding
and highly interdisciplinary fi eld. A challeng-
ing major, it prepares students for medical or
dental school and for graduate programs in
bioengineering, biotechnology, cell biology
and related fi elds. In May 2012, 45 CST gradu-
ates were biochemistry majors.
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Staying one step ahead: Mary McBride Pelletier (BS ’04, Chem)
For Mary McBride Pelletier, a scientist
with the Philadelphia Police Department,
you could say forensics is part of her chem-
istry. Her mother, one of the fi rst female
forensic scientists in Philadelphia, started
in the department in 1971 and worked her
way up to supervisor, then lab manager and
eventually retired as the deputy director of
the Forensic Science Bureau.
“I grew up around the job,” remembers
Pelletier, “but I never really thought about
going into it or even going into any science
fi eld. I had participated in science fairs as a kid
but the work didn’t seem that glamorous.”
Pelletier came to Temple University as a
student in the Fox School of Business, but
quickly changed her major to psychology.
She again changed her major, this time to
biochemistry, and slowly started to consider
a career in forensic science.
“I thought chemistry would be the best
background for a career with the police
department,” says Pelletier, who credits both
her mother and Professor Susan Jansen-Varnum
for helping her understand and narrow down
her career options. “Associate Professor of
Teaching Roy Keyer also played a large part in
what I do now,” she says.
Today, Pelletier works in the department’s
chemistry unit. She analyzes both controlled
and noncontrolled substances that are seized by
police offi cers. “Before I run any test, I start by
just looking at the packaging,” explains Pelletier.
“Marijuana and cocaine are usually in a small zip-
lock bag whereas heroin is packaged in wax paper,
like what you get at the post offi ce for stamps.
Knowing what you are dealing with helps set the
course for how you begin any analysis.”
Pelletier then conducts a series of chemical
and confi rmatory tests, using gas chromatog-
raphy/mass spectrometry, for each class of drug.
Adulterants, such as lidocaine, procaine and
other analgesics or any white powders, can often
make the tests challenging. “Sometimes it is soap
or drywall or anything,” she says, “but the sale of
counterfeit substances is not legal either.”
According to Pelletier a new trend is
synthetic cannabinoids, which are often
sold as potpourri. “They are now illegal in
Pennsylvania,” she says, “but stuff goes from
the research lab to the streets quickly. We don’t
even know all the compounds. As soon as
something becomes illegal, they alter the
chemical structure to make it legal. We have
to stay one step ahead.”
Other aspects of Pelletier’s job include disas-
sembling clandestine labs—in a full Nomex
suit—and testifying at trial. She’s worked with
Temple’s Beasley School of Law and its trial
advocacy program as an expert witness.
“That was a good experience,” says Pelletier,
“the law students kept me on my toes.”
Pelletier credits her career success with both
the solid understanding of chemistry she devel-
oped at CST and the maturity she developed at
the university. “Temple is great because you get
an authentic, real-world experience,” she says.
“You’re not coddled and you’re responsible for
yourself. That’s just how real life is.”
“ I thought chemistry would be
the best background for a career
with the police department,”
says Pelletier, who credits both
her mother and Professor Susan
Jansen-Varnum for helping her
understand her career options.
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First gift for the next generationAs a student, Kathryn Knauth (BS ’12, CIS)
was inspired by her participation in the Grace
Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
Conference. Her gift of $250—her fi rst to
CST—will help support tomorrow’s CST
attendees at the conference. “Grace Hopper
was the fi rst conference where I presented
research,” says Knauth. “It was an awesome
experience; I met with so many talented
people in the industry.”
Knauth, who majored in mathematics and
computer science, won the CIS Department
Student Leadership Award in her senior year.
“I gave half of my award to support scholar-
ships for students to go to Grace Hopper in
the future,” says Knauth.
At the conference, Knauth met with repre-
sentatives from Amazon and received a job
offer. She is now working with third-party
developers who want to create apps for the
Kindle Fire tablet. “I have this job because
I attended Grace Hopper,” says Knauth.
“The college, along with other donors like
Vanguard, supported my conference partici-
pation 100 percent. I want other women to
have the same experience I had.“
Knauth knows that CST prepared her for a
rewarding career in her fi eld. “I would urge
other recent graduates to think about all the
resources and opportunities Temple provided,”
she says. “It feels good to make sure those
coming up behind us have the same resources.”
What do you have to lose? Onyemaechi Anoruo (BS ’12, Bio)
Born and raised in San Francisco,
Onyemaechi Anoruo (BS ’12, Bio) fi rst
visited Temple University with a friend who
was touring colleges on the East Coast.“It was
Thanksgiving break and I tagged along,” says
Anoruo. “I thought it would be nice to get
away from the West Coast. For me, college is
an opportunity to venture out and see what
else is out there. Now, I love Temple.”
With medical school part of her future
plans, Anoruo majored in both biology and
Spanish. “With a fast-growing Spanish-
speaking population here in the United States,”
she says, “I think language skills are going to
be vital for tomorrow’s physicians.”
Anoruo also took part in CST’s
Undergraduate Research Program, which gets students into the lab to do real research with
faculty.“I worked with Assistant Professor Rhonda Nicholson, looking at relationships between
endonuclease RNA and another protein YmdB, which regulates the RNA in cells,” says Anoruo.
“We looked at the protein complex that helps RNA regulation, the structure and what these
proteins do.”
With some research experience under her belt, Anoruo applied for a United Negro College
Fund/Merck Undergraduate Science Research Scholarship Award. “When I applied I very much
had a ‘what do I have to lose’ mindset,” remembers Anoruo. “I was thrilled—and surprised—
when I was selected.”
The $25,000 scholarship includes a paid summer research internship working at Merck & Co.
“I conducted research on RNA therapeutics,” says Anoruo.“It was an extraordinary opportunity.”
Looking to expand her horizons again, Anoruo is now studying global healthcare issues
through the School of International Training. “I’ll be traveling to Switzerland, India, China and
South Africa,” says Anoruo, “comparing the community healthcare systems of each country.”
Next year, Anoruo will begin applying to medical school.“I’ve gone from wanting to do
pediatrics, then psychiatry, then oncology and now I’m thinking my specialty will be obstetrics,”
says Anoruo, whose interests keep evolving. “I’m keeping an open mind. When I get to med
school, I’ll explore and make the best choice for me.”
Anoruo thoroughly enjoyed her years in Philadelphia. “My Temple education was great,”
she says, noting how URP and other initiatives give students opportunities to excel outside of
the classroom. “For me, graduation was bittersweet. I am going to miss Temple.”
THE CST GIVING SPIRIT
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ALUMNI & FRIENDS
Lindau, Laureates and Lessons Learned: Daniel A. Pitonyak (PhD ’13, Physics)
Each summer, vacationers fl ock to the
German city of Lindau, on a picturesque
island on the eastern shores of Lake Constance,
to explore its rich heritage and relax along its
tranquil coast. Since 1951, however, this medieval
town has also served as the setting for a diff erent
kind of gathering. Once a year, Nobel Prize
winners in the sciences assemble at Inselhalle
(literally “island hall”) to hold a special week-
long meeting. Rather than a conference
meant for an exclusive few, the Lindau Nobel
Laureate Meeting is also open to a select group
of graduate students. In its 62nd year—and in
one dedicated exclusively to physics—I was
one of those students.
Working on my PhD, I enjoy absorbing
information on the various branches of physics.
I have a great interest in its history and how
physicists were able to move the fi eld forward.
I saw Lindau as an unprecedented opportunity
to enhance my knowledge base and to absorb
some of the major breakthroughs in the fi eld.
I applied and, fortunately, I was one of 550
young scientists accepted.
It was a tremendous week of lectures,
discussions and casual conversations. Topics
ranged from cutting-edge technology to
climate change to the laureates’ personal and
inspiring stories. I realized that just talking
with these distinguished scientists would bolster
my own skills as a physicist. Lindau was a
tremendous experience, both inspirational and
educational, that will propel my own work
forward for many years to come.
One of my most memorable moments was
a talk by Dan Shechtman, who won the Noble
Prize in Chemistry in 2011 for his discovery of
a crystal in 1982 with 5-fold rotational symme-
try, a material that was thought of as impossible.
He called this material a “quasi-crystal” but was
adamantly attacked by several scientists, includ-
ing a two-time Nobel Prize winner who called
Shechtman a “quasi-scientist.” Shechtman was
vindicated in 2010 when a naturally occurring
quasi-crystal was found. He stressed that young
scientists should be tenacious in their research,
have confi dence in their work and learn to
persevere through the disbelief of others. It is in
this way that we can become great scientists.
Another highlight was the announcement
that high-energy particle experimentalists
discovered a new fundamental particle. Many
think it is the so-called Higgs boson, which
had been postulated close to 50 years ago
by Peter Higgs and others as the particle
responsible for giving all particles their mass.
Since my research focuses on elementary
particle theory, which attempts to understand
the most basic building blocks of matter, this
breakthrough is tremendous. It was surreal
to discuss its consequences with Nobel Prize
winners who had worked for decades in this
area. David Gross, who won the Nobel Prize
in Physics in 2004 for groundbreaking work
on specifi c features of the strong nuclear force,
commented that “this is a great day for all
of physics and all of humanity.” Indeed, this
discovery is another step toward understand-
ing how one can “construct” the matter in the
universe from its most elementary constituents.
The Lindau Meeting was a wonderful experi-
ence, learning about theories and ideas from
the greatest physicists of our time. I also learned
about the mental toughness and attitude I will
need when conducting my own research. Those
are the lessons I will always carry with me.
– Daniel Pitonyak
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F A L L 2 0 1 2
IN THEIR WORDS
Children from the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp visited a Delaware beach with Amy Freestone, assistant professor of biology, to sample
marine and coastal plants and animals, conduct a beach cleanup and survey horseshoe crabs.
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