Longsview Fellows Program Information, Top Cited Faculty, Gilman Scholar

January 28, 2021

A Message from the Associate Dean

Now is the time to expand your interdisciplinary research and venture into new collaborations! We are delighted to announce the Longsview Fellows Program (more information below) for tenure-track and tenured faculty members to address the key pillars of our strategic plan. I am happy to meet to discuss your submission ideas or answer any questions you may have about the program.

I hope this year will be one of new beginnings and opportunities for each of us.

Caroline Schauer, PhD

Associate Dean, Research and Faculty Affairs

MSE Faculty Included in Top Citation Metrics Study

Thirteen researchers currently or recently affiliated with Drexel Materials are included in a Stanford University analysis of the world’s most cited researchers. Read more.

Gilman Scholarship Winner to Study Sustainable Engineering

Sophomore Elizabeth Le has received a scholarship that will allow her to further her studies and immerse herself in culture in South Korea. Read more.

Announcements

Longsview Fellows Program

The Longsview Fellows Program will reward a minimum of four research-active tenure-track, tenured faculty members who demonstrate a commitment to the pillars identified in the Drexel University’s College of Engineering Strategic Plan. As of 2020, those pillars are renewable energy and power; health, wellness, and medicine; smart cities: physical cyber infrastructure; and resource stewardship and sustainability. In accordance with the college’s strategic plan, this program is focused on fostering interdisciplinary collaboration at the intersections of Drexel researchers’ existing expertise. Funds will be used to promote research projects that will lead to high quality scholarship (i.e., publications), technology commercialization, submissions for extramural support, and ultimately awards from the NIH, DOD, NSF, and other governmental agencies and foundations. See full details and eligibility information here.

ExCITe Center STEAM Education Workshop

The ExCITe Center’s 7th Annual STEAM Education Workshop — We Gon’ Be Alright, But That Ain’t Alright: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom — will be held virtually on February 15. This year’s program features a keynote by renowned author and researcher, Dr. Bettina Love (University of Georgia), co-founder of the Abolitionist Teaching Network, addressing an audience of those in Pre-K-12 as well as higher education. Dr. Love’s talk will discuss the struggles and the possibilities of committing ourselves to an abolitionist goal of educational freedom, as opposed to reform, and moving beyond what she calls the educational survival complex. This program, co-sponsored by the College of Engineering, will also include brief presentations and a panel discussion with Drexel faculty. Sign up here for the free webinar.

New Portal for Student/Faculty Research Connections

The Pennoni Honors College Undergraduate Research and Enrichment Programs has officially launched a new online platform to connect students and faculty in undergraduate research. This new platform, ForagerOne, replaces Discover and enables faculty to post open research or creative positions and manage applications, to message with students within the platform, and to indicate interest/availability to work with students even without having specific projects to post. To claim your profile, please visit the above link and follow the directions to log in using the Faculty Login button.

Undergraduate Research Mini-Grants

Applications through the Pennoni Honors College for Undergraduate Research Mini-Grants for Spring Term are now open. Mini-grants are able to be put towards student stipends (if the student is not doing the research outlined within the grant application for academic credit) or towards research expenses, materials, or equipment. Between 10-15 grants of $1,500 apiece are expected to be awarded for Spring Term. Students who receive grants would be expected to present in the virtual poster session during the 2021 Week of Undergraduate Excellence and to write a blog post for UREP and/or be featured in the Pennoni Honors College alumni magazine, Honor Bound. Students are expected to complete and submit the application, with support from their faculty mentor. Applications for the Spring Term round of undergraduate mini-grants are due no later than February 5, 2021.

Supporting Students in the Pandemic

The Journal of Health Education & Behavior has published a peer-reviewed paper on the unique financial, mental and academic needs of college students during the pandemic. The paper is a valuable resource for faculty and staff alike who may want more information on how to support students.

Congratulations

Associate Professor Mira Olson (CAEE) is PI along with Co-PIs Shirley Laska (University of New Orleans), Kristina Peterson (Lowlander Center), and Professor Franco Montalto (CAEE) on a six-month NSF grant, “SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B: Innovation for Economic Rejuvenation of Louisiana Coastal Communities.” The long-term vision of this project is a sustainable, generative and adaptive regional economy for coastal Louisiana, a “working coast” that is both economically and environmentally susceptible to negative impacts from climate change and human-induced disasters.

Associate Professor Nicolas Alvarez (CBE) is the recipient of a 2020-2021 Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement (CURE) formula grant, “Peptide-Foam Delivery System for Gut Microbiome Engineering,” along with co-PI Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez of the Departments of Psychiatry and Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

Distinguished University and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor Yury Gogotsi’s paper “Toward Nanotechnology-Enabled Approaches Against the COVID-19 Pandemic” was crowned champion of a peer-vs-peer competition among the American Chemical Society. The competition’s final eight publications featured four of Prof. Gogotsi’s papers.