2022 Annual Fund: Up and Atom!

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What does the Center for Excellence in Education do?

CEE's Research Science Institute (RSI) has provided STEM mentorships and research opportunities to over 2900 high school students.

CEE's USA Biolympiad (USABO) program has led over 100,000 high school students to explore the world of biology as they aspire to join the USA Biolympiad team.

CEE's Teacher Enrichment Program (TEP) has provided enrichment to the teachers of over 680,000 underserved rural and urban high school students.

CEE's STEM Lyceums program is a virtual club with the purpose of building high school STEM communities, and engaging students in discussions and explorations of STEM concepts and STEM career pathways.

And that just scratches the surface of what CEE does.

 

What do CEE Alumni have to say?

Thank you so much to the alumni, parents, and friends who have supported the Center’s STEM students and teachers in 2021, especially at Champion and Leadership levels:

(All donor lists updated 1/30/23)

Champion Donors

Mr. JonLuca DeCaro

James C. Ellenbogen, Ph.D.

Zachary Frankel, Ph.D.

Ross A. Grossman, Ph.D.

Ms. Helen Han

Mr. Dan and Mrs. Josie Haspel

Noreen Hynes, M.D., M.P.H.

Mr. Munir Javeri

Ms. Susan Ko

Drs. Tom Leighton and Bonnie Berger

Mr. Sam and Mrs. Cindy Leung

Dr. and Mrs. John Miller

Drs. John Quisel and Naomi Hamburg

The Honorable Clarine Nardi Riddle

Steve Strong, Ph.D.

Matthew Thrasher, Ph.D.

Dr. and Mrs. Nathan Waldman

Dr. Raymond Wei and Dr. Sharon Wan

Mr. Brien L. Wheeler

Dr. and Mrs. Jayakrishna Ambati

Mr. Andrew H. Chatham

Drs. Frederick Y. and Sherleen H. Chen

David Cheng, Ph.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A. D'Aniello

Mr. Matt DeBergalis

Dr. Robert Desimone and Ms. Chen Gong

Mrs. Betty J. Dranow

Mr. George Ho

Mr. Rob Holmes

Mr. Songrong Hou and Ms. Hongbing Chen

Admiral and Mrs. Bobby R. Inman, USN (Ret.)

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Kane

Jason Koh, M.D., M.B.A.

Pam Krahl, M.D., M.P.H.

Drs. Daniel Lee and Lisa Park

Mr. Jonathan A. Marcus

Mr. Shishir S. Mehrotra

Mr. Ryan G. Orley

Admiral William A. Owens (USN,Ret.)

Mr. and Mrs. Asutosh Padhi

Mr. Arvind Parthasarathi

Mr. and Mrs. Roger Pellegrini

Professor Venkatesh Saligrama and Ms. Rashmi Venkatesh

Ms. Kathy Sherman

Mr. Ronald Simms

Dr. and Mrs. John B. Wahlig

Mr. Eamon Walsh

Dr. and Mrs. Mark Wang

Drs. Stephen Wolfram and Elise Cawley

Mr. Bobby Xu

Feng Zhang, Ph.D.

Leadership Donors

Mr. Anand Acharya

Ms. Christina L. Adams

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth G. Adams

Drs. Veera and Swathi Anantha

Kay Aull, Ph.D.

Mr. William R. Becklean

Mr. Wes S. Beebee, Jr.

Mr. Peter L. Beebee

Mr. Bert  and Mrs. Pam Bee-Lindgren

Meghana A. Bhatt, Ph.D.

Mrs. Adriana M. Boeka

Mr. and Dr. Rohit Bora

Robert Bosch, Ph.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brodecki

Dana Caulder, Ph.D.

Dr. and Mrs. Philemon D. Chang

Mr. Mel Chaskin

Mr. Shoufang Chen and Ms. Yun Qi

Dr. and Mrs. Chia-Ming Chen

Francis Chong, Ph.D.

Drs. Sung and Megan Chung

Drs. Megan and Sung Chung

Mr. Mark and Dr. Laurie Churchill

Mr. Max Davis

Mr. and Mrs. Lou DeBergalis

Mr. and Mrs.Tony Eltringham

Drs. Steven and Sylvia Fein

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Feith

Mr. Thomas Z. Feng

Mr. David Galkowski

Mr. Adam L. Ginsburg

Balasubramanian Girish, Ph.D.

Mr. David and Lorna J. Gladstone, Ph.D.

Dr. Ashish Goel and Ms. Ruchi Goyal

Mr. and Mrs. Ajay Goyal

Mr. Axel R. Hansen

Mr. Nader M. Hariri

Doug Himberger, Ph.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Hipsman

Nathaniel Hipsman, Ph.D.

Dr. and Mrs. Edward D. Hon

Mr. Marc H. Horowitz

Ms. Jennifer H. Hou

Mark Hughes, M.D. and Delia Sang, M.D.

Drs. Peng Jiang and Julie Wang

Ms. Pooja Jotwani

Shamit Kachru, Ph.D.

Lukasz Kaiser, Ph.D.

Dr. and Mrs. Thirumaleshwara P. Kanchana

Mr. Mark Kantrowitz

Mr. Gintautas Kerge and Ms. Jolanta Kergiene

Dr. and Mrs. Howard I. Kesselheim

Jared A. Kesselheim, M.D.

Wolfgang Ketterle, Ph.D.

Mr. Tyler Kieft

Mr. Michael Kim

Drs. Seungbum Kim and Jiong Qiu

Mrs. Diana Knickrehm

Mr. Raymond C. Kubacki, Jr.

Dr. Yueh Lee

Dr. William Fithian and Ms. Kari K. Lee

Eunice Lee, M.D.

Dean J. Lee, Ph.D.

Ms. Susan S. Lee

Dr. and Mrs. Jong K. Lee

Mr. Zhuhong Li and Ms. Xiaotong Wang

Mr. Albert C. Lin

Mr. and Mrs. Brent T. Lin

Mr. and Ms. Jingan Liu

Professor Wensheng V. Liu and Ms. Tiana Zhang

Joyce F. Liu, M.D., M.P.H.

Mr. Yang Ma and Mrs. Shaojun Chen

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Mackaman

Dr. J. Michael McQuade

Dr. and Mrs. Peter Meindl

Mr. and Dr. Raghu Moorthy

Mr. and Mrs. Rance Murray

Jason Nielsen, Ph.D.

Mr. Sei-Wei Ong

Mr. Kalani Oshiro

Mr. Arthur and Ms. Marli Pasternak

Parth Patwari, M.D., Sc.D.

Mrs. Cynthia Pickett-Stevenson

Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Quan

Eric Rains, Ph.D.

Drs. Joel Moore and Rageshree Ramachandran

Mr. and Mrs. Ram Rao

Ina Rhee, M.D., Ph.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald I. Rosen

Mr. Rasheed Sabar

Mr. Scott A. Schaffer

Mr. David Schairer

Evan M. Schwartz, Ph.D.

Drs. Clay and Janice Semenkovich

Jay Sengupta, M.D.

Mr. Victor Shao and Ms. Tram Tran

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas P. Shell

Rachna D. Shroff, M.D.

Amy Sillman, Ph.D.

Mr. Richard Simon and Dr. Olgica B. Bakajin

Mr. Robert Sinnott

Michael Sipser, Ph.D.

Ms. Kejia Sun

Dr. Aditya and Mrs. Julie Sunderam

Patrick Tan, M.D., Ph.D.

Aaron M. Tievsky, Ph.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Prakash Upadhyayula

Nina Vasan, M.D., M.B.A

Dr. Michael Vogelbaum and Ms. Judith Rosman

Mr. Yong Wang and Ms. Xiang Li

Mr. and Mrs. Jian Wang

Dr. Lora Weiss

Mr. and Mrs. Bryan K. White

Mr. Al Wickers

Ms. Susan Wildstrom

Mr. Steven E. Wilgus

Governor and Mrs. Pete Wilson

Mr. David B. Wood and Dr. Nancy Judge

Mr. Alexander Wu

Mr. Michael J. Yan

William Yang, M.D., Ph.D.

Mr. Weiwen Yang and Ms. Fengrong Li

Channing Yu, M.D., Ph.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Bintoro Yuwono

Drs. Boris and Emma Zbarsky

Dr. and Mrs. Yi Zhang

Dr. Jin Zhang and Dr. Eileen H. You

Yan X. Zhang, Ph.D.

Mr. Yu Zheng

Mr. Todd Y. Zhou

Dr. Fang Zhu and Ms. Qian Zou

And a special thanks to our committees!

2022 Alumni Committee

Matthew Thrasher        

RSI ’98 (Chair)

Jason Koh                      

RSI ’85

Rich Simon                          

RSI ‘86

John Quisel                         

RSI ‘88

Jed Macosko                        

RSI ‘89

Rageshree Ramachandran

RSI ‘90

Evan M. Schwartz

RSI ‘00

Nina Vasan         

RSI ‘01

Ryan Orley    

RSI ‘05

Caroline S. Lo             

RSI ‘07

William Ellsworth            

USABO ’17, RSI ’18

2022 CEE Parent Committee

Doug Himberger, Ph.D. (chair)

CEE Trustee

Jamie and Gerald Horowitz

RSI Parents 1987

Howard and Tina Kesselheim

RSI Parents 1991, 1994

Susan Wildstrom

RSI Parent 1997

Roger and Marianne Pellegrini                

RSI Parents 2011, CEE Trustee

Marli Pasternak                  

RSI Parent 2012

Sushovan Guha                  

USABO Parent 2014, 2015

Angela Fu                     

RSI Parent 2017

Vidya and Anand Iyer

USABO Parents 2017, 2021

John Liu and Catherine Lu

RSI Parents 2018

Judy Rosman and Michael Vogelbaum

RSI Parents 2018

Yvonne Li                 

USABO Parent 2018, 2019

Jin Cheng

RSI  Parent 2019

Peng Jiang and Julie Wang        

RSI Parents 2019

Sarah and Meter Meindl

RSI Parents 2019

Fang Zhu                      

RSI Parent 2019

Steven Zhu

USABO Parent 2020, 2022

Annie Yan Chen

USABO Parent 2021, 2022

Elizabeth Pan  

USABO Parent 2021, 2022

Doug Shell and Wendy Cheng-Shell

RSI Parents 2021

Jennifer and John Wahlig

RSI Parents 2021, 2022

Nicholas and Chijui Liao Van Dusen

USABO Parents 2022