1. The Provost's Fellows Program @ Drexel University "Few institutions think systematically about the development of administrative leadership. Yet, the skills and qualifications necessary for success as a professor are not the same as those required for success as a department chair, dean, or president." (Cited from the American Council of Education (ACE)) While Drexel has a wealth of talent among its faculty, few faculty members have the opportunity to explore senior administration. One aspect of the University's Strategic Plan is to "Nurture career development for faculty and professional staff by focusing on leadership, retention, team building and community workforce development." The Office of the Provost is pleased to announce the re-establishment of the Provost's Fellows Program. The goal of the program is to provide exceptional faculty with a more expansive range of leadership experiences at the University level. M. Brian Blake, Ph.D. Executive Vice President and Provost

2. Role A Provost's Fellow is a faculty member who partners with senior administration to spearhead projects in faculty affairs, research administration, graduate education, and undergraduate education. As part of the program, Fellows will become familiar with university-wide academic initiatives, strategic planning, budget issues, and challenges in higher education. Each Provost's Fellow will develop a professional development plan that will be periodically reviewed within the Office of the Provost. Appointment Fellows will continue to engage in departmental teaching and research responsibilities, but will be provided with appropriate release time, administrative resources, and a modest professional development fund to facilitate the completion of the project. The current term is for one calendar year starting January 1, 2016 to December 30, 2016. Fellows will also meet bi-weekly with the appropriate senior administrator. The Provost's Fellows Program @ Drexel University

3. 2016 Provost’s Fellows Projects Provost's Special Projects - The Fellow will work directly with the Provost on several strategic initiatives in the areas of alternative enrollment opportunities and new mission-based degree programs. Projects in Undergraduate Education - The Fellow will work directly with the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs around the theme of Innovative Undergraduate Curriculum Design and Implementation. The Fellow will engage the Drexel community to promote curricula that lead to more intentional, creative, marketable, intellectually curious graduates with enhanced creativity, self-direction, and leadership skills. Projects in Graduate Education - The Fellow will work directly with the Dean of the Graduate College and senior College staff on various strategic projects, including graduate co-op, and the development of innovative master's programs. Research Special Projects - The Fellow will work directly with the Interim Senior Vice Provost for Research and Office of Research staff on projects that will improve communication between the Office of Research and the University research community, improve research administration services, and/or strategic efforts to improve proposal development services provided by the Office of Research.

4. 2016 Provost’s Fellows Dr. Cameron F. Abrams Professor, Chemical Engineering Dr. Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis Associate Professor, Architecture Bret D. Asbury, JD Associate Professor, Kline School of Law Dr. Aroutis Foster Associate Professor, School of Education Dr. Timothy Kurzweg Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Dr. Jason Silverman Associate Professor, School of Education Dr. Mitra Taheri Associate Professor, Materials Engineering

5. Dr. Cameron F. Abrams is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Cameron received a BS in Chemical Engineering from NC State in 1995 and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2000. After two years of postdoctoral work at the Max-Planck-Institute of Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, he joined the faculty in Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at Drexel in 2002 as an Assistant Professor. He is the recipient of an ONR Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER award, and the Impact Award in Computational Molecular Science and Engineering from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and he is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers. Cameron has authored or co-authored more than 70 papers in the field of molecular simulations in biology and materials. He is the founding chair of the Board of Governance of the University Research Computing Facility, and previously chaired the Senate Committee on Research and Scholarly Activities. 2016 Provost’s Fellows Cohort Dr. Cameron F. Abrams

6. Dr. Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture & Interiors at the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. As a practicing architect with academic credentials, Ulrike has worked for firms in the United States and Germany with a variety of responsibilities and remains involved in architectural practice and scholarship on both continents. Ulrike’s investigations of Finnish contemporary school architecture introduce an international audience to original and highly successful approaches to school design. Detailed case studies of exemplary educational buildings capture and objectify spatial experiences grounded in evidenced-based design principles. As an expert in educational building design, Ulrike contributes to Drexel University’s efforts for the new Powel/SLA School neighboring the campus as member of the site planning committee. Ulrike was hired in 2008 as the Associate Director and served as Director of the Architecture Program from 2011 to 2013. Currently Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis is a co-director of Drexel’s Smart Initiatives Program (DSIP), which allows her to extend the focus of her research and service interests in a broad and interdisciplinary way within the University and the community. This role gives her the opportunity to combine her interests in experiential learning, fostering undergraduate research, interdisciplinary collaboration, design thinking and community participation/engagement. Ulrike is very much interested in Drexel’s strategic initiatives--particularly those related to the creation of One University. Dr. Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis

7. Bret Asbury's principal interest is in applying techniques and approaches borrowed from the humanities to law and legal theory. His scholarship has been published in the Alabama Law Review, Georgia Law Review, Oregon Law Review, Tennessee Law Review, Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and California Law Review Circuit, among others. Professor Asbury received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as managing editor of The Yale Law Journal, a senior editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation, and a member of the Yale Black Law Students’ Association's executive board. Prior to joining the Drexel faculty, Professor Asbury practiced with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and with Dechert LLP, and he clerked for the Honorable Julio M. Fuentes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Asbury's current research explores the ethical, social, and psychological impacts that diagnoses of fetal genetic abnormalities can have on pregnant women and their families and suggests potential legal and regulatory responses. Outside of the University, Professor Asbury serves on the Yale Law School Association Executive Committee and the Advisory Board of the Phillips Academy Institute for Recruitment of Teachers, an organization dedicated to diversifying the teaching faculties in America’s schools, colleges, and universities. Bret D. Asbury, JD

8. Dr. Aroutis Foster is Associate Professor of Learning Technologies in the School of Education at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. He leads the GLIDE (Games and Learning in Interactive Digital Environments) Lab, and his research involves theoretical and practical application of immersive digital environments for human cognition, behavior, and learning. His broad research interests focus on technology designs, technology integration, identity exploration, motivation, cognition, and learning. Dr. Foster’s background is in educational psychology, educational technology, digital media, information technology education, and communications. His professional agenda has emerged from both his research and life experiences growing up in the Caribbean (Jamaica), and studying and living in New York City; East Lansing, Michigan; and Philadelphia. He serves on several editorial review and advisory boards for journals and organizations related technology and learning. He has published book chapters and journal articles about technology and learning. He has won awards for his work on technology and learning. He is a Phi Beta Kappa Member, a Mellon Mays Fellow, and the recipient of a Spencer Research Training Grant, and a NSF CAREER award. Aroutis Foster, Ph.D.

9. Dr. Timothy Kurzweg is Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He obtained his B.S. degree from Penn State University and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He joined Drexel in 2002, and was appointed the Associate Department Head of Undergraduate Affairs in 2010 and served through 2014. He was also appointed Director of the Bachelor of Science in Engineering Program in 2010, a position in which he still served. He is the recipient of the 2011 C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teacher Award from IEEE-HKN, and the Drexel University Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2009. His technical interests are in the area of micro-optical systems for biological sensing, communication, and imaging. In 2009, he co-founded MetaTenna LLC, a startup that spun out of funded research at Drexel in transparent, flexible antennas. Dr. Kurzweg is IEEE Region 2 Director (2015-2016), and has been an active volunteer for IEEE since 2008. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of IEEE, IEEE-MGA, IEEE-USA, and IEEE-HKN. Timothy P. Kurzweg, Ph.D.

10. Dr. Jason Silverman is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education in the School of Education. Dr. Silverman joined Drexel in 2006 and has served as the Director of the Mathematics Learning and Teaching Program (2006-present) and the Director of the Ph.D. program (2012-2014). He also currently serves as the Director of DragonsTeach, a university wide effort to recruit and prepare undergraduate STEM majors for careers in secondary education and is a co-Director for Drexel’s Center for Research in STEM Teaching and Learning Excellence (CASTLE). His research interests include mathematics teacher education, effective use of techn ology in mathematics teaching, online teacher professional development and the intersections between K-12, undergraduate and graduate STEM learning and teaching. He has served as a board member for the Pennsylvania Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators and a member of the Research Committee of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators. Dr. Silverman has a B.A. in mathematics from Franklin & Marshall College and an M.S., M.A. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. Jason Silverman, Ph.D.

11. Mitra Taheri received her PhD in Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) from Carnegie Mellon University. While at CMU, she received a US Steel Graduate Scholarship, a Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award, and was inducted as a full member to Sigma Xi. During her PhD, she was a visiting scholar at RWTH Aachen University in Germany, the National Center for Electron Microscopy (LBL), and the Northwestern University’s Center for Atom Probe Tomography. Following her doctoral studies, Taheri was an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where she and her group at LLNL won an R&D 100 award, a Nano-50, and the Microscopy Society of America’s Microscopy Innovation Award for cutting-edge developments in ultrafast microscopy. Taheri joined the faculty at Drexel in the fall of 2008, where she is the Hoeganaes Associate Professor of Metallurgy. At Drexel, she runs the “Dynamic Characterization Group,” which focuses primarily on the use of cutting edge in situ microscopy to develop and characterize metals, semiconductors, composites, and complex oxides for various applications, including energy, data storage, and transportation. While at Drexel, she has been the recipient of both the NSF and DOE Early Career awards. Mitra Taheri, Ph.D.

12. 2016 Provost’s Fellows Projects Cameron Abrams, Ph.D. Office of Research: Partnering with Dr. Aleister Saunders, develop operational and governance guidelines for the University’s research cores: University Research Computing Facility, the Centralized Research Facility, The Cell Imaging Center and the University Laboratory Animal Resource Center (review the governance models, identify opportunities to improve the usage of these facilities, and investigate the “lifecycle” of research cores and the infrastructure needed to effectively management and support them). Ulrike Altenmuller-Lewis, Ph.D. Provost’s Special Projects: Partnering with Dr. Janet Fleetwood devise and implement a plan for faculty mentoring across the university, tailored to the needs of our faculty at different ranks (identify which programs are currently in place and assess their effectiveness; review which regional programs might be appropriate for expansion; analyze best practices nationally for faculty mentoring; design a mentoring program complete with objectives measurable outcomes, a timetable, and a tiered budget with several options). Brett Asbury, JD Provost’s Special Projects: Partnering with Dr. Brian Blake, devise a plan for Summer/Winter enrollment that admits a special group of students for the Winter quarter who will do a “pre-co-op” in their first fall prior to matriculation (identify which programs work best for this module, understand if instructional resources exist to accommodate first-year students who follow a Winter/Spring/Summer matriculation, work with the Residence Halls to negotiate space, work with EMSS to target students and reserve financial support, and speak with the Steinbright Center leadership and companies in Philadelphia to negotiate placement opportunities). Aroutis Foster, Ph.D. Office of Research: Partnering with Dr. Aleister Saunders, identify challenges and opportunities to improve the research administration support for participatory research (with compliance as an important aspect of this effort, take into consideration the many federal regularity guidelines, particularly around research involving humans). Timothy Kurzweg, Ph.D. Innovations in Undergraduate Education at Drexel: Partnering with Dr. John DiNardo, devise a plan and ideally begin a pilot that creates a model of the student learning experience and learning outcomes that define a Drexel education and identifies our students as engaged, intentional learners. Jason Silverman, Ph.D. Graduate Education: Partnering with Dr. James Herbert,focus on professional development programs for graduate students at the university (university-wide assessment of existing professional development programs benchmarked against best practices in the field, with a focus on the TA training program to improve the program for the incoming class of PhD students in the fall of 2016). Mitra Taheri, Ph.D. Office of Research: Partnering with Dr. Aleister Saunders, identify challenges and opportunities to improve the University’s ability to compete for large funding opportunities (>$5M) (investigate ways to systematically identify opportunities, approaches to identifying researchers and research teams across the University that could compete for large funding opportunities, develop an internal “go/no go” decision process, and outline approaches to support the development of these large $ value grant submissions).

13. Provost’s Fellows Program Application Process Full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty members, full-time faculty librarians, and full-time teaching or clinical faculty are eligible to apply for a Provost's Fellowship. Tenured, tenure- track, teaching or clinical faculty members should have achieved the rank of associate professor or professor. Faculty librarians should have achieved the rank of associate or university librarian. Applications should be submitted electronically by a stipulated date, in full, as a single pdf document to Ellonda Green, fde@drexel.edu, Program Manager, Office of Faculty Development and Equity, and should include:fde@drexel.edu  A curriculum vitae and a one page letter addressed to Provost Brian Blake describing why the applicant is interested in the Fellow's program and what the applicant hopes to achieve.  A brief email message from the applicant's Department Head and Dean that indicates their support of the faculty member's candidacy. Colleges or schools will be compensated per course to pay for a part-time faculty member to replace the Provost's Fellow. The Office of the Provost may also provide incentive funding for the home department of the Provost's Fellow candidate. The Provost, in partnership with the appropriate Vice Provosts, will evaluate all applications. Applications will be evaluated based on overall fit with the current needs and strength of the application.