Alyssa Panitch, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected for the inaugural class of the Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering (ELATE) program at Drexel University.
The one-year, part-time fellowship is designed to address the need to increase the diversity and leadership capacity of engineering, computer science and related fields within academe. Panitch is one of 12 women faculty from 11 U.S. universities selected by Drexel. The fellowship year culminates in April 2013 with the completion of an Institutional Action Project, developed in collaboration with the fellows’ dean or provost.