Stevens Senior Andrew Kruegel Receives One of Eight Novartis 2009 Scholarships

HOBOKEN, N.J. ― Andrew Kruegel, a senior Chemistry major at Stevens Institute of Technology was recently awarded one of eight 2009 Novartis Science Scholarships.

The $3,000 scholarship, administered by the Independent College Fund of New Jersey (ICFNJ), is given to high achieving science students who conduct independent scientific research.

Kruegel was nominated by Professor of Chemistry Athula Attygalle. To be eligible, he had to meet a number of requirements including possessing a minimum grade point average of 3.5 and be majoring in a science field.

Kruegel and Attygalle are the co-authors of the recent paper now available online, which reports for the first time that elemental sulfur can be used as a calibrant for mass spectrometers. The paper is available online in the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. According to Attygalle, one of the anonymous referees commenting on the manuscript mentioned that this is “a nice piece of highly practical work.”

The referee who many years ago had to use metallic gold as the calibrant in his work, noted that sulfur is cheap and is an ideal substance for low mass calibration of mass spectrometers.

Last year, two Stevens’ students – Brian Dunican and Michael Bertucci – received the same award. Additionally, Mitchell Izower, won the Sol J. Barer Scholarship earlier this year, another award administered by the ICFNJ.

The scholarship was established in September 2008 by the Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. The Independent College Fund of New Jersey (ICFNJ) was founded in 1953 to secure financial support for the state’s private colleges and universities. The Fund is a cooperative effort between business and academic leaders who recognize the important role our institutions play in building New Jersey's economy. ICFNJ helps its fourteen-member institutions partner with the corporate community to fulfill the goal of educating students who contribute to the economic, ethical and intellectual aspirations of the State of New Jersey.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University, is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,234 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with more than 400 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.

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