What does the Center for Excellence in Education do?
CEE's Research Science Institute (RSI) has provided STEM mentorships and research opportunities to 3200 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 600,000 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 for exploration of STEM concepts and career pathways. More than 4,600 high school students from 25 states and 28 countries have already benefited. And that just scratches the surface of what CEE does. |
What do CEE Alumni have to say?
2023 CEE Annual Fund
For more than 40 years, CEE has been committed to eliminating economic barriers to STEM careers by offering all its programs cost-free to participating students and teachers. Your gifts make it possible for thousands of students and teachers to benefit annually from CEE's life-changing STEM education programs. Thank you to all alumni, parents, and friends who supported the Center in 2023.
We are especially grateful to our Leadership Donors who have supported the Center with gifts of $1000 or more:
President's Circle ($10,000+)
Mr. Brad and Mrs. Julie Carson |
Mr. Andrew H. Chatham |
Drs. Sung and Megan Chung |
James C. Ellenbogen, Ph.D. |
Mr. Thomas Z. Feng |
Zachary Frankel, Ph.D. |
Ross A. Grossman, Ph.D. |
Ms. Helen Han |
Mr. Dan and Mrs. Josie Haspel |
Mr. George and Mrs. Andrea Ho |
Noreen Hynes, M.D., M.P.H. |
Mr. Munir Javeri |
Mr. Mark Kantrowitz |
Mr. Stephen and Mrs. Susan Ko |
Jason Koh, M.D., M.B.A. |
Mr. Gang Lan and Ms. Yanjing Shan |
Drs. Tom Leighton and Bonnie Berger |
Mr. Sam and Mrs. Cindy Leung |
Dr. Ke Lin and Mrs. Hon Sie Chong-Lin |
Mr. Joseph Mandarino |
Mr. Ryan G. Orley |
Mr. Tyger and Mrs. Sophia Park |
Conrad Poelman, Ph.D. |
Drs. John Quisel and Naomi Hamburg |
Mr. Karlu Rambhala |
The Honorable Clarine Nardi Riddle |
Dr. Eklavya and Mrs. Shabnam Pandit-Sareen |
Mr. Ronald Simms |
Dr. and Mrs. Allan G. Skillman |
Steve Strong, Ph.D. |
Mr. Karl and Professor Lisa Sun |
Matthew Thrasher, Ph.D. |
Mrs. Mary Waldman |
Mr. Brien L. Wheeler |
Mr. Bobby Xu |
Ms. Yichao Joy Xu |
Dr. Shikui Yan and Dr. Xin Chen |
Feng Zhang, Ph.D. |
Ms. Ying Zhu |
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Zou |
Champions ($5000-$9999)
Ms. Christina L. Adams |
David Cheng, Ph.D. |
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A. D'Aniello |
Srishti Gupta, M.D., M.P.P., M.Phil. |
Mr. Rob Holmes |
Admiral and Mrs. Bobby R. Inman, USN (Ret.) |
Ms. Pooja Jotwani |
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Kane |
Dr. and Mrs. Howard I. Kesselheim |
Pam Krahl, M.D., M.P.H. |
Mr. Albert C. Lin |
Mr. Jonathan A. Marcus |
Admiral William A. Owens (USN, Ret.) |
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Pellegrini |
Mr. Mahendran Sethuraman and Ms. Nandhini Sampath |
Dr. Lawrence Solomon and Ms. Diane Millar |
Dr. and Mrs. John B. Wahlig |
Mr. Eamon Walsh |
Governor Pete Wilson and Mrs. Gayle Wilson |
Drs. Stephen Wolfram and Elise Cawley |
Mr. Haichuan Yang and Dr. Haiyan Li |
Mr. Yu Zheng |
Leaders ($1000-$4999)
Mr. Anand Acharya |
Mr. Naveen and Mrs. Shraddha Agrawal |
Mr. Jeffrey and Mrs. Nancy Arthur |
Karim F. Atiyeh |
Kay Aull, Ph.D. |
Mr. & Mrs. Joaquin and Maite Ballestero |
Mr. Wes S. Beebee, Jr. |
Mr. Peter L. Beebee |
Robert Bosch, Ph.D. |
Jordan Brayanov, Ph.D. |
Dr. Minmin Cai and Dr. Jing Jing |
Dana Caulder, Ph.D. |
Mr. Alexander Chan |
Mr. Mel Chaskin |
Drs. Frederick Y. and Sherleen H. Chen |
Mr. Mark and Dr. Laurie Churchill |
Mr. Max Davis |
Mr. Matt DeBergalis |
Mr. and Mrs. Lou DeBergalis |
Mrs. Yuning M. Desai |
Dr. Robert Desimone and Ms. Chen Gong |
Joann P. DiGennaro, J.D. |
Mr. Yanchang Dong and Ms. Ying Wu |
Mr. John M. Dorffler |
Ms. Betty J. Dranow |
Mr. William Ellsworth |
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Eltringham |
Mr. Donald Feith and Mrs. June Feith |
Mr. David Galkowski |
Mr. Chad M. Gerson |
Balasubramanian Girish, Ph.D. |
Mr. Vijay Goddla and Dr. Roja Ramisetty |
Dr. Ashish Goel and Ms. Ruchi Goyal |
Mr. George Hansel |
Dr. Doug and Mrs. Jane Himberger |
Mr. Steven and Mrs. Linda Hipsman |
Nathaniel Hipsman, Ph.D. |
Dr. and Mrs. Edward D. Hon |
Ms. Jennifer H. Hou |
Dr. Xiaoqiang Hu and Ms. Julia Xue |
Mark Hughes, M.D. and Delia Sang, M.D. |
Mr. Nishant Jain |
Ms. Lili Jiang |
Drs. Peng Jiang and Julie Wang |
Shamit Kachru, Ph.D. |
Lukasz Kaiser, Ph.D. |
Dr. and Mrs. Thirumaleshwara P. Kanchana |
Jared A. Kesselheim, M.D. |
Wolfgang Ketterle, Ph.D. |
Dr. and Mrs. David E. Keyes |
Mr. Tyler Kieft |
Mr. Michael Kim |
Mrs. Diana Knickrehm |
Dr. and Mrs. Choong H. Koh |
Mr. Raymond C. Kubacki, Jr. |
Mr. Veselin K. Kulev |
Dr. William Fithian and Ms. Kari K. Lee |
Drs. Daniel Lee and Lisa Park |
Ms. Susan S. Lee |
Mr. Wansu Lee and Ms. Sohee Kim |
Dr. and Mrs. Jong K. Lee |
Richard Lee, M.D., Ph.D. |
Dean J. Lee, Ph.D. |
Mr. Tsvi H. Lev |
Ms. Michelle Li |
Mr. Owen Li |
Mr. Zhuhong Li and Ms. Xiaotong Wang |
Mr. and Mrs. Brent T. Lin |
Mr. Alvin L. Lin |
Dr. Jian Liu and Ms. Jian Yao |
Mr. Huan Liu |
Winston Luo, J.D. |
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Mackaman |
James Mashek, Ph.D. |
Dr. J. Michael McQuade |
Mr. Shishir S. Mehrotra |
Dr. Peter Meindl and Mrs. Sarah Meindl |
Mr. Steve and Professor Lauren Meyers |
Mr. and Mrs. Rance Murray |
Ms. Georgia E. Murray |
Mr. Arun Muthupalaniappan and Ms. Anitha Muthukumaran |
Dr. Jie Tang and Ms. Jennifer Nan |
Mr. Andrew T. Natenshon |
Kelvin M. Neu, M.D. |
Jason Nielsen, Ph.D. |
Drs. Sangjin and Margaret Oh |
Mr. Sang-Min Oh |
Mr. Kalani Oshiro |
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Pasquale, Jr. |
Mr. Arthur and Ms. Marli Pasternak |
David Patrick, Ph.D. |
Mrs. Cynthia Pickett-Stevenson |
Mr. Michael Pizer |
Jennifer Powers, M.D. |
Rinaa Punglia, M.D. |
Mr. Shachar Raindel and Dr. Emma R. Schmidgall |
Eric Rains, Ph.D. |
Drs. Joel Moore and Rageshree Ramachandran |
Mr. Ram and Mrs. Bharathi Rao |
Mr. Ravi Ravipati and Ms. Prasanthi Geda |
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald I. Rosen |
Mr. Rasheed Sabar |
Mr. David Schairer |
Mr. Gene Schallern |
Drs. Clay and Janice Semenkovich |
Mr. Victor Shao and Ms. Tram Tran |
Mr. Douglas P. Shell and Mrs. Wendy Cheng-Shell |
Dr. Lixin Shen and Dr. Yuxin Liu |
Dr. and Mrs. Bhaskar U. Shenai |
Ms. Kathy Sherman |
Michele Shirasu-Hiza, Ph.D. |
Rachna D. Shroff, M.D. |
Mr. Richard Simon and Dr. Olgica B. Bakajin |
Mr. Robert Sinnott |
Michael Sipser, Ph.D. |
Mr. James P. Skelley |
Mr. Quentin Smith |
Dr. Aditya and Mrs. Julie Sunderam |
Dr. William Tang and Dr. Feng Liu |
Dr. Bo Tang and Dr. Yanjie Sun |
Aaron M. Tievsky, Ph.D. |
Mr. Dewei Tsao and Dr. Vivian Lu |
Nina Vasan, M.D., M.B.A |
Dr. Michael Vogelbaum and Ms. Judith Rosman |
Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Voss |
Mr. Albert Z. Wang |
Mr. Yong Wang and Ms. Xiang Li |
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan K. White |
Ms. Susan Wildstrom |
Karl Wirth, Ph.D. |
Mr. Alexander Wu |
Dr. Linxiang Wu and Ms. Zhe Zhou |
Mr. Yang Xue and Ms. Lingwen Liu |
Mr. Michael J. Yan |
Mr. Weiwen Yang and Ms. Fengrong Li |
William Yang, M.D., Ph.D. |
Dr. Lei Yao and Ms. Qin Li |
Mr. Qiang Ye and Ms. Shu Liu |
Channing Yu, M.D., Ph.D. |
Mr. and Mrs. Bintoro Yuwono |
Drs. Boris and Emma Zbarsky |
Dr. Jin Zhang and Dr. Eileen H. You |
Dr. and Mrs. Feng Zhao |
Dr. Fang Zhu and Ms. Qian Zou |
Mr. Jiren Zhu |
(all donor lists updated 5/16/24)
Special thanks to our volunteer leaders!
2023 Alumni Committee
Raga Ramachandran |
RSI ’90 (Chair) |
Jason Koh |
RSI ’85 |
Rich Simon |
RSI ’86 |
John Quisel |
RSI ’88 |
Jed Macosko |
RSI ’89 |
George Ho |
RSI ’90 |
Srishti Gupta |
RSI ’92 |
Matt Thrasher |
RSI ’98 |
Jennifer Powers |
RSI ‘99 |
Ellen De Obaldia |
RSI ’03 |
Niffer Nan |
RSI ’03 |
Ryan Orley |
RSI ’05 |
Huan (Jim) Liu |
RSI ’05 |
Caroline S. Lo |
RSI ’07 |
Albert Wang |
RSI ’15 |
Will Ellsworth |
USABO ’17/RSI ’18 |
2023 Parent Committee
Dr. Doug Himberger, CEE Trustee and Chair |
Ms. Jamie Horowitz, RSI '87 |
Dr. Howard and Ms. Tina Kesselheim, RSI '91 & '94 |
Ms. Susan Wildstrom, RSI '97 |
Mr. Roger Pellegrini, RSI '11, CEE Trustee |
Ms. Jane Yao, USABO ’11, ’12 & ‘23 |
Ms. Marli Pasternak, RSI '12 |
Dr. Sushovan Guha, USABO '14 & '15 |
Mr. John Ellsworth, USABO '17, RSI '18 |
Ms. Angela Fu, RSI '17 |
Ms. Judy Rosman, RSI '18 |
Dr. Yan Zhang, RSI '18 & '22 |
Ms. Sarah Meindl, RSI '19 |
Dr. Fang Zhu, RSI '19 |
Dr. Peng Jiang, RSI '19 |
Ms. Jennifer Wahlig, RSI '20 & '22 |
Ms. Wendy Cheng-Shell, RSI '21 |
Ms. Sharon Wan, USABO '21 |
Ms. Vidya Iyer, USABO '21 |
Dr. William Tang, USABO '21 |
Ms. Elizabeth Pan, USABO '21 & '22, RSI '23 |
Drs. Margaret Oh, RSI '22 |
Ms. Bhrathi Rao, RSI '22 |
Mr. Nicholas Van Dusen, USABO '22 |
Ms. Janet Qian, RSI '22 |
Ms. Ngozi Bell, RSI '22 |
Dr. Tony Yan, RSI ‘23 |
Ms. Linda Shan, RSI '23 |
Ms. Qin Li, RSI '23 |