Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association Announces Challenge Campaign Leadership

President Barbara Snyder addressed over fifty Flora Stone Mather alumnae and Case Western Reserve University friends at Alumni House during a February 22 luncheon to celebrate the future of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women.

She lauded the center as an essential university program that "came to be through the work of a small group of individuals passionately committed to a cause" and that highlights "the progress possible when people come together with a common aim."

Consistent with this theme, the event served as the public announcement of the volunteer leadership of the $1 million challenge campaign initiated by the Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association last May. The challenge will allow the center to expand and deepen its mission to improve the educational, professional, and social climate and to increase opportunities for women within the university and the community through education, advocacy, and research.

A three-person Campaign Committee, which will oversee the entire fundraising effort, includes Campaign National Chairwoman Susie Gharib (FSM '72); Campaign Chairwoman MaryAnn Jorgenson (LAW '75); and Campaign General Chairwoman Patricia B. Kilpatrick (FSM'49, GRS'51).

Their work will be supported by the Executive Committee, chaired by Kilpatrick. Members are Barbara Collins, Lynne Alfred Hanson, Dorothy Miller, Deborah Nash, Gary Pillar, Susan Troia, and Sandra Vodanoff. A Steering Committee comprised of a select group of Flora Stone Mather alumnae and members of the center's Advisory Board has also been convened to support the fundraising effort.

Campaign General Chairwoman Patricia Kilpatrick commented on her excitement about the early success of the campaign, which has already raised nearly $200,000: "We are tremendously pleased to see so many supporters coming forward. In addition to Flora Stone Mather Alumnae, members of the center's advisory board have been extremely enthusiastic about the effort and are sharing the good news of the campaign with an ever-widening base of supporters."

Campaign National Chairwoman Susie Gharib was the scheduled speaker for the luncheon but was forced to cancel due to a weather-related delay. She is widely known as the award-winning New York-based anchor of PBS's Nightly Business Report. Gharib's sister, Simin Naraghipour FSM '69, attended the event with their mother, and made brief remarks in support of the campaign.

President Snyder read excerpts from Gharib's intended talk, which made a connection between the mission of Flora Stone Mather and the mission of the women's center that bears her name.

"The University needs a place where women of all ages and all colors can go to shed the impediments—cultural, social, or gender-based—that may prevent them from being who they truly are and accomplishing what they truly want to do," Snyder quoted Gharib. "The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women is a vital resource to help 21st Century students face the demands of today's lifestyles and workplaces."

The Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association Challenge will support that vital resource for generations to come. The association will match every dollar raised before May 10, 2011, up to the $1 million total.

To learn about making a gift, contact Gary Pillar at 216-368-3992.

Estate Gift Will Be Part of Class of '58 Fiftieth Reunion Class Gift

Sanford R. Weiss, M.D. (ADL ’55, MED ’58) has given a $1.9 million charitable remainder annuity trust to the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine to support scholarships and commemorate his 50th reunion.

Weiss, who died on March 7, 2008, established the scholarship to support students on the basis of financial need who are interested in pursuing a career in colon and rectal surgery or neurosurgery and/or medical students who are disabled or who have chronic illness.

The scholarship reflects Weiss’s own struggle to complete his education and medical training while battling chronic illness. During his undergraduate studies at Harvard, he was forced to return to his hometown of Cleveland for experimental colon surgery at Cleveland Clinic. Even after completing his residency in New York and establishing a practice in San Francisco, Weiss was plagued by chronic abdominal illnesses that caused frequent hospitalization and travel back to the Clinic.

In spite of these challenges, Weiss served the medical profession with distinction. In addition to his private practice, he was chief surgeon at the San Leandro Memorial hospital and associate professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He was a fellow in the American College of Surgeons and a member of Cleveland Clinic’s Digestive Disease Center Leadership Board.

Weiss was also determined to make the most of his early retirement and intermittent bouts of good health. An avid scuba diver, white-water rafter, and hiker, he traveled to Turkey, Morocco, India, Australia, Antarctica, Africa, and Asia.

Throughout his life, Weiss served as a model to others. “Sandy was clearly one of the most brilliant students in our class,” recalls friend and classmate, 2008 School of Medicine reunion chair, and co-chair of the 50th reunion, Richard B. Fratianne, M.D. “It was also the consensus of his classmates that he was a genuinely outstanding person.”

Weiss’s leadership gift also serves as a model of philanthropy for others, encouraging all alumni to support current and future generations of School of Medicine students.

“He was proud of the school and proud of his education,” Fratianne says. “I hope others will appreciate his incredible generosity and match it in whatever way they can.”

Make a Reunion Gift that Meets Your Personal Objectives and Supports Your Medical School

There are multiple methods for making special reunion gifts to provide for the School of Medicine now and in future decades are available to permit every reunion celebrant to participate:

• A documented will commitment
• A planned gift commitment, a gift that provides the donor with income for life or a specified number of years or that provides for the future
• Outright cash or stock gifts
• Other gifts of such as real estate, including homes (which we may continue to occupy), collections of art or stamps, etc.

Pledges made this calendar year, 2008, may be fulfilled over the course of 3-5 years.

Your reunion provides you with an opportunity to celebrate your education, successes, and legacy. Please take this milestone reunion as an opportunity to support the students, faculty, and academic programs of your medical school.

For details on methods for reunion giving, please contact the Office of Development and Alumni Relations at the School of Medicine at 216-368-6830.

Will commitment to endow chemistry professorship at Case Western Reserve University

Gift will also support prize funds for students, faculty

Gilles Klopman, the Charles F. Mabery Professor Emeritus of Research in Chemistry at Case Western Reserve University and president and CEO of Beachwood, Ohio-based MultiCASE, Inc., has made seven-figure will commitment to the chemistry department in Case Western Reserve's College of Arts and Sciences.

Klopman's bequest will endow a professorship in chemistry as well as two prizes—one for faculty and one for undergraduates—in the name of Klopman and his wife, Malvina.

"Gilles Klopman's promised gift reflects his lifelong dedication to Case Western Reserve University, and he serves as a role model to other faculty members," said Cyrus C. Taylor, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Referring to the chemistry prizes that the bequest will support, the dean continued, "We are pleased to know that additional resources will be available to showcase our chemistry faculty and students for years to come."

"You always need money for operations," Klopman said. "But I wanted to do something different for the department and decided to create these awards to enhance the academic experience for students and recognize the work of the chemistry faculty."

Throughout his career, Klopman has pioneered "the innovative use of computers to address important chemical and biological problems," says Lawrence M. Sayre, chair of the chemistry department. Most notably, as president and CEO of MultiCASE, Inc., Klopman has led in the development of artificial intelligence programs that assess the health hazards posed by new chemicals.

MultiCASE's software provides pharmaceutical companies with an alternative to animal testing as a means of evaluating the potential toxicity of new drugs. And by allowing the risk assessment to be completed in as little as a minute, it saves these companies millions of dollars. If a chemical is found to have toxic effects, researchers will abandon it immediately, instead of continuing with a long and costly drug development process.

A native of Belgium, Klopman earned his Ph.D. at the University of Brussels before emigrating to the United States in 1965. He joined the chemistry faculty in 1967 and later served as department chair for 13 years. Appointed to the Mabery Professorship in 1988, he is also a professor of oncology and environmental health sciences at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. He served as the interim dean of science and mathematics in 1987 in the first year of Glenn Brown's deanship.

Klopman is the recipient of two major awards from the American Chemistry Society: the Morley Medal (1993) and the Patterson-Crane Award for Chemical Information (2005).

Once the professorship and prizes are established, Klopman has asked that any remaining funds be used to endow a Thursday evening subscription to The Cleveland Orchestra, for use by College of Arts and Sciences students, faculty and guests.

Klopman recalled that when former chemistry chair and Nobel laureate George Olah was recruiting him to join the chemistry faculty, he took Klopman to a concert at Severance Hall. The experience helped persuade him to come to Case Western Reserve.

"I thought, 'What a wonderful idea—to take me to the orchestra,'" Klopman said. "I want to do this for others."

Every gift matters

Any way it is measured—by participation, by annual giving, or as a pipeline for the future—giving to Case Western Reserve matters.

It matters to our students, who benefit from expanded opportunities for scholarships and fellowships. It inspires our faculty, who are recruited and recognized through professorships. It heartens the entire Case community, who rely on a healthy endowment to sustain and build the institution.

It begins with a conversation

The most satisfying philanthropic commitments come from thoughtful conversation between the donor and the institution. Case Western Reserve invites you to explore the university’s priorities, read stories about the impact of giving, and learn more about the many ways to give.

If you’d like to start a conversation about giving, please contact the development office at 216-368-4352.

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Technical Reports

Working Papers Malakooti, B., “Roadmap for Developing Reconfigurable Intelligent Internet Protocols for Space Communication Networks”, November 2004. Malakooti, B., “An Interactive Multiple Criteria Clustering Method with Application to Intelligent Mobile Agents”, July 2004. Presentations Malakooti, B., Robinson, B., Teber, A., Thomas, I., “Adding Intelligence to the IP-Network Layer with Application to Space Based Networks”, 2004 Core Technologies for Space Systems Conference, November 8-10, 2004. Malakooti, B., Thomas, I., Robinson, B., Bhasin, K., Holtz, A., “An Intelligent Internet Protocol Architecture for Space-Based Networks”, SIW-4: The Fourth Space Internet Workshop, June 8-10, 2004. Malakooti, B., Endres, S., Bhasin, K., Holtz, A., “Deep Space Network Emulation”, SIW-4: The Fourth Space Internet Workshop, June 8-10, 2004. Refereed Proceedings Malakooti, B., Thomas, I., Bhasin, K., Holtz, A., “A Framework for an Intelligent Internet Protocol for a Space-Based Internet”, 22nd AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference & Exhibit 2004 (ICSSC), May 9-12, 2004. Malakooti, B., Endres, S., Griffith, M., Bhasin, K., Holtz, A., “Space Based Internet Network Emulation for Deep Space Mission Applications”, 22nd AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference & Exhibit 2004 (ICSSC), May 9-12, 2004. Malakooti, B., Youchul, J., Bhasin, K., Teber, A., Mathewson, J., Wang, D., Xu, Z., “Multi-criteria clustering for intelligent tele-communications systems”, 2002 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol.1, pp. 421-426, 2002. Journals Malakooti, B. Z. Yang, “Clustering and Group Selection of Multiple Criteria Alternatives with Application to space Networks”, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 33, 9, 40-51, 2004 Malakooti, B., “Unidirectional Loop Network Layout by a Linear Programming Heuristic and Design of Tele-communications Networks”, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Vol. 15, p. 131-139, 2004

http://www.eecs.case.edu/laboratory/nasa-iip/software.html

Satellite/Planetary Analysis and Visualization

Link	Description
STK	Satellite Tool Kit (STK), by AGI, is an impressive suite of commercial software tools with many space applications, such as: orbit propagation, mission analysis and more.
SaVi	SaVi is open-source software for satellite constellation visualization.
Celestia	Celestia: A 3D Space Simulator

Network Emulation

Link	Description
ONE	“ONE (the Ohio Network Emulator) is a tool that enables researchers to emulate a network between a pair of interfaces on a single Solaris-based workstation.”
Emulab	Emulab is a network emulation testbed at the University of Utah
NET	The Network Emulation Testbed (NET) at the University of Stuttgart, Germany provides an emulation testbed for the testing of protocols. The NETShaper emulator resources are here as well.

Network Simulation

Link	Description
ns-2	ns-2 is a discrete event simulator for computer networking research. ns-2 is free, open-source software. Hosted at Information Sciences Institute at USC.
OPNET	OPNET Technologies produces commerical software called OPNET for network modeling and simulation. We are participating in OPNET's University program. Here is a web page describing our work with OPNET.
OMNeT++	OMNeT++ is a public-source simulation environment with primary application to the simulation of communication networks.
QualNet	Scalable Network Technologies develops the QualNet network simulation commercial software.