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Week of 5 Septmeber 1997 Vol. I, No. 2 Feature Article Former White House aide joins ENG administration Peter Levin, who spent the past year as a White House Fellow, has been appointed associate dean for research and graduate programs at the College of Engineering. While in Washington, Levin served as special assistant to the White House Office of Management and Budget, assistant to the counselor to the President, and expert consultant for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Peter Levin Peter Levin, who spent the past year as a White House Fellow, has been appointed associate dean for research and graduate programs at the College of Engineering. While in Washington, Levin served as special assistant to the White House Office of Management and Budget, assistant to the counselor to the President, and expert consultant for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. "Dr. Levin's distinguished background in applied mathematics and computer simulations combined with his experience in the public sector is an invaluable asset," says Charles DeLisi, dean of the College of Engineering. Levin says his job is threefold: to identify and target external sources of support for education and research, to recruit and support the best graduate students, and to provide vision and leadership for innovative programs. "Despite real dollar cutbacks in government science and technology funding, the coming decade will see several trillion dollars changing hands in the form of foundation and other kinds of philanthropic giving," he points out. "As associate dean it will be my job to find creative ways of attracting this kind of sustenance to the College." Before his White House appointment, Levin was on the engineering faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he founded and directed the Computational Fields Laboratory. He has also been a visiting scholar at Stanford University and a Humbolt Fellow at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. A native of New York City, Levin received his doctorate in 1988 from Carnegie Mellon University. He has published widely on a range of subjects, including satellite navigation, education, and supercomputing applications. In 1991 he was named a Presidential Young Investigator by the National Science Foundation for his work in computational electromagnetics.