Dening Wu Lohez, a Stevens alumna, receives State Farm’s Embrace Life Award
Award recognizes women who achieve success after the sudden loss of their spouse
HOBOKEN , N.J. — Dening Wu Lohez, an alumna of Stevens Institute of Technology, has been chosen from among 350 candidates as one of five recipients of an Embrace Life Award, sponsored by State Farm Life Insurance Co., Bloomington , Ill. The award recognizes women who have achieved success after overcoming the sudden loss of their spouse.
Ms. Lohez’s husband, Jerome, a software engineer for Empire BlueCross BlueShield in New York , was killed in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center . The couple had met while both were students at Stevens.
“He came here as an exchange student from Paris and got his green card in August of 2001,” she said. “One month later, he passed away.”
After her husband’s death, Ms. Lohez left her job as an electrical engineer in New Jersey and used $450,000 in life insurance benefits to earn a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University in New York . She also completed a certified financial planner program at New York University.
Today, Ms. Lohez works as a financial consultant for Hold Brothers On-Line Investment Services LLC, a Jersey City, N.J.-based stock-trading firm, and is a part-time professor of micro- and macroeconomics at New York ’s Pace University .
"I have used some of the insurance money to establish scholarships in Jerome’s memory, including for students from France ,” she said.About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology 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 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time 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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