Thomas R. and Yolanda S. Stein Scholarship

Born in Joliet, Thomas Stein earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Illinois in 1964. He went on to earn his doctoral degree in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1968. While at Minnesota, Thomas met his future wife, Yolanda Shirley Stein. Born in Panama, Yolanda earned a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Minnesota. In 1968, Thomas Stein joined Mobil, where he held technical and managerial positions in research, engineering, and planning. When he retired in 2002, Stein was general manager of products research and technology of the ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company. Yolanda Stein worked as a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University.

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