Rowan Teams Tackle Alternative Fuels  As filling up at the fuel
pump becomes more and more expensive, teams of Rowan University
professors and students are working on several projects that may
some day ease consumers? pain. Drs. Brian  Drs. Brian Lefebvre
and Mariano Savelski, Chemical Engineering professors; Dr.
Gregory Hecht, Biological Sciences professor and department
chair; and Dr. Patricia Mosto, interim associate provost and
former chair of the Biological Sciences Department, have been
researching developing improved bacterial strains for bioethanol
production.  ?The overall goal is to improve our ability to
produce ethanol from renewable sources. This will help relieve
our national dependence on foreign oil and establish a path to
energy independence,? Lefebvre said.  Funded by the National
Science Foundation, the team members started working in the fall
of 2003 and plan to continue their efforts for at least two more
years. Students have helped conduct this research as part of an
engineering clinic d