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Mark Kantrowitz

Mark Kantrowitz

Publisher
FinAid Page, L.L.C.
PO Box 2056
Cranberry Township, PA 16066-1056 USA


Director of Advanced Projects
FastWeb Inc.

President
MK Consulting, Inc.
PO Box 2056
Cranberry Township, PA 16066-1056 USA

+1-724-538-4500
+1-724-538-4502 fax

Web Sites
- FinAid
- FastWeb Scholarships
- FastWeb College Gold
- EduPASS
- Optimal Diagnostics
- Air Traveler's Handbook
- Unclaimed Property Page
- A Pinch of Pittsburgh
- Kosher Chocolate
- Kosher Cookbooks
- Australian Aboriginal Art
- CMU AI Repository
- Polymath Park
  Frank Lloyd Wright's
  Duncan House
  and the Architecture
  of Peter Berndtson
- Testicular Cancer
- CancerPoints
- BRCA
  Breast Cancer Genes

  About Mark

Biography

Mark Kantrowitz is President of MK Consulting Inc. and Publisher of the FinAid and FastWeb web sites owned by Monster Worldwide. He is ABD on a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He has Bachelor of Science degrees in mathematics and philosophy from MIT and a Master of Science degree in computer science from CMU. Mark is also an alumnus of the Research Science Institute program established by Admiral H. G. Rickover. He has previously been employed at Just Research, the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Center for Excellence in Education, Bitstream Inc., and the Planning Research Corporation.

Mark has testified before Congress about student aid on several occasions. He is interviewed regularly by news outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, MSN, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNBC, Bloomberg, Money Magazine, SmartMoney, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, US News & World Report, Consumer Reports, Newsweek, Bankrate.com, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle of Higher Education, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Reuters and the Associated Press. Mark is on the editorial board of the Council on Law in Higher Education and the editorial advisory board of Bottom Line/Wealth (a Boardroom, Inc. publication) and is the Student Loan Guru for FiLife.com (a Dow Jones property).

Notable Honors and Awards

Jefferson Medal
American Institute for Public Service
Special Award
College Board
Meritorious Achievement Award
National Association of
Student Financial Aid Administrators
President's Award
National Association of Graduate and Professional Students
Graduate Fellowship
National Science Foundation
Research Fellowship Grant
Hertz Foundation
Karl Taylor Compton Prize
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William L. Stewart Jr. Award
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Courant Institute Prize for Mathematical Talent 7th Place Scholarship Winner
Westinghouse Science Talent Search
Four-year First Award Winner
Massachusetts State Science Fair
Rank of 10
USA Mathematical Olympiad

Mark is a full member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, the Phi Kappa Phi honor society, and a national member of the Alpha Epsilon Lambda honor society of graduate and professional students.

Activities
Mark is the author of four books, including two about student financial aid. His most recent book, FastWeb College Gold (Harper Collins, September 2006) is a step-by-step guide to paying for college. (The book is an Amazon.com bestseller with an Amazon.com sales rank of 96 overall and a rank of 25 in the nonfiction category on November 8, 2006.) He holds six patents, with several additional patent applications still pending. His most recent patent concerns optimizing the scheduling of diagnostic tests for screening and post-treatment follow-up for cancer and other medical conditions. In his spare time Mark folds origami models, repairs antique battery-operated toys, creates stained glass panels, collects Australian Aboriginal Art and plays with his cats Nash, Joto, and Tweety.