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S P L E EG C I IA SL L AT E IV D E IT IO “Open the doors to all—let the N children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct, and intellect.” — Townsend Harris, founder cuny.edu/news THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK • FOUNDED 1847 AS THE FREE ACADEMY SPRING 2007 Look Who’s Teaching at CUNY! Inside oming on the heels of a two-year- reputation, linked inextricably to New Daniel Akins, Distinguished Service PAGE The New Knowledge long program to showcase Rhodes, York City's attractiveness as a place of Professor of Physical Chemistry and 2 Economy CTruman and Goldwater scholars employment and cultural cornucopia, has Professor of Chemical Engineering at CUNY is training the key players in a and other outstanding student stars, played an important role in rebuilding the CCNY and the CUNY Graduate Center, global economy that demands increasing Chancellor Matthew Goldstein has ranks of our full-time faculty—an ongoing heads the Center for Analysis of Structures numbers of degree holders. announced the next phase of The City priority in our work with state and city and Interfaces; Hunter’s Jill Bargonetti, University of New York's outreach officials.” Professor of Biological Sciences, and efforts—a comprehensive program to Among the distinguished Derrick Brazill, spotlight CUNY's faculty. faculty who are teaching at Associate Professor of The new campaign, “Look Who's CUNY are: ‘When you start… Biology, both won the Teaching at CUNY!” features faculty who Dennis P. Sullivan, Presidential Early looking at the are winners of the most prestigious prizes in Distinguished Professor of Career Award for PAGE Young academia and the arts: the National Medal Mathematics and Albert faculties that we have Scientists and 4 Entrepreneur of Science, the American Physical Society Einstein Chair in Science at across this University, Engineers. Buckley Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the the CUNY Graduate Carmen Boullosa, Hunter College’s Music Man, Anthony Academy Award, the National Arts Medal Center, received the you are absolutely Distinguished Lecturer Volodkin, has created and the Bancroft Prize, among others. National Medal of Science; in Foreign Languages stunned by the a music blog that They are among the more than 1,000 Professor of Chemistry and Literatures at depth of talent,’ draws many thou- new faculty who have come to teach at Paris Svoronos of Queens- CCNY, was honored sands of visits daily CUNY in the last seven years. borough Community says Chancellor for the best novel in and is a source of “When you start digging deep and look- College was named Mexico in 2005, for income also. ing at the faculties that we have across this Carnegie/CASE Matthew Goldstein. Reforma; Distinguished University, you are absolutely stunned by Outstanding Community Professor of Music the depth of talent,” said Chancellor College Professor of the John Corigliano of PAGE Goldstein. Year; Maribel Vazquez, Associate Professor Lehman College and the Graduate Center CUNY’s “We want to get that talent to be better of Biomedical Engineering at CCNY, is won the Pulitzer Prize for his Second 6 Black Pioneer known in the marketplace. This is going to studying brain cancer infiltration under Symphony, and an Academy Award for Best Triumph and pain be a multifaceted approach at multiple NIH and NSF grants; Distinguished Score for The Red Violin; Roy DeCarava, marked the life of levels of teaching and scholarship at this Professor of Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Professor of Art at Hunter, William H. Greene, who University.” Sheldon Weinbaum of CCNY has been and Gregory Rabassa, Distinguished in 1884 became the The Chancellor noted that the faculty elected to the National Academy of Professor of Hispanic Languages and first African- program is designed to build upon the suc- Engineering, the National Academy of Literatures at Queens and the Graduate American to graduate from cess of earlier efforts. “We spend time, right- Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine of Center, both received the 2006 National City College. ly so, talking about our very successful stu- the National Academies. Medal of Arts; Distinguished Professor of dents,” he said. “We talked about Truman Distinguished Professor of Physics Humanities Isaac Goldemberg of Hostos Scholars and Goldwater Scholars and Godfrey Gumbs of Hunter is a recipient Community College is Director of the PAGE Rhodes Scholars and some of our students of the American Physical Society's 2005 Latin American Writers Institute and an Decade going on to the most coveted Ph.D. pro- Edward A. Bouchet Award; Michio Kaku, internationally renowned Latino poet, play- 7 of Science grams and the best medical schools and law the Henry Semat Professor of Physics at wright and fiction writer; Michael Wallace, Chancellor Matthew schools and business schools and the great CCNY, is a co-founder of String Field Distinguished Professor of History at John Goldstein’s initiative jobs that they are getting and we will con- Theory; Charles Liu, Assistant Professor of Jay College and the Graduate Center, was to strengthen science tinue to do that as more and more CUNY Astrophysics, College of Staten Island, is co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Gotham: education and students win highly competitive awards. Associate in Astrophysics at the Hayden A History of New York City to 1898. research is in full swing, with profes- “Now, what we really want to do is to Planetarium; Assistant Professor of David Nasaw, Distinguished Professor of sors carrying out celebrate the extraordinary work of a very Astronomy Timothy Paglione of York History and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Chair in projects that could dedicated faculty,” he said. College is Co-Director of the NASA American History at the CUNY Graduate save lives. Detailed information and sample televi- Science, Engineering, Mathematics & Center, is author of the acclaimed new sion and newspaper announcements about Aerospace Academy; Distinguished biography, Andrew Carnegie; novelist CUNY’s outstanding faculty is available at: Professor of Physics Myriam P. Sarachik of Elizabeth Nunez, Distinguished Professor of PAGE City Tech’s www.cuny.edu/lookwhoisteaching. CCNY is a member of the National English at Medgar Evers, won the American 12 Top Chef “While CUNY is rich in scholar talent Academy of Sciences and past President of Book Award for Bruised Hibiscus; June in many fields,” the Chancellor noted, “of the American Physical Society. O'Neill, the Wollman Distinguished Top chefs at the White House in particular interest are the first-class scien- Professor of Physical Sciences Gregory Professor of Economics at Baruch’s Zicklin Washington and at tists, mathematicians, and engineering fac- Aizin of Kingsborough Community School of Business and the Graduate Gracie Mansion ulty that now are teaching at CUNY dur- College is conducting research Center, is former Director of the here in New York ing what we have called ‘The Decade of to develop miniature Congressional Budget Office; David S. are products of Science.’ electromagnetic Reynolds, Distinguished Professor of City Tech’s culi- CUNY's radiation English and American Studies at nary arts program. detectors; Baruch and the Graduate Center, won the Bancroft Prize for Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural PAGE Biography. Grad Center’s 14 Dissertation Room So many theses reflecting years of study and passion sit in this scholarly place, with stories about animals, artists, histori- cal personalities, and much, much more. Professors John Corigliano, Ruth Stark, Jill Bargonetti and Daniel Akins THECHANCELLOR’SDESK Putting Faces on the Decade of Science In New Knowledge Economy, New Yorkers are the Key Players, and CUNY is the Big Training Ground ast month I traveled to Albany to tes- studies the chemistry of elements such as ow’s this for a reality series? tify on the State Executive Budget at technetium, with a goal of developing the Contestants compete for jobs La joint hearing of the New York State chemistry as it relates to the medicinal Hand income based on their edu- Assembly Ways and Means and Senate uses of their radioisotopes. cation, and their home towns survive or Finance committees. • Professor Steve Greenbaum, die based on how much brain power There I spoke about Professor of Physics at Hunter they can generate. many CUNY initiatives College, performs spectroscopic That’s the Darwinian game that’s and programs currently investigations of solids by mag- being played out now across the United underway, and emphasized netic resonance and synchrotron States. Back in 1970, the number of how much we rely on the x-ray absorption, applied mostly people with at least bachelor’s degrees State’s continued invest- to materials for electrochemical was small—eleven percent—and spread ment in order to recruit energy storage and conversion. fairly evenly around the country. But additional full-time faculty Professor Greenbaum received a today, cities have more than twice as and provide the student 2002 Presidential Award for many college graduates, and educated services required to maxi- Excellence in Science, Mathe- people are continuing to gravitate to mize their effectiveness. matics and Engineering intellectual centers like New York, Part of my testimony (available in its Mentoring. Seattle, San Francisco and Raleigh. entirety at www.cuny.edu/statetestimony07) • Professor Christine Li is a developmen- Much has been written about the focused on our “Decade of Science” at tal neurobiologist studying how communi- migration to these intellectual and cre- CUNY. It’s no secret that our country’s cation is established between cells in the ative hubs. Less well known, perhaps, is strength, security, and advancement depend nervous system. She is Professor of Biology the extent to which the economic and on scientific literacy. An acknowledged at City College and earned her Ph.D.

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