Spring 2009

Contentstable of Vol. XXIII • No. 1 • Spring 2009

9 Reflections 13 Science for the Future President Christoph M. Kimmich The Fine Art of Medicinal Chemistry Reinventing Computing Saving the Planet AREAC

DEPARTMENTS Editor-in-Chief Art Director Brooklyn College Magazine Pat Willard Joe Loguirato is published by the Office of Communications 2 From Our Readers Associate Editors Senior and Magazine Brooklyn College Stephen Garone Designer 4 Top of the Quad 2900 Bedford Avenue Elaine Weisenberg Lisa Panazzolo 24 College News Brooklyn, New York 11210-2889. Contributing Editor Production Assistant Copyright © 2009 Brooklyn College. 31 Faculty and Staff News Joe Fodor Mammen P.Thomas E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.brooklyn.cuny.edu 35 Alumni News Writers Staff Photographers 36 Foundation News Jamilah Evelyn Claudia Mandlik Lisa Lincoln John Ricasoli Front cover: Molecule of 38 Alumni Newsmakers Ernesto Mora life-threatening virus 41 Class Notes Richard Sheridan Back cover: Free Speech on the Quad, 48 Recent Books Class Notes Editor April 2009 Eileen E. Howlin 50 In Memoriam 52 Endpaper 2 Readers 2 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 rmour from Editor Willard Pat over us to years. given the have his Kimmich, and Graham support—he Flora kind Dr. the write wife, miss to we’ll pleasure and our him, been It’s about man. reveal the College about his the much on at and tenure education thirty-six-year public than of more years. role ten the almost on serving thoughts after His office leaving magazine was the he to as gave Kimmich M. 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College on Brooklyn conducting are scientists teaching our importance. be utmost will the knowledge of and in future understanding a scientific for which students its training to and commitment facilities in its science period renewing science—a is of University decade the the which be to 2015 to 2005 proclaimed has CUNY reason, these this in For days. necessity complicated a becoming is literacy Scientific Editor: the From naohrnt,w oeyuejyteinterview the enjoy you hope we note, another On current best our of some about read will You work the examines issue this mind, in that With ucs npplrmscwt the with music a popular be in to success one allow which skills musical an as ‘anti-cellist.’” identity new a crafting essentially instrument— the “redefine to who wished someone with playing have happy would been section cello the I that for Orchestra, doubt Conservatory the didn’t in he again,” play cello the after up that, “picked trust he I attitude.” roll his and experience “rock to having from Chorus College Brooklyn the of dedicated members the sparing thus again,” his cello up Mr. “pick that to am chose I Lonberg-Holm happy how you tell wanted to I 1988. of Fred Class about Lonberg-Holm, article your read and just 1988 have to 1972 from Brooklyn Chorus the College of conductor the was I Editor: the To Newsmakers Alumni work. excellent the up Keep reminisce. simply drive campus…and I the Brooklyn, by visit to occasion had time I’ve every yet, sites; awe-inspiring seen some and Canada) (and country our the for wors[e]. some course, of and, the better for ways some members; most tribal of life the changed has dramatically gaming Indian of advent The issues. legal and strategies on management entities these advising and consulting country, the throughout organizations tribal American Native of with years working thirty to devoted been has days. younger free-spirited of and memories fond it stir magazine; to the helps enjoy much very do I Editor: the To laed o qaeteminimal the equate not do Please of states all virtually to traveled I’ve life work my of part unusual The r oehPuhnt,’71 Pluchinota, Joseph Dr. incredibly high level of skill required just with Professor Paul Willliams to design A Correction to attempt a career in what is commonly and build BC’s first television space in the In putting together a magazine, we do our called classical music.Your article is full of mid-fifties. best to be accurate. In the fall 2008 issue what you must think are clever-sounding Our wonderful mentors,“Skip” we made the kind of mistake that kept phrases. But they are an insult to those of Davidson (whose son, Gordon, was a us up for many nights. As Mr. Feinberg us who have dedicated our lives to very well-known stage director for years) rightfully points out, the picture we used on training tomorrow’s classical musicians. and “Doc” Foster, did some extraordinary the back cover does not show Larry Gold Professor Emeritus Harry Saltzman productions in that cramped space. I can with Paul Newman. Larry did, indeed, only imagine what they might do in the accompany and drive Newman around, but Dante Negro proposed performing arts center! somehow Glen Frontera got into the picture. To the Editor: Doris Jacoby Despite identification from three separate The Brooklyn College Magazine serves as (neé Doris Faith Rosenzweig, sources on the archival photograph, we got an important communications medium professionally Doris Storm) it wrong. When we called his parents, for our entire BC community. By reading Hilary and Arlene Gold, to make our the fall 2008 issue I learned of the passing Paul Newman apologies, they quickly forgave us and lent of Dante Negro of which I was unaware To the Editor: us this terrific photo to show the real Larry. even though I was an adjunct lecturer at Liked your fall 2008 issue.The “Paul Newman the College for over twenty-five years, and the Brooklyn Kid” back cover really 1949 to 1974, in the Romance Language caught my attention, because I was a Department and previous to that a BC student at the time and remember his student from 1940 to 1946. I knew Dante visit. I was also a film student with Larry as a colleague. So thanks to the magazine, Gold and knew him well. But in looking we are all appraised of the good at the photo, the tall fellow standing to happenings as well as the sad. Newman’s right does not look like Larry Paul Ash Gold, as you’ve designated. Forgive me if I’m mistaken about this, but that fellow Performing Arts looks like Glen (don’t recall his last To the Editor: name), who was another film student After reading of the new performing arts at the time. I’m almost sure it’s not center to be built at dear old BC, I Larry. Glen, Larry, and I took many film couldn’t help but think back to my days classes together. putting on shows in 4200 Boylan Hall. If I’m wrong, my apologies. But I was part of the Class of ’47, along another film student at the time, who I’m with Fred Hellerman of the Weavers, presently in touch with, made the same Marvin Kaplan of TV sitcoms, and Ben observation about the photo. No big deal. Hammer of the New York stage.There Just thought I’d mention it, though you’re 2009 SPRING MAGAZINE COLLEGE BROOKLYN were some 20 of us who lived for probably already aware of it. Masquers and the Varsity Players; Steve Feinberg amazingly, 17 or 18 of that group made our livings—and sometimes still do—in theatre and television. Many of us still get together about once a year in Manhattan. My association with BC continued for quite a while: My husband, Frank, then one of NBC’s first TV directors, worked

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F What else can a skeleton“Bones tell can you? give evidence of diseases, such as rickets, Bonnie after thirty-seven years inundergraduate the classroom courses teaching Human the OsteologyAnthropological and Perspectives on Sexual Behavior,retiring. Gustav is A physical anthropologist,the Gustav participated excavation and in analysis ofmajor skeletal sites remains as at the such Dickson(Serbia), and Mounds Mendes (Illinois), Sirmium (Egypt), where,crew, among as the the local lead identifierremains, and she excavator was of known human as “mother of the bones.” What is it about bones? “Without a burial context orfrom lab, the you reign can’t of tell Ramsesvictim, a but II skeleton you from can that tell ofpopulation the a affinity, inferred deceased modern person’s from murder age, genetically sex,characteristics, based or such as ‘Inca bones,’ anconfiguration island-like of skull sutures.” with Boning Up and John Jannone 66 D A U Q E H T F O P O T 66 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 I Harmonies Brooklyn ed ot.I soeo nyahnflo similar of handful a country. only the of around one programs is special- It and at-risk, youth. low-income, needs of lives the mission: transform social to a has program El Orchestras––the Like Children’s and Youth College. of the System from National Sistema––Venezuela’s blocks 152, P.S. few from a students just located forty-three trained those turn year, in This musicians alumni. recent undergraduates, and Music students, of graduate about Conservatory of dozen group half a a in trained Sistema Program El Harmony world-famous the Venezuela, the on approach students. its school Modeling elementary to to program instruction pilot musical a provide for students recently College Program Brooklyn Harmony recruited the Affairs, Academic CUNY’s of within their Office Housed for responsible Program. organization Harmony happens the training—the just of which name harmony, the in be play to to and skills their off minutes. several for book music his has far so duet. else a everyone in to because practiced well, expecting as was on He called it. be handle Kawan solo, can’t seven, practice cello also a in Joseph, for B.A. her a on with calls spring performance, this of College Conservatory Brooklyn the of from Music instructor, graduate Xiang’s will when who Cho, And Hyejin her it. playing carrying alone of let capable sweatshirt cello, looks pink hardly bright ponytail, her fuzzy in and tiny so “focus.” seven, word Xiang, flute, that cello, Katherin like violin, percussion the and on trombone, week trumpet, a kids days the five training school here The after are focus. who to and students now, still—and p.m. College sit 4 Brooklyn to past asked It’s being still breakfast. they’re free a receive can they Philharmonic. the Brooklyn mention the to like places not from school, guests the important of been rest they’ve the what to showcase learning will they upcoming which and in sign are to concerts have There parents them. their interview forms to release want BBC and NBC from ui sdutn nuh u o l hs reporters these all now but enough, daunting instrumental is play music and read to Learning at third-graders and P.S. 152. second- Brooklyn’s these for much so all just t’s hs ee-adegtya-lsaeegrt show to eager are eight-year-olds and seven- These with fiddling been who’s Joseph, complains her?” “Only so a.m. 7:30 at school at arrive kids these of Many colae.Eeyn svr xie bu it.” about excited their very of is respect Everyone schoolmates. and admiration the eligible crowd. earned ‘in’ is the They’ve and funding.“They’re lunch federal free additional universal poverty for has the school below the or that at level P.S. live of students principal enough Farkas, where Rhonda 152, says are,” really they and as such city, the Hall. around Carnegie venues and famous lectures, at concerts, events attend other to opportunity They the supplies. have other also and books, provided instruments, are musical children with The CUNY. and Councilman Stewart, City Kendall Foundation, Family Bernstein Shapiro the Alma Fund, and Independence Morris the the from Foundation, funding Community received has of It Department City Education. 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raveling to lands far from one’s familiar surroundings government to earmark some of their funds as a pool that can be a most rewarding path to knowledge. students can tap for their own travel. Since the inception of the Benjamin A. Gilman “Going somewhere that’s completely foreign, TInternational Scholarship program in 2000, four Brooklyn immersing yourself in a culture that is so unlike anything College students have nabbed the prestigious study-abroad you’ve ever known…” muses Browne before he goes award. They’ve traveled to China, Italy, Switzerland, and speechless. “I can’t even put it into words. I just think Egypt. Brooklyn College Magazine recently checked in with everyone should go.” the latest two to return from their journeys. Senior Jillian Justh, a linguistics major, actually ended up Junior Jamar Browne, who majors in business, returning her scholarship after she got to Egypt and management, and finance, went to Schiller International revised her goals. “Of course I wanted to do everything University (also known as the American College of the hard way,” she says, explaining that her scholarship Switzerland) in Leysin, near Geneva. money would still have left her about $1,000 short of her Witnessing from abroad the financial crisis at home tuition and fees at the American University in Cairo, not to and the election of the first black president was a unique mention the cost of accommodations and food. “My main experience for him. goal was to learn Arabic, and I thought I could do that if “Switzerland is the hub of social justice,” says Browne, I lived in Cairo on my own.” who grew up making frequent visits back and forth So she contacted some friends of friends and ended between the Caribbean island nation of Grenada and the up moving around Cairo for some two months. “I had United States. “Everyone was rooting for Barack Obama, taken Spanish for a year at Brooklyn College and got an A, so there was a lot of excitement when he won.” but I couldn’t speak it well until I went to South America At the same time, the reaction to the financial crisis for two months and immersed myself in it. I decided that was widespread disappointment. “So much of the world would be the best way to go about learning Arabic, too. looks to America for direction,” he says. “Policies are I would hang out with a big group of Egyptians and just formed around forecasts of what the Americans will do. write words down and ask a lot of questions,” says Justh, Most people thought we had finally outdone ourselves.” who knew four Arabic words before the trip. “I won’t say Browne took four courses and also scored an I’m completely fluent now, but I can definitely hold a internship with the university’s marketing department. His conversation in Arabic.” experience was enhanced by the opportunity to travel Justh, who had previously traveled to Ecuador through a 2009 SPRING MAGAZINE COLLEGE BROOKLYN around Europe, visiting Paris, Rome, and Zurich. CUNY program and to Poland and Colombia independently, “They are some of the most beautiful places in the took the spring semester off to travel to Colombia again, to world,” says Browne. He notes with appreciation that “pizza practice her Spanish. She is also conducting research there was cheaper than water in Rome,” and he marvels over for her senior thesis, in which she plans to compare the their art and architecture.“You just can’t lose,” he says. displacement of Palestinians and Colombians. In fact, the travel bug bit him so hard that he came An Honors Academy student, Justh is not sure what back intent on encouraging others to learn through travel. she will do when she graduates, but she’s hoping it involves During the spring semester he kept busy lobbying the travel. “I know I’m getting a good education, so I will have various factions of the Brooklyn College student options,” she says. —J.E. 7 D A U Q E H T F O P O T 8 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 tdighsoywsjs ato that.” of part just was history studying and all-American, I be here to got wanted I time the could From we emigrate. so States, in United relatives the had to we had Fortunately we leave. 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BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 9 In the midst of a busy spring schedule—and giving no In January, President Christoph M.to Kimmich retire announced from his Brooklyn plans Collegeyear. at Since the then, end much of ofimagine this the what academic community the has College attempted hefor to has thirty-six called years his will professional be home like without him. indication of slowing down fromgraciously his sat duties—the down President with usBrooklyn to College reflect and upon his his hopes time for at its future. Reflections An Exemplary President Looks Back at His Extraordinary Times. by Pat Willard 10 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 H C I M M I K pnamsin,gnrleducation, general admissions, open whether conversation, the national of larger themes the to sensitive been CMK: experience? overall your about thoughts your share you participant—can well a historian—as as a As College). certainly the and University the in of sorts, rebirth, a and the curriculum, of core creation the instability, fiscal to enrollment open in (from and University campus the on changes of lot a BCM: back. looked never I the and by notion, captivated was I high quality. of education affordable an with students provide to American, quintessentially so commitment, the enormously— me to something appealed in, that involved be to be of, to part opportunity an … opportunity an see offered to College long Brooklyn me that take didn’t It private. been had school, graduate through kindergarten from education, my entire fact in and University, Columbia at private recently at most taught institutions, had I matter. that for Brooklyn of in institution learning—or public higher a I in time foot first set the had was it College, the at CMK: University? City the and College Brooklyn to you attracted What belt. your under grants prestigious few a and University Oxford and College Haverford from degrees have You the Department. of History member young a as 1973 BCM: College the at career your On o aet h olg in College the to came You hnIcm o ninterview an for came I When rolnCleehsalways has College Brooklyn nyu iehr,yuv seen you’ve here, time your In tdnsa nesadn fthe of understanding an students give could we them, overwhelming without how, to was tried answer we question Department the the History, In of do. to meant is core the what college.That’s world beyond the for them educate equip to and historian; a scientist, or a musician, of a eyes the through whether was world, it the at looking of different ways to them expose to advanced study; for foundation solid a have CMK: its development? in you governed ideals What component. history the specifically curriculum, its develop to helped BCM: that. full of took advantage we And education. in higher changes promising were, ground, it the as on test to freedom experiment, the to has it public that a is being institution of glories the of One news. national made we example, for curriculum, we core When the introduced terms. own its on very much responded it But and accountability. standards to return the or Department History the in Teaching ewne u tdnsto students our wanted We paigo h oe you core, the of Speaking o.Yu kntuhnd You toughened. skin Your you. for experience learning an enormous was CUNY of Chancellor Interim BCM: same. the quite it’s never but informal, and formal settings, various in students by with contact meeting classroom of loss up the make for to tried I’ve knowledge. first-hand from to them position about a talk in be I that and concerns, interests their of abreast I remain that students, with not touch I lose that administrator, an me, as to even important was It it time deserved. the teaching give could longer I no found I office when took President, I as until taught I rewarding. CMK: in being classroom? miss the you Did teach. you didn’t house, the of side administrative BCM: today. world our of much shaped so has which the West, the of of but idea States United the of Europe or of just not understanding an world, Western the of development o aesi htsrigas serving that said have You hnyujie the joined you When ecigi enormously is Teaching BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 11 One of your most far-reaching After little hiring for more I called some sixty-odd It has to be said that one of students—out of the blue—and asked them about their experienceBrooklyn at College? What wereseeking you to discover? CMK: students, to introduce myself, hear about their experience at theask College, them what they woulddone. like to It see was anI enlightening heard exercise. what the Collegethem, meant what to they thought of thewhat faculty, they thought of theirstudents. fellow It was marvelous.got But an I earful I also wouldhad—complaints rather about not the have state of the campus, about how students were treated. All that helpedconceptualize the me student-centered campus. BCM: the clear improvements in theten last years is faculty recruitment. What has that meant to theCMK: College? than two decades, the Collegefortunate was in being able tosignificant bring numbers in of new faculty. More than half of thehas teaching come faculty here in theAnd last you ten can years. tell thebring difference: new they talents and newfresh energies, ideas, a commitment to students, a strong interest in thechanges College. the campus That culture, changes what we do and howthe we new do faculty it. that It willCollege’s is shape future, and the we cantoward move that future with confidence. BCM: goals was for the Collegemore to of become a resource foryou Brooklyn. feel that Do you succeeded in this? Is that why, before your first To be student-centered trumps You started your presidency with an ambitious agenda thatmake would Brooklyn College a modelpublic of higher education. Chief among the goals you set outthe were campus to more make student-centered, more technologically advanced, and financially strong. Having achieved these goals, of which amongyou them most are proud? CMK: everything. Technological advances and financial strength are necessary because they make a student-centered campus possible. Student-centered means that everything we do—how we shape our programs, how we teach, how we mentor and counsel, how we stimulate an interest in cocurricular activities—gives students the kind of preparation they need for productive careers and satisfying lives. Our alumni, as goodall as measures, any are by a model for me. BCM: day at work as President, you called On your presidency BCM: The City University is a learned a lot about yourself.elaborate a Can little you on whattransition that and experience were like? CMK: formidable institution, and as Chancellor, even Interim Chancellor, you’re always in the limelight.that position I at held a timeUniversity when was the under siege, as someone said, subjected to harsh criticism by politicians and inpress—and the even by its ownwhen faculty controversial decisions had to be made, as for example,remediation abolishing at the senior colleges. In speaking for the University,count I on could the supportat of the colleagues Central Office, ofof members the Board of Trustees, andvarious of colleges. the In fact,point I of made visiting a all thegetting colleges, to know what theyhow were they like, were led andand administered, what distinguished one fromothers. the It was astood crash me course in that good steadback when to I Brooklyn came College. Meeting with students on September 11, 2001 KIMMICH

CMK: Brooklyn College is Brooklyn’s CMK: There are new faces, new Presidential Highlights at a college. We participate in community programs, new buildings. We pride Glance 2000–2009 building, assist with neighborhood ourselves on what we do in the revitalization, play a prominent role in classroom and laboratory, challenging Academic Quality Enhanced: the public schools, use the borough students and helping them succeed; • 273 new faculty members—more than as a laboratory or source of research. we pride ourselves on creating and half of the full-time teaching faculty— We benefit and thrive if we are part disseminating knowledge; we pride have joined the College since 2001; of the borough, which looks to us to ourselves on a beautiful and well- • First Honors College class admitted, educate its sons and daughters. And, functioning campus.The enemy, it 2001; of course, it is great fun to be part would seem to me, is complacency. of Brooklyn’s renaissance. We must always be ready to adjust • Core curriculum revised, 2005–2006. and adapt, be alive to changes in BCM: When you came into the the disciplines, able to find ways that Student Success: office, the country was on the crest allow us to be more effective— • Enrollment increased 11 percent since of a boom (just before—or at—the though never at the expense of our 2000; bursting of the dot-com bubble). basic values. Now you are governing a public • Mean high school averages have institution that is at an even more BCM: Are we where we want to be? increased from 80.6 in 1999 to 86.3 critical juncture, economically Is there unfinished business? in 2008; speaking. What challenges do you CMK: The College never stops being • Retention and graduation rates foresee in maintaining an economic a work in progress. Looking back, and increased through the establishment lifeline for the College and its looking ahead, we are concerned of the Magner Center for Career students? What lies ahead? about maintaining enrollment and Development and Internships, CMK: There are always pressures attracting top-achieving students, The On-Course Advantage (TOCA), from the outside. We’re being asked about supporting the faculty even the freshman-year program, and to be more efficient and to be more in their research and day-to-day improvement in student support accountable. We’re going to have activities, about modernizing services, academic advisement, and a to compete for resources without programs and how to best organize revamped scholarship office; sacrificing quality. But we have seen ourselves for that. • Technology enhanced across campus hard times before, and we have with more computers, labs, and managed to survive, even prosper. BCM: What is your assessment of the innovative portal applications. These last ten years were very College today compared with when productive. We built, hired, expanded, you became President in spring 2000? Physical Campus Transformed: became more diverse. We could CMK: Wherever you look––quality of • Morton and Angel Topfer Library Café strike off in new directions, we could students, faculty, and staff; opened 1999; expanded in 2006; experiment. We now live in tighter innovativeness and depth of our • Brooklyn College Library, renovated times, and that limits our options. programs; expansion of our campus and expanded, 2002; But that doesn’t mean that we lose facilities; growth of endowment and momentum. My successor will inherit accomplishments in fundraising; • West Quad building construction a place that is lively, stable, thriving. strength of faculty leadership and of began in spring 2003; due to open in It is academically superior, financially the senior administration; supportive fall 2009; sound (not least through the cushion and loyal alumni––we have done • New performing arts center, our alumni have given us with their exceedingly well. That’s a tribute to construction to begin summer 2009; gifts), and has modern facilities and all who have devoted thought and an enviable reputation. hard work to the College, and it has • Roosevelt science building, in the given me enormous pleasure to have design phase. On your personal experience had the opportunity to lead the and the future College during this period. Fundraising: BCM: Looking back, what do you see • Since 2000, capital campaign raised as the major change in the time of $85 million. Five endowed chairs have your presidency? been established since 2005. BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009

12 by Ernesto Mora

Medicinal breakthroughs are no ordinary feat, and they don’t come cheap. It takes years of experimentation and grant-seeking––and the work is not necessarily done in the luxurious laboratories of the big pharmaceuticals, but in laboratory institutions such as Brooklyn College.

Scientists know this––especially those like chemistry professors Maria Contel and Roberto Sanchez-Delgado, who are devoted to developing compounds to combat cancer and malaria, respectively, and Richard Magliozzo, who studies antibiotic resistance.

Brooklyn College Magazine asked them to delve into the complexities of their work to illustrate how scientists strike a fine balance among the human, technical, and financial resources available to them without compromising their findings. 14 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 Y R T S I M E H C L A N I C I D E M 17mlin hti nadto oanal 1million College. $1 the nearly joining a before to received addition he in award worth is and That Health million. of $1.7 Institutes Infectious National and the Allergy of of Diseases Institute TB, National of the strains by drug-resistant funded study to project five-year a his resistance. began antibiotic he on where the Medicine, research at of worked College he coming Einstein 2000, Before Albert January in INH. College to Brooklyn resistant TB to common strains both the studying of decade some past and the the spent of has part Magliozzo the better 1981, at in Ph.D. Center his Graduate obtained CUNY who graduate College Hunter A Discovery Scientific of Paradox The patient. a in TB cure to INH allowed efficacy. mechanism its the behind explain the could and nobody patients, marketing of industrial treatment for approved drug and the tested after was even that Physical explains in Magliozzo Professor Chemistry, Levy-Kosminsky combating The in disease. promise the shown had that naturally vitamin a occurring B3, or nicotinamide, studying were scientists while until choice ago. of years drug fifty-seven the 1952––only become not did disease, the against antibiotic tuberculosis, potent Mycobacterium most the (INH), Isoniazid that century. last been of the have case during to the eradicated Take believed erroneously thriving. scourge from a it tuberculosis, inhibit to way a finding urnl,hsrsac aoaoyi ntels erof year last the in is laboratory research his Currently, what determine to years fifty nearly science took It discovered was antibiotic oral the says, Magliozzo fact, In noting says, Magliozzo eradicated,” never was “It h raimta causes that organism the gn before agent pathogenic a understand fully to need scientists that is design drug about misconception common A TB NOT OR TB N u r o ue eas h nyemutants enzyme the because cured not are but INH to faulty. reaction is necessary drug the the study, but activate normally, a bind completed still recently can team mutation INH his another and of he case which the on In INH activate place. to takes reaction normally the where iron group) drug an (heme center, the atom catalytic block bacterium’s enzyme the the reaching of from mutations the of some that longer no is the drug.” KatG in that why, INH, activating to understand resistant to cases try of to majority but drug to new not a is design goal our explains,“because Magliozzo research,” disease. the of strains INH” drug-resistant of common function less of the loss in “the call they what understand to therein colony—and a one rub. slowly, into the very grow lies grows to TB enough that is true alone is the cell it hit while drug And the of year market. strain same first the the debuted humankind, TB for INH-resistant Sadly TB. eradicate and says. he enzyme,” own bacteria’s the to thanks attacks. outside from wall them cell protects the that building from bacteria the inhibits that molecule new a produces that reaction chemical a triggers it antibiotic, the with treated patient a in molecule INH the KatG––encounters or catalase-peroxidase,as enzyme––known the As it. kill will that drug the activate helps also system) immune body’s the of defense of line first (the microorganisms invading by against used cells molecules blood toxic white the defuse to programmed is that notes. he years,” the over and awards needed, CUNY we several instrument an for Foundation Science Teeaeptet l vrtewrdwohv taken have who world the over all patients are “There example, for discovered, have team his and Magliozzo of universe the of corner tiny very a is “Ours try must they means this Magliozzo, like scientists For day the save to sufficed have would that Normally, possible made is event bactericidal actual the “So bacterium TB the in enzyme the that explains Magliozzo National the from support received also have “I cannot trigger the needed reaction for activation of the drug,” he says. “Or the deadly molecule is made in such low numbers that it doesn’t have the expected toxic effect on the bacteria.This is the population that can spread the drug-resistant disease,” Magliozzo warns. One-third of the population of the planet is infected moreover, will help the drug become more stable and with TB bacteria. So, although only one in ten will develop longer lasting and will facilitate its arrival at its target. By the active disease, it is clear that the threat it poses is great. the same token, because the metal alone could react to THE AGE OF METALS different things along the way and have toxic results, attaching it to an organic compound helps to delay a It is generally assumed that metals are bad for humans. reaction until the drug reaches the target. In fact, some of those that are moderately toxic have In Sanchez-Delgado’s quest to improve existing drugs beneficial effects. For example, metallic-based compounds to combat malaria, he has resorted to ruthenium, a metal that are used to combat certain types of cancer, like he first experimented with over a decade ago, when he cisplatin, have the ability to kill both sick and healthy cells. and a Venezuelan physician were seeking a cure for Then there are those, such as lead and mercury, that can Chagas, an illness that affects about twenty million people have severe neurological consequences on children. across the Americas. Because ruthenium shares some “But there are others that our body needs,” says properties with iron, it is equally nontoxic for the body. Professor Sanchez-Delgado. “Iron, for example, is found in human red cells” as part of hemoglobin, while others, Stealth Attacks such as nickel, molybdenum, zinc, and magnesium,“occur Malaria was ineffectively treated until the advent of naturally and are essential for the human immune system.” quinine, a natural extract of the cinchona tree, in the Then there are those in between––not naturally 1700s. Its synthetic version, chloroquine, developed in the present in the human body but that are not harmful and, 1940s, helped combat malaria for decades until the in fact, may be helpful, according to Sanchez-Delgado. discovery of Plasmodium falciparum, a parasite of the same A Venezuelan native who has been at Brooklyn College genus as the original disease but resistant to the drug. Like since 2004, Sanchez-Delgado has a research program that most drugs, chloroquine has nitrogen atoms that are part aims at using metal-based compounds as potential agents of its active functions, while ruthenium has a metallic ion to fight malaria and other tropical diseases. They may even that can bond to those nitrogen atoms. help to fight cancer. “We take advantage of the affinity between the “While organic-based compounds are difficult to organic compound (chloroquine) and the metal to create manipulate, a new molecule,” Sanchez-Delgado explains. “The metal adding a metal thus cloaks the drug and doesn’t allow the parasite to molecule as recognize it.” part of a The metal helps the drug reach its destination, and medication gives the parasite has no time to react or to bind to the drug you the kind in order to stop it from becoming active. 2009 SPRING MAGAZINE COLLEGE BROOKLYN of scaffold you Sanchez-Delgado, who recently submitted a new NIH need to build grant proposal to continue his experiments, has thus far upon,” he says. tested six different ruthenium-laced compounds with Attaching a different degrees of success. And though they have shown metal to a good deal of promise, he still needs to address such the organic issues as the new compound’s solubility. compound,

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A Claire and Leonard Tow Professor of Chemistry, Contel has Sanchez-Delgado has thus far received an NIH-SCORE accumulated four-year grant for $680,000, and a PRF-ACS two-year during her grant worth $100,000. In addition, he received two postdoctoral years Professional Staff Congress-CUNY grants for 2005 and and as a guest 2006 for a total of $8,000. scientist in universities Sounding a note of caution, he makes a necessary across Europe and Australia clarification: “We are technically not making drugs but is serving her well. what, in pharmaceutical terms, are called lead compounds Gold has been considered a metal with curative that may eventually become a new drug. Many other properties from very ancient times, she points out, and studies are needed before that point is reached.Toxicity today it is being used to treat arthritis, among other ills. studies need to be made, for example. This is a long “Our goal is to prepare gold compounds that process, and if you manage to design one drug in your efficiently treat cancers, we hope with fewer side effects lifetime, you should be glad.” than the standard treatments that use cisplatin and related compounds,” the platinum-based compounds used in A GOLDEN ERA chemotherapy. For Maria Contel, Apoptosis and Necrosis a Ph.D. from the A prolific author who has also been working on green University of chemistry (the design of products and processes that Navarra who has reduce or eliminate the use of hazardous substances), concentrated Contel recently published a paper in the journal Inorganic most of her work Chemistry that she hopes will help her to obtain an NIH in organometallic grant to continue her research. chemistry research, “The paper about our preliminary results specifies medicinal that our compounds turned out highly cytotoxic with chemistry is a leukemia,” she reports with pride. “More so than the recent endeavor. standard compounds,” meaning cisplatin, carboplatin, and Contel’s similarly related compounds. change of focus In fact, one of the five compounds she and her team is related to developed rated successfully in eliminating cancer cells a personal without the toxicity of other metals used for standard experience. Her chemotherapy. Even more interesting, these compounds grandmother, the do not kill cancerous cells directly (a process known as woman who necrosis) but instruct the sick cells to commit suicide raised her, died of (or undergo apoptosis). brain cancer shortly after Contel took up her post at And unlike platinum-based compounds, Contel’s Brooklyn College in 2006. compounds have little interaction with human DNA, which “She wanted me to become a physician,” Contel means that a mechanism alternative to the one for platinum recalls with fondness. “‘When are you going to do and ruthenium compounds may be, in fact, operative. This research on cancer?’ she used to hound me all the time. is important because it can explain the higher cytotoxicity Later I understood that, as a chemist, it’s important to of gold compounds to tumor cell lines that are resistant to participate in medicine.” platinum-based drugs. It may also be helpful in developing Because her doctoral studies concentrated on the drugs with fewer side effects than platinum-based drugs. preparation of gold compounds, the research experience BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 continued on page 30 16 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 17 Reinventin g “It can go forward, backward, spin in this direction, then sensors. This object isthat the will brains interpret of instructions the downloaded robot—thecomputer. to piece He it then from shows a attach how to the the wheels ports and motors for on the the robot brick. to There’s know evencan when a promptly it sensor display has the been wordif “ouch” touched, so on and desired, the it a LCD feature screen with which a Langsam high-pitched demonstrates squeal, tostudents. a chorus of laughs from the that, and then do a littlebuilt dance,” LEGO he robots explains. to “People water have their gardens and solve a

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His voice booming from the center aisle of the R me-up feel to it, andthe Professor Yedidyah futuristic Langsam metaphor adds when to he pulls out the robot. classroom, Langsam, a thirty-year veteran of theof Department Computer and Information Science,section explains of that CIS in 1.5, this theskills students they will have use been the learningLEGO programming to RCX manipulate robot. a high-tech He“brick” holds outfitted up with a an yellow LCD rectangular and several buttons and ROBOTICS

Rubik’s Cube. It all depends on how clever you are in writing the program.” In this introductory computer programming class, designed by Langsam and his colleague Distinguished ProfessorTheodore Raphan, students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics— collectively known as the STEM fields— learn the basics of programming first and foremost. But they will also be testing their programming “We find that by creating a course that’s specifically prowess on these robots and acquiring a foundation in tailored for students in the sciences, we can give them a interfacing with machinery. real sense of the pulse of their fields.” Raphan and Langsam, trained as an electrical engineer and a chemist, respectively, found a home in the CIS Pumping Up CIS Department because they had already intersected with What’s more, while enrollment in computer and computers so much in their fields. They understand that information science as a whole is down substantially across their students will need the same kind of CIS foundation. the country, the need for programmers—and the While not quite the world that Brooklynite Isaac prevalence of their contributions to science-related Asimov envisioned, industries that are being transformed fields—is only increasing. “Programming is as fundamental by creating robots programmed by computers are the as algebra now,” says Raphan, who has also been at the environment in which STEM students will work. Surgeons College for thirty years. By designing a course that latches will use robots for greater precision, employing methods on to the sexy STEM fields, Raphan and Langsam are that lead to quicker healing times for patients. In helping to keep CIS relevant, says Professor Aaron engineering, a robotics revolution is, perhaps predictably, Tenenbaum, the outgoing chairperson of the department. already under way. Stem cell researchers are among the “In the profession as a whole, we’ve had a problem with scientists who hope to use robots to automate their glazed eyes in classrooms for some time now, partly experiments, multiplying the speed at which data can be because a lot of professors became complacent,” he says. collected and analyzed to facilitate the creation of drugs “One solution was to get the students to be more to treat such diseases as cancer. involved in activities in the class rather than just being Many of the engineering students will frequently be lectured to. Robots help the students to learn by doing. called on to do programming in their jobs, which is the Raphan and Langsam understand that.” reason that the Coordinated Engineering Program advises Raphan and Langsam have been engaged in developing its students to take this section of CIS 1.5, an introductory the science-based programming course for the past three course in C++, the computer programming language years. It started with eight students in the Coordinated that is widely used in the software industry. But even the Engineering Program. STEM students who are not likely to be writing code, Over the years, a large percentage of the students such as the future surgeons in the room, are still greatly who have enrolled in the science-based CIS 1.5 have done enriched by gaining a sense of how the machinery they well; grade distribution and retention have been way will surely be using one day is put together and what its above the norm. Nationally, there is roughly a 50 percent potential uses are. About half of the twenty-two students failure rate for students taking their first CIS course in the course are nonengineering science majors, a group because there is a substantial amount of math involved in Raphan and Langsam would like to see grow. programming, and high school graduates are notoriously “All of the examples I use in class are examples of underprepared in mathematics and critical thinking. But of what these students will be doing,” says Langsam, the the twenty students who took the course last semester, BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 department’s earliest expert on personal computing. thirteen earned A’s. 18 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 19 “When people first started Open Source Support The class at Brooklyn College ispossible made thanks to the open-source thecommunity, share-and-share-alike programming movement that has made available worldwide access to software that might otherwise be too costly. teaching robotics, it wasn't clearto how incorporate it into a C++ class,” Yet C++ has become the language of the job market, “You can use the system on Macs and PCs and across At $200 each, a robot is also an item the department In the classroom, Langsam jokes with the students “This won’t be quite as much fun at home because you explains Raphan. “The roboticswritten programs in were a primarily specialized language.” and introductory courses inof it many are CIS the departments, bread including andCollege.The the butter utilization one of at Code::Blocks Brooklyn fundamental gives tool students that a they canand use debug to them build within their an projects easy-to-use environment. a wide range of hostWindows Vista operating and systems, XP,and including Linux MacRaphan. and OS, Unix “That systems,” was says essentialrich for school, us and because we we can’t aremachines just not or tell a new our software.” students to buy new couldn’t ask students to buy.open-source robot Instead, they emulator adapted that an canCode::Blocks be environment, replicating run how within the the robot LEGO will respond to theis students’ programs. given a Each disk student alongby with Langsam, Raphan, an Lawrence eighty-six-page Goetz, manual thenetwork created department’s administrator, and Amy Delman, an undergraduate student. The manualto shows set students up how their computerinstructions at home and provideson detailed utilizing tools to helpcreate. them They debug are the able codecomputers to they test at their home, then programs come onon to their the class own robot. and run them that “in my generation, realitytoday, was computers blurred have with become drugs, powerful but can enough simulate that other they computers.” won’t have a robot running around“But your I room,” he guarantee adds. that what you are learning will give you a “I’m finding that the students are very motivated and Indeed, Christo Abraham, a sophomore with a double “I’m very interested in cars, and I’ve seen how robots The fascination with robotics is helped by their growing engaged, much more so than theLangsam, general an population,” says alumnus who received hischemistry bachelor’s degree from in Brooklyn College in 1973.about their “They’ve careers, thought and they know where they are going.” major in physics and who anthropology is heading foras a a career has neurologist, already worked in so hospitals, he’sfor seen himself the prevalence of machinery in theBut healthcare field. the appeal of this course for him is broader. have been used to test thehe impact says. of accidents “It on just humans,” seems thatrobotics, and there I’m are sure so that many will uses only for increase as time goes on.” presence in mainstream society as well.Lenneville says Student his Michael curiosity about robotsfriend’s was Roomba, a piqued by commercially available a robot that vacuums, washes floors, and cleans gutters.chemistry But major as who a wants toprofessor become or either a a biomedical university or nuclearLenneville chemistry says researcher, the CIS class’s usefulnessobvious. to “I his won’t field is be also writingof code, but the I experiments that do are know beingnow that done are most in too the complex for field right peopleHe to offers do that by he’s terrified themselves.” ofcourse computers extremely but engaging. has “The found sheer the amountthat of is data being sifted through ishelping crazy. to speed I up know things that thatoverwhelming. robots for are So humans I would see be this class as ridiculously applicable.” Left to Right: Professor Yedidyah Langsam,Professor Albert Theodore Munez, Raphan, and Yon Luo the 1970s, was a chemical plant with a Saving deficient containment protocol. “Arsenic in drinking water does not kill you right away,” says Cheng,“but the it greatly increases your chance of getting liver, stomach, or skin cancer.” The Vineland Superfund project is Planet– searching for the most expedient and safest way for the EPA to remove arsenic from the groundwater and the One WHAT YOU CAN’T SEE sediment beneath it. “Normally they pump the water out, treat it, and pump “Often it’s not what smells bad that’s it back,” says Cheng. For Vineland, he Scientist toxic,” says environmental geochemist adds,“they say it will take thirty years, Zhongqi (Joshua) Cheng, assistant but that may be too optimistic.” at a Time professor of geology. Arsenic, for Are there better solutions? “One instance, is odorless, tasteless, colorless, of the ways to get the arsenic out By Lisa Lincoln and, at low doses, slow acting. “In the faster is to inject additives,” Cheng old days, arsenic was the way wives reports. Preliminary findings show that Across the disciplines, Brooklyn College killed their husbands,” notes Cheng. scrap iron corroding in water could Cheng began to investigate the scientists are at work to help protect us potentially absorb the arsenic. “Or problem of arsenic in drinking water in maybe,” says Cheng,“there is a way to and our environment. We searched 2001 by focusing on Bangladesh, make arsenic stay in the sediment. If it’s where arsenic leaches into groundwater out a few of them to get a glimpse of not in the water, it won’t hurt you.” from natural sources. Now he works Which strategy will be used has yet to their efforts. on a federal Superfund site in Vineland, be determined. New Jersey, that, from the 1950s to

IT’S IN YOUR BONES kidney damage. In children, it is also associated with reduced stature and hen your bones feel like they are chest circumference—evidence, says made of lead, sometimes they are. Dowd, of its effect on long bone W“Despite government regulations, growth. While most data on elevated lead toxicity is still a major problem levels concerns young children, other Dowd then called on a biomechanical in the United States,” says Associate populations are now being studied. engineer at Cornell University to Professor Terry Dowd, an analytic When a recent report in the perform a three-point bending biochemist,“and bone is a major Journal of Bone and Mineral Research technique to see how much weight storage site for lead in the body.” showed an association between the bones could bear. The results “This can be detrimental because elevated blood lead levels and demonstrated that lead decreased bone is remodeled throughout your increased bone fractures in older bone strength. Additional data life,” she explains. During this process, women, Dowd and her research showed that lead produced immature resorption cells dissolve the bone, group decided to treat female mice collagen (bone’s substrate) and releasing calcium into the blood. “If with lead-laced drinking water for smaller bone crystals. “Our results lead is in the bone, it can be released four months. “We looked at their help explain why lead could as well,” notes Dowd. femur bones,” reports Dowd,“and contribute to bone fractures in the Numerous studies have saw a significant difference between elderly,” Dowd notes. “Age-related established the relationship between the control group and the lead- bone loss occurs naturally, but lead blood lead levels of ten micrograms BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 treated group, which had lower bone may exacerbate osteoporosis.” per deciliter and above with brain and density and a larger marrow cavity.” 20 WHEN ODD IS EVEN want to synthesize a compound in Looking for a less toxic, easy-to-use BETTER greater volume and potency than can alternative, Brenner’s research group be harvested from nature. To produce has struck upon a novel formulation hether a process clears our an analog, the industry regularly uses of a sulfonamide, one of a group of Wwater of arsenic or creates metal-based catalysts, which are compounds containing sulphur, oxygen, the SPF 30 moisturizer in our effective—they go through a reaction nitrogen, and hydrogen. The raw medicine cabinet, like all chemical unchanged and produce high volumes components are naturally occurring, reactions, it is facilitated by a catalyst. of the desired compound. “But they abundant in supply, relatively cheap, and But the traditional metal-based can be air or water sensitive,” says unfazed by water. catalysts employed by the Brenner. “If you expose them, it And odd. Whether a chemist is pharmaceutical industry are ones that makes them inactive.” fusing carbon or hydrogen atoms, the you don’t want to ingest or apply Then there are the problems of catalyst used to facilitate the reaction to your skin. The time-consuming removing every bit of trace metal must create asymmetrical bonds in process of extracting them from from the product and disposing of it in three dimensions. “Nature’s the best medications is part of what makes an environmentally responsible way. at doing this,” says Brenner in regard drugs so expensive. Now some to producing chirality––copies of scientists, including organic chemist things that are not entirely the same. Stacey Brenner, assistant professor, “Your two hands aren’t exactly alike. are looking for friendlier ways to Neither are the enzyme- and start a reaction. protein-binding pockets that drug “Organic chemistry is concerned molecules must fit to be effective.” with forming and breaking the bonds Happily, organic catalysts offer a of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that world of asymmetrical possibilities are present in everything in nature,” waiting to be fine tuned, and that notes Brenner. is why, in green organic chemistry, Pharmaceutical companies often

SOLVING THE SOLVENTS green chemistry is to get rid of the large volume of potentially hazardous In the early 1990s, the Air Force solvents in use.” Academy synthesized a novel class of While a handful of low-melting salts unlike any of their culinary cousins. salts were known earlier, they were “If you put table salt by itself in an difficult to work with. The current aluminum pan and turn up the heat, generation of RTILs are easy to the pan will melt before the salt does,” handle and can be produced says Associate Professor of Chemistry relatively cheaply. Even better, they Mark Kobrak. “These new salts, are nonflammable and don’t evaporate. molten at room temperature, were “My research group has exciting and confusing.” It is no wonder that Kobrak is identified the properties responsible Their potentials were, too. For interested in RTILs. “It’s an odd thing for RTILs being fundamentally one, the room-temperature ionic when something exotic behaves so different from conventional molecular liquids (RTILs) act as moderately conventionally,” he says of the molten solvents,” says Kobrak. “It’s not the polar (meaning unevenly electrically salts that mimic molecular solutions. distribution of charge but the size of 2009 SPRING MAGAZINE COLLEGE BROOKLYN charged), organic solvents, suitable “We have a chance to reexamine the ion. The smaller the ion, the for such industrial applications as some of the fundamental ways more charge packed in, the more stripping machine parts of oil liquids work and the way chemistry polar the liquid. If the ions get too and grease. is done.” small or too large, they will not melt “At least 95 percent of chemical Will RTILs answer one of the at room temperature.” Kobrak reactions require a solvent,” says riddles of creating a sustainable acknowledges that, at the moment, Kobrak, a theoretical physical chemist. planet? “In broad strokes,” says RTILs have a limited polarity range, “A solvent is a tool, and you need Kobrak,“you can reproduce a lot of but he believes that his research one with the right polarity to get the chemistry in this unconventional group and others will improve that. job done. One of the challenges in environment, with fewer hazards.” 21 22 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 sJh ar.BetF rnoi soit director. associate is Branco F. 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AREAC’s and clownfish, species, crabs, fifteen horseshoe to fish including ten thousand two representing some invertebrates to and and home biological is of it aspects research, various medical out space. carry workshop to and Equipped laboratory both containing vrtecus fistnya itr ubrof number a history ten-year its of course the Over facility fifteen-thousand-square-foot a is AREAC BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 23 Now Marra seems more cautious. He and Branco “What I’m interested in is developing more of an “My role as associate director has not been put into If Marra and Branco do decide to bring material back The tilapia are part of Schreibman’s aquaculture Whatever changes are made in AREAC, there will still “Tilapia is pretty much a known entity now,” he In addition to such fish species as salmon and carp, Grant proposals to investigate the less-studied have been reviewing ways toits change operations, AREAC’s but focus they and aredetails reluctant until to their discuss plans many are more settled. environmental focus for our research,projects bringing that along are more concerned withand environmental also problems with ecosystem andwarming,” says organism Marra. response to global writing as yet,” adds Branco,up a in Navy submariner a nautical who family. grew I “But will based on build my oninterdisciplinary AREAC’s experience, successes research. I’m and very enhance much our I a sample field chemical, biological, researcher. andaquatic physical systems.This components of interdisciplinary approachway is we the can only find outand how how these they complex respond systems toenvironment.” work outside stressors in the urban to AREAC from places suchto as work Jamaica on, Bay they for willThe students likely largest have room a in giant thearoma cleaning complex of job still sea to has and do. a shoreline.gallon clean It tanks, but is seven tangy filled of with whichthousand three-hundred- hold tilapia, about tasty a fresh-water total fishOreochromis of of niloticus. one the species research. According to lab manageracquires Rob its Dickie, AREAC stock of tilapiafingerlings as from ten- an to upstate twelve-gram fisherymaturity.“Over and a then period grows of them eightthem to or to nine market months size—roughly we two“But grow pounds,” these Dickie fish says. are notto sold homeless at shelters market.They and are outreachAREAC donated makes centers. No a one profit.” at be room for aquaculture, noteslikely Marra,“though look for we other will kindsinstead of of fish tilapia. and even invertebrates explains. “We might seek to domesticate new species.” Marra says,“fish-farming work isbass, being tuna, sturgeon, done and with even striped seaa urchin, high-priced which has seafood become because it’s a popular sushi dish.” species may have a greater likelihood of winning funding. about his fear that Jamaica New York Post John Marra served as a naval officer aboard U.S. Brett Branco earned his Ph.D. from the University of Last June, Marra, still new to his role, spoke with a “With its recirculating water system resembling destroyers before pursuing postgraduate studiesCanada’s Dalhousie at University in Halifax,where Nova he Scotia, earned his doctoratein in 1977. He biological joined oceanography theDepartment Brooklyn faculty College as Geology aafter professor in three September decades 2007 as aLamont-Doherty marine Earth researcher Observatory with at Columbia the University. Connecticut in 2007 and servedFoundation as Fellow a at National the Science Universityuntil of joining Western the Australia Brooklyn Collegean Geology assistant Department professor in as January. reporter for the John Marra, director Bay’s saltwater marshes could completely“Jamaica disappear. Bay is a bigmarine nursery life, and for these all marshes sortsand are shore of a birds,” fish he way and said. station Inmarshes for his was sea view, vital. saving the salt flowing sea water, AREAC is aCoast,” Basil unique says.“It’s facility why on I theStudying came East the to chambered Brooklyn nautilus College. haswork, become and my I life’s couldn’t go on without AREAC.” 24

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South in policing B Professor Winning Fulbright and as sciences” arts the in education superior a provide “to statement mission student-centered revised, its by guided be to commitment the College’s cited and areas, dozen than two fewer no in progress significant and measurable Jersey cited president, New of College and leader team States’s Middle the Gitenstein, the Barbara to R. community, report College exit her In campus visit. four-day a of completion with the April in milestone a reached process reaccreditation Education B Raves States Middle college ubih coasi ostudy to Scholarship Fulbright a won Vitale Alex Sociology of Professor College rooklyn Higher on Commission States Middle decade once-a- College's rooklyn cdmcavsmn;tewr of work the advisement; academic in improvements process; and promotion tenure the in changes Café; Library and library the investments; infrastructure including areas, other in progress visible and significant the on favorably commented also She process. planning overall refined more a and diversity, campus technology, of areas the in reaccreditation last the from suggestions addressed clearly had evaluation self- of period two-year College’s the that adding said, Gitenstein process,” States Middle the throughout self-reflectiveness genuine and success. continued and recent both for architecture academic central the rcie,including practices, policing City’s York New examine 1999. since at College taught the has He CUNY Center. the Graduate at sociology in Ph.D. complete a to York New to came He then homeless. the with dealing for protocols training with police assisted and practices, police monitored litigation, on worked he where Homelessness, on San Coalition the Francisco at first decades, two some hne a matpolicing. impact can changes social and political, economic, how with concerned largely is research His scholarship. his to comparisons international some introducing interested in been long has he says Vitale Politics York New Campaign Transformed Life of Quality the How Teewsarfehn candor refreshing a was “There h uhro eea ok that books several of author The for policing studied has Vitale iyo Disorder: of City (2008), oSuyi Korea in Study to ttsCmiso ilb sudto issued be will Commission States students. graduate to provided services the improving also while offerings of outcomes and relevance, mission, the to in regards programs graduate its assess and revise College the that recommended also committee The leaders. of faculty generation new a for thesupport deepening and it; by bound being without success of history our accepting structure; academic of revision the for process consultative broadly a in engaging performance: College’s the improving for endowment. Foundation’s College the Brooklyn increasing in success dramatic the and Internships; and Development Career for Center Magner the research. conduct and teach to countries 125 nearly to members faculty 1,100 sends understanding—annually international foster to created and Department State the by sponsored program international exchange flagship the of —part crimes.” street in increase an police like the for problems new are some there elections, and of trade form free the in recently up have opened both as a But economy. and closed system political closed a had Korea South ago, years about twenty-five until Up City. York New problems in policing of set new whole a created industry manufacturing the with de-industrialization and Africa.“Globalization in policing impacted have diseases emerging and change climate global to how like study also would he says, that he noting abroad,” and here same the ia eotfo h Middle the from report final A suggestions three had team The h ubih ..Shlrprogram Scholar U.S. Fulbright The are themes the ways many “In Bayoumi Gets Award, Tips Hat to Brave Muslim American Youth oustafa Bayoumi, associate professor of English, at Columbia University, where he studied under the late was more than delighted to hear that his book Edward Said, a founding figure of postcolonial theory. How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young An author of several essays and coeditor of The andM Arab in America (Penguin Press, 2008), received the Edward Said Reader (Vintage Books, 2000), Bayoumi admits 2009 American Book Award, because the people whose that it was hard to imagine that any particular group of story the book tells “get the recognition they deserve.” Americans could be singled out and discriminated against, Established in 1978 by the Before Columbus especially after the hard-won gains of the 1960s civil Foundation, the award is bestowed—by other writers who rights movement and the traumatic experience of Japanese recognize a book’s literary excellence—without limitations Americans, who were confined in prison camps during or restrictions. World War II by the liberal Franklin Delano Roosevelt Trying to respond to the question originally posed in administration. 1902 by W.E.B. Du Bois, Bayoumi interviews second- “You would have thought this would never happen generation Arab Americans from Brooklyn––four men and again,” he points out. “What surprised me is that these three women—who talk about their day-to-day struggles kids were able to tackle the challenges the nation placed in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. upon them.” “The book occurred to me in large part out of To explain why he focused on Brooklyn’s youth, exhaustion from having to write op-ed pieces and answer Bayoumi notes that of 120,000 Arab Americans living in to the specific politics of the day,” Bayoumi says. “I felt that the New York area–– one of the largest concentrations maybe the real story about what the whole process meant outside Dearborn, Michigan–– nearly 40,000 live in Brooklyn. for Arab Americans and the nation as a whole was not “This borough represents America’s future,” he says. being told.” “A city within a city, Brooklyn has this literary aura, and it Born in Zurich to Egyptian scholars, Bayoumi lived in mirrors the future of the United States because there’s no Canada until he moved to New York to complete his Ph.D. single, dominant ethnic group,” he says.

More Than One Ton of Food from BC to Local Food Pantries

ew York State Brooklyn College students whose and Assemblywoman Rhoda S. efforts made the drive a success. families in Jacobs and Brooklyn College “ We pride ourselves on being need. Some NPresident Christoph M. Kimmich a good neighbor,” President Kimmich local pantries wrapped up a weeklong, campus- said,“from working in schools to report they are wide food drive to help restock local participating in the renewal of the on the verge area food pantries with critically Junction to putting a fresh coat of of closing.

needed canned goods, baby food, and paint on a graffiti-spattered wall. The “We provide food for nearly 350 2009 SPRING MAGAZINE COLLEGE BROOKLYN other nonperishable items. Brooklyn food drive gives us an opportunity people every Wednesday morning at College students, departments, and to address the tremendous need of our church,” said Father Michael offices contributed more than one our local food pantries.” Perry, pastor of Our Lady of Refuge, ton of food that was distributed to a With the economic crisis, food who was at the event to pick up his dozen local nonprofit groups. pantries across the borough have church’s share of the food drive. Joining President Kimmich and been hit hard by a recent decrease in “Thanks to Brooklyn College for Assemblywoman Jacobs were donations, skyrocketing food prices, being aware that there are people representatives of some of the and as much as a 500-percent facing hunger in our district and for recipient organizations as well as increase in the number of individuals bringing relief to them.”

25 26 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 S W E N E G E L L O C hsomDyi roln hl yc,wopoue a produced who Lynch, Shola Brooklyn. in Day Shirley Chisholm 25 November declared office Marty Markowitz’s President Borough proclamations Brooklyn read Chisholm. and honoring remarks and gave Perry all Nick Weinstein Helene members Assembly State York Clarke New D. and political Yvette Representative their U.S. Chisholm, of to portion ambition some Often owed they alive. that legacy noting Chisholm’s who keep others to and worked politicians have local Division, many Collections by Special attended library’s was the in reception a followed by event, memorabilia.The of Chisholm collection the Center’s to the Convention from National pass Democratic delegate 1972 her donated who Steinem, urged remember helping for legacy. one Steinem her Chisholm thanked Ms. and call own” to our “proud of was College the that said Tanger Woody the Auditorium. in crowd be standing-room-only to a remarked begin Chisholm, to even for to campaigned about who talking Steinem, true,” was she what of some papers. position campaign and buttons, including videos, documents, original with career political Change, exhibit, for The Catalyst Women. A on Research for Shirley Center the Chisholm Brooklyn and the Program by Studies cosponsored Women’s College exhibit an at Chisholm of Chisholm. Shirley alumni, prominent one most have to its would tribute of she paid before College days Brooklyn few eighty-four, a turned elective just fall, highest nation’s Last the office. for for nomination run party’s to major candidate a black presidential first Party’s the Democratic becoming nomination, the sought she 1972 In I eertsNwExhibit New Celebrates Chisholm, Shirley Alumna to Tribute Pays Steinem Gloria h eaetefrtbakwmneetdt Congress. to elected woman black 1968 first In the became trailblazer. she political own Brooklyn its election, honored Obama’s College Barack of wake the n Uewl h oigpwrfrwihsefought,” she which for power voting the well “Use Kimmich M. Christoph President College Brooklyn for decades four almost wait to had we think “To memories her shared Steinem Gloria icon Feminist eertdCihl’ pioneering Chisholm’s celebrated adru eidhr”Senmadd“h xeddit.” extended the added.“She pull Steinem her,” didn’t behind only up not ladder She woman. great this known television. on read asked would candidate Chisholm the speech when a was write honors to Steinem her greatest door. her House of the White one take the said to off person sign only” first male the “white being with woman credits the often of she recollections intimate many shared Steinem to go will process. students legislative the the award, observe the to of Albany part As and Feliz. Brunet Daphne Soribel scholars Brooklyn Chisholm torch: Shirley Chisholm latest College the the carry of to women members of two generation did as event, the also attended Chisholm, on documentary Award–winning Peabody tie odtecod Ife rtflt have to grateful feel “I crowd. the told Steinem self-willed,” and “smiling as Chisholm Describing Assistant Professor Wayne Reed, Diversity in College Programs Education, for “East New York Teen Summit,” an event that brings some and Faculty Projects Honored two hundred students from East Brooklyn high schools to the College or the second year in a row, Maderie Miller, Center for Worker for a daylong discussion of issues Brooklyn College has received Education at the Graduate Center, facing urban youth. more diversity grants than any to host a national conference to Fother institution in CUNY’s nineteen- discuss the current and historical Professor Jeffrey Taylor, Music, to college system. With ten awardees accomplishments of black women. support a jazz symposium in Brooklyn and a performance by securing grants from CUNY’s Diversity Associate Professors Paul McCabe pianist Randy West. Projects and Faculty Development and Florence Rubinson, and Assistant Fund, the College topped last year’s Professors Eliza Dragowski and Assistant Professor Renee Fabus, total of nine awards. A total of Graciela Elizalde-Utnick, Education, Speech Communication Arts and twenty-one grants were funded for to conduct a national survey of Sciences, to develop a mentoring the 2008–09 academic year. educators, school psychologists, and program to increase recruitment of The awards for grants of up to counselors on barriers to advocacy underrepresented graduate students $5,000 are administered by the for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and in communication sciences and University’s Affirmative Action transgendered students. disorders. Committee, and were created to help faculty and staff members develop Assistant Professors María Scharrón- Professor Juana Valdes, Art, to educational projects, research, and del Río, Graciela Elizalde-Utnick, and support an exhibition at the Jamaica other professional activities that Delida Sanchez, and Instructor Lynda Center for Arts & Learning. Sarnoff, promote diversity and multiculturalism. Education, to assemble Assistant Professor Laura Tesman, The awardees and their projects are: projects that will facilitate a dialogue Theater, to support a multiethnic on diversity within the greater Gertrud Lenzer, ensemble of Brooklyn College students Professor director Brooklyn community. of the Children’s Studies Center, for and professional artists and performers the Child Policy Forum of New York Professor Shuming Lu, Speech to create and perform an original series, a project that analyzes state Communication Arts and Sciences, intercultural, interdisciplinary work that policies aimed at protecting children to develop the College’s Asian/Asian revolves around questions of diversity. from abuse and sexual exploitation. American Studies program. Brooklyn Basketball Teams Have Successful Seasons teve Podias, the head coach of They went on to play in their first the Brooklyn College men’s NCAA tournament in nearly thirty basketball team for the last years, where they played hard but Sseventeen years, concedes that with came up short against St. Lawrence his star players all coming back next University, ending their season at 23-6. year, there was a chance his team Meanwhile, the women’s might get complacent. So he walked basketball team was getting ROLNCLEEMGZN PIG2009 SPRING MAGAZINE COLLEGE BROOKLYN into the locker room after his team pummeled in the first half of their “We had a good chance to win lost to Baruch by one point and told Eastern College Athletic Conference that game, and that’s what I’m most them to remember this moment. game, 40 to 27, but they showed true proud of,” says Alex Lang, head coach “We’re meeting them again and heart by coming back in the second of the team and the CUNYAC Coach revenge is sweet,” he said. to lead the game 66 to 61 with less of the Year. They went on to lose, And sweet it was. A few weeks than five minutes left on the clock. 74-70. But that takes nothing away later the team delivered a twenty- They were taking on State University from a team that matched their best point drubbing to Baruch and won the of New York at Farmingdale, the record ever at 19-6 and won more CUNYAC championship for the first number-three seed and the team games against teams in the CUNY time in more than thirty-five years. with the nation’s leading scorer. conference—nine—than ever before. 27 28 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 S W E N E G E L L O C poem, Lattin, Vernon President Anderson’s Lennart to response in Phrases and Expressions Dietrich’s paintings. that interpreted poems wrote whom of both Asselin, Dan and Dietrich to Theresa going award the with decision, split a was there submissions with deliberations. time their tough a judges the students gave the year, This collection. fine art library’s the from pieces any medium, in interpret, to invited are L Announces Library ots a elyco, adDietrich, said cool,” really was contest Sikander’s Shahzia to response a musical wrote who Williams, Roderic was painting Baumbach’s Harold of interpretation o h undergraduate the For Itogtteie o the for idea the thought “I optto nwihstudents which in art competition annual an launched Library College Brooklyn the year, ast w Windows, Two Aspen. makDsmakI-VI. 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Art Jennifer of Professor and Grubbs, David Music of Professor Assistant Entin, Joesph English of Professor Associate to Sze’s response Sarah in poem a wrote who Kentridge’s Wiliam to response in drawing Branch; John to Walker’s response in poem a wrote Lee’s Edge; Jim River’s to response musical a wrote Doug Schwab’s to response in painting a Quixote; Mellon’s Marc to response in marionette a assembled who h ooal mentions honorable The award the started library “The and professor a Deutch, Miriam h ugsicue Deutch, included judges The or uh,wodda ink an did who Tuohy, Moira arneMui,wodid who Moulin, Laurence lme’ ak,North Marks, Clammer’s con Factors; Echoing Sarah; Typewriter; Day. hitn qiir,who Squitieri, Christina oehPclo who Pacilio, Joseph n u Wei, Yun and dl Lonas, Adele Don BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 29 College format WBCR can be heard on “We’re putting in a line WBCR is located on the “We used to be a Music Journal Top 100 station,” he said. “But right now we’re free form, playing whatever the DJs want.” campus by tuning to AMor 1090 online at www.brooklyncollegeradio.org. through Verizon that will allow us to broadcast via Brooklyn Community Access Television,” third floor of Whitehead Hall. It has a soundproof broadcast booth, two fully equipped control rooms, and a reception area. “The facilities offer all the professional equipment that students need to prepare for careers in radio,” said Boutros. WBCR Turns Forty “We’d like to add educational programming from Boutros said. “It’s designedare to live be DJ-hosted a shows 24/7 weekdays operation.Thereprogramming with between automated 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. 8 to 11 a.m. weekdayan mornings,” he idea, we’ll added. be “If glad anyone to has hear it.” CBS and Elvis Duran and The Z100 Jones frequently supports his alma mater Dick Tracy, the Inner Sanctum Mysteries,

rooklyn College radio station WBCR recently marked its WBCR, which can be heard campuswide, is student- A 1934 graduate of Brooklyn College, Brown achieved

Some of today’s top Assistant Professor Radio Mystery Theater. operated and supervised byand the Radio. Department The of Television station’s firstmoved to home its was current in James location2003–04, Hall. in thanks Whitehead to It Hall a during generousHiman gift Brown. from radio legend fame during the glorydirecting days thousands of of radio, hours producing of and including unforgettable programming, with campus visits and shout-outsMySpace on page. his blog and Morning Show.

B Brooklyn College Radio Station fortieth anniversary at a rockin’ rock ’n’ roll partythe in Student Center, where faculty, staff, and students past and present gathered to celebrate. names in local radio worked at the station during their days as Brooklyn College students. One of those is ScottHerman, A. ’80, executive vice-president of operations at CBS Radio. In a written statement read at the party, Herman said he views WBCR as his “first job in radio.” Mark Boutros, the station’s facultyillustrious adviser, said alumnus another who remembers hisfondly days is at Skeery WBCR Jones, currentlyZ100 executive Radio producer (100.3 at FM) andstation’s producer flagship of program the highly rated 30 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 S W E N E G E L L O C piim ssmtigeeyn nti omrecognizes.” room this in everyone something is optimism, stubborn that perseverance, their that resilience, on That up dreams. give to refuse simply they obstacles, the all despite here—and come They’ve future. our about confident College. is the who at Fei, student Chen accounting and an Fei residents,Yan of newest two city’s resilience he Yorkers’ the New and of College, symbols Brooklyn as of introduced founding the to back harking troubles. economic current the its to from lead would recovery hoped strong city’s he of that package reforms ambitious and an programs outline the to event, on the went hosting mayor thanking for After Kimmich M. speech. 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State 2009 Bloomberg’s for Michael setting Mayor appropriate the was College rooklyn aac n mrv hi i ir’atcne efficiency.” anticancer that vitro’ ‘in alter their improve can and balance compounds the these Modifying of the target. part through ‘organic’ their go reach not to will membranes they cell that much so enough not soluble but compounds the gold on new working of currently preparation are “We says. she least,” hopeful. very is Contel infancy, usin,free rn uncnla oa to lead can discovery. turn valuable wrong asking a stop even cannot for they questions, right, or wrong go things Whether setbacks. and more disappointments for are ready they than so trial-and-error, by proceed must do to up me research.” free more and day-to-day the undergraduate postdoctoral on the a students with get work to can able who be student I’ll College do, with I strictly “If lab funds. her operating been has who environments. different in and results work their their test complete to professors institutions and other laboratories at outside of help the need also students––they postdoctoral and candidates, Ph.D. students, graduate include students, teams––which undergraduate their not of need assistance chemists the three only All necessary. are tools advance to trying research. while his sabbatical who Magliozzo, on says is myself,” year by this this all do can’t “I REQUIRED TEAMWORK Y R T S I M L E A H N C I C I D E M Iko ’ okn tatreya rjc,at project, three-year a at looking I’m know “I its in still is work her admits she Although shmnidhsdn o ilni,scientists millennia, for done has humankind As Contel, states grant,” a get to need I why “That’s and Teams alone. work can scientist no fact, In otne rmpg 16 page from continued BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 31 ’93, Joshua Fogel, (2009). He wrote “Using Child Southern Medical Computers in Human presented “Knowledge, 25 (2009) with Elham 102 (2009). He cowrote CPA Journal Journal “Internet Social Network Communities: Risk Taking,Trust, and Privacy Concerns,” in Behavior Nehmad, ’08. He presented the following at the Twentieth Greater New York Conference on Behavioral Research, in New York City in November:“Religious Affiliation and Workplace Behaviors,” with Nadine McSween, ’06, and Osman Dutt, ’06; “Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Advertisements and Its Impact on College Student Consumers,” with Daniel Novick, undergraduate student; and “Predicting the Purchase of Designer Clothing over the Internet,” with undergraduate student Mayer Schneider. At the same conference, he won the Guzewicz AwardOutstanding for Cross-Cultural Research for “The Internet as a Source of wrote “Physician Customer Satisfaction and Medication Assistance Programs from Pharmaceutical Companies,” in Evaluation of the Risks andBenefits.” Potential Computer and Information Science Rohit Parikh Games, and Tales from the East”National at Tsing-Hua University, in Hsinchu,Taiwan, in January; and atThird the Indian Conference on LogicIts and Applications, in Chennai in January. Economics Robert Cherry Care Tax Benefits in New York State,” in the presented “Rethinking Poles and Jews” at the Graduate Center inCity New in York November. She Journal wrote 694 Alexander Critical Issues Journal of Journal of 20 (2009). Greer Solvent Extraction 26 (2008). Kobrak, 129 (2008). Structural Chemistry Brian R. Gibney Mark N. Kobrak 48 (January 2009). She wrote “Theoretical Studies Experimental Psychology: Applied. cowrote two chapters in in Child Sexual Abuse Assessment (Wiley, 2009):“Dolls, Drawing, Body Diagrams and Other Props: AInvestigative Role Interviews?” in and “Repeated Interviewing: A Critical “Coupled Ion Complexation and Exchange between Aqueous and Ionic Liquid Phases: A Thermodynamic Interpretation,” in and Ion Exchange together with graduate student Hualin Li and undergraduates Murvatand Ibrahim Ismail Agberemi, wrote “The Relationship between Ionic Structure and Viscosity in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids,” in the Chemical Physics Children’s Studies Margaret-Ellen (Mel) Pipe (Psychology) was appointed to the editorial board of the Chemistry cowrote “Gold(III)-Iminophosphorane Complexes as Catalysts in C-CC-O and Bond Formations,” in the of Organometallic Chemistry (January 2009). presented “Modern Methods of Analysis of Zn Proteins” atThirteenth the International Meeting on Trace Elements in Man andPucón, Animals, Chile, in in November. Greer of a Singlet Oxygen-Releasing Dioxapaddlane: 1,4-Diicosa Naphthalene-1,4-endoperoxide,” in Structural Chemistry and Joel F. Liebman, ’67, published “Paradigms and Paradoxes: Energetics of the Oxidative Cleavage ofCompounds,” Azo in 19 (2008). an presented co-presented Inorganic accepted an award presented “Memories I’ll Replace You, wrote “Synthesis of (Metropolitan Museum of presented “Pierre Bonnard: Jennifer McCoy

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Pierre Bonnard:The Late Still Lifes Chemistry Maria Contel Apoptosis-Inducing Iminophosphorane Organogold(III) Complexes and Study of Their Interactions with Biomolecular Targets,” in on behalf of Brooklyn College’s New York State Department of Education–funded Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP) from the Royal Society ofUSA Chemistry, Section, in recognition ofquality the of the STEP academic program, at the Princeton ClubNew York in City in November. Biology Ronald Eckhardt “Almerisa the Milkmaid: Rineke Dijkstra’s Photographic Series of a Bosnian Refugee” at California State University, Sacramento, in March. Art Jack Flam of Greece, Souvenirs of Egypt: The Visual Culture of ExpatriatesHellenistic in Alexandria” at the College Art Association, Los Angeles, in February. exhibition of new works, at Postmasters Gallery, New York Cityand at Artists Choice Workshop, at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York City,year. last Possessive Space” at the New York Studio School in February; and “Rethinking Oceanic Art” at theAngeles Los County Museum of ArtFebruary. He in wrote “Bonnard inHistory the of Twentieth-Century Art,” in and Interiors Art and Yale University Press,Rachel 2009). Kousser her artwork at faculty and staff FACULTYANDSTAFFNEWS

Information for Helping Asian proposal by Scharrón-del Río, Sanchez, Health and Nutrition Americans Deal with Depression.” Sarnoff, and Graciela Elizalde-Utnick Sciences Hershey H. Friedman, ’68, cowrote was funded for the second consecutive Christian Grov was appointed to the “Can ‘Homo Spiritualis’ Replace year by the Diversity Projects New York City HIV Prevention ‘Homo Economicus’ in the Business Development Fund. Jacqueline Planning Group. He presented the Curriculum?” in the e-Journal of Shannon cowrote “Who Stays following at the Annual Meeting of the Business Education & Scholarship of and Who Leaves? Father Accessibility Society for the Scientific Study of Teaching 2, no. 2 (December 2008); Across Children’s First Five Years,” in Sexuality, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in and “Ethical Imperatives of CEOs: Parenting: Science and Practice 9, no. 1 November: “Sex on Club Drugs: Creating the Virtuous Corporation,” (January 2009); and “Low-Income Pleasure, Patterns, and Risk”;“Using in the Journal of Business Systems, Nonresident Father Involvement with Respondent Driven Sampling to Governance and Ethics 4, no. 3 Their Toddlers:Variation by Fathers’ Identify ‘Invisible’ Populations: (December 2008), with Frimette Ethnicity, Resources, and Mother-Father Implementation and Ethics”; and Kass-Shraibman. Relationship,” in the Journal of Family “Emotional Labor and Men: How Psychology 11 (December 2008). Male Sex Workers Break Cultural Education Stereotypes of Men’s Work.” Annie Namulundah Florence English volunteered Hauck-Lawson, ’78, appeared on Eric Alterman at the Sierra Flor School, in Lasso, wrote “How Israel Gastropolis: Food and New York City Ecuador, in December and January, Failed Its Arab Minority,” in Moment, on WFUV-FM, the radio station of Karl Steel working both on a teachers’ seminar November/December. Fordham University, Bronx, in that addressed the issues of teacher presented “The Return of the Pig? December. Roseanne Schnoll role, understanding students’ needs, Violence and Meat in Resurrection cowrote “Mercury from Chlor-Alkali creating inclusive learning environments, Doctrine,” at St. Louis University in Plants: Measured Concentrations in Albena Vassileva and developing an enriching curriculum October. wrote Food Product Sugar,” in Environmental in the teaching/learning process, and as “Spoken Revolutions: Discursive Health 8, no. 2 (January 2009). a substitute teacher at the K–8 school. Resistance in Bulgarian Late Paul McCabe and Florence Rubinson Communist Culture,” in Poetics Today History presented “Braving the Barriers: 30, no. 1 (spring 2009). Poems by Edwin G. Burrows joined the editorial Supporting Faculty Inclusion of GLBTQ Marjorie Welish were anthologized board of the New York State Youth Issues in Courses and Research” in American Hybrid (Norton, 2009). Historical Association in January. at the National Association of School Welish wrote “Spaced Intertext,” at Margaret L. King was appointed Psychologists convention, in Boston in http://jacketmagazine.com /36/guest- editor-in-chief of the Renaissance February, with Eliza Dragowski and welish.shtml. She also cowrote Oaths? and Reformation OBO (Oxford others. María R. Scharrón-del Río, Questions? (Granary Books, 2009.) Bibliographies Online), one of the Delida Sanchez, Lynda Sarnoff, Haroon first of a series of new electronic Geology Kharem,Alma Rubal-Lopez, and bibliographies to be launched in Constantin Crânganu presented others presented “Transformational 2009–2010 by Oxford University “Application of GIS to Water PATHS in East New York and Press. Michael Rawson wrote “On Resources Management” during GIS Multicultural Education: Redefining the Common Ground:The Overlapping Day 2008 at East Stroudsburg Professional Development School Fields of Environmental History and University in November. In January, (PDS) Model” at the Twenty-sixth Planning History,” in the Journal of he was nominated associate editor Annual Winter Roundtable on Cultural Planning History 7, no. 4 (November of the Journal of Marine and Psychology and Education, at Teachers 2008). Rawson received a Whiting Petroleum Geology. College in New York City in February. Foundation Fellowship for Excellence “Speak Up/Speak Out,” a grant in Teaching for the 2009–2010 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009

32 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 33 15 (2008). Handbook of (and Women’s 68 (2008); and ’66, coauthored the 88, 3rd Series cowrote “Cholinergic wrote “New Perspectives 108, no. 2756 (2008). Applied Neuropsychology Studies) gave a keynote lecture, “Women’s Crisis Centers in Russia: How Transnational Collaborations Can Work,” at the Aleksanteri Institute Conference on Welfare, Gender, and Agency in Russia and Easternat Europe, Helsinki University, Finland, in December. Psychology Laura A. Rabin Components of Frontal Lobe Function and Dysfunction,” in Clinical Neurology (Elsevier, 2008);“Implicit and Explicit Memory for Affective Passages in Temporal Lobectomy Patients,” in Brain and Cognition “A Survey of Neuropsychologists’ Practices and Perspectives Regarding the Assessment of Judgment Ability,” in Anthony Sclafani, following posters presented at the November meeting of the SocietyNeuroscience for in Washington, D.C.: “Rapid Acquisition of Conditioned Flavor Preferences in Rats,” and “Opioid Mediation of Sugar and Starch Preference in the Rat.”cowrote He “Activation of Dopamine D1-like Receptors in the Nucleus Accumbens Is Critical for the Acquisition, but Not the Expression, of Nutrient-Conditioned Flavor School Physical Education Directors Perceptions of Physical Education,” at the national convention of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, in Tampa, Florida, in April. Physics Viraht Sahni on the Fundamental Theorem of Density Functional Theory,” in the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry Political Science Janet Elise Johnson 1, David (Moon presented and performed presented “Attitude What She Says about won the 2008 Peirce Sequential Analysis translated two books was awarded a $10,000 Calchi di luna completed a tour of nine solo Sandra Kingan “A Computational Approach to Inequivalence and Isomorphism in Matroids” at the Fortieth Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, in Boca Raton, Florida, in March. Modern Languages and Literatures Luigi Bonaffini vol. 28. of poetry: Castings), by Vincenzo Di Oronzo (Gradiva Publications, 2009) (Italian into English); and Alternatives,” in Love (Quello che lei diceby Tony dell’amore), Magistrale (Bordighera Press, 2008) (English into Italian). Music Jason Eckardt commission for a new chambercomposition music from the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University. His work was performed at portraitconcerts in Paris andGrubbs Helsinki. performances in Berlin and DublinJanuary. Grubbs in delivered an artist’s talk at the University ofin Sussex January. He collaborated on “Hybrid Song Box.4,” which was included in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition theanyspacewhatever, the work in the Guggenheim’s Peter B. Lewis Theater. Philosophy Daniel Campos Essay Contest in philosophy foressay his “Imagination, Concentration, and Generalization: Peirce on the Reasoning Abilities of the Mathematician.” Physical Education and Exercise Science Howard Z. Zeng toward Physical Education of Urban High School Students” and “Urban Quickest made two cowritten by wrote “The cowrote (Computer and David G.Troyansky Quantum Computing contributed two (Cambridge University Transnational Spaces and Detection Press, 2008) and “A Comparison2-CUSUM of Stopping Rules for Quickest Detection of Two-sided Baumslag-Solitar Groups: A Solution for the Isomorphism Problem,” in Aspects of Infinite Groups, Algebra, and Discrete Mathematics,Volume 1 (World Scientific Publishing, 2008). Olympia Hadjiliadis Mathematics Anthony E. Clement Information Science). She presented “Quirky, Not Quacky: Quantum Computing for Librarians” at the Science,Technology, and Medical Librarians Special Interest Group, Metropolitan New York Library Council, in New York City in March. Noson S.Yanofsky appendices,“Historical Bibliography of Quantum Computing” and “Keeping Abreast of Quantum News: Quantum Computing on the Web andLiterature,” in in the for Computer Scientists, academic year. Judaic Studies Robert Moses Shapiro Library Jill Cirasella cowrote Identities in the Francophone World (University of Nebraska Press, 2009). As president of the Westernfor Society French History, he presidedthe over society’s meeting in QuebecCanada, City, in November. presentations in November:“The Press during the Holocaust” atRabbi the Herbert Tarr Institute at Temple Sinai, in Roslyn Heights, New York;“Kristallnacht: and Why Didn’t theShout?” Press at Mt. Sinai JewishNew Center, York in City. In December he chaired the session “Children, Gender, and Family and the Holocaust”annual at conference the of the Association for Jewish Studies, in Washington, D.C. FACULTYANDSTAFFNEWS

Preferences in Rats,” in the European Speech Communication Arts Television and Radio Journal of Neuroscience 27 (2008). and Sciences Armed Defense, a short film by Irina Isabelle Barrière wrote “The Vitality Patkanian, has been selected to play Puerto Rican and Latino of Yiddish among Hasidic Infants and at the Big Muddy Film Festival in Studies Toddlers in a Low SES Preschool in Carbondale, Illinois; the Connecticut Alan A.Aja cowrote “The Influence of Brooklyn” in Proceedings of the 2008 Film Festival in Danbury; and the Latin@ Religion on American Politics,” Czernowicz Yiddish Language Athens Film Festival in Athens, Ohio. in Encyclopedia on Hispanic American International Centenary Conference Theater Religious Cultures (ABC-CLIO, 2009). (Sovetskii Pisatel, 2009). She cowrote Rose Burnett Bonczek taught a SEEK “The Onset and Mastery of Spatial series of workshops on ensemble Sharona A. Levy Language in Children Acquiring wrote “Reading the and improvisation at Leeds British Sign Language,” in Cognitive Reader,” in Academic Commons Metropolitan University and at Robert J. Development 23 (2008). She (January 2009). Levy and Harrogate College, both in the Kelly presented “Quantitative Effects on (emeritus) presented “Critical United Kingdom, in February. Helen Yiddish/English Bilingual Development,” Inquiry: A Comprehensive Strategy E. Richardson participated in a panel with Shoshy Frenkel, M.S., ’99, and for Student Success” at the Faculty discussion,“Eliminate Violence against others at Boston University in Resource Network 2008 National Women through the Arts and the November. Renee Fabus and Aimee Symposium, at the University of Media,” Sidavi, ’08, wrote “A Review of San Francisco in November. at the United Nations in March. She Stuttering Intervention Approaches was dramaturg and co-curator of Sociology for Preschool and Elementary School- the play MIKA, commissioned by the Gertrud Lenzer (and Children’s Age Children,” in Contemporary Issues United Nations for the Elimination Studies) convened and moderated of Communication Sciences and of Violence Against Women Day, the Third Child Policy Forum of New Disorders (Spring 2009). Gail Gurland; performed at the United Nations in York: Implementation and Monitoring Beryl Adler, ’67; and Leda Molly, ’79, November and again in March for of the Optional Protocol to the U.N. wrote Vocabulary Power: Sound-a-Likes International Women’s Day. Since Convention on the Rights of the (Play Bac Publishers, 2008), which December, she has been working Child on the Sale of Children, Child won the 2008 Parents Choice Award, with the United Nations to seek Prostitution, and Child Pornography, and Vocabulary Power: Raining Cats funding to develop a project using at the United Nations in February. and Dogs (Play Bac Publishers, 2008). theater as a framework for She established a ChildRights Susan Longtin presented a short supporting the empowerment Working Group that will prepare a course,“A Parent Education Program of women. New York State Party Report to for Preschool Children with Autism,” review the degree to which statutes, at the annual convention of the regulations, and programs of New American Speech, Language, and York State serve to protect children Hearing Association, in Chicago in and adolescents from sexual November. Cyndi Stein presented at exploitation. Lenzer was invited to St. John’s Hospital for the department join the steering committee of the of psychiatry grand rounds on Million Father Club (MFC), a fathering incorporating the coaching model in initiative from the office of Assembly medical practice. Member William A. Scarborough. BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009

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Alumni Spring Homecoming The Brooklyn College Alumni co-president of the Manhattan Association’s 2009 Spring Chapter. Homecoming ALUMNI DAZE took Later, at the Annual Meeting of place on Sunday,April 26, and Monday, the BCAA, Student Awards were April 27. The Sunday event on campus presented to Cassana Fisher-Ramos, counsel, Cahill Gordon and Reindel, began with a presentation by Pulitzer ’09, who will pursue an M.D./Ph.D. and former president, Brooklyn Prize–winning and Distinguished in cancer research; Jiaxin Huang, ’11, College Foundation.The 2009 honors Professor of History Edwin G. Burrows who hopes one day to become an were bestowed upon Hannah Sara on his latest book, Forgotten Patriots: international doctor; and Jennifer Matuson Rigler, ’78, member of the The Untold Story of American Prisoners Sarhis, ’09, who will pursue a medical Board of Overseers of the Museum During the Revolutionary War. career specializing in endocrinology. of Jewish Heritage—A Living At the President’s Champagne The following evening, Stage 6 Memorial to the Holocaust, and Brunch, Distinguished Achievement at Steiner Studios, located in the former member of the New York Awards were presented to Agnes Brooklyn landmarked neighborhood State Democratic Committee, and Ford, ’69 and Don Lemon, ’96. Ford of Clinton Hill, was the venue of Fred M. Gerson, ’71, executive is assistant vice-president, Contract the BCAA Alumni Gala. Under the vice-president and CFO, San Diego Department, Guy Carpenter & glittering skyline of the Manhattan Padres.The Young Alumna Award Company; and former president of and Williamsburgh bridges, the 2008 went to Young Jean Lee, M.F.A., ’05, the BCAA. Lemon is the anchor Alumna and Alumnus of the Year Obie Award winner in the emerging of CNN’s primetime weekend Awards were presented to Judith playwright category. The Young newscasts and CNN Newsroom with Lockley Johnson, ’61, superintendent Alumnus Award went to Jerry Don Lemon. Arlene Lichterman, ’53 of Peekskill City School District and Goldstein, ’93, space physics was presented with the Jerome S. former deputy assistant secretary, researcher and leading authority on Milgram Award for service. Office of Elementary and Secondary the structure and dynamics of the Lichterman is the former treasurer Education, U.S. Department of Earth’s plasmasphere. The reunion and current corresponding secretary Education (see full profile, page 47); dinner also saluted the Classes of of the BCAA Board of Directors and and Irwin Schneiderman, ’43, senior 1968 and 1969 and the Alumni of the School of Education.

Save the Date Mardi Gras—2009 Sunday, October 18, 2009 The Manhattan and Southwest Brooklyn chapters The Post 50th Alumni Reunion and Awards Brunch and the Millennium Affiliate of the Brooklyn College

Alumni Association hosted an authentic New 2009 SPRING MAGAZINE COLLEGE BROOKLYN Celebrating Orleans–style Mardi Gras at the Student Center on Class of 1954 55th Reunion Fat Tuesday. Class of 1949 60th Reunion More than one hundred students, alumni, and Class of 1944 65th Reunion their guests attended the event. The evening featured Class of 1939 70th reunion live music provided by the New Orleans Rhythm Class of 1934 75th Reunion Kings and Li’Nard’s Many Moods.The celebration also also included Southern cuisine, a costume contest Presentation of Lifetime Achievement Awards with prizes and, of course, lots of beads. Plans are already under way for the second annual Mardi Gras on Tuesday, February 16, 2010. 35 Newsfoundation

Chancellor’s Circle Silver Linings Society Launched In the midst of the market downturn, the Brooklyn College Foundation has had to employ a number of creative In 2004, CUNY inaugurated a $1.2 billion campaign entitled strategies to ensure it can continue to support “Invest in New York, Invest in CUNY.” At a ceremony this scholarships and prizes without interruption. Like most May, Chancellor Matthew Goldstein launched a second nonprofits, the Foundation’s endowment declined to phase of the campaign with a new target of $3 billion in almost 30 percent, so many restricted funds set up by BC investments from private sources by 2012. The campaign alumni have fallen below their original gifted value. New is the most ambitious fundraising initiative ever taken by a York State law places restrictions on distributions from public, urban university. Brooklyn College’s contribution to such “underwater” accounts—which translates to the campaign will be $200 million. approximately three hundred scholarships that could not CUNY also announced the formation of the Chancellor’s be offered in the coming year without alterations to the Society, which recognizes those alumni, friends, business agreements that created them. leaders, foundations, and corporations that have contributed To address the shortfall, the Foundation sent letters to at least $1 million in gifts and pledges to the colleges and more than three hundred endowment donors, providing foundations of the City University of New York since 2001. them with a variety of options: they could freeze their The generosity of the donors listed below has been endowments until the market improves; they could of critical importance to the future success of Brooklyn authorize one-time allocations of funds for an immediate College. By funding student scholarships and services, and payout; or they could convert their endowments into academic programs and enhancements; endowing faculty “sinking funds,” which would pay out a prescribed amount chairs; and making possible new programs and initiatives, each year, regardless of how well the market was doing. members of the Chancellor’s Society have earned the They could also convert their endowments into grateful thanks of current and future generations of Brooklyn unrestricted funds. Finally, they could simply “top off” their College students. endowments, by making an additional cash gift equal to Sam Beller, ’59 Carole, ’53, and Irwin, ’53, 4 percent of their original gift. Himan Brown, ’34 Lainoff “Most donors decided to top off their accounts,” Don Buchwald, ’59 Marjorie Magner, ’69 reports Beth Farryn Levine, director of development of Professor Walter Cerf Jay Newman, ’68 the Brooklyn College Foundation.“They understood the Edith Everett, ’49 Alexander Tanger, ’01 economics of the situation and added to their endowed James Fantaci, ’68 Woody Tanger funds so our students can continue to receive their Barry Feirstein, ’74 Morton Topfer, ’59 scholarships.” In fact, some $130,000 in spendable Roy Furman, ’60 Claire, ’52, and Leonard, ’50, scholarship funds was raised with this project, amounting Hank Kaplan Tow to the immediate impact of over $3 million in the Murray Koppelman, ’57 Howard Wohl, ’64 endowment. “Our alumni know how important that Don Kramer, ’58 Carol L. Zicklin, ’61 money can be for our students,” says Levine. “They were Anonymous (1) students here themselves!” For more information on starting an endowed fund at Brooklyn College, call the Foundation office at 718.951.5074 and ask to speak with Stephanie Ehrlich, associate director, stewardship, or visit the Foundation’s webpage at www.brooklyncollegefoundation.org and click on “Contact Us.” BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009

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the way the show’s original writer, Arthur Laurents, deftly wove the Spanish language into his original concept, returning a contemporary feel to the show that electrified its original audiences more than fifty years ago. The gala entertainment and fundraiser was facilitated by Brooklyn College Foundation board member Roy Furman, ’60, who is coproducing the play. Apart from the updated dialogue, the revival was true to the Left to right: Clara Lipson, ’71, This past April, more than one original production—including the vivid Jerome Robbins choreography Ellen and Murray, ’57, Koppelman, hundred Brooklyn College alumni enjoyed Broadway’s hot ticket this and the soaring Leonard Bernstein Roy Furman, ’60, and Howard year—the new revival of West Side score. After the show, members of the cast returned to the stage for an Wohl, ’64, enjoy the preshow soiree Story at the PalaceTheater. The show has been drawing raves—not informal Q&A with Brooklyn College in the lobby of the Palace Theater. only for the performances, but for alumni and friends.

You can help transform lives…. Honor the President, Help Our Students Gifts to the Annual Fund finance vital academic scholarships, internships, travel abroad programs for students and faculty, To honor President Christoph M. Kimmich as he retires from and new technologies and research in our classrooms. the College, the Brooklyn College Foundation has created a There are many ways to contribute to the Annual Fund: new fund dedicated to helping ambitious students graduate • Leave your mark on Brooklyn College by purchasing a from Brooklyn College in four years. commemorative brick. The Christoph M. Kimmich Fund for Student Success will support TOCA (The On-Course Advantage).TOCA is one of • Provide enduring, dependable support to your alma mater the College's signature programs, the first of its kind among by joining the Boylan Society, our monthly giving program. the CUNY colleges, widely imitated, and nationally recognized. • Honor or remember a loved one with a special gift in his In the eight years since President Kimmich established TOCA, or her name. it has helped more than 1,700 students to graduate without • Make a convenient one-time gift online, by mail, or over delay. TOCA students promise to study full-time and without

the phone. interruption. In return, the TOCA program offers them 2009 SPRING MAGAZINE COLLEGE BROOKLYN priority registration, guidance by professional counselors, and For more information about any of these options or about the mentoring by an attentive faculty. Annual Fund, please contact Shara Richter, associate director, The proceeds of the Kimmich Fund will enrich the TOCA Annual Fund at 718.951.5074 or [email protected]. offering by paying summer and intersession tuition fees, stipends for internships and study programs, travel costs for interviews, and for other advantages. Donations to the Christoph M. Kimmich Fund for Student Success may be made through the Brooklyn College Foundation. For further information, call 718.951.5074 or visit the Foundation website at www.brooklyncollegefoundation.org. 37 38 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 Newsmakers olg Magazine. 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The Williams directed a production of Amba Chevannes’ It’s a big year for cofounder of the influential 1970s punk-rock group Suicide. Vega (who studied art and physics atCollege Brooklyn when he went byAlan the Bermowitz) name celebrated his seventieth birthday with the helphis of longtime fan Bruce Springsteen, who covered Vega’s tune “Dream, Baby, Dream”—the first of alimited-edition series CD of tributes by fellow rockers. This summer theof Museum Contemporary Art in Lyon,presents France, a major retrospective of Vega’s light sculptures in anthat exhibit runs through August 2.the And weekend on of September 11,Vega reteams with Suicide keyboardist Marty Rev to recreateeponymous the 1977 band’s album at Kutcher’s Country Club in Monticello, New York. at the University of the West Indies. helped was one of 228 “I’m not a Yankees fan.” recently the executive director ofLouisiana the Division of the Arts.begun She the has job of assuringRed the Sox rabid fans in herthat new she hometown harbors no traitorous allegiances: “I keep telling peoplea I’m Mets fan,” she explained toBoston the Globe. Bernard Vogel Brooklyn College students, alumni, and staff who died duringWorld War, the but Second it wasn’t untilNovember last that his family learned how. Vogel was captured byGermans the in December 1944 andsent was off with 350 other“Jewish Jewish looking” POWs or to theslave Nazi labor camp Berga anAlong der with Elster. another prisoner,Vogel attempted to escape in February1945 but was caught.the As starving punishment, men were forcedstand to in front of thefood barracks or with water no until theyno could more. stand After twoboth or men three collapsed, days, near death. Army medic Anthony Acevedo cared for Vogel during his finaland moments, last fall a CNN.comAcevedo’s article wartime about experiences included the description of Vogel’s death—solving a sixty-four-year-old mystery for his younger brother Martin Vogel. “All of awhole sudden past a has come uppresent, and in it’s the a verysituation emotional right now,” he told CNN. Rabbi Jerome Gurland, ’52, organize a fundraiser for the Macedonia Church of God inin Christ Springfield, Massachusetts, after it was set aflame bythe an early arsonist morning in hoursBarack following Obama’s election. Because the congregation is primarily African American, indications are that this was a hate crime, anGurland act found Rabbi “scandalous.” Gurland, a cultural liaison coordinator for Western New England College, told the local CBS affiliate:permit “We can’t this destruction to prevail in has was Horn Book, (Arthur A. the work The New Yorker. has been studied at Brooklyn Walls, Milt Rosenberg, ’46, A Taste for Rabbit been tapped to lead theCenter Boston for the Arts; she was most Veronique LeMelle, M.F.A., ’84, awarded the National Humanities Medal by former President George W. Bush. The medal recognizes Rosenberg’s thirty-six years ashost the of the “elevated conversation and profound thought” on WGN Radio’s Extension 720 program. In November, Chicago radio hostUniversity and of Chicago professor emeritus a magazine that reviews children’s literature, dubbed it “bunny noir.” Joel Isaacson, ’52, College with abstract painters Burgoyne Diller, Mark Rothko, and Max Ernst. After servingArmy in he the turned U.S. to artobtained his history doctorate and at the University of California, Berkeley.more For than thirty yearshistory he taught at art the UniversityAfter of retiring Michigan. in 1995, heto returned painting full time andBerkeley. An now exhibition lives of in hiswork recent was held in theof University California Graduate Theological Library. Entitled Levine, 2007), imagines a dystopia run by talking foxes and rabbits—a sour fantasy world full of violence, oppression, and desperation. Last fall it won the 2008 Oregon Bookfor Young Adult Award Literature. achievement that made her audience “walk a knife’s edge ofmeaning,” race according to and Linda Zuckerman, ’63, was inspired by the securityin fences Israel and along theborder. U.S.-Mexico To view the artist’svisit work, www.isaacsonpaintings.com. editing children’s books for forty years, including three Caldecott Medal winners and two that received Newbery Honor citations. By now the lady knows what she likesdoesn’t and like. Her first noveladults, for young ALUMNIPROFILE

Dan DiDio, ’83

Dan DiDio, a native of Flatlands, a Samuel J. Tilden High School graduate, and a member of the Brooklyn College Class of 1983, credits his deep Brooklyn roots with paving the way for his unusual, and unusually successful, business career. For more than twenty years, DiDio has steadily climbed the executive ladder in the hurly-burly of children’s television and comic-book publishing. “There is a sense of hipness, of coolness” that is associated with coming from Brooklyn, he says. “You walk into a situation, like a new job, with a sense of street smarts that people from other parts of the city, and even elsewhere, pick up on. It definitely helps.” He adds, “It also helps that I’ve read a lot of comics.” He still does. For the past seven years DiDio has not only read them, he also has edited them—first as DC In 1985, after four years at CBS, he moved to Capital Universe vice-president, editorial, and since October 2004 Cities/ABC, where he worked for the next eleven years in a as senior executive editor, DC Universe for DC Comics, a variety of positions—as an affiliates’ rep, a public relations subsidiary of Warner Bros. In that position he presides over manager for the network’s New York–based daytime the published adventures and misadventures of Superman, soap operas, and later as executive director of children’s Batman, Wonder Woman, and all the other DC Comics programming in the network’s Los Angeles offices. In heroes and superheroes. In addition, since 2006 he has 1996, DiDio departed ABC. written a weekly column, “DC Nation,” which appears on For a time he freelanced in Los Angeles for the the end page of almost every issue of DC Comics. “We Vancouver-based computer animation pioneer Mainframe publish between fifty-five and sixty-five issues monthly,” Entertainment, working as a writer and story editor for DiDio notes. TV’s first full-length, completely computer-animated series, He entered Brooklyn College as an accounting major ReBoot, as well as on the cartoon television program War in fall 1977. One day during his sophomore year, he was Planets. When he joined the company full time, it was to seated in an accounting class when he suddenly realized that take the position of senior vice-president, creative affairs, he had no interest in what the professor was talking about. heading up the firm’s New York City headquarters. DiDio walked out, turning his back on accounting. That In 2001 DiDio entered negotiations with DC Comics summer he enrolled in a Brooklyn College Broadcast News and returned to live in New York in January 2002. Though Institute course, worth eight credits, that allowed him to he thoroughly enjoys his job, he says, “There’s a lot of travel make up the accounting courses he had dropped. He never involved. We’re on the go constantly to conventions and looked back. meetings around the country.” While still attending Brooklyn College, DiDio landed But, he adds with a smile, he still returns to Brooklyn a job as a page at CBS, Inc. He continued his education, on a regular basis. “My mother now lives in Gerritsen taking classes at night, and in January 1983 he graduated Beach. Whenever I can I try to visit her once a week. with a bachelor’s degree in broadcasting. “I gained a great Like a good Italian son.” understanding of the process by which television shows are made during my time at Brooklyn College,” he says. “My professors were very helpful, providing me with a lot of insights and a sense of family. They also gave me a lot of contacts. You can’t get anywhere without contacts.” BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009

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The Dispatch. eetywoea wrote recently Also BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 43 Holy Donald Healing into former chairman of the was elected last who lives in the San (formerly Janet Sonnenstein) Only 104 performers were will be appointed as the Lawrence Z. Lorber, ’67, a labor lawyer and partner atRose Proskauer LLP,testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September against the Paycheck Fairness Act that would amend the Equal Pay Act ofto 1963 make it easier for employees tofor punitive sue and compensatory damages for wage discrimination that occurred in the past. Lorber argued that thelaw did new not improve the causepay of “equal for equal work” but rathera created more effective moneymaking tool for plaintiffs’ attorneys. Despite his atestimony, week after his inauguration President Obama signed the bill into law. Shayna Caul was selected to beHeadshot! in the book chosen from 50,000 headshotsfrom submitted all over the country. Lee Glickstein, Francisco Bay area, founded Speaking Circles International. He isworking currently on a newBoldness: book, Dissolve Self-Consciousness and Answer Your Call to Greatness. 1 9 6 7 Sharon Weinschel Resen Class Correspondent 1740 Kimball Street Brooklyn, NY 11234-4304 Eleanor Finegold Sobel November to the Florida Staterepresenting Senate, cities in Broward County. It has been announcedZingale that president at SUNY Cobleskill. Harvey Pitt, ’65, is professor is teaching in the has been appointed by A charge of “naked short selling”Colonial that BancGroup to caused plummet the had stockto the value bring local of the authorities the villains looking Montgomery,Alabama, to for justice. the right In prosecutor August, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, wasthe appointed state as of a Alabama. deputy Naked attorneyfirst short general borrowing selling for the occurs shares when to someoneofficials sell “shorts” are to a trying a stock to buyer. without prove Inand that the innuendo these Colonial to naked BancGroup drive short case,Alabama down sellersexecutive the also of price waged Kalorama of a Partners, the campaign a stock. of consultancy rumor based Pitt in continues Washington, D.C. to serve as chief The Evolution of the Pastoral Novel in Barbara Berman Leveene Class Correspondent 24 Jubilee Circle Aberdeen, NJ 07747-1807 Dominick Finello Brooklyn College Department ofLanguages Modern and Literatures. Hisis new book Early Modern Spain. 1 9 6 6 Felicia Friedland Weinberg Class Correspondent BoxP.O. 449 Clarksburg, NJ 08510 1 9 6 5 1 9 6 4 Jay Orlikoff Class Correspondent 20 Beaverdale Lane Stony Brook, NY 11790-2507 [email protected] Alan S. Goldberg the chief justice ofVirginia the Supreme to Court the Commonwealth of Mandatory of Virginia Continuing Legal Education Board for a three-year term.Theis responsible board for administeringsupervising and the mandatory continuing legal education program forState the Virginia Bar. 1 9 6 3 Cliff Rosner Class Correspondent 111 Blue Willow Drive Houston,TX 77042-1105 Roberta (Bobbi) Johnson emerita at the UniversityFrancisco. of San After retiring sheBrazil went as to a Fulbrightto Senior lecture Specialist and teachand about the U.S. politics presidential election. Teach about the Encouraging a school recently returned is chairman of the The book is a resource Marilyn Siegel recently had his book The Early Show. and published by Lulu.com. After retiring 1 9 6 2 Steven J. Nappen Class Correspondent 38 Troy Hills Road Whippany, NJ 07981-1315 Harriet Gellin Selverstone, media specialist for twenty-nine years,a had textbook published entitled and Supporting Student Inquiry:Controversial Researching Issues. for school media specialists inwith their classroom work teachers. Prattrecently Institute awarded her the honorary degree of doctor of humane letters. 1 9 6 1 David S. Herskowitz Class Correspondent 1175 Kildeer Court Encinitas, CA 92024-1278 [email protected] Janice Pearlstein Alper to the United States afteryears spending three in Melbourne, Australia, where she served as the executive director ofUnion for the Progressive Judaism. She continues to work as aconsulting Jewish with professional, the Agency for Jewish Education in San Diego andthe teaching in Florence Melton Adult Mini School. Harvey Jay Cohen Department of Medicine atUniversity Duke School of Medicinedirector and of the Duke CenterStudy for of Aging the and Human Development. John Kabat This! as an administrator withCity the schools, New York he moved towhere California he has beenmember an at adjunct California faculty StateEast University, Bay, for the past five years. Interviews with value of aerobics thatwith were aired close-ups along of herin actively participating Retro Aerobics classes atYork Health the and New Racquet Club,appearances led on to segments ofToday both Saul Kravitz Class Correspondent 3382 Kenzo Court Mountain View, CA 94040 [email protected] 1 9 6 0 44 BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 S E T O N S S A L C rtn rga.Hstidcleto of fiction, collection short third His Program. ProfessionalWriting the coordinates he Massachusetts, where in College State Salem Glasser Perry Board. Advisory chairperson the is of and there coordinating groups is study He Village. 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Johnson’s level of achievement and narrowpoor; the to gap recruit, between retrain, rich and and believes retain in a the quality children’s workforce potential; that toengagement increase in parental their children’s education andto in reduce the bullying system; and disruptivesecure behavior environment; and and provide to a modernizein the disrepair––in schools––mostly a fiscally prudent way.” New York towns, the Peekskill populationtax-paying was fatigue, facing the community approvedinitiatives two to bond invest $100 millionmodernizing in the upgrading schools. and Inof-the-art addition, middle Peekskill’s new school state- is near completion. tests cannot quantify,” she says, insisting,improving scores however, that in the Regents“We examinations report is to important. the communityand each set year, review new these ones,” goals, she says. rates have jumped from 55 to 76 percent,performance on while student state assessments has increasingly improved by an average of 13 to 20 percent acrosswith all the grades. assistance of parents Meanwhile, and the police, violencereduced has as been well. More needs to be done, she argues. ofcharacteristic high-poverty areas,” Johnson says, emphasizing her own experience to make her point.up “As a in the child who projects, I grew know what education can do for you.” scores and good grades. AndPeekskill kids––rich she and is poor; determined black, to Latino, give chance or to white––a beat the cycle of poverty and become middle class. for the rest of their lives.” Stanford Law Journal. “There were not that many career choices for African seemedChoosing education the right thing to do, however. “I have never had a minute of regret,” says Johnson, She obtained her M.A. from New York University as “The more I got into it, the more I understood how A deputy assistant secretary for elementary and secondary Once a flourihing industrial center, Peekskill. located on American women––and women in general––whengraduated,” I she notes, “other thansocial becoming worker, a or nurse, a a school teacher.” who majored in sociology asstopped an studying undergraduate since. and hasn’t well as a certificate ofPaltz. advanced studies She from has SUNY–New completeda additional doctorate course at work Columbia toward University Teachers College. difficult it is to raiseeducation,” kids adds in the poverty mother and of giveamong two them other who an publications, has a authored, paperand on education the for subject the of poverty education under the Clinton administration, Johnson traveled extensively across the country and witnessedneeds firsthand of the the country’s fifty-one millionserving students. as Westchester After County assistant superintendent for instruction and curriculum, Johnson accepted theof challenge becoming the Peekskill school superintendent,make hoping a to difference in the nearlythat five-thousand-student comprises system three elementary schools, oneand middle one school, high school. the shores of the Hudson River, isthat a in changing recent community decades has drawnpushed New York out City by artists increasingly higher real estatepopulation prices. that is With today a over 50 percentand white, Latinos with making blacks up the remainingschool district, percentage, formerly the riddled town’s with low-scoring students and plagued with increasing violence, has beenaround, turning ever since arrival. 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Vytautas lkadaiis ’59 Aleksandravicius, BROOKLYN COLLEGE MAGAZINE SPRING 2009 51 Brown Supreme Court But Franklin did not confine In 1995, President Bill Clinton Professor David Troyansky, At a celebration of Franklin’s still considered one of the definitive historical surveys of America’s black experience. himself to teaching and writing alone. Throughout the 1950s he was involved with the team of lawyers who worked on the landmark v. Board of Education decision that ended segregation in U.S. schools. In 1965, hewith marched the Rev. Martin Luther King,from Jr. Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. awarded Franklin the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor that an American citizen can receive. chairperson of the Brooklyn College History Department, said that he was “awestruck to meet him” several years ago while attending a conference where Franklin was a featured speaker. “He was a giant among historiansheroic in era a of American and African American historiography.” career held in May, Troyansky announced that an essay contest andmemorial a conference in the fall willdedicated be to Franklin’s achievements. which to his study of runaway From Slavery to Freedom: A The Free Negro in North Carolina, Besides Brooklyn College, where “John Hope Franklin was a “He was an outstanding and A score of highly acclaimed books he taught from 1956 to 1964, becoming the first African American to head a major history department, he also taught at such leading institutions as Howard University, Harvard, the University of Chicago, and Duke University. His teaching career spanned more than seventy years. When he died, heJames was B. the Duke Professor of History Emeritus at Duke. historian of extraordinary acuity and depth,” said Brooklyn College President Christoph M. Kimmich. “He was a cherished teacher and mentor, and both his former students and his colleagues remember him with affection and respect.” dedicated scholar,” said Professor George Cunningham, chairperson of the Africana Studies Department at Brooklyn College. “From his first book, 1790–1860, slaves, he was pioneering and enabled educators to truly teach the history of African Americans in the United States.” either authored or edited by Franklin followed. was first published in 1947, hasmore sold than three million copies and is History of African-Americans, Franklin was born in 1915 in Former Brooklyn College History Department Chairperson John Hope Franklin, a noted scholar, powerful author, cherished teacher, and respected advocate for civil rights, died in Durham, North Carolina, on March 25. He was ninety-four. Rentiesville, Oklahoma, and grew up in Tulsa. There he metdistinguished another future Brooklyn College faculty member, Hobart Jarrett, and they became close friends. 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