Faculty and Staff NTES LaGuardia Community College/CUNY • Fall 2009

Kelly Connelly published “The Visible Man: Moving Beyond the False Visibility of Folklore Char - Books, A rticles and acters in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins Novels” in Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley’s So ftwa re Published Fiction and “Searching for the Past: Nostalgia in Marcia Muller’s Sharon McCone Novels” in Mar - cia Muller and American Literature. Regina Constantin created a new Manual for CSZ classes in July 2009. She also published an article in LiveWire in November 2008, based on a visit to her biography course from Michael academicfreedom.pdf , and contributed to “Acad - Gates Gill, author of How Starbucks Saved My Life . Paul Arcario published an article on the col - emic Freedom and AAUP,” available on the web - Timothy C. Coogan published “Union lege’s first year programs for students, “The First site of the New York State Conference of the Square: A Memorable Place for Radicals,” in Per - Year at LaGuardia Community College,” in the May American Association of University Professors at spectives on History: and Histori - 2009 issue of Diversity & Democracy , published http://www.nysaaup.org/library/nysaaup_comm_a ans, 123rd Annual Meeting of the American by the Association of American Colleges and Uni - _af.htm. Historical Association, New York City (January 2- versities. LaGuardia student, Suzana Sjenicic, pub - Susan Naomi Bernstein published “Mate - 5, 2009), edited by Debbie Ann Doyle and Chris lished an accompanying article describing her rial Realities in the Basic Writing Classroom: Inter - Hale, Washington, D.C.: American Historical Asso - experience in a first-year learning community. sections of Discovery for Young Women Reading ciation, in Fall 2008 and in the Supplement to the Marian Arkin published "When Elections Persepolis 2 ” in the Journal of Basic Writing 27.1 123rd Annual Meeting, American Historical Asso - Need Protection," in Griffith Review , Winter, 2009: (2008) and “Social Justice Initiative for Basic Writ - ciation, New York City, January 2-5, 2009. This 119-125. She also published "Diagnosing a Dis - ing” in BWe: Basic Writing Electronic Journal 7.1 same piece was also published on-line. He served order," a Letter to the Editor, in The New York (Fall 2008). as Tour Leader, Tour 7: Paterson Great Falls Indus - Times , Science Section, June 2, 2009: D4. Dmitriy Chebanov published the following trial Museum Site and Tour 10: Museum of the City Lenore A. Beaky published “Community Col - research papers: "Grating Lobes Suppression in of New York in January, publishing “Local Arrange - lege Plan Unveiled” in Clarion March/April 2009. Stepped-Frequency Pulse Train" (with Irina Glad - ments: Historians and New York City, Tours Organ - This article explores the shortcomings of CUNY’s kova) in the October 2008 issue of IEEE Transac - ized by the Local Arrangements Committee,” in plans for a new community college to be estab - tions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. the American Historical Association Program of lished in 2011. She also wrote “The State of Aca - 44, No. 4, and "Some Autocorrelation Properties the 123rd Annual Meeting, New York City. He also demic Freedom at CUNY and What We Can Do of Phase-Coded Waveforms" in the Proceedings published “The Lost Colony of Roanoke” in Bal - about It,” available on the website of the Univer - of the 43rd Annual Conference on Information Sci - lard C. Campbell, ed., Disasters, Accidents and sity Faculty Senate at http://www.cunyufs.org/ ences and Systems, March 2009. Continued on page 2 Books... Duhamel and Sandy McIntosh’s 237 More Reasons LiveWire , March 2009; and “Teaching the Business Continued from page 1 to Have Sex, Galatea Resurrects 12; and Edward Fos - of Diversity” in In Transit , Fall 2008. ter’s History of the Common Scale, Galatea Resur - Maria Jerskey co-authored “Meeting the Crises in American History (Facts On File 2008) and rects 12. Needs of Advanced Multilingual Writer” in SAGE in Who Who’s in America, 110th Anniversary Edi - Eiko Fukuda attended a conference organized Handbook of Writing Development , with A. Suresh tion (2009). He was interviewed in a published essay by the National Network of Educational Renewal in Canagarajah. by journalist Kevin Harlin, titled “He Aced His Test Seattle, Washington. The conference was struc - Heidi Johnsen published “Kate Chopin in in Altruism To Do It: Peter Cooper Built a Fortune, tured as a workshop, with discussions focusing on Vogue: Establishing a Textual Context for A Voca - then Advanced Education with His Free College,” in the success/failure record of No Child Left Behind tion and a Voice” in Rethinking and Rereading Kate Investors Business Daily in March 2009. This arti - as educational policy, and the growing need for Chopin , edited by Heather Ostman and published in cle quotes Coogan in two sentences about Peter “partnerships” between colleges and high schools 2008. Cooper of New York City. across the country. As part of this project, she par - Steven Karl has poems published in or forth - T.K. Dalton published nonfiction in The F-STOP ticipated in a “Democracy Walk” and helped to make coming from Coconut, Blue Print Review, Boog City Magazine, Santa Clara Review, High Country News , a short video entitled “Seattle Beat: The Voice from and Vanitas . Galatea Resurrects published his and Himal Southasian . the Street” -- interviewing pedestrians about their reviews on Thomas Fink's Clarity And Other Poems , Francine Egger-Sider and Jane Devine pub - views on democracy and whether it was working in Catherine Meng's Lost Work Book W/ Letters To lished a book on the Invisible Web, Going Beyond their own lives. Deer, and Ana Bozicevic's The Stars on the 7:18 Google: The Invisible Web in Learning and Teach - Kristin Gallagher published poems, “Read - Penn . Black Ocean Press published his micro-reviews ing (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2009). ing a Map” and “Farewell Rumsfeld” in Model of J.Mae Barizo's The Marble Palace and Sampson Helmut Eppich published “Astro Legion” and Homes 3; essay-poem “Some Limits of Ratio; or, Aes - Starkweather's City of Moths. Octopus Magazine “Arkonis,” comic works that are being solicited in a thetic Has No Goal” in Crayon 5; and a review of published his review of Helena Mesa's Dance Horse monthly catalogue titled COMICS ,which began dis - This is Called Moving by Abigail Child entitled, “This Underwater , and CutBank Review will publish his tribution early this year as Enemi-Haven Entertain - is Abigail Child Moving,” in Crayon 5. She also co- review of Susana Gardner's Lapsed Insel Weary. Fly - ment. authored “Neoliberal Poetry,” an essay, with Christo - ing Guillotine Press will publish his chapbook, Bret Eynon published “ePortfolio @ 2.0: Sur - pher Alexander and Matthias Regan in Crayon 5 and (Ir)Rational Animals, in November and he has veying the Field," with J. Elizabeth Clark , Peer “Writing the Workplace: Approaching Labor in the another chapbook, Saturday(s) , forthcoming from Review (Winter 2009); "The Difference that Inquiry Teaching of Composition and Creative Writing,” with Scantily Clad Press. Makes: A Collaborative Case Study on Technology Christopher Alexander, in In Transit 3 . Janice M. Karlen published “Real People, and Learning from the Visible Knowledge Project," Sean Galvin published an article in In Transit: Other Voices,” in Marketing: Real People, Real in a special issue of Academic Commons , Jan. 2009, The LaGuardia Journal of Teaching and Learning , Choices by Solomon, Marshall and Stuart, Prentice- co-edited with Randy Bass; "Capturing the Visible Vol. 3, titled “Work Ethic? or, Work Aesthetic?” Hall, 2009. Evidence of Invisible Learning," with Randy Bass, in Tony Giangrasso co-authored a first edition Caron Knauer reviewed Laurent Cantet's film Academic Commons , Jan. 2009; "It Helped Me See of “Ratio and Proportion Dosage Calculations” with The Class (Sony Classics, 2008) for Long Island City's a New Me: ePortfolios, Learning & Change at Dolores Shrimpton. This textbook for nursing stu - Ins & Outs magazine, Volume II, Issue 04. She also LaGuardia," in Academic Common s, January 2009; dents was published in January 2009 by Pearson reviewed the book Animals Make Us Human: Cre - "The Future of ePortfolio Roundtable," moderator and Education. ating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin & editor, in Academic Commons , January 2009; and Naomi Greenberg published “ePortfolio: A Catherine Johnson (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009). "ePortfolio @ LaGuardia: A Learning Project," in Kath - Tool to Support Best Practice in Occupational Ther - Knauer is a contributing writer for the magazine. leen Yancey, Barbara and Darren Cambridge, eds., apy Education” in Education Special Interest Sec - Karlyn Koh published “‘glove’s dream’: A Short Electronic Portfolio 2.0: Emergent Research on Imple - tion Quarterly , with Sherrell Powell, March 2009 and Meditation” in the May 2009 issues of mentation and Impact (Stylus, Jan. 2009). He also “Bangladesh: An Expanding Occupational Therapy Humanities/AITIA , and co-wrote “Networking a acted as Guest Editor, with Randy Bass, of "Wired Environment and Potential Fieldwork Site,” in Community Out of Fragmentation” with John Chaf - Campus" blog, Chronicle of Higher Education , March Advance for Occupational Therapy Practitioners , with fee and Edward Goodman for the 2009 annual issue 2009. Neshat Ahmed, October 2008. of Honors in Practice. Thomas Fink published an article, "On Donna Carlos Hiraldo published “At 36” and “Cas - Susan Kopp published book reviews of Ani - de la Perriere's True Crime ," in Denver Quarterly 43.4 tro-McCartney” in Poetic Diversity , December 2008; mal Restraint for Veterinary Professionals by Shel - (2009): 33-37. He published “The Poetry of Mark “Santa 364 Days” in the December 2008 holiday don, Topel and Sonsthagen (Mosby Press, 2006), for Young” in Mark Young, Pelican Dreaming: Poems issue of Big Toe Review ; and “Match” and “Don’t The New York City Veterinarian , Vol. 51 No.2 (June 1959-2008 and “Introduction,” Jack Lynch, Manhat - Blink” in the Fall 2008 issue of The Cynic Online 2009) and If Only They Could Speak: Understanding tan Man and Other Poems . He also published a Magazine. He also published two articles: “The the Powerful Bond between Dogs and Their Own - (chap)book, Generic Whistle-Stop with Portable Class of Bukowski: Engaging LaGuardia’s Working- ers by Nicholas H. Dodman (Norton 2008), for The Press at YoYo Labs. He published poems in Off Class Students with the Novels of Charles New York City Veterinarian , Vol. 50 No.4 (Dec. 2008). Course 34 (July 2008) & 37 (Spring 2009) and Bukowski” in In Transit: The LaGuardia Journal of She also published “Pain Management,” a chapter Otoliths 11 (Nov. 2008). His book reviews included Teaching and Learning in Fall 2008 and “Arroz Frito in Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians Online Carole Stone’s Traveling with the Dead, Galatea Res - with Salsa: Asian Latinos and the Future of the Instructor Resource Manual (Bassert, McCurnin et urrects 10; Geoffrey Young’s The Riot Act, Talisman ” in Asian American Law Journal . al), Elsevier Science Publishers, Spring 2009. Finally, 36/37 (Fall 2008/Winter 2009): 160-3; Sheila E. Mur - Milton Hollar-Gregory published “Graduat - she acted as a textbook reviewer (for revised publi - phy’s Parsings, Galatea Resurrects 11; Brenda Iijima’s ing Students with the Right Stuff” in Paralegal Edu - cation), for Veterinary Office Practices , Delmar Cen - Animate, Inanimate Aims, Jacket 36; Denise cator , May 2009; “The Gift of Growth” in LaGuardia gage Learning, 2008. 2 Linda Lautrec published a perspective piece and a book review of Eduardo R. del Rio’s One Island, ters,” in Cities in Transition , eds. E. Wilson and A. on the New Homeless for City Limits . She edited Many Voices in Cuban Studies Journal. She also Webber (: Wallflower Press, 2008) and several compilations of TV series, including Golden published “The Lost Apple Plays” in Studies in Twen - “Engendering the Subject of Terror: Friedrich Chris - Age Crime Busters, with Lee Marvin, Charles Bron - tieth and Twenty-First Century Literature: Theater tian Delius and Friedrich Dürrenmatt in the Mid- son, Dennis Hopper, Edward G Robinson, Peter Lorre Performance in Nuestra América. 1980s,” in Baader-Meinhof Returns: History and (Checkmate ), and Mary Tyler Moore ( Lock Up ); Joanne Reitano published “Higher Education Cultural Memory of German Left-Wing Terrorism , Golden Age Superstars; Golden Age Bronson: Charles Access at Risk,” Clarion 12 (May-June 2007), which eds. G-J. Berendse and I. Cornils (Amsterdam: Bronson Early Appearances: Knock Out Years; Charles assessed two sobering books about the stubborn Rodopi, 2008). Bronson Early Appearances: Break Out Years; and challenges that all colleges, especially community John Shean published a book review of Space Age Noir: Richard Boone, Jack Webb, War - colleges, confront while trying to provide access and Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture by ren Beatty, James Coburn, Warren Oates. She also promote success simultaneously. The books were Gideon Nisbet in Film & History: An Interdiscipli - re-released a film on DVD, My Breakfast with Blassie, America’s Untapped Resource: Low Income Students nary Journal of Film and Television. Commemorative Edition , 2 DVD set, Canadian in Higher Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg, editor Pauline Spatafora published a small booklet: Release 2009, and My Breakfast with Blassie , U.S. (The Century Foundation Press, 2004) and Defend - The Absent Mother: A Psycho-Literary Study of Vir - re-release with additional footage, 2009. ing the Community College Equity Agenda, Thomas ginia Woolf and is now working on a large book of Clementine Lewis will publish “Enhancing the Bailey and Vanessa Smith Morest, editors (The Johns memoirs from World War Two, which should be pub - Role of the Library in the Research Process: A Review Hopkins University Press, 2006). She also published lished at the end of Fall 2009. She also published a of the Research Review Competition,” in Technical “Night Light,” in H-Net Reviews (January 2009), a book entitled, Pronunciation Made Easy , in Septem - Services Quarterly , volume 27, number 4. celebration of William Chapman Sharpe's compre - ber 2008. Fern Luskin published a Conference report for hensive, illuminating examination of artistic repre - Rochelle Spencer had an article about diver - the Society for Renaissance Studies Third Interna - sentations of the city at night in New York Nocturne: sity and teaching accepted by the Chronicle of tional Conference held at Trinity College, University The City in Literature, Painting, and Pho - Higher Education . It will be published in Fall 2009. of Dublin, July 2008, in the Bulletin of the Society tography, 1850-1950 (Princeton: 2008). She also had an article about the psychology of writ - of Renaissance Studies , vol. XXVI, no. 1, April 2009, Gary Richmond was invited to write the lead ing, “Writing Your Way to Better Health,” published pp. 4-5. article in a special edition of the journal Critical Arts in Natural Health and an article about writing com - Howard Motoike published “Super Models” celebrating the life and work of the South African munities, “Low Cost Alternatives to MFA Programs,” in LaGuardia LiveWire , Number 77, April 2009. He cultural and media studies scholar, Arnold Shepper - published in The Writer . Finally, the Greenwood also published “Clay Modeling as a Method to Learn son, who died suddenly and unexpectedly in the Encyclopedia of Hip Hop, which featured four arti - Human Muscles: A Community College Study” in Autumn of 2006. The article, “Cultural Pragmatism cles that she had written, was just published. Anatomical Sciences Education , 2009, Volume 2, and the Life of the Sign” ( Critical Arts , Volume 2, Carolyn Sterling-Deer published a chapter Number 2, pages 19-23. Number 2, Routledge. November 2008, 155-165), entitled “ePortfolio Technology in the Second Lan - Steven Ovadia published “Working without a argues that Shepperson’s work was moving in the guage Writing Classroom: Reflections on Praxis” in Crystal Ball: Predicting Web Trends for Web Serv - direction of establishing a new discipline of applied Writing and the iGeneration: Composition in the ices Librarians” in volume 4, issue 2 of Journal of philosophical pragmatism and semiotic, namely, cul - Computer-Mediated Classroom , edited by T. Carter Web Librarianship . He also reviewed the book Dig - tural pragmatism. & M. A. Clayton and published by Fountainhead ital Media, Youth, and Credibility in volume 15, issue Victor Rosa published an extended interview Press in 2008. She also published an article “Writ - 2 of Urban Library Journal . with the celebrated Puerto Rican writer Victor Her - ing in the Disciplines, Technology, and Disciplinary Michelle Pacht published her book, The Sub - nandez Cruz, the first Latino chancellor of the Amer - Grounding” in a special issue on Writing Technolo - versive Storyteller: The Short Story Cycle and the ican Academy of Poets, in the Winter 2009 issue of gies and Writing Across the Curriculum in Across Politics of Identity in America in February 2009 (Cam - Black Renaissance Noire , which is published three the Disciplines , Volume 6, published in January 2009. bridge Scholars Publishers). times a year by the Institute of African-American Robin Sturtz and Laurie Buell co-edited a LaRose Parris published an excerpt of her Affairs at New York University. In 1996, Library Jour - book, Assessing Essential Skills of Veterinary Tech - unpublished novel, Territories , in the September nal selected Black Renaissance Noire as one of the nology Students (Linus Publications). 2008 issue of Callaloo: A Journal of African Dias - ten best magazines of the year. The title of the inter - Laura Tanenbaum published three reviews in pora Arts and Letters . view is “From the Caribbean to North Africa: A Con - Open Letters Monthly , an online book review Sreca Perunovic contributed a short piece, versation with Victor Hernandez Cruz.” (www.openlettersmonthly.com ): “Life is Our Cause,” “The FUREE’s Fight against Gentrification in Down - Shara Sand published “The Story of an Acci - in the June 2008 issue, looks at Sheila Weller’s Girls town Brooklyn,” to the Spring 2009 issue of the dental Academic Activist and What She Found Along Like Us , a joint biography of Joni Mitchell, Carly Urban Studies Newsletter (LaGuardia Community the Way” in The Psychoanalytic Activist, Newslet - Simon and Carole King that also tells the story of College). ter of Section 9, Fall #15, Division 39 of APA. She the cultural transformations of the sixties and sev - Md Z. Rahman , Leonid Roytman, Felix Kogan, also had an article, “To Reveal or Not to Reveal,” enties; “Scolds in the Agora,” in the August 2008 Atiq Rahman, and Runa Jasmine co-authored accepted for Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review in issue, responds to Mark Bauerlein’s The Dumbest “Removing Long-Term Errors from AVHRR-Based on February 2009, and her article, “Coming out, being Generation and Richard Shenkman’s Just How Stu - Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI),” out: Reconciling loss and hatred in becoming whole,” pid Are We? , two new books that tell familiar and SPIE- The International Society for Optical Engineer - was accepted with revisions in December 2008 by insufficient stories about intellectual decline; and ing , Proc. SPIE Vol. 7110, 711057-68, in October, 2008. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. “All the Sad Old Men,” in the November 2008 issue, Kimberly del Busto Ramirez published a per - Charity Scribner published two articles as examines The Men in My Life , Vivian Gornick’s lucid formance review of Teatro Avante’s Yerma by Fed - book chapters: “Controlled Space: The Built Envi - erico García Lorca in volume 60 of Theatre Journal ronment of Margarethe von Trotta’s The German Sis - Continued on page 4 3 Books... tory, c. 1832-1834” will appear in a collection on State Mathematics Teachers Journal , 58, 56 9 Continued from page 3 pirates and mutineers in nineteenth-Century litera - (2008), which informs students of the danger of mak - collection of essay meditations on a range of male ture (Ashgate). ing only minimum monthly payments on credit card writers. Phyllis van Slyck published “Tintoretto and debt. As a correspondent for the College Mathe - Melinda Thomsen published a book, Nam - James: Exposing the Shattered Subject” in Tracing matics Journal (CMJ), Dr. Wang monitors a broad ing Rights with Finishing Line. She also published Henry James , Cambridge Scholars Publishing. She spectrum of publications that are of interest to col - “Drive to the Top of Pike’s Peak” in The Same , Sum - also published “Service at the Public Community Col - leagues in the mathematical community. He has mer/Fall 7.1-2; “Woman on the Subway in Prague” lege: A Survivor’s Guide and Some Questions for the written abstracts on “The Numbers Guy,” “The MPG in Home Planet News , Summer; “Diagnosis” in Big Next Generation” in Over Ten Million Served: Gen - Illusion,” “The Long and Short of Which Shots Need City Lit , Fall (web); “My Origami Men” in Big City dered Service in Language and Literature Work - Help,” “Surfing the Universe,” “What is wrong with Lit , Fall 2008 (web); “Outside Brooklyn Cyclones Sta - places , SUNY Albany Press. Euclid Book V,” “The Physics of Network,” and “Early dium, Coney Island” in Big City Lit , Fall (web); and Eduardo Vianna co-authored, with A. Stet - Insurance Mechanisms and Their Mathematical “Ghost Moth” and “Velvet Ant” in Spring , Gatehouse senko, the chapter “Bridging Developmental Theory Foundations” in volumes 39 and 40 of the CMJ. Press. She published a review of Talking Underwa - and Educational Practice: Lessons from the Vygot - Francine White and Milton Hollar-Gregory ter by Sally Bliumis-Dunn in Home Planet News 16.2 skian Project” in Handbook of Child Development co-authored “Graduating Students with the Right (2008) and an article, “Immigrants in the Workforce: and Early Education: Research to Practice , eds. O.A. Stuff,” published in The Paralegal Educator, Vol. 23, The Transition from Worker to Professional” in In Barbarin & B.H. Wasik (New York: Guilford Press). No. 1, Spring 2009. Transit , September 2008. Frank Wang published a paper on memristor James Wilson published “’Ladies and Gen - Ting Man Tsao published “A Reading of Read - and memristive switching mechanisms in the Jour - tlemen, People Die’: The Uncomfortable Perform - ings: English Travel Books, Audiences, and Modern nal of Nanophotonics, 2, 020304 (2008). In pur - ances of Kiki and Herb” in “We Will Be Citizens”: Chinese History, C. 1832 to the Present” in a collec - suance of the ideal of LaGuardia Project Quantum New Essays on Gay and Lesbian Theatre , edited by tion, Asian Crossings: Travel Writing on China, Japan Leap, which seeks to robustly connect mathemat - James Fisher. and Southeast Asia (Hong Kong University Press, ics learning to current public issues, Dr. Wang pub - Martin Zimerman had an article, “Oh No, I 2008). His article “Ho for China: Piratical Incursions, lished a paper on monthly credit card payment and Lost All of My Work,” published in Computers in Free Trade, Imperialism, and Modern Chinese His - the asymptote of a logarithmic function in New York Libraries (CIL) in September 2009. Speeches, Papers and Workshops

Marian Arkin , James Wilson , and Shaun Lenore A. Beaky participated in a panel on Wiley presented a workshop and panel discussion “CUNY: A Mission Deferred,” a radio program on titled “Do Spelling and Grammar Count?” as part of WBAI in June 2008—she spoke on academic free - the CUNY WAC/WID Professional Education Series dom. She also presented on academic freedom at in September 2008. the Fall Conference of the University Faculty Sen - Alberta Arnold was a panelist on the topic: ate, “The Insider’s Guide to CUNY: Your Rights, “An Unconventional Program on Academic Careers: Responsibilities and Freedoms” on November 14, Avis O. Anderson presented “African Ameri - Career Advice from Senior Faculty to New and Future 2008, and presented a workshop on academic free - can Struggle for Citizenship in the United States,” Faculty” at the 94th Annual Convention of the dom to the Academic Freedom Committee of Lehman as the Keynote Speaker at the 2009 ASALH (The National Communication Association, San Diego, Cal - College on May 12, 2009. Association for the Study of African American Life ifornia, in November 2008. Nancy Berke presented a paper as part of the and History) Conference, in February 2009 at the Gail Baksh-Jarrett presented a workshop, panel “Teaching Literary Journalism” at the Mod - United Christian Baptist Church, Bronx, New York “LaGuardia Enrollment Services Center: An Innova - ern Language Association National Convention, in and “Seven Steps on Reflective Practice for Integrat - tive Student Success Partnership that Works!,” at in December 2008. ing ePortfolio in the Course Content” in October 2008 the annual American Association of Collegiate Reg - Susan Naomi Bernstein acted as a Work - at Connecting Students, Connecting Learning Semi - istrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) confer - shop Facilitator for “Reading and Writing Martin nar, LaGuardia Community College, Center for Teach - ence in April 2009 in Chicago. She also facilitated a Luther King, Jr.: Building Classroom Community” at ing and Learning. workshop, “Institutional Eligibility Issues Every Aid the Fourth Annual Literacy Review Workshops in Paul Arcario and Cecilia Macheski were Administrator Should Know,” in May 2009, in Wash - Teaching Writing to Adults in Basic Education, GED keynote speakers for the College of Staten Island's ington, D.C., at the annual Eastern Association of and ESOL Programs, Gallatin Writing Program and Annual CUNY-wide Assessment Conference, April Student Financial Aid Administrators (EASFAA) con - Community Learning Initiative, New York University, 24, 2009, presenting on institutional outcomes ference. September 2008. She also presented “A New Map,” assessment at LaGuardia. at the Conference on College Composition and Com - 4 munication held in San Francisco in March 2009; Timothy C. Coogan , along with Seth Born - Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books and The Tulse Luper “The Impact of Teacher-Based Research on Under - stein , acted as Moderator for a Panel titled “A More Suitcases ” at The Book Is Better than the Movie. graduate Teaching in Open-Enrollment Settings: Livable City? Preservation And Rezoning In Reely? , New York College English Association, Implications for Basic Writing,” at the Modern Lan - And Manhattan” with panelists Dr. Jeffrey A. Spring Conference, Apr. 24-25, 2009. guage Association Annual Convention in San Fran - Kroessler, Irving Poy, and Val Ginter, at the Urban Sarah Durand presented her work on the neu - cisco in December 2008; and “Race, Feminist Studies Symposium on Gentrification and Redevel - ral basis of bird song at the 2009 Bird Song Work - Pedagogy, and Students at Risk: Implications for opment and presented “Is Gentrification A Dirty shop – Rockefeller University Field Research Center, ‘Remedial’ English Education,” at the Monmouth Word?” at the Little Theater, LaGuardia Community Millbrook, New York. She examined the role of the University Conference on Race: The Future of an Illu - College in April 2009. He also gave a talk on ex- brain’s reward system in generating the motivation sion held in Long Branch, New Jersey in November Governor Gerry Brown of , at the Opening to sing learned song in the absence of other indi - 2008. Sessions on Leadership in September 2008. He was viduals - a form of singing known as “undirected Marian Blaber , Eric Newman and Melinda Chair, Session # 7, titled “Rebooting Visual Imagi - song.” This type of singing is performed as a bird Thomsen presented at the New York State TESOL nation: Understanding Context through the Use of learns to reproduce song syllables it has acquired and Applied Linguistic Conference in March 2009 Film Imagery,” with Ralph William Boone, Abigail in its auditory memory. at Columbia University. Their workshop was on Mellen, and Philip Ruiz, at the Northeast Popular Francine Egger-Sider and Jane Devine "Using Second Life and Audacity Software Applica - Culture Association, University of Massachusetts, gave a presentation on the Invisible Web at the tions for ESL Students." Dartmouth in October 2008. Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Mimi Blaber was invited to speak at the Josephine Corso co-presented at the May, at Queens College on April 21, 2009, to Prof. Colleen annual conference of the National College Transi - 2009 Teaching, Learning & Technology Conference: Cool’s class, “The Information Environment and Con - tion Network on Access and Retention for Immi - Innovations in Education at Stony Brook University temporary Society.” grant Students in New York on November 17, 2008 on the topic: “Student Power--Peer Tutoring through Bret Eynon presented “Can We Make the Con - in Providence, Rhode Island. ePortfolio.” nection? ePortfolio, Assessment & Integrative Learn - John Chaffee delivered the Keynote address T. K. Dalton presented on a critical approach ing,” a Keynote speech plus hands-on workshop for at the annual meeting of the Long Island Philosoph - to teaching video games in the literature classroom AAC&U Network for Academic Renewal national ical Society on the topic of “Philosophy’s Mandate.” and on using Second Life in conjunction with envi - conference, , Maryland, in February 2009 Clarence Chan was invited to be among the ronmental writing in a composition classroom, both and “Wade in the Water: Faculty Development, nation’s experts in the field of physical therapy to through the Center for Teaching and Learning’s eight- Assessment & Inquiry into Learning,” a Keynote present at the American Physical Therapy Associa - week Web 2.0 Seminar. He also read from his novel- speech plus ePortfolio workshop for IUPUI Assess - tion, Combined Sections Meeting (APTA-CSM) in in-progress, More Signal, More Noise , as part of ment Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana in October February of 2009 in Las Vegas. He presented a the Guerrilla Lit Reading Series. 2008. course seminar titled “Electro-thermal Modalities Steve Dauz co- presented with Arlene Kem - Kristen Gallagher presented “Kathleen Heavyweights: Ultrasound and Diathermy: Revisit merer, Director of the Alumni Mentoring and Career Fraser’s ‘The Cars’” at PoemTalk, Center for Programs and Update.” It was well attended by over seventy Development Program from Queensborough Com - in Contemporary Writing at the University of Penn - conference attendees. APTA-CSM is the nation’s munity College, on “Alumni Mentoring” during the sylvania in in September 2008. She largest professional conference for the field of phys - 2008 Fostering A Mentoring Culture in the 21st Cen - also presented “The Search for Beauty in Our Time” ical therapy. In collaboration with Naomi Green - tury: Bring Best Practices and Research to Higher as part of a panel discussion of Crayon 5: On Beauty berg , he also presented at the Association for Education Conference at the University of New Mex - at New York University in October 2008. She pre - Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) National ico. sented “Emily Dickinson’s Charles Darwin: A Read - Conference in March of 2009 in . They Steve Dauz , Kyoko Toyama , and Julio Cruz ing of Dickinson’s Variant Poetry,” at the Modernist presented a session titled “Educating for Ethics presented at the 2009 Special Programs Tri-State Studies Association conference in Nashville in across the Professional Curriculum” where they were Conference on the College Discovery “Peer Partner November 2008. able to illustrate how the LaGuardia OTA and PTA Imitative”. Les Gallo-Silver participated in a panel pres - programs incorporate the historical concept of Steve Dauz co-presented with Marcia Caton entation, “The Impact of Childhood Trauma and Fam - Teach/Theory, Applied/Acquisition, and Reinforce/ at the 2009 Association for the Tutoring Profession ily Violence on People with Cancer,” at Social Work Reflection (TAR), as a foundation to apply the teach - Conference on a tutoring research study entitled, in Hospice and Palliative Care: The Emerging Land - ing of professional ethics throughout the two pro - “Students Lived Experiences”. scape, Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Colum - fessional programs. Audiences from all around the Richard Dragan presented “Close Reading bia School of Social Work, Center for Ethics at country and the world and from a diverse field of Matters: Explicating American Literature by Urban Yeshiva University, 2008. He also gave a poster pres - professionals such as engineering, military, and edu - Community College Students,” at Close Reading, entation, “Sexual Health Awareness for People with cation, were most intrigued by the creative link New York College English Association, Fall Confer - Cancer: An Internet Based Response to Commonly between ePortfolio and the academic and clinical ence, Oct. 24-25, 2008, St. Bonaventure University, Asked Questions” at the 40th Annual Conference, education at LaGuardia. Olean, New York. He presented “Falling Men: Real - American Association of Sex Educators, Therapists, Dmitriy Chebanov presented “Some Autocor - istic and Postmodern Terror and Wonder in DeLillo and Counselors in 2008. His presentations accepted relation Properties of Phase-Coded Waveforms” at and McEwan’s Recent Fiction and James Marsh’s and forthcoming include “Teaching a Positive Psy - the 43rd Annual Conference on Information Sciences Man on Wire ” at the Louisville Conference on Lit - chology Approach of Supportive Counseling to Stu - and Systems on March 18, 2009, at Johns Hopkins erature and Culture Since 1900 , Univ. of Louisville, dents and Staff: Innovations in What You Are University, Baltimore, Maryland. Louisville, Kentucky, Feb. 20-21, 2009. Finally, he Supporting and How It Can Help a Person with Can - presented “The Book and the Digital Archive in Peter cer,” 25th Annual Conference Association of Oncol -

Continued on page 6 5 sional Development, The English Language Center, Maria Jerskey presented “At Their Point of Speeches... Division of Adult Continuing Education, LaGuardia Strength: Teaching Multilingual Writers of English” Continued from page 5 Community College and “Language Based Learning at the Conference on College Composition and Com - ogy Social Work, 2009; “A Model for Training Para - Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Discussion about munication in San Francisco, California in March. professional and Peer Patient Navigators: Integrat - Working with Students with Disabilities,” in coop - Heidi Johnsen presented on a panel entitled ing Concepts of Empathy, Boundaries, and a eration with the English Department, Communica - “Technology in Freshman Composition: For Better Strengths-Based Approach,” 25th Annual Confer - tion Skills Department and Office for Students with or Worse,” at the Northeast Teaching English at the ence Association of Oncology Social Work, 2009’; Disabilities Office. Two-Year College Association Conference in Atlantic “Responding to Cancer Related Fatigue (CRF): Dif - Naomi Greenberg presented “Ethics in Inter - City, New Jersey in October 2008. ferential Diagnosis, Psychosocial Interventions, and national Fieldwork” at the American Occupational Janice Karlen and Susan M. Sanchirico Patient/Family Education,” 24th Annual Conference, Therapy Association conference in Houston, Texas, presented a paper, “E-Portfolio, Assessment and Association of Oncology Social Workers; and “Lis - April 2009; “Educating for Ethics Across a Profes - Credit for Prior Learning,” at The National Institute tening Acuity and Empathy Skills Development: A sional Curriculum,” with Clarence Chan at the Asso - on the Assessment of Adult Learning 2009: The Next Training Model for Paraprofessional Patient Navi - ciation for Practical and Professional Ethics annual Generation, at Princeton, New Jersey, June 10-12 gators, Health Care Concierges and Case Aides,” meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 2009; and “ePort - 2009. 44th Annual Conference Social Work Leadership in folio: Electronic Scrapbooking for Mental Health,” Charles Keyes , Steven Ovadia and Alexan - Health Care, 2009. He and M. Israel also had at the New York State Occupational Therapy Asso - dra Rojas presented at Bucks County Community “Square Peg-Round ‘Whole’: Pedagogical Transfor - ciation conference in Syracuse, New York, Septem - College, Faculty of the Future 2009 Conference: mation of Seminal Psychodynamic Theories for Mul - ber 2008. “Social Book-Marking the Web 2.0 Platform” in May ticultural Applications,” accepted for a roundtable Erika Heppner presented "Using Radio Pro - 2009. presentation at Teachers College 2009 Winter duction to Connect Generation 1.5 Students to Writ - Karlyn Koh convened and presented on the Roundtable Conference: Incorporating Multicultural ing" at the 2009 TESOL Convention in Denver in late “Fostering Honors Community in a World of Com - Models in Psychology and Education. March. She received an EDIT grant to finance her muter Students” Panel of the first CUNY Honors Sean Galvin presented “Tales of My Country: transportation to Colorado. Opportunities Conference at Macauley Honors Col - Digital Stories of International Students” at the Octo - Milton Hollar-Gregory was a panelist on lege in November 2008. ber 2008 American Folklore Society Meeting in “Using the Fed Challenge in Teaching and Promot - Susan Kopp was an Invited Participant at the Louisville, Kentucky. He also presented a paper, ing Financial Literacy on your Campus” at the East - Monthly Animal Ethics Study Group, Interdiscipli - “Personal Experience Narratives and ePortfolios,” ern Economics Association conference in New York, nary Center for Bioethics, at Yale University, New at May 2009 MiT6 (Media in Transition) at MIT, Cam - New York, in February 2009. He also presented a Haven in January 2009. She was also an Invited bridge, Massachusetts. paper, “Challenges Facing Young Men: What are Participant at the Veterinary Technician Faculty Con - James L. Giordano made a presentation dur - the Solutions, Criminal Justice or Education?” at the sortium, Hill’s Pet Nutrition Center, in Topeka, ing the December seminar of the Making Connec - New York State Association of Minorities in Crimi - Kansas, June 26 -28, 2008. tions: ePortfolio in Contemporary Higher Education nal Justice conference at Albany New York, in Octo - Steve Lang presented three papers at profes - Seminar series (CTL). This was part of a year-long ber 2008. sional conferences: “Brownfield Redevelopment, seminar for nine different campuses coming together Sonya Hughes represented LaGuardia Com - Environmental Justice and Environmental Gentrifi - to learn about ePortfolio. His presentation focused munity College at the Portal 2009 Higher Education cation On the New York City Waterfront” was pre - on the main theme: E-Portfolio and Assessment, Technology Conference at Gettysburg College in Get - sented at the Eastern Sociology Conference in based on the Periodic Program Review conducted tysburg, Pennsylvania. She presented three confer - Baltimore (March 11-12); “Service Learning, and on the business program. He made another pres - ence workshops, covering the following topics: Social Activism: What Have We Learned?” was pre - entation during the Professional Staff Meeting in “What a Portal Can Do for Your Campus,” “Knowl - sented at the American Sociological Association December 2008 reviewing the process utilized in E- edge Management and Portal Technology,” and Meeting in Boston (Aug 4, 2009); and “Brownfield Portfolio and Assessment, based on the Periodic Pro - “Implementing SharePoint as a Portal Solution for Remediation, Community Politics and Environmen - gram Review conducted for our business program. a Large Campus.” tal Gentrification,” was presented at the Society for He also explained follow up integration of assign - Jerry G. Ianni gave a joint presentation with the Study of Social Problems conference in Boston ments and course work in the Introduction to Busi - Dr. Lawrence B. Shuster entitled “Symmetries of K- (July 31, 2009). ness course to strengthen competencies. Classes: Implications for Harmonic & Voice-Lead - Carole Lazorisak was the morning keynote Laurie Gluck presented “Discovery Listening” ing Analysis of Post-Tonal Music” at the Department speaker at American Sign Language Teachers Asso - at the Fourth Annual Literacy Review Workshops in of Music & Dance at the University of Massachu - ciation of Maryland’s first state-wide Professional Teaching Writing to Adults in Basic Ed, GED and setts at Amherst, as part of its Music Theory Lec - Development Conference, 104/08. Her presenta - ESOL Programs, The Gallatin Writing Program & ture Series. During the presentation, symmetries tion was entitled, “ American Sign Language Teach - Community Learning Initiative, in September 2008 of Klumpenhouwer classes were defined, the alge - ing Portfolio”. She was also a weekend workshop at New York University’s Silver Center. She also pre - braic structure of K-class symmetries was discussed, presenter at the 15th Annual ASL Immersion Week - sented “Enhancing Teacher Response to Student and voice-leading interpretations and implications end, in St. Louis, Missouri in April 2009. Her pres - Writing and Audio Recorded Feedback” at TESL for the harmonic analysis of post-tonal music were entation was entitled, “American Sign Language Ontario 2008 Conference in November 2008. The described. Specific analytical examples were pro - Portfolio: Building the Five Cs for Lifelong Self- presentation was videotaped and is available for vided using the four-part arrays from the music of Assessment and Learning.” the TESL on-line training system. This presentation Igor Stravinsky. Mitchell Levy presented “’Who’s on First’” was also supported by an EDIT grant. She presented Tools for Helping Transfer Students with Disabili - “Feedback on Students’ Writing” at TELC Profes - ties” at the 2009 NYSTAA (New York State Trans - 6 fer and Articulation Association) Conference, in Conference in July 2008 at Trinity College, Dublin York State Mathematics Associations of Two-Year Cooperstown, New York in May and “Developing a and “Researching Our Neighborhood UGRR House Colleges (NYSMATYC) Annual Conference in Albany, Comprehensive and Proactive Orientation Program (the 1847 Hopper Gibbons House, Manhattan)” at New York, in April 2009. They also presented “Com - for Student-Athletes” at the 25th Annual Confer - the Underground Railroad, Its Legacies, and Our pelling Context for Basic Skills Math Courses” at ence on Counseling Athletes, Springfield College, Communities Conference, sponsored by Union Col - the same conference. Springfield, Massachusetts in June 2009. His other lege, Schenectady, New York, February 27-March 1 Md Z. Rahman , Leonid Roytman, Atiq Rahman, presentations include “The Values Auction: Helping 2009. She also chaired two panels (“Tempered Tem - Runa Jesmin, and Felix Kogan presented “Remov - Students Clarify Their Goals”, presented at the 5th peraments” and “Issues of Commerce, Patronage, ing Long-Term Errors from the AVHRR Observation Annual C.U.N.Y. General Education Conference, Attribution, and Religion in Italian Art”) at the Ren - Based on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Lehman College, New York in May 2009 and “The aissance Society of America Conference held in (NDVI)” at the SPIE Europe Symposium on Remote Values Auction: How to Clarify and Prioritize Goals”, March 2009 in . Sensing, in London in September 2008. presented at the 23rd Annual Student Leadership Karen Miller presented “Race, Crime, and Joanne Reitano presented two papers at Conference, LaGuardia Community College in Public Order: Policing in the Great Depres - “Illustrating the Gilded Age,” an NEH Workshop for November 2008 . He co-presented “Managing Dis - sion” at the Social Science History Association Con - Community College Faculty held at the Rutherford ruptive Classroom Behavior,” with C. Clarke, C. Rub - ference, Miami, Florida, in October 2008. B. Hayes Presidential Center, Fremont, Ohio (Spring man and G. Goodwin, at a Faculty Development Howard Motoike co-presented “Clay Model - 2008). The first paper was “Confronting Industrial - Seminar, sponsored by the Suffolk County Commu - ing as a Method to Learn Human Muscles: A Com - ism: Political Cartoons and Public Policy in the Gilded nity College Faculty Association, in Brentwood, New munity College Study” at the 2009 Human Anatomy Age,” which used 19th century and 21st century car - York in February 2008; “Transfer Planning Informa - & Physiologists Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Mary - toons to draw connections between the debate over tion & Resources,” with A. Douglas-Chicoye to Cap - land. At the 2009 Biophysical Annual Meeting in trade policy in both eras. The second paper was “Is stone Faculty, February 24, 2009, LaGuardia Boston, Massachusetts, he co-presented: “Disul - New York America? The Symbolism of Gilded Age Community College; and “A Values Based Approach fide Crosslinking Between BK Channel Alpha And Gotham,” which used cartoons and photographs to to Substance-Abuse Prevention,” with T. Morales, Beta1Subunits In The Membrane Domain”; “Loca - examine the positive and negative legacies of late at the 4th Annual United Federation of Teachers tions Of The Beta2 Transmembrane Helices In The nineteenth century New York for America’s endur - (U.F.T.) Guidance Counselors Conference, New York, BK Potassium Channel,” a poster presentation; and ing love-hate relationship with the city. She also New York in February 2008. He was also a co-facil - “The Locations of the Beta 4 Transmembrane Helices presented a paper at the Urban History Association itator for “NCAA Compliance Issues for Student-Ath - in the BK Channel.” Conference, Houston, Texas (Nov, 2008). The topic letes Applying to College,” at the 4th Annual United Thomas Onorato was invited to give a pres - was “New York as a Shock City,” which attempted Federation of Teachers (U.F.T.) Guidance Counselors entation entitled “Are you the next biologist? Oppor - to show how NYC stimulated significant changes Conference, New York, New York in February 2008 tunities to do and be a part of science” for the in American political, economic, social and cultural and co-developer and co-facilitator for Art of Advis - Brooklyn Youth Club/Northeast District of the life from the colonial period to the present. Finally, ing , a Professional Development Seminar presented National Association of Negro Business and Pro - she presented “The Life and Death of Open Admis - at LaGuardia in June 2009. He presented “Acade - fessional Women’s Clubs, Inc, (NANBPWC) at sions” at the University Faculty Senate Conference, mic Survival Skills” workshops for DIP/English Lan - Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York in New York (December 2007). This retrospective guage Center Students, November 2008 & February November 2008. On April 29, 2009, he was the overview on the dramatic demise of open admis - 2009, at LaGuardia Community College and an “Aca - keynote speaker at the first seminar of a new sem - sions was later published in Clarion , February, 2008. demic Skills Development” workshop for ASAP Stu - inar series at City Tech/CUNY. The title of his talk Victor Rosa presented a paper titled “Harlem dents, March 2009 at LaGuardia Community College. was “THE ASCB and You: Prospects and Partner - 1943: A Riot, the Press, and Richard Wright’s 12 Mil - He co-presented, with B. Polnariev, four Develop - ships for the Undergraduate Institution.” lion Black Voices” in November 2008, as a member mental Advising Committee (DAC) Professional Sreca Perunovic presented a paper, “Visible of the panel “Richard Wright at 100: Reconsidering Development workshops regarding “Effective Advis - and Invisible Consequences of War: Croatian Serb the Early Years” at the South Central Modern Lan - ing Skills,” in March 2009, at LaGuardia Commu - Refugees,” at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the East - guage Association’s annual meeting in San Anto - nity College. Finally, he presented an Opening ern Sociological Society held in Baltimore, Mary - nio, Texas. Session workshop about “Time Management” and land in March 2009. She also presented a paper, Susan M. Sanchirico presented “Some Like conducted an Opening Session Common Reading “Easy Versus Accurate Ways,” at the Thirty-Second It HOT: A Faculty Seminar on Hybrid Online Teach - seminar in March 2009, at LaGuardia Community Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference held at the New ing” at Faculty of the Future 2009: A Conference for College. School, New York City in April 2009. She was a co- Learning and Leading at Bucks County Community Theresia Litvay-Sardou and Michael John - organizer of the conference Pathways to Peace- College on May 29, 2009. son of the Department of Instructional Services and Building and Reconciliation, held at LaGuardia Shara Sand presented “Exploring Hatred” at Media Distribution (ISMD) of the Information Tech - Community College, May 11, 2009 where she organ - the Pathways to Peacebuilding and Reconciliation nology Division presented “Making the Transition ized and presented a paper to the panel “Friends, Conference, held at LaGuardia Community College from Classrooms to Smart Classrooms: The Experi - Enemies, and Reconciliation.” She was also a co- in May 2009; “GLBTQI: Genders and Sexualities from ence of LaGuardia Community College” at the organizer of the conference War and Its Conse - A to Z” for the Psychology Club, LaGuardia Commu - League for Innovation in the Community College Con - quences, held at LaGuardia Community College, nity College in May 2009; “Addressing Issues of Gen - ference on Information Technology in Salt Lake City, November 10, 2008, where she organized and pre - der and Sexuality Among Long-term Psychiatric Utah, in September 2008. sented a paper to the panel “Ethnicity and War.” Patients” at Bronx Psychiatric Center in April 2009; Fern Luskin presented papers at two confer - Md Z Rahman and Javier Roldan Mckin - and “A Modern Psychological History of Torture and ences, “Titian’s Andri and Amori according to ley presented “Invigorating Basic Mathematics Coercive Interrogation Techniques” at the War and Moschus” at the Society for Renaissance Studies Courses Using Environmental Issues” at the New Its Consequences Conference, held at LaGuardia Continued on page 8 7 Speeches... Engagement and Develop Student Leadership at a Continued from page 7 Bi-annual Tri-State Consortium of Opportunity Pro - grams in Special Programs in Higher Education in Fellowships, Community College in November 2008. She will be Galloway, New Jersey on March 23, 2009. acting as Panel Chair for “Research, Reflections and Kyoko Toyama moderated a presentation on Regret on the Passage of California's Proposition “Current Status of Mental Health and Its Services Awards, and 8” and “Challenges of Eliminating Racism: U.S. Elec - in Japan and Psychological Trauma of the Battle of tion and Moving Forward” at the American Psycho - Okinawa” at the Japanese American Association logical Association 117th Annual Convention in in New York City in April 28, 2009. Gr ants August 2009. Ting Man Tsao presented in a Publication and Charity Scribner was invited to deliver two Tenure Highway (PATH) workshop at LaGuardia, lectures: “Politics and Terror: The RAF and the Ger - sponsored by Human Resources and Academic man Autum Revisted” at the New York Consortium Affairs; he also presented in the workshop “Schol - for Intellectual and Cultural History, and “Die arship of Teaching Composition,” sponsored by the bleierne Zeit and Postmilitant Cinema,” part of the English Department. Talka Egin Project at Centro Cívico de San Fran - Phyllis van Slyck presented “What Does cisco/Arteleku in Bilbao, Spain. She also moder - Isabel Want?” at the American Literature Associa - ated the panel “Communism Never Happened” in tion conference in San Francisco, California in April April 2009, as part of the exhibition “The Genera - 2008. She also presented “Isabel’s Delicious Pain” tional” at the New Museum in Manhattan. at the Jamesian Strands, International Conference John Shean gave a presentation at Western of the Henry James Society, in Newport, Rhode Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9, Island in July 2008. Avis O. Anderson was honored “In Recogni - 2009. Marsha Vazquez gave presentations at Shar - tion of Unparallel Commitment and Invaluable Sup - Carolyn Sterling-Deer presented “Support - ing What Works CD/SEEK Conference: Baruch Bridge port of the Ministry” by Bronx Christian Charismatic ing Advanced Development: ePortfolio Pedagogy in to Business Program in Novmeber 2008 and at Prayer Fellowship, Inc., 25th Anniversary, Bronx, New the Education Capstone,” at the Making Connec - Teacher’s College Winter Roundtable Conference: York in September 2008. tions: ePortfolio Mini Conference held at LaGuardia The Effects of Acculturative Stress on the Career Alberta Arnold received two NEH Landmarks Community College in Spring 2009. She also pre - Development of International Students in February of American History and Culture Workshop Grants sented “The LaGuardia Capstone Education ePort - 2009. She also presented at Tristate Consortium for Community College Faculty: (1) The American folio” and “ePortfolio and L2 Learners’ Presentation of Opportunity Programs Conference: Baruch Bridge Lyceum and Public Culture: The Oratory of Idealism, of Self,” at Norfolk Community College, Norfolk, Con - to Business Program in March 2009 and was a par - Opportunity and Abolition at Northeastern Univer - necticut in Fall 2008. ticipant in the Tristate Leadership Institue. Finally, sity, Boston, May 2009; and (2) Landmarks of Amer - Robin Sturtz addressed high school students she presented at the August 2009 117th Annual Con - ican Democracy: From Freedom Summer to the in April regarding veterinary technology as part of vention of the American Psychological Association: Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike at Jackson State the Martin Van Buren High School Career Day. The Effects of Acculturative Stress on the Career University, Jackson, Mississippi, July 2009. Laura Tanenbaum gave a talk about the cul - Development of International Students. Evelyn Burg and Nancy Berke received tural politics of the Atlantic Yards controversy as Frank Wang gave a talk entitled, “Pioneer LaGuardia EDIT Grants and support from Academic part of LaGuardia’s Urban Studies Seminar on Jan - Women in Chaos Theory” at the 2008 meeting of Affairs for their presentation at the 5th Pan-Com - uary 28, 2009. Her paper, “The Branding of Brook - the New York State Mathematics Association of monwealth Conference on Open Access. lyn: Gentrification, Nostalgia, and the Unbearable Two-Year Colleges that took place in New York City Mimi Blaber, Amy Dalsimer, and David Whiteness of Hipster Culture,” which had its ori - College of Technology. A preprint on which the talk Housel submitted a grant entitled, The New Gen - gins in this talk, was accepted to the conference was based is available in Cornell University Library eration Scholars Project, to the Institute for Higher “The Dreamland Pavilion,” which will be held at e-Print archive http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.2671. Dr. Education Policy. On the basis of this grant appli - Kingsborough Community College in October 2009. Wang was also invited to deliver a speech on “Non - cation, LaGuardia received a Wal-Mart Minority Stu - Valerie Taylor-Haslip gave two poster pre - linear Dynamical Systems” by Vaughn College of dent Success Award—a $100,000 grant to help build sentations: “The LPN to RN Pathway Program at Aeronautics and Technology on April 16, 2009. Dur - on LaGuardia’s demonstrated successes in enrolling, LGCC” at the CUNY Gen ED Conference: Teaching ing LaGuardia’s Opening Sessions 2008, Frank Wang retaining, and graduating first-generation college Millennial Learners, hosted by Lehman College May co-presented “May History Be Our Guide: How students. 8, 2009; and “Implementation of the LPN to RN Path - Mathematics and English Scholars Can Learn from Clarence Chan received the New York Physi - way Articulation Program” at Drexel University Nurs - Forgotten Historical Figures,” with Ting Man Tsao cal Therapy Association Outstanding Service Award ing Conference June 6-9, 2009, in Arlington, Virginia. Francine White presented “Are They Ready 2009. She was also a Presenter at the Learning College for Work Yet” at Cooperative Education Internship Dmitriy Chebanov received a PSC-CUNY Summit 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona June 14-17, 2009 Association in April 2009. Research Award for his project titled Design of Non - along with Suzanne Rosenberg on the topic, Joyce Zaritsky presented a paper, "Research - linear Stepped-Frequency Waveforms With Good “Increasing Learning Outcomes and Student Suc - ing and Developing Supplemental Instruction Ses - Range Resolution Capabilities.” He also received a cess Through ePortfolio.” sions that Enhance the Learning of Unsuccessful 2009 William Stewart Travel Award from the CUNY Kyoko Toyama ; her student, Julio Cruz; and Students," at the 5th International Conference on Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. Steve Dauz co-presented “Peer Partner in Learn - Supplemental Instruction held May 28-30, 2008, in ing: An Effective Strategy to Enforce Student Orlando, Florida. 8 Timothy C. Coogan was the Visiting Scholar Regina Monfort was nominated for the Rochelle Spencer received a Full Fellowship in Residence for the National Endowment for the Anonymous Was a Woman Award in 2008. Each to the Vermont Studio Center. Humanities (NEH) Landmarks Workshop and Soci - year, an outstanding group of distinguished women Priscilla P. Stadler was awarded an Individ - ety for the Historians of the Early American Repub - -- art historians, curators, and writers -- nominate ual Artist Grant from the Queens Council on the Arts lic, titled “Revolution in Republic: Philadelphia’s artists for the award. The awards are given annu - for her participatory project ORQ [The Oracle of Ran - Place in Early America,” Philadelphia, Pennsylva - ally to ten women who have achieved critical dom Quotes]. nia, June 2008. acclaim in the arts. Ting Man Tsao has been awarded a one-year Steve Dauz was awarded a $10,000 CUNY Howard Motoike was honored with the 2009 sabbatical leave and a PSC-CUNY grant to map and Special Program Grant to train tutors on Learning Robert Anthony Scholarship Award for the Human historicize the scholarship of teaching and learning Styles. Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) at the literature published by the faculty of the English Sean Galvin was awarded an EDIT grant from Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. Howard Department since its establishment in 1976. the College for $500 for his presentations to the was selected and distinguished among Anatomy and American Folklore Society Meeting in Louisville, Ken - Physiology Assistant Professors with less than 3 tucky and to the MiT6 (Media in Transition) at MIT, years experience. Cambridge, MA. Thomas Onorato received an American Soci - Judy Gex received a Fulbright Senior Schol - ety for Cell Biology Minorities Affairs Committee arship and spent 6 weeks from January 18 to March (ASCB MAC) Linkage Fellow Award. This is a grant 1 teaching at Suleyman Demirel University, a joint that funds, in part, his research and Cell Talks sem - Kazakh/Turkish Islamic Institution, in Almaty, Kaza - inars. In addition, he received an ASCB MAC Travel khstan. award to the 48th Annual ASCB Meeting in San James L. Giordano was awarded an inte - Francisco in December 2008. Along with Onorato, grated E-portfolio Mini- Grant from the LaGuardia his two students Cherub Ruiz and Sasheen Pottinger Center for Teaching and Learning. This grant is also received travel awards to present research at intended to address both the writing and oral com - the meeting. munication competencies as highlighted in the Per - Sreca Perunovic was awarded a William odic Program Review report. These competencies Steward Travel award for her paper presentation at can be further developed through the development the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociologi - and integration of assignments and course work in cal Society held in Baltimore, Maryland, March 19- the Introduction to Business course. 22, 2009. Steve Lang was awarded EDIT Grants in the Md Z. Rahman received an award from Pres - Fall and Spring to present at professional confer - ident Mellow at LaGuardia Community College of ences and a PSC-CUNY Grant for “The Politics of the City University of New York “For the public pres - Sustainability, Brownfield Revitalization, and Envi - entation of his intellectual and creative scholarship ronmental Justice on the New York City Waterfront.” 2008-2009.” He, along with Judi O’ Toole from NAS, was a Kimberly del Busto Ramirez was presented recipient of the Presidents Inaugural Sustainability the Elly Chovel Award for recent scholarship on Leadership Award. Cuban American Theatre by the national charitable Irwin Leopando received a Geoffrey Marshall organization Operation Pedro Pan, Inc. Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities, CUNY Shara Sand received a PSC-CUNY Grant for Graduate Center (2008-9) for his dissertation, “The “Transman Identities: The Development of a Quali - Convergence of Sacred and Secular Discourses in tative Interview Instrument” from the Professional the Pedagogy of Paulo Freire.” Staff Congress-City University of New York and an Fern Luskin received the PSC-CUNY Research EDIT Professional Development Grant from Foundation Award for her forthcoming article, “The LaGuardia Community College, City University of Unchaste Veneration of Venus in Titian’s Amori.” New York. Fern Luskin and Julie Finch received The His - Charity Scribner was a Faculty Fellow at the toric Districts Council Grassroots Preservation Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Award, awarded on behalf of the Friends of Gibbons Graduate Center. This fellowship enabled her to U.G.R.R. Site and Lamartine Place in May 2009. develop a series of new English/Urban Studies Their organization has sought to protect the ante - courses for LaGuardia students. On the College’s bellum row houses on 29th Street (formerly called behalf, Scribner also submitted a proposal to the Lamartine Place), especially the Hopper Gibbons National Endowment for the Arts for a large-scale home, which Luskin discovered was once an Under - public arts and education project. The proposal was ground Railroad Station. approved and the project will begin in the spring of Caroline Mendez received a promotion from 2010. CUNY Office Assistant Level III to CUNY Adminis - Arthur Simms received an award, the Irish trative Assistant as of June 2009. Museum of Modern Art Residency, Dublin, Ireland, June–July 2008.

9 Appointed or Elected Offices Consulting Activities

Alberta Arnold was elected the Eastern Com - ties north of NYC including Dutchess, Orange, Rock - Paul Arcario served as a Faculty Fellow at the munication Association’s Community College Rep - land, and Westchester. 2nd Annual “Entering Student Success Institute” resentative to the National Communication Janice M. Karlen was reelected as a Mem - sponsored by the national Community College Sur - Association Legislative Assembly for a three year ber of the County Committee in Union County, New vey of Student Engagement held in Santa Fe, New term. She was also re-appointed as the Commu - Jersey. She is a member of the Curriculum Com - Mexico, in April 2009. nity College Interest Group Nominating Committee, mittee for the School of Business and Management Timothy C. Coogan was a member of the Plan - East Coast Representative to the National Commu - at Thomas Edison State University and on the edi - ning and Organizing Committee of the Urban Stud - nication Association. torial board of The International Journal of Applied ies Symposium on Gentrification and Redevelopment, Lenore A. Beaky was re-elected to the Management and Technology. titled “Is Gentrification A Dirty Word?” Part II, Film National Council of the American Association of Uni - Michelle Pacht is serving a three-year term Festival on Gentrification and Redevelopment, held versity Professors 2009-2012, representing District as an executive committee member of the Modern at The Main Stage Theater in April 2009. VIII, New York State. Language Association's Discussion Group on the Two T. K. Dalton was trained as a facilitator of cre - Susan Bernstein continued as Co-Editor of Year College. ative writing workshops through the New York Writ - Basic Writing Electronic Journal, a position she has Anthony Pappas was re-elected Secretary of ers Coalition and began a workshop for teens in held since 2005. She has also served as an Execu - the LaGuardia Community College Senate in Octo - Brownsville, Brooklyn. He was also a visiting fic - tive Committee Member for the Conference on Basic ber 2008 and elected President of the LaGuardia tion writer at the East Flatbush Community Research Writing from 2003 through the present. Community College Alumni Association in Novem - School in Brooklyn. Timothy C. Coogan was recommended by the ber 2008. Eiko Fukuda developed a history curriculum College Senate (and recommended by President Mel - John Shean was selected as Chair of the Col - for the seniors at S.T.A.R. (Science, Technology and low) to represent LaGuardia Community College on lege-Wide Curriculum Committee and as Coordina - Research) Early College High School in global stud - the Central Office's New Community College Plan - tor for History, Social Science Department. ies, with an emphasis on the history of the ning Committee of the New Community College Robin Sturtz was appointed to the Board of Caribbean, while teaching an early college high Steering Committee in March 2009. He was also Directors of the Association of Veterinary Family school class on the campus of Brooklyn College. elected as the Secretary of the PSC Chapter of Practice. Sandra Sellers Hanson and Hannalyn LaGuardia Community College for 2009-2010. Kyoko Toyama was inducted into Chi Alpha Wilkens served on the CUNY Task Force on Writing Steve Dauz was appointed Assistant to the Epsilon, Honor Society in Special Programs as Fac - Assessment, which designed a new test to be Deputy of the Hicksville Community Emergency ulty Member on November 18, 2008. piloted during the summer and fall of 2009 and Response Team (CERT), which reports to the Office Marsha Vazquez was appointed liaison to implemented for exit from CUNY developmental of Emergency Management (OEM). Baruch’s Bridge to Business Program in May 2008. writing courses in Fall 2010. Nalband S. Hussain received membership to Janice M. Karlen participated in evaluations the prestigious office known as The American Asso - for the Center for Academic Program Reviews at ciation for Cancer Research (AACR). He is presently Thomas Edison State College for the COPE Institute, the only member of AACR from LaGuardia. NY and Maalot Yerushalayim, Israel. Jerry G. Ianni was elected to serve as Chair - Carole Lazorisa k was a consultant, for the person-Elect for the Metropolitan New York Sec - Case Study Development for Deaf Interpreters, The tion of the Mathematical Association of America Northeastern University Regional Interpreter Edu - (MAA) on May 3, 2009. Dr. Ianni will serve in this cation Center (National Consortium of Interpreter position from 2009 - 2012 and then immediately pro - Education Centers). ceed to serve as Chairperson for the Section from Mitchell Levy was appointed to National Cen - 2012 - 2015. Dr. Ianni had just completed a 3-year ter for Higher Education Risk Management term of service as Vice Chairperson for Two-year (NCHERM) Behavioral Mental Health Consultation Colleges from 2006 - 2009. The MAA is split into Team in May 2009. He was re-appointed to The 29 sections throughout the United States and Journal of the Professional Counselor Editorial Canada. MAA members include college faculty and Review staff, New York Counseling Association students at all levels, high school faculty and stu - (NYCA) of the American Counseling Association dents, professionals from industry, and other friends (ACA), September 2008; he has been an Editorial and/or practitioners of mathematics. The Metro NY Review staff member since 2001. Levy also acted Section has more than 1,000 members and covers as an editorial review consultant to the Journal of all of New York City, Long Island, and several coun - Community Engagement and Higher Education in

10 Consulting... Continued from page 10 Exhibitions, June 2009. He was invited to post the following Arthur Simms presented his work in a solo conference presentations on the C.U.N.Y. Counsel - Openings, exhibition at the Process Room, Irish Museum of ing Directors website: “The Critical Incident Review Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland, in July 2008. He also Protocol as a Tool for Counseling Centers” (w/ I. presented his work in two group exhibitions, Play - Grieger), presented at Annual Metropolitan (NY) Performances ing Around, at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Cen - Counseling Centers Conference, Pace University, ter in Brattleboro, Vermont from April to July, 2009 New York, New York, January 2005; and “A Systemic and Person in the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Model for Managing College Depression and Sui - Flanerie, at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Pur - cide” (w/ I. Grieger & J. Johnson), presented at chase, New York, from January to April, 2008. American Counseling Association (ACA) World Con - Rochelle Spencer was invited to read at the ference, Orlando, Florida in April 1997. He also Southern Writers Reading Series, which also fea - served as a peer review reader for In Transit , tured Jeannie Thompson, founder of the literary jour - LaGuardia, Spring 2009. nal Black Warrior Review. Thomas Onorato served as a Review Panelist Priscilla P. Stadler created a video piece, for the National Science Foundation’s Division of “Seven Word Pairs for the #7 Train,” which was Computer and Networks System’s Broadening Par - selected for the multi-venue “TransPositions: Along ticipation in Computing Program during the Sum - Rosemary Mayer presented her artwork in the Queensborough Bridge” exhibition in Long Island mer of 2008 and Summer of 2009. two exhibitions, A.I.R. Gallery Retrospective, Werk - City, May - July 2009, curated by Judith Tolnick Sreca Perunovic is a member of the Mid- statte Gallery, NYC, May 2 - June 14, and A.I.R. Champa. Additionally, from June 2008 - June 2009, Atlantic Slavic Conference Executive Board and of Gallery: The History Show, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC, Oct. Stadler’s artwork was also featured in the follow - the Outreach Committee of the Women Writing 2 -Nov. 29. ing juried and invitational exhibitions: “Change” Women’s Lives seminar (WWWL), CUNY. Kimberly del Busto Ramirez was part of the (Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY); “The Art Conspir - Bernard Polnariev co-chaired the Art of Advis - Escenificando a Nilo Cruz (Staging Nilo Cruz) panel acy” (Gallery Korea, New York, NY); “The End of The ing Seminar Series for Faculty Development with at the XXIII Festival International de Teatro Hispano End of The End” (Flux Factory, Queens, NY); “LICA Mitchell Levy and Laura McGowan. He also co- in Miami, Florida in July 2008. Her work was also Selects for the Armory Show” (Paint Can Studios chaired the Developmental Advisement Committee presented at Los Angeles’s Breath of Fire Latino/a Gallery, Queens, NY), (The Wassaic Project, Was - Workshop on Advisement in March 2009 with Theatre Ensemble New Works Festival (First Place saic, NY); and “Familiar Spaces: Reconsidered” (Art- Mitchell Levy. Winner), and the Repertorio Español Nuestras Voces O-Mat, Queens, NY). Stadler’s online portfolio is Laura Tanenbaum continued as a Founding National Playwriting Competition (Current Finalist). available at: http://www.solanima.net . Editor of Vibrant Gray , an on-line literary magazine, and as a reader for Philip Roth Studies , the journal of the Philip Roth Society. Charles Townsend designed a course enti - tled, “Personal Finance and Black Entrepreneurship: Making End$ Meet: An Anthropology of Black Busi - ness in the United States” for The City College. Degrees Phyllis van Slyck acted as a Resource Fel - Soraya Ciego has earned a Masters in Library low, at the National Learning Communities Institute, and Information Science in conjunction with a Cer - Washington Center for Improving Undergraduate or tificate in Archives, Records Management, and Education, held at Evergreen State College, in Preservation from the Graduate School of Library & Olympia, Washington, June 2008. Her other con - Certificates Information Studies at Queens College/CUNY dur - sulting activities included “Developing and Sustain - ing the Summer 2009. ing Learning Communities” at Bunker Hill Community Kelly Connelly earned her Ph.D. in Literature College, in Boston, Massachusetts, June 2009 and Earned from Temple University in May 2009. Her disserta - “Introduction to Learning Communities” at Three tion was entitled, “From Poe to Auster: Literary Rivers Community College in Norwich, Connecticut, Experimentation in the Detective Story Genre.” in June 2009. Gail Baksh-Jarrett was certified in Key Con - David A. Housel earned his second Master's cepts in Project Management in November 2008 degree from Hunter College in May 2009: a Mas - through the CUNY Professional Development Pro - ter of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other gram. She was also certified in Specialized Knowl - Languages (TESOL). edge and Application in Student Financial Services Anthony Pappas graduated/completed LEAD at the National Association of College and Univer - workshops (Leadership Essentials for Administra - sity Business Officers (NACUBO) in March 2009, in tive Assistant Development Program) in February Savannah, Georgia. 2009.

11 Faculty And Staff NTES LaGuardia Community College/CUNY • Fall, 2009

Editor: Kelly Connelly The information presented in Faculty and Staff Notes is based on submissions from the individuals listed. The publication is issued annually by LaGuardia Com - munity College.

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