OCTOBER 2006

2 New Strategic Plan for College 3 Faculty Profile: Bill Helmreich 3 eCAT Comes to QC 6 Jewish, Female & Traveling Solo in Egypt

BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM Oct. 18 (See page 7) FYIFYICollege Faculty & Staff News

Armstrong House Museum Gets $5 Million for Visitors Center Man Bites Dog! An empty lot across the street from the from State. 1967 Lincoln Town Car, like the one College Students Louis Armstrong House Museum will be “The visitors center will provide sub- Armstrong drove. the site of an 8,500-square-foot visitors stantial benefits not only to our visitors, “We are deeply grateful to Senators Don’t Drink! center, thanks to an award of $5 million but to our community,” says Museum John Sabini and Serf Maltese, It is probably the kind of information Director Michael Cogswell, referring to Assemblymen José Peralta and Jeff parents hide from their children when plans for additional exhibitions, concerts, Aubry, and all the other elected officials they are making a decision about lectures, and other services and programs who worked so hard to acquire this essen- which college to attend. But one grad- in the new space. “We’ll be able to pre- tial funding,” says Cogswell. uate of Queens College, who is now a sent more community-oriented programs. The estimated total cost for design and successful journalist, decided to broad- Plus, cultural tourism has long been rec- construction is $9 million; Queens cast the news from the pages of the ognized as an important contributor to College must raise an additional $4 mil- Chicago Tribune: “Yes! My alma economic development. More visitors to lion for the center, which is expected to mater made it onto the lists in the the Louis Armstrong House Museum be completed in 2009. Lord Cultural Princeton Review’s 2007 edition of means that more visitors will stay in local Resources, one of the world’s top muse- The Best 361 Colleges, which went on hotels and eat in local restaurants.” um design firms, and Hardy Holzman sale last week. There it was, No. 8 on The new center will provide another Pfeiffer Associates developed the master one list. The list being: Stone-Cold significant benefit. “We currently hold plan for the center. The project will be Sober Schools.” concerts and special events in our beauti- administered by the CUNY Department Barbara Brotman ’78, a staff ful garden, but only in warm months and of Design, Construction, and reporter at the Tribune, couldn’t hide we hope for nice weather,” says Management. her enthusiasm for the rating: “A toast Cogswell. “With a visitors center we can “When we created the master plan for to my old school! Or maybe not. hold events all year long and never be the visitors center in 2003,” says Because our ranking on another list, rained out.” Cogswell, “we held more than 20 inter- this one for beer drinking, was even The center will also allow for restora- views with community leaders, elected higher. Queens College, part of the tion of the house’s garage to its original officials, and block residents to learn what City University of New York, had the state. That space now contains a gift shop, they wished for there. Many wonderful third-lowest rating for consumption of which will be moved to the visitors cen- ideas came out of those interviews and we beer.” ter. Once restored, the garage will house a are excited about realizing them.” Continued on page 2

QUEENS COLLEGE IS Ensuring a Strong Financial Foundation: the plan must include priorities set by QC Community to Create Continued from page 1 Mario DellaPina (Exec. Dir., QC CUNY in its 2004–2008 Master Plan and New Strategic Plan Foundation), John Walker (Accounting take into account performance goals “This rating only confirms what we and Information Systems) established by the chancellor for each col- at the college have always known,” With the announcement of the new cur- lege. “This plan will depend heavily on says President James Muyskens: “Our riculum and the ongoing success of the Strengthening the Quality of Life for the input from our faculty, staff, students, and students are serious and hard-working. capital campaign, President James College Community : Elizabeth Hendrey alumni,” says Muyskens. Muyskens believes the time is right to (Dean, Social Sciences), Naveed Husain But they are A first draft of the plan will be widely create a new Strategic Plan that builds (Asst. VP, OCT) also fun-lov- circulated among the QC community next upon these accomplishments and sets a ing.” This was Enhancing Physical Facilities, David March. It will be posted on the Web and a vision for Queens College for the next echoed by The Gosine (Dir., Campus Facilities), Thomas site created for online discussion. There five years and beyond. Best 361 Strekas (Dean, Math & Natural Sciences) will also be several town hall meetings. “Such a plan will guide our decisions Colleges, which Where appropriate, comments will be regarding where we should invest our Increasing the Visibility and Reputation of incorporated into the final document that notes how “free resources,” he observes. “At the same time, the College in and Beyond: will be issued in May 2007. hour events it will sharpen our sense of institutional Rachel Lyon (Media Studies), Maria Terrone (Asst. VP, Communications) bring everyone Brotman identity and enhance the college’s visibility together for parties, speakers, discus- both nationally and internationally.” Setting Performance Measures and sion groups, or food” and students In a recent memo to the college com- Ensuring Accountability: Craig Michaels What Do You Think? “are very active in clubs and after- munity, Muyskens provided the outlines (Educational and Community Programs), If you could make one change to the school activities.” of the process that will create the Penny Hammrich (Dean, Education) college, what would that be? Send Strategic Plan. It includes a Strategic Brotman also noted, “In addition to your ideas to [email protected]. Planning Council which he chairs, com- Each committee will produce a position the sober living lists, Queens College All suggestions thoughtfully prised of members from various sectors of paper that will be submitted to the council is also on the Princeton Review’s lists the campus community, including faculty, in January 2007. considered. of ‘Best Northeastern Colleges’ and students, staff, alumni, members of the As described in the president’s memo, ‘America’s Best Value Colleges.’” QC Foundation, and a member of the A member of the Chicago Tribune Queens Chamber of Commerce. The since graduating from QC, Brotman council has ultimate responsibility for In July Tom Cracovia competed at the seventh Gay Games in Chicago, currently writes for the paper’s metro- creating the Strategic Plan. It will advise politan news section’s special projects on issues and ideas, review all drafts, and where he won three medals in swim- team. She wrote one of the stories in formally adopt the plan at the end of the ming events in his age group: two process. Within the council are eight gold in the 4x100-meter free-style the Tribune’s 2004 series, “Struggle Strategic Planning Committees formed relay and the 4x50-meter medley for the Soul of Islam,” which won first around various key topics. The commit- relay and a silver in the 50-meter place in the Religion Newswriters tees and their co-chairs are: breaststroke. Some 12,000 athletes Association’s Templeton Story Award Enhancing Academic Quality: June Bobb from all over the world competed category. She also enjoyed writing this (Asst. Provost), James Moore and there were over 30,000 atten- article. (Anthropology) dees. Formerly called the Gay The ‘Stone Cold Sober’ rating led Olympics, the event has been held in to a deluge of national publicity for The Balance of Teaching and Research: different cities around the world since Jeffrey Halperin (Psychology), Donald the college, leading Brotman to 1982. Cracovia, who is on the board Scott (History) observe: “It’s been a blast hearing of directors for the event, has previ- from so many Queens and CUNY Strengthening the Quality of the College ously won medals in track and field grads out here. A lot of satisfied cus- Experience for All Students: Joe Bertolino and masters physique as well as tomers, we former teetotalers.” (VP for Student Affairs), Joyce Chang swimming. (Sociology) Tom Cracovia

2 FACULTY PROFILE QC Launches New try use DegreeWorks. While some CUNY schools have their own stand-alone Director of Center for Jewish Studies Online Advising Tool DegreeWorks systems, Queens College’s Bill Helmreich program is among five that are being run “I stand on sand students who are Bukharian For students and their advisors, the “What on CUNY’s central server. Consequently, the shoul- attending Queens College,” he says. if?” aspect of course selection recently it must be accessed through the central ders of “We surely have the largest Jewish received some important technological CUNY Web site. Lipper says she believes giants,” Bukharian college student population in assistance with the launch of the university’s goal is to eventually have observes Bill America, and we ought to help that DegreeWorks (which at Queens College is all the schools on the central server. Helmreich, community maintain itself culturally.” being called eCAT, an acronym for The QC system, which took almost quoting a “All these things are going to require Electronic College Advising Tool). two years to get running, went live last 12th-century money,” says Helmreich, who has an “We took the 2003–2005 college bul- May but only on a limited basis, says French established track record as an effective letin and coded all the different degree Lipper, as it was important to be sure all philosopher fundraiser. As president of the North and major/minor concentrations, Gen Ed, the technical issues had been addressed. as he under- Shore Hebrew Academy, he was a and LASAR requirements into the “It’s currently being used in the Advising takes his major force in helping the academy DegreeWorks system,” explains Donna Center, Counseling and Advisement, and new role as raise $48 million for a new high school Lipper, assistant to the provost for director of that opened its doors in September. academic data. “DegreeWorks the Center Helmreich is professor of sociology takes the student’s academic tran- for Jewish Studies. and Judaic studies at the CUNY “Benny Kraut accomplished a lot in Graduate Center and City College of script, plugs it into these require- his eight years,” he says of his prede- New York. He also serves as director of ments, and comes up with a Web- cessor, whose tradition of accomplish- the City College Conflict Resolution access report which says: ‘This is ment he hopes to continue and, per- Center. A former Woodrow Wilson what you’ve completed; this is haps, take in a different direction. “As I Fellow, he is the author of 11 books, what you have to do.’ And it tells am a sociologist and interested in con- including Against All Odds: Holocaust you the courses that can be taken temporary affairs,” says Helmreich, “it Survivors and the Successful Lives They to fulfill the requirements.” may be that the center’s conferences Made in America, which won a When students using and some of the lecture series will have National Jewish Book Award. He has DegreeWorks “hover” over the a more contemporary flavor; they may written for , the Los names of courses, Lipper says, a emphasize more political affairs in the Angeles Times, and many scholarly window pops up giving course Student Shuk Tsoi looks on as Donna Lipper demon- Middle East, and more current issues of journals, and appears frequently on description and credit information. strates QC’s new DegreeWorks advising program. anti-Semitism. We are planning a major radio and TV shows such as “Oprah,” “This does all those clerical functions for in the Registrar’s Office as part of their conference for the spring about the “Larry King Live,” and the “CBS them so that advising session time is bet- degree audit review.” state of world Jewry, for example, fea- Morning News.” “I’m not shy about ter spent addressing questions such as Meetings are now taking place with turing speakers such as Bernard Lewis, talking to the media,” he says. ‘What do you want to do with this Leon Wieseltier, Norman Podhoretz. As director of the Center for Jewish department chairs to get them to sign off “I am also embarking on two other Studies, Helmreich inherits half the major?’” on their department’s information on projects,” he says. “One is long-range: mantle worn by Kraut, who also was DegreeWorks is available 24/7, notes DegreeWorks. “We think the information to establish an Hispanic-Jewish institute director of the college’s academic Lipper, “so it’s there for the student who is right,” says Lipper. “But the last person at Queens College that would focus on Jewish Studies Program, a position that does things in the middle of the night or to say it’s right is the chair. We’re hoping research into the relationship of these has been assumed by Mark Rosenblum who waits until the last minute to regis- within the next month or two that all the two communities.” The short-range (History). While Rosenblum’s focus will ter.” Other features include a GPA calcu- programs will have signed off.” project is the creation of a Bukharian be the undergraduate program, lator to determine what grades students Lipper is emphatic that DegreeWorks Community Center that would feature Helmreich will concentrate on communi- need to achieve a desired GPA or to quali- is not a substitute for students talking to conferences and programs, particularly ty programming and outreach. fy for various honors programs. advisors: “It’s meant to be a tool to assist, for students. “There are close to a thou- A number of schools around the coun- not to supercede advisors.”

3 New Food Vendor Kingsborough Community College. the corporation which oversees food serv- contract,” Bertolino continues, explaining “We were willing to do this,” says ices, selected Metropolitan.” that the RFP process will be initiated Steps into the Breach Bertolino. “But we, of course, needed to The AEA at QC, explains Bertolino, is again to find a vendor for a more long- find another vendor very, very quickly.” comprised of students, faculty, and term engagement. It could well turn out to With the premature departure of Panda The problem was made even more dif- administrators and oversees all vendor be Metropolitan, which, in the meantime, House, a new food vendor, Metropolitan ficult, explains Bertolino, because when services. A few factors weighed in is getting what might be considered a Food Services, has stepped in to sate the QC put out its last Request for Proposals Metropolitan’s favor, including their “stu- one-year audition. appetites of the college population. (RFP) for a food service supplier in the dent-friendly pricing structure” and the “For the most part they’re up and run- Panda House’s contract with the col- spring, the only bidder had been Panda fact that they already serve Queens- ning,” says Bertolino, citing the opera- lege was originally set to expire in House. Consequently, several potential borough, Baruch, and City College. tions in the Student Union, the Science January 2007, explains Vice President for vendors were quickly contacted, with four “Given the short amount of time, the Building, and the library. Student Affairs Joe Bertolino. But over submitting proposals. familiarity with CUNY was certainly one “In the meantime,” he says, “we just the summer the vendor requested an early “Of those four,” he says, “the Auxiliary of the more significant points,” he says. ask people to bear with us.” release in order to accept an offer from Enterprises Association (AEA), which is “This is only a one-year emergency

IN THE NEWS

The British newspaper national magazine Newsweek suggest- regarding violent video Banyan Trees, was reviewed Sept. 5 in the Times quoted ANDY ing that first-graders may be overtested games quoted HAROLD the Daily News, and Newsday noted it BEVERIDGE (Sociology) and overworked quoted DOMINIC SCHECHTER (English), Sept. 13 in its Fall Arts Preview . . . in an Aug. 31 story GULLO (EECE) . . . BILL HELMREICH (Ctr author of Savage Gothamist, a Web site of news about about the proposed Jewish Studies) was quoted Sept. 17 in Pastimes . . . JOSEPH New York, featured an item Aug. 22 sale of the Stuyvesant a story in the New York Times about SCIORRA (Calandra about QC’s #8 ranking by the Princeton Town and Peter Cooper ongoing tensions in the Lawrence Institute) offered his Review The Best 361 Colleges as a Beveridge Village housing com- school district, where Orthodox Jews reminiscences for a “Stone Cold Sober” school. The Daily plexes in Manhattan . . . The announce- who send their children to private Sept. 17 New York News, Newsday, AM New York, New ment of plans to build a visitors center schools hold a majority of seats on the Times story discussing the passing of York Sun, Associated Press, WCBS-AM, for the Louis Armstrong House Museum school board . . . MARK ROSENBLUM Luigi Rossi, a longtime merchant and NY1, WNBC, Fox, and WB also covered was the subject of a Sept. 5 Daily News (History) was quoted in an Aug. 18 resident of Little Italy who sold this . . . The Learning for Life program’s story which quoted story in Newsday con- Neapolitan records, sheet music, fig- recent Astronomy Night event was director MICHAEL cerning the recent clash urines of saints, and other Italian mis- highlighted Aug. 31 in the Queens COGSWELL. The Daily between Israel and cellany . . . Popstars!, the Godwin- Chronicle, Sept. 8 in Newsday, and in News also published an Lebanon. The Queens Ternbach Museum’s current exhibit of the September editions of Queens editorial in its Sept. 12 Gazette featured a works by the superstars of the Pop Art Parent and Parent Guide. . . The Queens editions lauding story Aug. 30 on its Movement, was reviewed in the Sept. Queens News section of the Aug. 22 the development. News Web site about 15 Queens Tribune. It also received edition of the Daily News featured a of the center also made Rosenblum’s unique notices Sept. 10 in Newsday, Sept. 14 story about freshman orientation pro- Cogswell its way to the jazz Web course on the Israeli- Rosenblum in the Queens Chronicle, and Sept. 19 grams at QC and St. John’s University . . . site of About.com. “Chasing History Palestinian conflict. He in the Daily News, and was the subject QC was profiled in the Back to School & Home,” part of Dish Network’s pro- was also profiled in the September edi- of a public service announcement on Fall Guide in the Aug. 24 Queens gramming for HDTV, profiled the tion of Westchester Jewish Life . . . A WQXR radio . . . The exhibition at the Chronicle. Armstrong House on Sept. 23 . . . A story appearing Aug. 24 in the Queens Queens Art Center of photographs by story in the Sept. 11 edition of the Chronicle about concerns parents have Tony Gonzalez, Figure Studies and

4 QC PEOPLE

JOE BROSTEK (Special Events) con- first-generation students when the tributed a number of admissions process produces a “good personal anecdotes institutional fit” . . . PYONG GAP MIN about his and his fami- (Sociology) has been ly’s experiences as Met selected as a visiting fans to For Met Fans scholar for the Only (Lone Wolf Press), 2006–2007 academic a book by sportswriter year by the Russell Brostek Rich Wolfe, who’s Sage Foundation. He authored a similar volume for Red Sox will write a book fans . . . TOM CRACOVIA (Director, examining how the Pyong Gap Min Learning for Life) will assume the presi- involvement of immigrants in ethnic dency of the Continuing Education businesses affects ethnic attachment, Association of New York at the organi- solidarity, and conflict among Chinese, zation’s annual conference later this Indian, and Korean immigrants in New month. Its membership includes most York City . . . EUGENIA Student Association President Mahendra Singh and President James Muyskens partici- CUNY and SUNY colleges and universi- PAULICELLI (European pate in a memorial ceremony at the spot where five years earlier on Sept. 11, a ties . . . MIRIAN DETRES-HICKEY Langs) spoke on stunned campus witnessed the attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center. (Director, Office of Special Services for “Fashion and Design: Students with Disabilities) has been rec- Influences and ognized as one of two Individual Exchanges between Award Winners by the Senior Vice Italy and the US” at a Chancellor’s Productivity Awards Paulicelli Sept. 13 conference Program. She was cited for her innova- about The Influence of Italian Style in tive solutions to maintaining services American Culture and Architecture at for 653 students served by her office the University of Bologna. On Sept. 21 when congressional action last year cut she spoke on her current research on $250,000 in funding, the first such cut Cesare Vecellio’s renaissance costume in 20 years . . . books at the International Conference THOMAS GIBSON on Paraitre and Apparances dans une (Director, SEEK) made a perspective spatiale in Lille, France . . . presentation in CAROLINE RUPPRECHT (Comp Lit) pub- September at the lished “Post-war Iconographies: Council for Opportunity Wandering Women in Brecht, Duras, in Education’s national Kluge” in South Central Review, vol. 23, conference in New York Gibson no. 2 (Summer 2006). Students, QC and elected officials marking Constitution Day on Sept. 18 are (front) City. He spoke about how the likelihood Chickodi Emerenini, Moumita Zaman, Sue Henderson, Ilysse Baum, Borough Pres. Helen of postsecondary success can be signifi- Marshall, Grace Betancourt, Adebisi Oyesile; (rear) Saleem Rasul, State Assemblyman cantly improved for low-income and Ivan Lafayette, State Sen. Serphin Maltese, Mahendra Singh, Pres. James Muyskens.

5 QC COMMUNITY STUDENT PROFILE For seven weeks Talerman took classes in colloquial Arabic, printed and oral Faculty and Staff Assembly October 18 academic year to discuss four books; Lauren Talerman ’08 media, and political texts at the American Mark Your Calendar: The Fall Faculty each session is conducted by a faculty Winner of Boren University in Cairo. The small and intense and Staff Assembly will take place on member with expertise related to the Undergraduate Scholarship classes, taught by Egyptian professors, Wednesday, October 18, at 3:30 pm in book’s subject matter. The next meeting enabled her to be more conversant in LeFrak Concert Hall. President James is Oct. 10 at 6:30 in G Building, Room “You’re out of Arabic, to read and understand the local Muyskens will outline the accomplish- 200, when Liebman will conduct a dis- your mind” is media, and become more aware of perspec- ments of the past year and address cussion of Amos Oz’s memoir A Tale of what many of tives, cultures, and politics different from many of the opportunities and chal- Love and Darkness. For more informa- Lauren her own. lenges that lie ahead. The introduction tion contact Liebman at 72962 or Pat Talerman’s of new faculty and administrators will Tortorici at 74530. Coursework was supplemented by friends told her afternoon, evening, and weekend field trips be followed by the presentation of the when she President’s Awards. A short video enti- Athletic Conference Headquarters at QC organized by the university. These included announced she tled Leading the American Dream will The headquarters of the CUNY Athletic a trip to Alexandria to see the pyramids, a had won a schol- also be featured and light refreshments Conference recently relocated from cruise down the Nile, and an exploration of will follow in the Atrium. Lehman College to QC. They are tem- arship to study Cairo at night. porarily working in Razran Hall, Room Arabic in Egypt “I never felt uncomfortable traveling Faculty Reading Group 315, with plans to move to a still-to-be- this past summer. through Egypt,” says Talerman. “I met so As Benny Kraut (History) takes a sab- determined permanent location, says After all, many fascinating people and made a lot of batical, Stuart Liebman (Media Studies) Assistant Director Dave Gansell. Ten Talerman, an Orthodox Jewish female, friends from all around the world who had will assume the role of coordinator of CUNY senior colleges and five communi- would be traveling through an Islamic similar interests and career paths. Even the Jewish Studies Faculty Reading ty colleges are members of the confer- country during wartime. But she felt it was though there were no synagogues or Kosher Group. A founder and regular partici- ence. (QC withdrew from the conference a challenge and an “exciting time to be in food available, I managed. For example, I pant, Liebman invites anyone with an some years ago to become a member the Mid East.” ate either cooked vegetables, rice and interest in Jewish literature, texts, of the NCAA.) CUNYAC is looking for Meeting challenges is just part of life yogurt, canned tuna brought from home, or ideas, etc., to join the group, which has interns and work-study students. for Talerman. For a year she commuted two LaBriute meals, which are self-heating and been meeting since 2000. He empha- Anyone interested should contact hours each way by subway and bus from ready-to-eat.” sizes that you need not be Jewish to Gansell at ext. 74273. her home in Brooklyn to attend Queens Talerman, who speaks fluent Hebrew join. The group meets four times each College as a CUNY Honors College stu- and Spanish (her father is from Colombia), dent. (She has since moved to Flushing.) So is majoring in political science and anthro- competing for a national scholarship where pology and hopes to minor in Arabic. In summer study abroad is rarely awarded— addition to her regular coursework at the and choosing to study in Egypt—did not college, where she maintains a 3.9 GPA, seem all that unusual. she is executive editor of the Knight News; Talerman has a keen interest in interna- co-editor of the Journal of Jewish Studies; tional relations, particularly the Mid East, and serves on the President’s Strategic and a career goal in foreign policy. Before Planning Council. her trip to Egypt she could read and write “Most of my friends from Brooklyn modern standard (textbook) Arabic, but chose to go away to school, but I don’t realized that a “true language-immersion regret my decision to attend Queens experience” required study in an Arabic- College,” says Talerman, who passed up speaking country. The David L. Boren admission to Princeton. “I love it here! I get Undergraduate Scholarship—which awards a personalized education and all the oppor- up to $20,000 for study in a “region of the These countertop PCs are among several—including a dozen new stainless steel tunities and experiences of an Ivy League stand-alone PCs—that have sprouted up around campus in recent months. “This is a world crucial to U.S. interests” in exchange college at one-tenth the price.” huge step forward in ubiquitous computing at Queens College,” says Naveed Husain, for a year’s service in the federal govern- Asst. VP of OCT. The college now boasts 31 walk-up terminals. ment—afforded her that opportunity.

6 OCTOBER Steven Clemants Maksimov (Penn State). Science Bldg, (Brooklyn Botanical 24 TUE Room B326, 12:15 pm. Garden). Science Bldg, CHAMBER MUSIC LIVE: Gerald Robbins, Room B137, 11:15 piano & guests. LeFrak Hall, 10 am. 10 TUE am. Free with QC ID. 31 TUE CHAMBER MUSIC LIVE: Violinist Rolphe CHAMBER MUSIC LIVE: Mendelssohn Schulte & pianist Andrew Rangell. CELEBRATION OF Quartet. LeFrak Hall, 10 am. Free with Works by JIMMY HEATH’S 80TH 25 WED QC ID. Schubert & BIRTHDAY: QC BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM: “Antibodies Janácek. LeFrak Orchestra, Maurice Peress, director. and the Brain: New Insights into Altered NOVEMBER Hall, 10 am. William Cook’s In Dahomay Overture, Brain Function,” Betty Diamond Free with QC ID. Duke Ellington’s Three Vocalises, Jimmy (Columbia). Science Bldg, Room B137, Heath’s Three Ears for Jazz Quintet and 11:15 am. 1 WED Orchestra. LeFrak Hall, 12:15 pm. BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM: “Evolution of 11 WED CHORAL CONCERT: QC Choir and QC Microsatellite DNA and Impact on their BIOLOGY LECTURE: “Sisters in Science: Confronting Chorus. Works by Mozart, Stravinsky, use as Molecular Markers,” Colleen COLLOQUIUM: “Selection Against Pup the Gender Gap,” Penny Hammrich others. LeFrak Hall, 12:15 pm. Ingram (Museum of Natural History). Separation Calls Influences Epigenetic (Dean of Education). Library, 5th floor, Science Bldg, Room B137, 11:15 am. Regulation of Anxiety and HPA-Axis President’s Conf Rm 2, 12:15 pm. PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM: “Metamaterials: Function,” Aron Branscomb (NY Shrinking Circuit Elements and Nano- Psychiatric Institute). Science Bldg, Room FACULTY STAFF ASSEMBLY LeFrak Hall, optics,” Nader Engheta (University of B137, 11:15 am. 3:30 pm. Pennsylvania). Science Bldg, Room Exhibits B326, 12:15 pm. LECTURE: “Julius Rosenwald: Business Figure Studies and Banyan Trees: 12 THU Leader, Pioneering Philanthropist, LECTURE: “Judah Halevi’s Pilgrimage: Photographs by Tony Gonzalez. QC Art COMPOSERS’ ALLIANCE: Humanitarian,” Peter Ascoli. LeFrak The Song of the Distant Dove,” Center, Rosenthal Library, 6th floor. Martin Halpern, concert director. LeFrak Hall, 7:30 pm. Raymond P. Scheindlin. LeFrak Hall, Through October 27. Hall, 12:15 pm. 7:30 pm. POPSTARS! Includes Andy Warhol, Jim 19 THU Dine, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, 13 FRI RECITAL: Elena Rojas, violin and viola, 26 THU Mel Ramos, Claes Oldenburg, Larry RECITAL: Yu-Hsuan Chiang, horn, and and Wei-Hsien Lien, piano. LeFrak Hall, STUDENT COMPOSERS RECITAL: Works Rivers, and Shinae Kim, clarinet. LeFrak Hall, 3 pm. 12:15 pm. by Barry Seroff, Ed Rosenberg, Ed James Klinger, others. LeFrak Hall, 12:15 pm. Rosenquist. Godwin- 16 MON 22 SUN RECITAL: David Smith, trumpet. Music Ternbach CHORAL COFFEE BREAK: QC Choir, and CONCERT: The Fab Faux. Colden Bldg, Room 264, 3 pm. Museum. Hours QC Chorus. Library, Barham Rotunda, Auditorium, 4 & 8 pm. $50–$40 Mon.–Thur., 11 12:15 pm. am–7 pm; Sat., 28 SAT 11 am–5 pm FACULTY RECITAL: David Jolley, horn, CONCERT: An Evening with Michael when classes are and Michael Lipsey, percussion. Works Feinstein & Linda Eder. Colden in session. Through December 14. by Faye Ellen Silverman and others. Auditorium, 8 pm. $46, $41 w/QCID, LeFrak Hall, 12:15 pm. srs. Armstrong and Africa. Explores Armstrong’s travels through the conti- nent in 1956 and 1960 using items 17TUE 29 SUN from his personal collection. Screenings CHAMBER MUSIC LIVE: Adrienne Kim, CINEMA ON SUNDAYS: The Jolly of rare film Satchmo the Great by piano, Lisa Tipton, violin, Arianne Paupers. Discussant Emanuel S. Edward R. Murrow. Louis Armstrong Lallemand, cello, guest artists. LeFrak Goldsmith. LeFrak Hall, 2 pm. House Museum. Tuesday–Friday, 10 Hall, 10 am. Free with QC ID. 23 MON am–5 pm; Saturday–Sunday, 12 noon–5 GUEST RECITAL: William Westney, piano; pm. 34-56 107th St., Corona, Queens. LeFrak Hall, 12:15 pm. 30 MON Information: 718-478-8274; 18 WED PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM: “Pulsed Laser www.louisarmstronghouse.org BIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM: “The Changing STUDENT RECITAL: Sokol Nikaj, cello. Deposition and Molecular Beam Epitaxy Flora of the New York City Area,” LeFrak Hall, 4:45 pm. of Multifunctional Oxides,” Oleg

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