Faculty Newsletter Brooklyn College Volume XVI Number I We Are Dedicated

Going Home Again, and Loving It By Ron Howell, English isette Nieves is thrilled about teaching at “There couldn’t be a better time to talk about Brooklyn College. From the look on her pan-Latino identity, post Obama’s election,” she Lface, she seems to be sitting on the top of said, with evident satisfaction at the outcome of the world, a world of scholarship, ambition, and the election. service that, in a sense, she helped to build. “And it was great to see so many of the Twenty years ago Nieves graduated from professors that inspired me,” she said, mentioning Brooklyn College Professor Antonio Nadal (Puerto Rican and and went off to Latino Studies), Vice President Milga Morales and Oxford University in Professor Joseph Wilson (Political Science) Cambridge, England, When Nieves was a student two decades as the college’s first ago, the word “pan” was generally not used Rhodes Scholar. with “Latino.” That’s because Latino New York After England, back then was almost exclusively Puerto Rican, there were years before the Mexicans, South Americans, Central in Massachusetts, Americans and Dominicans had become the Washington, D.C. and significant presence they are now. Lisette Nieves, Belle Zeller Princeton University (By the way, just as Nieves put her name on a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Policy and in New Jersey, where page of Brooklyn College history, she was also the Administration she earned a master’s first Puerto Rican selected to be a Rhodes Scholar.) at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and An activist with a social conscience, she spent International Affairs. recent years in the non-profit sphere, helping And here she is again, back where it all began. disadvantaged youngsters onto the road of success. “I love teaching,” she said, sitting in her office Nieves is an “entrepreneurial” do-gooder, in James Hall. “Coming back and doing this referring to her ability to build an organization professorship has been a real honor . . . like a and take it to programmatic and funding heights. homecoming.” “I helped start a non-profit in New orkY called As the Belle Zeller Distinguished Visiting Year Up,” she said, “where I was given a seed Professor of Public Policy and Administration, grant of about $250,000 to launch a workforce Nieves is teaching two courses a semester (over development program for young adults and link two years, beginning in the fall of 2011). Her them to opportunities on Wall Street.” classes, one undergraduate, the other graduate, have to do with politics and ethnicity. Lisette Nieves Profile...... Pg. 1 Just before speaking with us for this little Stephanie Walker, Helping the Library Survive...... Pg. 2 Working Together to Understand Ecosystems...... Pg. 4 article, Nieves had been elsewhere on campus Archie Rand, Honoring a Pioneering Pianist...... Pg. 6 speaking at a panel sponsored by the group PowerPoint Has Its Lovers and Haters...... Pg. 9 Encuento. The topic was pan-Latino identity. Len Fox, Teaching Writing to ESL Students...... Pg. 11 Faculty Notes...... Pg. 16 Collaborations...... Pg. 29

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“In five years we grew to $7 million and were Nieves, like so many parents in Brooklyn quite successful . . . It’s still going strong.” these days, is a super parent, spending as much She no longer is the executive director of time as she can with seven-year-old Gabriel Year Up. (who when he grows up wants to be “a boss” or Nieves’ husband “a skateboarder”), even as she does research, Greg Gunn has been teaches and is active in various organizations. an entrepreneur In addition to being on the board of the also, and has gained Nation Institute, which seeks to “extend the some notoriety in reach of progressive ideas and strengthen the the business and independent press,” she is vice chairperson techie world. He of New York City’s Panel for Education Policy, was a founder of and a trustee of the New York State Teachers’ Wireless Generation, Retirement System. an education software As she speaks freely of mind-mapping, one Lisette Nieves in her company purchased does not envision Nieves ever retiring but, rather, undergraduate days by News Corp. for what moving continually among different points of financial news sites say was a handsome sum. interest, all creative and built from the bottom up. Gunn, an engineering graduate of the “When you really build something from the University of Chicago, met Nieves at Oxford, beginning it’s a very inspiring thing,” she said. where he was a Rhodes Scholar also. Forging a Path for the Survival of College Libraries Last May the CUNY Graduate Center wrote on its Web site that How do we cope? its library had been experiencing “overwhelming demand” for the At Brooklyn College, in the post digital world, scanning of pages. The Grad Center said it was “happy to announce we have long addressed soaring expectations the deployment of a new bookscanner [whose] software was designed by turning to our Academic IT unit. We have by the Academic Technology Department at Brooklyn College. . .” programmers and designers who work side-by- Enter now Stephanie Walker, Brooklyn College’s Chief Librarian, side with librarians to develop products meeting who responded to our request to tell us about the new scanner and our needs. We should about the library’s emerging policy of using its services to earn income for the college. Lately Walker has been making the rounds, note also that we have through New York and beyond, telling colleagues about what had a tradition of we’re doing here and offering ourselves as a model for coping in openly sharing many of a new media world. —Editor these products within By Stephanie Walker, Chief Librarian our wider academic community. ibraries have been hit hard by the dual But then when the whammy of poor economic times and very severe budget declining budgets. These have come with L cuts began to hit us, increasing demands for technology development we turned to the idea Stephanie Walker, Chief Librarian and rising expectations from users. 2 Survival of College Libraries

of commercialization, selling some of our proven I have seen a library host a site for another products and services, including a book scanner library before, doing so for a fee. That was the that costs half the price of other commercial University of Toronto Libraries, which partially scanners, and a hosting service for library Web hosted resources for the University of Guelph sites. These products have been strikingly libraries, back when I was working at the successful, though we are still in the “early days.” University of Toronto. Basically what we did was design software But I have never known a library to invent a for our own needs, and then effectively sold it scanner and start selling it. to other colleges within the City University of [Note: We sell the scanners within CUNY for New York. This grew and we added services, such $2800. Commercial ones cost anywhere from as hosting the Information Commons Web site $5500 to as much as $20,000 for fancy ones.] of the CUNY New Community College library. Besides the above-mentioned services, the You can see it only other way, at http://library. as far as I know, ncc.cuny.edu/ that a library has library/. That site raised revenue is actually living is by providing a on our servers, service related here at Brooklyn, to research. The and we provide Toronto Public not only hosting Library, for but also technical example, had a support. So, for business service. example, if Vee Companies would Herrington, the hire librarians New Community working at that College librarian, service to research Library Chief Stephanie Walker with (behind the table) Vitaliy Faida, Brooklyn has a problem, she and write reports College’s Network Specialist in Academic IT, and (in front of the table) Vyacheslav on specific topics. contacts us, and Gurgov, Manager of Entrepreneurial Initiatives, Programming and Web Development. we fix it. In return, Gurgov is one of the inventors of the scanner. We have not done they pay us a monthly fee. That’s one of anything along our products. those lines. The other significant project is a book scanner There has been a tradition of free services that we developed and are selling at about half that some of us feel now is not the only the cost of commercial scanners. Profits are reasonable option in our new digital environment. being used to support further development For example, regarding the invention of projects, I and other library needs. If you come into our know that EZ Proxy, the software that allows you library and use one of the scanners, those to log into our databases from off-campus, was are homegrown – we developed them, using written by someone who worked for a library. And commercial hardware and our own software. it was given away as freeware. We aren’t about to start giving away scanners!

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I have been asked: Should the Brooklyn Public Libraries have had serious budget cuts in Library be doing this? I have to say that I can’t recent years, and what we have been doing here make recommendations for other libraries, and is a way of addressing the needs that arise from certainly not public libraries, which have a whole those cuts. It’s an attempt to harness creativity,

“I have never known a library (before ours) to invent a scanner and start selling it.” — Chief Librarian Stephanie Walker. different budget model. But one thing I will say for the benefit of our students, our faculty, our is that there is a lot of expertise out there in staff, and the broader community as well. libraries, and that if we could all collaborate more [Editor’s note: Chief Walker says she on what we do in terms of technology, we could owes credit to the AIT (Academic Information probably come up with a lot of creative ideas that Technologies) team at Brooklyn College: will assure our survival and progress. especially Howard Spivak; Alex Rudshteyn; the Libraries are terrific at collaborating on team’s “programming guru” Slava Gurgov; licenses, services, and many other things; and Eddie Flores, a Computer and Information and we’re getting better at collaborating on Science student.] technology development. But we could do more. Working Together, Across Disciplines and Seas, to Make a Safer World cross the world today the byword is sciences, anthropology, archaeology, sociology collaboration. and the arts – are working together to better A It is a trend that can be clearly seen in an understand the interconnections of socio- ecology program at Brooklyn College. ecological systems.” “There is a growing realization of the need In Boger’s project, which studies long-term to work collaboratively to better understand the ecodynamics (the interaction of people with their complex interactions between environmental environments), the goal is “to increase resilience and social systems,” and sustainability,” she said. said Rebecca Boger, Boger, along with Jennifer D. Adams, of a professor in the the Department of Secondary Education, and Department of Earth Katherine Hejtmanek, who’s with the Department and Environmental of Anthropology and Archaeology and the Sciences. Children and Youth Studies Program, are the “Increasingly newest members of a group that has been people from different working on this for seven years. academic disciplines – With help from the National Science Foundation, for example, earth and the project has involved collaboration, not only Rebecca Boger, Earth and environmental across academic disciplines, but also between Environmental Sciences

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Brooklyn College and the Caribbean island of transforming forests into cropland and using Barbuda (part of the nation of Antigua and Barbuda). materials to build homes and cities; and likewise Sophia Pedikaris, of the Anthropology and how people respond to the environment and Archaeology Department, has been leading the changing climate. They also want to know overall NSF-funded efforts. how people relate to their living space when

Rebecca Boger: Hurricane Sandy has made our work more critical. We need to be “better informed on how to devise resilient and sustainable solutions to extreme storm events.”

Speaking about the intensive work that its infrastructure has been badly damaged by, is done over the summer months, Boger said say, a hurricane. the college team works with Barbudan high This brings us to a question that would school students and other members of the be on the mind of any New Yorker. Will the community. The college’s study of Barbudan students ecodynnamics be gather data affected by our along with their recent experience Brooklyn College with Hurricane counterparts and Sandy? they store the The answer information locally is yes. The Sandy for future use. episode has “We hope to suggested that New increase Barbudan Yorkers must study, understanding of more diligently, the natural and potential effects social sciences,” and remedies for Brooklyn College student Dexter Curbin in Barbuda this past summer, shooting Boger said. natural events that video for the ecodynamics project The project is many thought were a two-way exchange, Boger wanted to stress. limited to places like Barbuda. “We (the faculty) are learning much from the What’s being done in Barbuda “is a good idea Barbudans on sustainable practices, such as for New York City also,” Boger said, “so that we food production and use of native vegetation can be better informed on how to devise resilient for medicines.” and sustainable solutions to extreme storm events.” Scholars want to know: how people alter their surroundings (for bad or good), such as

5 Cecil Taylor

Cecil Taylor Took Jazz to New Heights, and I Wanted Brooklyn College to Honor His Greatness (Note: At the spring 2012 graduation ceremony, pianist Cecil Taylor which was featuring bassist Richard Davis and the was awarded an honorary doctorate in Fine Arts. This is the story legendary reedman Eric Dolphy. of Professor Archie Rand’s long and determined effort to win this There, because I knew some obscure things honor for Taylor.) about him, I introduced myself to Davis and asked By Archie Rand, Art if he would, in turn, introduce me to Dolphy, was born and raised in the Bensonhurst section which he did. A year later, I read in Downbeat of Brooklyn where everyone loved music. The magazine that Eric Dolphy had died. I sat on my Mystics and the Passions sang their Dion- bed and cried for a long time. I Cecil Taylor first inspired doo-wop songs at local entered the parlor dances. A number of my mind when of my classmates I was attending became serious Lafayette High musicians. School. I traveled As for me, I frequently to appreciated pop, Manhattan where classical and all I bought records other genres with at the Jazz Record beats and notes. Center, located But jazz became the at 107 West 47th life-giving food of Street. We called my ears. Together the place Engine with close friends, Joe’s, though I do I sang Annie Ross Jazz pianist Cecil Taylor accepting his honorary doctorate at last May’s not know where the and King Pleasure (undergraduate) graduation ceremony name came from. songs in the hallways at school. My junior high It was there that band, with me at the piano, used Bobby Timmons’ I sighted my first Cecil Taylor LPs. “Moanin’” as our signature number. In down time Taylor was legendary, a minor cult figure, we would play jazz trivia, asking each other, for though his music was hard to come by. Engine instance, which saxophonist blew this number on Joe’s was selling Taylor’s “Hard Driving Jazz” that track. and “Coltrane Time” (which, it turned out, were I was sometimes sneaky about my early love the same record with different covers). I bought interest. When I was twelve, I told my parents those albums, as well as “Jazz Advance” and I was going out on an innocent kid venture; I “At Newport. ” When I got home I was transfixed. went instead to hear John Lewis’ Orchestra USA, Cecil’s playing of Billy Strayhorn’s “Johnny Come Lately” was unlike anything I’d ever heard 6 Cecil Taylor

– jarring but really beautiful. What he was five hours and make it sound as if it were all playing behind John Coltrane in “Shifting Down” perfectly and sequentially composed?” I asked reminded me of what Johnnie Johnson was him. His answer was kindly and profound, though doing behind Chuck Berry – being all over the it wasn’t till I was in my thirties that I began to place, unanticipatedly aggressive, yet immensely understand it fully. generous. It was perfect, addictive. “If the music is true, the form takes care of Marching to the drummer of my own career, itself,” he said. visual art, I made my way through life as a painter Some years later, in 1991, I was asked to be and muralist. I kept my ties to New York, at the the founding painting professor at the Columbia Art Students League, Pratt Institute, Columbia University Department of Visual Arts. In 2002, University, and now, of course, at Brooklyn College. when I was appointed to head the Honors and But music continued to be the engine driving Prizes Committee at Columbia, I immediately my friendships, as well as missions I would take thought that Cecil would be a terrific candidate. on their behalf – like finding a ayw to honor Cecil (To my surprise, I found that, despite having been Taylor, in a fashion that recognized his art and awarded a MacArthur “genius” award ten years his character. earlier, he had never been offered honors by any To say he meant a lot to me would significantly university.) His nomination and passage was understate Cecil’s influence on me. Getting to swift, and Cecil Taylor received a doctorate from know him strengthened me, as an artist in my Columbia University in 2003. own right. It made me wiser. Then, in 2004, during my first weeks at One day, when still a relative youngster, I Brooklyn College, I was surprised to see that SUBO (Brooklyn College’s Student Center) was hosting a lecture on John Coltrane’s harmonics by master musician and composer Salim Washington, who served on the Brooklyn College faculty. In my time at Columbia I had never witnessed a discussion on a topic as rarified and serious as that one. I was, frankly, happily shocked. In 2005 I became aware that Brooklyn College faculty could petition for persons they thought deserving of recognition at graduation ceremonies. I came to know faculty members, like Archie Rand, Presidential Professor, Art, with his buddy and inspiration, Cecil Taylor the renowned composer and was with Cecil, sitting near him as he practiced Distinguished Professor of Music Tania Leon. She without rest at the piano. “How do you play for was very encouraging and I began pitching the

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Archie Rand: “Getting to know him (Cecil Taylor) strengthened me, as an artist in my own right. It made me wiser.”

idea of Cecil Taylor as a recipient of an honorary On May 31, a warm and sunny morning, Cecil doctorate at Brooklyn College. My first formal Taylor wore his cap and gown at our spring 2012 attempt of getting this failed, and for a few years undergraduate graduation ceremony. I put the idea on the back burner. “You are a musician famed for your distinctive I came to learn that on our faculty percussive style of piano playing,” Provost William was a remarkable pianist and supporter of Tramontano said to the gathered thousands, contemporary music, Distinguished Professor of addressing Taylor. Music Ursula Oppens, who was also, it turned out, “You are considered one of the leading enthusiastic about honoring Taylor. Professor formative figures in what is now known asavant David Grubbs and others were also very receptive garde jazz. Your pioneering work helped establish to my idea. the music genre called free jazz. Some contend Finally, on Nov. 11, 2011, 18 faculty members that you along with Ornette Coleman and John sent a letter to the Faculty Council Committee Coltrane are the embodiment of modern jazz. on Honorary Degrees, saying the granting of Others have recognized that your music marked a an honorary doctorate to Taylor “would be at major turning point in the history of the genre. once, prescient and overdue,” and that it would “In recognition of your contributions to be a “joyous imperative, which would not only American music and your innovative artistic recognize Mr. Taylor’s artistry but would reflect vision, Brooklyn College awards you the degree of admirably on Brooklyn College.” Doctor of Fine Arts. Congratulations, Dr. Taylor.” Five months later, on April 6, 2012, I wrote those signatories informing them that President Karen Gould had taken steps toward awarding the degree. ***

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PowerPoint Says, ‘I Love You, Too’ to Some Professors; ‘Ouch!’ to Others By Ron Howell, English ast August I ran into Professor Brett Branco but rather a slow-walking retreat. He has given (Earth and Environmental Sciences) as he it up “not entirely” and does use the program Lwas heading to New Ingersoll and I was to “show pictures, diagrams and photos that leaving there. enhance the content that we are discussing.” We updated each other on our teaching lives Brett is hardly alone in his mostly negative and hit on a topic that I’m sure every instructor views about PPT (the extension of PowerPoint has pondered, even if only for a minute. files). Some seem downright hostile to it. Should I be using PowerPoint? “What I’ve seen is that it’s a way of being lazy Brett informed me that after years of using because you don’t have to write notes . . . It’s sort the Microsoft program – one that so many of a shortcut,” said one professor, declining to professors have worshiped since the beginning use his (her) name because the comments might of digital time – he was giving it up. offend colleagues. I, on the other hand, was embracing Ever-searching wuss that I am, I decided to PowerPoint for the first time, with the passion of put the question to the winner of last semester’s a recent convert. Having denounced it for years Claire Tow Distinguished Teacher Award. That was as a tool of superficiality and posturing, I was Professor Roberto Sanchez-Delgado (Chemistry), now using it in my journalism classes, hoping the and he is a PowerPoint devotee. students were enjoying it as much as I was. “The main reason why I like to use PowerPoint Aware of an academic divide, I later asked is that it helps me to organize my notes,” he said Brett to expound upon his thoughts in an e-mail exchange. He wrote: “I adhere to the idea that reproducing your lecture outline, as bullets on a PowerPoint slide, is extremely ineffective. Students will read the slide and then let their attention wander as you repeat the words. It’s better to give your students a handout of your lecture and then use a variety of formats and styles to supplement and enhance that information.” He added: “PowerPoint is not an effective tool for building relationships between you and your students. You become a narrator, the students become passive listeners.” But he also informed that his departure from the PowerPoint camp was not a forever-farewell, Roberto Sanchez-Delgado, Chemistry

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in a telephone interview. “In a way, my plan for It’s worth pointing out that Professors Branco my class is guided by the notes that I turned and Sanchez-Delgado both conceded that the into PowerPoint.” use of PPT depends on the class environment and Sanchez-Delgado said he makes it a routine topic. Some occasions lend themselves to the use to put his PPT presentations on Blackboard (or in of the program more than others. an e-mail), so students can have them before class I don’t think PowerPoint is greatly popular with and print them out, enabling them to follow his writing instructors (which is largely what we do in presentations more efficiently. journalism); but it has found a place with me. The professor That’s in large believes that part because PPT is especially I also teach useful in the multimedia sciences because techniques, the lecturer can which presumes make good use of an affinity for “graphs, figures, images. But it’s representations also because and complicated over the past molecular few years I’ve structures” that developed a are “drawn pretty compulsion for artistically.” shooting videos, He added, and I’ve found it explaining his useful to embed shunning of little clips – old-fashioned sometimes just methods: “I . . . 40 seconds or believe that in so – into PPT a more classical presentations, environment, Brett Branco,Earth and Environmental Sciences, with student Stephanie Rodriguez whether in lab. when you speak about writing or write on the board, the students are more techniques or some news topic. interested in copying everything” rather than Someday maybe I’ll do a survey and ask intently listening “and they miss a lot.” students what they think, whether it makes “I say, ‘Just try to look at me and listen to me learning more fun. rather than writing,’” he said. “That promotes But in the meantime I’ll fall back on a selfish discussion.” reason for continuing to use PPT, which is: I’m having fun.

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Teaching Writing to English-as-a-Second- Language Students By Len Fox, English ccording to questionnaires filled out by One thing that I try to do is to choose themes, incoming Brooklyn College students, topics, and texts that I believe will be of interest Amore than one third of them have a to the students, as well as to myself. For example, second language background (e.g., speak a one semester I chose the theme of race. The language other than English at home or feel more following are some of the texts that we read comfortable in a language other than English). that semester: Related to this, many have difficulty in writing week 1 Langston Hughes, “Harlem” standard English. I’d like to share what week 2 Martin Luther King, Jr., I do in teaching writing in my special ESL (English “I Have a Dream” as a Second Language) sections of freshman week 3 James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues” composition, in hopes that it might suggest week 4 Eric Liu, “Notes of a Native Speaker” ways in which other Brooklyn College faculty weeks 5-6 poems might help their ESL students to make progress weeks 7-8 Lorraine Hansberry, Raisin in in writing English. the Sun . . . etc. The class was particularly affected by reading and then seeing a stirring movie version of Lorraine Hansberry’s brilliant play Raisin in the Sun. I believe that many students identified with the strong, sympathetic characters, trying to have a successful life despite the societal prejudice and discrimination that they faced. Recently, I chose the theme of Mindfulness and Peace because in the past few years I have been participating in a weekly Buddhist-oriented meditation group and I wanted to share this interest with my students. However, since my students believe in different religions, or perhaps in no religion, I chose readings out of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. I tell the students at the beginning of the semester, “You don’t have to believe in any religion, but let’s notice how their belief in religion affects these different writers.” The following are texts that are read for Mindfulness and Peace: Len Fox, English

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week 1 Martin Niemoller, “First They Came What happens to a dream deferred? for the Jews” Does it dry up week 2 Harold Kushner, from How Good Do like a raisin in the sun? We Have to Be? Or fester like a sore – week 3 Jim Wallis, “Get Out of the House And then run? More Often” Does it stink like rotten meat? week 4 Hazrat Inayat Khan, from “The Inner Life” Or crust and sugar over – weeks 5-6 poems like a syrupy sweet? weeks 7-9 Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance . . . etc. Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. The students were particularly affected by Or does it explode? Radical Acceptance, which starts with a prologue In writing an essay related to this poem, entitled “Something is Wrong with Me” and goes I told students that they could write about “My on to describe how the author’s spiritual journey Neighborhood,” focusing for example on the led to self-acceptance and learning -- as relations between the different groups that live a psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and practicing Buddhist -- how to help others in their quest for a more meaningful, fulfilling life. About the above syllabi, I would point out that I chose some texts written by authors not just from the U.S. and Europe, but also from Asia, Latin America, and Africa. This is a way of respecting students from these other parts of the world. I believe that this should also be done in classes for native English speakers as a way of telling them that they should be aware of and interested in other parts of the world in this age of economic and cultural globalization. Len Fox in class Another important thing to do is to give there, or an essay about “A Dream,” which students topics that they will find interesting to could be about a dream of their own, a write about. In choosing topics, I sometimes try to dream of someone they knew, or about allow students to choose one that they can relate “The American Dream.” to personally. For example, when I was discussing At other times, I assign a more structured, the theme of race, we read on the first day of academic sort of essay, in which I ask them to class the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes: compare two texts, thus preparing them for the freshman composition final. For example, after

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reading the poem “Harlem” and Martin Luther like “good point,” “true,” “good example,” etc. I King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, I gave them often read an example of a good student essay the following writing assignment: to the whole class, not reading the grammatical Write an essay comparing what Langston errors, and then say, “This is a really excellent Hughes in “Harlem” and Martin Luther King, Jr. in essay, but the grammar is not so good and “I Have a Dream” say about “a dream.” Use quotes needs to be corrected.” My students are greatly from the texts. Discuss also your own thoughts, encouraged to see that some of their classmates opinions, observations, and/or experiences related can write excellent essays, and feel motivated to to one or both texts. try to do the same. An important goal in freshman composition is to teach students how to use quotes from texts in their essays. Although students may have difficulty in doing this at the beginning of the semester, I believe that if they have frequent practice, the opportunity to hear good models, and to rewrite and revise, they will learn by the end of the semester how to use quotes appropriately. Therefore, on the first day of class, I have the students read and discuss a poem and I ask them to write in class a summary of the poem which includes some quotes. On the second day of class, I read a summary of a student who has done this well and ask students who have not included quotes or have not used quotes well to rewrite their summary. Throughout the semester,

I ask students to include quotes from texts in at Len Fox in class least some of their essays (e.g., see the above essay assignment about “a dream”). I find that by After reading an essay at home and focusing the end of the semester, students have learned on the ideas, I then read it again and focus on the how to use quotes appropriately in their essays. grammar. In correcting grammar, ESL teachers Obviously, a difficult issue is how to deal with try to find a “pattern of error,” or a particular the grammatical errors that ESL students make type of error that students make consistently, for in their writing. My suggestion about this is that example many errors related to the use of verb it is important to first respond to students’ ideas, forms (perhaps the most common type of ESL so that they will know that you are interested student error) or many errors related to sentence and take them seriously. So when I first read an structure. In marking the paper, I do not correct essay of an ESL student, I have trained myself but I underline errors and indicate in the left hand to not even notice the grammatical errors but margin the type of error. When I give the paper to concentrate first on trying to understand the back to the student, the student can look at the ideas. I particularly try to comment on things that left hand margin, and if he sees that I have written I like, writing comments in the right hand margin “vf” many times, the student will know that he or

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she has a “pattern of error” related to using verb a book of grammar explanations and exercises forms correctly. called Grammar Rules, which I advise students When I first give the paper back to the to buy at the Far Better Printing store in front of student, I ask the student to try to make the the College (I would be glad to give copies of this grammatical corrections, in addition to making book to any colleagues who would be interested any suggested revisions of content. I should add in looking at it). that although I read the whole essay for content Perhaps the most important factor in teaching and I comment on the ideas, I generally make only ESL students (and really, all students) is attitude about 15 grammatical corrections and then write toward students. It is important for teachers to a double line (//) to indicate that I have stopped understand that some of their students may have making corrections. I tell the students, however, trouble in focusing on and understanding their to notice the types of corrections that I have lectures, in speaking in class, in understanding made and to try to correct these types of errors the assigned reading, and in doing the writing in the rest of the essay. The student then hands in assignments in the way and at the level expected the corrected essay, at which point I myself make by the teacher. As an ESL specialist, it is perhaps corrections that the student has failed to make, easier for me to have a positive attitude about the

Len Fox wrote a book, Grammar Rules, which discusses rules of grammar using a student-friendly format. The book is sold at Far Better Printing, but Fox will gladly give a copy to any colleague wanting to read and use it.

and tell the student to hand in the essay for a English proficiency level of my students. I have third time. My goal is that the student will stop taught students at a very low English proficiency making these sorts of errors by the end of level and therefore feel that the English level of the semester. students who have made it to college is really In my special ESL sections of English 1010, I quite good, although it still needs to be improved. present lessons on their grammatical “trouble When I tell students this, I believe that they feel spots.” I also have individual conferences with encouraged to continue to do the hard work students in which I try to discuss and explain their involved in making more progress in English. I areas of grammatical difficulty. I have written have also lived in a non-English-speaking country

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and have had to use a second language myself, effective in promoting learning. Extensive use of and so I realize what a hard task this is. I tell my writing and group work may be effective also. This students that their level of English is better that may mean less “coverage” of content. But it could my level of French ever was (I was in the Peace be that if we cover a lot, we will only cover it in Corps in a French-speaking country) to show them a superficial way, so that students will retain and that I appreciate the level of English that they value little of what we have “taught” them. If we have achieved, and I understand the difficulty of cover less but cover it more deeply, it is likely learning a second language. If other Brooklyn to be of much more value to our students. In College teachers have ever tried to learn a second other words, we should seriously consider the language, they might be better able to sympathize possibility that in our teaching “Less is really more!” with their ESL students, and to respect the level I want to say before ending that I greatly of proficiency that these students have achieved. enjoy working with ESL students. I find them to All of this leads naturally to a question, which be interesting, hard-working, motivated, is, what specific pedagogical techniques have we respectful to teachers, and greatly appreciative found to be effective with our students? of the opportunity to get a higher education. I Certainly, lectures can be interesting, but I hope my colleagues at the college can find the would suggest that long lectures and nothing but same enjoyment and satisfaction in working lectures are not the best way to teach. Recently, with these students. educators have suggested that active student Now in closing, I would like to ask my participation is important, that student-centered colleagues what themes and texts they use rather than teacher-centered classes may be more to interest and motivate their students in composition, and what ways have they found to be encouraging rather than discouraging to their students. I have found that teaching improves Consider this: It’s possible when we share with other teachers, which is why I very much wanted to write this. to cover lots of content, using mostly lectures, with Len Fox can be reached at the students retaining very [email protected] little. But it’s also possible to cover less, making lessons student-centered and increasing likelihood that learning will be deeper.

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Alan Aja, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, published Jennifer Ball, Art, was a contributor to Byzantium a peer-reviewed article entitled, “Anyone but and Islam: Age of Transition, edited by Helen Blacks: Latinos, El Nuevo Blanqueamiento (Neo- C. Evans with Brandie Ratliffe. New York: Whitening) and Implications for Black-Brown Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. Alliances,” in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society (Volume 14, Issues Jeffrey Biegel, Music, was guest soloist with the 1-2), October 2012 and presented a working paper Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a live on his Whiting Fellowship research on Afro- webcast featuring William Bolcom’s “Prometheus” Cuban Reception Experiences in South Florida and Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy” (April 21). He at the National Association of Hispanic and performed Bolcom’s works with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (MA; May 2012), and with the University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Lexington (October 2012). He also performed Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with the Paducah Symphony Orchestra and with Orchestra Kentucky (September 2012), as well as Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s “Shadows” and Gershwin’s “Concerto in F” with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (October 2012).

Elaine Brooks, English, presented “Practicum In College Composition - What Should Teachers of Academic Writing Be Taught?” during the International Conference on Academic Writing at the Mofet Institute of Research, Curriculum and Program Development for Teacher Educators in Tel Aviv, Israel on July 31, 2012. The conference addressed current issues in first, second and foreign language academic writing in English, Hebrew, Arabic and other languages. Brooks discussed the department’s pedagogy course that prepares English MA and MFA graduate students to become effective college composition instructors by providing a combination of theory and hands-on classroom experience. Alan Aja, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies

Latino Studies Regional Conference in Orlando, Stephan Brumberg, School Psychology, Counseling Fla., Sept. 20-22, 2012. Aja also appeared live on and Leadership, reviewed Fradle P. Freidenreich’s CNN en Espanol on Sept. 28, 2012 to discuss the book, Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Latino vote and its potential impact on the 2012 Secular Education in North America, 1910-1960. Presidential elections. Teaneck, NJ: Holmes & Meier, 2010, in History of

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Education Quarterly V. 52, n.3 (August 2012): 433-436. Brumberg was also a panelist at a discussion sponsored by City Limits entitled, “Talking Poverty,” held at the Galapagos Arts Space, Oct. 3, 2012.

Rose Burnett Bonczek, Theater, was the director of the BFA Actors Industry Showcase in Theater Row, New York in April 2012. In June 2012, she directed and produced Gi60 International One Minute Play Festival in collaboration with Screaming Media UK and BBC Big Screen.

Igor I. Bychkov, Finance and Business Management, presented “Reforms and revolutions in Russia in the context of history and education in XX-XXI centuries” at the Russian scientific conference conducted at Chuvash State University on Nov. 11-13, 2012. His published article in the conference proceedings is entitled “American researchers’ views on Stolypin’s agrarian reform.”

Robert Cherry, Economics, published “NYT Bias Stephan Brumberg, School of Psychology on Alternative IDF Service for Arabs” in the Jerusalem Post (July 30) and “Arabs Favoring Elizabeth Chua, Psychology, wrote “Evaluating National Service in Israel Ignored by New York Confidence in Our Memories: Results and Times” in the online newspaper, San Diego Jewish Implications from Neuroimaging and Eye World (July 17). Cherry also published “The New Movement Monitoring Studies of Metamemory” Mothers’ Tax Relief Proposal,” Tax Notes 136 #3 in L. Nadel & W.P. Sinnott-Armstrong (Eds), (July 2012), which was favorably discussed in Memory in Law (Oxford Series in Neuroscience, several blogs, including: “Credit for Children,” 2012, pp. 119-141). She also gave a keynote address, by Nancy Folbre in the New York Times’ Economix “Knowing you know: Insights on metamemory blog (July 16) and “Making Tax Credits Work from brain and behavior” at the Improving for Middle Class Families,” by Ethan Pollack in Metacognitive Skills Symposium at Maastricht the Economic Policy Institute blog (Aug. 7). The University, Maastricht, Netherlands on Sept. 29, tax proposal was also presented at the Annual 2012. In October, she co-authored a presentation Meeting of the New York State Economics entitled “Transcranial direct current stimulation Association (Farmingdale, NY: Oct. 5); and the 4th (tDCS) of the parietal cortex enhances false Annual Conference on Remedies to Racial and recognition” with her Ph.D. student Denise Ethnic Economic Inequality (Minneapolis, Oct. 11).

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Pergolizzi at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Water-Soluble Iminophosphorane Ligand as Meeting in New Orleans. Potential Anticancer Agents” in Organometallics, 2012, 31, 5572-5581, and “Cytotoxic Hydrophilic iminophosphorane coordination compounds of d8 metals. Studies of their Interactions with DNA and HAS” in the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2012, 116, 204-214. She also presented “Organometallic and coordination gold (III), platinum(II) and palladium(II) complexes with iminophosphorane ligands as potential anticancer agents” at the XXV International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry in Lisbon, Portugal (Sept. 2-7, 2012).

Jane Cramer, Library, Government Documents specialist and Acting Coordinator for the Archives and Distinctive Collections unit, is this year’s winner of the Mildred Lowe Award, an award presented by the New York Library Association (NYLA) to a librarian who has made a significant contribution to government documents librarianship, access to government information, and/or encouragement of documents use in New York State libraries.

Constantin Cranganu, Earth and Environmental Elizabeth Chua, Psychology Sciences, published Heat flow in Oklahoma and the South Central United States, Lambert Carol M. Connell, Finance and Business Academic Publishing, Germany. He also published Management, has a book Reforming the World a book review of Communicating Rocks—Writing, Monetary System: Fritz Machlup and the Bellagio Speaking, and Thinking About Geology by Peter Group that was published in November by Copeland, in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, Pickering & Chatto, London. Connell’s article Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 212 - 215. “Reviving Confidence” was published by the Journal of the History of Economic Thought 34 (3), Patricia Cronin, Art, exhibited a ten-year survey pp. 293-320. Her article “Government and Firm at the Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, Duopoly in Economic Growth” was published in entitled “Patricia Cronin: All Is Not Lost,” in New the Global Journal of Business Research 6 (4), Orleans, April 25 - July 1. This exhibition included pp. 77-84. all 65 Harriet Hosmer watercolors and Cronin’s three-ton marble mortuary sculpture “Memorial Maria Contel, Chemistry, wrote two articles: To A Marriage.” In May, a bronze version of “Organometallic Palladium Complexes with a “Memorial To A Marriage” was acquired by the

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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, in Glasgow, 19th, 2012. Her documentary, “Reflections On Scotland, and went on permanent view there. Media Ethics,” aired on Sept. 29, Oct. 11th and Oct. Cronin’s exhibition was accompanied with essays 15th on Cable 34 as part of a special tribute to by ICA Boston chief curator Helen Molesworth documentary pioneer George Stoney. and Stanford University art historian Alexander Nemerov. Cronin was also a Visiting Artist at Howard Davidoff, Finance and Business Management, the American Academy in Rome in May 2012. published The Everything Personal Finance in Her work was included in two group exhibitions: Your 20’s and 30’s Book with Adams Media on Watch Your Step, at The FLAG Art Foundation Sept. 1, 2012. (June 7–Aug. 24), and Twisted Sisters at the Dodge Gallery (May 19–June 24), both in Brian Dunphy, TV and Radio, presented a number New York, NY. of lectures, including: “South Park & The American Society” in Netherlands, Germany, and Sweden in May 2012; “America’s Jester: The Daily Show and The State of American Politics and Media” in Sweden in July and in the Netherlands in October. Dunphy also presented part of a Symposium, “Pictorial Satire & The Humans” in Rotterdam, in July 2012, with de Witte Contemporary Art Museum.

Jason Eckardt, Music, was commissioned for a piece for violin and piano by Meyefi Records that will be recorded by Miranda Cuckson and Blair MacMillan and released in 2013. He received a grant from the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University for the recording of his composition “Subject” by the JACK Quartet. He was also the featured composer at the Musica Strasbourg Festival in France.

Beth Ferholt, Early Childhood Education, has been

Annette Danto, Film offered the opportunity to conduct a three-year research project studying adult-child joint play Annette Danto, Film, moderated a panel on with three colleagues in the School of Education Women Filmmakers at the 2nd annual Art of and Communication at Jönköping University in Brooklyn Film Festival, Aug. 2, 2012. Danto co- Sweden. The research project will take place directed along with Dave Davidson at the City from 2013-2016. College of New York, “Docworks-NYC,” a showcase of new documentaries by students from Brooklyn College, CCNY and Queens College. The event was held at the CUNY Graduate Center on Oct.

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to Punishments and Rewards,” which investigates the impaired aversive conditioning and enhanced appetitive conditioning in children with conduct disorder. She will also seek to understand how conditioning and conduct problems develop in mid childhood.

Alexander Greer, Chemistry, wrote the article “Fluorine End-Capped Optical Fibers for Photosensitizer Release and Singlet Oxygen Production” in the Journal of Organic Chemistry, 77 (2012). He was also elected to the Council for the American Society for Photobiology for a term from 2012-2015.

David Grubbs, Music, presented an invited talk at the Muzeum Sztuki (Lodz, Poland) and the National Academy Museum (New York), as well Namulundah Florence, Education as the paper “John Cage, Recording Artist” at the University of Toronto’s “The Future of Cage” Namulundah Florence, Secondary Education, conference in September and October. He was will be presenting “Wangari Maathai: Visionary, a featured composer and performer at Warsaw’s Environmental Leader, Political Activist” at the Playback Play music festival, presenting three 55th Annual African Studies Association to be concerts. His essay “Diese seltsame Präsenz” held at the Marriot Philadelphia Downtown Hotel appeared in the Berlin newspaper Die Taz to between Nov. 29-Dec. 2, 2012. celebrate John Cage’s centenary.

Joshua Fogel, 1993, Finance and Business Olympia Hadjiliadis, Mathematics, was awarded Management, wrote “Account information the Best Presentation Award in the Financial requests from e-mail” in Journal of the CPA Session of the Informs Applied Probability Society Practitioner, 4(1) (June/July 2012). for her presentation on “Insurance Against Market Crashes” in Phoenix (Oct.14-17). Hadjiliadis also Paul Forlano, Biology, was recently awarded an organized a session on market crashes and gave NIH SCORE SC2 grant ($471,000) to investigate a talk entitled “Trends and Trades.” Her other “Steroid-catecholamine-brain interactions in presentations include “Drawdown Insurance auditory-driven social behavior.” and Trading Strategies” at the AMS meeting in Rochester, N.Y. on Sept. 22-23, 2012; “The Price Yu Gao, Psychology, was awarded $300,000 by the of a Market Crash and Drawdown Insurance” National Institute of Mental Health from Sept. 6, at the conference on Modeling High Frequency 2012 – June 30, 2015 for her study, “Biomarkers Data in Finance IV, in Hoboken, N.J. on July 19-22, for Conduct Problems: Abnormal Conditioning 2012; “Drawdown Swaps” at the SIAM Conference

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on Financial Mathematics and Engineering in Lauren Grace Kilroy, Art, received the National Minneapolis, on July 9-11, 2012; “The Price of Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute a Market Crash and Drawdown Insurance” at Fellowship, for her participation in “Mesoamerica the 8th International Purdue Symposium on and the Southwest,” June and July 2012. Statistics at Purdue University on June 20-24, 2012; “Drawdown Speed and Detection” at the Gertrud Lenzer, Sociology and Children and Youth 6th International Workshop in Applied Probability Studies, was highlighted in the “Head of the Class” on Finance and Management and Finance and section of the Winter 2013 issue of the CUNY Stochastics in Jerusalem, Israel, on June 11-14, publication Salute to Scholars, in a feature titled, 2012, where she also organized two sessions; “A Transformative Voice for Children’s Rights.” and “Drawdown Speed and Detection” at the The article covers the history of Lenzer’s interest International Workshop on Sequential Methods in the rights of children and her work and policy and their Applications, in Rouen, France, on initiatives in recent years (October 2012). June 4–8, 2012. Susan Longtin, Speech Communication Arts and Natalie Kacinik, Psychology, presented a paper Sciences, was interviewed for and featured in on “Investigating the Neural Basis for Processing a television segment on autism on Channel 75, the Literal and Metaphoric Meanings of Words” at CUNY-TV. The program aired on the program a conference on Research and Applying Metaphor “Science and U!” on Sept. 27, 2012. at Lancaster University, UK, in July. She also gave a guest lecture on Brain Function and Behavior Tomas Lopez-Pumarejo, Finance and Business at the Hunter College Silberman School of Social Management, published “The Webnovela and Work, in June. Immigrants in the United States,” in The American Journal of Business: Special Issue on Immigration, 27 (1), Spring 2012: 40-57. He was also invited to present “Social Media Marketing,” at a seminar for The Flatbush Business Connection and The Brooklyn College School of Business, City University of New York, May 9; “Impact of Mexican Television in the Soviet Union,” Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, The City College of New York, May 8; and “Internet, Culture and Organizational Performance in the United States,” a Graduate Seminar at the Television and Film Masters Scriptwriting Program, Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, April 23-27.

Lauren Grace Kilroy, Art

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Linda Louis, Early Childhood Education/Art at the Symposium on Languages at the United Education, has a chapter titled “For a beginning Nations, New York, 777 United Nations, May 1, it’s good: Working with artistically inexperienced 2012; “À partir du roman AU PAYS de Tahar Ben adolescents in clay” in Conversations in Art: The Jelloun: le tragique dilemme du jamais plus et du Dialectics of Teaching and Learning (Judith M. pas encore des immigrants africains en occident” Burton and Mary Hafeli, Editors), a book that at the Permanent Mission of the International describes a decade-long project examining how Organisation of la Francophonie, New York, June good teachers practice in real classrooms. It 12, 2012; “Le français acteur, moyeur et ressort grapples with the serious issues and rhetorical de la coopération et du développement dans definitions clouding the practice of art education les pays où il n’est ni la langue maternelle, ni la today. langue de communication courante” at the 13ème Congrès mondial de la Fédération internationale Nicola Masciandaro, English, presented a number des professeurs de français, Durban, July 24, of talks: “Secret: No Light Has Ever Seen the 2012; and “Diffusion et Défense de la langue Black Universe,” Dark Nights of the Universe française en Amérique 13ème Congrès mondial de (Recess Gallery, NYC); “Absolute Secrecy: On the la Fédération internationale des professeurs de Infinity of Individuation,” Thinking the Absolute: français” in Durban, July 27, 2012. Speculation, Philosophy, and the End of Religion (Liverpool Hope University); “Spontaneous Acts of Scholarly Combustion,” The Past Has Arrived: The Digital Middle Ages and Renaissance (New York University); a panel discussion on “Para- Academic Publishing” (Observatory, Brooklyn, NY); a video interview for Post-Space Conference (Obscura Day, Greensboro, N.C.); and “Mystical Sorrow, or, You Are a Weeping Stone” (Drew University, Madison, N.J.). His recent publications include: “Grave Levitation,” LOVEEEE journal (Live Arts); “The Intoxological Crucible,” Black Metal: Beyond the Darkness (Black Dog Publishing); “The Severed Hand: Commentary and Ecstasy,” English Language Notes; “Comments on Eugene Thacker’s ‘Cosmic Pessimism’,” Continent; “Mysticism or Mystification?: Against Subject-Creationism,” English Language Notes.

Clement Mbom, Modern Languages and Literatures, did conference presentations, including: “Languages and Human Development: The French Language, actor in development in countries where it is not the mother tongue” Tomas Lopez-Pumarejo, Finance and Business Management

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Josh Mehigan, Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellow, his book, The Saint and the Sultan: the Crusades, published poems this fall in Poetry and Poetry Islam and Francis of Assisi’s Mission of Peace Daily, and in the German periodical L. der (Doubleday, 2009). Literaturbote (translation by Christophe Fricker). Sonia E. Murrow, Secondary Education, wrote Tamara Mose Brown, Sociology and Caribbean “School Choice, New York-Style? For Some More Studies, wrote “Who’s The Boss? The Political Than Others,” in SchoolBook, a joint Web project Economy of Unpaid Care Work and Food Sharing” of The New York Times and WNYC, May 23, 2012. in Feminist Economics (Aug. 2012). She presented a paper as part of the Work Family Issues in Sergei Nabatov, Physical Education and Exercise Developing Countries panel called “Aging Jamaicans Science, e-published his book DanceSport, in Kingston and New York” at the Work and Family a college ballroom dance beginner and Researchers Network conference in June 2012. intermediate course guide in October 2012. From September to December 2012, he has been a Paul Moses, English, wrote “Feeding the distinguished lecturer at Vitti’s dance studio, Beast: Political Journalism in the Digital Age,” Danbury, Connecticut. Commonweal, Sept. 28, 2012. The Peace Islands Institute awarded him its 2012 Media Award for Roni Natov, English, was the keynote speaker at the Wild Man/Green Man Children’s Culture Conference at Trinity College, Dublin July 20- 21, 2012. She spoke on the “Dark Pastoral in Children’s Literature.”

Brigid O’Keeffe, History, published “Aleksandr Germano, 1893-1955,” in Russia’s People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present, ed. Stephen Norris and Willard Sunderland (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2012): 265-273.

Vanessa Perez Rosario, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, published a second edition of her book Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement (Palgrave 2012) was released in paperback in August 2012.

Tamara Mose Brown, Sociology and Caribbean Studies

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Helen Phillips, English, was a semifinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist award for her book And Yet They Were Happy. Her short story “When the Tsunami Came” appeared in the Fall 2012 issue of The Pinch (Volume 32, Issue 2).

Tanya Pollard, English, presented “Conceiving Tragedy” at the International Shakespeare Conference (Stratford, U.K.), Aug. 8, and “Why Hecuba?” at the Columbia Shakespeare Seminar (Columbia University, N.Y.), Sept. 14.

Juergen Polle, Biology, presented “Microalgae for Biofuels and Bioproducts: From Bioprospecting to Strain Analysis” at a conference in Guatemala on Oct. 5.

Jeremy R. Porter, Children and Youth Studies Program and Finance and Business Management, published the article “A Simplified Indicator of Social Well-Being in the United States: Examining the Ecological Impact of Family Formation within a County Level Framework” in Social Indicators Viraht Sahni, Physics Research 108(3): 421-440, and “Religion AND Politics: Understanding the Effects of Conservative Michael Rawson, History, gave the Phi Alpha Origins on Contemporary Patterns of Human Theta Address at the University at Albany and Development” in Quality and Quantity. 46(5): spoke to the University’s Sustainability Council 1359-1376, both in June 2012. Porter also won in April 2012. He also published an invited the 2012 “Publication of the Year” award from essay, “The March of Bricks and Mortar,” in the American Journal of Criminal Justice for the Environmental History 17, no. 4 (October 2012). article “Social Disorganization and Neighborhood Fear: Examining the Intersection of Individual, Sara Reguer, Judaic Studies, presented “So Community, and County Characteristics,” which You Think all Jews Speak Yiddish?” at the was in the American Journal of Criminal Justice. Communities of Brooklyn Symposium, Brooklyn 37: 229-245. College, April 23, 2012. She did a film review of “A Tree of Life,” Hava Volterra [Ruth Diskin Films, 2008], in Italian American Review, Fall 2012.

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Laurie Rubel, Secondary Education, contributed Paul Russo, Finance and Business Management, a chapter titled “Centering the Teaching of led a team of current CUNY students and Mathematics on Urban Youth: Learning Together graduates to develop a free student-to- About Our Students and Their Communities” student text book exchange as part of the to the NCTM 2012 Yearbook, Professional ApplicationsforGood codathon sponsored by the Collaborations in Mathematics Teaching and Motorola Mobility Foundation, Center for Social Learning: Seeking Success for All. Eds. J. Bay- Innovation, Blue Ridge Foundation, and New York Williams and R. Speer. Reston, Va., published University’s Wagner School of Public Service. in April 2012. Rubel is the Principal Investigator The work was recognized as the most promising of a new grant from the National Science entry in the contest. Foundation, awarded in the 2012 Discovery Research competition. The $449,000 award Viraht Sahni, Physics, wrote “Demonstration is to fund Learning Mathematics of the City In of the Gunnarsson-Lundqvist Theorem and the the City (LMCITY^2), in partnership with the Multiplicity of Potentials for Excited States” and Center for Urban Pedagogy and the Civic Data “Hohenberg-Kohn and Percus-Levy-Lieb Proofs Project at M.I.T. of Density-Functional Theory” in Physical Review, Vol. 85 (2012). He presented an invited paper “Recent Developments in Density Functional Theory in the Presence of a Magnetostatic Field” at the International Symposium and Workshop on Electron Correlations and Materials Properties of Compounds and Alloys, July 9-13, 2012, Porto Heli, Greece.

Douglas Schwab, Art, just closed a solo exhibition at Gallery 364 in Brooklyn entitled “The Presence of the Past.” The show exhibited more than 30 of his photographs that were printed using historic photographic processes (aka “alternative processes”).

Anthony Sclafani, ’66, Psychology, presented invited symposium talks, “The Role of Gut Nutrient Sensing in Stimulating Appetite” at the 26th International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste in Stockholm, Sweden, June 26, 2012, and “Gut Nutrient Sensing and Appetite Stimulation” presented at the Obesity Society Meeting, San Antonio, Sept. 22, 2012. Two interviews with Sclafani related to his research were also featured: Alycia Sellie, Library one on diet and obesity, featured in Episode Two

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of a BBC Documentary on “Men Who Made Us New Chaucer Society session on “Nature Into Fat” (July 18, 2012), and the other on sugar and Culture” on July 23. On May 2, he gave a paper at obesity, featured in a Der Spiegel magazine cover the University College London Centre for Early story on “The Sweet Drug” (Issue 36, 2012). Modern Exchanges on “A Singular Cat, a Mess of Vermin, and the Appetites of The Disputation Alycia Sellie, Library, presented “Zine Geographies Between the Body and the Worms.” On June and Genealogies: Mapping the Intellectual 6, he spoke to the Miami University French in Landscape of Anti and Protest Publications” at Dijon Study Abroad program on “How to Make The Center for the History of Print and Digital a Human: Animals in the Middle Ages.” On Sept. Culture’s Protest on the Page Conference, in 21, he spoke on the “Abyss” at the Ecomaterialism Madison, Wis., Sept. 30, 2012. Sellie also opened session at the 2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL the Brooklyn College Library Zine Collection on Working Group, Boston. July 31, which was featured in the Wall Street Journal in August. Eric Steinberg, Philosophy, published Understanding Mosel Wines, available as an Teresa Snider-Stein, Theater, designed costumes e-book from Amazon’s Kindle Store. The 2012 for the Off Broadway production of “The work is a practical guide to the fine Rieslings of Hereafter Musical” by Vinnie Favale (Brooklyn the Mosel region of Germany. College Alum) and Frankie Keane at Theater 80 on St. Marks, which opened on April 24, 2012. The “Hereafter Musical” explores what happens when a loved one dies, from the perspective of both the living and the dead. She also designed the costumes for the world premiere of Daisy Foote’s new play “Him” at Primary Stages directed by Evan Yionoulis. “Him” examines the institution of the American family when two siblings are left struggling to keep the family store afloat and must decide which is a priority: their father’s final wishes or their financial stability. The show was reviewed in the NY Times following its Oct. 9, 2012 opening.

Karl Steel, English, gave several talks of varying lengths and philosophical focuses, on a medieval forest law that demanded that deer carcasses be distributed to people with leprosy. The venues were the International Medieval Society, Paris (June 29); the New Chaucer Society, Portland, Oregon (July 24); and the New York University Medieval Forum (October 18). He chaired a Karl Steel, English

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John Van Sickle, Classics, presented two talks in at the Classical Association of the Atlantic States China: on “Greek and Latin elements in English,” (New York, Oct. 5) and wrote articles for Princeton for English faculty and students, Architectural Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Fourth Edition. University of Xi’an (June 5), and on “Ecocriticism and Derek Walcott’s Omeros,” for a conference Judylee Vivier, Theater, attended in August the on Eco-aesthetics, Shandong University (Ji’nan, 25th Anniversary Voice and Speech Trainers’ June 14). Van Sickle also staged readings from Association (VASTA), “A Voice for Good,” in his “Virgil’s Book of Bucolics” at Ohio State Washington D.C., and was a contributor to the University (Columbus); and from his “The Ten development of the group’s five-year strategic Eclogues Translated into English Verse with Cues and mission plan. In September and October, for Reading Aloud & Clues for Threading Texts Vivier was in Cardiff, Wales, at the Royal Welsh & Themes” (Johns Hopkins 2011). His lecture, College of Music and Drama as the International “Recycling from Vatic to Arcadian Poetics via Visiting Professor of Voice and Acting. For five Satyr-play in Virgil’s Book of Bucolic Epos,” intensive weeks, Vivier designed and taught inaugurated a series of ten lectures on the courses in Voice for the Actor to first and second Eclogues (Sept. 10, 14). He further presented “Two year BA student actors, served as the voice and Complementary Cycles Frame Virgil’s Bucolics” text coach on the production of “A Month in the Country,” by Turgenev, and taught Acting to the MA acting students.

Deborah J. Walder, Psychology, received the PSC-CUNY 43 Award for 2012-2013 for her work on “Prepulse Inhibition and Psychometric Risk for Psychosis.” Her Visiting Appointments (Sept. 2011 - May 2012) include: Harvard Medical School, Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology; and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Visiting Scientist (Boston, MA).

Frederick Wasser, Television and Radio, gave a panel presentation entitled “Digital Realism and War Movies” at the Film and History conference in Milwaukee on Sept. 29.

Craig Williams, Classics, published his book, Reading Roman Friendship, with Cambridge University Press.

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Mac Wellman, English, published a book of poetry, Split the Stick, in June 2012 with Roof Books; “The Rat Minaret” (poetry), also in June 2012 with Little Red Leaves. In addition, “Linda Perdido” (fiction) was announced as winner of the 2011 FC2 Catherine Doctorow Prize. His play “Muazzez” (with Actor Stephen Mellor) was performed in August 2012, at the BAM Fisher Center as part of the 2012 Issue Project.

Paula Whitlock, Computer and Information Science, presented on her work done in collaboration with graduate student Sergey Artemchuk, “Using Multiple GPUs on Multiple Hosts in Simulations of Multi-Dimensional Hypersphere Systems,” at the Accelerators in High Performance Computing and Computational Science Conference, College of Staten Island, CUNY, June 5-6, 2012.

Barbara Winslow, Secondary Education and Women’s Studies Program and the Director of the Shirley Chisholm Project, spoke on “New Models Howard Z. Zeng, Physical Education & Exercise Science of Leadership: Shirley Chisholm,” at The Manning Marable Memorial Conference, A New Vision of Black Freedom: Columbia University, New York, May 27, 2012. *** Howard Z. Zeng, Physical Education and Exercise Science, published two books from Lambert Academic Publishing Hours, Germany. The first was Implementing Mosston’s Teaching Styles in Physical Education Skill Classes, which was published in June 2012, and his second was Attitudes of High School Students toward Physical Activities, published in October 2012. Zeng also presented “A Survey of Principals’ Views and Perceptions on School Physical Education in Nanjing” at the International Convention on Science, Education and Medicine in Sport in Glasgow, England, in July 2012.

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Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, Education, Childhood, collaboration on “Effects of dietary obesity on Bilingual and Special Education, along with Nelson hepatic SREBP-1c, ChREBP and AMPK in rats” at Flores, wrote a chapter for Bilingual Community the Annual Meeting of the American Diabetes Education and Multilingualism: Beyond Heritage Association, Philadelphia, June 2012. Kenneth Axen and Kathleen Axen also presented on their collaboration “Relationship among body fat, hepatic lipid, and intramuscular TAG during weight gain and weight loss” at the Annual Obesity Scientific Sessions, San Antionio, September 2012. Obesity 20 (Abstract Suppl): S102, 2012.

Rose Burnett Bonczek, Theater, co-wrote Ensemble Theatre Making: A Practical Guide with David Storck, Savannah College of Art and Design, by Routledge Press, Oxford, U.K., October 2012.

Kenneth Axen, Health and Nutrition Sciences Languages in a Global City entitled “A case study of bilingual policy and practices at the Cypress Hills Community School.” The book was published by Multilingual Matters (Bristol, England) and was edited by Ofelia Garcia, Zeena Zakharia and Bahar Octu.

Kathleen Axen, Kenneth Axen, Jean Grassman and Steven Clarke, Health and Nutriton Sciences, along with M.A. Harper and Y. Kuo, presented “Effects of High-Fat Dietary Obesity on Hepatic Lipogenic Mechanisms in Rats” at the Annual Obesity Scientific Sessions in San Antonio, September 2012. They also presented their Kathleen Axen, Health and Nutrition Sciences

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Carol Connell, Finance and Business Management, and Joseph T. Salerno of Pace and NYU are now under contract for Monetary Reform: Selected Letters and Papers of Fritz Machlup, William Fellner and Robert Triffin, which will be published by Pickering & Chatto in 2014.

Young Cheong, Television and Radio, in collaboration with CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, has been conducting numerous, through the summer and fall of 2012, workshops for faculty and students about making the transition from Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X. Additionally, Cheong completed a version of a book about Final Cut Pro X, titled Final Cut Pro: Advanced Video Editing, published in September 2012. It is the #1 book in the multimedia category on Korea¹s version of Amazon.com.

Constantin Cranganu, Earth and Environmental Matthew Crump, Psychology Sciences, worked with Basem K. Moh’d, Tafila University, Jordan, while he was Fulbright Visiting Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, in publishing the article “Amount of Water Absorption as Controlled by Carbonate Unimodal and Bimodal Pore Structure: a Simple New Tool to Predict Petrophysical Properties,” Electronic Journal of Geological Engineering, vol. 17, p. 2,485 – 2,507.

Matthew Crump, Psychology, co-wrote with Gordon Logan of Vanderbilt University, “Prevention and Correction in Post-Error Performance: An Ounce of Prevention, a Pound of Cure,” which appeared in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, epub ahead of print, September. Crump also collaborated with Julie Bugg of Washington University on “In Support of a Distinction Between Voluntary and Stimulus-Driven Control: A Review of the Literature on Proportion Congruent Effects” Constantin Cranganu, Earth and Environvenmental Sciences which appeared in Frontiers in Cognition, 3, Sept.

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27. He also co-authored “Keeping an eye on guitar skill: Visual representations of guitar chords” with Gordon Logan and Jerry Kimbrough of Vanderbilt University, which appeared in Music Perception, 30(1), September.

Joshua Fogel, 1993, Finance and Business Management, co-wrote a number of articles, including: with Leora L. Pollack, Citigroup, “Consumers and Teleworking Advertisements in Spam E-mail,” International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing, 5(1) (2012); with Vaibhav Verma, Vladimir K. Gotlieb, Alan S. Multz, Geeti Sharma, Nassau University Medical Center, “Lung Cancer for the Poor and Underserved: Should Routine Screening Be Performed?” in the World Journal of Oncology, 3(3) (June 2012); with Siddharth Verma, Vincent Notar- Francesco, Smruti R. Mohanty, NY Methodist Hospital, David J. Beyda, SUNY Downstate Yu Gao, Psychology Medical Center, Brett Bernstein, Beth Israel Medical Center, “Chronic Methadone Use, Poor Paul Forlano, Biology, at the 42nd Annual Bowel Visualization and Failed Colonoscopy: A Society for Neuroscience Meeting, which met Preliminary Study,” which appeared in the World in New Orleans, presented “Catecholaminergic Journal of Gastroenterology, 18(32), (August 2012); Connectivity to Central and Peripheral Auditory with Hamood Ur-Rehman Malik, Krishan Kumar, and Vocal Motor Pathways in a Teleost Fish,” Marianne Frieri, Nassau University Medical Center, co-authored with undergraduate Zuzanna “Obesity is Associated With Asthma in Patients Krzyminska, graduate student Lilja Nielsen, and from an Underserved Low Physician to Patient Joseph Sisneros of University of Washington; Ratio Area in a New York Pediatric Emergency Forlano also co-authored a number of Department,” Internet Journal of Pulmonary presentations, including: “Neuroanatomical Medicine, 13(1) (2012); with Gabriel Yarmish, Evidence for Serotonergic Modulation of Vocal Computer and Information Science, “Consumers and Auditory Circuitry in the Plainfin Midshipman and Computer Software Advertisements in Fish” with graduate student Miky Timothy; “Brain Spam E-mail,” in the Journal of Internet Banking Activation Patterns to Mating Calls in Nesting and Commerce, 17(2) (August 2012); and with Male Plainfin Midshipman Fish” with graduate Nava R. Silton, Marymount Manhattan College, students Christopher Petersen, Miky Timothy, “Enhancing Positive Behavioral Intentions of undergraduate student Spencer Kim, and Ashwin Typical Children Towards Children with Autism,” Bhandiwad, Robert Mohr and Joseph Sisneros of in the Journal of Cognitive and Behavioral University of Washington; and also “Swim Bladder Psychotherapies, 12(2) (September 2012). Sexual Dimorphism in the Plainfin Midshipman

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research assistant at University of Southern California, Adrian Raine, and Laura A. Baker, University of Southern California; “Psychopathy and Physiological Responses to Aversive Stimuli in Children aged 9-10 years” in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 40, 759-769, along with Pan Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Southern California, Laura A. Baker, Adrian Raine, and Dora I. Lozano, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez in Chihuahua, Mexico. Also her recent work, “Reduced P300 Amplitude at Age 11 is Associated with Criminal Offending at Age 23,” is in press with the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. It was done with collaborators Adrian Raine, Peter H. Venables, of the University of York, UK, and Sarnoff A. Mednick, University of Southern California.

Kenneth A. Gould, Sociology, and Tammy L. Lewis, Sociology, were editors of “Thirty Readings David Grubbs, Music in Introductory Sociology,” Oxford University Press, 2013. They also co-authored a book Fish: Implications for Acoustic Communication in chapter, “The Environmental Injustice of Green this Species” with Elizabeth Whitchurch, Humbolt Gentrification: The Case of Brooklyn’s Prospect State University, Darlene Ketten, Woods Hole Park” in The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Oceanographic Institute, Richard Fay, Marine Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City. Biological Laboratory, and Joseph Sisneros, Judith DeSena and Timothy Shortell, Sociology, University of Washington. editors. Lexington Books. 2012.

Yu Gao, Psychology, collaborated on a number of Alexander Greer, Chemistry, collaborated articles, including “Somatic Aphasia: Mismatch of with Alan M. Lyons, College of Staten Island, Body Sensations with Autonomic Stress Reactivity on “Bacterial Inactivation by a Singlet in Psychopathy” in Biological Psychology, Oxygen Bubbler: Identifying Factors Controlling 90, 228-233 with Adrian Raine, University of the Toxicity of Singlet O2 Bubbles” in Pennyslvania, and Robert A. Schug, California Environmental Science and Technology, 46 (2012). State University at Long Beach; “The Heritability of the Skin Conductance Orienting Response: David Grubbs, Music, created the sound design A Longitudinal Twin Study,” also in Biological for Jonah Bokaer’s and Anthony McCall’s Psychology, 89, 47-53 with Catherine Tuvblad, “Eclipse,” a performance work that inaugurated Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Southern the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Fisher building California, Josh Isen, Postdoctoral Fellow at in September. Grubbs also appeared on new University of Minnesota, Theodore Botwick, releases by Pauline Oliveros and Boris Hegenbart.

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Olympia Hadjiliadis, Mathematics, along with work in Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD): her former student at the Graduate Center, Sequential quickest detection and identification of Hongzhong Zhang, Columbia University, co- multiple co-dependent epidemic outbreaks, NSF- authored “Drawdowns and the Speed of Market DMS #1222526. This is a three-year award starting Crash,” Methodology and Computing in Applied on Sept. 1, 2012. Probability, issue 3, vol. 14, pp. 739-752. Hadjiliadis also collaborated with Hongzhong Zhang, Natalie Kacinik, Psychology, co-wrote “The Bitter Thomas Flynn, graduate student in the Computer Truth About Morality: Virtue, Not Vice, Makes a Science Department, and Ioannis Stamos, Hunter Bland Beverage Taste Nice” in PLOS ONE, 7(7), College and co-PI on the NSF-CCF grant “MSC with her former Ph.D. student Kendall Eskine, Sequential Classification and Detection via Loyola University New Orleans, and Gregory Markov Models in Point Clouds of Urban Scenes.” Webster, University of Florida. In May, she co- They also authored “Online algorithms in the authored a paper with Kendall Eskine and Jesse classification of urban objects in 3D point clouds” Prinz, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy (as part of the peer-reviewed proceedings of at the CUNY Graduate Center, on “Exploring the 3DIMPVT conference, October 13-15, Zurich, Moral Tastes: The Bitter Truth About Morality,” Switzerland). Hadjiliadis and collaborator, Mike which was presented as part of the symposium Ludkovski, University of California in Santa on Embodiment Perspectives on Morality at the Barbara, received funds totaling $490,781, of 24th annual convention of the Association for which Brooklyn College received $278,154, from Psychological Science, in Chicago. In April, she the NSF Division of Mathematical Science for their co-authored a paper with Franca Ferrari-Bridgers, Queensborough Community College, titled “Do Configurational and Structural Distinctions Between Words Matter at a Processing Level? The Case of Italian Prefixed Words,” presented at the 42nd annual symposium on Romance Languages in Cedar City, Utah.

Ed McTague, Accounting, published “Climate Change Disclosures” in the International Journal of Business and Social Science. Vol. 3 No. 17, September 2012, in collaboration with Amy Lai, MS, Brooklyn College.

Sonia E. Murrow, Secondary Education, and Jessica Siegel, Secondary Education, published “Strengthening the Teaching Profession in NYC: Advice to the Next Mayor,” in the Huffington Post, July 17, 2012. Murrow also published with Mary Rose McCarthy, Pace University, “Reformers Could Use a History Lesson,” SchoolBook, WNYC, Natalie Kacinik, Psychology

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Oct. 2, 2012. Murrow presented “Collectivists LaRooy, Abertay, on “A Case Study of Witness and Free Marketeers: Historical Perspectives on Consistency and Memory Recovery Across Contemporary Reform,” also with McCarthy, at Multiple Investigative Interviews,” also in the American Educational Research Association Applied Cognitive Psychology (p.118 – 129), and in April 2012 in Vancouver. collaborated with Orbach on a book chapter in an edited volume of Children’s Testimony. A Handbook of Psychological Research and Forensic Practice, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. Pp.147- 164.

Jeremy R. Porter, Children and Youth Studies Program and Finance and Business Management, published a number of articles: in May 2012 - with Wesley L. James (University of Memphis) “Spatial Context, Health Infrastructure, and Inequality: A Structural Equations Approach to Understanding the Causal Determinants of Race-Specific Mortality Rates” inSociological Spectrum 32(4): 322-345; with Kathleen Ragsdale, Rebecca Read, Allyn White and Janet S. St. Lawrence (Social Science Research Center, MSU) “High Risk Drinking and Other Risk Behaviors among U.S. College Women at Two Reporting Intervals: Comparing Spring Break to the 30 Days Prior” in Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Sonia E. Murrow, Secondary Education 9(1): 31-40; with Nicole E. Rader and Jeralynn S. Cossman (of Mississippi State University), Mim Nakarmi, Physics, collaborated with Ram “Social Disorganization and Neighborhood C. Rai of SUNY Buffalo on “Spin-charge-orbital Fear: Examining the Intersection of Individual, coupling in multiferroic LuFe2O4 thin films,” Community, and County Characteristics” in which appeared in Applied Physics Letter, Vol. 100, American Journal of Criminal Justice. 37: 229-245 p. 212904 (2012). in June 2012. With Nicole Rader and Jeralynn Cossman (of Mississippi State University) Margaret-Ellen Pipe, Psychology, together with he published the article “Fear of Crime and Deirdre Brown, Victoria University of Wellington, Vulnerability: Using a National Sample to Examine Charlie Lewis, Lancaster, Michael Lamb, Cambridge, Two Competing Paradigms” in the Journal of and Yael Orbach, NIH, published “How Do Body Criminal Justice, 40:134-141; and in July 2012 with Diagrams Affect the Accuracy and Consistency Kathleen Ragsdale, Rahel Mathews, Allyn White, of Children’s Reports of Bodily Touch Across Cheryl Gore-Felton and Elizabeth McGarvey (of Repeated Interviews?” in Applied Cognitive the Social Science Research Center, MSU) he Psychology, 2012, 174-181. Pipe also collaborated published the article “Liquor before beer, you’re with Lamb and Orbach, in addition to David in the clear: Frequent Binging and Other Risk

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Behaviors among Fraternity/Sorority Members grants from the New York City Department of Youth and their non-Greek Peers” in The Journal of and Community Development, the New York State Substance Use 17(4): 323-339. Department of Education, the Brooklyn Community Foundation, and Con Edison. The grants will be Laura A. Rabin, Psychology, published “Predicting used for after-school and school-day programs in Dementia: Neuropsychological Tests, Self Reports, arts and college prep for students from under- and Informant Reports of Cognitive Difficulties” served middle and high schools in Brooklyn. with co-authors C. Wang, M. Katz, H. Buschke, and R. Lipton, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in Barbara Rosenfeld, Childhood, Bilingual and the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Special Education, collaborated with Jess L. 60, 1128-1134. She also published “The Relation Gregory, Southern Connecticut State University, Between Executive Functioning and Musical to present “Extending Classroom Discussion with Production/Creativity in Undergraduate Students” Discussion Boards: Using Technology to Meet the with student co-authors D. Khaimova and K. Eskine, Needs of Diverse Learners” at the 43rd Annual Brooklyn College and Xavier University, in the Meeting of the Northeastern Educational Research Undergraduate Journal of Psychology, 25, 31-40. Association in Rocky Hill, Conn., on Oct. 18, 2012.

Nancy Romer, Psychology, and Diane Reiser, Chief Laurie Rubel, Secondary Education, coauthored Operating Officer of the Brooklyn College Community an article, “Decennial Redistricting: Mathematics Partnership, collaborated on grants totaling in Context,” that appeared in the October 2012 $1,672,439 for the 2012-2013 Academic Year, including issue of Mathematics Teacher, along with Michael Driskill (BC graduate and works at Math for America) and Lawrence Lesser (University of Texas El Paso). Rubel also presented “Equity and Participation in School Mathematics” at a research symposium about equity and participation in mathematics at the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics Research Presession in Philadelphia, in April 2012. Her collaborators were Victoria Hand of the University of Colorado, Indigo Esmonde and Lesley Dookie of Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and Scott Monroe of UCLA.

Anjana Saxena, Biology, together with Frida Kleiman, Chemistry, Hunter College, received funding from the CUNY Collaborative Incentive Research Grant (CIRG) Program for a project entitled “Role of Nucleolin in Regulating mRNA Stability During DNA Damage Response” for 2012-2013. Anjana Saxena, Biology

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Anthony Sclafani, Psychology, with Karen Ackroff, Psychology, published an invited review paper titled “The role of Gut Nutrient Sensing in Stimulating Appetite and Conditioning Food Preferences” in the American Journal of Physiology, 2012, 302, R1119-R1133. They also published a research report titled “Flavor Preferences Conditioned by Intragastric Glucose but Not Fructose or Galactose in C57BL/6J Mice” in Physiology and Behavior, 2012, 106, 457–461. Scalfani also collaborated with Ackroff and Rachael Weintraub, Psychology, and published a research report titled “MSG Intake and Preference in Mice are Influenced By Prior Testing Experience” in Physiology and Behavior, 2012, 107, 207-217.

Deborah Shanley, Dean, School of Education, with Haroon Kharem, Childhood Education, and Veshawn Fitzgerald, School of Education graduate ‘12, presented their work on the Urban Charles Stone, Finance and Business Management Community Teachers Project titled “Minding the Gap: Cultivating Black Male Teachers in a Time Robert Sibner, Mathematics, along with Lesley of Crisis in Urban Schools,” at the 56 Annual Sibner, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, published a Fall Conference of the Council of the Great journal article, “Hyperbolic Multi-Monopoles with City Schools (CGCS) in Indianapolis (Oct. 17-21, Arbitrary Mass” in Communications Mathematical 2012). This follows the research report, “A Call Physics, Vol. 315 Issue 2 (October 2012) pp. 383-399. for Change: The Social and Educational Factors Contributing to the Outcomes of Black Males in Cyndi Stein-Rubin, Speech Communication Arts Urban Schools” (2010), published by the Council. and Sciences, along with co-author Beryl Adler, in Dean Shanley co-chairs the Achievement and contract with Cengage Learning, published their Professional Development Task Force which second book, A Personal Development Manual: initiated this report and the follow-up “A Call The Speech-Language Pathologist as Facilitator. for Change: Providing Solutions for Black Male Achievement” (2012). This summer, Dean Shanley Charles Stone, Finance and Business Management, attended the National Summit on Educational had the second edition of his collaboration Excellence and Opportunity for African American with Anne Zissu of New York City College of Males, an invitation extended by Secretary of Technology published by Wiley Finance. It was Education Arne Duncan. For over 10 years, Dean titled, “The Securitization Markets Handbook: Shanley has served as Chair of the Council’s Structures and Dynamics of Mortgage-and Great City Colleges of Education Group and as a Asset-Backed Securities.” member of the Executive Committee.

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Laura Tesman, Theater, directed the world Symptoms in Clinical High-Risk Youth: Sexual premiere of “Nocturnal: Portrait of a New York Dimorphisms and Prediction of Conversion in the Night in Nine Movements” at the 2012 New York NAPLS Psychosis Prodrome,” with collaborators C. International Fringe Festival. The play was devised, Holtzman, J. Addington, K. Cadenhead, M. Tsuang, researched, and developed in spring 2011 with T.D. Cannon, B. Cornblatt, T. McGlashan, S.W. undergraduate students in the Department of Woods, D.O. Perkins, L.J. Seidman, and E.F. Walker; Theater. The production found its initial inspiration “Prenatal and Early Developmental Exposure in Russell Leigh Sharman, Anthropology and to Non-Lethal Stressors in Parents and Risk for Archaeology, and Cheryl Harris Sharman’s book Psychosis: An Epidemiological Perspective” with Nightshift NYC. The production ran Aug. 16-25, collaborators L. Jorgensen, S. Wicks, and C. 2012 at the New Ohio Theatre in the West Village. Dalman; “Differential Relationships of Schizotypal For World Wide Lab, a newly formed international Trait Dimensions with Cognitive Functioning director’s collective comprised of twelve directors in a Nonclinical Sample” with collaborators from nine different countries, Tesman adapted M.P. Daly, L. Ospina, and B. Yaffe; and “Baseline and directed “Volupté” by 19th century French Symptoms and Comorbid Diagnoses: Correlates Symbolist writer Rachilde (also known as of Conversion in Individuals at Clinical High Risk Marguerite Vallette-Eymery). The production for Psychosis” with collaborators M.P. Daly, J. ran Aug. 18, 2012 at the Irondale Center in Fort Harkavy-Friedman, S. Ben-David, and C. Corcoran. Greene, Brooklyn. With Spleen Theatre, for which she is co-artistic director, Tesman directed and Trina Lynn Yearwood, Childhood, Bilingual produced Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning and Special Education, presented with Eugena “Anna Christie” aboard an authentic, century-old Kenyatta Griffin, Psychology, at the 2012 Hudson River barge. The production ran Sept. CUNY CUE Conference at the College of Staten 7-21, 2012 on the Lehigh Valley Barge #79 at the Island. Yearwood and Griffin’s presentation, Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn. “Faculty Diversity Development at CUNY: A Framework to Enhance Black Student Success,” Deborah J. Walder, Psychology, with collaborators, highlighted their proposed three-part faculty including M. Statucka and M.P. Daly, doctoral diversity development framework to enhance students in Ph.D. Program in Psychology at CUNY the overall success of Black students at CUNY Graduate Center, and M. Haber, doctoral student by strengthening student-faculty relationships. in Ph.D. Program in Neural and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, published the article “Biological Sex and Menstrual Cycle Phase Modulation of Cortisol Levels and *** Psychiatric Symptoms in a Non-clinical Sample of Young Adults” in Psychiatry Research, 197(3):314- 321. Walder presented a number of collaborations at the 26 Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Ann Arbor, Mich, Oct. 4-7, 2012, including: “Childhood (Premorbid) Adjustment, Baseline Global Functioning &

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