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2019 LaGuardia Community College / CUNY

Articles and Books

Leslie Aarons published the book chapter “On for LaGuardia (Pearson Publication Company, 2018) the Disadvantage of WikiLeaks for Life” in WikiLeak- and (with Kevin Mark, Ian Alberts, and Sunaina ing: The Ethics of Secrecy and Exposure ed. C. Cotton Singh) titled General Chemistry I (SCC 201) Tutorial and R. Arp (Chicago: Open Court, 2017). package (Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2018). Allia Abdullah-Matta published five poems: ti- Alice Baldwin-Jones co-authored (with Ira Har- tled “North Geography” in Promethean: The Official rison, Deborah Johnson-Simon, and Erica Williams) Literary Journal of the City College of (April a book titled “Charles Preston Warren II, Pioneer Mil- 2018), Vol. 46, pp. 14-16; titled “J-train Geography” in itary Forensic Anthropologist, Scholar and Applied Promethean: The Official Literary Journal of the City Scientist” in The Second Generation of African Amer- College of New York (April 2018), Vol. 46, p. 17; titled ican Pioneers in Anthropology (Illinois: University of “Digital Study for Saints...” in Selected Writings from Illinois Press, 2018). the MFA Program in Creative Writing (November Darren Barany authored a book titled The New 2018), pp. 13-14; titled “Scar” in Mom Egg Review Lit- Welfare Consensus: Ideological, Political, and Social erature & Art (December 2018), Vol. MER VOX Quar- Origins (State University of New York Press, 2018). terly, Issue Winter, http://momeggreview.com/ Rajendra Bhika co-authored (with Eric Hofmann 2018/12/15/allia-abdullah-matta-poetry and titled and Ellen Quish) a book chapter titled “Critical Junc- “Scarred” in Mom Egg Review Literature & Art (De- tures: Professional Development in an Evolving cember 2018), Vol. MER VOX Quarterly, Issue Winter, ePortfolio Landscape” in High-Impact ePortfolio http://momeggreview. com/2018/12/15/allia-abdullah- Practice: A Catalyst for Student, Faculty, and Institu- matta-poetry. They also co-authored (with Rani tional Learning, first edition (October 2018). Varghese and Hye-Kyung Kang) a book chapter titled David Bimbi co-authored (with Juline Koken) a “The Ladies’ Salon: Building Intellectual and Personal book chapter titled “Selective vision: How Discipli- Collective(s)” in Uncommon Bonds Women Reflect on nary Frames, Funding Streams and Social Policy Race and Friendship, eds. Kersha Smith and Marcella Shape Research on Sex Work” in Handbook of Sex In- Runell Hall (New York: Peter Lang, 2018), pp. 185-197. dustry Research, first edition, eds. S. Dewey, I. Amit Aggarwal published three articles: titled Crowhurst, & C. Izugbara (New York: Routledge, 2018), “Nanomaterials Eased Exogenous Contrast Agents pp. 33-41. for MRI” in Nanotechnology Letters (December 2018), Habiba Boumlik published three papers: (with Vol. 2, Issue 2: pp. 1-2; (with Christopher Farley, Phyllis Van Slyck) titled “Undergraduate and Gradu- Sunaina Singh, Aaron Dolor, Philip To, and Alexander ate Collaboration: Building Ties at both Ends of Uni- Falber) titled “A structural Model of Nitro-Porphyrin versity Experience: The Case of Morocco and New Dyes based on Spectroscopy and Density Functional York” in Writings on COIL Courses, Programs, and Theory” in Journal of Computational Chemistry (July Projects from Session Presenters and Contributors 2018), Vol. 39, Issue 18: pp. 1129-1142 and (with Sebas- (April 2018), 2018 COIL, pp. 207-220; (with Reem Jaa- tian A. Thompson, Sunaina Singh, Alejandro P. Adam, far and Ian Alberts) titled “Interdisciplinary Connec- Joao P. C. Tome, and Charles M. Drain) titled “Com- tions Across the Curriculum: Fostering promising the Plasma Membrane as a Secondary Tar- Collaborations between Freshman and Capstone Stu- get in Photodynamic Therapy-Induced Necrosis” in dents through Peer-Review Assignments” in Interna- Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry (October 2018), Vol. tional Journal of Higher Education (April 2018), Vol. 26, Issue 18: pp. 5224-5228. They also co-authored 7, Issue 5, pp. 61-74 and (with Reem Jaafar and Ian two books: (with Kevin Mark) titled Foundations of Alberts) titled “Creating a Network between Com- Chemistry, SCC 110 Revised lab Manual custom edition munity College Students in First-Year Seminars and LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

ing, and Renormalization in the Tangent Family” in Proficiency on Discourse Appropriacy in Oral Task Conformal Geometry and Dynamics of the American Performance” in Task-Based Approaches to Teaching Mathematical Society (November 2018), Vol. 22, Issue and Assessing Pragmatics, eds. Naoko Taguchi and 12, pp. 271-314, https://www.ams.org/journals/ecgd/ YouJin Kim (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2018), pp. 2018-22-12/S1088-4173-2018-00327-2. 248-263. Kai Chun Chuang published an article titled “We Thomas Fink published eight articles: (with Cas- are Pilots, not Horses: Performing Professionalism sandra Callaghan and Denise Duhamel) titled “Ex- through Resistance from Taiwanese Commercial Air- change on Denise Duhamel’s Scald” in Dichtung lines Pilots” in Departures in Critical Qualitative Re- Yammer (January 2018), Vol. 3, Issue 1, http://dich- search (September 2018), Vol. 7, Issue 3, pp. 60-87, tungyammer.wordpress.com; (with Charles Bern- http://dcqr.ucpress.edu/content/7/3/60. They also co- stein) titled “Exchange with Charles Bernstein on His authored two other papers: (with Bernadette Marie Recent Poetry, Poetics, and Criticism” in Dichtung Calafell) titled “From Me to We: Embracing Coperfor- Yammer (February 2018), Vol. 3, Issue 2, http://dich- mative Witnessing and Critical Love in the Class- tungyammer.wordpress.com; (with Leila Rosner and room” in Communication Education (January 2018), Mark Young) titled “Exchange with Mark Young on Vol. 67, Issue 1, pp. 109-114, doi:10.1080/03634523. His Recent Poetry” in Dichtung Yammer (March 2018), 2017.1388529 and (with Joelle Cruz, James McDonald, Vol. 3, Issue 3, http://dichtungyammer.wordpress. Kirsten Broadfoot, and Shiv Ganesh) titled “Aliens in com; (with Judith Halden Sullivan) titled “Exchange the United States: A Collaborative Autoethnography on Judith Walden-Sullivan’s Writing/Thinking on of Foreign-Born Faculty” in Journal of Management Gadamer, Poetry, and Composition” in Dichtung Yam- Inquiry (September 2018), doi:10.1177%2F10564926 mer (April 2018), Vol. 3, Issue 4, http://dichtungyam- 18796561. mer.wordpress.com; (with Richard Kostelanetz) titled in Capstone Courses using Writing Assignments” in John Collins authored the book chapter “Cata- “Exchange on Richard Kostelanetz’s Poetry” in Dich- Cogent Education (November 2018), Vol. 5, Issue 1; pp. lyst In Action Case Studies of High Impact ePortfolio tung Yammer (May 2018), Vol. 3, Issue 5, http://dich- 1-14. They also authored (Doris Grey) a book chapter Practice” in Structured Advisement and Career Dis- tungyammer.wordpress.com; (with Melissa Mantilla) “Morocco’s Islamic Feminism: Contours of a New The- cernment via ePortfolio, eds. Bret Eynon and Laura titled “Exchange on Patricia Carlin’s Second Nature” ology?” in Women and Social Change in North Africa: Gambino (Steriling, VA: Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2018), in Dichtung Yammer (May 2018), Vol. 3, Issue 6, What Counts as Revolutionary?, eds. D. Gray & N. Son- pp. 57-69. http://dichtungyammer.wordpress.com; (with Leila neveld (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Carrie Conners published an article titled “‘Ping Rosner) titled “Exchange on Hank Lazer’s Thinking 2018), pp. 119-142. Ping Ping/ I Break Things’: Productive Disruption in in Jewish/N 20” in Dichtung Yammer (June 2018), Vol. Richard Brown published an article (with the Working-Class Poetry of Jan Beatty, Sandra Cis- 3, Issue 7, http://dichtungyammer.wordpress.com and Joseph LeDoux, Daniel S. Pine, and Stefan G. Hof- neros, and Wanda Coleman” in The Journal of Work- (with Araceli Rojas) in Dichtung Yammer (November mann) titled “Know Thyself: Well-Being and Subjec- ing Class Studies (June 2018), Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2018), Vol. 3, Issue 12, http://dichtungyammer.word- tive Experience” in Cerebrum: Timely and Provocative http://workingclassstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.co press.com. They also published seven poems: titled Articles on Neuroscience (January 2018), m/2018/06/jwcs-vol-3-issue-1-june-2018-conners.pdf. “Yinglish Strophes 21 and 22” in Barrow Street (Jan- http://www.dana.org/Cerebrum/2018/Know_Thyself__ They also published seven poems: titled “Home uary 2018), Vol. 21, Issue 1, pp. 37-18; titled “Subprime Well_Being_and_Subjective_Experience. Shopping Fantasy” in The Hunger (2018), Vol. 2, Mortgage Bargain Lot 2 and 3” in Broadsheet (May Olga Calderon published an article (with Angelo https://www.thehungerjournal.com/home-shopping- 2018), Vol. 5, pp. 10-11; titled “Questioning 1 and 2” in Kolokithas) titled “A How-To Guide on Bringing Un- fantasy-carrie-conners; titled “Markings” in Cloud- Talisman (March 2018), Vol. 46, https://talismanmag. dergraduate Research to Community and Technical bank (June 2018), Vol. 12, p. 21; titled “Negotiations net; titled “Dented Reprise 16” in Otoliths (February Colleges” in ASM Journal of Microbiology & Biology Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel and United Steelworkers 2018), Vol. 13, Issue 48, http://the-otolith.blogspot. Education (December 2018), Vol. 19, Issue 3, pp. 1-6, of America” in Kestrel (2018), Vol. 39, p. 24; titled “Res- com; (with Tom Beckett) titled “Dali Etudes” in doi:10.1128/jmbe.v19i3.1642. olution: New Year’s Day, Moundsville, WV 1986” in Otoliths (August 2018), Vol. 13, Issue 50, http://the- Cheri Carr published an article titled “Love, Con- Newtown Literary (2018), Vol. 12, pp. 14-15; titled “Drug: otolith. blogspot.com; (with Maya D Mason) titled sent, and Arousal: Deterritorializing Virtual Sex” in Geophagia IV” in Rogue Agent (February 2018), Vol. “Cosmetic Intervention” in Otoliths (February 2018), Deleuze and Guattari Studies (October 2018), Vol. 12, 35, http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/cconners; Vol. 13, Issue 48, http://the-otolith.blogspot.com and Issue 4. They also authored a book titled Deleuze’s “Vertigo” in Quiddity (2018), Vol. 11, p. 108 and titled (with Maya D Mason) titled “Almost Magnificent” in Kantian Ethos: Critique as a Way of Life (Edinburgh “Unchained” in Little Patuxent Review (January 2018), Marsh Hawk Review (October 2018), Vol. 7, Issue 2, University Press, 2018). Vol. 23, p. 63. http://marshhawkpress.org. Tuli Chatterji published an article titled “I am Milena Cuellar published a paper (with Jeanne William Fulton authored four book chapters: ti- not What You Think: Sexual Fetishism in Patricia Pow- Funk, Dong Won, and Abderrazak Belkharraz Idrissi) tled “Grandmaster Flash” in The St. James Encyclo- ell’s The Pagoda” in Journal of West Indian Literature titled “LaGuardia New Math Sequence to Accelerate pedia of Hip Hop Culture, ed. Theodore McDermott (April 2018), Vol. 26, Issue 1. Student Completion at Scale” in 2018 Orlando Con- (Boston: St. James/Cengage, 2018), pp. 197-200; titled Clarence Chan co-authored (with Ting Man Tsao) ference Proceedings (November 2018), https://am- “Eric B. and Rakim” in The St. James Encyclopedia of a book chapter titled “From the Art of Dim Sum to atyc. site-ym.com/page/2018ConfProc. Hip Hop Culture, ed. Theodore McDermott (Boston: the Art of Sculpture: Master Chef Kai Tai Chan and Lisa DeSpain published an article titled “Hamil- St. James/Cengage, 2018), 150-153; titled “Run-D.M.C.” His Dough Evolution in New York” in Chop Suey and ton Hacks: Simplifying the Choral Medley for Your in The St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture, ed. Sushi from Sea to Shining Sea, eds. Bruce Makoto Singers” in Alfred Music Blog - Teaching (February Theodore McDermott (Boston: St. James/Cengage, Arnold, Tanfer Emin Tunc, and Raymond Douglas 2018), https://www.alfred.com/blog/hamilton-hacks- 2018), pp. 406-410 and titled “Noise Reconsidered: Chong (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, simplifying-choral-medley-your-singers. Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad as Hip Hop Outlier” in 2018), pp. 73-100. Monika Ekiert co-authored (with Sofia Lam- The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Music, eds. Justin Tao Chen published an article (with Yunping propoulou, Andrea Revesz, and Eivind Torgersen) the D. Burton and Jason Lee Oakes (New York: Oxford Jiang and Linda Keen) titled “Cycle doubling, Merg- book chapter titled “The Effects of Task Type and L2 University Press, 2018).

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Kristen Gallagher authored two book chapters: Malgorzata Marciniak and M Ali) titled “Uplink LTE Reem Jaafar published three articles: (with titled “Excerpt from 85 % True/Minor Ecologies” in Cascaded Priority-Dased Scheduler in IoT and Smart Amel Derras-Chouk, Eugene Chudnovsky, and Dmitry Best American Experimental Writing 2018, fourth edi- Grid Applications:Performance and Comparison” in Garanin) titled “Graphene Cantilever under Casimir tion, ed. Myung Mi Kim (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan SPIE 10560, Metro and Data Center Optical Networks Force” in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (April University Press, 2018), pp. 120-128 and titled “Bob and Short-Reach Links, 105600X, 2018 (January 2018), 2018), Vol. 51, Issue 19, http://iopscience.iop.org/arti- Loes Zeppelin” in Music Men Ruined for Me, ed. Alison Vol. 10560, Issue 105600X, https://www.spiedigitalli- cle/10.1088/1361-6463/aaba6a/meta; (with Habiba Lang (Montreal, Canada). brary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/ Boumlik and Ian Alberts) titled “Creating a Network Camila Gelpi published an article (with Roberto 10560/105600X/Uplink-LTE-cascaded-priority-based- between Community College Students in First-Year Abadie, Carmen Ana Davila, Angelica Rivera, Melissa scheduler-in-IoT-and-smart/10.1117/12.2306195. Seminars and in Capstone Courses using Writing As- Welch-Lazoritz, and Kirk Dombrowski) titled “It Ru- short?SSO=1; (with A. Mohamed, R. Dorsinville, and M. signments” in Cogent Education (December 2018), ined My Life: The effects of the War on Drugs on peo- Ali) titled “5G-based Converged Electric Power Grid Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 1-14, http://www.tandfonline.com/ ple who inject drugs (PWID) in rural Puerto Rico” in and ICT Infrastructure” in 2018 IEEE 5G World Forum doi/ abs/10.1080/2331186X.2018.1548051 and (with Int J Drug Policy (January 2018), Vol. 51. (5GWF) (November 2018), Vol. 1, Issue 1, https://ieeex- Habiba Boumlik and Ian Alberts) titled “Interdisci- Anthony Giangrasso co-authored (with Dolores plore.ieee.org/document/8517041; (with M. Obaidat plinary Connections across the Curriculum: Fostering Shrimpton) the book titled Dosage Calculations: A and M. Ali) titled “Four LTE Uplink Scheduling Algo- Collaborations between Freshman and Capstone Stu- Multi-Method Approach, second edition, ed. Michael rithms Performance Metrics: Delay, Throughput, and dents through Peer-Review Assignments” in Interna- Giacobbe (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Educa- Fairness Tradeoff” in 2017 IEEE International Sympo- tional Journal of Higher Education (September 2018), tion, 2018). sium on Signal Processing and Information Technol- Vol. 7, Issue 5, pp. 61-74, http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ11 Janet Gonzalez published two articles: (with ogy (ISSPIT) (June 2018), Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 300-305, 92479. Elainie Lendebol, A Shen, M Philipp, and C Clement) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8388659; (with Abdelhamid Kadik published a paper titled “Im- titled “In Silico-Mediated Virtual Screening and Mo- A. Rezk and M. Ali) titled “A Hybrid LTE Uplink Sched- proving AVHRR-Based NDVI Data using a Statistical lecular Docking Platforms for Discovery of Non β- uling Approach for Supporting Mission-Critical Smart Technique for Global Climate Studies” in Proc. SPIE Lactam Inhibitors of Y-49 β-Lactamase from Grid applications (Best Paper Award)” in IEEE UEMCON 10642 (May 2018), Vol. SPIE 10642, pp. 1-13, https://spie. Mycobacterium Tuberculosis” in MOJ Proteomics & 2018 : The 9th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, org/Publications/Proceedings/Volume/10642. Bioinformatics (January 2018), Vol. 7, Issue 1, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference, Co- Amish Khalfan published an article (with Sultan https://medcraveonline.com/MOJPB/MOJPB-07- lumbia University, New York, USA (2018), Vol. 9, ; (with Catto, Yasemin Gurcan, and Levent Kurt) titled 00207 and (with Anna Babinska, L. W. Ewul, Edem Malgorzata Marciniak, Delfino Enriquez-Torres, “Quantum Symmetries: From Clifford and Hurwitz Al- Timpo, Moro O Salifu, Monika Dzieciatkowska, and Rupak Kadel, Emmanuel Michalakis, and Nikesh Pra- gebras to M-Theory and Leech Lattices” in Advances Cristina Clement) titled “Development of a Label- japati) titled “Efficient Geometry of Flexible Solar in Applied Clifford Algebras (August 2018), Vol. 28, Free Nano LC/MS/MS Assay for Monitoring the Panels Optimized for the Latitude of ” Issue 4, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00 Changes in the Proteomic Landscape of Thrombin- in SPIE Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illu- 006-018-0894-3. Activated Human Platelets” in MOJ Proteomics & mination and Solar Concentration XV (2018), Vol. Demetrios Kapetanakos authored a book chap- Bioinformatics (August 2018), Vol. 7, Issue 4, 10758, http://spie.org/Publications/Proceedings/ ter titled “Curating the Complete Self: ePortfolio Ped- https://medcraveonline.com/MOJPB/MOJPB-07- Paper/10.1117/12.2321978 and (with Raaghav Pandya, agogy in the First Year Seminar in the Liberal Arts” 00242.pdf. Hammad Raja, Delfino Enriquez-Torres, Maria Ignacia in Catalyst in Action: Case Studies of High-Impact Richa Gupta published an article (with Brook Serey-Roman, and Malgorzata Marciniak) titled ePortfolio Practice, eds. Bret Eynon and Laura Gam- Heaton, Astha Nautiyal, Oyindamola Adefisayo, “Mathematical Simulation of Efficiency of Various bino (Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2018), pp. 255-266. Henry Evans, and Dave van Ditmarsch) titled “My- Shapes of Solar Panels for NASA Geostationary Satel- Juline Koken co-authored (with David Bimbi) a cobacterial Mutagenesis and Drug Resistance Are lites” in SPIE Proceedings: Physics, Simulation, and book chapter titled “Selective Vision: How Discipli- Controlled by Phosphorylation- and Cardiolipin-Me- Photonic Engineering of Photovoltaic Devices VII nary Frames,Funding Streams, and Social Policy diated Inhibition of the RecA Coprotease” in Molec- (February 2018), Vol. 10527, http://spie.org/Publica- Shape Research on Sex Work” in Routledge Interna- ular Cell (October 2018), Vol. 72, Issue 1, pp. 152-161. tions/Proceedings/Paper/10.1117/12.2290991. tional Handbook of Sex Industry Research, eds. S. Shinhi Han published an article titled “Interna- Natalie Havlin published an article “Editor’s Dewey, I. Crow- hurst, and C. Izugbara (New York: tional Korean Nursing Conference (IKNC) Experience” Note: Protest” in WSQ (November 2018), Vol. 46, Issue Routledge, 2018). in International Korean Nursing Conference (Septem- 3 & 4, pp. 9-13, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/706792. Soloman Kone published an article (with Yaya ber 2018), Vol. 8, Issue 1, http://gkna.org. They also co-edited (with Jillian Baez) a book titled Sissoko and Brian Sloboda) titled “Is it Factor Accu- Silvia Lin Hanick co-authored (with Amy R. Hofer Beauty, Vol. 46, Issues 1–2 (New York: WSQ / Feminist mulation or Total Factor Productivity Explaining the and Lori Townsend) a book titled Transforming Infor- Press, 2018). Economic Growth in ECOWAS? An Empirical Assess- mation Literacy Instruction Threshold Concepts in Ana Maria Hernandez authored a book chapter ment” in African Journal of Economic Review (July Theory and Practice (Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Un- “La Armonía Oculta: La Poesía de Magali Alabau y 2018), Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 30-45, https://www.ajol.info/ limited, 2018). They also authored the book chapter Lourdes Gil” in Entre Islas: Estudios sobre escritoras index.php/ajer/article/view/174684/164075. titled “The Shoe Is Too Small and Not Made for You!: cubanas de Nueva York, eds. Elena M. Martínez and Sue Livingston published an article titled “Ef- Racial “Covering” and the Illusion of Fit” in In Our Francisco Soto (Valencia, Spain: Aduana Vieja Edito- fect of X-Word Grammar and Traditional Grammar on Own Voices, Redux The Faces of Librarianship Today, rial, 2018), pp. 269-288. Grammatical Accuracy” in English Language Teaching eds. Teresa Y Neely and Jorge R Lopez-McNight́ (Lon- Carlos Hiraldo published an article titled “Kelly (February 2018), Vol. 11, Issue 3, pp. 119-136, https:// don: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018), pp. 83-92. Sadler and A Loss of Perspective” in Quillette (May academicworks.cuny.edu/lg_pubs/88?utm_source=a Ahmed Hassebo published seven papers: (with 2018), http://quillette.com/2018/05/19/kelly-sadler- cademicworks.cuny.edu%2Flg_pubs%2F88&utm_me Muath Obaidat and M Ali) titled “Commercial 4G LTE loss-perspective. dium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages. Cellular Networks for Supporting Emerging IoT Ap- Sumanth Inukonda published an article titled Malgorzata Marciniak published an article titled plications” in IEEE 2018 Advances in Science and En- “Diaspora and Narratives of Nation: The Case of “A Brief Report from a Visit at the Children’s Creativ- gineering Technology International Conferences ‘TeNA’ Online Forum” in Global Media and Communi- ity Museum in San Francisco on January 27, 2018” in (ASET) (June 2018), Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 436-441, cation (November 2018), Vol. 14, Issue 3, pp. 325-341, Mathematics Teaching Research Journal (June 2018), https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8376832; (with doi:10.1177/1742766518811860. Vol. 10, Issue 1, pp. 48-53. They also published three 3 LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE other papers: (with Yasser Hassebo, Delfino En- Neil Meyer published two articles: titled “To Pre- Violence, eds. Sarah Colvin and Katharina Karcher riquez-Torres, Rupak Kadel, Emmanuel Michalakis, serve This Remnant: William Apess, The Mashpee In- (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 63-74. and Nikesh Prajapati) titled “Efficient Geometry of dians, and the Politics of Nullification” in European Allyson Sheffield published five articles: (with Flexible Solar Panels Optimized for the Latitude of Journal of American Studies (August 2018), Vol. 13, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Anastasios Tzanidakis, New York City” in SPIE Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Issue 1, pp. 1-30, https://journals.openedition.org/ Kathryn V. Johnston, Chervin F.P. Laporte, and Bran- Design for Illumination and Solar Concentration XV ejas/12635 and “Review, Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu” in imir Sesar) titled “A Disk Origin for the Monoceros (2018), Vol. 10758, http://spie.org/Publications/Pro- American Studies (December 2018), Vol. 57, pp. 133- Ring and A13 Stellar Overdensities” in The Astrophys- ceedings/Paper /10.1117/12.2321978; (with Yasser Has- 134, https://journals.ku.edu/amerstud/issue/view/1111. ical Journal (February 2018), Vol. 854, Issue 1, sebo and M Ali) titled “Uplink LTE Cascaded Steven Ovadia authored a book chapter titled https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538- Priority-Dased Scheduler in IoT and Smart Grid Ap- “Shadow Project Management: Using the Project 4357/aaa4b6/meta; (with Iulia T. Simion, Vasily Be- plications:Performance and Comparison” in SPIE Management Body of Knowledge to Informally Man- lokurov, Sergey E. Koposov, and Kathryn V. Johnston) 10560, Metro and Data Center Optical Networks and age Library Projects” in Project Management in the titled “Spectroscopic follow-up of the Hercules- Short-Reach Links, 105600X, 2018 (January 2018), Vol. Library Workplace, eds. Alice Daugherty and Saman- Aquila Cloud” in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astro- 10560, Issue 105600X, https://www.spiedigitalli- tha Schmehl Hines (Bingley: Emerald Publishing Lim- nomical Society (May 2018), Vol. 476, Issue 3, pp. brary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/10560 ited, 2018), pp. 115-131. 3913-3923, https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article- /105600X/Uplink-LTE-cascaded-priority-based-sched- Jaime Riccio published an article titled (with abstract/476/3/3913/4909832?redirectedFrom=full- uler-in-IoT-and-smart/10.1117/12.2306195.short?SSO=1 Poppy Slocum and Patricia Sokolski) titled “Hands- text; (with Jeffrey L. Carlin, Katia Cunha, and Verve and (with Raaghav Pandya, Hammad Raja, Delfino On with Digital Communication” in National Institute V. Smith) titled “Chemical Abundances of Hydrostatic Enriquez-Torres, Maria Ignacia Serey-Roman, and for Learning Outcomes Assessment (December 2018), and Explosive Alpha-elements in Sagittarius Stream Yasser Hassebo) titled “Mathematical Simulation of http://learningoutcomesassessment.org. Stars” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters (May Efficiency of Various Shapes of Solar Panels for NASA Sonia Rodriguez published an article titled 2018), Vol. 859, Issue 1, https://iopscience.iop.org/ar- Geostationary Satellites” in SPIE Proceedings: “School Fights: Resisting Oppression in the Class- ticle/ 10.3847/2041-8213/aac3d8/meta; (with Maria Physics, Simulation, and Photonic Engineering of room in Gloria Velásquez’s Latina/o Young Adult Bergemann, Branimir Sesar, Judith G. Cohen, Also M. Photovoltaic Devices VII (February 2018), Vol. 10527, Novel Juanita Fights the School Board” in Children’s Serenelli, Ting S. Li, and Luca Casagrande) titled “Two http://spie.org/Publications/Proceedings/Paper Literature in Education (March 2018), Vol. 49, Issue 1, Chemically Similar Stellar Overdensities on Opposite /10.1117/12.2290991. pp. 61-72. They also published a poem titled “El Sol” Sides of the Plane of the Galactic Disk” in Nature Kevin Mark published the article (with P. Rathod, in Journal of Research in International Education (March 2018), Vol. 555, Issue 7696, pp. 334-337, M. Kaur, HP Ho, M.E. Louis, B. Dhital, and G.S. Boutis) (September 2018), Vol. 13, Issue 1, pp. 79-81. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25490 and titled “Quantification of Desmosine and Isodesmo- Maria Savva published the article titled “Inter- (with Kathryn V. Johnston, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, sine using MALDI-Ion Trap Tandem Mass Spectrome- national-Mindedness: Deviations, Incongruities and Anastasios Tzanidakis, Chervin F.P. Laporte, Ting Li, try” in Analytical Bioanalytical Chemistry (July 2018), other Challenges Facing the Concept” in Journal of and Maria Bergemann) titled “New Views From Galac- Vol. 410, Issue 26, pp. 6881-6889, https://europepmc. Research in International Education (September toseismology: Rethinking the Galactic Disk-Halo Con- org/abstract/med/30062515. 2018), Vol. 17, Issue 2, pp. 179-193, https://journals. nection” in Rediscovering our Galaxy, Proceedings of Christine Marks published an article titled “At sagepub. com/doi/abs/10.1177/1475240918793954. the International Astronomical Union (August 2018), the Limits of Relationality: Teaching ‘Be Right Back’” Noam Scheindlin co-authored (with Bhakti Vol. 334, pp. 185-188, doi:10.1017/S1743921317006639. in Supernatural Studies (2018), Vol. 4, Issue 2, pp. 86- Shringarpure and Veruska Cantelli) the book titled Nichole Shippen published an article titled 88. They also authored a book chapter titled Mediterranean, eds. Shringarpure, Cantelli, “Brian O’Connor Idleness: A Philosophical Essay: A “Metaphor, Myth, and Universality in Eve Ensler’s _In Scheindlin et al. (Fayetville: University of Arkansas Philosophical Essay” in Notre Dame Philosophical Re- the Body of the World” in ‘Cranes on the Rise’: Sym- Press, 2018) view (November 2018), http:/https://ndpr.nd.edu/ bols and Metaphors in Autobiographical Narratives, Jesse Schwartz published an article titled news/idleness -a-philosophical-essay. ed. Katja Sarkowsky (De Gruyter, 2018), pp. 11-26. “Preaching to the Choir: Turning Anger into Engage- Sunaina Singh published an article (with N.V.S. Bede McCormack authored a book chapter ti- ment at Urban Community Colleges” in Radical Dinesh, K. Bhupathiraju, Sunaina Singh, Muntasir Say- tled “Using Literature to Teach Culture” in TESOL En- Teacher (August 2018), Vol. 111. eedi, Waqar Rizvi, Charles Michael Drain, and James cyclopedia of English Language Teaching, ed. John I. Joan Schwartz published two articles: (with D. Batteas) titled “Practical, High-Yield Synthesis of Liontas (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018). Reem Jaafar) titled “Applying Holistic Adult Learning Thiol-Terminated Diacetylenes for formation of Con- Ian McDermott published an article (with Derek Theory to the Study of Calculus” in Journal of Teach- ductive Monolayers” in Tetrahedron Letters (October Stadler) titled “Advancing Information Literacy in a ing & Learning Practice (2018), Vol. 15, Issue 3, 2018), Vol. 59, Issue 40, pp. 3629-3631. Semester-Long Library Instruction Course: A Case http://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol15/iss3/6 and titled “Re- Derek Stadler published two articles: titled Study” in The Journal of Interactive Technology & flections: An Interview with Sara Jorgensen of “Winning with WordPress: How We Simplified Re- Pedagogy (June 2018), Vol. 13, http://https://jitp.com- Rosie’s Place” in Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult search Database Access” in Computers in Libraries mons.gc.cuny.edu/advancing-information-literacy- Education Journal (2018), Vol. 3, Issue 1, https://jour- (April 2018), Vol. 38, Issue 3, pp. 10-14 and (with Ian in-a-semester-long-library-instruction-course-a-case nals. uncc.edu/dsj. They also co-authored (with Eman McDermott) titled “Advancing Information Literacy -study. Mosharafa) the book chapter “Black, White, and in a Semester-Long Library Instruction Course: A Gail O. Mellow published two articles: titled Brown: A Collaborative Autoethnography Analyzing Case Study” in The Journal of Interactive Technology “Community Colleges: The Original Higher Education the Race and Friendship of Three Women in Acade- & Pedagogy (June 2018), Vol. 13, http://https://jitp. Disrupter” in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learn- mia” in Uncommon Bonds: Women Reflect on Race commons.gc.cuny.edu/advancing-information-liter- ing (October 2018), Vol. 50, pp. 108-112, https:// and Friendship, eds. Kersha Smith & Marcella Runell acy-in-a-semester-long-library-instruction-course-a- www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00091383.2018. Hall (New York: Peter Lang, 2018), pp. 113-127. case-study. 1509632 and “Quantitative Literacy: Now More Than Charity Scribner published an article titled Naomi Stubbs co-edited two books: (with Amy Ever” in Numeracy (July 2018), Vol. 11, Issue 2, “Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries” in 4Columns (Octo- Hughes) titled A Player and A Gentleman: The Diary doi:10.5038/1936-4660.11.2.1. They also wrote the Fore- ber 2018), http://4columns.org. They also authored a of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century US American ward to Global Adaptations of Community College In- book chapter titled “1968, Take Two: The Militancy of Actor (University of Michigan Press, 2018) and (with frastructure, ed. Uttam Gaulee (IGI Global, 2018). Nina Simone” in Gender, Emancipation, and Political Amy Hughes and Scott Dexter) titled The Harry 4 FACULTY & STAFF NOTES 2019 ISSUE

Sri Lanka by George Michael van der Poorten and Nancy E. van der Poorten, 2018. Lepodon Books, Toronto, Canada” in News of the Lepidopterists’ So- ciety (December 2018), Vol. 60, Issue 4, p. 194, http://images.peabody.yale.edu/ lepsoc/nls/2010s/ 2018/2018_v60_n4.pdf. Karen Williams published an article titled “Early Career Exploration as a Strategy to Reduce Loan Debt” in Journal of Underrepresented Minority Progress (July 2018), Vol. 2, Issue 1, http://minori- typrogress.org. Jennifer Wynn published an article titled “Soli- tary Confinement and the Supreme Court” in (May 2018), p. A18, https://www.ny- times. com/2018/05/27/opinion/solitary-confinement- supreme-court.html. Na Xu published an article (with Charles Keller, Tonya Hendrix, Holly Porter-Morgan, and Jacque- line Brashears) titled “A Foundation for STEM Suc- cess: A Simple and Successful Microscope Intervention in a General Biology Course at an Urban Community College” in Journal of College Science Teaching (September 2018), Vol. 48, Issue 1. Svetoslav Zahariev published an article titled “Infinite Volume Limits in Euclidean Quantum Field Watkins Diary: The Digital Edition (Michigan Publish- Liena Vayzman published two articles: titled Theory via Stereographic Projection” in Annales ing, 2018) “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Liena” in Entropy Mag- Henri Poincaré (November 2018), Vol. 19, Issue 11, pp. Rebecca Tally authored a book chapter titled azine (October 2018) and “Feminist Film Noir: Sally 3267-3287, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/ “Social Service, Convivialismo, and Hegemony in Potter’s Film Thriller” (1979) and the UnDoing of s00023-018-0709-z. Colombia” in State Formations: Global Histories and LaBoheme” in Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal Dominique Zino co-authored (with Olga Ak- Cultures of Statehood, eds. John L. Brooke, Julia C. (London, England) (April 2018), Vol. 1, Issue 1. sakalova) a book chapter titled “Processes of En- Strauss, and Greg Anderson (New York: Cambridge Shaunee Wallace co-authored two book chap- gagement: A Community College Perspective” in University Press, 2018), pp. 317-330. ters: (with Kersha Smith) titled “Black, White & Brown: Next Steps: New Directions for/in Writing about Writ- Benjamin Taylor published an article (with A Collaborative Autoethnography Analyzing the Race ing, eds. Barbara Bird, Doug Downs, I. Moriah Mc- Robert Jeanne) titled “Gastral Drumming: A Nest- & Friendship of Three Women in Academia” in Un- Cracken, and Jan Rieman (Salt Lake City: Utah State Based Food-Recruitment Signal in the Social Wasps” Common Bonds: Women Reflect on Race and Friend- University Press, 2018). in The Science of Nature (March 2018), Vol. 105, p. 23, ship, ed. Kersha Smith (New York: Peter Lang, 2018), https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-018- pp. 113-128 and (with Katherine Foss) titled “Prison 1550-4. They also co-authored (with Preethi Rad- Wives: Providing a Voice to the Underrepresented hakrishnan, Tonya Hendrix and Kevin Mark) a book Women behind Incarcerated Men” in Demystifying chapter titled “Building STEM Identity with a Core the Big House: Exploring Prison Experience and Media ePortfolio Practice” in Catalyst in Action: Case Studies Representations, ed. Katherine Foss (Carbondale, IL: of High-Impact ePortfolio Practice, eds. Bret Eynon Southern Illinois University Press, 2018), pp. 111-132. and Laura M. Gambino (Stylus Publishing, LLC), pp. Alison Walls published an article titled “The 223-240). Martyr in Tennessee Williams’s Suddenly Last Sum- I-Hsien Tsai published an article (with Jianbo mer, The Mutilated, and The Remarkable Rooming- Liu) titled “Singlet O2 Oxidation of a Deprotonated House of Mme LeMonde” in The Tennessee Williams Guanine-Cytosine Base Pair and Its Entangling with Annual Review (January 2018), Vol. 17, pp. 93-114. They Intra-Base-Pair Proton Transfer” in ChemPhysChem also co-authored (with Kathy A. Perkins, Sandra L. (July 2018), Vol. 19, pp. 2645-2654, https://onlineli- Richards, Rennee Alexander Craft, and Thomas F. De- brary. wiley.com/action/doSearch?AllField=Singlet Frantz) titled “Mulattoes, Mistresses, and Mammies: +O2+Oxidation+of+a+Deprotonated+Guanine-Cyto- The Phantom Family in Langston Hughes’ Mulatto” sine+Base+Pair+and+Its+Entangling+with+Intra- in The Routledge Companion to African American Base-Pair+Proton+Transfer&SeriesKey=14397641. Theatre and Performance, eds. Perkins, Kathy A., San- Ting Man Tsao published (with Clarence Chan) dra L. Richards, Renee Alexander Craft, and Thomas a book chapter titled “From the Art of Dim Sum to F. DeFrantz (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 39-43. the Art of Sculpture: Master Chef Kai Tai Chan and Dilrukshan Wijesinghe published two articles: His Dough Evolution in New York” in Chop Suey and (with Daniel Atha and Valerio Lazzeri) titled “First Re- Sushi from Sea to Shining Sea: Chinese and Japanese port of Stellaria pallida (Caryphyllaceae) for New Restaurants in the United States, eds. Bruce Makoto York State” in Phytoneuron (September 2018), Vol. Arnold, Tanfer Emin Tunc, and Raymond Douglas 64, Issue 1, p. 18, http://www.phytoneuron.net/2018 Chong (University of Arkansas Press, 2018), pp. 73- Phytoneuron/64PhytoN-StellariapallidaNY.pdf and ti- 99. tled “Book Reviews: Field Guide to the Butterflies of 5 LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

for the Study of Nationalities at Columbia University, Speeches, Papers and Workshops NY (May 2018), co-presented “Community college freshmen and MA students: Students’ reflections on a collaboration on literature and terrorism through Leslie Aarons delivered five presentations: ” at American Therapeutic Recreation Association in a novel” with Phyllis Van Slyck at Collaborative On- “Opening Remarks for the Philosophical Grand Rapids, MI (September 2018), and “Examining line International Learning Conference at Fashion In- Society Conference”; “Chair, Long Island Philosoph- the Mentoring Experiences of Tenured Black Faculty stitute of Technology, New York (March 2018), ical Society Conference Session: Epistemology, and It’s Impact on the Tenure Process within the City “Alternatives to literature courses for heritage stu- Ethics, Evil”; and “Epistemic Injustice: The Toll of University of New York” at St. John Fisher College in dents” at Third International Conference on Her- False Information on the American Public” at Long New Rochelle, New York (October 2018). itage/Community Languages at UCLA, CA (February Island Philosophical Society Conference at Molloy Rajendra Bhika presented, “Transforming Ped- 2018), “Court-interpreter internship pilot program College (April 2018); “Environmental Ethics in Higher agogy for Creating and Inclusive Classroom” with for multilingual students: Challenges and accom- Education (1 of 4 Invited Panelists)” at UNFIX: A fes- Andrea Francis at The IAFOR International Confer- plishments” with Anne Ryan at Second Community- tival of Performance and Ecology at 123 W. 71st St., ence on Education in Honolulu, Hawaii (January College-Language Forum at CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY 10023 (April 2018); and “Truth or Con- 2018). New York (May 2018), “Teaching culture through ex- sequences: The Facts and Fictions of Climate Sci- Jessica Boehman presented, “Middlebury’s ‘Ec- cursion and research papers in Arabic and French ence” at CUNY Sustainability Council at CUNY stasy of St. Teresa of Ávila’: Artist, Patron, and Con- courses: Culturally relevant pedagogy” at New York LaGuardia Community College (March 2018). text” at Middlebury College Museum of Art at State TESOL Applied Linguistics Conference at Teach- Allia Abdullah-Matta delivered two presenta- Middlebury College, VT (March2018). ers College, Columbia University, New York (April tions, “Teaching Literature at LaGuardia Community Habiba Boumlik delivered thirteen presenta- 2018), “ Homelands: Personal Trajectories ” at Katz College” at the Humanities Alliance at the Graduate tions, “Imagined or real? Networking community in Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in UPenn, PA (De- Center (October 2018) and “Black London and Bloody the New York Forum of Amazigh Film” with Lucy Mc- cember 2018), and “ co-presented “North Africa Liberation-Seminar” for Gettysburg College in Lon- Nair at Morocco in Motion: Global Reach of Moroccan through film: Screening/discussion of Amazigh cin- don, England (August 2018). Cinema at University of Edinburgh, UK (October ema” with Lucy McNair at Middle East and Middle Amit Aggarwal presented “Effect of Nitro Group 2018), “Amazigh cinema at large: Challenges and Eastern American Center (MEMEAC) at CUNY Gradu- on the Photophysical Properties of Porphyrin Dyes” hopes” with Lucy Mcnair at World Congress for Mid- ate Center (April 2018). with Christopher Farley, Sunaina Singh, and Charles dle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Seville, Spain (July Justin Brown delivered six presentations, M. Drain at American Chemical Society Conference 2018), co-presented “Amazigh cultural preservation “#MAMMYNOMORE #KUNTANOMORE an interactive in Boston, MA (August 2018). through film and forum: Conflict and commemora- workshop for untenured faculty of color on achiev- Ian Alberts delivered multiple presentations tion” with Lucy Mcnair at Pequot Museum and Re- ing work/service/life balance” with Monique A. and talks in 2018, “Inherit the Wind: Formal Essay search Center in Mashantucket, CT (September 2018), Guishard at National Council of Black American Af- [Liberal Arts]” with Luke Cardaio at LaGuardia's “Video productions as a remedy to language con- fairs Northeast Region in New York, NY (March 2018), Learning Matters Assignment Library at LaGuardia traction. The case of Amazigh/Berber in North co-presented “ Changes and challenges: Designing Community College in New York, NY (November2018), Africa” at Fourth Bi-Annual Language, Society, and for All at LaGuardia and beyond” with Priscilla “Compu- tational Design of Selective Drug Leads to Culture Conference at LaGuardia Community College Stadler, Reisy Litvay-Sardou, Marc Mendez, Jhony Overcome Substance Abuse and Addiction” with (May 2018), co-presented “Innovative Collaborative Nelson, Dusana Podlucka, and Derek Stadler at 9th Nicholas Herrera, Luis Filgueira, and Albert Tadros Pedagogy Across the Disciplines” with Phyllis Van Annunal CUNY Accessibility Conference in New York, presented at LaGuardia Undergraduate Research Day Slyck at Humanities Alliance. Building Teaching and NY (April 2018), “Focus on the silences: De-colonial at LaGuardia Community College (May 2018) and pre- Learning Through Humanities at CUNY Graduate Cen- praxis within public health evaluation ” with Monique sented again at CUNY Research Scholars Program ter, NY (October 2018), “Identity and Space in A. Guishard at the 2018 Society for the Psychological Symposium at John Jay College(July 2018), “Connec- Amazigh/Berber Film Productions: Site of Contesta- Study of Social Issues Conference in Pittsburgh, PA tion Between First Year Seminar and Capstone Learn- tion” at Literature/Film Association in New Orleans (June 2018), “ Developmental evaluation & radical ing Experiences” presented at LaGuardia's #First (November 2018), “Transnational identities in systemic change: Examining the BxCRRB’s Commu- Year Matters: Spring 2018 Expo at LaGuardia Commu- Amazigh/Berber cultural appraisals: Ethnicity prac- nity Engaged Research Academy” with Monique A. nity College (April 2018) and presented again with tices through social media” with Wafa Soubeika Bahri Guishard at the 2018 American Public Health Asso- Reem Jaafar and Habiba Boumlik at LaGuardia's at 23rdAnnual World Convention of the Association ciation Annual Meeting and Expo for the Black Cau- Faculty Research Colloquium at LaGuardia Commu- nity College (April 2018). Anita Baksh delivered two presentations in 2018, “The Pundits Didn’t Tell Us the Truth Hinduism and Queerness in Indo-Caribbean Literature” pre- sented at West Indian Literature Association Confer- ence at University of Miami (October 2018), and “Religion as Informal Education in Elizabeth Jaikaran’s Trauma.” at Caribbean Studies Association Conference in Havana, Cuba (June 2018). Tameka Battle delivered three presentations, “Advancing Professional Development in Therapeutic Recreation: What’s next for the Therapeutic Recre- ation Graduate?” at New York State Therapeutic Recreation Association in Saratoga Springs, New York (April 2018), “Promoting Diversity and Cultural Competence: The Future of ATRA (A Panel Discussion)

6 FACULTY & STAFF NOTES 2019 ISSUE cus of Health Workers Effective Strategies to Improve Carrie Conners delivered five presentations, cation? An Inter-Disciplinary Approach” at Academic Health Outcomes and Promote Health Equity in San “Loved Labors Lost in Appalachia” at Kestrel Sym- Affairs at LaGuardia Community College (September Diego, CA (November 2018), co-presented “ From par- posium at Fairmont State University (September 2018), “Apoptosis Induction by Permethrin and the ticipants to researchers, patients to experts: The Bx- 2018), “Kestrel Poetry Reading” at Kestrel at Fairmont Role of HMGB1on Microglial Dysfunction” at Interna- CRRB’s Community Engaged Research Academy State University (September 2018), “ Writers tional Cell Death Society in South Korea, Seoul (June toolkit ” with Monique A. Guishard, Albert Greene, Resist Poetry Reading ” at Queens Writers Resist at 2018), “Modeling close collaboration among senior Justin Brown, Barbara Hart, Michael Williams, Lucre- Terraza 7, Jackson Heights Queens (June 2018), researchers for undergraduate students” and “Scav- tia Jones, and Philip Arnold at the 2018 New York City “Epiphany Readers Poetry Reading at Epiphany Mag- enger and c-type lectin receptors mediate phagocy- Research and Improvement Networking Group (NYC azine” in , NY (April 2018), and “ Little Patux- tosis of zymosan in LPS and HMGB1 stimulated RING) Convocation of Practices in Tarrytown, NY (De- ent Review Issue 23, Winter 2018 Launch Reading ” microglia” at Metropolitan Association of College cember 2018), co-presented “CUNY Lightning Pitches at Little Patuxent Review in Columbia, Maryland (Jan- and Universities Biologists at Queensborough Com- I panel ” with Timothy Paglione, Gilda Barabino, and uary 2018). munity College, NY (October 2018), “Scavenger and Andrew Mendelson at the 2018 CUNY Research Con- Angela Cornelius presented “ Reconceptualiz- c-type lectin receptors mediate phagocytosis of zy- ference on Diversity & Inclusion, Quantitative Studies ing the Urban Community College Preservice Teach- mosan in LPS and HMGB1 stimulated microglia” at of Diversity and Inclusion in New York, NY (March ers’ Digital Portfolio Experience: Making Connections Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority 2018). Beyond the Classroom” with Caterina Almendral, Students in Indianapolis, Indiana (November 2018), Cristina Bruns presented “Students and Stories Michele De Goeas-malone, and Givanni Ildefonso- “The Role of Dectin-1 Receptor in LPS-Induced Phago- In and Out of Classrooms” at SMDI Conference, Sanchez at International Conference on Urban Edu- cytosis Stimulation In Microglial Cells” at Metropoli- Linköping University and at Svenska Med Didaktisk cation in Nassau Bahamas (November 2018), and tan Association of College and Universities Biologists Inriktning – SMDI in Linköping, Sweden (November “Supplemental Instruction at LaGuardia Community at Queensborough Community College, NY (October 2018). College: 25 years of Service to LaGuardia’s Students” 2018) and at Annual Biomedical Research Confer- Olga Calderon presented “ Bacterial diversity with Reem Jaafar, Andi Toce, Joseph Evering, and ence for Minority Students in Indianapolis, Indiana impacts as a result of combined sewer overflow in a Anastacia Pal at LaGuardia’s Third Innovative Prac- (November 2018), and “Apoptosis induction by pes- polluted waterway ” at LaGuardia Community Col- tices in Developmental Mathematics Conference at ticide permethrin and role of TLR4 and HMGB1on Mi- lege & Newtown Creek Alliance at American Society LaGuardia Community College (March 2018). croglial’s dysfunction” at International Cell Death of Microbiology ASM Microbe 2018 in Atlanta, GA Milena Cuellar delivered three presentations, “ Society in South Korea, Seoul (June 2018). (June 2018). Clubes de Ciencia. Fractales a tu alrededor ” with Reginald Eze presented “ Monte Carlo Simula- Cheri Carr presented “ New Weapons for the Vir- Edith Sanchez at Clubs of Science, Colombia in Bo- tion of the Laser-Induced Temperature Dynamics in tual Societies of Control” at International Deleuze gota (June 2018), co-presented “You Make Lemon- Very Thin Scattering and Absorbing Biological Layer and Guattari Studies at The University of Madras, ade: What Do We Do if our Learning Community Piles” at American Society Mechanical Engineers In- Chennai, India (February2018). Doesn’t Run?” with Shannon Proctor, Leah Richards ternational Mechanical Engineering Congress & Ex- Tuli Chatterji presented three presentations, and Marsha Oropeza at Atlantic Center for Learning position in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (November “Postcolonial Cultural Relevant Pedagogy” at Na- Communities in West Hartford, CT (October 2018), and 2018). tional Council of Teachers of English in Houston, “ Learning Communities: Integrative Learning at La- Xiwu Feng presented “A Cross-Cultural Review Texas (November 2018),“ Culturally Relevant Peda- Guardia ” with Shannon Proctor and Naomi Stubbs of Research Ethics in Social and Behavioral Studies” gogical Practices in First Year Composition Class- at Misericordia University in Dallas, PA (May 2018). at the 24th International Conference of the Interna- room” at Graduate Center, CUNY (September 2018), Thomas Dempsey presented “Playing the tional Association for Intercultural Communication and “Theory to Praxis: The Personal as Political AND Changes ” at Lessonface in New York, NY (January Studies (lAICS) in DePaul University, Chicago (July Undergraduate and Graduate Collaboration Eng- 2018), and “ Baldwin and BeBop ” at CUNY Arts Ini- 2018). lishes and Global Awareness ” at Two Year College tiative in Bayside, NY (October 2018). Andrea Francis presented “The Graduation Plan: English Conference at LaGuardia Community College Lisa DeSpain presented “ A GRACIOUS PLENTY - Advisement Model for a First Year Seminar” with (October 2018). A Musical Theatre Workshop” with Stephen Scarpulla Javier Serna at National Resource Center on the Kai Chun Chuang presented “Teaching in the and Hunter Chancellor at Research Foundation at La- First Year Experience and Students in Transition in Trump Era: Challenging disembodied conversations Guardia Community College, LPAC (November 2018), Indianapolis, Indiana (October 2018). in the classroom within higher education” at Eastern and “ International Women's Voices Day - Reading William Fulton co-presented “The Magic and Communication Association in Pittsburg, PA (April Series ” at Dramatists Guild Foundation at The Music Myth of the MPC: Thirty Years of Hip Hop Beat Makers’ 2018), and co-presented “Aliens in the United States: Hall, Dramatists Guild Foundation, New York, NY (Jan- Primary Instrument” with Patrick Rivers at Society A collaborative autoethnography of foreign-born uary 2018). of American Music 2018 in Kansas City, MO (March faculty” with Joelle Cruz, James McDonald, Kirsten Maureen Drennan presented “Rust Belt of New 2018), and “The MPC at 30: The Magic and Myth of Hip Broadfoot, and Shiv Ganesh at National Communica- York” at Marble Hill Camera Club of New York in Hop’s Beat Machine” with Patrick Rivers at Show & tion Association in Salt Lake City, UT (November Ridgewood, Queens (October 2018). Prove Hip Hop Studies Conference at University of 2018). Monika Ekiert co-presented “The relationship Riverside, CA (December 2018). Thomas Cleary presented “Collection Access between pausing and functional adequacy in oral Jeanne Funk presented “Online Open Educa- Through Data Viualization” at Society of American task performance” with Andrea Révész and Eivind tional Resources for Developmental Math Courses” Archivists in Washington D.C. (August 2018), and “In- Torgersen at American Association for Applied Lin- with Abderrazak Belkharraz Idrissi, Milena Cuellar troduction to Islandora ” with Robin Naughton, Diego guistics in Chicago, IL (March 2018). and Alioune Khoule at Conference on Acceleration Pino, Henry Raine, and Martha Tenney at Queens Col- Dahlia Elsayed presented “Dahlia Elsayed” at in Developmental Education (CADE) in Washington lege, Masters of Library Science Program in Flushing, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD (Novem- D.C (June 2018), and “ONLINE OERS AT LAGUARDIA Queens (November 2018). ber 2018). COMMUNITY COLLEGE ” with Alioune Khoule, Abder- John Collins presented “Deconstructing Aud- Maria Entezari delivered nine presentations, razak Belkharraz Idrissi and Khalid Kassou at Inno- ism: The Movement from Audist to Ally” at LaGuardia “Your neighbourhood, your water: understanding the vative Practices in Developmental Math at LaGuardia Community College Education and Language Acqui- power of scientific knowledge and discovery to bring Community College (March 2018) sition Department in New York, NY (May 2018). about change” and “What is Global Citizenship Edu- 7 LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Kristen Gallagher presented “The Pedagogy of Richa Gupta presented “Division of labor among Elizabeth Jardine delivered two presentations, Modern and Contemporary Poetry,” at University of Mycobacterium smegmatis RNase H enzymes” at Sci- “Everyone’s a Critic: Student and Peer Review for Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA (November 2018), ence Research Conference Machines on Genes by Better OER” with Ian McDermott, Christopher and “Invited Poetry Reading” at The Operating Sys- Federation of American Societies for Experimental McHale, and Elizabeth Arestyl at the University of tem in New York, NY (March 2018). Biology in Snowmass, Colorado (June 2018), and Massachusetts Amherst Libraries in Amherst, MA, Janet Gonzalez co-presented “Molecular Dock- “Mechanisms of DNA Break Repair in Mycobacteria” and “Everyone’s a Critic: Student and Peer Review ing and in Silico Structure-based Design of D-Phe-Pro- at Faculty Research Colloquium of LaGuardia Com- for Better OER” with Ian McDermott and Elizabeth D-Arg-derived Direct Thrombin Inhibitors” with munity College, CUNY in Long Island City, NY (April Arestyl at the Open Education Conference in Cristina Clement, M. A. Kamal, and M Philipp at 13th 2018). Falls, NY (October 2018). Annual Peptide Therapeutics Symposium The Salk In- Natalie Havlin presented “Beauty as Liberation: Jacqueline Jones presented two presentations, stitute in La Jolla CA (October 2018), co-presented the Work of Sins Invalid” and “Academic Publishing “For the Love of the Farm: Romance and Locale in “Proteomics profiling of thrombin activated platelets in Women’s Studies” at National Women’s Studies As- TV’s Queen Sugar” at the 7th International Associa- highlights the down regulation of the integrin, actin sociation in Atlanta, Georgia (November 2018), and tion for the Study of Popular Romance ‘Think Glob- RhoA and ILK signaling pathways in response to the “How to Publish in Academic Journals” at American ally, Love Locally’ in Sydney, Australia (June 2018), treatment with thrombin inhibitors” with C Clement, Studies Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate “Teaching Literature at LaGuardia: Theory and A Babinska, E. L. V. Ewul, M. Dzieciatkowska, and M College in New York, NY (April 2018). Praxis” with Gordon Tapper for the Community Col- Philipp at 5. 13th Annual Peptide Therapeutics Sym- Ana Maria Hernandez presented “'Utopia' by lege and the Future of the Humanities in New York, posium The Salk Institute in La Jolla CA (October Arturo Infante: Between Ariel and Caliban” at La- NY, October 2018 and led a workshop titled “Connect- 2018), presented “A Pharmacoproteomic platform Guardia Community College Latinx Committee at ing Doctoral Education and Community College highlights the dabigatran induced downregulation of LaGuadia Community College (April 2018), and Teaching” for the Modern Language Association in integrin triggered signal and inhibition of aggrega- “Teaching Translation for Professional Purposes at New York, NY (January 2018). tion in thrombin activated human platelets” with A. LaGuardia Community College” at Center for Inte- Abdelhamid Kadik presented “Improving Babinska, E. L. V. Ewul, M. Dzieciatkowska, E. Timpo, grated Language Communities at CUNY Graduate AVHRR-Based NDVI Data using a Statistical Technique M. Salifu, and C.C. Clement at 256th American Chem- Center (May 2018). for Global Climate Studies” at the SPIE Defense + ical Society National Meeting and Exposition in Tomoaki Imamichi presented “How can Environ- Commercial Sensing 2018 (April 2018). Boston MA (August 2018), and presented “Discovery mental Psychology be more environmental?” with Jayashree Kamble delivered two presentations, of linear and cyclic tetrapeptides inhibitors of Y-49 Jennifer Adler at the International Association of Ap- “The Making of a Community College Major” for the β-lactamase by structured based drug design (SBDD) plied Psychology in Montreal, Canada (June 2018). Two Year College Association--North East in New and molecular docking platforms empowered by MOE, Rochell Isaac presented “Edwidge Danticat York, NY (October 2018) and “One of the Guys? Eve AutoDock Vina and StarDrop-ADMET (Optibrium) mod- Writes Back: Borders and Displacement in Edwidge Dallas as a Masculine Worker Heroine in J.D. Robb’s ule” with C.C. Clement at 7. 256th American Chemical Danticat’s Breathe Eyes Memory and The Farming of in Death Series” for the International Association for Society National Meeting and Exposition in Boston MA the Bones” at The American Literature Association the Study of Popular Romance in Sydney, Australia (August 2018). (ALA) in San Francisco, CA, May, 2018 and delivered (June 2018). Belkis Gonzalez presented “The Unstable Bridge: a talk titled “Black Panther: Race, Sci-Fi and Visions Robin Kietlinski delivered five presentations, Unruly Filmic Representations of Undocumented Im- of Afrofuturism” at the Black Lives Matter Summit at “Learning for a Connected World: Curricular Re- migrants” at College English Association in St. Peters- LaGuardia Community College (May 2018). design in International Studies” with Habiba Boumlik burg, FL (April 2018), and “Making and Unmaking the Reem Jaafar two presentations, “Using Supple- at at LaGuardia Community College’s Center for Undocumented Immigrant Family” at Latina/o Studies mental Instruction to Improve Student Success in Teaching and Learning (January 2018), “‘Hope Lights Association in Washington, D.C (July 2018). Math Courses” for the New York State Mathematics our Way:’ The Olympic Games and Tokyo’s Fragile En- Thierry Gourjon co-presented “People, Planet Association of Two-Year Colleges in Glens Falls, NY vironment” at the Rochester Institute of Technology Politics: Artist Talk and Panel Discussion” with (April 2018), and “Improving Students’ Outcome with in Rochester, NY (September 2018), “Reclaiming Land: Michael Pinciotti and Luis Alvarez at Delaware Valley Supplemental Instruction” at Purdue University in The Olympic Games and Japan’s Changing Environ- Arts Alliance in Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Nar- Indianapolis, IN (October 2018). ment” for the Association for Asian Studies in Wash- rowsburg, New York (March 2018). ington, DC (March 2018), “Transforming the Nation: 8 FACULTY & STAFF NOTES 2019 ISSUE

A Critique of the Olympic Games in 21st-Century Bede McCormack delivered two presentations, American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cam- Japan” at the American Historical Association in “The Impact of L2 Teacher Feedback Approach on bridge, MA (December 2018), “Show Me the Money: Washington, DC (January 2018) and “The History of Student Writing” for the International Association of Is Lowering the Cost of Post-Secondary Education US Women in the Paralympics” for the Nippon Foun- Teachers of English as a Foreign Language in and Economic Imperative” for Arizona State Univer- dation in Tokyo, Japan (May 2018) and presented the Brighton, England (April 2018) and “Profiles and Per- sity & Global Silicon Valley in San Diego, CA (April “Trash Islands: The Olympic Games and Land Recla- spectives of Clinical Supervisors in Teacher Educa- 2018), “Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses mation in Tokyo Bay” at Shanghai University in tion” for the CUNY Library Assessment Committee Alumni Summit: A Conversation with Lloyd Blankfein” Shanghai, China (October 2018). at John Jay College (April 2018). for the Goldman Sachs Foundation in Washington, DC Regina Lehman delivered three presentations, Ian McDermott delivered three presentations, (February 2018) and presented the “The Future of “Deepening the Loop: The Role of ePortfolio in Build- “Student Voices on College Textbooks” with Steven Work and its Implications for Higher Education and ing 21st Century Student Learning Outcomes” with Ovadia, Christopher McHale, and Sukhrob Ab- Workforce Development Policy” for the Congres- Justin Rogers-Cooper at Purdue University in Indi- dushukurov at the CUNY Information Technology sional Staff Network on Workforce and Economic Se- anapolis, IN (October 2018), “Exploring Global Chal- Conference at John Jay College (November 2018), curity in Washington, DC (March 2018). lenges Across Interdisciplinary Boundaries” with Ece “Everyone’s a Critic: Student and Peer Review for Neil Meyer delivered three presentations, “Ca- Aykol for the Association of American Colleges and Better OER” with Elizabeth Jardine, Christopher reer Opportunities in Community Colleges” for the Universities in Seattle, WA (October 2018) and “Take McHale, and Elizabeth Arestyl at the University of Modern Language Association in New York, NY (Jan- the Stage: The Use of Applied Theater to Enhance Massachusetts Amherst Libraries in Amherst, MA and uary 2018), “Vanishing Developmental Writing and Support the Education of Occupational Therapy “Everyone’s a Critic: Student and Peer Review for Courses and the Future of Developmental Writing at Practitioners - A Pilot Study” with David Melchionne- Better OER” with Elizabeth Jardine and Elizabeth CUNY” for LaGuardia Community College’s English Martinez at the New York State Occupational Therapy Arestyl at the Open Education Conference in Niagara Department (April 2018) and “Towards a Shared Vi- Association in Palisades, NY (October 2018). Falls, NY (October 2018). sion: Growing a Writing Program” for the Two-Year Irwin Leopando presented “Promoting Integra- Christopher McHale delivered three presenta- College English Association in New York, NY (October tive Learning in Comp 101” for the Mina Shaughnessy tions, “Student Voices on College Textbooks” with 2018). Speaker Series, LaGuardia Academic Affairs, La- Steven Ovadia, Ian McDermott, and Sukhrob Ab- Janet Michello presented “Applying Quantita- Guardia English Department at LaGuardia Community dushukurov at the CUNY Information Technology tive Reasoning in Introductory Sociology Courses” College (April 2018), the speech “Opening Remarks Conference at John Jay College (November 2018), at the Numeracy Infusion for College Educators for Critical Pedagogies @ CUNY Conference” for the “Everyone’s a Critic: Student and Peer Review for (NICE) Conference at Hostos Community College Mina Shaughnessy Speaker Series, LaGuardia Aca- Better OER” with Elizabeth Jardine, Ian McDermott, (June 2018). demic Affairs, LaGuardia Community College’s English and Elizabeth Arestyl at the University of Massachu- Dionne Miller presented “Active Learning in Hy- Department (April 2018) and delivered the “A Peda- setts Amherst Libraries in Amherst, MA and “Assess- brid-Online General Chemistry” for the Division of gogy of Faith: The Theological Vision of Paulo Freire ment for an Ongoing Collaborative Weeding Project” Chemical Education of the American Chemical Soci- (book talk)” at the University of South Carolina - for CUNY Library Assessment Committee at John Jay ety at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, School of Education in Columbia, SC (October 2018). College (April 2018). IN (July 2018). Sue Livingston presented “Grammar for the Lucy McNair delivered six presentations, “La- Michele Mills delivered two presentations, “Be- English Language Classroom” for the International Guardia Learning Community: Communication in a yond the Classroom: A Community-Based Advocacy Linguistics Association in Queens, NY (April 2018). Global Age” with Leigh Garrison-Fletcher and Poppy Project Leads to the Development of Professional Malgorzata Marciniak delivered four presenta- Slocum at the Tristate Best Practices Conference in Identity, Leadership, and Health Literacy” with tions, “Creative Approach in Teaching Highly Moti- Bergen, NJ (March 2018), “Bridging Theory and Prac- Regina Lehman and Drew Elmore at the New York vated and Success-Oriented Engineering Students” tice in a Multilingual Classroom” with Tara Coleman State Occupational Therapy Association Annual Con- at LaGuardia Community College (March 2018), “Ef- and Tuli Chatterji at the Critical Pedagogies Confer- ference 2018) in Palisades, NY (November 2018) and ficiency of Geometrical Designs in Engineering and ence at LaGuardia Community College (April 2018), “Enculturation into a Profession - Promoting Cultural Biology” for the American Association of America in “Translanguaging in the Comp Classroom” with Tara Competence, Leadership, and Professional Identity San Diego, CA (January 2018), “Creativity Panel” at Coleman and Tuli Chatterji at the ELA Language in an OTA Program” with Regina Lehman at the Hostos Community College (May 2018) and “Writing Symposium at LaGuardia Community College (May American Occupational Therapy Association Educa- OIntensive Upper Level Math Courses for Engineers 2018), “Amazigh-Berber Cinema as Window onto the tion Summit Louisville, KY (October 2018). and Computer Scientists” for the Mathematical As- Past and Future: Lunch-time Showing and Discus- Howard Motoike presented “Clay Modeling as a sociation of America in Denver, CO (August 2018). sion” with Habiba Boumlik for the Fields of Conflict Method to Facilitate the Learning of the Brachial Salih Mansur presented “Classroom Context, Conference at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum Plexus to Community College Human Anatomy and Technology, Motivation and External Influences” with and Research Center (September 2018), “From Class Physiology Students” with Dennis Aguirre, Brian Zukuyeh Brown, Kasandra Delgado, Helen Grech, to Campus Theater and Back: Integrating Classroom Kendall, Michael Olynciw, Vidhya Rojanavongse, Tanami Maeda, Bianca Thomas, and Joyce Valerio at and Co-curricular Global Learning” for the Sympo- Randy Saad, Jhonny Ordonez and Cecilia Ortiz for Hunter College’s 46th Annual Psychology Convention sium on Gloablaizing Pedagogy at Worcester State the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society in (April 2018). University in Worcester, MA (October 2018), “Integrat- Columbus, OH (May 2018) and presented the “The Christine Marks presented “Teaching Composi- ing Disciplines through Class Video Projects” with American Museum of Natural History as a Conduit to tion in Learning Communities: Towards Integrated Leigh Garrison-Fletcher and Poppy Slocum for the Bring Alive the Concepts and Theories in Vertebrate Writing Practices” with Naomi Stubbs and Rochell Atlantic Center for Learning Communities Curricu- Evolution (SCB-165)” with David Kizirian for La- Isaac for LaGuardia Community College (April 2018). lum Planning Retreat in West Hartford, CT (October Guardia Community College’s Opening Sessions (Sep- Ann Matsuuchi presented “Documenting Police 2018) and delivered the “Collaborations in Grad tember 2018). Brutality in New York City in the La Guardia & Wagner School and Beyond” with Jill Jarvis and Brahim El Tomonori Nagano delivered three presenta- Archives Wikipedia Project” for the Consumer Re- Guabli for the Comparative Literature Department at tions, “Phonological Advantages of Heritage Learn- ports and La Guardia and Wagner Archives in Colum- Princeton University in Princeton, NJ (May 2018). ers of Japanese” with Mieko Sperbeck for the bus, OH (October 2018) and presented the “Making Gail O. Mellow delivered three presentations, National Heritage Language Resource Center at Wikipedia Queer” at WNYC in Austin, TX (March 2018). “Strengthening Undergraduate Teaching” for the UCLA (February 2018), “Return/Graduation Success 9 LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE of Students Taking the Heritage Language Course” for the Center for Integrated Language Communities at the Graduate Center (May 2018) and “Phonological Advantages of Heritage Learners of Japanese” with Mieko Sperbeck for the Princeton Japanese Peda- gogy Forum at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ (May 2018). Emmanuel Nartey presented “Neuroscience, Consciousness and Religious Belief” for the Science and Religion Forum at Bishop Grossteste University in Lincoln, England (August 2018). Marina Nechayeva presented “Wind Speed Data Analysis at Laguardia Airport” with Vladimir Przhebelskiy, Malgorzata Marciniak, and Sanjib Lamichhane for the Mathematical Association of America at Hofstra University in Uniondale, NY (May 2018) and delivered the “Optimization of a Wind Tur- bine using Genetic Algorithm” with Malgorzata Marciniak, Shou Oikawa, and Andrei Dragutan for the Mathematical Association of America at Hofstra Uni- versity in Uniondale, NY (May 2018). Cecilia Ortiz co-presented “ Clay Modeling as a Method to Facilitate the Learning of the Brachial Plexus to Community College Human Anatomy and School of the Arts at New York University in New John Shean led a workshop titled “Teaching the Physiology Students ” with Howard Motoike, Dennis York, NY (May 2018) and “Unpacking the Black Pan- Saints: Using Early Martyr Accounts in the Class- Aguirre, Brian Kendall, Michael Olynciw, Vidhya Ro- ther” at the Black Lives Matter Summit 2018) at La- room” for the Friends of the Saints at the Graduate janavongse, Randy Saad, and Jhonny Ordonez at Guardia Community College (May 2018). Center (April 2018). Human Anatomy and Physiology Society in Colum- Sonia Rodriguez delivered three presentations, Allyson Sheffield presented “Connecting Stellar bus, Ohio (May 2018). “Reyna” for the NYC Latina Writers’ Group in the Substructures to the Oscillating Disk: Monoceros and Shannon Proctor delivered two presentations, Bronx, NY, “Crooked Smile” for Writing Our Lives at A13” for the American Astronomical Society in Wash- “Disordered Time: A Phenomenological Approach to the Word Up Community Bookstore (December 2018) ington, DC (January 2018). Addiction Treatment” for the North American Society and “Coyolxauhqui’s Daughters: Healing and Story- Poppy Slocum led two workshops, “Hands-on for Social Philosophy in Oakland, MI (July 2018) and telling in Latinx Young Adult Novels” for the Chil- with Digital Communication” with Jaime Riccio and “Visions of Justice: International Prisoners’ Rights” dren’s Literature Association in San Antonio, TX Patricia Sokolski at the Drexel University Annual for Phi Theta Kappa in White Plains, NY (October (June 2018). Conference on Teaching and Learning in Philidelphia, 2018), and led three workshops, “You Make Lemon- Maria Savva presented “Teaching Culturally and PA (September 2018) and “Integrating Disciplines ade: What Do We Do If Our Learning Community Does- Linguistically Diverse Learners through Cross Cul- through Class Video Projects” with Leigh Garrison- n’t Run?” with Milena Cuellar, Marsha Oropeza, and tural Experiences” at the New York State Teachers Fletcher, and Lucy McNair at the Atlantic Center for Leah Richards for the Atlantic Center for Learning of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Learning Communities Curriculum Planning Retreat Communities in West Hartford, CT (October 2018), Applied Linguistics Winter Conference at Columbia in West Hartford, CT (October 2018). “Rethinking the University Landscape for Faculty, University in New York, NY (April 2018). Derek Stadler delivered two presentations, “Re- Graduate Students and Undergraduates” with Leah Joan Schwartz presented “Revisioning Adult framing Failure: Post-Mortems for Library Projects” Richards for NeMLA in Pittsburgh, PA (March 2018), Higher Education: Reintegrating Formerly Incarcer- with Danielle Apfelbaum for ACRL New England in “Core Learning Communities” with Milena Cuellar ated Citizens” with John Chaney for SUNY Empire Plymouth, MA (May 2018) and “Developing an OER and Naomi Stubbs for Misericordia University in Dal- State College in an Online Webinar (June 2018). Readiness Scale” at the 15th Annual Open Education las, PA (May 2018). Charity Scribner delivered two presentations, Conference in Niagara Falls, NY (October 2018), and Zahidur Rahman presented “Improving AVHRR- “Another Berliner Kindheit: Reflections on Education led a workshop titled “Open Educational Resources Based NDVI Data using a Statistical Technique for and Authority, 1968-2018” for the Center for Euro- Workshops” with Ian McDermott, Silvia Lin Hanick, Global Climate Studies” for SPIE Defense + Commer- pean Studies at Harvard University in Boston, MA Thomas Cleary, and Dianne Gordon Conyers for the cial Sensing at Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention (October 2018) and “Moderator, Mechanisms of See- LaGuardia Community College Library at LaGuardia Center in Orlando, FL (April 2018). ing” for the PhD Program in Comparative Literature Community College (April 2018). Jaime Riccio led a workshop titled “Hands On at Graduate Center (May 2018). Naomi Stubbs delivered three presentations, with Digital 2.0” with Poppy Slocum and Patricia Kinnari Shah delivered two presentations, “In- “Constructing the Digital Archive through Student- Sokolski at the Drexel University Academic Assess- fluence of Very Low Electrical Frequency on Particles Faculty Collaboration” for the University of Michigan ment Conference in Philadelphia, PA (September in Freely Suspended Single Floating Droplet” Nugge- in Ann Arbor, MI (November 2018), “Teaching Compo- 2018). halli Ravindra for the Minerals, Metals and Materials sition in Learning Communities: Towards Integrated James Richardson delivered three talks, “The Society Annual Meeting -2018 ( TMS 2018) in Phoenix, Writing Practices” for Critical Pedagogies at CUNY: Role of VR and 360 Content in Technology Disci- AZ (March 2018) and “Enhancing the Student Learn- Learning Through Writing in New York, NY (April 2018) plines” with Jeremy Couillard, Sarada Rauch, Jeffrey ing Experience through Research in Aerodynamics” and “LaGuardia Community College Capstone Model” Prince, and Arron Sylvan for the LaGuardia Commu- with Andreina De La Cruz for the Mid- Atlantic 2018 for Misericordia University in Dallas, PA (May 2018), nity College’s New Media at John Jay College (No- Fall meeting-American society of Engineering Edu- and led a workshop titled “Core Learning Communi- vember 2018), “ITP Thesis Project Review” for the cation at Brooklyn Technical High School in Brooklyn, ties” with Milena Cuellar and Shannon Proctor at for NYU Interactive Telecommunication Program - Tisch NY. Misericordia University in Dallas, PA (May 2018).

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Kyoko Toyama delivered four presentations, “Culturally competent psychological assessment and Fellowships, Awards and Grants interventions with Asian Clients in the U.S.” with Masako Mori, Lisa Suzuki, and Helen Hsu for the American Psychological Association in San Francisco, Allia Abdullah-Matta received a poetry awards a screenplay contest from Final Draft: A Cast and CA (August 2018), “Culturally Competent Interven- from the City College MFA Program. Crew Company. tions with Diverse Couples and Families” with Amit Aggarwal received a PSC CUNY Grant for Jayashree Kamble received two awards: for Shalonda Kelly, Ndia Ansary, and Masako Mori for the Cycle 49 from PSC-CUNY. travel from the International Association for the American Psychological Association in San Francisco, Ian Alberts received four awards: CUNY Re- Study of Popular Romance and for research/schol- CA (August 2018), “Community College to Graduate search Scholars Program from CUNY, (with Holly arly work at LaGuardia Community College. School: Resilient Mother’s Path to Success” with Ay- Porter-Morgan and Charles Keller) CUNY Research Irwin Leopando received a grant from the Edu- segul Yacel for the American Psychological Associ- in the Classroom from CUNY, National Energy Re- cational Development Initiative Team, LaGuardia ation in San Francisco, CA (August 2018) and search Scientific Computing Center Award for Super- Community College. “Integrating Telecollaborative Activities into Lan- computer Resources from National Energy Research Malgorzata Marciniak received three awards: a guage Courses” with Olga Aksakalova, Valeria Bel- Scientific Computing Center, Department of Energy grant from PSC-CUNY, a Community College Research monti, and Aranzazu Borrachero for the Center for and a PSC-CUNY Research Award from PSC-CUNY. Grant from the CUNY Research Foundation and a Integrated Language Communities in CUNY at the Tameka Battle received a New York Therapeutic grant from the CUNY Research Scholars Program. Graduate Center (May 2018). Recreation Association’s Distinguished Fellow Award Christopher McHale (with Steven Ovadia) re- Dana Trusso presented “Going All In: Failure in from New York State Therapeutic Recreation Asso- ceived a grant from New York State. Plato’s Dialogues” for Maison Gai Saber in Leigné- ciation. Lucy McNair received a college coordinator role sur-Usseau, France (July 2018). Habiba Boumlik received three awards: for pro- at Student Literary Magazine from American Phyllis Van Slyck delivered three presentations, fessional development from Israel Institute, for cur- Scholastic Press Association. “From June to Geraldine: Dismembered, Violated, riculum development from CUNY and a grant from Marina Nechayeva received two awards: (with and Transcendent Bodies in Louise Erdrich’s Love PSC-CUNY. Malgorzata Marciniak and Vladimir Przhebelskiy) a Medicine and The Roundhouse” for the Society for Olga Calderon received a pedagogy award from Mentore Student Research grant from New York City the Study of American Women Writers in Denver, CO National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT). Mayor’s Office and a grant from the CUNY Research (November 2018), “Empowering Dialogues Across Tao Chen received an Internal Grant from PSC- Foundation. Borders: COIL Pedagogies in Writing Courses at La- CUNY. Shannon Proctor received (with Naomi Stubbs) Guardia Community College” with Olga Aksakalova Kai Chun Chuang received an award from the a grant from the National Endowment for the Hu- for the Two-Year College Association at LaGuardia National Communication Association. manities/Humanities Initiatives. Community College (October 2018) and “The Making Carrie Conners received a Pushcart Prize Nom- Maria Savva received two awards: a fellowship of a Community College Major: LaGuardia’s Writing ination from Kestrel. from CUNY and a fellowship from CUNY Office of the and Literature Program” with Jayashree Kamble for Chelsea Del Rio received a Dissertation Award Dean for Recruitment and Diversity. the Two-Year College Association at LaGuardia Com- from the Organization of American Historians. Charity Scribner received a TRAD-B from PSC- munity College (October 2018). Lisa DeSpain received three awards: Award/ CUNY. Liena Vayzman presented “Hierve El Agua (The Grant - OPERA America from the OPERA America/Vir- John Shean received a grant from PSC-CUNY. Water Boils)” at the Rieti e Sabina Film Festival in ginia B. Toulmin Foundation, a commission from The Sunaina Singh received two research awards Rieti, Sabina, Italy (September 2018). Barlow Endowment and a commission from the Utah from CUNY. Shaunee Wallace presented “SEEESTER TALK: Opera. Benjamin Taylor received a CUNY IT Award. Being Smart, Funny & Black While Seeing Some World Maureen Drennan received an artist residency Boris Zakharov received a research award from & Praying, An analysis of Safe Spaces for Black from the Foundation Obras Portugal. PSC-CUNY. Women On Social Media” at the Social Media Tech- Maria Entezari received three awards: for travel nology Conference 2018 at Howard University (Octo- from Academic Affairs and the Natural Science De- ber 2018). partment, for travel from Academic Affairs, and a Jennifer Wynn presented “Closing Rikers Island: grant from CUNY. Now What?” for St. Joseph’s College Law and Justice Kristen Gallagher received a writing award from Society at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, NY (April Best American Experimental Writing. 2018). Richa Gupta received a Conference Travel Grant Yun Ye presented “Applying Computer Science from the Educational Development Initiative Team in Biology: A Model for Incorporating Interdiscipli- of LaGuardia Community College. nary Pedagogical Approaches through ePortfolio in Ahmed Hassebo received a Best Paper Award the First Year Experience at Community College” for from IEEE UEMCON 2018 at Columbia University. Long Island University in Baltimore, MD (March 2018). Natalie Havlin received an Academic Affairs Re- Dominique Zino delivered two presentations, search/Scholarly Work Award from LaGuardia Com- “Writing Communities of Practice at a 2-Year College: munity College. Crafting an Institutional Ethnography” for the Col- Joyce Rheuban received five awards: for a lege Conference on Composition and Communication screenwriting contest from the Academy of Motion in Kansas City, MO (March 2018) and “Becoming Writ- Picture Arts and Sciences, for a screenwriting con- ers: Conversations with Faculty and Students about test from Page International Screenwriting Awards, ALP” with J Elizabeth Clark, Olga Aksakalova, Evelyn for a screenwriting contest from Scriptapalooza Burg, and Joy Sanchez-Taylor at the CUNY-wide Screenplay Competition, for a screenplay contest Composition Conference at LaGuardia Community from Story Pros Awards Screenplay Contest and for College (April 2018). 11 LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE Appointed or Elected Offices

Leslie Aarons was nominated and appointed to serve a three year term as a Member of the Com- mittee on Public Philosophy of the American Philo- sophical Association (APA). Tameka Battle was appointed Chair of Diversity Committee of the American Therapeutic Recreation Association, September 2018. Dahlia Elsayed was elected as the first commu- nity college faculty to the Board of the College Art Association, March 2018. Tomonori Nagano was elected as a Board Mem- ber for Japanese Heritage Language SIG, the Amer- ican Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ), September 2018; elected as a Board Member to the Executive Committee for Association of Depart- ments of Foreign Languages at MLA, November 2018. Anthony Pappas was elected to serve as Lt. Governor of the Queens West Division of the New Consulting and Reviewing Activities York District of Kiwanis International, October 2018. Yun Ye was elected Chair of IEEE Communica- Richard Brown reviewed the following on his Malgorzata Marciniak reviewed the following: tions Society New York Chapter, 2018. personal blog: “Fanselow and Pennington on LeDoux the article “Women and mathematics: a course and and Colleagues” https://onemorebrown.com/2018/01/ a scholarly investigation” in BSHM Biulletine (Janu- 27/fanselow-and-pennington-on-ledoux-and-col- ary 2018); a book “Numbers: their tales, types, and leagues/ (January 20180); “Gottlieb and Daloisio- treasures (August 2018); two textbooks “Introduction montilla on Brown on Phenomenological Overflow” to Trigonometry” by Terence Brenner and Daniel https://one morebrown.com/2018/03/11/gottlieb-and- Maysone (June 2018); and “Review of Intermediate Degrees daloisio-montilla-on-brown-on-phenomenological- Algebra and Introduction to Trigonometry” by Ter- overflow/ (March 20180; “Prefrontal Cortex, ence Brenner and Dae Hong (June 2018). Consciousness and...the Central Sulcus?” https:// Maria Savva served as Editorial Board Member Clarence Chan was certified as an Edema Spe- onemorebrown.com/2018/05/11/prefrontal-cortex- of Educate: The Journal of Doctoral Research in Ed- cialist by the Oncology Section of American Physical consciousness-and-the-central-sulcus/ (May 2018); ucation, UCL, Institute of Education, London. Therapy Association. “Consciousness Instinct by Michael Gazzaniga” Naomi Stubbs served as co-Editor (with James Maria Entezari earned a Certificate in Course- https://onemorebrown. com/2018/06/19/review-of- Wilson) of the Journal of American Drama and The- Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) the-consciousness-instinct-by-michael-gazzaniga/ atre, 2018; and as a reviewer for Winterthur Portfolio, from Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY. (June 2018); “Consciousness, Higher-Order Theories https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.10 Ahmed Hassebo earned a PhD in Electrical En- of” https://onemorebrown. com/2018/11/17/conscious- 86/700093 (September 2018). gineering/Wireless Communication and IoT from City ness-higher-order-theories-of/ (November 2018); Benjamin Taylor served as a reviewer for Na- College, The City University of New York. “Gennaro on Higher-Order Theories of Conscious- ture: Scientific Reports (October 2018); was ap- Robert Jaffe earned a Master of Public Health ness” https://onemorebrown. com/2018/12/30/gen- pointed as a research grant referee by the Research in Health Policy and Management from the School naro-on-higher-order-theories/ (December 2018). Grants Council of Hong Kong, China for 2018. of Public Health, The City University of New York. Carrie Conners served as a poetry reader for Jennifer Wynn was appointed as a mitigation the literary journal Epiphany. specialist in two cases: the capital case of the Com- Milena Cuellar was part of a LaGuardia Commu- monwealth of PA v. Justin Richard (January 2018); nity College faculty group invited to provide profes- and in United States of America v. Kathy Scott, South- sional development for faculty at Misericordia ern District of New York (July 2018); appointed as an University developing Learning Communities around expert witness prison adjustment and resentencing their new core (May 2018). in two cases: of Carl Kirsky, a teenager sentenced to Xiwu Feng was appointed as External Reviewer life in prison without parole for second degree mur- for SCOLAR’s Research and Development Projects of der in Pennsylvania (September 2018); and of Rodney the Standing Committee on Language Education and Derrickson, a Pennsylvania man sentenced to life in Research of Hong Kong (February 2018); invited as prison without parole at age 16 for murder (October Faculty Fellowship Adviser by the College of Foreign 2018). Languages, Hunan University of Science and Tech- nology, Hunan, China (February 2018); appointed as a research grant referee by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, China (March 2018).

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Ari Richter performed two sets of karaoke-in- Sarada Rauch performed karaoke duets “In the Jessica Boehman exhibited in a curated art spired art and video series “Arioke” at GASP! Per- realm of a dying star karaokw” from her music video show “The Twelve Brothers” Celebrating 150 Years of formance Festival at The Tampa Museum of Art, album at Auxiliary Projects, Brooklyn, NY (October the Fine Arts at McDaniel College, Westminster, MD Tampa, FL (March 2018); curated an art, comedy and 2018). (January 2018). music performance “Into the Weeds” at the Amos Joan Schwartz executive produced the docu- Jeremy Couillard premiered a new virtual real- Eno Gallery in Brooklyn (June 2018). mentary “Counterstory: After Incarceration” (April ity work “Founders of Daytona Beach Also Founded Habiba Boumlik co-curated “New York Forum of 2018). Dayton Ohio 2018” at the Zabludowicz Collection, Amazigh Film” LaGuardia Community College, La- Stefanie Sertich co-created and performed a London (August 2018). Guardia Performing Arts Center (April 2018). new musical “Columbus is Happening” at LaGuardia Maureen Drennan’s photographs were exhibited Jeremy Couillard created a video animation Performing Arts Center, Long Island City, May 2018; in five curated art shows: six photographs “Meet Me “You Can Have Any Color You Want As Long As It’s line produced and co-directed “Columbus is Happen- in the Green Glen” were part of a group exhibit the Sky Goddess Nwt” for billboard in Detroit, MI ing” score recording at Trout Recording, Brooklyn, ‘Dutch Masters’ at Mrs. Gallery (April 2018); “Typical (July 2018). NY (June 2018). America” was part of a group show “Typical America Thomas Dempsey had nine performances: with David Stott directed “Traffic Stop” a series of at the Field Projects Gallery” New York (May 2018); the “Rondi Charleston Group” at the annual Associ- Public Service Announcements on Police/Community her portrait “Shannan” was exhibited at the “Amer- ation of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) Con- Relations for Americorps” at Drew University, Madi- ican Portraiture Today” at the Ackland Museum of ference (January 2018); with the Tom Dempsey/Tim son, New Jersey (April 2018); directed, produced and Art, University of North Carolina (June 2018); “Sea Ferguson Quartet at Smalls Jazz Club, New York (Feb- animated two human rights videos: “Protect, Respect Wall” was part of a group photography exhibit at the ruary and September 2018); three times with the Tom and Remedy: the United Nations Guiding Principles East Village, New York (August 2018).; and 10 photo- Dempsey Trio: at the Bar Next Door (February and on Business & Human Rights” for the United Nations, graphic portraits “Portraits of Trans, Gay, and Inter- August 2018); and at the Charter Oaks Cultural Cen- Shift Project Ltd., New York, (July 2018); and “Report- sex Activists” made in collaboration with CUNY Law ter, Hartford, CT (July 2018); at the Faculty Sampler ing on the United Nations Guiding Principles” funded School were exhibited at the CUNY Law School (No- Concert, LaGuardia Community College (March and by the United Kingdom’s Department for Interna- vember 2018). September 2018). tional Development (DFID) (August 2018); directed Dahlia Elsayed exhibited three paintings: in a Rosemary DeNatale sang “The Mile-Long Opera: and produced “What is CPR?” a video commissioned curated art show “Conjuring, Willing, Napping” at the a biography of 7 o’clock” with The Jackson Heights by International Institute for Conflict Prevention & New York Transit Museum (October 2018); a large Chorus on the High Line (October 2018). Resolution premiered at the American Museum of scale wall painting commissioned by Memorial Sloan Lisa DeSpain was a featured composer at the Natural History, NY (November 2018). Kettering is on display in the lobby of their new fa- “International Women’s Day - Women’s Voices Read- Kyoko Toyama had two performances with the cility; “Mother Tongue Mondays” was included in the ing” the Dramatists Guild Foundation, New York New York Taiko Aiko Kai (NYTAK)/Teachers College curated exhibition “Oh What a World” at the Visual (January 2018); compositions “Toccata for Jazz Taiko Association: at the “Cherry Blossom Festival’ Arts Center of NJ (May 2018). Piano” premiered at the Mormon Arts Festival, in Washington, DC (April 2018); and at the “New York Hugo Fernandez exhibited digital photographic Carnegie Hall/Zankel Hall, June 2018; arranged three Fall Taiko Festival” Columbia University, NY (Novem- prints on canvas “Hemingway House Panoramas” in choral compositions on the Alfred Music label, Van ber 2018). a curated art show at the Gallery 30568 Jay Street Nuys, CA: “You’ll Be Back” from HAMILTON (February Liena Vayzman’s experimental documentary #305 Brooklyn, New York (August 2018). 2018); “Crossing a Bridge from ANASTASIA” (April film “Hierve El Agua (The Water Boils)” had two Thierry Gourjon exhibited a digital pigment 2018); and “Wonderful Life from the film SMALLFOOT” screenings: it premiered in the USA at the Boulevard print in two curated art shows: “PIA 17152 10584 (August 2018); arranged two choral compositions for Film Festival, Thalia Theater, Queens, NY (July 2018); 19649” at the Alliance Gallery, Delaware Valley Arts Shawnee Press, Milwaukee, WI: “Cut to the Feeling” and at the Rieti e Sabina Film Festival, Italy (Septem- Alliance (DVAA), Narrowsburg, NY (January 2018); and March 2018; and “Christmas, Baby Please Come ber 2018). “Night Drive - Invention in F by J. S. Bach” at the Dig- Home” April 2018; compositions featured at “NOTE- ital Arts Gallery, Myrtle Hall, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, WORTHY: A Night Celebrating Women Songwriters” New York (September 2018); and photographs “The at SHE Arts, New York (April 2018); recorded compo- Lavender Line: Coming Out in Queens” in the Hall of sition “The Unknown Galaxy; Toccata for Jazz Piano” Flags, Shenker Hall, LaGuardia Community College on Tantara Record Label, Provo, Utah (September (March 2018). 2018). Sarada Rauch had a solo exhibition “In the William Fulton master engineered “Prodigy, Realm of a Dying Star’ at the Auxiliary Projects, New “Keep It Thoro” a 12” Picture Disc, at Sony Music En- York City (September 2018). tertainment, NY (April 2018); and “Hierve El Agua” Ari Richter exhibited two skin drawings at a cu- (The Water Boils) at the BLVD Film Festival, Thalia rated art show: “Star Wars Scrolla” in the “Media Cir- Theater, Queens, New York (July 2018). cus” exhibition at the Trio Contemporary Gallery, Malgorzata Marciniak performed “Dragonboat Athens, GA (April 2018); and “RBG Tattoo II’ at the Performance: Luohan Form Part 1” at the New York “Notorious RBG” exhibition, Skirball Cultural Center, Shaolin Temple Kung Fu Center, Flushing, NY (August Los Angeles, CA (July 2018). 2018). Liena Vayzman exhibited photographs in a cu- Lucy McNair co-curated “New York Forum of rated art show “Lonely City: Photographs of Queens Amazigh Film” LaGuardia Community College, La- at Night” at the University of the Arts Philadelphia, Guardia Performing Arts Center, Long Island City PA (March 2018). (April 2018).

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Olga Calderon was quoted in the article “To Clean Up Newtown Creek, Get to Know its Microbes” https://sum.cuny.edu/to-clean-up-newtown-creek- get-to-know-its-microbes/ (July 2018). Dahlia Elsayed’s essay about artist Chant Avedissian “Remembering an Egyptian Artist Who was Always Looking East Invited” appeared in Hy- perallergic (October 2018). Derek Stadler submitted three CUNY UFS Blog: on “Three New Appointments at Community Col- leges” http://www1.cuny.edu/sites/cunyufs/2018/09/ 21/three-new-appointments-at-community-colleges/ (September 2018); “The Need for Change in Student In the Media Advisement at the Community College” http://www1. cuny.edu/sites/cunyufs/2018/11/01/the-need-for- change-in-student-advisement-at-the-community- Lee Boyar’s letter “Let More Light into the Au- Maureen Drennan had 12 images published college/ (November 2018); and on “BMCC Urban Male diting Process”was published in the Financial Times alongside the interview by Stanley Bloom about her Leadership Academy” http://www1.cuny.edu/sites/ https://www.ft.com/content/19558bf4-9677-11e8-b747- photographic project on Broad Channel, Queens, Vel- cunyufs/2018/11/15/bmcc-urban-male-leadership- fb1e803ee64e (August 2018). vet Eyes Magazine https://velveteyes.net/features/ academy/ (November 2018). Carrie Conners was mentioned as one of the maureen-drennan/ (March 2018); interview by John visiting poets in the article “Kestrel launches Issue Lelund about her photographic project “Rust Belt of 39 with events to celebrate writing” in WVNews New York” was featured alongside seven images in https://www.wvnews.com/kestrel-launches-issue- the New York Times Metro Section https://www.ny- with-events-to-celebrate-writing/article_9a3a5e58- times.com/2018/04/22/nyregion/touring-the-rust- 4ff6-577b-9a2f-9fe5c26b8605.html (September belt-of-new-york-city.html (April 2018); had two 2018); sabbatical experience “Considering Craft: photographic projects published in Newest York Adapting from a Whirlwind to a Calm Breeze” was Magazine: project on liminal, in-between spaces in featured in Little Patuxent Review https://littlepatux- New York City alongside 21 photographs http://www. entreview. org/tag/carrie-conners/ (October 2018); newestyork.co/19-maureen-drennan/ (July 2018); and interviewed as a contributor to the Newtown Literary project about waterways in and around New York https:// www.newtownliterary.org/single-post/2018/ alongside19 images http://www.newestyork.co/20- 11/29/ From-a-Newtown-Literary-contributor-Carrie- maureen-drennan (August 2018); was interviewed by Conners (November 2018). Jelena Martinovic about her work and process and Thomas Dempsey was interviewed by Jeff a few of her photographic projects were featured in Scheetz for the article “The Soul and Slice of NYC Prohbtd Magazine https://prohbtd.com/maureen- Jazz” about what it takes to live, work, teach and gig drennan-a-compelling-and-intimate-glimpse-into-re- in the New York City jazz scene today http://www.rif- moved-communities (July 2018); her photographic fjournal.com (December 2018). series “Meet Me in the Green Glen” was featured in Lisa DeSpain received a grant award for her Exit Magazine https://exitmedia.net/EXIT/en/exit/203- opera “THAT HELL BOUND TRAIN” from the 2018 exit-71-garden.html (September 2018). OPERA America Discovery Grants for Female Com- Kristen Gallagher’s book “85% True / minor posers for which three announcements were made: ecologies_” was reviewed by Barrett White in Full by BWW News Desk https://www.broadwayworld. Stop http://www.full-stop.net/2018/07/11/features/ com/bwwopera/article/Opera-Grants-For-Female- barrett-white/punkecologies/ (July 2018); was inter- Composers-Awarded-To-Eight-Composers-20180313 viewed by Dichtung Yammer about book “85% (March 2018); by David Salazar for Opera Wire True/minor ecologies_” https://dichtungyammer. http://operawire.com/opera-america-announces- wordpress.com/2018/ 07/07/exchange-on-kristen-gal- grant-awards-to-8-female-composers/ (March2018); laghers-85- true-minor-ecologies/ (July 2018). and on radio by OPERA America, Class of 2018 Thierry Gourjon was interviewed about the https://issuu.com/opera_america/docs/spring_2018_ work of artist Jane Dickson by Mark Iosifescu for An- preview?e=1260854/63073957 (April 2018); was com- thology Editions http://www.anthology.net (October missioned for a chamber opera titled “NO LADIES IN 2018) THE LADIES BOOK” to mark 150th Anniversary of the Jacqueline Jones was interviewed by Tiffany Transcontinental Railroad Commemorated with Utah Pennamon for the article “Faculty Bring Women, Gen- Symphony Orchestral https://www.broadwayworld. der and Sexuality Studies to LaGuardia Community com/bwwopera/article/150th-Anniversary-Of- College” about the process of creating the Women, Transcontinental-Railway-Commemorated-With- Gender, and Sexuality Studies Option in Liberal Arts Utah-Symphony-Orchestral-Work-And-10-Minute-Ope at LaGuardia https://diverseeducation.com/article/ ras-20181212 (December 2018) 134002/?fbclid=IwAR19lM1Fu0Doen0BRvT_0LMLXxU- 14 FACULTY & STAFF NOTES 2019 ISSUE vgIsZ1J9A9AKaYVJzm0cfDpE6GEkHCyA (December cle “Inside the Actor’s Diary: A Glimpse into the 19th 2018-05/lcc-nrs051518.php (May 2108); in PhysOrg 2018). Century” for SUM: Research, Innovation, and Creativ- https://phys.org/ news/2018-05-wasps-food-nearby. Jayashree Kamble was interviewed by Maggie ity at CUNY https://goo.gl/KqiYAC (October 2018); was html (May 2018); on LaGuardia community college’s Coughlin Worth for “Romance Writers Report” http:// interviewed by Charles Watkinson in the article homepage www.laguardia.edu https://www.laguar https://hcommons.org/docs/love-studies/?bp-at- “Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century Actor, Brought dia.edu/Home/News/ New-research-from-LaGuardia- tachment=IASPR-article-for-RWR-Feb-2018.pdf (Feb- Back to Life” https://goo.gl/61w78j (October 2018). Community-College-Professor-Benjamin-Taylor- ruary2018). Benjamin Taylor’s research was featured in shows-that-wasps-drum-to-alert-one-another-of-foo Irwin Leopando was interviewed by Tina Pippin twelve publications: in an interview by Richard Ke- d-nearby/ (May 2018); on the CUNY website for the podcast “Nothing Never Happens: A Podcast meny about his research in the feature cover story http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/ 2018/05/16/new-re- of Radical Musings on Social Justice, Pedagogies for “Wasps drum with their stomachs to tell each other search-from-laguardia-community-college-profes- Transformation, and Feminist Activism” (December about food” in New Scientist magazine, https:// sor-benjamin-taylor-shows-that-wasps-drum-to-aler 2018). www.newscientist.com/article/mg23831731-700- t-one-another-of-food-nearby/ (May2018); on earth. Lucy McNair was interviewed by Hugo Fernan- wasps-drum-with-their-stomachs-to-tell-each-other- com’s website https://www.earth. com/news/ wasps- dez for “It’s On: Poet’s Corner” about The Lit, La- about-food/ (April 2018); in the article “Wasps do communicate-food-nearby/ (May 2018); on polit.ru’s Guardia’s student art and literary journal, and the Lit something adorable to signal that there’s food website http://www.polit.ru/news/ 2018/ 05/16/ps_ internship http://soundcloud.com/wlgr/hugos-its-on- nearby” by Robin Andrews in IFL Science https:// gastral_drumming/ (May 2018); on ScienMag’ poets-corner (November 2018) www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wasps-do- https://scienmag.com/new-research-shows-that- Gail O. Mellow was interviewed by Hari Sreeni- something-adorable-to-signal-that-theres-food- wasps-drum-to-alert-one-another-of-food-nearby/ vasan as part of a PBS NewsHour series, “Rethinking nearby/ (May 2018); in the article “Why a wasp always (May 2018); on a segment from Comedy Central College” (May 2018); (and with Christopher Hanway) knows where you’re having a picnic: The insects “Drumming Wasps - Science?” https://www.youtube. urged Amazon to make a significant, long-term in- bang their bellies to alert others of food” by Joe com/watch?v=mZS_HrU4cVs (August 2018). vestment in workforce development when Amazon Pinkstone in The Daily Mail https://www.dailymail. Jennifer Wynn’s testimony as a criminologist comes to Long Island City in Crain’s New York Busi- co.uk/sciencetech/article-5736805/Wasps-bang-tum- on the effect of traumatic brain injury on the de- ness http://ekstg.laguardia.edu/uploadedFiles/Main_ mies-alert-food.html (May 2018); in Science Daily fendant’s actions mentioned by Eric Scicchitano in Site/Content/Home/News/Crains_NY_Business.pdf Research https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/ a news article http://www.dailyitem.com/news/sus- (December 2018). s00114-018-1550-4 https://www.sciencedaily.com/re- pect-in-killing-pleads-will-stay-in-jail/article_ James Richardson was interviewed by Kenneth leases/2018/ 05/180515113553.htm (May 2018); in Eu- 076a6524-f0c1-11e7-8909-cf8f24c31730.html (January Powell and Thomas Edward Seymour for the docu- rekAlert https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ 2018). mentary “VHS Massacre - The Rise of Exploitation Films” on the subject of exploitation films and their impact on Pop Culture https://youtu.be/Fjr3YzWGHbQ (October 2018). Ari Richter’s’ artwork, part of “Media Circus’ showcase, was reviewed by Jessica Smith in a fea- ture article “Unexpected Art Materials” https://flag- pole. com/arts-culture/art-notes/2018/05/09/media- circus-showcases-unexpected-art-materials (May 2018); image of artwork, part of Notorious RBG exhi- bition, was reviewed twice: by Deborah Vankin in the article “Sky is the limit for the ‘Notorious RBG,’ and she keeps on pressin’ on” https://www.latimes.com/ entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-notorious-rbg-skirball- 20181017-story.html (October 2018); and by Beige Lu- ciano-Adams in the article “The “R’in Notorious RBG Stands for ‘Realness’” https://www.laweekly.com/ arts/the-r-in-notorious-rbg-stands-for-realness- 10016499 (November 2018). Charity Scribner’s book “After the Red Army Faction” was reviewed by Myra Marx Ferree. Allyson Sheffield was interviewed in Scientific American about the Milky Way https://www.scientifi- camerican.com/article/stellar-effort-chart-of-the- milky-way-includes-more-than-1-billion-stars1/ (April 2018). Derek Stadler contributed twice to two News- day articles both by Rachel Uda: “A Push to Save Mural before Sears Closes” (January 2018); and “Post-Sears Ideas for Beloved Mural” (January 2018). Naomi Stubbs was interviewed by Michael Lueger in the article “Theatre History Podcast #37: Examining the Diary of 19th-Century Actor Harry Watkins” HowlRound.com https://goo.gl/8PyiNT (July 2018); was interviewed by Amanda Wicks in the arti- 15 NOTESFaculty and Staff

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