CUNY Faculty Dream Makers Andrew Grove's American Dream Machine

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A SPECIAL TRIBUTE CUNY Faculty Dream Makers More Than 1,000 Awards, Grants and Honors Andrew Grove’s American Dream Machine Page 2

Hostos Associate Professor Yoel Rodríguez seeks new heart medicines at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Page 8 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 1 ACHIEVEMENTS OF FACULTY AND STAFF Andrew Grove’s American Dream Machine WITH THIS SPECIAL ISSUE of Salute to Scholars, The City University of New York proudly celebrates the excellence of our faculty and staff whose scholar- very student has a dream. And every ship, initiative and accomplishments have been recognized with prestigious teacher can be a dream maker, not only sharing the pursuit of knowledge but awards, grants and other honors during the last academic year. also mentoring and extending a helping These external recognitions have even greater meaning in light of the hand when needed. E That connection between student and University’s special mission. We’re fortunate that our exceptionally diverse teacher is the essence of the educational enter- student body includes a multitude of first-generation college students, immi- prise at The City University of New York. grants and men and women from low-income and under- Andrew Grove, the visionary co-founder of Intel Corp. and City College alumnus, knew this represented groups. Many of our students are the first in instinctively when, a decade ago, he described their families to attend college. Among other things, that CUNY as the “American Dream Machine.” At a means that they really want to be here. moment of crisis in his early academic career, Grove, a poor, Hungarian Jewish refugee who So we take special notice in these pages of the good work barely spoke English, had reached out to a to increase the representation of minorities in STEM ma- professor who responded with encouragement, an opportunity and support. jors, to assist immigrants in navigating the complex immi- This is the essence of the American gration and citizenship process, to help veterans earn their Dream Machine, not only for the young Grove, given a chance to pursue his dream college degrees, to help prison inmates reenter their communities and build of a chemical engineering degree, but for productive lives, to develop mentoring programs, improve financial literacy, generations of students from all walks of life create mental health programs and innovate in the field of developmental who strive to follow their dreams of a quality, affordable college education that prepares education, which is so important to the success of many CUNY students. The them to succeed. path-breaking scholarship and research illuminated in this special Salute to No part of that success is more important than CUNY’s faculty and the knowledge, Scholars set high standards of excellence and promise for all of our students. support and dedication they offer the many Your commitment to providing them with the knowledge and skills to ask thousands of students who pass through their questions, solve problems, seek further education and help launch careers, is classrooms every year. This issue of Salute to Scholars pres- a great calling. I salute your hard work and achievements, and look forward to ents, for the first time, the names of the hun- seeing the important and meaningful work you, and all of our talented faculty dreds of faculty, as reported by their colleges, who have recently won external awards and and staff, will do in the future. grants for teaching and research spanning All best wishes,

James B. Milliken, Chancellor THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SENIOR COLLEGES: CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK-1847 BOARDOFTRUSTEES HUNTER COLLEGE-1870 The City University of New York salutetoscholars BROOKLYN COLLEGE-1930 QUEENS COLLEGE-1937 William C. Thompson Jr. James B. Milliken Jay Hershenson NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY-1946 Chairperson Chancellor Secretary of the Board of Trustees and COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND-1956 Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE-1964 YORK COLLEGE-1966 Wellington Z. Chen Robert F. Mujica Michael Arena BARUCH COLLEGE-1968 Una S. T-Clarke Brian D. Obergfell University Director for Communications and Marketing LEHMAN COLLEGE-1968 Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez Jill O’Donnell-Tormey Kristen Kelch MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE-1970 Rita DiMartino Barry F. Schwartz Managing Editor MACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE AT CUNY-2001 Fernando Ferrer Charles A. Shorter Richard Firstman, Lenina Mortimer, Neill S. Rosenfeld CUNY SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES-2003 Judah Gribetz Ken Sunshine Writers Mayra Linares-Garcia Sandra Wilkin Richard Rosenberg Copy Editor ON THE COVER: Hostos Community College Katherine M. Conway Miriam Smith Stan Wolfson Audrey Tiernan Chika Onyejiukwa Art Director Photo Editor Photographer associate professor Yoel Rodríguez is framed by Interim Chairperson, Chairperson, a representation of a roller coaster, used to teach University Student Senate University Faculty Senate Articles in this and previous issues are available at cuny.edu/news. Letters or suggestions for future stories may be sent to the Editor by e-mail the physics concept of conservation of energy. He to [email protected]. won a Fulbright Fellowship to help seek new heart Changes of address should be made through your campus personnel office. medicines. Page 8.

2 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS TABLE OF Andrew Grove’s American Dream Machine CONTENTS

the sciences, social sciences and other fields. H Among them are John Jay College Professor Joshua Freilich, who co-directs the United States Featured Extremist Crime Database, which analyzes domestic crime by political Faculty CUNY extremists, with a $4 million 8 Yoel Rodríguez AMERICAN grant from the Department of Homeland Security and 10 Deborah Balk HDREAMH $1 million from the National MACHINE Institute of Justice. And CUNY 12 Reza Fakhari demographer Deborah Balk of Baruch College, who won a 14 Kevin Lynch $200,000 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to research and James Popp the whos, whys and wheres of human migration within developing countries – data critical to 18 Maria Tamargo climate-change planning and policy. The education professionals recognized 24 Al (Aloke) Ghosh in the pages that follow are pioneers who are making discoveries, testing theories, grappling 29 Alia Tyner-Mullings with our greatest challenges. They and many 32 Bruce Johnson others are the essence of a CUNY education: scholarly, talented and encouraging faculty, 34 Robert Reid-Pharr inspiring students to question, to strive, to learn and to succeed in the 21st century. 44 Hao Tang Grove, who died on March 21, 2016, is also celebrated for his life of meaning, 48 Joshua D. Freilich achievement and generosity. His $26 million gift to the City College School of Engineering 52 Laurie Rubel in 2005 remains one of the largest single dona- 562Thomas G. Weiss tions in the history of the University. “This institution,” Grove said at the time, 60 Daniel McCloskey “is a veritable American dream machine. I hope to help keep it that way.” 66 Victoria Sanford This American Dream Machine is his — and yours. H THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Featured COMMUNITY COLLEGES: Awards BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE-1957 QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE-1959 BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE-1963 KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE-1963 5 Faculty Awards LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE-1968 HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE-1970 28 Institutional Grants GUTTMAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE-2011

GRADUATE SCHOOLS: 47 Board of Trustees CUNY GRADUATE CENTER-1961 Acknowledgments CUNY SCHOOL OF LAW-1983 CUNY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM-2006 CUNY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH POLICY-2016 CUNY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE-2016 H

CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 3 This special issue of Salute to Scholars honors the extraordinary faculty and staff who secured at least $411 million in grants in 2015. These dedicated educators power the CUNY Dream Machine, providing the scholarly, instructional and personal support that enables countless students to turn their dreams into reality. As they equip students to succeed, these faculty and staff CUNY members connect them with the world and the excitement AMERICAN of intellectual endeavor. H H The incredible scope of their work in scores of coun- DREAM tries testifies to their boundless curiosity, from curtailing MACHINE HIV infection in Kenya, to digital storytelling in Finland, to uncovering primate fossils in a flooded cave in Madagas- car. They work in just about every imaginable field; an electrical engineer detects biological toxins, a chemist mimics the glue that mussels use to stay in place, an economist studies how to move from rags to riches, and a physiologist asks whether single neurons need to sleep. Consider Chester Zarnoch of Baruch College, who studies nutrient retention in restored salt marshes; Maria Contel of Brooklyn College, who researches treating prostate and kidney cancer with titanium- and gold-based drugs; Xiaowen (Sean) Zhang of the College of Staten Island, who provides research experience for undergraduates in high performance computing; Christine Rota-Donahue of Lehman College, who examines how sound frequency affects children with central auditory processing disorder; and Edgar Troudt of Kingsborough Community College, who seeks to guarantee leadership in the tourism and hospitality industries. This issue contains a compendium of award-winners that the Office of University Relations gathered over the course of the last academic year. It includes faculty who won research grants between July 2014 and August 2015 (starting on opposite page); faculty and staff who secured institutional grants for education and public service between January and December 2015 (page 28); and recipients of institutional grants, research grants and other honors whom the Board of Trustees acknowledged between September 2015 and June 2016 (page 47). Each of these faculty and staff members has a story worth telling.

4 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Deborah Balk Chester Zarnoch Faculty Professor Assistant Professor Awards School of Public Affairs Natural Sciences CUNY recipients of research AXA Research Fund; Estimat- Hudson River Foundation; grants and other honors, ing City Growth, Urbanization Mechanisms of Nutrient and Climate-related Risks in Retention in July 2014 through August the 21st Century, Restored Salt Marshes 2015, as reported by their 2/2/2015 - 2/1/2017 5/1/2015 - 4/30/2017 campuses; many listings are prospective. Anna D’Souza BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN Associate Professor COMMUNITY COLLEGE CUNY ADVANCED SCIENCE School of Public Affairs Cheryl J. Fish RESEARCH CENTER U.S Department of Agricul- Professor CUNY Kevin Gardner ture; Food Security, Nutrition English Director, Structural Biology and Dietary Patients Calvin B. Grimes AMERICAN Initiative; Einstein Professor 9/15/2014 - 9/30/2017 Scholar-in-Residence H H of Chemistry & Biochemistry Program; The summer DREAM National Institutes of Health; Stephen Gosnell 2015 Calvin B. Grimes Mechanistic principles Assistant Professor Scholar-in-Residence at the MACHINE of signal detection and Natural Sciences NYU Faculty Resource transmission in bacterial Iowa State University/Pew Network two-component systems Charitable Trust; Modeling 6/1/2015 - 6/26/2015 10/1/2014 - 5/31/2017 Ecology and Economics for Ecosystem Based Fisheries Jun Liang Bruce Johnson Management in the Gulf Assistant Professor Sr. Research Director of Mexico Science Computational Science 9/1/2014 - 2/29/2016 National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health; (NIH); Novel function of The Center for HIV RNA Elena Kosygina chloride intracellular channel Studies (CRNA) Professor Mathematics protein (CLIC) and TGF-beta 1/5/2015 - 8/31/2017 Simons Foundation; Simons signaling in stress response Fellows in Mathematics: and health span in Rein Ulijn Stochastic Processes in Caenorhabditis elegans Director of NanoScience; Random Environments 4/15/2015 - 3/31/2016 CUNY Professor 7/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 U.S. Air Force; Adaptive Hao Tang AMERICAN Nanostructures through John Maciuika Assistant Professor H H Dynamic Molecular Systems Assistant Professor Computer Information DREAM 8/1/2015 - 7/31/2018 Fine and Performing Arts Systems American Academy of Rome; DHS Science and Technology MACHINE Charles J. Vörösmarty Rome Academy Prize in (S&T) Directorate Office of Director, CUNY Environmen- Historic Preservation and University Programs; U.S. tal Crossroads Initiative; Conservation Dept. of Homeland Security Distinguished Scientist, 9/1/2014 - 8/1/2015 Summer Research Team NOAA-CREST; Professor Program for Minority Serving National Science Foundation; Stuart Schulman Institutions WSC-Category 3: A National Professor Management 5/1/2015 - 8/31/2015 Energy-Water System Assess- Verizon Foundation; Smart- ment Framework (NEWS): Pitch Challenge 2015: Build- Elizabeth Whitney Stage 1 Development ing Outreach and Capacity Professor 7/15/2015 - 6/30/2018 12/8/2014 - 9/30/2015 Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts BARUCH COLLEGE Steven Young University of Turku and the Louis-Pierre Arguin Assistant Professor Finnish Fulbright Center Assistant Professor Psychology in Helsinki; Arts Funding, Mathematics Miami University; The Face of Shared Values, and Digital National Science Founda- Humanity: Configural Face Storytelling: A Comparative tion; Statistics of Extrema Processing and Prejudice Approach Between the United in Disordered Systems and Regulation States and Finland Related Models 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2017 9/1/2015 - 6/1/2015 7/15/2015 - 6/30/2018

CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 5 BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE BROOKLYN COLLEGE Zhongqi Cheng Andrew Deamater Alexander Greer Lisa Amowitz Jennifer Basil Associate Professor Professor Professor Chemistry Professor Art & Music Professor Earth & Environmental Psychology National Science Foundation; Independent Publisher Biology Science, USDA-NRCS; National Institutes of Health; Phase Separation of Reactive Book Awards; Moonbeam P/FOUND/U.S.-Israel Bina- Collaborative with Brooklyn A Multi-Component Approach Oxygen with Multi-Compart- Children’s Book Award tional Science Foundation; College to produce a publica- to Extinction in Pavlovian mented Sensitizers (Gold Medal for the category The origin tion entitled “Soil Systems of Learning 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2018 of Young Adult Horror/ of learning and memory New York City,” 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 Mystery) 9/1/2014 system of advanced inverte- 9/23/2014 - 12/31/2016 Christian Grov brates study in an ancestral Terry Dowd Associate Professor Sunil Bhaskaran Cephalopod-the Nautilus Elizabeth Chua Associate Professor Health and Nutrition Sciences Associate Professor 10/1/2014 - 9/30/2015 Assistant Professor Chemistry National Institutes of Health; Chemistry & Chemical Psychology Albert Einstein College of Club drug use and PrEP Technology Nicolas Biais National Institutes of Health; Medicine; Structure-Function adherence in vulnerable men, Digital Globe Foundation; Assistant Professor Cognitive and Neural Bases Relationof Connexin Disease 8/1/2015 - 7/31/2016 Satellite Imagery Grants Biology of Memory Confidence and Mutations, Public Health Solutions; 6/1/2015 - 6/30/2017 National Institutes of Health; Accuracy, 7/1/2014 - 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 Randonized Controlled Trial Mechanobiology of Neisseria 5/31/2015 National Institutes for HIV Men William deJong-Lambert Microcolonies, of Health; Cognitive and Jennifer Drake 2/1/2014 - 12/31/2015 Associate Professor 7/15/2014 - 6/30/2015 Neural Bases of Memory Assistant Professor History, The American Phil- National Institutes of Health; Confidence and Accuracy Psychology Amy Ikui osophical Society; Franklin Mechanobiology of Neisseria 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 Templeton University; Assess- Associate Professor Research Grant Microcolonies, ing and Fostering Visual Biology 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Imagination Through NIH; Inhibition of DNA re-rep- University of Arizona; Type Drawing lication by cyclin/CDK and Vicki Flaris IV Pilus: A Switch that 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 GSK-3 kinase in S. cerevisiae Professor Determines Consequences of 4/1/2015 - 3/31/2016 Chemistry & Chemical Neisseria Colonization Paul Forlano Technology 8/8/2014 - 7/31/2015 Assistant Professor Xinyin Jiang U.S. Department of Agri- Biology, National Science Assistant Professor culture; The Food Materials Gregory Boutis Foundation; Collaborative Health and Nutrition Sciences Mentoring Program Associate Professor Research of Mechanisms of NIH; Effects of choline on in New York Physics Tracy Chu Sound Source Localization fetal growth and lipid 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2019 National Institutes of Health; Assistant Professor Underlying an Ancestral accretion in gestational NMR Studies of the effects Health and Nutrition Sciences Mode of Vertibrate Hearing diabetes Debra Gonsher of mode of birth on vaginal Fordham University (NIH 8/15/2015 - 7/31/2016 6/10/2015 - 5/31/2016 Professor elastin R 15) subaward; Social Communication Arts & 2/1/2015 - 1/31/2016 Networks of West African Yu Gao Laura Juszczak Sciences Forced Migrants, 8/18/2014 - Assistant Professor Associate Professor ABC TV; Documentary, Brett Branco 7/31/2016 National Institutes Psychology Chemistry “Every Word Has Power” Assistant Professor of Health; The Social Ecology National Institutes of Health; NIH; Edge-on/face-on: Trp 1/3/2015 - 11/1/2015 Earth & Environmental of Sleep Environments among Bio Markers for Conduct Prob- tripeptides model residue Science Non-Hispanic Infants lems:Abnormal conditioning to interactions Aaron Socha Science and Resilience 7/28/2015 - 6/30/2017 punishments and rewards in proteins Associate Professor Institute of Jamaica Bay; 7/1/2014 - 12/31/2015 4/1/2015 - 3/31/2016 Chemistry & Chemical Detecting water quality Maria Contel Technology regime shifts in Jamaica Associate Professor Guillermo Gerona-Navarro Peter Lipke National Science Foundation; Bay (post-Hurricane Sandy), Chemistry Assistant Professor Professor Innovation corps: 10/1/2014 - 9/30/2015 National Institutes of Health; Chemistry Biology Bionic Liquids National Park Service; Titanium-gold-based National Institutes of Health; NIH; A Role for Amyloids in 7/1/2014 - 12/31/2015 Response of Benthic Infauna chemotherapeutics for Chemical Probes Targeting Force-Dependent Activation to Marsh Restoration prostate and kidney cancer, Polycomb Repressive of Cell Adhesion, in Jamaica Bay 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2015 Complex 2 Gene Repression, 4/1/2014 - 3/31/2015 7/25/2014 - 6/30/2015 National Institutes of Health; 8/1/2014 - 4/30/2015 NIH; A Role for Amyloids in Titanium-gold-based chemo- National Institutes of Health; Force-Dependent Activation therapeutics for prostate and Chemical Probes Target- of Cell Adhesion, kidney cancer ing Polycomb Repressive 4/1/2015 - 3/31/2016 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Complex 2 Gene Repression 8/1/2015 - 4/30/2016

6 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS John Marra Juergen Polle Mark Ungar Yiannis Andreopoulos Marco Castaldi Professor Professor Biology Professor Professor Mechanical Associate Professor Earth & Environmental University of California, Political Science Engineering, National Chemical Engineering Science San Diego (via U.S. Dept. Government of Canada, De- Science Foundation; I-Corps: Livolt, LLC; Fly Ash From U.S. Department of the In- of Energy subaward); A partment of Foreign Affairs, Fluidic Energy Harvesters for Waste Incineration for terior-National Park Service; Systems Biology of Pond Trade and Green Building Applications, Microbial Fuel The Jamaica Bay Observing Culture-based Understand- Development; START Global 7/1/2015 - 12/31/2015 Cell Electrodes Systems: Process Studies and ing and Improvement of Peace and Security Fund Pro- 2/1/2015 - 12/31/2016 Groundwork for Long-Term Metabolic Processes Related gram, 7/2/2015 - 3/31/2016 Marom Bikson Sustainable Waste Power Ecosystem Research and to Productivity in Diverse Professor Systems; Characterization Resilience (Post- Hurricane Microalgal Classes for Viable Noson Yanofsky Biomedical Engineering and Applied Research on Sandy Study), Biofuel Production Professor Actuated Medical, Inc.; SBIR SWPS GIPO (Garbage In-Pow- 10/1/2014 - 9/30/2015 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 Computer & Information Phase II: Grip-Act-Reposition er Out) Thermal Conversion University of Massachusetts Science Miniaturized Stable Working Technology at Boston (subaward via Luis Quadri Foundational Questions Platform for Minimally 10/17/2014 - 10/16/2015 NASA); Creation of a C Professor Biology Institute Fund (Silicon Valley Invasive Procedures Inside Productivity Database Using Sloan Kettering Institute for Community Foundation); The Active Organs, Sean Cleary Consistent, Globally- Cancer Research; Rational Algorithmic Information of 6/1/2015 - 9/30/2016, Professor Acquired Data Design of Adenylation Categories Thync Inc.; Mathematics 7/2/2014 - 6/30/2016 Enzyme Inhibitor 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 A Naturalistic Study of National Science Foundation; 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 Transcranial Experimental and Theoretical Laraine McDonough THE CITY COLLEGE Electrostimulation Analyses of Tree Distance Associate Professor Theodore Raphan OF NEW YORK 7/21/2014 - 4/1/2015 Distributions Psychology Distinguished Professor Samir Ahmed 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2017 Columbia University (sub- Computer & Information Professor Gerardo Blumenkrantz award via NIH); The Effects Science Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor David Crouse of Prenatal Mount Sinai School of Medi- University of Maryland; Media & Communication Arts Associate Professor Stress and Poor Nutrition cine; Vestibular Control of the Validation of JPSS-VIIRS Data National Institutes of Health; Electrical Engineering on Brain and Cognition Vasovagal Response on Long Island Sound Coastal Social Marketing Com- Phoebus Optoelectronics 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2015 3/1/2015 - 2/28/2016 Site Correction of Sun and munications Campaign to LLC; Innovative Concept for Sky Glints in Above Water Increase Vaccination Rates Detection Ryan Murelli Alfred Rosenberger Observations Among Mexican Immigrants and Identification of Biologi- Assistant Professor Professor Anthropology and 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2016 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2018 cal Toxins Chemistry Archaeology 8/18/2014 - 10/31/2015 NIH; Biological Studies of National Geographic Khalid Bou-Rabee alpha-Hydroxytropolones Society; The Fossils of Aven Assistant Professor Zajj B. Daugherty 5/1/2015 - 4/30/2016 Cave: Reconnaissance and Mathematics Assistant Professor Recovery of Primate Fossils National Science Foundation; Mathematics Martha Nadell in a Flooded Malagasy Cave On the Representation Theory National Science Foundation; Associate Professor 9/15/2014 - 6/30/2015 of Finitely Generated Groups Combinatorics and Children’s Studies 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2017 Representation Theory of William Fulbright Foreign Laurie Rubel Adeyinka Akinsulure-Smith Centralizer Algebras Scholarship Board; Fulbright Associate Professor Associate Professor Lale Can 3/5/2015 - 8/31/2016 Award to Italy Education Psychology Assistant Professor History 1/1/2015 - 5/31/2015 Nation Science Foundation; Fordham University; Social National Endowment for David Davidson Learning Mathematics of the Networks of West African the Humanities; Spiritual Professor Helen Phillips City in the City Forced Migrants Citizens: Central Asians and Media & Communication Arts Assistant Professor 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2016 8/18/2014 - 7/31/2016 the Politics of Pilgrimage in National Endowment for the English the Ottoman Empire Arts; “A Gesture and a Word,” Giles Whiting Foundation; Anthony Sclafani Robert Alfano 1869-1914, 3/27/2015 Documentary Film Whiting Fellowship Distinguished Professor Distinguished Professor 6/1/2015 - 4/30/2016 9/1/2014 - 5/29/2015 Psychology Physics NIH; Carbohydrate Appetite, Energy Research Company; Fat Appetite and Obesity Vulnerable Plaque Amplified 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 Optical Analyzer 12/1/2014 - 7/31/2016

CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 7 — Yoel Rodríguez H Hostos Community College Fulbright Fellowship

8 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Naresh Devineni Assistant Professor — Yoel Rodríguez Civil Engineering Speeding the Search National Science Foundation; Hostos Community College Collaborative Research: Fulbright Fellowship For New Heart Medicines P2C2– Multi-Site Paleo- Reconstruction of Missouri River Streamflows from EDICAL SCIENCE can relieve School of Medicine in New York. Tree Ring Data, the symptoms of heart disease, He still works at Mount Sinai, 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2017 the leading cause of death in researching epigenetics (the study of Columbia University; the United States, but so far it inheritable changes in gene func- M WSC-Category 3 can’t cure heart failure or significantly tion that do not involve changes in Collaborative: America’s improve heart function. DNA sequence) in cancer. He and his Computational biophysicist Yoel colleagues recently wrote papers on Water - Rodríguez, an associate professor of breast cancer biology and cardiovascu- The Changing Landscape of physical sciences at Hostos Commu- lar research. Risk, Competing Demands nity College, hopes to help In 2015-2016, four and Climate, change that. With a 2016- Hostos undergraduates 8/1/2014 - 7/31/2015 2017 Fulbright Fellowship, CUNY joined in his research; New York University; Storm he is joining a team that is three presented at the Hazards and Vulnerabilities seeking new medications AMERICAN 2015 Annual Biomed- to Critical Facilities in NY at the Institute of Experi- H H ical Research Con- 9/1/2014 - 12/31/2015 mental Pharmacology and DREAM ference for Minority Toxicology of the Slovak Students in Seattle. Vasil Diyamandoglu Academy of Sciences in MACHINE One of them, Wendy Bratislava. Fernández, won an Assistant Professor “There are millions of molecules award there and graduated as Hostos’ Civil Engineering that they could screen experimen- 2016 valedictorian in the dual-degree NYC Department of Health tally, but it would be very costly and electrical engineering program with and Mental Hygiene; time-consuming,” he explains. “Using City College; she intends to go on for a Investigation of Disinfection a computer, we may be able to predict, doctorate. By-Products Formation in cost-time effectively, which molecules “I want my students to succeed,” Water Storage Tanks will bind to a specific target we’re look- Rodríguez says. “That’s why I’m here.” 7/1/2014 - 12/31/2016 ing at. Chemists can synthesize those molecules, and then the biologists Timothy Ellmore can test to see if they work. Computer “I have two passions: Associate Professor modeling also can help optimize molecules that show the most promise.” teaching and research,” Psychology Led by medicinal chemist Magda- says Yoel Rodríguez. National Institutes of Health; lena Majekova, the team of chemists, A Neurobehavioral Study of biochemists and structural biologists He coordinates a Hostos the Interactions Between explores one possible path to treat- program aimed at Working and ment, improving calcium cycling Long-Term Memory inside heart and vascular cells. They improving diversity in the 4/1/2015 - 3/31/2016 look at SERCA, an enzyme present in STEM disciplines; it equips many biological functions, from gene Mark M. Emerson expression to muscle contraction. She ill-prepared students, Assistant Professor had asked Fulbright to find someone Biology with expertise in computational biol- particularly those from ogy just as Rodríguez applied for his National Institutes of Health; fellowship. minority backgrounds, Transcriptional Regulation of He joined Hostos as an adjunct for engineering and Cone Photoreceptor Genesis in 2007 and won a full-time ap- 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2015 pointment the next year; he teaches science careers. He also physics, chemistry and environmental has applied for a federal Susannah Fritton sciences. He earned his bachelor’s in Associate Professor physical chemistry in his native Cuba, grant to provide scholar- Biomedical Engineering his doctorate in metabolic networks National Science Foundation; dynamics in Spain, and a post-doctoral ships to academically Effects of Reduced fellowship in theoretical and compu- gifted, low-income students. Mechanical Loading on Bone tational biophysics at Mount Sinai Microarchitecture and Cell Function 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2017 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 9 Rosario Gennaro Professor Computer Science National Science Foundation; EAGER: Economic Incentives Tracking Migration for Correct Outsourced Computation via To Cities as Earth’s Rational Proofs, 7/1/2015 - 6/1/2016 Oak Ridge Institute for Climate Changes Science and Education; Highly Efficient Protocols for Secure Search Over Encrypted Documents UNY DEMOGRAPHER Deborah Migration’s causes can be evident, as 3/1/2015 - 2/29/2016 Balk starts with these givens: Cli- in the Maldives, 26 low-lying atolls that mate change is happening, cities are are fast disappearing beneath the rising Maria Felice Ghilardi Cgrowing and the urban poor in the Indian Ocean. But it is rarely so clear. Associate Medical Professor poorest countries face the greatest risk. Balk’s approach combines census, survey Since the risk is not equal everywhere, and satellite data and, she says, is “broad- Physiology and Pharmacology policies affecting urban growth and adap- scale, systematic, and repeatable across National Institutes of Health; tation to climate change need to be guided the globe.” Do Single Neurons Need to by spatially specific information. Without One fast-growing urban area facing Sleep and Why? such data, governments and development climate trouble is Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh 9/30/2014 - 12/31/2015 agencies cannot rationally decide where to City, which is near sea level but expand- build housing, route transpor- ing on swampland. Many Irina Gladkova tation or concede territory to Indian cities confront Associate Professor natural forces. CUNY both coastal flooding and Computer Science The Carnegie Corpo- drought. Bangladesh’s capi- University of Wisconsin; ration of New York awarded AMERICAN tal, Dhaka, should embrace Continuity of Cloud Top Balk a $200,000 Andrew Car- regional planning or risk negie Fellowship to explore H H expanding on flood-prone Pressure and Cloud Infrared DREAM a critical, but little-studied, land, she says, but that’s Thermodynamic Phase by piece of the puzzle – internal MACHINE easier said than done. Combining CrLS and migration: Who moves to “Even in the U.S., we VIIRS Measurements cities in the developing world from their don’t do regional planning well, especially 8/18/2014 - 8/17/2015 countrysides or towns, and why? She was across municipal, county and state lines. among 33 winners in 2016 chosen from So how can we expect it in coastal West Jorge Gonzalez nearly 200 nominations. Africa, which will likely become one multi- Professor A professor at Baruch College, Balk national urban agglomeration in 50 years, Mechanical Engineering also is associate director of the CUNY stretching from Lagos [Nigeria] through National Science Foundation; Institute for Demographic Research, Benin, Togo, and Ghana to the Ivory Impacts of Urbanization and where core faculty from Baruch, Hunter Coast? Planning for that will be much and Queens Colleges, the CUNY School harder, especially without an evidence Climate Change on the Ener- of Public Health and the CUNY Graduate base for policy-making.” gy Infrastructure of Tropical Center work with other CUNY professors. That’s what her project is all about. Coastal Regions Her specialty is spatial demography and 8/1/2014 - 7/31/2017 the integration of earth and social science data and methods to address interdisci- Marilyn Gunner plinary policy questions. “We have a tendency to Professor Physics Her ambitious project description think that every event has National Science Foundation; envisions looking at “most developing Thermodynamics and Kinet- countries” in Asia, Africa, and Latin to be a major earthquake, America and generating “estimates of mi- ics of Electron and Proton but a lot of change takes Transfers in Proton Pumping grants-at-risk and newly settled areas, by various types of climate-related risks (low Proteins place more slowly, as does elevation coastal zones, flood- or drought- 7/15/2015 - 6/30/2020 prone areas) in destination cities or urban the scientific work needed agglomerations, and, where possible, characterize the climate-related drivers of to understand it.” out-migration areas.” — Deborah Balk

10 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS H— Deborah Balk Baruch College Andrew Carnegie Fellowship

CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 11 — Reza Fakhari H Kingsborough Community College Vice Chairman, Amnesty International USA

“The shah’s secret police, SAVAK, invaded my home and saw my books. They arrested me and they arrested my friends. But my father knew the head of SAVAK in my city. He was making a rug for him. If not for that connection, I would have gone to prison.” — Reza Fakhari

12 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS William Patrick Hooper Associate Professor Mathematics Aiding Amnesty International’s National Science Foundation; Renormalization in Piecewise Fight for Basic Human Rights Isometric Dynamical Systems 8/1/2015 - 7/31/2018

EZA FAKHARI first became aware my parents for 10 years.” Jon Craig Horvitz of Amnesty International when Fakhari began his teaching career at he was a teenager in Iran in the Fordham University and began teaching Professor early 1970s. “Under the shah, a lot at CUNY in 1987 as a professor of social Psychology R National Institutes of Health; of young people were arrested, tortured, sciences at LaGuardia. Over the next two forced to make confessions,” he says. decades, he became known for elevat- Does the Nucleus Accumbens “Amnesty International was advocating ing world affairs as an academic area Core Play Only a Transient on their behalf, and I promised myself that and bringing global human rights to the Role in Conditioned Reward? one day, if I could do something to help forefront of concerns for students. Fakhari 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Amnesty, I would.” built up an international studies program Fakhari became a dissident of sorts at LaGuardia, and the Amnesty Interna- Danian Hu himself, arrested when he was 18. “I read tional chapter he started there hosted a Associate Professor a lot of writings of political prisoners major human rights conference — “Teach History and books about sociology and religion,” Truth to Power” — whose keynote speaker Fakhari recalls. When SAVAK, the dreaded was Caroline Kennedy. Institute for Advanced Study; secret police, raided his home and arrested Fakhari moved to Kingsborough Quantum China: The Chinese him, only a chance connection of his father in 2005, continuing his leadership on a Physics Community in the enabled him to avoid prison. “Instead, I campus whose students have 142 national 20th Century was told to leave the country right away.” heritages. As chairman of the board of 9/4/2014 - 4/3/2015 Years later, he kept his Student World Assembly, a Max Planck Institute for the promise to himself. In 2000, global organization that pro- History of Science; Quantum when he was a professor of CUNY motes democracy and human China: The Chinese Physics social sciences at LaGuar- rights, Fakhari has organized Community in the dia Community College, numerous campaigns and AMERICAN 20th Century Fakhari established a chapter causes at Kingsborough and 1/2/2015 - 7/31/2015 of Amnesty International HDREAMH beyond. The programs he has at LaGuardia Community conceived and implemented College. And in 2014 he was MACHINE have helped students become George John elected vice chairman of better global citizens and Professor Amnesty International USA. more engaged in the struggle for human Chemistry Fakhari is now assistant vice pres- rights in all its forms — civil, economic, William Marsh Rice ident for academic affairs and associate democratic and religious. The work even- University; Next Generation provost at Kingsborough Community tually led to his election as an Amnesty Li-on Batteries from Plant/ College, a campus with many students USA board member and then its vice Crop-Based Renewable of diverse national backgrounds whose chairman. Materials childhoods were not unlike his. Fakhari “Our life’s purpose is to help others, 9/15/2014 - 9/30/2015 grew up in a small Iranian city, the son of and Amnesty International is at the fore- Barcel S.A. de C.V. Grupo a rug maker with no formal education. He front of fighting for basic and equal human was determined to be the first in his family rights globally,” Kingsborough President Bimbo; Next Generation to go to college, and he had his eyes on the Farley Herzek says. “Dr. Fakhari’s election Multifunctional Oil United States. as board vice chair brings this work close Structuring Agents/Rheol- Fakhari arrived here in March 1973 to home for us at KCC, where many of our ogy Modifiers from Medium and enrolled at a small college in Minne- students come from places where human Chain Sugar Amphiphiles sota as a chemistry major with plans for rights issues are of concern.” 11/1/2014 - 12/31/2015 medical school. But he switched from hard Fakhari told Kingsborough’s stu- science to social science and eventually dent newspaper, Scepter, that students Michelle Juarez came to New York to earn his master’s and sometimes stop him on campus and thank Assistant Medical Professor doctorate in international relations at the him for being the kind of educator whose PathoBiology New School. “I always wanted to go back devotion to good transcends his role as National Institutes of Health; to Iran and serve my people,” he says. “But associate provost. “These human rights after the revolution in 1979, Iran became are so important to them,” he said, “and Conversion of DNA Nuclease even more repressive than under the shah they are very proud that the Kingsborough Activation During Both and I couldn’t go back. I wasn’t able to see community is at that high level.” Damage and Infection 2/1/2015 - 1/31/2016

CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 13 Steven Kidder Assistant Professor Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, National Science Searching for a New Method Foundation; Stress History of the Alpine Fault Using Rock To Find Nuclear Contraband Deformation Experiments and Numerical Modeling, FTER THE Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Con- A muon typically decays into an electron, a 8/1/2015 - 7/31/2018 gress passed three laws to tighten security at neutrino and an antineutrino. However, certain the- U.S. ports, where hundreds of thousands of oretical models predict that in rare instances (less Ronald Koder Ashipping containers arrived unscreened – the than one in 10 to the 16th events – or 1 followed by Associate Professor perfect scenario for smuggling nuclear materials and 16 zeroes) muons will decay into electrons without Physics making dirty bombs. The threat remains, the U.S. producing neutrinos and antineutrinos and gener- General Accountability Office found in 2014, partly ate electrons with a unique energy signature. The National Institutes of Health; because Homeland Security had to Mu2e experiment is designed for 10 to Structural And scrap a $3 billion next-generation the 17th power sensitivity, 10,000 times Thermodynamic radiation-detector program after more accurate than the current 10 to Features Which Govern spending $280 million on develop- CUNY the 13th power state-of-the-art. Enzymatic Nitric Oxide ment. AMERICAN Popp and Lynch are assembling Detoxification Two York College physicists are several critical components of a one-of- 8/15/2014 - 7/31/2015 developing a partial – and far cheap- HDREAMH a-kind, high-resolution, particle-track- University of Louisville er – solution under a three-year, ing detector to measure the energy of Research Foundation; $300,000 grant from the Air Force MACHINE electrons created by muon decay – and Bioelastomer Function, Office of Scientific Research. spot that unique energy signature, if it Dynamics and Synthesis Professors James Popp and Kevin Lynch of exists. Their detector is “a 10-foot-long collection of York’s Department of Earth and Physical Science 22,000, three-foot, metal-coated drinking straw-size 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 don’t rely on bulky, power-hungry X-ray equip- tubes that are filled with gas and have a wire in the ment or, like the scuttled federal program and cur- middle,” Lynch says. Nir Krakauer rent port monitors, on the rare helium-3 isotope. Regardless of the results, Mu2e will have a ma- Associate Professor “Rather than using specialized physics particle jor impact on the understanding of the fundamental Civil Engineering detectors, which are one-off specialty items, we use laws of physics. If the experiment fails to find neu- University of Utah; standard components in a device that’s the size of trino-free decay, it would undercut scores of Grand GCAS-Water: Global Center a breadbox” Lynch says. They leverage advances in Unified Theories – theories that seek to merge three for Advanced smart phone electronics – literally the computer of the universe’s four fundamental forces (electro- Studies on Water, that runs your smart phone – and the latest devel- magnetic, weak and strong, but not gravity) into a 1/1/2015 - 1/1/2016 opments in high-energy physics. And rather than single force, as may have existed when the universe National Oceanic and seeking neutrons emitted by radioactive materials, was born in the Big Bang. That would be real science. like the abandoned federal system, they harness But if Mu2e does indeed find neutrino-free Atmospheric Administration; muons. These are naturally occurring particles muon decays, “It would be spectacular, a major Forecasting Risk of Seasonal formed when cosmic rays collide with atoms in the discovery,” Popp says. Temperature Extremes atmosphere. with the North American Muons deflect only slightly when they pass York’s Kevin Lynch likens his Multi-Model Ensemble through an object – except if it is unusually dense, 8/1/2015 - 7/31/2016 like metallic shielding around radioactive materials. and James Popp’s high-energy Detectors placed on opposite sides of a container will physics experiment to knowing Themis Lazaridis reveal the shape of what’s inside slice by slice, vaguely Professor like a medical MRI body scan. “not a single one of the 100 The professors are building a proof-of-concept Chemistry billion people who have lived National Science Foundation; prototype, after spending a year on design and component selection. RAPID: The Membrane-Bound in the history of the planet had Separately, the Department of Energy and the Structure of Fusion Loops Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory fund their blue hair, and then you find one of the Ebola Virus Envelope participation in the “Mu2e” experiment, a collab- Glycoprotein orative search by several hundred physicists and with blue hair. You’d have to 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2015 engineers for a theoretical quirk in muon behavior. rewrite the rules of genetics.” — Kevin Lynch and James Popp H York College Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Department of Energy, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Grants

14 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 15 Myung Jong Lee Nicholas Madamopoulos EFRI 2-DARE: Exicitonics Lucas Parra Mark Shattuck Professor Associate Professor and Polaritonics using 2D Professor Professor Physics Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering materials (ExPo2D), Biomedical Engineering National Science Foundation; Electronics and Telecommu- National Science Foundation; 8/1/2015 - 7/31/2019 Rutgers University; Targeted Collaborative Research: nications Research Institute; Collaborative Research: U.S. Army; Enhanced Light Transcranial Electric Stim- Mechanics of Granular Research on a MAC Protocol Smart Prismatic-Louver Emitters Based on Metama- ulation, Acoustic Meta-Materials with for Fully Distributed D2D Sys- Technology for Enhanced terials, 12/8/2014 - 2/7/2016 8/1/2014 - 12/31/2015 Engineered Particles and tem and Its Standardization, Daylighting and Management Packings 8/1/2014 - 5/31/2016 of Thermal Loads in Green Andrea Piserchio 4/15/2015 - 3/31/2018 Buildings Senior Research Associate Taehun Lee 8/1/2015 - 7/31/2018 Chemistry Christine Sheffer Associate Professor National Science Foundation; Associate Medical Professor Mechanical Engineering Charles Maldarelli Conformational Dynamics Community Health UChicago Argonne LLC; Professor and Regulatory Interactions & Social Medicine Lattice-Boltzman Chemical Engineering in a Bacteriophage RNA National Institutes of Health; Method (LBM) National Science Foundation; Polymerase Complex, Enhancing Relapse Simulation of Two-Phase UNS: Surfactant Herders for 8/1/2014 - 7/31/2019 Prevention for Smoking Boiling Phenomena, Containment and Remedi- Carlos Meriles Cessation with rTMS, 1/16/2015 - 9/30/2015 ation of Maritime Oil Spills, Professor Tony Ro 9/10/2014 - 8/31/2015 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2018 Physics Professor Jonathan Levitt ExxonMobil Research and National Science Founda- Psychology Aidong Shen Professor Engineering Company; tion; Magnetic Resonance National Science Foundation; Professor Biology Studies of Mixed Wettability Imaging and Spectroscopy Cortical Mechanisms for Electrical Engineering New York University; The in Oil Reservoirs at the Nanoscale via Probe Visual Perception Princeton University; Pro- Canonical Cortical Mircro- 9/15/2014 - 9/14/2016 Paramagnetic Centers 6/15/2014 - 3/31/2018 to-Type II-VI Quantum Well- circuit: An Ultrastructural 8/15/2014 - 7/31/2017 Based Unipolar Mid-Infrared Re-examination Alice Medvedev Peter Romanov Photodetectors, 8/1/2014 - 7/31/2015 Assistant Professor Steven Nicoll Senior Research Associate 7/1/2014 - 12/31/2015 Mathematics Associate Professor Engineering John Lombardi National Science Biomedical Engineering University of Maryland; Ruth Stark Professor Foundation; Model Theory and Nation Science Foundation; Uniform Multi-Sensor Distinguished Professor Chemistry Difference Algebra, I-Corps: Injectable Cellulosic Algorithms for Snow Chemistry National Science Foun- 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2018 Hydrogels for Intervertebral 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2016 National Science Foundation; dation; Advanced Raman Simons Foundation; Model Disc Repair University of Maryland; Constructing Plant Cuticle Spectroscopic Methods for Theory of Difference Fields 7/15/2015 - 12/31/2015 Science & Management Barriers: From Molecular the Identification of Trace 9/1/2014 - 12/31/2015 Support for NPP VIIRS Architecture to Mechanical Evidence Stephen O’Brien 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2016 Integrity 8/15/2014 - 7/31/2017 Rajan Menon Professor 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2019 Professor Chemistry Mitchell Schaffler Zhengzhao Luo Political Science National Science Foundation; Distinguished Professor Associate Professor Columbia University; Synthetic Multiferroic Oxides Biomedical Engineering Earth and Atmospheric Rimlands, Buffer Zones Prepared by Gel Collection, New York University; Central Sciences and Great Power Rivalry 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2019 Role for Osteocytes in Inte- Jet Propulsion Laboratory; 10/1/2014 - 9/30/2015 Alpha-En Corp.; Method gration of Endocrine Signals CloudSat Precipitation Study, to Produce Lithium by an during Bone Growth 10/14/2014 - 12/31/2015 Vinod Menon Electrolytic Cell 7/9/2014 - 5/31/2015 Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Professor 1/1/2015 - 1/15/2016 Satellite Method to Physics Sang-Woo Seo Nancy Tag Estimate Convective Cloud National Science Foundation; Hysell Oviedo Associate Professor Professor Vertical Velocity Collaborative Research: Assistant Professor Electrical Engineering Media & Communication Arts 12/4/2014 - 12/31/2015 Energy Transfer in Strongly Biology National Institutes of Health; National Institutes of Health; Coupled Hybrid Organic- Whitehall Foundation; Light-Actuated Chemical Social Marketing Com- Inorganic Systems, Structure and Function of Stimulator for Retinal Pros- munications Campaign to 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2017 Unique Connectivity Motifs in thesis Interface Increase Vaccination Rates National Science Foundation; Auditory Cortex 4/1/2015 - 3/31/2016 Among Mexican Immigrants Polaritonics Using Two- 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2017 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2018 Dimensional Atomic Crystals, 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2018 National Science Foundation;

16 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS YingLi Tian Ioana Voiculescu Zhigang Zhu Ismael Garcia Colon Cate Marvin Professor Associate Professor Professor Associate Professor Professor Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Computer Science Sociology and Anthropology English National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation; Vista Wearable Inc.; SBIR Center for Puerto Rican John Simon Guggenheim CHS: Medium: Collabora- I-Corps Teams: PHASE I: Wearable 3D Studies; Fellow at the Center Memorial Foundation; Willow- tive Research: Immediate Novel Lab on Chip Navigation for the Blind and for Puerto Rican Studies, brook, 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 Feedback to Support Learning QCM and ECIS Sensor with Visually Impaired, 9/1/2015 - 12/31/2015 American Sign Language Multiple Applications 7/1/2014 - 3/31/2015 Barbara Gail Montero through Multisensory 9/1/2014 - 2/29/2016 Zheng (Zeno) Huang Associate Professor Recognition COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND Associate Professor Philosophy 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2018 Hoau-Yan Wang Zaghloul Ahmed Mathematics National Endowment for Associate Medical Professor Associate Professor The Simons Foundation; the Humanities; Fellowship: Brian Tiburzi Physiology, Pharmacology & Physical Therapy Research in Moduli Spaces Thought and Effort in Expert Assistant Professor Neuroscience NYS/DOH; Investigating the of Minimal Surfaces in Action, 8/1/2015 - 8/31/2016 Physics Rush University Medical Effects of Trans-Spinal Direct Hyperbolic Manifolds National Science Foundation; Center; Mechanisms Linking Current Stimulation on 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2020 Jonathan Peters Electromagnetic Properties Insulin Resistance to Brain Muscle Tone and Functional Professor and Hadronic Parity Violation Structure, Pathology and Recovery in Mice with Spinal Lana Karasik Accounting and Finance in Lattice QCD Function Cord Injury Assistant Professor NYS/DOT; Regional Financing 8/1/2015 - 7/31/2018 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2015 10/1/2014 - 2/28/2015 Psychology Options Study, 5/1/2015 - DHHS/National Institutes National Science Foundation; 4/30/2016 Jiufeng Tu of Health; Spinal Sciatic RUI: An Investigation of Short Associate Professor Direct Current Stimulation and Long Term Effects of Louis Petingi Physics Normalizes Muscle Tone in Cradling on Development Professor Computer Science National Science Foundation; Spinal Cord Injured Animals 8/15/2015 - 7/31/2018 National Science Founda- I-Corps: Novel Vortex Raman with Spasticity tion; REU Site: Research Spectrometers for Materials, 2/1/2015 - 1/31/2016 Sharon Loverde Experience for Undergraduate Clean Energy and Biological Assistant Professor in Computational Methods in Applications Zara Anishanslin Chemistry High Performance Computing 12/1/2014 - 11/30/2015 Sihong Wang Assistant Professor American Chemical Society with Applications to Comput- Associate Professor History Petroleum Research Fund; er Science Raymond Tu Biomedical Engineering New-York Historical Society; Molecular Modeling of Shape 10/1/2014 - 9/30/2017 Associate Professor The Pershing Square Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Transformations in Chemical Engineering Foundation; Preclinical Fellowship Polystyrene Vesicles, Irina A. Sekerina National Science Founda- Validation of 3D Microfluidic 9/1/2014 - 6/30/2015 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2016 Professor Psychology tion; EAGER: Collaborative Human Tumor Arrays, National Science Founda- National Science Foundation; Research: Mimicking Mussel 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2016 Patricia J. Brooks tion; Tuning the Mechanical Workshop: Bilingualism and Adhesion with Periodically Sloan-Kettering Memorial Professor Properties of Ordered Executive Function: An Sequenced Polypeptides Cancer Center; Cancer Cell Distinguished Fellow Supramolecular Polymers Interdisciplinary Approach; 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 Detection Using Nanodia- Advanced Research and Their Networks,” CUNY Graduate Center-New monds with Broad Selectivity, Collaborative 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 York; May 18-19, 2015, Maria Tzortziou 10/1/2014 - 9/30/2015 Psychology 4/15/2015 - 3/31/2016 Associate Professor CUNY; Effective Pedagogy Alan Lyons Fulbright Scholar Program; Earth and atmospheric Jie Wei for the Digitally Mediated Professor Experimental Psycholinguis- Sciences Associate Professor Undergraduate Class- Chemistry tics and Bilingualism: Teach- Pennsylvania State Computer Science room,8/26/2015 - 2/29/2016 Tufts University; Proposal for ing and Research in Norway, University; The Carbon Wright State University; Enhanced Thermal Manage- 1/23/2015 - 6/1/2016 Budget of Tidal Wetlands and Research and Development of John M. Dixon ment of Telecommunications Estuaries of the Contiguous Multimodal Features and Assistant Professor Equipment via Low Flow Esther Son United States: A Synthesis Algorithms for Vehicle History Resistance 3D Heat Sinks Assistant Professor Approach Classification, NYU; Senior Research and Sublimation Cooling, Social work 8/1/2014 - 7/31/2016 9/1/2014 - 8/30/2015 Scholarship from the 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2015 U.S. Department of Health Goldstein-Goren Center for and Human Services; Racial Andrea Weiss American Jewish History, Michael Mandiberg and Ethnic Disparities in Professor 9/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 Associate Professor Children’s Early Diagnos- Media & Communication Arts Media Culture tic and Health Services, Fulbright Scholar Award; Foreign Policy and the State 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 “Bones of Contention,” Department; List of 100 Documentary Film, Leading Global Thinkers, 6/1/2015 - 8/15/2015 11/17/2014 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 17 — Maria Tamargo H City College National Science Foundation Grant

18 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Christina M. Tortora Professor; Distinguished Fellow Advanced Research Collaborative English $5M Research Grant CUNY; Bringing Grammatical Diversity to the Language Is Not Immaterial Arts, Classroom: Pedagogical Use of the Audio-Aligned and F YOU WANT a tennis racquet that Another goal is to solidify Parsed Corpus of Appala- generates more torque when it CUNY’s position in the vanguard of chian English hits the ball or a plastic that flexes materials science research which, she 8/26/2015 - 2/29/2016 Iin extreme cold, call a materials explains, “happens at the interface scientist. between physics, chemistry and engi- Simone Wegge But how do you build the sci- neering. We synthesize new materials, Associate Professor entists, themselves, particularly at investigate their structure and behav- Economics a university with a sizable minority ior and explore their applications. population that hasn’t known about “Materials science attracts NEH; Moving Beyond this select field? talented students with the promise of Rags to Riches The answer may lie in a $5 good-paying, continually interesting 7/1/2013 - 8/31/2014 million National Science Foundation jobs, and we’ve got those students.” In grant won by City College chemistry 2014, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statis- John Wing professor Maria Tamargo and her tics tallied 25,300 materials engineers Assistant Professor colleagues. Payable over five years and earning a median salary of $91,310. History renewable for another five, the grant “We have a nucleus of people who can The Feliks Gross from NSF’s Centers for Research teach it, though we aren’t organized as Endowment Award Excellence in Science and Technolo- a department.” 5/1/2015 - 4/30/2016 gy aims at increasing She has four multi- minority participation disciplinary co-principal in the sciences. CUNY investigators: physics pro- Xiaowen (Sean) Zhang Tamargo’s funding fessors Lia Krusin-Elbaum Assistant Professor supports a new Center AMERICAN and Swapan Gayen and Computer Science for Interface Design H H chemical engineering pro- National Science Foundation; and Engineered DREAM fessor Ilona Kretzschmar REU Site: Research Expe- Assembly of Low-di- MACHINE of City College, plus phys- rience for Undergraduate mensional Systems ical chemistry professor in Computational Methods (IDEALS) that opened Gustavo Lopez of Lehman in High Performance Com- at City College in April 2016. In plain College. Fifteen other professors also puting with Applications to language, it teaches students how participate. Computer Science, to build really small stuff that does Tamargo’s own research is in 10/1/2014 - 9/30/2017 really cool things. Things in zero, one semiconductor synthesis via mo- and two dimensions (yes, that makes lecular beam epitaxy, a process that sense to materials scientists): Dots, lays down layers of crystals in high THE CUNY GRADUATE crystals, wires, wells, barriers and vacuum to make the chips that run CENTER tubes needed for lasers, solar cells, sophisticated electronic devices. “We Andre Aciman TV screens and even cosmetics. They can deposit ultra-thin layers with Distinguished Professor can treat cancer and are the brains of different properties and stack them Comparative Literature quantum computers. in precise ways to give them unprece- Fondazione Pescarabruzzo; The center will create a two-year dented properties,” she explains. 2014 NordSud International professional master’s in materials Prize for Literature and science and lays the groundwork for “This is a transformative Science, 10/27/2014 an eventual Ph.D. program. It includes internships and other career-de- program that will have Juliette Blevins velopment opportunities. Students an impact on our institu- will learn to transform laboratory Professor concepts into real-world products tion even after funding Linguistics through patent writing and entrepre- Empirical Foundations of neurship training. They will graduate for the center ends.” Linguistics: data, methods, job-ready. — Maria Tamargo models; 2016; International Chairship at the Laboratoires d’excellence in France, 7/17/2015

CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 19 Matthew Gold John Mollenkopf Richard Schwartz Terry T.-K. Huang Levi Waldron Associate Professor Distinguished Professor Presidential Professor Professor Assistant Professor MA Program in Political Science Speech-Language-Hearing Healthy Weight Commitment National Institutes of Health; Liberal Studies Philanthropy New York - Clark Sciences Foundation; Assessing Integrative and Scalable National Endowment for the Foundation, Helmsley Foun- American Speech-Lan- Industry Investment on Com- Solutions in R/Bioconductor, Humanities (NEH); Project dation; Co-organizer of The guage-Hearing Association; munity-Based Healthy Eating, 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2019 Director of NEH Digital Hu- “Strengthening Communities The Honors of the Associa- Active Living and Healthy Fred Hutchinson Cancer manities Start-up Grant, “DH Summit,” 3/2/2015 tion, 11/30/2014 Weight Initiatives: A Research Research Center; Cancer Box,” 5/1/2015 - 6/30/2016, Partnership Proposal, Genomics: Integrative and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Leith Mullings Dennis Sullivan 1/22/2015 - 1/21/2018 Scalable Solutions in Co-Principal Investigator Distinguished Professor Distinguished Professor R/Bioconductor “Manifold Scholarship,” Anthropology Mathematics Andrew Maroko 9/1/2014/ - 8/31/2015 4/1/2015 - 3/31/2018 Carnegie Corporation of New Balzan Prize; 2014 Balzan Assistant Professor York, Andrew Carnegie Fellow; Prize, 11/30/2014 Retirement Research HOSTOS COMMUNITY Jean Graham-Jones “Racism and Anti-Racist Foundation; Task Force on the COLLEGE Professor Horizons in the Americas,” Lucien Szpiro Future of America’s Health & Vyacheslav Dushenkov Theatre 5/1/2015-5/1/2017 Distinguished Professor Retirement Security, Assistant Professor The International Mathematics 5/1/2015 - 4/30/2017 Natural Sciences Federation for Theatre David Nasaw Academia Europaea; Rutgers, The State University Research; President Arthur M. Schlesinger Profes- Elected as Member Denis Nash of New Jersey; Center for Bo- 2015-2017, 11/30/2014 sor History of Academia Europaea, Professor Health Research tanical Metabolic Syndrome Society of American Histo- 1/31/201 Inc.; End of the Epidemic 6/1/2014 - 5/31/2015 Dagmar Herzog rians; 2014-15 President, 4/1/2015 - 3/31/2016 Distinguished Professor 5/7/2014 John Torpey Cynthia Jones History Presidential Professor Brian Pavilonis Lecturer The Holocaust Educational Sociology Assistant Professor English Foundation; Distinguished Eastern Sociological Society; NIOSH; Occupational Exposure Carnegie Foundation for the Achievement Award in President Elect 2015-2016/ to cooking fumes in restaurant Advancement of Teaching Holocaust Studies, 11/1/2014 President 2016-2017, kitchens in NYC and Council for Advancement 12/23/2014 6/5/2015 - 6/30/2016 and Support of Education; Wendy Luttrell New York State Professor of Professor CUNY SCHOOL OF LAW Lorna Thorpe the Year, 11/20/2014 Urban Education Rebecca Bratspies Professor Centers for Disease American Council of Learned Frances Fox Piven Professor Control and Prevention; NYU- Linda Ridley Societies (ACLS); Distinguished Professor The Eastern Queens Alliance; CUNY Prevention Research Lecturer “Careful Visions: Political Science Going Green/Healthy Envi- Center, 9/30/2014 -9/29/2019 Business Re-imagining Education Puffin/Nation Prize for Cre- ronment Snowy Egret Award, Robert Wood Johnson Founda- The Case Centre; Case Writ- Through Working-Class ative Citizenship; 2014 Prize, 10/3/2015 tion; The New York City ing Scholarship, 11/28/2014 Children’s Eyes,” 12/8/2014 Macroscope Electronic Health 7/30/2015 - 7/30/2016 Susan Bryant Record Surveillance System: Mohammad Sohel Tony Ro Professor Phase II Evaluation and Associate Professor Gita Martohardjono Presidential Professor Society of American Law Diffusion of Innovation Natural Sciences Associate Professor Psychology Teachers (SALT); Great Teacher 2/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 U.S. Department of Energy’s Linguistics National Science Foundation; Award, 8/26/2015 Visiting Faculty Program at New York City Department Cortical Mechanisms for Emma Tsui Brookhaven National Labora- of Education; ELL (English Visual Perception, Julie Goldscheid Assistant Professor tory; Department of Energy’s Language Learners) Peri- 6/15/2014 - 10/31/2015 Senior Associate Dean ‘ Centers for Disease Control Visiting Faculty Program, odic Assessments, Native of Academic Affairs and and Prevention; Promoting 7/1/2015 Language Tasks (Chinese), David Savran Professor of Law low-wage and immigrant 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2018 Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Bar Association; worker health via communi- Anders Stachelek American Theatre 20/20 Vision Award, 8/1/2015 ty-based workforce develop- Assistant Professor Ruth Milkman Theatre ment organizations: Mathematics Distinguished Professor American Society for Theatre CUNY SCHOOL A qualitative study American Mathematical Sociology Research; Distinguished OF PUBLIC HEALTH 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2019 Association of Two-Year American Sociological Scholar Award, 11/20/2014 Nicholas Freudenberg Colleges Project ACCCESS Association; President for Distinguished Professor Fellow; Project ACCCESS 2015-16 (President-Elect Levitt Foundation; East Fellow, 9/1/2015 - 5/1/2017 2014-15), 6/12/2014 Harlem Youth Food Educators, 2/1/2015 - 1/31/2016

20 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Seny Taveras Howard A. Chernick David A. Foster Daniel Gardner Dixie J. Goss Executive Director Professor Economics Professor Associate Professor Professor of CUNY in the Heights Council for International Ex- Biological Sciences Social work Chemistry Continuing Education and change of Scholars; Fulbright PHS/NIH/National Cancer Gerontological Society National Science Foundation; Workforce Development Scholar Grant: Collaboration Institute; Dysregulated Met- of America; Improving Functional Role of BYDV 3’ LatinTRENDS Magazine; on Project on Energy Policy & abolic Cell Cycle Checkpoints Access to Palliative Care in RNA Translational Enhancer Latino Trendsetter Award Federalism; Lecture on Public in Human Cancer, Underserved Communities: Element, 2015, 2/2/2015 Finance, 3/1/2015 - 4/9/2015 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 Developing a Community- 8/1/2015 - 7/31/2016 Based Screening Tool for HUNTER COLLEGE Kelle Cruz Allan Frei Older Adults, Steven Greenbaum Tanya Agathocleous Assistant Professor Professor 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 Professor Associate Professor Physics and Astronomy Geography Physics and Astronomy English Jet Propulsion Laboratory; New York City Department Caroline Gelman Department of Defense/ American Council of Learned Confirmation of Young Brown of Environmental Protection; Associate Dean for Academic Air Force Office of Scientific Societies; Circuits of Dwarfs in Nearby Moving Climate Change Integrated and Faculty Affairs Research; Linear and Non- Disaffection: Criticism, Groups, Modeling Project Social Work linear Spetroscopic Studies Dissent and Affect in the 10/7/2014 - 9/30/2015 8/15/2014 - 8/14/2015 Gerontological Society of of Linear and Nonlinear Colonial Public Sphere, Department of Defense/Army; America; Opening the Door: Dielectrics and Interfaces, 9/1/2014 - 5/31/201 Tracy Dennis Case Study: U.S. Institute A Training for Engaging in 7/15/2014 - 7/14/2017 Professor Psychology of Water Resources & NYC Attuned Adult Protective U.S. Department of State/ Harvard University; Frontiers Department of Environment Services Work, Science & Technology Advi- of Innovation Program: Stress Protection 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 sor; Jefferson Science Fellow, Reduction Effects of a Mobile 6/30/2014 - 9/30/2014 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2015 App in Low-Income Youth, Department of Defense/U.S. 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2015 Nicholas Freudenberg Army; Liquid & Solid State PHS/NIH/National Institute Distinguished Professor NMR Characterization of of Mental Health; Attention Urban Public Health Lithium Battery Materials, Bias Modification for Anxiety: Levitt Foundation; 5/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 János A. Bergou A Randomized Control Trial East Harlem Youth Food Department of Defense/ Professor with Biomarkers, Educators Office of Naval Research; Physics and Astronomy 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 2/1/2015 - 1/31/2016 Broadband Nuclear Magnetic John Templeton Foundation; Nancy Giunta Relaxometry Studies on Decision Problems in Quan- Ilze Earner Nicholas Freudenberg Assistant Professor Energy Storage Materials, tum Information, Associate Professor Distinguished Professor Social work 7/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 8/1/2014 - 7/31/2015 Social work Urban Public Health Health Resources in Action; Eurasia Foundation; Child New York University/NIH Integrating The Positive De- Mark E. Hauber Markus Bidell Welfare Collaborative National Cancer Center; viance Approach Into Social Professor Associate Professor Exchange, Alternative Tobacco Products: Work Education & Practice In Psychology Educational Foundations and 4/1/2015 - 4/30/2015 Use, Adverse Effects and New York City, National Academy of Science; Counseling Programs Communication Patterns, 10/1/2013 - 6/11/2014 Tinkering or de Novo Fulbright Commission; Ful- Terrie Epstein 3/1/2014 - 2/28/2015 Evolution: The Neural Basis bright Fellowship: Regent’s Professor CASA Columbia; Youth Sarit Golub of Collective Defense University Scholar Award, Curriculum and Teaching Traditional and Alterna- Professor Mechanisms 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 American Educational Re- tive Tobacco Product Use, Physics and Astronomy 5/1/2015 - 6/30/2017 search Association; Research 4/13/2015 - 2/29/2016 PHS/NIH/National Institute of National Science Foundation; Kelvin Black on Teaching & Learning, Mental Health; Preparing for Collaborative Research: Assistant Professor 11/1/2014 - 10/31/2015 Elaine Gale Implementation of Sustained Mechanisms of Behavioral EngliSh Assistant Professor Release Antivirals for HIV Innovation in Broad Parasitic Woodrow Wilson National Fel- Maria Figueiredo-Pereira Special Education Prevention, Birds, 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2019 lowship Foundation; Thinking Professor National Science Foundation; 1/16/2015 - 11/30/2015 at the Limit: How the Words Biological Sciences Collaborative Research: Alberto Hernandez Reform & Revolution Shape Weill Cornell Medical Center/ Immediate Feedback to Hongmian Gong Associate Director the Way Britons & Americans NIH; Imaging Aromatase Ex- Support Learning American Professor Library & Archives Center for Think About Change, pression in Neuroinflamma- Sign Language through Geography Puerto Rican Studies 6/1/2014 - 6/30/2015 tion, 6/1/2014 - 5/31/2015 Multisensory Recognition, U.S. Department of Transpor- National Endowment for the 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2018 tation; Graduate Scholarship: Humanities; The Archives Lerone Savage, of the Puerto Rico Diaspora 1/1/2015 - 5/1/2016 Audiovisual Collection Preser- vation Assessment, 1/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 21 Mandë Holford Corina Lelutiu-Weinberger Brian Pavilonis Tyrel Starks Ming-Chin Yeh Associate Professor Research Associate Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor Chemistry Psychology Urban Public Health Psychology Urban Public Health National Academy of PHS/NIH/Fogarty Internation- NIOSH; Occupational PHS/NIH/National Institute U.S. Department of Veterans Sciences; Arab-American al Center; Building Mobile Exposure to cooking fumes in on Drug Abuse; Addressing Affairs; Approaches to Pre- Frontiers Fellowship, Health HIV-Prevention Ca- restaurant kitchens in NYC, Substance Use through CVCT, vent Cardiovascular Disease 6/1/2015 - 6/30/2015 pacity for MSM in Romania, 6/5/2015 - 6/30/2016 6/1/2014 - 3/31/2015 in Veterans, 9/10/2014 - 4/30/2015 10/1/2013 - 8/31/2014 Michael Hoyt Ofer Tchernichovski Assistant Professor Peter Marcotullio Professor Brian Zeglis Psychology Professor Psychology Associate Professor PHS/NIH/National Cancer Geography PHS/NIH/National Institute Chemistry Institute; Emotion- Orange County New York on Deafness and Other PHS/NIH/National Cancer Regulation, Inflammatory State; Regional Sustainability Communication Disorders; Institute; Pretargeted Processes and Depression in Plan-Implementation Project, Behavioral Mechanisms of Radioimmunotheraphy Based Prostate Cancer Survivors, 9/1/2014 - 12/31/2015 Vocal Imitation, 7/1/2014 - on Bioorthogonal Click Chem- 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 Jayne Raper 6/30/2015 istry, 6/12/2015 - 5/31/2016 Edwin Melendez Professor Elizabeth Kelvin Professor and Director Biological Sciences Lorna Thorpe Shengping Zheng Assistant Professor Center for Puerto Rican Ayco Charitable Foundation/ Professor Associate Professor Urban Public Health Studies Jayne and Neil Charitable Urban Public Health Chemistry International Initiative for New York State Education Fund; Study of Infectious Dis- Centers for Disease Control National Science Impact Evaluation Inc.; Department; Conservation ease, 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 and Prevention; NYU-CUNY Foundation; New Strategies Randomized Controlled Trial: Preservation Discretionary Prevention Research Center, and Methods for Synthesis of Self-Administered Grant, 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2015 Jonathan Redina 9/30/2014 - 9/29/2019 Indoles and Carbozoles Oral HIV Testing-Truck Research Scientist and Robert Wood Johnson 7/1/2016 - 6/30/2019 Drivers in Kenya Denis Nash Senior Data Analyst Foundation; The New York 11/1/2014 - 10/31/2015 Professor Psychology City Macroscope Electronic JOHN JAY COLLEGE Urban Public Health National Institutes of Health/ Health Record Surveillance OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE Karen Koellner Health Research Inc.; End National Institute on Drug System: Phase II Evaluation Amy Adamczyk Associate Professor of the Epidemic, 4/1/2015 Abuse; Developing a Mobile and Diffusion of Innovation, Associate Professor Curriculum and Teaching - 3/31/2016 Education Emotion Regulation Inter- 2/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Sociology University of Colorado/ Development Center, Inc.; vention for HIV- Positive Men, Lilly Endowment Inc. via National Science Maximizing Online Dissemi- 4/1/2015 - 3/31/2016 Levi Waldron University of Notre Dame; Pa- Foundation; An Efficacy Study nation and E-learning of HIV Assistant Professor rental Culture and Practices of the Learning & Teaching Care Strategies, William Solecki Urban Public Health of Intergenerational Trans- Geometry Professional 7/1/2014 - 3/31/2015 Professor National Institutes of Health; mission of Religious Faith to Development Materials Geography Integrative and Scalable Children: Contexts, Commit- 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2017 Benjamin Ortiz U.S. Department of the solutions in R/Bioconductor, ments, and Consequences Associate Professor Interior/National Park Service; 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2019 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2015 Alexis Kuerbis Biological Sciences Science & Resilience Institute Fred Hutchinson Cancer Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans- Assistant Professor American Association of at Jamaica Bay, Research Center; Cancer gender (LGBT) Social Science Social Work Immunologists; Careers in 9/10/2014 - 9/9/2016 Genomics: Integrative and and Public Policy Center at Feinstein Institute for Medical Immunology Fellowship, Scalabe Solutions in R/ Roosevelt House; Examining Research; Component Analy- 10/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 Ioannis Stamos Bioconductor Tolerance for Homosexuality: sis of Motivational Professor 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 A Cross-national Analysis Interviewing Jeffrey T. Parsons Computer Science 6/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 Distinguished Professor Google Inc.; Research Lei Xie Psychology at Google Associate Professor Michael Brownstein Rufina Lee Yale University/NIH; Interven- 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2015 Computer Science Assistant Professor Assistant Professor tion Development for Social Google Inc.; Classification of PHS/NIH/National Library of Philosophy Social Work Stress, Mental Health and HIV Vehicles in Points Clouds of Medicine; Drug Discovery American Council of Learned Research Foundation for Risk Among MSM, 7/1/2013 - Urban Scenes, by Integrating Chemical Societies; Fellowship - On the Mental Hygiene Inc.; First 4/30/2014 PHS/NIH/National 2/1/2015 - 1/31/2016 Genomics and Structural Virtues and Vices of Episode Program (FEP), Institute on Drug Abuse; Systems Biology Spontaneity 5/1/2014 - 12/31/2014 Syndemics Resilience for HIV 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 9/1/2014 - 5/31/2015 Transmission in a National Sample of Vulnerable Men, 4/4/2014 - 3/31/2015

22 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Jeffrey Butts Anthony Carpi Joshua Freilich 7/1/2014 - 12/31/2015 Deborah Koetzle Director Professor & Associate Provost Professor The Community Foundation Associate Professor Research and Evaluation and Dean of Research Criminal Justice & Criminal of Greater Birmingham Public Management Center Sciences & Office for the Justice PhD Program on behalf of Birmingham, New York State Division of Robert Wood Johnson Advancement of Research National Institute of Justice Ala.; Reducing Serious Criminal Justice Services; Foundation; Enhancing U.S. Department of Energy via Michigan State Universi- Violence in Birmingham, Ala., Program Fidelity Assessment Comparative Data in an via Savannah River Nuclear ty; An Assessment of Extrem- 11/15/2014 - 11/15/2016 and Technical Assistance Evaluation of Cure Violence Solutions LLC. ist Groups’ of Web Forums, Department of Justice via the Services for Communi- in New York City to Safeguard A Mechanistic Investigation Social Media, and Technology Chicago Police Department; ty-Based Criminal Justice the Study Design of Reduction and Volatiliza- to Enculturate and Radicalize Chicago Police Department Programs, 9/15/2014 - 3/14/2017 tion of Mercury Contaminants Individuals to Violence, Victims of Violence in Target- 10/1/2014 - 9/30/2017 New York City Department of in Soil at the Oakridge Y-12 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2016 ed Communities Initiative, Health and Mental Hygiene; National Security Complex 11/1/2014 - 10/31/2016 Anru Lee Assessing Infrastructure of 8/18/2015 - 8/17/2016 Wendy Guastaferro Mayor and Alderman of the Associate Professor Behavioral Health Services in Associate Professor City of Savannah; Reducing Anthropology New York City, Elise Champeil Public Management Serious Violence in Savan- The J. William Fulbright For- 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2016 Associate Professor DHHS Administration for nah, Ga., eign Scholarship Board; The New York City Council; Sciences Children and Families via 8/1/2015 - 7/31/2016 Afterlife of Women Workers: Implementation and Outcome National Institutes of Health; the University System of The John D. and Catherine How Postindustrial Taiwan Assessment of the New York Role of p21 Signaling Path- Georgia; Enhancing Safety T. MacArthur Foundation; Contributes to the Study of City Anti-Gun Violence Initia- way in Response to and Well-Being of Children Chicago Group Violence Gender and Global Capital- tive, 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2015 MC & DMC DNA Interstrand of Adult Drug Court Reduction Strategy, ism, 9/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 The Annie E. Casey Founda- Crosslinks Participants, 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2017 Oregon State University tion; Evidence Generation for 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 9/30/2014 - 9/29/2015 New York State Department - Chiu Taiwan Studies Pro- Youth Services, of Criminal Justice Services; gram; The Afterlife of Women 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2015 Preeti Chauhan Maria Hartwig Gun Involved Violence Elimi- Workers: How Postindustrial Portland State University; Assistant Professor Associate Professor nation (GIVE), Taiwan Contributes to the Evaluation of Reclaiming Psychology Psychology 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2015 Study of Gender and Global Futures Impact and Laura and John Arnold Federal Bureau of Investi- Capitalism, 12/30/2014 Strategies for Growth, Foundation; Misdemeanor gation (FBI) via University of 4/24/2015 - 5/31/2015 Justice Project - II, Texas at El Paso; High-Value Joshua Mason 6/17/2015 - 12/31/2017 Detainee Interrogation Group Assistant Professor (HIG): Intelligence Interview- Economics Tanya Coke ing and Interrogation, Institute for New Economic Distinguished Lecturer 9/24/2015 - 10/31/2015 Thinking; Fisher Dynamics’ Public Management of Debt-Income Ratios, NAACP Legal Defense and Yi He 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 Educational Fund Inc.; Associate Professor School-Justice Project, Sciences Bilal Khan Emily McDonald 10/1/2014 - 9/30/2015 U.S. Department of Agri- Professor Assistant Professor culture; 2015 E. Kika De La Mathematics and Computer Anthropology Cynthia Calkins Ric Curtis Garza Fellowship - Fostering Science National Institutes of Health Associate Professor Professor Authentic Learning at National Institutes of Health via The Regents of the Psychology Anthropology Hispanic Serving Institutions via New York University; University of California; New Department of Justice via National Institutes of Health by Integrating Research Addressing Hepatitis C and marketing and policies on Fairleigh Dickenson Univer- via New York University; Component in Curriculum, Hepatocellular Carcinoma: marijuana and e-cigarettes sity; Campus Sexual Miscon- Discovery to Implementation 6/17/2015 - 7/8/2015 The Current and Future impact on young adult tobac- duct: Using Perpetrator Risk & Back: Research Translation Epidemics, co use, 8/1/2014 - 7/31/2015 Assessment and Tailored for the HIV/SU Epidemic, David Kennedy 5/1/2015 - 4/30/2016 Treatment to Individualize 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2015 Professor & Director National Institutes of Health Sara McDougall Sanctioning, Criminal Justice & National via University of Nebras- Associate Professor History 5/1/2015 - 12/31/2015 Lisette Delgado-Cruzata Network for Safe ka-Lincoln; Injection Risks Institute for Advanced Study Assistant Professor Communities Networks in Rural Puerto at Princeton; Mellon Fellow- Sciences U.S. Department of Justice; Rico, 8/1/2014 - 7/31/2016 ship, 9/2/2014 - 6/30/2015 National Institutes of Health Office of Justice Programs; National Science Foundation; via Columbia University; The National Center for Building Collaborative Research: Ap- Undergraduate Research Community Trust and Justice, plying Behavioral-Ecological Program to Promote Diversity 9/1/2014 - 9/30/2017 Network Models to Enhance in Environmental Health Jackson County, Mo.; Distributed Spectrum Access Sciences (URPPD), Reducing Serious Violence in in Cognitive Radio, 4/2/2015 - 3/31/2016 Kansas City, Mo., 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2016 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 23 Steven Penrod Distinguished Professor Psychology National Science Foundation Finding the Corporate via Barnard College; The responsibility of judges to assure due process: Tension Story Often Hidden among neutrality, rights protection, and role, In the Numbers 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 LOKE (AL) GHOSH, an accounting pro- Ghosh ranges more widely on his blog, Eric Piza fessor at Baruch College’s Zicklin School alokeghosh.com, which is read by business-ori- Assistant Professor of Business, says he “sits on the border ented academics and accounting practitioners. Law, Police Science and Aterritory of account- Tesla Motors has yet to turn It offers concise case Criminal Justice ing and finance, with a studies of financial Administration forensic eye.” a profit, but its stock price smoke, mirrors and He received a 2016 skullduggery, along National Institute of Justice Fulbright Distinguished reached $207 in May 2016, with thoughts on via Rutgers University; A Chair Award, reserved up 900-plus percent since overlapping topics in Multi-Jurisdictional Test of for what Fulbright calls accounting, finance Risk Terrain Modeling and a “eminent scholars.” Over 2010. That may make sense and economics. Place-Based Evaluation of the next two years, he will Take the 2016 Environmental Risk-Based conduct research with a depending on how you scandal when the Patrol Deployment Strategies, cross-disciplinary group define value. Investors “are Swiss attorney general 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2015 of Finnish scholars into revealed that $4 billion the banking industry, not pricing Tesla, they are had been misappropri- Jason Rauceo the quality of audits and ated from state-owned pricing the ingenuity of companies in Malaysia Associate Professor cross-country variations in corporate governance. He — including more than Sciences [founder and CEO] Elon also will lecture and lead $1 billion swallowed National Institutes of Health; seminars for doctoral stu- Musk,” who also launched by the prime minis- Pathogenic Yeast Stress dents and faculty at Aalto ter’s personal bank Signaling Networks, University in Finland. Space X, SolarCity, account. 5/1/2015 - 2/29/2016 At Baruch, his rep- PayPal and more. “They’re His post details ertoire includes teaching how the transac- Belinda Rincon challenging accounting betting he’ll come up with tions occurred, then Assistant Professor courses required for the ingenious ideas.” provides the bigger Latin American and Latina/o CPA Exams. His goal is picture: “Emerging — Aloke (Al) Ghosh Studies & English to help students become markets and less developed countries National Academy of Sciences proficient in diverse accounting standards and practices while teaching must rely on reputation to attract much needed - Ford Foundation Fellow- them how to parse corporate financial state- private and public funds to spur economic ships; 2014 Ford Foundation ments. Under U.S. laws, publicly development. Therefore, the costs Postdoctoral Fellowship - traded companies must report to society from corruption … are Bodies at War: Genealogies of their financial status. “I specialize disproportionately higher than [in] War and Militarism in in detecting the quality of those CUNY wealthier countries. Yet, much too Chicana Literature and Cul- financial statements, and what AMERICAN often, the most egregious cases of ture, 9/1/2014 - 5/31/2015 you can discern about a company corruption are confined to poorer from them. Accounting is dense HDREAMH countries. Because of the massive Peter Romaniuk and often complex and tricky. benefits of corruption, there are Associate Professor The common parlance may be a MACHINE few incentives to institute legal and red flag to something a company enforcement structures to confront Political Science is trying to hide, but the numbers often tell a corruption … which in turn hinders economic Global Center on Cooperative hidden story.” development.” Security; Preventing Abuse of the Non-profit Sector to Finance Terrorism, 9/15/2014 - 9/14/2015 — Aloke (Al) Ghosh H Baruch College Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award

24 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 25 Douglas Salane among Persons with Psychi- Reza Fakhari LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY Elia Machado Professor atric Disabilities, Assistant Vice President COLLEGE Assistant Professor Mathematics & Computer 10/1/2014 - 9/30/2015 for Academic Affairs Preethi Radhakrishanan Environmental, Geographic Science U.S. Department of Education & Associate Provost and Associate Professor and Geological Sciences National Institute of Justice; via Rutgers University of Professor of History Natural and Applied Sciences Inter-American Institute for Assessing and Enhancing New Jersey; Treating Hidden Administration Elsevier Foundation; Global Change; Improving the Utility of National Barriers to Employment: Inte- Amnesty International USA; Motivating Enrollment of Preparedness to Extreme Incident-Based Crime Re- grated Treatment for PTSD in Elected Vice Chairman of the Women in STEM Majors Rain Events in Lake porting System (NIBRS) Data, Supported Employment, Board of Directors of Amnesty 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2017 Atitlan watershed 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2015 10/1/2014 - 9/30/201 International USA, 7/27/2014 through Education: LEHMAN COLLEGE A bottom-up approach Charles B. Stone KINGBOROUGH COMMUNITY Conrad Kreuter Luis Anchordoqui 9/15/2014 - 3/14/2016 Assistant Professor COLLEGE Lecturer Professor Psychology Loretta Brancaccio-Taras Tourism & Hospitality - Mari- Physics and Astronomy Andrew Maroko National Science Foundation; Professor time Technology National Aeronautics and Assistant Professor Health Collaborative Research: Biological Sciences U.S. Small Business Admin- Space Administration; Sciences Memory and Jury Delibera- American Society for Microbi- istration; U.S. Small Business U.S. Participation in the Retirement Research tion: The Benefits and Cost ology; The American Society Administration 2015 Phoenix Extreme Universe Foundation; Task Force on of Collective Remembering, for Microbiology 2016 Carski Prize for Outstanding Small 3/26/2015 - 3/25/2015 the Future of America’s 8/1/2014 - 7/31/2017 Foundation Distinguished Business Recovery, 5/8/2015 National Science Foundation; Health & Retirement Security, Undergraduate Teaching CAREER: Particle 5/1/2015 - 4/30/201 Brett Stoudt Award, 8/6/2015 Anna Rozenboym Phenomenology Cameron McNeil Assistant Professor Assistant Professor at the LHC Era Assistant Professor Psychology & Gender Studies Biological Sciences 8/27/2014 - 9/30/2016 Anthropology Program National Center for Science National Science Foundation; Bernard van Leer Foundation and Civic Engagement; 2014 Matthew Johnson Environmental Exploitation of The Hague; Uganda Data- SENCER-NSF Post-Institute Assistant Professor and Societal Collapse at Rio set, 11/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 Implementation Award, Mathematics and Amarillo, Copan Valley, Hon- 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2016 Computer Sciences duras, 8/1/2014 - 7/31/2016 Rebecca Weiss National Science Foundation; Assistant Professor Cheryl Smith INSPIRE: Joint Optimization Naphtali O’Connor Psychology Professor of Mutually Interfering Associate Professor American Psychology-Law So- English Thermoelectric Power Plants, Chemistry ciety; The Effect of Language Harold C Connolly National Council of Teachers 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2018 National Institutes of Health; and Culture: Appropriate Professor of English; Elected Secretary Polysaccharide – Polyamine Normative Data in a Hispanic Physical Sciences of the Two-Year College Dimitra Karabali Hydrogels, Sample, The Meteoritical Society; Association (TYCA), a Division Professor 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2018 12/4/2014 - 12/3/2015 Elected Fellow of the Meteor- of the National Council of Physics and Astronomy itical Society, 7/1/2015 Teachers of English (NCTE), National Science Foundation; Ryan Raaum Cathy Spatz Widom 11/3/2014 RUI: Studies in Field Theory: Associate Professor Distinguished Professor Anthony DiLernia Casimir Effect. Yang-Mills Anthropology Psychology Professor Joan Standora Theory, 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2017 Leakey Foundation; Seeking National Institute of Justice; Tourism & Hospitality - Mari- Associate Professor More Descendants of the A Supplement to Support the time Technology Behavioral Sciences and William Latimer Pre-Agricultural Populations Thirty-Year Follow-up of the U.S. Department of Com- Human Services Dean, Health Sciences, of East Africa, Cycle of Violence, merce National Oceanic and The White House Office of Human Services and Nursing 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2016 1/1/2012 - 4/30/2016 Atmospheric Administration National Drug Control Policy; Health Sciences Fisheries; Appointed as At- Office of National Drug National Institutes of Health; Stephen Redenti Philip Yanos Large Member on the Mid-At- Control Policy 2014 Four-Arm RCT of Brief MI Associate Professor Professor Psychology lantic Fishery Management Advocates for Action Award, vs. Couples-Based HIV/STI Biological Sciences National Institutes of Health; Council, 8/11/2015 3/11/2014 Prevention in South Africa, National Institutes of Health; Randomized Controlled Trial 9/1/2014 - 6/30/2016 Modeling Photoreceptor Treatment for Internalized Michael K. Weisberg Migration in Biomimetic Mi- Stigma in Schizophrenia, Professor croenvironments to Optimize 2/1/2015 - 1/31/2016 Physical Sciences Transplantation, U.S. Department of The Meteoritical Society; 7/15/2015 - 6/30/2018 Education/ Department of Elected as Secretary of the Health and Human Services; Meteoritical Society Council, Examining Determinants of 1/1/2015 Community Participation 26 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Christine Rota-Donahue MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE Surface Energy Balance, Gita Martohardjono Andrew Rosenberg Assistant Professor Brenda Greene 8/10/2015 - 5/9/2016 Associate Professor Assistant Professor Speech-Language-Hearing Professor Linguistics & Communication Computer Science Sciences Center for Black Literature QUEENS COLLEGE Disorders National Science Founda- American Hearing Research National Endowment for Sherry Baron New York City Department tion/Rochester Institute of Foundation; Behavioral the Arts; The National Black Professor of Education; ELL (En- Technology; HCC: Medium: Frequency Discrimination Writers Conference, 7/1/2015 Barry Commoner Center for glish Language Learners) Collaborative Research: in Children with Central Audi- - 12/31/2016 Health and the Environment Periodic Assessments, Native Generating Accurate, tory Processing Feinstein Institute for Medical Language Tasks (Chinese), Understandable Sign Lan- Disorder (CAPD), GUTTMAN COMMUNITY Research; Assessing the 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2018 guage Animations Based on 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2016 COLLEGE Impacts of Epidemlogic Analysis of Human Signing, Alia Tyner-Mullings Biases in World Trade Center Michael Mirkin 10/1/2014 - 6/30/2015 Moira Sauane Assistant Professor Health Studies, Professor Assistant Professor Academics 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2015 Chemistry and Biochemistry Biological Sciences Spencer Foundation; New York University School of National Science Foundation; National Institutes of Health; Transitioning from Medicine; Workplace Health Electro Chemistry on the Turning Inhibition of Trans- High-Stakes Testing: Research Network, Nanoscale, lation Initiation into Cancer How Performance-Based 9/30/2014 - 9/29/2016 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2017 Therapy, Assessment Shapes National Science Foundation; 8/1/2015 - 7/31/2018 Instruction, Curriculum, Jin Fan International Collaboration in and School Culture Professor Chemistry: Mechanistic Stud- 12/1/2014 - 5/31/2016 Psychology ies of Oxygen Electrocatalysis Simons Foundation; by Nanoelectrochemical Morris Rossabi NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF Investigating the Auditory At- Techniques, Distinguished Professor TECHNOLOGY tentional Networks in Autism 1/15/2015 - 12/31/2017 History Mariya Bessonov Spectrum Disorder, Smith Richardson Founda- Assistant Professor 11/1/2014 - 10/31/2015 Alfredo Morabia tion; China and Xinjiang, Mathematics Professor Tibet, and Inner Mongolia in National Science Foundation; Alexander Khanikaev Barry Commoner Center for Xi Jinping Era Katherine St. John Spatial Models in Ecology, Assistant Professor Health and the Environment 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2015 Professor 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2018 Physics Centers for Disease Control; Mathematics and Computer National Science Foundation; WTC-Heart: A Cohort Study of Cathy Savage-Dunn Sciences Corina Calinescu Collaborative Research: Heart Diseases in World Trade Professor Simons Foundation; Analysis Assistant Professor Science and Engineering of Center Responders, Biology of Tree and Network Metrics, Mathematics Topological Acoustics and 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2016 National Institutes of Health; 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2015 Simons Foundation; Vertex Mechanics, Regulations of Metabolism Algebra Structure, 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2018 Francesc Ortega by C. Elegans DBL-1/BMP Emma Tsui 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2017 Associate Professor Signaling Pathway, Assistant Professor Steven Markowitz Economics 8/1/2015 - 7/31/2018 Health Sciences Delaram Kahrobaei Professor National Science Foundation; Centers for Disease Control Professor Mathematics Barry Commoner Center for Collaborative Research: The Joel Sneed and Prevention; Promoting Office of Naval research; Health and the Environment Effect of H-1B Workers on Associate Professor low-wage and immigrant Homomorphic Encryption Assistant Secretary for Innovation and Productiv- Psychology worker health via and Application, Preparedness and Response; ity in United States Firms, National Institute of Mental community-based workforce 5/1/2015 - 4/30/2019 Developing an Android Mobile 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2017 Health; Mechanisms of Anti- development organizations: Phone Application to Conduct Depressant Non-Response in A qualitative study, Hamidreza Norouzi Onsite Hazard Assessment Carolyn Pytte Late Life, 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2019 Assistant Professor during Post-Disaster Clean- Associate Professor 1/1/2014 - 12/31/2014 Construction Management up and Reconstruction (Track Psychology MACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE and Civil Engineering Tech 1), 9/15/2014 - 9/14/2016 National Institutes of Health; Luat Vuong Elizabeth Reis Department of Defense - Assistant Secretary for Effects of Statins on Juvenile Assistant Professor Visiting Professor United States Army; Potential Preparedness and Response; Learning, Memory, and Physics Institute for Research on of Using Microwave Emission, Enhancing Community Disas- Neuroestrogen, 8/6/2015 - National Science Foundation; Women and Gender Fellow- 1/26/2015 - 1/25/2016 ter Resiliency in Immigrant 7/31/2018 I-Corps: Sorting of Metal ship; Institute for Research Department of Defense Worker Communities (Track for Electronic Recycling, on Women and Gender at U.S. Army; Developing 2), 9/15/2014 - 9/14/2016 6/1/2015 - 11/30/2015 the University of Michigan, an Approach to Map Air 10/25/2015 - 10/28/2015 Surface Maxima and Minima Temperatures by Exploring

CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 27 John Waldman Monica Trujillo Fermi National Accelerator Ulas Neftci Yan Chen Associate Professor Associate Professor Laboratory; “Mu2e Tracker Director Assistant Professor Biology Biological Sciences & Geology design and fabrication: Zicklin School of Business Computer Information United States National Park Department York College/CUNY tasks”, The Research Foundation for Systems Services; The Environmental National Science Founda- 6/1/2015 - 9/30/2015 The State University of New NIH/National Cancer History of Jamaica Bay: A tion; Pathways to Science, York; Midtown Manhattan Institute/New Jersey Institute Foundational Monograph 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2018 James Lewis Popp Small Business Development of Technology; (Post-Hurricane Sandy Associate Professor Center, A Family-Based Framework Study), 9/8/2014 - 9/7/2016 YORK COLLEGE Earth & Physical Sciences 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2016 of Quality Assurance for Susan Elizabeth Alter U.S. Air Force Offi ce of Biomedical Ontologies, Dana Weinberg Assistant Professor Scientifi c Research; “Threat Michael Seltzer 3/4/2015 - 2/28/2018 Professor Biology Detection Using a Modular Distinguished Lecturer Sociology National Science Founda- Cosmic Ray Muon Tomogra- Public Affairs Department of Veteran tion; “Bridge to Research in phy System,” The New York Community Affairs; Intergovernmental Environmental and Applied 1/15/2015 - 1/14/2018 Trust; New York Community Personnel Agreement, Metagenomics: An inqui- Fermi National Accelerator Trust Leadership Fellows, 8/22/2013 - 3/31/2015 ry-based module to build Laboratory; “Mu2e Tracker 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2015 core STEM competencies and design and fabrication: Daniel Weinstein improve retention among York College/CUNY tasks,” BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN Associate Professor underrepresented students”, 6/1/2015 - 9/30/2015 COMMUNITY COLLEGE Biology 9/1/2014 - 8/31/2017 Mahmoud Ardebili National Institutes of Health; Institutional Professor Vincent (Tzu Wen) Cheng Suppression of Inappropriate Leslie Susan Keiler Grants Science Assistant Professor Germ Layer Formation in the Associate Professor CUNY recipients of major United States Department of Speech, Communications and Vertebrate Embryo, Teacher Education institutional grants for Education; Minority Science Theatre Arts 5/1/2014 - 4/30/2016 National Science Founda- education and public service, and Engineering Improve- National Endowment for tion; “I-Corps: Scaling the January through December ment Program: Retention the Humanities; Cultivating QUEENSBOROUGH Peer Enabled Restructure 2015, as reported by their and Improvement in STEM, Global Competencies in a COMMUNITY COLLEGE Classroom (PERC) Program, campuses; many listings are 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2018 Diverse World, 1/1/2015 - Marie Chantale Damas 2/1/2015 - 7/31/2015 prospective. 12/31/2017 Assistant Professor Mohammad Azhar Physics Department Louis F. Levinger BARUCH COLLEGE Instructor Katherine Conway National Aeronautics and Professor Christina Diggs Computer Information Professor Space Administration; Biology Assistant Director Systems Business Management NASA Solar and Atmospheric National Institutes of Health/ Offi ce of Dean of Students United States Department of National Science Foundation; Research Program and National Institute of General The Carroll and Milton Petrie Education; Minority Science Can Student Characteristics Education Program, Medical Sciences; tRNase Foundation; The Carroll and and Engineering Improve- Be Used to Effectively 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2018 ZL is central to eukaryotic Milton Petrie Emergency ment Program: Retention Identify Students At-Risk pre-tRNA maturation, Student Grant Fund, and Improvement in STEM, in the Online STEM Simran Kaur 8/1/2015 - 7/31/2018 5/8/2015 - 5/7/2016 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2018 Environment? Associate Professor 3/1/2016 - 2/28/2018 Biological Sciences & Geology Karen Gourgey Helene Bach Department Director Director of Research Alex D’Erizans The J. William Fulbright Computer Center for Visually Academic Affairs Associate Professor Foreign Scholarship Board; Impaired People The New York State Education Social Sciences Core Fulbright United States New York State Offi ce of Department /The State National Endowment for Scholar Program to India, Children and Family Services University of New York; STEP, the Humanities; Cultivating 2/24/2015 - 1/31/2016 - Commission for the Blind; 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Global Competencies in a Providing Job Placement Ser- New York State Education Diverse World, Azita Mayeli vices to the NYS Commission Department (SED); Collegiate 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2017 Assistant Professor for the Blind, Science Technology Mathematics & Computer Kevin Richard Lynch 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2019 Entry Program Sunil Gupta Science Department Assistant Professor 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2020 Dean, Continuing Education National Science Foundation; Earth & Physical Sciences Brian Kane and Workforce Development International Conference U.S. Air Force Offi ce of Director The Carroll and Milton Petrie on Harmonic Analysis and Scientifi c Research; “Threat College Now Program Foundation; BMCC’s Path- Applications, Detection Using a Modular The State Education Depart- ways Workforce Transition 5/15/2015 - 4/30/2016 Cosmic Ray Muon Tomogra- ment; Baruch College STEP Program, phy System,” Academy, 11/1/2015 - 10/31/2017 1/15/2015 - 1/14/2018 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 28 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS DREAM MAKER Alia Tyner-Mullings Assistant Professor, Statistics, Sociology Guttman Community College/CUNY

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CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 29 Alyse Hachey Kathleen Offenholley Brett Sims Thomas Francis Brennan Neal Phillip Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Professor Professor Teacher Education Mathematics Mathematics Chemistry & Chemical Chemistry & Chemical National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation; United States Department of Technology Technology Can Student Characteristics A Simulation-Based Cur- Education; Minority Science New York State Education NOAA-CREST; BCC STEM Ma- Be Used to Effectively riculum to Accelerate Math and Engineering Improve- Department; Science and jors participation in the 2015 Identify Students At-Risk Remediation and Improve ment Program: Retention Technology Education Black Engineer of the Year in the Online STEM Degree Completion for and Improvement in STEM, Program (STEP), 7/1/2015 - Award (BEYA) Conference, Environment? STEM Majors, 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2018 6/30/2016 Washington, DC, 7/1/2015 - 3/1/2015 - 2/28/2018 5/1/2015 - 4/30/2018 6/30/2016 Ching-Song (Don) Wei Martin Fein Yi (Annie) Han Marjan Persuh Professor Professor Stacia Reader Professor Assistant Professor Computer Information Biology & Medical Lab Assistant Professor Mathematics Social Sciences Systems Technology Health, Physical Education United States Department of University of Michigan; National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation; and Wellness Education; Creating Career Nonconscious Working A Simulation-Based Cur- The Hunter Noyce Science Health Resources & Services Pathways in Mathematics Memory (WM): Evidence riculum to Accelerate Math Scholar Program (HC-NS- Administration Grant; Bronx Through the Recruitment Against Attentional Theories Remediation and Improve SP) Phase 2, 9/1/2015 - Health Opportunities Partner- and Retention of Talented of Consciousness, Degree Completion for 8/31/2020 ship-Einstein or Bronx HOPE, Community College Students, 6/1/2015- 5/31/2016 STEM majors 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2016 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2018 5/1/2015 - 4/30/2018 Alexandra Pyak BROOKLYN COLLEGE Michael A. Hutmaker Program Manager Claire Wladis Rebeca Boger Dean of Student Affairs BMCC Learning Academy Professor Assistant Professor Student Affairs Program Mathematics Earth & Environmental PFoundation/Citi Foundation; The New York Commu- National Science Foundation; Science Save for Success, nity Trust; The New York Can Student Characteristics NASA; Hydrosphere and 6/1/2015 - 6/1/2016 Community Trust Award to be Used to Effectively Iden- Biosphere GLOBE Protocols, BMCC/Liberal Arts Academy, tify Students At-Risk in the 3/1/2015 - 2/29/2016 6/1/2014 - 6/30/2016 Online STEM Environment? 3/1/2015 - 2/2/2018 Debra Gonsher Louise Hainline Jean Richard Professor Professor Professor BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE Communication Arts & Psychology Mathematics Eugene Adams Sciences RFSUNY (Stony Brook sub- United States Department of Director, Collaborative Knights of Columbus Founda- award via NIH); IRACDA- The Education; Creating Career Programs tion; Documentary Beauty of New York Consortium for the Pathways in Mathematics Strategic Initiatives Their Dreams, 12/1/2015 Advancement of Postdoctoral Lalitha Jayant Through the Recruitment New York State Education Scholars, Associate Professor and Retention of Talented Department; Science and Esther Levy 8/1/2015 - 4/30/2016 Science Community College Students, Technology Education Psychological Counselor National Science Founda- United States Department of 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2018 Program (STEP), 7/1/2015 - Student Development tion; Peer Assisted Team Education; Minority Science 6/30/2016 van Ameringen Foundation, Research: A Method for Early and Engineering Improve- Anna Salvati Inc.; Get PSyCh’D training Undergraduate Research, ment Program: Retention Assistant Professor Sunil Bhaskaran program, 11/3/2015 - 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 DHHS/ and Improvement in STEM, Computer Information Associate Professor 12/31/2016 NIH; Biomedical Training for 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2018 Systems Chemistry & Chemical Minority Honor Students at United States Department of Technology Emalinda McSpadden Brooklyn College, Jun Liang Education; Minority Science NOAA-CREST; BCC STEM Ma- Assistant Professor 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 Assistant Professor and Engineering Improve- jors participation in the 2015 Social Sciences National Institutes of Health; Science ment Program: Retention Black Engineer of the Year van Ameringen Foundation, Rise Option 2: Increasing NIH/National Institute and Improvement in STEM, Award (BEYA) Conference, Inc.; Get PSyCh’D training UNR Student Success in on Aging; Novel Function 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2018 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 program, 11/3/2015 - Science and Science Careers, of Chloride Intracellular Digital Globe Foundation 12/31/2016 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 Channel Protein (CLIC) and Grant; Digital Globe Founda- NYS Department of Educa- TGF-beta Signaling in Stress tion Imagery Grant, tion; Collegiate Science and Response and Health Span 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Technology Entry Program, in Caenorhabditis Elegans, 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 4/15/2015 - 3/31/2017

30 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Catherine McEntee Youth and Community Devel- THE CITY COLLEGE Alison Conway Beverly Falk Lecturer opment; SONYC Programs, OF NEW YORK Associate Professor Professor Biology 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Punit Arora Civil Engineering Teaching, Learning, and NYS Department of Education PFOUND/Agnes Varis Fund; Assistant Professor Department of Transportation Culture (Office of P-12 Education); Brooklyn College Art Lab, Economics and Business Federal Highway Adminis- Foundation for Child Science and Technology Entry 11/1/2015- 12/31/2016 National Collegiate Inventors tration; The Dwight David Development; High Quality Program (STEP) 2015-2020, NYC Department of Youth and & Innovators Alliance; Eisenhower Transportation Early Learning for a Chang- 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Community Development; Entrepreneurship in Fellowship Program, ing World: What Teachers of OST Middle School Expantion, Renewable Energy Systems Hispanic Serving Young Children Need Michael Meagher 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Design and Control, Institutions Fellowship, to Know and do, Professor NYC Department of 8/1/2015 - 12/31/2016 9/18/2015 - 9/17/2016 7/1/2015 - 8/31/2018 Education Education; Brooklyn College US Department of Education; Community Partnership 21st Gary Benenson Vasil Diyamandoglu Susannah Fritton Brooklyn College Educational CCLC, 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor Talent Search Program, NYC Department of Youth and Mechanical Engineering Civil Engineering Biomedical Engineering 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2016 Community Development; Fund for Public Schools; The New York City Department Cornell University; NASA/New NDA, 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Fund for Public School Project of Sanitation; New York City York Space Grant Consortium: Lorraine Mondesir with CCNY, Center for Materials Reuse, National Space Grant College Assistant Director BCCS Nancy Romer 6/10/2015 - 6/30/2016 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 and Fellowship Program programs Professor 2015-2018, Education Psychology Mary Erina Driscoll 5/1/2015 - 4/30/2016 US Department of Education/ NYS Department of Education Dean and Harold Kobliner Office of Postsecondary (Office of P-12 Education); Chair Jorge Gonzalez Education; Child Care Access Extended School Day, School of Education Professor Means Parents in School, 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 New York City Department Mechanical Engineering 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2016 NYC Department of Youth and of Education; New York City US Department of Education; Community Development; Teaching Fellows Cohort, The Alliance for Continuous Theodore Muth NDA, 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 6/1/2013 - 5/31/2016 Innovative Learning Environ- Associate professor NYC Department of Youth and Michael Bobker New York State Education ments in STEM, Biology Community Development; Director, Department; NYS District 10/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 National Science Foundation; NDA, 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Building Performance Lab Leadership Institute Blue- Urban Microbial Community Civil Engineering print for English Language Barry Gross Dynamics: A Classroom Deborah Shanley New York State Energy Re- Learners’ Success, 1/1/2015 Professor Approach, 7/1/2013 - Professor search and Development Au- - 6/30/2015 Electrical Engineering 6/30/2017 Education thority; Workforce Training for New York City; NYC Young National Aeronautics and United States Department of Energy Efficiency, 1/1/2014 Men’s Teaching Initiative, Space Administration; Laura Rabin Interior/National Park Service; - 6/30/2016 Various Private 10/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 ROSES/Topical Workshops, Professor Expand Internship Program Sources; NYSERDA-Sub- Symposia and Conferences, Psychology and Research-based Educa- sidized workforce training Dorthe Eisele 5/1/2015 - 4/30/2016 National Science Foundation tion and Teacher Professional program, Assistant Professor (REU); Intensive Mentored Development Program, 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2016 Chemistry Ramona Hernandez Research Experiences for 9/22/2015 - 12/17/2017 National Science Founda- Professor and Director Undergraduates in Psychol- Vincent Boudreau tion; MRI: Acquisition of a Dominican Studies Institute, ogy and Neuroscience at an Jacqueline Shannon Dean and Professor Multi-functional Near-field Sociology Urban College, 7/1/2015 - Associate Professor Political Science, Colin Powell Scanning Optical Microscopy New York City Council; Librar- 6/30/2018 Education School for Civic and (NSOM) System to Establish ies and Archives, New York City Department of Global Leadership a Cross-disciplinary 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Diane Reiser Health and Mental Hygiene; 21st Century Foundation; Nano-imaging/spectroscopy Chief Operating Officer Early Intervention Program, Colin Powell Center for Laboratory at CCNY, Yuri Job Brooklyn College Community 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Policy Studies, 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2018 Community Youth Programs Partnership 7/1/2013 - 6/30/2016 Director NYC Department of Youth and Government, Community & Community Development; Doris Cintrón Cultural Affairs Brooklyn College Community Senior Associate Provost and US Department of Education; Partnership at Paul Robeson Acting Dean City College Upward Bound, for the NDA- Educational Humanities and the Arts, 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2016 Support for High School Academic Affairs Procurement, Shippy Foundation; 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Shippy Scholars, DYCD/NYC Department of 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 31 H

32 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Camille Kamga Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Seeking a Genetic Approach US Department of Transportation; To Improve HIV Treatment University Transporta- tion Research Center, RUCE JOHNSON grew up in Washington structures, how they work and under what conditions. 9/1/2014 - 5/31/2016 State, worked his way through college as a com- During a subsequent 15-year career at the pharma- New York State ceutical giant Merck, Johnson began developing the mercial salmon fisherman, majored in marine Department of biology and expected to become an environ- software for which he has become prominent: algo- B Transportation; mental lawyer. rithms and programs for visualizing University Transporta- What this scientist at A new class of anti- and analyzing NMR spectroscopy the CUNY Advanced Science HIV drug is needed data that have become indispensable tion Research Center, Research Center did become tools for finding new drugs to fight a 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 is something far upstream: a because current host of diseases. computational scientist and treatments “target In 2005, Johnson left Merck to Jonathan Levitt structural biologist who cre- form a company, One Moon Scientif- Professor ated some of the world’s most the proteins that HIV ic, to commercialize his software and Biology important drug-development license it to other researchers. His makes and uses. National Institutes of software. He also has been a key major software, called NMRViewJ, Health; Minority Access member of a nationwide team remains one of the leading programs There are no treat- to Research Careers of researchers, supported by a that scientists worldwide use to (MARC) Honors Un- major grant from the National ments that work via process and analyze their NMR data Institutes of Health (NIH), that on materials ranging from proteins to dergraduate Research is pursuing an intriguing genetic the RNA molecule, nucleic acids. Training Program, approach to improving HIV which is the virus’s One of those scientists is Kevin 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 treatment. Gardner, director of the ASRC’s “Thinking about becoming fundamental genetic Structural Biology Initiative, who has Sharon Mackey-McGee an environmental lawyer when material. It’s an un- used Johnson’s software for virtually Executive Director I was young, I found I needed his whole career. In 2014, Gardner Continuing and to know more and more about tapped target for recruited Johnson to CUNY’s new Professional Studies how organisms worked, if science center from the University of New York State Educa- that’s what I was going to do,” possible therapeutics.” Maryland, Baltimore County; he had tion Department; Johnson says. “And I just sort joined its research faculty a few years Workforce Investment of ended up on this spiral into more and more detail, after starting his software company. which eventually brought me into a whole new world Johnson’s recent work has focused on RNA Act (WIA): Adult of drug discovery.” molecules as a new approach to battling the HIV Education and Johnson came to that world — and the broader virus. He’s a principal investigator in the Center for Literacy, one he inhabits as a leader in scientific software devel- HIV RNA Studies, a nationwide consortium of 20 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 opment — by way of a series of fortunate adventures researchers in a range of disciplines that is funded by a New York in science. While earning his Ph.D. in zoology from five-year, $21-million grant from NIH and based at the Office of the Mayor; Duke University, he studied blue University of Michigan Medical School. Adult Literacy crabs at Duke’s marine lab, where The team published its first work Program, 7/1/2015 - he learned about the biochemistry CUNY in the spring 2015, a paper in the journal 6/30/2016 of both crustaceans and humans: Science that reported advances — using New York City Human Blue crabs, it turns out, have AMERICAN software Johnson developed for the Resource Administra- oxygen-transfer proteins that are HDREAMH research — in understanding the structure analogous to human hemoglobin. of the part of the RNA molecule that is the tion; Perfect Oppor- Johnson moved to Yale for MACHINE genetic material of the HIV virus. This tunity for Individual postdoctoral work in molecular study shed new light on the role of the Skills and Education biophysics and biochemistry. That virus’s RNA in in its replication. Development (POISED) turned out to be pivotal, for he began working with “Though we have some amazing therapeutics for Success: Pregnant the research technique that became his stock in trade: for HIV, there’s still a huge unmet need for new ones TANF Participants nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. because the drugs do have side effects and they are Program, The technology uses the magnetic fields of expensive, especially for people in poor countries,” 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 molecules to reveal important things about their Johnson says. New York City Housing Authority; High School — Bruce Johnson Equivalency Prepa- ration and Computer CUNY Advanced Science Research Center Instruction Course, H 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 National Institutes of Health Grant Tides Foundation;

CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 33 Countering Inhuman ‘Western Humanism’

N A NOTED TRIO OF BOOKS, Distin- “I have a longstanding interest in like Federico Garcia Lorca and Pablo guished and Presidential Professor Rob- Afro-American cosmopolitanism, because Picasso engaged with black expatriates like ert Reid-Pharr of the CUNY Graduate many black intellectuals have lived and Chester Himes, Langston Hughes, Nella ICenter has chronicled the complexities traveled abroad,” says Reid-Pharr, a promi- Larsen and Richard Wright. The result of of African-American intellectual life in the nent cultural and literary critic. Their Reid-Pharr’s analysis is Archives of Flesh: contexts of race, gender, class and sexual- flight to France during the Jim Crow era African America, Spain, and Post-Human- ity. With a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim gets the most attention, but he “wanted to ist Critique. Publisher NYU Press says he Memorial Foundation Fellowship, he is talk about Spain, where there is a pretty “argues that key institutions in Western finishing a fourth, due out this winter and amazing archive that treats Afro-Ameri- Humanism, including American colleges sure to make waves; his publisher says it cans from the late 1890s to the mid-1950s.” and universities, developed in intimate re- challenges “the anti-corporeal, anti-black, During this period bracketed by lations to slavery, colonization, and white anti-human biases that stand at the heart post-colonialism, fascism and war, rag- supremacy.” of Western Humanism.” time, jazz and bebop, Spanish intellectuals He also directs the Institute for

H— Robert Reid-Pharr CUNY Graduate Center Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

34 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Countering Inhuman ‘Western Humanism’ CUNY Research on the African Dias- whose archives in this coun- “Though each project seems to pora in the Americas and the AMERICAN try and in France have just Caribbean (IRADAC). With HDREAMH become available. “I’m scared stand by itself, I think of myself more people of African descent out of my shoes about writing as engaged in an intellectual coming to the United States an- MACHINE a biography in which I want nually than in any peak year of to place this person in the big project that has its own arc. the slave trade, “The American world. It’s a way of writing people will have to get more comfortable I’ve never tried before … I’m always shocked Each book speaks to the others with the fact that every face is an American by people, including students, who don’t in a field that’s important to the face. There is no other option.” know what they want to do. I wish I had the Reid-Pharr also will use his Guggen- ability to do a dozen things that are on my country and to me.” heim grant to begin research on a biography mind. I’m just as hungry and curious and of “a major 20th-century American writer” competitive as I’ve ever been.” — Robert Reid-Pharr

CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 35 West Harlem Development Richard Steinberg Terri Nicol Watson Shawn Denise Landry Children; Graduate NYC! - Corporation Fund: Workforce Professor Assistant Professor Director - Liberty partner- The College Completion and Economic Development Secondary Education Leadership and Special ships program Innovation Fund, Initiative, 1/1/2015 - New York State Education Education New York State Department 4/17/2015 - 4/30/2016 12/31/2015 Department; The New York Tides Foundation; (Re)Fram- of Education; Liberty partner- The New York City- wide Middle School ing Parent Involvement in ships Program, Community Trust; Graduate Vinod Menon Science Professional Devel- Urban Schools: A Case Study, 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2016 NYC!, 12/8/2015 Professor and Director, opment Project, 9/25/2015 - 9/24/2016 CUNY CAT 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2016 Irina Lyublinskaya Cass Conrad Physics COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND Professor Executive Director, School Office of Naval Research; Jane Coffee Curriculum and Instruction Support and Development Support for META 2015 Professor National Science Founda- Academic Affairs conference at City College Mathematics tion; Robert Noyce Teacher New York City Department of New York, National Science Founda- Academy at the College of of Education; School 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 tion; Robert Noyce Teacher Staten Island, Support Organization Project, Academy at the College of 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2020 5/1/2015 - 4/30/2020 Shakila Merchant Staten Island, 10/1/2015 - Assistant Director, 9/30/2020 Susan Sullivan Eric Hofmann CUNY CREST Despina Stylianou Professor University Director for CUNY NOAA CREST Professor Christopher Cruz Cullari Educational Studies Collaborative Programs New York City Department Secondary Education Executive Director National Science Academic Affairs of Education; NOAA CREST New York City Department of Continuing Education and Foundation; Robert Noyce The Pinkerton Foundation; STEM Collaborative with Education; Mathematics Professional Development Teacher Academy at the College Now STEM Research NYC Department of English in the City: New York City Office of the College of Staten Island, Academy, Language Learners and Math-Related Services and Mayor; Adult Literacy Pro- 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2020 3/11/2015 - 3/15/2016 School Support, Professional Development, gram, 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 2/16/2015 - 6/30/2015 4/1/2015 - 3/31/2020 Eleni Tournaki Donna Linderman Technical Education Debra Evans-Greene Professor University Dean for Student Neville Parker Research Centers, Inc.; A Coordinator-The College Educational Studies Success Initiatives Professor Comparison of Early Algebra Success Initiative Program National Science Academic Affairs Civil Engineering Instruction and Arithme- Academic Affairs/Provost Foundation; Robert Noyce The Carroll and Milton Petrie National Science Foundation; tic-based Instruction on Office Teacher Foundation; CUNY Summer NYC Louis Stokes Alliance, Student’s Algebra-Readiness NYC City Council; Black Academy at the Start, 11/5/2015 9/1/2012 - 8/31/2018 for Middle School, Male Initiative, 7/1/2015 - College of 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2016 6/30/2016 Staten Island, Leslee Oppenheim Millicent Roth Various Private Sources; 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2020 University Director, Language Deputy Dean for Undergradu- Mathematics in the City: and Literacy Programs ate Programs and Professor, Mathematics Education at CUNY ADVANCED SCIENCE Academic Affairs Psychology Science CCNY, 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 RESEARCH CENTER New York State Education New York State Education De- Rein Ulijn Department; High School partment; Collegiate Science Elizabeth Thangaraj Director of Equivalency Preparation, & Technology Entry Program, Director, Student Support Nanoscience; 6/1/2015 - 3/31/2016 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Services Professor Academic Affairs United States Air Force; Super Rachel Stephenson Ruth Stark US Department of Education; Resolution Microscopy for University Director, Distinguished Professor and Student Support Services Pro- Michael Kress Bioinspired CUNY Service Corps Director, CUNY Institute for gram, 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2016 Vice President for Information Nanomaterials Academic Affairs Macromolecular Assemblies Technology and Economic at CUNY, City of New York Human Re- Chemistry Linda Villarosa Development; Executive 9/30/2015 - 9/29/2016 sources Administration and US Department of Education; Assistant Professor Director of the CUNY High Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Doctoral Training in Bio- Media & Communication Arts Performance Computing CUNY CENTRAL OFFICE Affairs; ActionNYC, chemistry, Biophysics, and Institute of International Edu- Center Lisa Castillo Richmond 4/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Biodesign at the City College cation; Harlem Focus Website Office of Technology Systems Executive Director, of New York, Project, NYC City Council; Graduate NYC! 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Mellon Foundation; Partnerships and Community NOAA-CREST; BCC STEM The Teagle Foundation; The Humanities Teaching and Amy Perez Engagement Majors participation in the PRIME: Project for Relevant Learning Alliance, Program Director Provost VP Academic Affairs 2015 Black Engineer of the and Improved Mathematics 9/26/2015 - 10/10/2020 School of Professional City University of New York; Year Award (BEYA) Education, Studies PREP for Success: 21st Conference, 12/15/2015 - 7/30/2019 CUNY SCHOOL New York City Human Century Skills in Demand 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES Resources Administration, Internship Program, Digital Globe Foundation David Olan Andrew Boyarsky Office of Child Support 11/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Grant; Digital Globe Interim Associate Provost & Program Director Enforcement; OCSE-CUNY Foundation Imagery Grant, Dean/Humanities & Social School of Professional Training Program, Laura M. 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Andrea Fabrizio fession Opportunity Grants to Grad NYC-College Completion Investment Initiative; Sizing 1199SEIU League Training Associate Professor Serve TANF Recipients - Allied and Innovation Fund (CCIF); Up: Growing First Year Experi- and Upgrading Fund; English Health Career Pipeline, Project STARS (Student ence, 11/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 1199SEIU Colloquium Series Apgar Foundation, Inc.; 9/30/2015 - 9/29/2016 Achievement and Retention Program, Core Books Program, Support), HOSTOS COMMUNITY 9/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 5/1/2015 - 4/30/2016 Debra Mack-Glasgow 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2018 COLLEGE The New York Community Program Director The City University of New Virginia Almendarez Trust; Food Businesses Evelyn Fernandez-Ketcham Continuing Education & York, Chancellor’s Strategic Assistant Vice President Partnerships and Curriculum Community Outreach Workforce Development Investment Initiative; Expe- Office of Institutional Development, Program Director New York Human Resources riential Learning Opportuni- Advancement 9/17/2015 - 9/16/2016 Continuing Education & Administration; Jobs Plus ties: Breaking Boundaries at CITGO; Academic Achievers Workforce Development Program- Jefferson Houses, Guttman Community College, and Scholarship Programs, US Department of Health and 7/1/2015 - 3/31/2016 11/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2016 Human Services; Health Pro- The City University of New fession Opportunity Grants to Fatiha Makloufi York, Chancellor’s Strategic Nieves Angulo Serve TANF Recipients - Allied Director of College Transition Investment Initiative; Sizing Professor Health Career Pipeline, Programs Up: Growing First Year Experi- Mathematics 9/30/2015 - 9/29/2016 Continuing Education & ence, 11/3/2015 - 6/30/2016 US Education Department/ US Department of Health Workforce Development The City University of New HSI STEM (in collaboration and Human Services; Health Robin Hood Foundation/ York; PREP for Success: 21st with City College); The Careers Opportunity Program, CUNY; At Home College, Century Skills in Demand Alliance for Continuous Inno- Nathaniel Cruz 9/1/2015 - 8/30/2016 4/21/2015 - 4/20/2016 Internship Program, vative Learning Environment Vice President, Student Capital One Foundation; 11/3/2015 - 6/30/2016 in STEM (CILES), Development & Enrollment Talent Pipeline to Meet Christine Mangino 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2016 Management Regional & Local E Interim Provost & Vice Bruce Lyons New York City Human mployer Needs, President Assistant Director Susan Bronson Resources Administration; 11/16/2015 - 11/15/2016 Office of Academic Affairs of Communications Development Corporate COPE Graduation Success New York Education Depart- President and Foundation Relations Initiative (GSI) Johanna Gomez ment; Collegiate Science and The Malcolm Gibbs Founda- Manager 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Assistant Dean of Student Life Technology Entry Program tion; Equipped for Success, Institutional Advancement New York City Human Student Development & (CSTEP), 8/15/2015 - 8/15/2016 The Carroll and Milton Petrie Resources Administration; Enrollment Management 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Foundation; Construction COPE Program 1199SEIU League Training & New York Education Depart- Nate Mickelson Industry Workforce 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Upgrading Fund; 1199SEIU ment; Science and Technol- Assistant Professor Development Program, Student Counseling Services, ogy Entry Program (STEP), Academics 11/5/2015 - 10/31/2016 Molly Delano 2/1/2015 - 12/31/2015 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 The Robin Hood Foundation; The Lucius N. 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Weill Mobility Skills for People New York City, City Council; in Teaching and Research, Parenting Teens, Women, Medical College of Cornell with Visual Impairments, Fatherhood Academy, 5/1/2015 - 4/30/2016 Fathers and Their Families, University; Photosensitizer 8/1/2014 - 7/31/2015 10/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 8/1/2015 - 7/31/2016 Chlorin Drug for Diagnostic New York State Education Zvi Ostrin and PDT Treatment of Den- Jeanne Weiler Department; Vocational Assistant Professor HUNTER COLLEGE gue, 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2016 Associate Professor Education Program (Perkins), Natural Sciences Jamie Bleiweiss Educational Foundations and 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 City University of New York; Assistant Professor Frank Gardella Counseling Programs New York Department of Community College Collab- Special Education Associate Professor National Science Foundation; Correction; Next Step Project, orative Incentive Research New York City Department Curriculum and Teaching The Hunter Noyce Science 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Grant (C3IRG), of Education; Professional New York City Department of Scholar Program (HC-NSSP) New York Department of 9/1/2015 - 6/1/2016 Development Services in Education; Mathematics and Phase 2 Labor; Unemployed Worker Silvia Reyes Special Education, Science Partnership Project, 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2020 Training, Program Director 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2015 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2015 2/23/2015 - 2/22/2016 Office of Academic Affairs JOHN JAY COLEGE New York City Human US Department of Education; Matthew Caballero Harriet Goodman OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE Resources Administration; Higher Education - Institu- Associate Dean Associate Professor Ellen Belcher Job Plus Program - Jefferson tional Aid - Title V, School of Education Social Work Assistant Professor & Special Houses, 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2016 New York State Education New York City Department of Collections Librarian 7/1/2015 - 3/31/2016 Carroll and Milton Petrie Department; Clinically Rich Probation; New York City Mod- Library CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 39 Metropolitan New York Library Lynette Cook-Francis Keeping America Safe: Justice Good Ole Lower East Side Pinkerton Foundation; Pinker- Council (METRO); Digitizing Vice President of in the 21st Century Inc.; Community-Led Alterna- ton Fellowship Initiative, Policing: Opening Access to Student Affairs 9/1/2015 - 12/31/2016 tives for Permanent Exclusion 6/1/2015- 8/31/2016 Law Enforcement Resources, Student Affairs Inter-American Development Initiative - New York City David Rockefeller Fund; 11/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Single Stop USA, Inc.; Bank; Communicating Housing Authority Workgroup, New York State Prison to Single-Stop Services Justice: A Workshop for Senior 9/1/2015 - 9/1/2016 College Pipeline Education- Dara Byrne 5/5/2015 - 6/30/2016 Public Affairs Specialists The Teagle Foundation; al Initiatives Expansion, Interim Associate Provost and Managers in Law Liberal Arts Education beyond 7/1/2015 - 8/31/2016 The and Dean of Undergraduate Jeffrey Coots Enforcement, Interior the Academy, Tow Foundation; Tow Advo- Studies Director, From Punishment to Ministries and other Offi cial 1/1/2016 - 12/31/2017 cacy Fellowship Initiative, Undergraduate Studies Public Health (P2PH) Entities in Latin America and The Fortune Society Inc.; 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Robin Hood Foundation; Offi ce for Strategic Initiatives the Caribbean, 9/1/2015 College Readiness Program, John Jay ACE (Accelerate, Department of Health and - 2/1/2016 Solutions Journal- 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Jane Katz Complete, Engage) Program, Mental Hygiene; From Punish- ism Network Inc.; Reducing The Pinkerton Foundation; Professor 2/3/2015 - 8/6/2016 ment to Public Health (P2PH), and Preventing Violence: Mentoring Program, Health & Physical Education 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Strengthening Journalism 7/1/2015 - 12/31/2016 The Agnes Varis Fund; Water Anthony Carpi About What Works, Iconic 32 LLC; Prison to Exercise Techniques for Veter- Professor & Associate Josefi na Couture 5/1/2015- 4/30/2016 College Pipeline Donation, ans (WETs 4 VETS), Provost of Research Director of Educational Talent 5/1/2015 - 4/30/2020 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Sciences/ Offi ce for the Search Yi He New York State Division of Advancement of Research Educational Talent Search Associate Professor Criminal Justice Services; David Kennedy US Department of Education; US Department of Education; Sciences Prison to College Pipeline Professor/ Director, A Success Pipeline for John Jay College Educational Shimadzu Corporation; (P2CP), National Network for Safe Hispanic Students: Expand- Talent Search, Equipment Grants for 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2016 Communities ing a Model Transfer Articu- 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2016 Research Mass Spectrometry J.M. Kaplan Fund; Building Criminal Justice/ National lation Program by Supporting Program, 8/3/2015 Pathways from Prison to Col- Network for Safe Cohort Identity, Academic lege, 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Communities Progress, and Learner-Cen- Martin Horn Edward S. Moore Family U.S. Department of Justice‚ tered Curriculum, 1 Distinguished Lecturer Foundation; Workgroup on Offi ce on Violence against 0/1/2015 - 9/30/2016 Law, Police Science, and New York Housing Author- Women; The National Network US Department of Education; Criminal Justice Adminis- ity Permanent Exclusions, for Safe Communities: Creating Hispanic Scientists: tration 3/1/2015 - 11/30/2015 An Approach to Reducing A Model Articulation Program The Jacob & Valeria Lange- Harry J. Brown Jr. Foundation; Serious Domestic Violence, between Hispanic Serving loth Foundation; Approaches Workgroup on New York 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2017 Institutions, Jessica Gordon Nembhard to Reforming Long-Term Housing Authority Permanent Mayor and Alderman of the 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2016 Professor/ Director, McNair Isolation: A Convening to Exclusions, 3/1/2015 - City of Savannah; Reducing New York State Education Post-Baccalaureate Program Further a National Consensus 2/28/2016 Serious Violence in Savan- Department; Collegiate Africana Studies/ McNair on Ending the Over-Use of Laura and John Arnold Foun- nah, Georgia, Science and Technology Entry Post-Baccalaureate Program Extreme Isolation, dation; Developing a National 8/1/2015 - 7/31/2016 Program (CSTEP), US Department of Education; 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Agenda for Pretrial Research, City of Paterson, New Jersey; 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Ronald E. McNair Post- 9/17/2015 - 11/30/2016 Reducing Serious Violence Baccalaureate Program, Ann Jacobs New York City Council; in Paterson, New Jersey, Shu Yuan Cheng 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2016 Director, Prisoner Reentry CUNY Black Male Initiative, 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Associate Professor Institute 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Community Foundation of Sciences Debra Hairston Prisoner Reentry Institute Ford Foundation; Corridors St. Joseph County; Reducing Shimadzu Corporation; Director of Special Programs The Jacob & Valeria Lange- of College Success, Prison to Serious Violence in South Equipment Grants for Graduate & Professional loth Foundation; Approaches College Pipeline, Bend, Indiana, Research Mass Spectrometry Studies to Reforming Long-Term 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2015 Program, 8/3/2015 New York City Department Isolation: A Convening to Ford Foundation; Corridors State of Connecticut via of Homeless Services; Further a National Consensus of College Success, Prison to University of New Haven; Marta Concheiro-Guisan Basic Peace Offi cer Training, on Ending the Overuse of College Pipeline, Preventing Gang Violence Assistant Professor 12/1/2014 - 11/30/2017 Extreme Isolation, 2/1/2015 - 7/31/2016 in Connecticut: Continued Sciences 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 New York City Young Men’s Efforts in New Haven, Launch Shimadzu Corporation; Stephen Handelman New York State Offi ce of Initiative; New York City in Bridgeport and Hartford, Equipment Grants for Director Children and Family Service; Justice Corps, 7/1/2014 - 6/30/2015 Research Mass Spectrometry Center on Media, Crime and Providing Transitional 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Program, 8/3/2015 Justice Services to Participants in New York City Center for Eco- The Harry Frank Guggenheim the Brookwood Secure Center nomic Opportunity; New York Foundation; Crime in America College Program, City Justice Corps, 7/1/2015 11th Annual Symposium - 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 - 6/30/2016 40 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS DREAM MAKER Charlotte Walker-Said Assistant Professor, Human Rights and International Law John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY

HER STORY Has mentored students who studied the mistreatment of indigenous people in Ecuador. ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2016 AAUP Fellowship for book on law and Christianity in Cameroon. GOAL As co-chair of John Jay’s effort to launch a human rights master’s degree, she wants to “open new career paths in social justice.” cuny.edu/welcome Ernest Lee Program (CSTEP), Executive Director New York City Department Services Associate Director, McNair 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 On Stage At Kingsborough of Education; Universal Office of Student Affairs Post-Baccalaureate Program/ Investors Foundation; On Prekindergarten Services, US Department of Adjunct Assistant Professor Katalin Szur Stage at Kingsborough, 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Education; TRIO Student McNair Post-Baccalaureate Senior Director, Student Aca- 10/15/2015 - 6/30/2016 New York Community Bank Support Services Program, Program/ Political science demic Success Programs New York City Department Foundation; Child 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2016 U.S. Department of Educa- Student Academic Success of Cultural Affairs; FY16 Development Center, Mara Gittleman tion; Ronald E. 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SSISTANT PROFESSOR Hao mathematical modeling works well Tang’s world is not quite that and consistently.” of the CBS-TV crime thriller His initial algorithm counted A“Person of Interest,” where an the people in each surveillance image all-seeing machine predicts future and tracked their trajectories as they events. But the U.S. Department of moved from camera to camera. His Homeland Security (DHS) does sup- current work changes statistical meth- port his research into software that ods by measuring crowd density, rath- harnesses hundreds of surveillance er than individuals. (And no, unlike cameras to predict crowd behavior. on TV, he doesn’t pinpoint particular “Homeland Security individuals in the crowd.) is very interested in the Tang’s specialty is New York City metro- CUNY computer vision, a branch politan area, which has of artificial intelligence. huge transportation AMERICAN “I take images and try to hubs, like the Port H H extract semantic infor- Authority bus terminal DREAM mation, including object and Penn Station,” MACHINE detection and recognition says Tang, who teach- and 3D modeling recon- es about computer struction. It’s training a information systems at Borough of computer to mimic the human brain. Manhattan Community College. “They There are so many applications in want to predict what would happen if education, health and defense.” there is any change in function, or if “The whole world probably has renovations change the layout, both 200 million civilian cameras, but only for normal traffic flow and for emer- 1 percent are monitored by human gencies.” operators, except when something This $50,000 award, one of sever- exciting happens. I think the camera al funding his ongoing research, comes and big data can be used not only for from the DHS Summer Research archiving – for evidence – but also to Team Program for Minority Serving predict and prevent bad things from Institutions and is only the second happening. For that, you need an arti- to a two-year college in 11 years. His ficial intelligence algorithm to do the teams have included students from video analysis in real time, as the video BMCC and CCNY, as well as doctoral is being captured.” students. Tang is part of a multi-universi- Hao Tang and collaborators ty-industry consortium that sounds as at City College (professor if it comes from another TV thriller. CCICADA (the Command, Control Zhigang Zhu) and at Rutgers and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis), headquar- University seek to build on his tered at Rutgers University, employs algorithms that predict crowd data analytics to addresses natural and manmade threats to safety and behavior in order to give security. people with disabilities Tang says he “developed software to extract and analyze crowd behav- real-time, turn-by-turn ior from real data” from surveillance cameras. “If the results of the software navigation through, say, a and reality align, that proves our crowded bus terminal.

44 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS — Hao Tang H Borough of Manhattan Community College Homeland Security Grant Waynesburg University/ NEW YORK CITY National Science Foundation; and Referral of Individuals At Chemistry Library of Congress; Teaching COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY Advancing Student Futures Risk of Substance Use Disor- National Endowment for with Primary Source-Writing Reginald Blake in Science, Technology, En- ders, 9/30/2015 - 9/29/2018 the Humanities; A Cultural Project at MEC, Associate Professor, Physics gineering and Mathematics, Hamidreza Norouzi History of Digital Technology: 12/1/2015 - 11/30/2016 National Science Foundation; 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2019 Assistant Professor Postulating a Humanities Recruiting and Retaining Sandie Han Construction Management and Approach to STEM, Augustine Okereke Non- Geoscience Minority Associate Professor Civil Engineering Tech 1/1/2016 - 6/30/2017 Provost STEM Majors for the Mathematics National Science Foundation; Academic Affairs Geoscience Workforce U.S. Department of Recruiting and Retaining Non- Johann Thiel US Department of Education; 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2018 Education; MSEIP: Women Geoscience Minority STEM Assistant Professor Predominately Black Institu- and Minorities in STEM, Majors for the Mathematics tion Program, Sandra Cheng 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2018 Geoscience Workforce, US Department of Education; 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2020 Associate Professor National Science Foundation; 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2018 MSEIP: Women and Humanities Advancing Student Futures US Department of Defense; Minorities in STEM, Sheilah Paul National Endowment for in Science, Technology En- Instrumentation for Exploring 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2018 Associate Dean the Humanities; A Cultural gineering and Mathematics, Surface Energy Balance Using Liberal Arts and Education 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2019 a Combination of Satellite and Melanie Villatoro US Department of Health and Ground Based Observations, Assistant Professor Human Services; Medgar Boyan Kostadinov 8/15/2015 - 8/14/2016 Construction Management Evers College Health Careers Assistant Professor and Civil Engineering Tech Connection Pipeline Project, Mathematics Jonas Reitz New York State Department of 9/30/2015 - 7/31/2020 U.S. Department of Education; Associate Professor Transportation/Federal High- MSEIP: Women and Minorities Mathematics way Administration; National Simone Rodriguez-Dorestant History of Digital Technology: in STEM, 10/1/2015 - US Department of Education; Summer Training Institute, Dean Postulating a Humanities 9/30/2018 Opening Gateways to 7/26/2015 - 8/20/2015 Professional and Community Approach to STEM Completion: Open Digital Viviana Vladutescu Development 1/1/2016 - 6/30/2017 Anne Leonhardt Pedagogies for Student Associate Professor New York City Department Associate Professor Success in STEM, Electrical Engineering of Education; Young Adult Soyeon Cho Architectural Technology 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2020 Technology Borough Center, Assistant Professor National Endowment for National Science Foundation; 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2020 Human Services the Humanities; A Cultural Diana Samaroo Recruiting and Retaining US Department of Health & History of Digital Technology: Associate Professor Non- Geoscience Minority Jo-Ann Rolle Human Services/Substance Postulating a Humanities Chemistry STEM Majors for the Dean Abuse and Mental Health Approach to STEM, National Science Foundation; Geoscience Workforce, School of Business Services Administration; Ed- 1/1/2016 - 6/30/2017 Advancing Student Futures 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2018 Santander Bank; ucating Nursing and Human in Science, Technology, En- Financial Literacy, Service Students to Identify, Janet Liou-Mark gineering and Mathematics, QUEENS COLLEGE 10/1/2015 - 8/31/2016 Provide Intervention and Professor 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2019 Mirian Detres-Hickey Referral of Individuals At Risk Mathematics Director Maxine Seales of Substance Use Disorders U.S. Department of Satyanand Singh Sociology Project Director 9/30/2015 - 9/29/2018 Education; MSEIP: Women Assistant Professor U.S. Department of Educa- Professional and Community and Minorities in STEM Mathematics tion; DSSS Disabled Student Development Carmel Dato 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2018 National Endowment for Services, New York City Department Associate Professor National Science Foundation; the Humanities; A Cultural 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2020 of Youth and Community Nursing Recruiting and Retaining History of Digital Technology: Development; Teen ACTION US Department of Health & Non-Geoscience Minority Postulating a Humanities Eva Fernandez at Crown Heights Beacon, Human Services/Substance STEM Majors for the Approach to STEM, Assistant Vice Provost 11/2/2015 - 5/30/2016 Abuse and Mental Health Geoscience Workforce, 1/1/2016 - 6/30/2017 Center for Teaching Services Administration; 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2018 and Learning Oriel Straker Educating Nursing and Armando Solis Jewish Foundation for Project Director Human Service Students to Kevin McGirr Assistant Professor Education of Women; JFEW- Academic Affairs Identify, Provide Intervention Associate Professor Biological Sciences CUNY Summer Service Corps, US Department of Education; and Referral of Individuals Nursing National Science Foundation; 3/31/2015 - 8/31/2015 Predominately Black At Risk of Substance Use US Department of Health & Advancing Student Futures NYC Department of Small Institution Program, Disorders, Human Services/Substance in Science, Technology, En- Business Services; Tech 10/1/2015 - 9/30/2020 9/30/2015 - 9/29/2018 Abuse and Mental Health gineering and Mathematics, Talent Pipeline Residency Services Administration; 6/1/2015 - 5/31/2019 at Queens College, Urmi Ghosh-Dastidar Educating Nursing and 11/23/2015 - 6/30/2017 Associate Professor Human Service Students to Peter Spellane Allan Ludman Mathematics Identify, Provide Intervention Associate Professor Professor 46 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS School of Earth and Environ- Office of Pre-College, Symposium (JSHS) New York RUI: Genetic Architecture The Social Ecology Of Sleep mental Sciences Continuing Education and City Metro Region, 9/1/2015 Of Juvenile Hormone Environments Among National Science Foundation; Workforce Development Academy of Applied Sciences; Sensitivity Non-Hispanic Black Infants GP-Impact: Freshman Year to Con Edison; Exploring Junior Science and Humanities Chester Zarnoch Elizabeth Chua Geoscience Career, Science, Technology, Symposium (JSHS) Long Island Pfound/Hudson River National Institutes Of 9/1/2015 - 8/31/2018 Engineering and Mathe- City Region, 9/1/2015 Foundation Health matics (STEM) Careers at Mechanics Of Nutrient Cognitive And Neural Bases Craig Michaels Queensborough Linda Ribaudo Retention In Restored Of Memory Confidence And Dean Community College, Acting Director Marshes Accuracy Division of Education 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 Learning Center Economic New York State Education and Workforce Development BRONX COMMUNITY Maria Contel COLLEGE National Institutes Of Department; Advanced Joan Petersen New York State Education/ Madelaine Centeno Health Certification, Post-Master’s Associate Professor Adult Education Access; Titanium-Gold-Based Che- Clinically Intensive Teacher Biological Sciences & Geology Adult Literacy Education, motherapeutics For Prostate Institute in Bilingual Educa- Department 7/1/2015 and Kidney Cancer tion, 1/1/2015 - 12/31/2016 New York State Education Department; Science Tech- Valerie Taylor-Haslip Laurel Cooley Peter Schmidt nology Entry Program (STEP), Associate Professor National Science Foun- dation Director 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2020 Health Professions Collaborative Research: School of Earth and Environ- Johnson & Johnson; York’s The Career Trajectories Of mental Sciences YORK COLLEGE Diversity Student Carroll And Milton Petrie Urban Math Teachers From US Environmental Protection Dana Fusco Scholarships, 12/28/2015 Foundation a Selective Alternative Agency; EPA Globe NY Metro Professor Training Alliance, Teacher Education George White Aneta Czajkowska 8/1/2015 - 7/31/2017 The Teagle Foundation; Braid- Associate Professor Blanche Kellawon National Institutes Of New York State Department Health ing Liberal Arts, Sciences & History and Philosophy Of Labor Theranostic Nanoparticles Robert Vago Teacher Education , 6/1/2015 The Teagle Foundation; Student Support/Training For Dual Modality Cancer Professor Braiding Liberal Arts, Therapy Linguistics & Communication Dawn A. Hewitt Sciences, and Teacher Elizabeth Payamps Disorders Director, Office of Research Education, 6/1/2015 CUNY Black Male Initiative Andrew Delamater New York State Education and Sponsored Programs Student Support National Institutes Of Department; Development of Academic Affairs Board Health Elizabeth Payamps A Multi-Component Lesson Modules and Online Academy of Applied Sciences; of Trustees Pinkerton, Student Support Approach To Extinction In Support for New York State Junior Science and Human- Acknowledgments Pavlovian Learning English as a New Language, ities Symposium (JSHS), CUNY recipients of insti- Elizabeth Payamps 1/1/2015 - 7/31/2015 New York City Metro Region, tutional grants, research Robin Hood Terry Dowd grants and other honors, as 9/1/2015 Academy of Applied Student Support Albert Einstein College Of acknowledged by the Uni- Medicine Sara Woolf Sciences; Junior Science versity Board the Trustees Assistant Professor and Humanities Symposium Elizabeth Payamps Structure-Function Relation at its meetings, September Robin Hood Foundation Of Connexin Disease Educational And Community (JSHS), Long Island City 2015 through June 2016; Student Support Mutations Programs Region, 9/1/2015 generally speaking, these New York City Department of awards have been received. Carin Savage William Esber Health and Mental Hygiene; Nazrul Khandaker New York State Education National Institutes Of BARUCH COLLEGE New Master’s Program in Professor, Earth & Physical Department Health Louis-Pierre Arguin Student Support Neural Bases Of Acquired Early Childhood Special Edu- Sciences, National Aeronau- National Science Foun- cation & Bilingual Education, tics and Space Administra- Stimulus Salience dation/Mathematical & BROOKLYN COLLEGE 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2016 tion; Engaging and Inspiring Physical Sciences Nicolas Biais Paul Forlano Future Explorers with K1-9 Statistics Of Extrema - National Institutes Of National Science Foun- QUEENSBOROUGH NASA STEM Education Isordered Systems Health dation COMMUNITY COLLEGE Resources, 9/8/2015 Mechanobiology Of Neisse- Collaborative Research: Stefan Bathe Marie-Francesca Berrouët ria Microcolonies Mechanisms Of Sound DOE/Office of Science Source Localization Under- Director Panayiotis Meleties Partonic Energy Loss In College Science Technology Provost Gregory Boutis lying An Ancestral Mode Of Quark-Gluon Plas National Institutes Of Vertebrate Hearing Entry Program (CSTEP) Academic Affairs Health New York State Education US Department of Education; Jamal Jalilian-Marian Studies Of The Effects Of Department; College Science Promoting Recruitment, DOE/Office of Science Mode Of Birth On Vaginal Technology Entry Retention and Graduation of High Energy QCD Elastin In Heavy-Iron Collisions Program (CSTEP), African American Students, Tracy Chu 7/1/2015 - 6/30/2020 10/1/2015 Academy of Rebecca Spokony Jeffrey Chen Applied Sciences; Junior National Institutes Of National Science Foun- Health Director Science and Humanities dation CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 47 Guillermo Gerona-Navarro National Institutes Of Health Chemical Probes Targeting Collecting Crime Data Polycomb Repressive Com- plex 2 Gene Repression On Political Extremists Christian Grov National Institutes Of OSHUA FREILICH presides over what may not systematically tracking those crimes along Health be the most exhaustive collection of informa- with the acts that meet the definition of terrorism, Club Drug Use And Prep tion about political extremists in the United then you’re not paying attention to all Adherence In Vulnerable JStates, from ISIS and al-Qaeda supporters, behaviors that might contain useful information.” Men to domestic antigovernment militia members, to Freilich (Brooklyn College, ’90) graduated Christian Grov people whose beliefs about issues like abortion, from Brooklyn Law School and earned his Ph.D. in New York University School taxes, animal rights and even the environment criminology and criminal justice at SUNY Albany; Of Medicine have erupted into illegal action. his 2001 doctoral dissertation explored who joins New York University, A professor at U.S. paramilitary groups City Of New York Health John Jay College of “Extremist crime is not static. and why. He also sits on the Promotion And Prevention Criminal Justice, The types of threats are executive committee of the Freilich codirects the National Consortium for Louise Hainline United States Extrem- dynamic and change over time. the Study of Terrorism and National Institutes Of ist Crime Database, an Responses to Terrorism, Health open-source informa- We need to be aware of the a research and education Biomedical Research tion bank that he and network funded by the Training For Minority evolution of the phenomenon a colleague, Steven Department of Homeland Honor Students At Brooklyn Charmak of Michi- and we need to keep breaking it Security and based at the College gan State University, down to understand it.” University of Maryland. Louise Hainline began in 2005. This The database culls National Institutes Of painstakingly detailed — Joshua Freilich information from all kinds Health and ever-growing of public sources — court Rise Option 2: Increasing catalogue of politically motivated domestic crime documents, media and watchdog reports and even Student Success In Science forms the raw material for evolving research not information disseminated by extremist groups, And Science Careers only by Freilich and his collaborators, but also by themselves. Freilich has used the database to tease other academics, policy-makers and government out the motivations and triggers of violent extrem- Louise Hainline officials. ists, in hopes of determining how to respond to National Science Foun- The Department of Homeland Security has them better. dation awarded the project $4 million For example, he found that Peer-Assisted Team Re- and the National Institute of extremists who were “lone actors” search: A Method For Early Justice $1 million since it began. CUNY were more likely to have served in the Undergraduate Research That has funded more than 90 military and to have histories of men- researchers and students who AMERICAN tal illness than those who committed Louise Hainline code, organize and analyze the de- H H criminal acts as members of organized New York State Department tails of criminal acts by domestic DREAM groups. Further, domestic suicide Of Education extremists. MACHINE terrorists — nearly 40 in the last 25 Collegiate Science And The key word in its name is years, not counting the September 11 Technology Entry Program crime, rather than terrorism, be- hijackers — tend to be lone actors, but cause the database includes activities that may not not more likely to be mentally ill than those who Amy Ikui be acts of terrorism in and of themselves, but are commit nonsuicidal attacks, as some have argued. National Institutes Of Health part of the bigger picture. This includes financial In a current study funded by the National In- Inhibition Of DNA Re-Rep- and other nonviolent crimes that tend to get less stitute of Justice, he examines social media. “Most lication By Cyclin/CDK attention from researchers and law enforcement. people who have studied online radicalization And GSK-3 Kinase In S “Being a criminologist, I’m focused on crimes have looked at recruitment into the movement,” Cerevisiae by extremists, rather than on the label of what is or he says. “We’re looking to connect online activity is not terrorism,” Freilich says, “because if you’re and actual violence in the real world.” Xinyin Jiang National Institutes Of Health Effects Of Choline On Fetal — Joshua D. Freilich Growth and Lipid Accretion In Gestational Diabetes H John Jay College of Criminal Justice Department of Homeland Security, National Institute of Justice Grants

48 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 49 Laura Juszczak Juergen Polle CITY COLLEGE Zimei Bu Felice Ghilardi National Institutes Of University Of California, Robert Alfano University Of Pittsburgh University Of Wisconsin Health San Diego Corning Inc. Hormonal Regulation Of Do Single Neurons Need To Edge-On/Face-On: Trp A Systems Biology And Pond Optical Information Storage Nherf1 Sleep And Why? Tripeptides Model Residue Culture-Based Understand- In Chromium Doped Ionic Interactions In Proteins ing And Improvement Of Crystal Luis Cardoso Ranajeet Ghose Metabolic Processes Relat- National Institutes Of National Science Foun- Sharona Levy ed To Productivity In Diverse Asohan Amarasingham Health dation United States Department Microalgal Classes For Department Of Defense Mechanical Function Of Intergovernmental Person- Of Education Viable Biofuel Production Nonparametric Interference Trabecular Bone: Bone Loss nel Act Assignment Brooklyn College Education- Of Synaptic Properties From Assessment Beyond BMD al Talent Search Program Diane Reiser Intracellular Neurophysio- Jorge Gonzalez New York City Department logical Signals Ana Carnaval New York State Department Catherine McEntee Of Youth And Community National Science Foun- Of Education Office of New York State Department Development Asohan Amarasingham dation Postsecondary Education Of Education CSTEP OST Middle School Expan- National Institutes Of Dimensions US-Biota-Sao The Alliance For Continu- sion Health Paulo: A Multidisciplinary ous Innovative Learning Catherine McEntee Identification And Plasticity Framework For Biodiversity Environments In Stem New York State Department Diane Reiser Of Neuronal Microcircuits Prediction In the Brazilian Of Education New York City Department Atlantic Forest Hotspot Marilyn Gunner Science And Technology Of Youth And Community Teresa Bandosz National Science Foun- Entry Program (STEP) Development, OST Addition- Army Jon Craig Horvitz dation 2015-2020 al Public School Site Insight Into Multifunctional National Institutes Of Thermodynamics and Reactive Adsorbents: En- Health Kinetics Of Electron and Lorraine Mondesir Diane Reiser gaging Chemistry, Porosity, Does The Nucleus Proton Transfers In Proton United States Department New York City Department Photoactivity and Conduc- Accumbens Core Play Only Pumping Proteins Of Education Of Youth And Community tivity Into Decontamination A Transient Role In Condi- Childcare Access Means Development Process tioned Reward Jerry Guyden Parents In School SONYC Programs National Institutes Of Elizabeth Biddinger Eisele Doerthe Health Ryan Murelli Diane Reiser Minority Serving Institutions National Science Foun- Cellular/Molecular Basis Department Of Health And Pfound/Agnes Varis Trust Science, Technology, Engi- dation Of Development: Research Human Services/National Brooklyn College Art Lab neering And Mathematics MRI: Acquisition Of A Center Institute Of Health Research & Development Multi-Functional Near-Field Biological Studies Of Nancy Romer Consortium, Absorbents For Scanning Optical Micros- Ramona Hernandez Alpha-Hydroxytropolones New York State Department Use In Building-Integrated copy System To Establish New York City Council Of Education Plant-Based Dynamic Fil- A Cross-Disciplinary Libraries And Archives Extended School Day tration Media For Removing Nano-Imaging/Spectroscopy Chemical Warfare Agents Laboratory At CCNY Sally Hoskins Laurie Rubel National Science Foun- National Science Foun- Marom Bikson Mary Driscoll dation dation Actuated Medical, Inc New York City Department Leveraging Faculty Exper- Learning Mathematics of Phase II: Grip-Reposition Of Education tise In Create Pedagogy To the city in the city Miniaturized Stable Working Leadership Online Transform Teaching And Platform For Minimally Collaborative Course And Maximize Student Outcomes Ryan Murelli Anthony Sclafani Invasive Procedures Inside Support: Creating A Strong Through Courses Focused National Institutes Of National Institutes Of Active Organs Implementation Plan For On Scientific Literature At Health Health Your School/District 2- And 4-Year Institutions Biological Studies Of Carbohydrate Appetite, Fat Mark Biscoe Alpha-Hydroxytropolones Appetite, And Obesity National Institutes Of Timothy Ellmore David Jeruzalmi Health National Institutes Of National Science Foun- Ryan Murelli Mark Ungar The Use Of Optically Active Health dation St Louis University Canadian Department Of Nucleophiles In Metal-Cata- A Neurobehavioral Study Of The Bacterial Nucleotide Optimization Of Al- Foreign Affairs, Trade And lyzed Coupling Reactions The Interactions Between Excision Repair Pathway: pha-Hydroxytropolones As Development Working And Long-Term Structure And Mechanism Novel Inhibitors of the Hbv Start Global Peace And Michael Bobker Memory Rnaseh Security Fund Program New York State Energy George John Research & Development Mark Emerson National Institute Of Food Mariana P. Torrente Luis Quadri Authority National Eye Institute And Agriculture National Institutes Of NPORG/Sloan-Kettering Workforce Training For Transcriptional Regulation City University Of New York Health Memorial Cancer Energy Efficiency Of Cone Photoreceptor Food Materials Mentoring Epigenetics In Neurodegen- Rational Design Of Adenyla- Genesis Program erative Disease: Targeting tion Enzyme Inhibitors Camille Kamga Histone Modifications In Vincent Boudreau Beverly Falk New Jersey Department Of ALS Various Private Sources Foundation For Child Transportation Colin Powell Center For Development University Transportation Policy Studies High Quality Culturally Research Center Relevant UPK Practices Across Communities 50 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Camille Kamga Nir Krakauer John Martin Stephen O’Brien Millicent Roth New York City Department Virginia Polytechnic Insti- National Institutes Of National Science Foun- New York State Department Of Transportation tute And State University Health dation Of Higher Education Transportation Systems Feed The Future Innovation Repairing Maladaptive Synthetic Multiferroic Oxides City College Academy For Development Agreement Lab For Integrated Pest Corticospinal Tract Devel- By Gel Collection Professional Preparation - Active Traffic Demand Management -- Biodiversity opment Management And Climate Change As- Neville Parker Lesia Ruglass sessment For IPM In Nepal John Martin National Science Foun- National Institutes Of Camille Kamga New York State Department dation Health New York State Department Lia Krusin-Elbaum Of Health NYC Louis Stokes Alliance Translational Research Of Transportation Columbia University Collaborations To Accelerate Training On Addictions For University Transportation Columbia University Mate- Research Translation and Lucas Parra Racial/Ethnic Minorities Research Consortium rials Research Science And Innovative, Developmental National Institutes Of Engineering Center Or Exploratory Activities In Health Mitchell Schaffler Camille Kamga Spinal Cord Injury Research Effects Of Direct-Current National Institutes Of New York State Department Felix Lam Stimulation On Synaptic Health Of Transportation City College Fund John Martin Plasticity Osteocyte Integrity And University Transportation City College 21St Century New York State Department Bone Remodeling Research Consortium Foundation Of Health William Patrick Hooper Camille Kamga Sci Research Infrastructure National Science Foun- Sang-Woo Seo Research And Innovative Themis Lazaridis dation National Institutes Of Technology Administration National Institutes Of Alice Medvedev Renormalization In Piece- Health University Transportation Health National Science Foun- wise Isometric Dynamical Light-Actuated Chemical Research Center Mechanism Of Membrane dation Systems Stimulator For Retinal Pore Formation By Antimi- Model Theory And Difference Prosthesis Interface Simon Kelly crobial Peptides Algebra Mark Pezzano National Science Foun- National Institutes Of Christine Sheffer dation Themis Lazaridis Vinod Menon Health National Institutes Of Neural Mechanisms For National Science Foun- National Science Foun- Development And Health Perceptual Decision Making dation dation Maintenance Of Thymic Reducing Socioeconomic In Human Modeling Protein-Membrane EFRI 2-DARE: Excitonics Epithelial Microenviron- Disparities In Tobacco Reza Khayat Interactions And Polaritonics Using 2D ments Dependence Treatment National Institutes Of Materials (Expo2D) Outcomes Health Nicholas Madamopoulos Michael Piasecki Mechanism Of Cellular National Science Foun- Vinod Menon National Science Foun- Gillian Small Recognition And Entry dation National Science Foun- dation New York State Office of By A Circovirus Collaborative Research: dation III: Medium: Collaborative Science, Technology And Smart Prismatic-Louver Polaritonics Using Two-Di- Research: Algorithms And Academic Research NYSTAR Steven Kidder Technology For Enhanced mensional Atomic Crystals Cyberinfrastructure For Center For Advanced National Science Foun- Daylighting And Manage- John Mogulescu High-Precision Automated Technology dation ment Of Thermal Loads In New York City Department Quality Control Of Ruth Stark Stress History Of The Alpine Green Buildings Of Citywide Administrative Hydro-Meteo Sensor Johns Hopkins University Fault Using Rock Deforma- Services Networks Biology Of Fungal Melanin tion Experiments And Hernan Makse Energy Data Lab Numerical Modeling National Science Foun- Peter Romanov Mark Steinberg dation Jeffrey Morris University Of Maryland National Institutes Of Collaborative Research In Battelle Science And Management Health Computational Neurosci- Correlation Of Colloidal In- Support For NPP VIIRS Snow Research Support For ence: Targeted Stimula- teractions And Macroscopic EDRS Biomedical Careers At City tions In Brain Network Of Rheology In Concentrated College New York Networks Electrolyte Solutions William Rossow National Aeronautics And Richard Steinberg Hernan Makse Fred Moshary Space Administration New York City Department National Science Foun- Princeton University Diagnostic Analysis And Of Education dation Engineering Research Cloud-System Modeling Middle School Science Ronald Koder Statistical Physics Of Brain Center On Mid-Infrared Of Organized Tropical Professional Development National Institutes Of Networks Technologies For Health And Convection In The YOTC-EC- Health The Environment MWF Database To Develop Richard Steinberg Structural And Charles Maldarelli Climate Model Parameter- New York City Department Thermodynamic Features National Science Foun- Parameswaran Nair izations Of Education Which Govern Enzymatic dation National Science Foun- Teacher Leadership Quality Nitric Oxide Detoxification Surfactant Herders For Con- dation Millicent Roth Partnerships Professional tainment And Remediation Collaborative Research: New York State Department Development Program Joel Koplik Of Maritime Oil Spills Investigations On Fluids, Of Education Office of To Improve Teaching And Department Of Education Gauge Fields, Matrix Models Higher Education Learning Of Core Academic Flow And Stress Of And Gravity City College Academy For Subjects Particulate Transport And Professional Preparation Sedimentation In Fracture Systems CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 51 52 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Maria Tamargo National Science Foun- dation Crest Center For Interface Design And Engineered Using the Lottery Assembly Of Low-Dimen- sional Systems And Pawn Shops to Teach Elizabeth Thangaraj United States Department Of Education Remedial Mathematics City College Student Sup- port Service Program

n January 13, 2016, three people shared ent spin on remediating entry-level mathe- Yingli Tian a $1.58 billion Powerball jackpot, beat- matics.” Navy ing the approximately 1 in 292 million Cooper Hewitt will include one of two Tracking And Predicting Oodds of winning. For perspective, they “spatial justice” modules she developed in Fine Scale Sea Ice had a far greater chance of being struck by partnership with MIT digital researchers. Motion By lightning (1 in 960,000 a year) — but tell that Using public data, she asked high school stu- Constructing Super- to the people who bought more than 635 dents in Brooklyn and Manhattan — and, with Resolution Images And million of the $2 tickets that week. extra funding from CUNY, Hostos Communi- Fusing Multiple Satellite But this is not a story about ty College — to explore digital Sensors probability. It’s about a clever maps showing where tickets approach to math education CUNY are bought, where prizes are Brian Tiburzi devised by Brooklyn College won, and at what intensity. National Science Foun- associate professor Laurie Rubel, AMERICAN (The Powerball winners dation who is taking her instructional lived way beyond the outer Electromagnetic Properties H H And Hadronic Parity Viola- ideas to Israel on a 2016 Fulbright DREAM boroughs, in Chino Hills, tion In Lattice QCD grant. In addition, the Smithso- Calif.; Munford, Tenn.; and nian’s Cooper Hewitt Museum MACHINE Melbourne Beach, Fla.) Raymond Tu will highlight her lottery-based “Students walked Department Of Defense instructional approach in an exhibition on around Bushwick and asked people if they Bio-Inspired Assembly At socially responsible design (Sept. 30, 2016, played the lottery, how much they spend each Two Length Scales: Bridg- through Feb. 26, 2017). week and what they would do if they won. ing Intermolecular Peptide Her secondary educa- People don’t talk about Self Assembly And Particle tion classes usually attract One of Laurie Rubel’s buying fancy cars, but Phase In Two-Dimensions mathematics teachers from about basic needs and Brooklyn public schools. high school “spatial taking care of their fami- Maria Tzortziou She has won two National justice” assignments lies. These stories round National Science Foun- Science Foundation grants. out students’ experience dation One, in 2008, was an has students map and get attached to the Collaborative Research: Early Career Development math.” Ecosystems On The Edge Award that sent her into neighborhood check Rubel will use her - Tidal Wetland-Estuary New York City high school cashing, pawnshop Fulbright to teach and Margins As Buffers, classrooms for research conduct research at Tel Reactors, And Transformers and one-on-one teacher and wire-transfer Aviv University in the Of Organic Carbon And Nitrogen professional development. stores. She asks them: spring of 2017, working The other, in 2013, led to with professors who Maribel Vazquez curricula that involved had inspired her when “What does it mean if National Institutes Of students in their local she earned her master’s Health communities “to connect my neighborhood has there some 20 years ago. Photoreceptor Integration them to things that carry mostly the financial She also will work with Via Chemotactic Honing meaning to their everyday Israeli secondary school lives.” places that are not teachers on integrat- Hoau-Yan Wang She works with ing social and cultural investing locally the Rush University Medical “schools whose kids are perspectives into their Center struggling. This is a differ- way the bank could?” teaching. Mechanisms Linking Insulin Resistance To Brain Structure, Pathology And — Laurie Rubel Function H Brooklyn College Fulbright Fellowship

CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 53 Sihong Wang Christopher Cruz Cullari Maria Knikou Gary Reichard Howard Everson The Pershing Square New York State Education Craig H. Neilsen Foundation New York State Department New York State Education Foundation Department Transpinal Stimulation To Of Education, STEP Department Preclinical Validation Of A Workforce Investment Act Increase Neuroplasticity Designing And Evaluating 3D Tumor Microfluidic Array And Recovery Gary Reichard NYS Education Depart- Lisa Ebert New York State Education ment’s Race To The Top Urs Jans New York City Council Maria Knikou Department Initiative Minority Serving Institutions Tech Incubato New York State Department Liberty Partnerships Stem Research & Develop- Of Health, Effects Of Spinal Program Matthew Gold ment Consortium Lisa Ebert Cord Stimulation National Endowment For Using the Hard and New York State Education Susan Sullivan The Humanities Soft, Acids and Bases Department Michael Kress National Science Foun- Opening Humanities Educa- (HSAB) Theory to Predict Liberty Partnerships New York City Council dation tion With The Commons In A Organophosphate - Target Program Tech Incubator Robert Noyce Teacher Box And The Openlab Interactions Academy At The College Of Debra Evans-Greene Michael Kress Staten Island Deborah Hecht Maurizio Trevisan New York State Department New York State/United New York State Education College Fund-Various Of Education States Department Of Hous- Allen Tesdall Department Private Sources Collegiate Science Technol- ing And Urban Development National Science Foun- Designing And Evaluating Provost-Reimburse- ogy Entry Program (CSTEP) Go To High Ground dation Of NYS Education Depart- ment-FY!5 Analysis Of Multidimension- ment’s Race To The Top Michal Kruk al Problems For Nonclas- Initiative COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND National Science Foun- sical Shocks And Classical Zaghloul Ahmed dation Shock Reflection Bruce Homer National Institutes Of Design Of Novel Large-Pore University Of California, Health Nanoporous Materials Nelly Tournaki Santa Barbara / Spinal Sciatic Direct Cur- Through Understanding Of National Science Foun- Focused Computer Games rent Stimulation Normalizes Micelle Templating Process dation To Promote Specific Cogni- Muscle Tone In Spinal Cord Robert Noyce Teacher tive Skills Injured Animals With Debra Evans-Greene Irina Lyublinskaya Academy At The College Of Spasticity New York State Department National Science Foun- Staten Island Elaine Klein Of Education dation New York City Department Zaghloul Ahmed STEP Robert Noyce Teacher Shuiqin Zhou Of Education New York State Department Academy At The College Of National Science Foun- The SIFE Curriculum Of Health Debra Evans-Greene Staten Island dation Effects Of Spinal Cord New York State Department Design Of Novel Large-Pore Ricardo Otheguy Stimulation Of Education CSTEP Dan McCloskey Nanoporous Materials New York State Education National Science Foun- Through Understanding Of Department Sarah Berger Robert Freedland dation Micelle Templating Process New York State Bridges To National Science Foun- New York State Office For Career: BCSP: Network Level Academic Success Initiative dation People With Developmental Analysis Of Oxytocin Reg- William J. Fritz The Role Of Sleep In Infant Disabilities ulation Of Naked Mole Rat New York State Education Donna Ray Thompson Motor Learning Improvement Of Pre-Post And Hippocampal Neuron Department/VTEA National Endowment For Doctoral Education Interactions Perkins Funding For Career The Humanities, Visual Cul- A. Ramona Brown And Technical Education ture Of The American Civil New York State Department Li Ge Vadim Oganesyan War And Its Aftermath Of Education National Science Foundation National Science Foun- GRADUATE SCHOOL AND Tony Ro Collegiate Science Technol- Collaborative Research: dation UNIVERSITY CENTER National Science Foun- ogy Entry Program Investigation Of Rota- Quantum And Semi-Clas- Clare Carroll dation tion-Time And Inversion-Time sical Dynamics Of Random Renaissance Society Of Cortical Dynamics In Visual A. Ramona Brown Symmetries In Photonic Spin Chains: Models And America, Inc. Perceptions New York State Department Synthetic Materials Methods For Quantum Support For The Renais- Thomas Weiss Of Education Non-Ergodic Statistical sance Studies Humanity United Science Technology Entry Qiao-Sheng Hu Physics Global Centre For The Program National Science Foun- Howard Everson Responsibility To Protect dation Andrew Poje National Science Foun- Engagement With UN Jane Coffee Development Of Controlled University Of Miami dation Human Rights National Science Foun- Palladium(0)-Catalyzed The Consortium For Ad- Evaluation Of MSP In NYC dation Suzuki Cross-Coupling vanced Research On Trans- 2 -- A New Partnership To Thomas Weiss Robert Noyce Teacher Polymerizations port Of Hydrocarbon In The Transform Urban Secondary Swedish Ministry Of Foreign Academy At The College Of Environment (CARTHE) II School Mathematical And Affairs Staten Island Lana Karasik Science Experiences Post-2015 Development: National Science Foun- Gary Reichard Strengthening The UN’s Christopher Cruz Cullari dation New York State Department Ideational And Operational New York City Office of The RUI: An Investigation Of Of Education, CSTEP Role Mayor Short And Long Term Effects Douglas Whalen Adult Literacy Program Of Cradling On Develop- National Institutes Of ment Health

54 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS DREAM MAKER William Helmreich Distinguished Professor of Sociology The City College of New York/CUNY

HIS STORY New York City has 121,000 blocks. He’s walked all of them. But when it comes to teaching, he still asks for the intro- ductory sociology class. “It gives me the chance to turn people on to what I love doing most.” ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Author or editor of 15 books, including The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City.

GOAL “You get students to realize their dreams by encouraging them to ask questions...If I don’t have the answers, we’ll ﬁ nd someone who does.” cuny.edu/welcome

CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 55 56 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Improving Clinical Speech Remediation With Ultra- sound Technology

Lesley Hirsch Examining History’s Westchester Community College Foundation Horrible What-Ifs New York City Labor Market Information Services to HAT WOULD have happened Consider 1994, when 800,000 Rwandans the Northeast Resiliency during the Cuban Missile were murdered after the U.N. failed to Consortium Crisis had United Nations act on evidence of a planned genocide; WSecretary-General U Thant not and, once the slaughter began, actually HOSTOS COMMUNITY secretly shuttled messages between U.S. reduced, rather than increased, the COLLEGE President John F. Kennedy and Soviet number of blue-helmeted peacekeepers Nieves Angulo Premier Nikita Khrushchev? Or if the who were already there. United States Department World Health Organization had not His book on the subject will come Of Education (CCNY) eradicated smallpox between 1966 and out between 2018 and 2020, a period Alliance For Continuous 1977? Or if the Nobel Peace Prize-win- that includes the early days of the next Innovative Learning ning U.N.Intergovernmental Panel on secretary-general’s term, the 75th anni- Environment In Stem Climate Change had not built the scien- versary of the U.N. Charter and the 100th Maria Cano tific consensus about what’s necessary to anniversary of the defunct League of New York City Human save the planet? Nations, an earlier attempt to substitute Resource Administration/ Such “counterfactu- talk for arms. CUNY als,” or “what-ifs,” are at His takeaway: “If COPE Graduation Success the heart of the latest work CUNY there were a conception Initiative Program by Thomas G. Weiss, the of a larger collective good CUNY Graduate Center AMERICAN that encompasses national Maria Cano, New York City Presidential Professor of H H differences, that would Human Resource Adminis- Political Science. In 2016, DREAM make things a whole lot tration/CUNY COPE the Andrew Carnegie Fel- MACHINE easier. Perhaps we’d like lows Program awarded him our grandchildren to be Nathaniel Cruz a prestigious and highly able to breathe … and solve New York City Human competitive fellowship that provides a host of problems that single states Resource Administration/ $200,000 for research and writing. cannot, such as when we confined the CUNY What if the U.N. had not been Ebola pandemic to a few states in West COPE Graduation Success founded after the devastation of World Africa and a few returning nurses in the Initiative Program War II? West. Part of the effort is redefining U.S. “The world would be a poorer, less vital interests.” Nathaniel Cruz humane and more dangerous place New York City Human and, in the future, less environmentally “Forever one has heard Resource Administration/ CUNY sustainable,” says Weiss, who has long COPE studied the U.N. and other internation- that if the U.N. didn’t al organizations. “If you have global exist, we’d have to Evelyn Fernandez-Ketcham problems, you need global solutions and, invent it. I thought I’d Department Of Health And on occasion, global reach to implement Human Services/Health them.” take that proposition Resources And Services Ad- Take the 1973 Arab-Israeli War ministration, Health Career when, then-Secretary of State Henry seriously and apply my Opportunity Program Kissinger has said, the United States was a hair’s breadth from nuclear alert until 45 years of accumulated Evelyn Fernandez-Ketcham U.N. peacekeepers arrived. knowledge to tell Department Of Health Besides considering how the U.N. And Human Services/ has improved world order, Weiss also stories in a different and United States Department examines a second set of “what-ifs,” Of Health Resources And namely when the world organization more persuasive way.” Services Administration Health Career Opportunity could and should have acted differently. — Thomas G. Weiss Program

Evelyn Fernandez-Ketcham — Thomas G. Weiss New York State Department CUNY Graduate Center Of Business Services H Clinical Medical Assistant Andrew Carnegie Fellowship

CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 57 Evelyn Fernandez-Ketcham Peter Mertens Carlos Molina Jill Bargonetti Elizabeth Cardoso Pinkerton Foundation New York City Center For United States Department Breast Cancer Research United States Education Community Partnership For Economic Opportunity/CUNY Of Health And Human Foundation Department College Young Man’s Initiative Services Estrogen Driven MDM2 Long-Term Training: Reha- Program Hostos Allied Health Career Signaling And Mutant P53 bilitation Counseling Evelyn Fernandez-Ketcham Pipeline Program Signaling In Breast Cancer Der-Lin Chao United States Depart- Peter Mertens Institute For International ment Of Health & Human New York City Department Lillian Morales Jamie Bleiweiss Education Services Of Corrections NPORG/Health Research, Inc. New York City Department K-12 Blended Learning Pilot Health Profession Oppor- Next STEPs Project Support For Expectant And Of Education Program tunity Grant To Serve TANF Parenting Teens Professional Develop- Recipents: Allied Health Peter Mertens ment Services In Special Der-Lin Chao Career Pipeline New York State Education Olga Steinberg-Neifach Education Institute Of International Department Cornell University/National Education Moise Koffi Liberty Partnerships Science Foundation Diana Bratu A Domestic Chinese New York State Education Program Mechanisms And Evolution National Science Foun- Language Program Under Department Of Budding Yeast dation The Language Flagship, An CSTEP Peter Mertens Career: Characterization Of Initiative Of The National New York State Education Ninoska Uribe Translation Silencing Com- Security Education Program Moise Koffi Department United States Social Securi- plexes During Oskar MRNA New York State Education Workforce Investment Act ty Administration Transport & Localization Rachel Chase Department Program Work Incentives Planning New York State Education STEP/Proyecto Access And Assistance Program Derrick Brazill Department Peter Mertens PHS/NIH/National Institute 2013-2016 21st Century Dana Lennon Stavros S. Niarchos Fabian Wander Of General Medical Community Learning Department Of Health Foundation NPORG/Health Research Sciences Centers Program And Human Services/ Hostos Community Heroes Support For Expectant And Interdisciplinary Biomedical United States Department Pilot Program Parenting Teens Research Training At Hunter Barry Cherkas Of Health Resources And New York City Department Services Administration Peter Mertens HUNTER COLLEGE Andrew Burgie Of Education Health Career Opportunity United States Social Securi- Robert Abramovitz Rutgers University Mathematics And Science Program ty Administration Fordham University/Sub- Hazardous Worker Training Partnerships Project Work Incentives Planning stance Abuse & Mental Program Dana Lennon And Assistance Program Health Service Adminis- United States Department tration Matthew Caballero Of Health And Human Carlos Molina Creating & Sustaining The New York State Education Services New York City Council Next Generation Of Trau- Department Hostos Allied Health Career CUNY Fatherhood Academy ma-Informed Practitioners 2013-2016 21st Century Pipeline Program Community Learning Carlos Molina Philip Alcabes Centers Program Debra Mack-Glasgow New York City Human New York City Department New York City Human Resource Administration/ Of Health And Mental Matthew Caballero Wen-Shing Chou Resource Administration/ CUNY Jobs Plus Hygiene New York State Education Institute For Advanced CUNY Mental Health Service Corps Department Study/Princeton University Jobs Plus Carlos Molina Clinically Rich Intensive Mellon Fellowship: New York State Department Spiro Alexandratos Teacher Institute In Bilin- Transcultural Pilgrim: The Christine Mangino Of Labor United States Department gual Education & English Religio-Politics Of Visions In New York State Education Unemployed Worker Training Of Energy As A Second Language Late Imperial China Department Recovery Of Uranium From CSTEP Carlos Molina Seawater: Polymer Support- Elizabeth Capezuti Kelle Cruz New York State Education ed Aminophosphinates As Joan & Sanford I. Weill National Science Foun- Christine Mangino Department Selective Medical College Of Cornell dation New York State Education Vocational Education University Collaborative Research: Department Program, Perkins Jesus Angulo Clinical & Translational Deciphering Brown Dwarf STEP/Proyecto Access Joan & Sanford I Weill Science Center Spectra: Disentangling Christine Mangino Carlos Molina Medical College Of Cornell/ Temperature, Age, Metalici- United States Department New York State Education National Institutes Of Jack Caravanos ty, Cloud Signatures Of Education Department, Vocational Health Rutgers University Adelante: Reinvigorating, Education Program Clinical & Translational Hazardous Worker Training Tracy Dennis Enhancing And Accelerating Science Center Program PHS/National Institutes Of Developmental Education, Carlos Molina Health/National Institute Of Enhancing College Credit United States Depart- Jesus Angulo Mental Health Courses And Expanding ment Of Health & Human PHS/NIH/National Institute Attention Bias Modification Faculty Development And Services On Minority & Health For Anxiety: A Random- Research Immersion, Year 2 Health Profession Oppor- Disparities ized Control Trial With tunity Grant To Serve TANF Research Center In Minority Biomarkers Recipents: Allied Health Institutions: Center For Career Pipeline Gene Structure And Func- tion Confocal Microscope 58 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Paul Feinstein Sarit Golub People In Need Intervention Inc.: Interactive Benjamin Ortiz Washington University/ PHS/NIH/National Institute Mark Hauber Nutrition Comics For Urban PHS/NIH/National Institute NIH National Institute Of On Alcohol Abuse & National Science Foun- Minority Youth Of General Medical Neurological Disorders & Alcoholism dation Sciences Stroke Intervention To Enhance Collaborative Research: Gail McCain Research Initiative For Functional Segregation Prep Uptake & Adherence Mechanism Of Behavioral HHS/Health Resources & Scientific Enhancement Within The Whisker-Barrel In A Community-Based Innovation In Brood Parasit- Services Administration Program: Minority Biomedi- Neuraxis Setting ic Birds Nursing Workforce Diversity cal Research Program

David Foster Harriet Goodman Daniel Herman Gail McCain Jeffrey Parsons PHS/NIH/National Cancer New York City Department New York City Department Joan & Sanford I. Weill PHS/NIH/National Institute Institute Of Probation Of Health & Mental Hygiene Medical College Of Cornell Of Drug Abuse Dysregulated Metabolic Models Of Probation Project Assertive Community Treat- University Multicomponent Interven- Cell Cycle Checkpoints In ment In New York City Clinical & Translational tion To Reduce Sexual Risk Human Cancer Science Center And Substance Abuse Daniel Herman Allan Frei New York State Office of Gail McCain Jeffrey Parsons New York City Department Temporary & Disability New York Community Trust New York University/Na- Of Environmental Protection Assistance Hunter-Bellevue Nursing tional Center For Chronic Climate Change Integrated Homeless Services Training Fund Disease Modeling Project Resource System New York University/ Carmen Melendez-Vasquez City University Of New Nicholas Freudenberg Michael Hoyt PHS/NIH/National Institute York Health Promotion & New York University/Na- Dixie Goss PHS/NIH/National Cancer Of Neurological Disorders Prevention tional Institutes Of Health/ National Science Foun- Institute & Stroke, Regulation Of National Cancer Institute dation Emotion-Regulation, Myelination By Myosin Jeffrey Parsons Alternative Tobacco Functional Role of Transla- Inflammatory Processes, Ii-Mediated Mechanotrans- Northwestern University/ Products: Use Adverse tion Enhancer Element & Depression In Prostate duction National Institute Effects And Communication Cancer Survivors On Drug Abuse Patterns Sherryl Graves Regina Miranda Efficacy Of Internet-Based National Science Foun- Karen Koellner PHS/National Institutes Of HIV Prevention Frank Gardella dation University Of Colorado/Na- Health/National Institute Of New York City Department Mathematics & Science tional Science Foundation General Medical Sciences Jeffrey Parsons Of Education Teacher Education Resi- An Efficacy Study Of The BP-Endure At Hunter PHS/NIH/National Institute Math Center For Learning & dency Learning & Teaching Regina Miranda On Alcohol Abuse Teaching Geometry Professional PHS/NIH/National Institute & Alcoholism Sherryl Graves Development Materials Of General Medical Scienc- Improving HIV & Alcohol- Daniel Gardner New York Community Trust es Research Initiative For Related Outcomes Among New York State Office Assistance To 2nd Grade Julia Lathrop Scientific Enhancement Persons In Clinic Settings of Children And Family Teachers To Provide High Westat/Conrad N. Hilton Program: Minority Biomedi- Services Quality Reading Instruction Foundation, cal Research Program Jeffrey Parsons Protective Service For In 3 East Harlem Schools Foster Youth Initiative PHS/NIH/National Institute Adults Training Resource Ekaterina Likhtik David Mootoo On Drug Abuse System Steven Greenbaum PHS/National Institutes Of National Science Foun- Syndemics & Resilience Ionic Materials, Inc Health/National Institute Of dation For HIV Transmission In A Daniel Gardner Solid State NMR Charac- Mental Health Synthetic Tools For Glycobi- National Sample Of Vulner- New York State Office terization Of Solid Polymer Modulation Of Fear & Safety ology Research able Men of Children And Family Electrolytes In The Basal Forebrain- Services amygdala-Prefrontal Denis Nash Jeffrey Parsons Statewide Local District Christian Grov Network Health Research University Of Minnesota/ Workforce Development New York University/Na- Foster Youth Initiative National Institutes Of Training tional Center For Chronic Neepa Maitra Health/NIDA Disease National Science Foun- Denis Nash A Technology-Delivered Nancy Giunta New York University/ dation PHS/National Institutes Of Peer-To-Peer Support ART Weill Cornell Medical City University Of New Molecules In Nonpertur- Health/National Institute Of Allowance Intervention For Center/HHS York Health Promotion & bative Fields: Improving Mental Health HIV-Positive Smart-MH: Sandy Mobiliza- Prevention Time Dependent Density HIV Care Coordination: Adults tion, Assessment, Referral Functional Approximations Comparative Effectiveness, & Treatment For Mental Robert Gyles Outcome Determinants And Jeffrey Parsons Health New York City Department Gerald Mallon Costs Wayne State University/Na- Of Education New York State Office tional Institute On Alcohol Sarit Golub Math Center For Learning & of Children And Family Carol Oliver Abuse And Alcoholism PHS/NIH/National Institute Teaching Services United States Education Comparing the Effective- Of Mental Health Community Case Department ness of Two Alcohol-Ad- Preparing For Imple- Bernadette Hadden Management Institute Ronald E. McNair Postbac- herence Interventions For mentation Of Sustained New York Community Trust calaureate Achievement HIV-Positive Youth Release Antivirals For HIV Social Work Education May May Leung Program Prevention Infusion Initiative: Helping HHS/Agency For Healthcare City Workers Better Serve Research & Quality CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 59 60 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Ana Paulino New York City Department Of Health & Mental Hygiene Award From President Obama Mental Health Scholar- ship Program/One Year For Early Career Research Residency Lacey Peters RE SOME PEOPLE destined to be helpful naturalists — until McCloskey teamed up with the Foundation For Child and sociable because they produce more of CUNY High Performance Computing Center at Development a particular hormone than normal? And are CSI. New York University, City University Of New people who don’t produce enough predis- He places a tiny radio frequency transmit- A York Health Promotion & posed to autism, schizophrenia and other condi- ter in each animal to track each of the millions of Prevention tions that make them less sociable? The answers movements that occur daily in the six colonies in his may lie in a CUNY scientist’s lab, “whether they’re “Ultimately, we’d like to Harris Philip Zeigler research into a thumb-sized, carrying food, or Washington University/ walrus-tusked mammal whose understand what makes the nest-building material NIH National Institute Of ancestors burrowed underground or digging a tunnel.” Neurological Disorders & 35 million years ago. mole rats social and what Michael Kress, the Stroke President Obama recognized center’s executive Functional Segregation the significance of this research creates differences. Then director and the Within The Whisker-Barrel by granting College of Staten we can ask: Does this give college’s vice president Neuraxis Island associate psychology for information tech- professor Dan McCloskey a rare us a better understanding nology and economic Lindsay Portnoy and prestigious Presidential Early development, helped Foundation For Child Career Award for Scientists and of autism or schizophrenia, develop the system. Development, New York Engineers. The National Science which involve problems with At any time, University, City University Foundation, which has supported McCloskey says, Of New York Health Promo- his research since 2012, nomi- processing social cues?” “We’re tracking about tion & Prevention nated him; CUNY also funds his 100 animals. We get a — work. Dan McCloskey profile of each animal Jonathan Prince The NSF says McCloskey and what makes it New York City Department Of Health & Mental Hygiene combines “modeling, neurophysiology, and systems special. We watch how they interact as we give them Assessment Of Service biology/network science that will transform the challenges, such as seeing who will help build the Needs To Inform Policy & field of social neuroscience by providing a compre- nest for the queen, or finding a new food source or Services Planning hensive approach toward under- carrying the pups. We track animals standing the role of neuropeptides in for months or years.” Weigang Qiu complex behavioral systems.” CUNY They discovered that certain PHS/NIH/National Institute He examines oxytocin, a animals are “superhelpers,” while Of Allergy & Infectious hormone that also influences human AMERICAN others are slackers. “Consistently, the Disease social bonding, in the social structure H H same animals are the superstars who Gene Variability & Popu- of the African naked mole rat. When DREAM help out.” His team tries “to figure lation Processes Of Lyme mole rats (which are neither moles out where in the brain the impulse to Disease Pathogens nor rats) moved underground mil- MACHINE help comes from” and precisely how lions of years ago, “They changed all and where oxytocin acts in the brain. Vanya Quinones-Jenab the rules” for mammals, McClosky says. As for the slackers, “I believe they have some utility PHS/National Institutes Of Because they nested in 85-degree-Fahrenheit and maybe we haven’t figured it out yet.” Health/National Institute Of soil in what is now Kenya, they could dispense with McCloskey discovered mole rats after his General Medical Sciences most of the temperature-regulating system that sister gave him a fact-a-day calendar in 2006. It in- BP-Endure At Hunter aboveground mammals need, like fur (which is why accurately claimed that the mole rat was the only they’re called naked). cold-blooded mammal (they’re warm-blooded, Jonathon Rendina More interesting, they have a bee-like social but regulate body temperature in a very narrow PHS/NIH/National Institute structure with a queen, who alone breeds for the col- range). “I was doing epilepsy research, which I still On Drug Abuse Developing A Mobile Emo- ony, and workers who perform different functions. do, and I thought they would be great models for tion Regulation Intervention But which animals do what and why confounded how environment affects the brain.” For HIV-Positive Men

Jessica Rothman — Dan McCloskey National Science Foun- College of Staten Island dation The Geometry Of Nutritional H Presidential Early Career Award Niche Separation Among for Scientists and Engineers Forest Monkeys

CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 61 Roger Sherwood Willie Tolliver Shengping Zheng Anthony Carpi Stephen Handelman Robin Hood Foundation New York Community Trust National Science Foun- United States Department The Tow Foundation Project For Return & Social Work Education dation Of Education Troubled Kids: Changing Opportunities In Infusion Initiative: Helping New Strategies & Methods A Success Pipeline For His- The Culture Of Juvenile Veterans Education City Workers Better Serve For Synthesis Of Indoles & panic Students: Expanding Justice People In Need Carbozoles A Model Transfer Articula- Rosanne Silberman tion Program By Supporting Maria Hartwig Lavelle Fund For The Blind Jennifer Tuten Sherryl Graves Cohort Identity, Academic United States Department Inc., Training Program For New York Community Trust New York Community Trust Progress, And Learner-Cen- Of Justice -- Federal Bureau Teachers Of Orientation & Assistance To 2nd Grade Assistance to 2nd Grade tered Curriculum Of Investigation Mobility Skills For People Teachers To Provide High Teachers to Provide High Implicit Influences In With Visual Impairments Quality Reading Instruction Quality Reading Instruction Anthony Carpi Investigative Interviews: In 3 East Harlem Schools in 3 East Harlem Schools United States Department Expansion And Cross-Cul- Rosanne Silberman Of Education tural Validation New York State Education Ana Ventuneac and Jeffrey Jennifer Tuten Creating Hispanic Scien- Department Parsons New York Community Trust tists: A Model Articulation Maria Hartwig Intensive Teacher Institute PHS/National Institutes Of Assistance to 2nd Grade Program Between Hispanic United States Department For Teachers Of The Blind/ Health/National Institute On Teachers to Provide High Serving Institutions Of Justice -- Federal Bureau Visually Impaired Drug Abuse Quality Reading Instruction Of Investigation A Structural Intervention To in 3 East Harlem School Elise Champeil Moving Forward: Bringing William Solecki Improve Substance Abuse National Institutes Of About Change In Interroga- Columbia University/ Diagnosis & Treatment Health tion Practice National Oceanic And Atmo- Practices In HIV Clinic Role Of P21 In The spheric Administration Settings Senior Upstream P53-Independent Maria Hartwig Supporting Regional Im- Signaling Pathway In Re- United States Department plementation Of Integrated Levi Waldron sponse To MC And DMC DNÅ Of Justice Federal Bureau Climate Resilience Rosewell Park Cancer Interstrand Crosslinks Of Investigation (FBI) Institute/National Cancer Preeti Chauhan Validation Of The Strategic William Solecki Institute The Laura And John Arnold Use Of Evidence Technique: National Science Foun- Cancer Genomics: Integra- Foundation The Impact Of Culture And dation tive & Scalable Solutions In John Jay College Misdemeanor Justice Criminal Experience Belmont Forum-G9 Initia- R/Bioconductor Of Criminal Justice Project tive Collaborative Research: Jeffery Butts Yi He Transformation & Resilience Elaine Walsh New York City Department Preeti Chauhan Shimadzu Corp. On Urban Coasts New York City Department Of Health And Mental The Laura And John Arnold Equipment Grant For Mass Of Education Hygiene Foundation Spectrometry Program Tyrel Starks Liberty Partnership Program Assessing Infrastructure Of Research Network On PHS/NIH/National Institute Behavioral Health Services Misdemeanor Justice Ann Jacobs On Drug Abuse Jeanne Weiler In NYC Ford Foundation Addressing Substance Use National Science Foun- Shu-Yuan Cheng Corridors Of College Through CVCT dation Jeffrey Butts Shimadzu Corp. Success, Prison To College Ofer Tchernichovski Hunter College Noyce The Annie E Casey Foun- Equipment Grant For Mass Initiative PHS/NIH/National Institute Science Scholar Program dation Spectrometry Program On Deafness & Other Com- -- Phase 2 Evidence Generation For Ann Jacobs munication Disorder Lei Xie Youth Services Marta Concheiro-Guisan Laura And John Arnold Behavior Mechanism Of PHS/NIH/National Library Of Shimadzu Corp. Foundation Vocal Imitation Medicine Dara Byrne Equipment Grant For Mass Developing A National Drug Discovery By Integrat- Robin Hood Foundation Spectrometry Program Agenda For Pretrial Robert Thompson ing Chemical Genomics & Acceleration, Completion, Research National Science Foun- Structural Systems Biology Engagement (Ace) Program Lynette Cook-Francis dation Single Stop USA Ann Jacobs Mathematics & Science Brian Zeglis Anthony Carpi Single-Stop Services New York State Division Of Teacher Education Resi- PHS/NIH/National Cancer New York State Education Criminal Justice Services dency Institute Department Jeffrey Coots Prison To College Pipeline Pretargeted Radioimmu- Collegiate Science And New York City Department Lorna Thorpe notherapy Based On Bio- Technology Entry Program Of Health And Mental Ann Jacobs Centers For Disease Control orthogonal Click Chemistry (CSTEP) Hygiene Pinkerton Foundation And Prevention/National From Punishment To Public Pinkerton Fellowship Center For Chronic Disease Shengping Zheng Anthony Carpi Health (P2PH) Initiative Prevention & Health National Science Foun- Savannah River Nuclear Promotion dation Solutions, Llc Jessica Gordon Ann Jacobs New York University, New Strategies & Methods A Mechanistic Investi- United States Department The Pinkerton Foundation City University Of New For Synthesis Of Indoles & gation Of Reduction And Of Education College Initiative Mentoring York Health Promotion & Carbozoles Volatilization Of Mercury McNair Post-Baccalaureate Program Prevention Contaminants In Soil At Achievement Program The Oakridge Y-12 National Security Complex 62 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Ann Jacobs David Kennedy Edgardo Sanabria-Valentin KINGSBOROUGH Marie Mandara The Tow Foundation United States Department New York State Education COMMUNITY COLLEGE New York City Human Tow Advocacy Fellowship Of Justice -- Office of Department Stephanie Akunvabey Resources Administration Initiative Justice Programs Collegiate Science And Robin Hood Foundation Cope Graduation Initiative National Center For Build- Technology Entry Program Opening Doors Learning David Kennedy ing Community Trust And (CSTEP) Communities Anna Rozenboym City Of Paterson, New Jersey Justice New York State Education Reducing Serious Violence Kate Szur Babette Audant Department In Paterson, New Jersey Bilal Khan United States Department Mayor’s Center For Econom- 2015-2020 STEP National Institutes Of Of Education ic Opportunity, NYC/Young Marisa Schlessinger David Kennedy Health Via New York A Success Pipeline For His- Men’s Initiative Robin Hood Foundation Community Foundation Of University panic Students: Expanding CUNY Fatherhood Academy Opening Doors Learning St Joseph County Addressing Hepatitis C And A Model Transfer Articula- At Kingsborough Communi- Communities Reducing Serious Violence Hepatocellular Carcinoma: tion Program By Supporting ty College Elizabeth Sergile In South Bend, Indiana The Current And Future Cohort Identity, Academic New York State Education Epidemics Progress, And Learner-Cen- Babette Audant Department 2015-16 Perkins David Kennedy tered Curriculum Mayor’s Fund To Advance Department Of Justice Nathan Lents New York City Elizabeth Sergile Via The Chicago Police United States Department Karen Texeira Project Rise New York State Education Department Of Education United States Department Department Chicago Police Department Creating Hispanic Scien- Of Education Liberty Partnerships Victims Of Violence In tists: A Model Articulation Upward Bound Program Program Targeted Communities Program Between Hispanic Dana Trimboli Single Stop Usa, Inc Initiative Serving Institutions Bridget Weeks Single-Stop Services Ambrose Monell Foundation David Kennedy Anne Lopes Ambrose Monell Foundation Mayor And Alderman Of The New York City Department Philip Yanos Scholarship City Of Savannah Of Health And Mental Department Of Health And Reducing Serious Violence Hygiene Human Services Natalie Bredikhina Bridget Weeks In Savannah, Georgia From Punishment To Public Examining Determinants New York State Office of Health Resources And Health (P2PH) Of Community Participa- Temporary & Disability Services Administration David Kennedy tion Among Persons With Assistance Scholarships For Disadvan- Mayor And City Council Timothy Luke Psychiatric Disabilities Supplemental Nutrition As- taged Nursing Students Of Baltimore -- Baltimore United States Department sistance, Employment And Police Department Of Justice Philip Yanos Training (SNAPE&T) Venture Michael Weisenfeld Reducing Serious Violence Federal Bureau Of Inves- National Institutes Of To Success Program The Carroll And Milton In Baltimore, Maryland tigation Health Petrie Foundation Validation Of The Strategic Randomized Controlled Trial Peter Cohen Math Supplemental Instruc- David Kennedy Use Of Evidence Technique: Treatment For Internalized The Carroll And Milton tion Center New York State Department The Impact Of Culture And Stigma In Schizophrenia Petrie Foundation Of Criminal Justice Services Criminal Experience Math Supplemental Instruc- Michael Weisenfeld Gun Involved Violence Jeffrey A Butts tion Center The Carroll And Milton Elimination Silvia Mazzula New York City Council Petrie Foundation Robert Wood Johnson Implementation And Faith Fogelman Math Supplemental David Kennedy Foundation Outcome Assessment Of United States Department Instruction Center Pritzker Foundation Expanding The Latina The New York City Anti-Gun Of Education, Student Reconciliation And Researchers Network To Violence Initiative Support Services Program LAGUARDIA Truth-Telling In Chicago: Build Community, Diversify COMMUNITY COLLEGE Driving Real Change Research Capacity, And Ann Jacobs Craig Hinkley Claudia Baldonedo Between The Chicago Police Foster Interdisciplinary New York City Center For New York State Education New York City Department Department And Alienated Collaborations Economic Opportunity Department Of Probation Chicago Communities New York City Young Men’s 2015-2020 CSTEP Young Adult Justice Barry Nemeroff Initiative Program Community David Kennedy New York State Education The New York City Justice Kieran Howard State Of Connecticut Via Department Corps National Aeronautics And Ada Bedor University Of New Haven Science And Technology Space Administration COPE GSI LaGuardia Reducing Serious Violence Entry Program (STEP) David Kennedy Planetary Major Equipment In The State Of Connecticut United States Department Program Amy Dalsimer Jason Rauceo Of Justice Office On Violence Marie Mandara Fund/Robin Hood Foundation GED Bridge David Kennedy National Institutes Of Against Women New York City Human The John D. And Catherine T. Health The National Network For Resources Administration Hendrick Delcham MacArthur Foundation Pathogenic Yeast Stress Safe Communities: An Ap- College Opportunity To Department Of Health And Chicago Group Violence Signaling Networks proach To Reducing Serious Prepare For Employment Human Services/National Reduction Strategy Domestic Violence Institutes Of Health LaGuardia Bridges To The Baccalaureate

CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 63 Rosa Figueroa John Mogulescu Anne Campos Marzie Jafari Herminio Martinez NPORG/Research Founda- New York City Department New York State Education Bronx Lebanon Hospital United States Department tion/SUNY Of Correction, Next Steps Department Master Of Nursing Program Of Education The New York State Small Project Adult Literacy Education Bronx Gear Up Network Business Develo Marzie Jafari Jane Schulman Anne Campos Hospital League, Local Donna Mcgregor Francesca Fiore Robin Hood Foundation United States Department 1199 National Science Foun- United States Education Green Jobs Training Of Education Colloquium Series Program dation Department/Office of Post- Program Student Support Services Flipping Chemistry And secondary Education Program For Careers In Marzie Jafari Biology Classes To Increase Veterans Upward Bound Regina Varin-Mognano Teaching Serving Early Hospital League, Local Student Engagement And Department Of Health And Childhood, Elementary, 1199 Performance And Effect Adjoae Gzifa Human Services/Substance Middle And High School Health Care Careers Core Cultural Change In Insti- New York City Department Abuse And Mental Health Pre-Service Teachers Curriculum tutes Of Higher Education Of Youth And Community Services Administration Marzie Jafari Development Class And Sass Front Line Hai-Ping Cheng New York City Department Naphtali O’Connor SYEP-DOE Prevention National Institutes Of Of Small Business Services National Institutes Of Health Home Health Aide Health Adjoae Gzifa LEHMAN COLLEGE A Periplasmic Global Reg- Polysaccharide - Polyamine New York City Department Catherine Alicia Georges ulator, Exor, For Bacterial Jaye Jones Hydrogels Of Youth And Community Health Resources And Invasion Of Host Cells New York State Education Development Services Administration Department , Adult Learn- Stephen Redenti Young Adult Internship Increasing Diversity Of Harriet Fayne ing Center EL Civics National Institutes Of Program Family Nurse Practitioners United States Department Health For The Bronx And New Of Education, Teacher Qual- Thomas Kurtzman Analysis Of Transplantable Robert Hills York City ity Partnership Evaluation University Of San Diego Photoreceptor Precursor Mi- United States Education Accounting For Water gration Honing Mechanisms Department/Office of Luis Anchordoqui Serigne Gningue Structure And Thermody- Special Education And National Aeronautics And National Science Foun- namics In Computer Aided Stephen Redenti Rehabilitative Services Space Administration dation Drug Design National Institutes Of Interpreter Education US Participation In The Science, Technology, Engi- Health Program Extreme Universe neering, And Mathematics Jose Magdaleno Modeling Photoreceptor Anne Campos For English Language United States Department Migration In Biomimetic Bruce Hoffacker New York City Department Learners Of Education Microenvironments To New York State Education Of Education Program At Lehman College Overcoming Barriers And Optimize Transplantation Department Literacy And Professional Moving Up: The Sophomore Carl D. Perkins Career And Development Mira Goral Year Initiative Anne Rothstein Technical Training National Institutes Of Prabodhika Mallikaratchy New York City Department Anne Campos Health National Institutes Of Of Youth And Community John Hunt New York City Department Facilitation And Competi- Health Development New York City Office Of Education tion Across Languages In Antibody Guided Cell-Selex Lehman College 9th Grade of The Mayor Literacy School Leaders And Multilingual Aphasia Technology Transition Program -- Wal- Adult Literacy Program Teachers Herminio Martinez ton Campus Joy Greenberg John Hunt Anne Campos Health Resources And Anne Rothstein New York State Education New York City Department Services Administration New York City Department Department/Office of Adult Of Education Culturally Informed Behav- Of Youth And Community Career And Continuing Math Related Services And ioral Health Services For At- Development Education Services Professional Development Risk Children, Adolescents Out Of School Time Adult Basic Education And And Transitional-Age Youth Literacy Services Anne Campos And Their Families In Bronx, Anne Rothstein New York City Office of The New York And Surrounding United States Department John Hunt Mayor Communities New York City Department Of Education New York State Education Adult Literacy Program Of Youth And Community Lehman College Talent Department/Office of Adult Annette Hernandez Development Search: Pathways To Career And Continuing Anne Campos United States Department Bronx Opportunity For Out Success Education Services New York State Education Of Education Of School Time (BOOST) Milton Santiago Center For Immigrant Adult Department Regular Student Support Bronx Lebanon Hospital Literature & Basic Adult Adult Learning Center EL Service Program To Provide Herminio Martinez Master Of Nursing Program Education Civics Pathways To Success For New York State Higher Low-Income First Gener- Education Services Milton Santiago John Hunt Anne Campos ation College Undergrad- Corporation Hospital League, Local New York State Education New York State Education uates New York State Gear Up 1199 Department/Office of Adult Department, Adult Learning Health Care Careers Core Career And Continuing Center/CUNY WIA Marzie Jafari Herminio Martinez Curriculum Education Services Bronx Lebanon Hospital New York State Office of Workforce Investment Act Master Of Nursing Program Children And Families Student Services Superstorm Sandy 64 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Milton Santiago Bonne August QUEENS COLLEGE Seogjoo Jang Petrie Foundation Perfect Choice Staffing New York State Education Sherry Baron United States Department The Carroll And Milton RN Completion/MSN Department New York University School Of Energy Petrie Student Emergency Program Science And Technology Of Medicine Molecular Level Character- Grant Fund Entry Program Health Promotion And Dis- ization Of Quantum Design Evan Senreich ease Prevention Research Principles For Efficient And Andrew Rosenberg Substance Abuse And Bonne August Center Robust Excitons And Charge Air Force Office of Scientific Mental Health Services New York State Education Migration Research Administration Department Jeff Beeler Sparkler: Scalable Prosodic Enhancing SBIRT Utilization Smart Scholars National Institutes Of Anomaly And Relational Among Underserved Health Knowledge Exploration Of Populations In Bronx, NY Reginald Blake Assessing Aberrant Motor Language With Enhanced And Surrounding Urban National Science Foun- Learning In Parkinson’s Robustness Areas: A Lehman College dation Patients Andrew Rosenberg Training Initiative For Social GP-Extra: Recruiting And Theodore Brown IBM Babel Work Students And Medical Retaining Non-Geoscience New York City Council Residents Minority STEM Majors For Queens College Technology Andrew Rosenberg The Geoscience Workforce Incubator National Science Foun- Clarence Stanley Igor Kuskovsky dation Research Foundation/SUNY Pamela Brown Vivian Charlop National Science Foun- Career: More Than Words: The New York State Small New York State Education New York City Department dation Advanced Prosodic Analysis Business Development Department Of Cultural Affairs UNS: Performance Opti- Center College Science And Cultural After School Ad- mized Intermediate Band Andrew Rosenberg Technology Entry Program ventures (Casa) Program Photovoltaic Devices Based United States Air Force Clarence Stanley On Type-II Quantum Dots Office of Scientific Research Research Foundation/SUNY Carmel Dato Vivian Charlop Sparkler: Scalable Prosodic, New York State Small Busi- United States Depart- New York City Department Steven Markowitz Anomaly And Relational ness Development Center ment Of Health & Human Of Cultural Affairs New York City Department Knowledge Exploration Of Services Cultural After School Of Health & Mental Hygiene Language With Enhanced Moira Sauane Educating Nursing And Adventures New York Community Air Robustness National Institutes Of Human Services Stu- Survey Program Health dents To Identify, Provide Vivian Charlop Eric Urevich Turning Inhibitions Of Intervention And Referral New York Community Bank Steven Markowitz New York State Office Translation Initiation Into Of Individuals At Risk Of Kupferberg Presents Series Steelworkers Charitable & of Children And Family Cancer Therapy Substance Abuse Disorder For The 2015-2016 Season Educational Organization Services Medical Surveillance Childcare Development Milton Santiago Sandie Han John Dennehy Of Former Department Block Grant Perfect Choice Staffing for United States Department National Science Foun- Of Energy Workers RN Completion/MSN Of Education dation Robert Vago Program MSEIP: Women And Minori- Career: Population Steven Markowitz New York State Education ties In STEM Dynamics And Evolutionary United States Department Department NEW YORK CITY Robert Piechota Ecology Of Viral Emergence Of Energy Advanced Certification, COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY NYPORG/Research Former Worker Surveillance Post-Master’s Clinical- Bonne August Foundation/SUNY Jin Fan Program ly-Rich Intensive Teacher New York State Department Small Business Develop- National Institutes Of Institute In Bilingual Of Education ment Center Health Craig Michaels Education And English Perkin Uncertainty, Cognitive New York State Education Robert Piechota Control And The Brain Department Robert Vago Bonne August Research Foundation/SUNY Eva Fernandez Advanced Certification, New York State Education New York State Department Small Business Develop- New York City Department Post-Master’s Clinical- Department Of Education ment Center Of Small Business Services ly-Rich Intensive Teacher Development Of Lesson Smart Scholars: City Poly Tech Talent Pipeline Resi- Institute In Bilingual Modules And Online Support Cohort 3 Jonas Reitz dency At Queens College Education And English For New York State English United States Department As A New Language Instruc- Bonne August Of Education Robin Hizme Michael Mirkin tion New York State Department Opening Gateways To New York City Department Air Force Office of Scientific Of Education Student Success: STEM Of Education Research Luat Vuong Smart Scholars: City Poly Townsend Harris High Electrochemical Imagining National Science Foun- Liana Tsenova School Collaboration And Mechanism Studies On dation Bonne August National Institutes Of Program The Nanometer Scale Career: Towards Control New York State Department Health Of Photo-Induced Charges Of Education Bridges To The Seogjoo Jang Alexey Ovchinnikov In Chiral Nanocomposites Smart Scholars: P-Tech Baccalaureate United States Department National Science Foun- Via Optical Spin-Orbit Of Energy dation Interactions Bonne August Elucidating Positive Quan- AF: Medium: Collaborative New York State Department tum Effects For Efficient Research: Numerical Alge- Of Education Energy And Charge Transfer braic Differential Equations Teacher Leader Quality Dynamic In Soft Solar Ener- Adam Rockman Partnership Program gy Conversion Systems The Carroll And Milton CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS 65 Guatemala’s army perpetrated 626 massacres of indigenous Maya people in the 1980s. In the 1990s, Sanford helped exhume mass graves in seven Maya communities. In this 2001 photo by Jonathan Moller, relatives and supporters carry the remains of 121 people through the streets of rural Nebaj after a funeral mass.

66 CUNY 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS Peishi Wang United States Department Of Education Culturally Aligned And Re- In Colombia to Aid the Ending sponsive Early Intervention Of a Half-Century of Civil War (Project I-Care) Zahra Zakeri National Institutes Of FTER 52 YEARS OF CIVIL WAR that “Transitional justice is Health Marc Understanding killed at least 220,000 and displaced Student Training In Aca- close to 6 million people, peace is tanta- moving from violation of demic Research At Queens Alizingly close in Colombia. rights to respect for rights. College On Oct. 2 – and by only four-tenths of one percentage point – voters rejected a proposed Justice is like peace: YORK COLLEGE peace deal between the government and the It’s not a thing that Ivica Arsov largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed National Institutes Of Forces of Colombia (FARC, for short, in Span- happens, but an ongoing Health/National Institute Of ish); many voters believed the pact had treated General Medicine the rebels too leniently. Five days later, the process. Citizens and Proposal Focuses On The country’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, was civil society struggle for it Role Of Autophagic Protein awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to Beclin 1 In Dendritic Cell end the conflict and move his country toward during conflict, and strug- Development, Activation reconciliation. At press time in October, nego- And Antigen Presentation tiations were continuing to modify the original gle even more to achieve it Of Tumor Antigens Respon- sible For Eliciting Anti-Tu- agreement while maintaining a truce. when the fighting ends.” mor T Cell Responses But one way or another Lehman anthropology professor and human rights activist — Victoria Sanford Nazrul Khandaker Victoria Sanford will be there to help. This National Aeronautics And internationally recognized expert on genocide is in anthropological methods, particularly how Space Administration and postwar justice received a 2016 Fulbright to search and read archival documents.” NASA MAA Program grant to train students and develop a curricu- Uncovering the truth of what happened lum in transitional justice at the Universidad during the war between Colombia’s rebels, Louis Levinger Libre law school in Bogotá. Transitional justice armed forces and paramilitaries is critical to es- National Institute Of combines judicial and nonjudicial means to tablishing trust and justice, because all parties General Medicine redress massive human rights abuses. committed atrocities. Investigate Newly She says Colombian law students “want The goal remains having FARC soldiers Discovered Mutations In to learn about transitional justice around the disarm, demobilize, reintegrate (DDR) and The Mitochondrial Trnas world. I’ll talk about the arc in re-enter normal civilian life. “All Of Pediatric Patients With Illness Suggestive Of A Central America in general and three parts of DDR have to hap- Mitochondrial Etiology in Guatemala in particular.” pen when you have people with CUNY guns,” Sanford says. The smaller She has worked with forensic Panayiotis Meleties National Liberation Army still teams in Guatemala since 1994, AMERICAN Unites States Department uncovering government-perpe- H H seeks its own peace deal. Virtually Of Education, PBI Program trated massacres and genocides DREAM all of the Colombian insurgents of indigenous people, as well as grew up knowing only war, and Louis M Bradbury on current high-impact human MACHINE there is a gulf between their National Institutes Of rights cases. She received two experiences and those of rural Health/National Institute Of previous Fulbrights, as well as other prominent peasants and the educated urban elite in this General Medicine awards. prosperous country. Sanford says that lasting Proposal Aims to Identify The law school is “interested in how you peace may hinge upon educating the rebels and and Characterize Enzymes document human rights violations. Anthropol- providing them with meaningful jobs. Involved in the Repair of ogists offer a vast array of approaches: testimo- DDR and transitional justice will play out Damaged Carotenoids nies to reconstruct what happened, forensic against this background. The lawyers whom she Lesley Emtage analysis of documents in archives, exhuma- will train and the subsequent classes that will National Institutes Of tions and autopsies, and putting the whole pic- follow her curriculum will be in the forefront of Health/National Institute Of healing Colombia. ture together. One of the threads of the seminar General Medicine Research Seeks To Better Understand The Molecular — Victoria Sanford Mechanisms By Which Some Cells Are Able To Lehman College Detoxify Huntington Protein, To Identify Possible Molec- H Fulbright Fellowship ular Targets Of Therapeutic Approaches

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