Volume 12, Number 1 Fall/Winter 2008

The Sound of BC Music by Stephen J. Garone, ’90, Office of Communications, Editorial Services

or centuries, music has been 2004, Hedwig and the ensemble returned extraordinary growth opportunity as well unifying the world’s divergent to Europe and, at the invitation of the as a tremendous cultural exchange.” ­­Fpeoples and cultures. From Queen Historic Brass Society, performed at the Over the years, the Percussion Victoria enjoying African American International Brass Conference in Basel, Ensemble also has assembled an spirituals in 1871 to Billy Joel rocking the Switzerland, and Bad Säckingen, Germany. impressive passport. Students—and now Soviet Union in 1987 to the New York The ensemble capped off the tour in well-known percussionists—Norbert Philharmonic receiving a standing ovation Karlsruhe, Germany, where it spent a Goldberg, Ray Marchica, and Larry Spivack in forbidden Pyongyang, , three-day residency at the Hochschule für were part of the ensemble that peeked in 2008, American music in particular Musik, one of the major German music behind the Iron Curtain in Romania in the has long made global connections, conservatories, and performed a joint late 1970s. In 2004, it became the first and for decades the Brooklyn College continued on page 4 Conservatory of Music has played a part in its exportation. In the 1970s, the Brooklyn College Percussion Ensemble performed in , and in the 1980s the Conservatory Orchestra visited Taiwan. This past summer, the Brooklyn College Chamber Choir participated in a weeklong pre- Olympics music festival in China (see “A Performance Worthy of the Gold”). Of course, Asia isn’t the only continent where Brooklyn College has struck a resounding chord. In 1998, Professor Douglas Hedwig brought the Brass Ensemble to London, where it took concert with the Hochschule brass part in joint master classes, workshops, ensemble. “These public performances Brian Willson drums up excitement for and a concert performance at the Royal focused on collaboration with the the Percussion Ensemble. Academy of Music, the second oldest conservatory students in these countries,” music conservatory in the world. In notes Hedwig, “and that provided an “One World One Dream,” the slogan of festival. Jonathan Babcock, then assistant the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, set the director of the Conservatory of Music and tone for two weeks of athletes coming its director of choirs, and Nancy Hager, together to unite the world in sport. But then conservatory chairperson, quickly a month before China hosted a stunning accepted. Soon after being named the opening ceremony and Michael Phelps new chairperson in 2006, Professor Bruce swam his way into history, Brooklyn MacIntyre became intimately involved as College did its part in teaching the world well. to sing by participating in “Perform On July 3, after intense preparation, in Harmony—with Olympic Spirit,” a multiple rehearsals, and learning Mandarin A Performance weeklong music festival that electrified lyrics, almost thirty undergraduate and audiences in two of China’s largest cities. graduate Brooklyn College students and Worthy of The festival featured the Brooklyn the other North American choirs took College Chamber Choir, ten other U.S. the stage at the Forbidden City Concert the Gold and Canadian college and community Hall in Beijing—sort of. With 452 by Stephen J. Garone choirs, the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, members, including MacIntyre and his and the Youth Choir of Tianjin wife (not quite as large as Team USA, but Conservatory in two concerts in Beijing about the size of Team Australia or Team and Shanghai. Planning the event Russia), the choirs simply did not fit on the stage. Instead, they were dispersed to fill the hall’s balconies; the orchestra remained on the stage, and the Chinese chorus stood behind them. The audience was enveloped by sound for ninety minutes of a rare international experience. The program included John Williams’s instantly recognizable Olympic Fanfare & Theme as well as his Call of the Champions; “O Fortuna,” the opening chorus of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana cantata; One World, One Dream, by Peter de Mets, with words in both English and Mandarin; “Ode to Joy,” the choral finale of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor; and Leonard Bernstein’s Olympic Hymn. One of the highlights—particularly for the mostly required a Herculean effort almost as Chinese audience—was “Defend the The Brooklyn College Chamber Choir demanding as that of a gymnast trying Yellow River,” an upbeat choral excerpt and eleven other U.S., Canadian, and to make it to the medal stand. It all from the Yellow River Cantata, one of the Chinese choirs take the stage—and the began almost three years ago, when most famous Chinese works for chorus Kingsway International Tours, an organizer for orchestra. balconies—for a performance in Beijing. of performance events throughout the “When they heard a group of world, invited Brooklyn College to the Americans and Canadians singing one of

2 their very great pieces in Mandarin,” says MacIntyre, “they started cheering and clapping, overjoyed and so appreciative of this reaching out between nations.” Three days later, in a performance in Shanghai, the choruses received the same positive reception. “The students benefited from this experience in so many ways,” states MacIntyre. “At the very first rehearsal, the members of all the choirs were lined up by height in each section—sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses—so they were spread out and able to talk to members was impressed by our students’ great of other choirs and to share thoughts and interest and curiosity.” exchange ideas about the program.” He adds that “most of our students Bruce MacIntyre (left, middle row) In addition to these two major could not have gone on this trip if it and the Chamber Choir on a break concerts and five three-hour rehearsals, weren’t for the financial backing we from rehearsing and performing, at the the Chamber Choir gave two more received,” and for that he remains grateful performances, one in each city. They for the support of the Brooklyn College Great Wall. sang nine pieces from their repertoire, Alumni Association and the local alumni ranging from English madrigals to an chapter, the Brooklyn College Foundation, original work by an undergraduate and members of the Chinatown Chamber composition student. Unlike the other of Commerce. With their assistance, choirs at these concerts, which sang with students ended up paying only 50 percent musical accompaniment, under Babcock’s of the cost. direction the BC group performed a The students weren’t the only ones capella. who benefited from this trip. “It allowed When they weren’t rehearsing or us to extend the name and reputation performing, the choir was climbing along of the choir, the Conservatory of the Great Wall, exploring a few of the Music, and Brooklyn College,” explains 9,999 rooms in the Forbidden City, MacIntyre. “We garnered some media crossing historic Tiananmen Square, eating attention, and the papers ran a review proper Peking duck, and learning about of the concert.” Just as important, jade, silk, and pearls as well as picking up relationships were forged that could a few more words in Mandarin. eventually lead to MacIntyre comments that “it was future cross-cultural exchanges, such as remarkable to see their appreciation for MacIntyre’s invitation to conductor Yang another culture. Most of them had never Li. “Our students loved working under a been out of the country, and some had Chinese conductor,” MacIntyre says, “and never left New York. This whole new it would be wonderful to bring him on world for them had their jaws dropping campus.” and cameras clicking. Even our tour guide

3 visiting percussion ensemble ever to covered by fundraising events, College appear in Turkey, thanks to an invitation support, and the CERF Foundation. from Cigdem Borucu, a Brooklyn College Willson sends compositions to Faculty Newsletter alumna who was now head of the music Ireland months before the concerts, department at Bilgi University in Istanbul. and the two ensembles rehearse Committee Under the direction of former Brooklyn the arrangements simultaneously but Coeditors College Director of Percussion Studies independently. During the weeklong Martha Monaghan Corpus Morris Lang and Adjunct Professor and trip, the ensembles hold two or three Irwin Weintraub Concert Office Director Brian Willson, major concerts at such high-level Dublin Committee the ensemble performed three concerts. venues as the National Concert Hall and Kenneth Bruffee In addition, George Brunner, director of the Helix, where the 2004 Percussion Stephen Garone music technology, led an electroacoustic Extravaganza!!! was billed as “featuring Renison Gonsalves concert, and Lang, Brunner, and Willson some of the world’s finest percussionists.” Kathleen McSorley held six clinics, master classes, and lectures. The two ensembles perform pieces both Jerry Mirotznik Willson has also been an integral part separately and together. For instance, Jeanne Theoharis of a decade-long relationship with the in 2002 the two joined for the world Royal Irish Academy of Music Percussion premiere of Edgar Varese’s Ionization, The Faculty Newsletter welcomes articles on your ­ Ensemble, an exchange program that which featured thirteen percussionists research and accomplishments. ­ owes its origins to another motivated from both groups. Please submit material to MCorpus@ College alumnus. Richard O’Donnell, “This is a wonderful experience for brooklyn.cuny.edu. ’96, principal percussionist with Ireland’s our students,” states Willson, “many of National Symphony Orchestra and whom have never been out of the city. professor of percussion at the Royal Irish They come back with an incredible sense Academy of Music, contacted his former of confidence and worldliness. They Brooklyn College professor, Morris Lang, are exposed to the idea of world music and asked if the College would host firsthand and discover new ways of music a concert. In return, would Lang be that exist in another country—a great first interested in bringing the Brooklyn group step to becoming a good musician.” across the pond to Dublin? They also gain a better understanding That initial simple invitation from of exactly what they’ve gotten themselves 1999 has evolved into an annual event. into by choosing a career in music. “They Planning for the summer performances start to comprehend the level of work in Ireland begins in the previous fall, that is required,” Willson says. “When when Willson starts booking flights and they have to put in a thirteen-hour day arranging housing for BC students in their just for one ninety-minute concert, they counterparts’ homes—a feature of the quickly see that they are not pursuing an program that not only enhances students’ easy profession. But it definitely ups their cultural experience but also helps keep level of commitment.” down costs, of which only a portion is

4 In 2004, the Ireland trip added to Although the Percussion Ensemble its itinerary with a sojourn into Spain, hasn’t returned to the Emerald Isle since where one of O’Donnell’s students was Lang left Brooklyn College in 2006, teaching in San Sebastian. The Brooklyn Willson continues to welcome the College and Irish ensembles performed a Irish here. In spring 2007, the College concert in the outdoor sculpture garden hosted the Irish ensemble and arranged, at the Chillida-Leku Museum, and Willson, through Lang and his new position at O’Donnell, and Lang taught free master Lehman College, a joint concert there, classes. “The kids were floored by our extending the intercampus experience. presence,” Willson recalls. “For these The following year, O’Donnell returned as students in a small town in Spain, having a visiting artist to hold a concert and to Morris Lang there was equivalent to having play for the College’s music appreciation a rock star. They were absolutely awed.” classes. The exchange program ensures that Willson also continues to represent there’s some play mixed in with all the the College on his own. In 2008, he ran work, extending the students’ experience a drum kit improvisation workshop at the far beyond concert halls and giving them Festival of Percussion in Dublin. He has a broader exposure to the hosting culture. taught master classes in and served In Dublin, Brooklyn College students hit as a jurist at the International Percussion Temple Bar and other neighborhoods Competition at the Ninth Contemporary to hear local bands play; visiting students Music Festival in Bogotá, , where here are accompanied to New York he also led four master classes and earned museums, and in 2007 to the Zildjian eternal gratitude from students when Cymbal factory in Boston. he gave away all his personal sticks and Willson says the students aren’t the mallets that would have been extremely only ones to benefit from these exchanges. expensive for the students to buy on their “The Percussion Ensemble can proudly own—a true ambassador of both music say that we have a history of international and Brooklyn College. touring. People in other countries get to So the next time you should run see that Brooklyn College is producing across a group of Canadians enjoying something great, and that boosts our some fado in Toronto’s Little Portugal or reputation.” That reputation was strong a Japanese tour group singing the English enough to attract Irish student Cathal lyrics to “Climb Every Mountain” in a Murphy, who, after his experience in the Salzburg beer hall, not only will you truly exchange program, came to Brooklyn be aware of music’s universal power, but College and earned a master of music that somewhere in the world, Brooklyn degree in 2005. College has played its own part in keeping the hills (or concert halls or outdoor sculpture gardens) alive with the sound of music. On the Lighter Side Bailemos! An Educator Learns to Flamenco by Jennifer D. Adams, Education

uring the long, hot summers in occasions, to send waves of emotion to New York City, I enjoy visiting those watching and listening to them” Doutdoor arts festivals. It was (In Search of Duende, translated by C. at one of these festivals, years ago, that I Maurer (New York: New Directions, 1998)). found myself mesmerized by a flamenco It was this duende that drew me into the artist dancing the siguiriyas, one of the art and culture of flamenco dance, and traditional rhythms that is a more serious, led me to the information table where somber dance. She wore a long black I picked up a flyer advertising classes at dress and danced like the wind with Manhattan’s Lotus Music & Dance Studios. duende, what Spanish poet Federico Once enrolled, I fell head over heels, García Lorca articulated as “an inexplicable literally, for the dance and its legend. power of attraction; the ability, on rare Flamenco is a term that describes Jose Molina, La Repompa, and a host whenever the opportunity arises. It is said the dance and the music and songs of visiting artists from Spain, including that a flamenco dancer gets better with characteristic of the Gypsies of the Andalucía Elena Andujar, all world-renowned artists age because she has the weight of life region of Spain. But the art has global in the global flamenco community for experiences and struggles to add to the origins. The footwork is very similar to performing, choreographing, and teaching. dance—weight that becomes duende. the rhythms of the kathak dancers of La Repompa is from one of the flamenco I plan on dancing for a long time. India, perhaps because the Gypsies are dynasties in Spain, and I traveled there to said to have come from there. According study such heralded performers among Jennifer D. Adams, assistant professor, to Lorca, in 1400 “the Gypsies, pursued flamenco aficionados as Maria Magdalena School of Education, is the author of several by the hundred-thousand horsemen of and Clara Mora in Madrid and Jara articles on science instruction and the use the great Tamerlane, fled from India” and Heredia and Yolanda Cortes in Granada. of sociocultural resources as a framework were later exiled to southern Spain. It Over the last decade I have made several for learning science. Her most recent was there that this footwork merged trips to Spain, especially to Andalucía, a article, “The Historical Context of Science with the cante jonte (sad songs) of the cultural crossroads where North Africa and Education at the American Museum of Sephardic Jews, the palos (rhythms) of and Europe meet, evident in the Islamic Natural History,” was published in Cultural the Moors, and the guitar of the Spanish (Moorish) architecture and design. Studies of Science Education 2, no. 2, countryside. Throughout these travels, and as I 2007. My study of flamenco began in the became more immersed in flamenco, mid-1990s with Andrea Del Conte Danza opportunities to perform arose. Each España, a flamenco/Spanish dance arts year I dance at Lotus’s annual recital in education and dance company based at both group and solo pieces. I performed Flamenco Facts Lotus studios (www.delconte-danza.com). with the John Freeman Dance Company I audiotaped the classes so that I could and collaborated with the modern dancer To learn more about the history and learn the rhythms and practice on my Katrina Van Zee at the Cathedral Arts art of flamenco, visit the following own. Eventually, these tapes replaced Festival in New Jersey on a piece called websites: the sounds of the Smiths and U2 on my Entralazar. I also danced at Alegrias, a Walkman, and I found myself tapping out flamenco tablao (bar/restaurant) that was www.andalucia.com/flamenco the flamenco rhythms while waiting on once in the West Village, and at several long bank lines and for trains on subway local street festivals and arts events. www.flamenco-world.com/magazine/ platforms. So infatuated did I become My favorite palos are the solea and the about/que_es_flamenco/indice11112 that soon my Saturdays were spent taking siguiriyas because I am attracted to the 004.htm several flamenco classes, traveling between deep, emotional aspects of these rhythms Lotus on West 27 Street and the now and corresponding songs. I also enjoy www.centroflamenco.com/history.html defunct Fazil’s Studio on Eighth Avenue. the bulerias, a more light-hearted, fast- I was determined to excel in this most paced dance. beautiful expression of art. Although I do not study the dance Fazil’s was a dusty studio frequented as intensely as I have in the past, I’ve not by many flamenco artists in New York lost my sense of the rhythms, and I enjoy City. There, I studied with La Meira, reviving the old traditional choreography Eric Alterman, English, wrote Why We’re D.C., in April; “How New Media Can Liberals: A Political Handbook to Post-Bush Spark Social Change,” at Regional Equity America (Viking, 2008). He is also the ’08 in New Orleans in March; “Ethical author of the following articles: “Loving Leadership and the U.S. Presidency,” at John McCain,” in The Nation, July 7; “The Yeshiva University in January; and “The Real McCain,” in the Los Angeles Times, World and the Web, 2.0,” at the Council June 20; “Who Are They Calling Elitist?” on Foreign Relations in New York in in The Nation, April 14; “Out of Print: The October 2007. Death and Life of the American Newspaper,” in The New Yorker, March 31; “Accounting Kathleen Axen, Health and Nutrition for Kristol,” in The American Prospect, April Sciences, presented “Long-Term Effects 2008; “N.H. Upset Shows Media Focus of Very Low–Carbohydrate Weight Should Be on Issues,” in Newsday, January Reduction Diets,” developed with Kenneth 13; “Bono,” in Encyclopedia Britannica, Axen, Health and Nutrition Sciences, 2007; and “My Marty Peretz Problem— at the Endocrine-Metabolic Conference Faculty Notes and Ours” (on the history of The New Series at the Obesity Research Center of Republic), in The American Prospect, July/ Columbia University in June. August 2007. Alterman presented lectures on “The Future of Liberalism,” Swapna M. Banerjee, History, was invited Business Cards and Stationery at the Center for American Progress in to deliver a paper on the changing history Faculty who need to reorder their Washington, D.C., in June; “The Future of children and childcare in India at an business cards and stationery—and of News,” at the Canadian Research international conference, From the World new faculty who need to place ­ Consortium, in Toronto in May; “The of Wet Nurses to the Networks of Family their first order—can do so online Fall and Rise of American Liberalism,” Day Care Providers, at the University of through the Office of Communications at the University of California, Davis, Fribourg, Switzerland, in April. In May, webpage on the Brooklyn College in November 2007; and “Why We’re her paper based on the autobiography portal, https://portal.brooklyn.edu. Liberals,” at the World Policy Institute of a female domestic worker in India Once you log in, click the “Campus at the Scarsdale (New York) Public was presented at another international Info” tab, then “Admin Support Library in April, at Town Hall Seattle conference, Waged Domestic Work and Services,” then “Communications ­ in March, at the First Congregational the Making of the Modern World, at the and Publications.” At the Church of Berkeley (California) in March, University of Warwick, England. Communications webpage, click at Authors@Google in Mountain View, “Publication Process,” then “Office California, in March, and at the Ethical Myles Bassell, Economics, coached ten Stationery and Business Cards,” ­ Culture Society of St. Louis in March. He teams of four students to develop and and, last, on the hypertext “this order appeared on the following panels: “The present a comprehensive merchandising form.” This will call up the form that Future of News,” at Princeton University plan aimed at the multicultural consumer, you can print out, complete, and in May; “The Fall & Rise of American for which they won $3,000 as part of the submit to Printworks, the on-campus Liberalism: Media, Race, Religion,” at the Target Case Study Program this past spring. print shop, in 0200 Boylan Hall. University of Virginia in Charlottesville in April; “Current Interest: Right & Christian Benesˇ, Mathematics, wrote Left,” at the Los Angeles Times Festival “Counting Planar Random Walk Holes,” of Books in April; “Democracy, Political in Annals of Probability 36, no. 1 (2008). Communication, and the New Media,” at He spoke on “Some Properties of the the Roosevelt Institution in Washington, Complement of Planar Random Walk”

8 Innovation Forum in March and at a town development on school bereavement at hall meeting in July. the Henry Viscardi School in Albertson, New York, in June. Elisabeth Brauner, Psychology, gave an invited workshop on “Interaction Coding Robert Cherry, Economics, wrote “Why Methods for Transactive Memory” at the Welfare Critics Went Astray,” in the Technical University of Braunschweig, Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 29 Germany, in July. (2008). He presented “Do (Liberal) Experts Know What Is Best for Community George Brunner, Music, was a guest Colleges,” at the University of Pennsylvania composer at the following, all of which in September. featured his music: the University of Kansas (where he gave a composition Jill Cirasella, Library, presented “Reference lecture/demonstration), in February; the Retooled: How Google Tools Strengthen Boston Conservatory of Music, in March; and Streamline Reference Service,” at the Christian Benesˇ, Mathematics the Natchez Music Festival, in May; and, in Brooklyn Public Library in May and at New York, the Bechstein Center, in April, the annual conference of the International at the probability seminars of New York the CUNY Convergence Concert at the Library Information and Analytical Center, University and the University of Geneva Graduate Center in May, and Galapagos in Sudak, Ukraine, in June. in the spring. Benesˇ presented “A Large in September. He produced and was Deviations Estimate for Simple Random featured in Electronic Music New York’s Christopher Ebert, History, wrote Between Walk Via a Sharp LCLT” at the 7th World electroacoustic drama, The Tempest Project, Empires: Brazilian Sugar in the Early Atlantic Congress in Probability and Statistics, in in March. Brunner’s Songs from Another Economy, 1550–1630 (Brill, 2008). He Singapore in July. He received a grant Place were recorded and included on the spent the summer in Brazil with funding from the Banff International Research CD of the same name (MSR Classics, 2008). from the PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Station to organize the workshop “The investigating the colonial economic and Rate of Convergence of Loop-Erased Alberto M. Bursztyn, Education, presented social history of Salvador da Bahia through Random Walk to SLE(2)” in August. “Coping with a Student’s Death: A archives in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador. Cross-Cultural Approach” at the Annual He delivered an invited seminar paper, David C. Bloomfield, Education, along Convention of the Council for Exceptional “Provisioning Colonial Salvador da Bahia: with the New York City Department of Children, in Boston in April. Bursztyn The Urban Market in a Global Port City,” Education and other partners, received presented on diverse families of children at Ohio State University’s Center for a $3.6 million grant from the U.S. with special needs at the Professional Historical Research in October. Department of Education for the School Development Day, sponsored by the Leadership Program Initiative, a five-year Bronx regional supervisor of school Hershey H. Friedman, ’68, Economics, online school leadership development psychologists, in the Bronx in January. wrote “Human Dignity and the Jewish project. He was a panelist on Mayoral He was also the featured speaker at a Tradition,” in the online Jewish Law, www. Control of School Governance at the conference hosted by Fordham University jlaw.com (July 2008). Manhattan Institute’s Center for Civic in June. He conducted professional Alexander Greer, Chemistry, served as Monica Harte, Music, performed concerts guest editor for an issue of Journal of Sulfur featuring contemporary music at the Chemistry 29 (2008), on extreme sulfur University of Kansas in February, where chemistry. Greer presented a seminar, she also gave a master class; the Natchez “Studies of the Tropone Natural Products,” (Mississippi) Music Festival in April and at the University of Maryland–College May, where she also ran the education Park in May. He was invited to join the program; and, in New York, the Bechstein editorial board of Research Letters in Organic Center in April and the CUNY Convergence Chemistry (Hindawi Publishers) and of Concert in May. In New York in June, Molecular Diversity (Springer Publishers). she performed the roles of Ariel in Electronic Music New York’s David Grubbs, Music, recently released electroacoustic drama, The Tempest An Optimist Notes the Dusk (Drag City/ Project, and Young Alyce, a role for which P-Vine, 2008), his tenth solo album. He she was handpicked by Tom Cipullo, spent a month in Portugal and Spain this the composer, in Remarkable Theater summer, playing concerts and team- Brigade’s Glory Denied. Harte is the Jonathan Helfand, Judaic Studies teaching an intensive course in performance, soprano soloist on McLeer’s Requiem Jewish History and Literature Presented interdisciplinary collaboration, and (iTunes, 2007) and Songs from Another to Dr. Bernard Lander, Volume 2 (Touro interactive media offered through the Place (MSR Classics, 2008). College Press/KTAV, 2008). He delivered Fundacão Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. a lecture on “Environmental Protection: Annie Hauck-Lawson, ’78, Health and Perspectives from Jewish Law and Ethics” Timothy Gura, Speech Communication Nutrition Sciences, made two presentations at the Fourteenth Conference on Talmud Arts and Sciences, was chosen by the at the annual meeting of the Association and Contemporary Law, in Clayton, National Communication Association (NCA) for the Study of Food and Society in New Missouri, in June. to receive the Wallace A. Bacon Lifetime Orleans in June: “Keeping the Food Teaching Excellence Award for 2008, in Nutrition” and “Composting Up, Down, Andrzej Jarzecki, Chemistry, gave an the only award authorized by NCA, the and Around Flatbush Avenue.” At the invited speech, “Lead Toxicity: oldest professional organization in the same meeting, she moderated the Computational Insights,” at the Chemistry discipline, which recognizes the distinctions “Gastropolis: Food and New York City” Department, University of San Antonio, of an entire teaching career. panel. She was the invited respondent in April. He presented the invited talk to Barbara Katz Rothman’s paper “Buying “Toxicity of Lead: Quantum-Mechanical Olympia Hadjiliadis, Mathematics, made Authenticity: Seeking Meaning in Home Exploration of Lead Poisoned Zinc Fingers” three presentations at the annual meeting Cooking,” at Columbia University’s Women at the 40th Middle Atlantic Regional of the International Workshop in Applied and Society Seminar, in September. The Meeting of the American Chemical Probability, in Compiègne, France, in July: World Brooklyn permanent installation Society, in New York in May, and at the “On a Stopped Collision Local Time,” at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, for 6th Congress of the International Society “Drawdowns and Rallies in Games of which she advised on foodways exhibit for Theoretical Chemical Physics, in Finite Horizon,” and “Quickest Detection content, opened in September. Vancouver, Canada, in July. in Multi-Source Systems.” Jonathan Helfand, Judaic Studies, wrote Catherine Kemp, Philosophy, spoke on Curtis D. Hardin, Psychology, has been “The Chief Rabbi Who Wasn’t: Rabbi “The Pre-history of Pragmatic Notions of appointed editor-in-chief of the journal Asher Ginsburg’s Response to the Experience in Charles Darwin and David Social Justice Research. Central Consistory,” in Turim: Studies in Hume,” at the 11th Annual Summer Institute of American Philosophy, at the and Supramolecular Chemistry—A University of Colorado, in Boulder in July. Modern Physical Chemistry Approach,” at She delivered a paper, “Experience as a the national seminar Molecular Interactions Cause in Hume,” at the Hume Studies in Pharmaceutical Chemistry: Recognition Britain meeting on Hume’s “Treatise,” at and Analytical Aspects, at St. James the University of Cambridge in September. Medical Academy in Chalakudy, India, in August. He also presented “Aspects Margaret L. King, History, wrote the of Supramolecular Chemistry” at the following: “The Emergence of Mother Research and Post-Graduate Department as Teacher in Early Modern Europe,” in of Chemistry and Chemistry Alumni The Renaissance in the Streets, Schools, Association of St. Thomas’ College, in and Studies: Essays in Honour of Paul F. Thrissur, India, in August. Grendler (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008); “Childhood,” Gertrud Lenzer, Sociology and Children’s in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Studies, prepared a wide-ranging Courtship, and Sexuality throughout History, proposal, now being reviewed under Volume 3: The Early Modern Period College governance procedures, for the (Greenwood Press, 2008); and a review creation of a CUNY Children’s Studies of Bernardo Piciché, Argisto Giuffredi: Institute for Research, Policy, and Public gentiluomo borghese nel vicereame di Sicilia, Service and secured the collaboration in Renaissance Quarterly 61, no. 1 (2008). of the CUNY School of Law and the CUNY Graduate Center as well as of Mark Kobrak, Chemistry, wrote “The a distinguished core faculty from these Chemical Environment of Ionic Liquids: institutions and Brooklyn College. In Links Between Liquid Structure, Dynamics, addition to the projected startup funds and Solvation,” in Advances in Chemical from the CUNY Office of Academic Physics 139 (2008). Kobrak presented Affairs ($125,000 for each of three years), “A Comparative Simulation Study of Lenzer obtained advance matching funds Solvation Dynamics in Room-Temperature of $125,000. She organized and chaired Ionic Liquids” at the American Conference the panel “The Interdisciplinary Field of on Theoretical Chemistry, in Evanston, Children’s Studies at Brooklyn College: Illinois, in July. He edited Experiments in Origins, Mission, and Research Agenda,” General Chemistry (Kendall-Hunt, 2008), at the Child and Youth Research in which will be used in Brooklyn College’s the 21st Century: A Critical Appraisal general chemistry course this fall. international conference at European University Cyprus, in Nicosia, in May, Joy T. Kunjappu, Chemistry, presented where she also presented the paper the opening speech, “Molecular Recognition “Origins, Mission, and Policy Work at the Children’s Studies Center and Program at em espanhol se fortalece, a televisão Brooklyn College, The City University of em inglês se debilita” (“United States: New York.” She served on the “Right to Spanish-Language Television Grows Participation in Education System Panel” Stronger as Television in English at the Child Right to Participation: Ethical Weakens”) at the Ibero-American Challenges Conference, at Columbia Television Fiction Observatory Law School in April. She launched a new International Seminar, in Rio de Janeiro children’s studies publication, New Horizons, in June (www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/pdf/ NewHorizonsNo.1June2008.pdf).

Ira Levine, Chemistry, wrote Physical Chemistry, 6th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2008); Student Solutions Manual to Physical Chemistry, 6th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2008); Quantum Chemistry, 6th ed. (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008); and Solutions Manual to Quantum Chemistry, 6th ed. (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008).

Tom Lewandowski, Health and Nutrition Sciences, participated as an instructor in a NATO Advanced Study Institute in Tomás López-Pumarejo, Economics Borovetz, Bulgaria, in July.

Hong-Jen Lin, Economics, wrote “The in June; and “Case: Cojobas Farm” and Strategies of International E-Finance “Case: Corporation for the Integral under Basel II: A Complementary Asset Development of Eco-Tourism in Approach,” in the Journal of Internet Puerto Rico” at the Midwest Business Banking and Commerce 12, no. 3 Administration Association International (December 2007), www.arraydev.com/ Division: Society for Case Research, in commerce/jibc/. Chicago in April.

Susan Longtin, Speech Communication John Marra, Geology, was a group Arts and Sciences, presented a short coordinator at the Group on Aquatic course on her research, titled “A Productivity Workshop, at the Inter- Communication Enhancement Program University Institute in Eilat, , in April, for Preschool Children with Autism,” where he also presented “Interpreting at the annual convention of the New Measurements of Photosynthesis in the York State Speech, Language, Hearing Ocean: Weighing In with 14C.” During Association, in Saratoga Springs in April. the workshop, he conducted experiments in the Gulf of Aqaba to measure Tomás López-Pumarejo, Economics, phytoplankton respiration. Marra also presented the following: “A televisão participated in the NASA-sponsored Joint Carbon and Ecosystems Workshop at Teachers,” at the Ninth International London; and “Language Splitting,” at the the University of Maryland Conference Technology and Its Integration in Beth Centenary Meeting in Amsterdam. Center in April. In July he participated Mathematics Education Conference, in in a three-week oceanographic research Johannesburg, South Africa, in September. The documentary film My American cruise in the western North Atlantic Neighbor, written, directed, and produced Ocean between Bermuda and the U.S. Donald W. Michielli, Physical Education by Irina Patkanian, Television and Radio, East Coast, sampling the different and Exercise Science, wrote an invited played at the Indianapolis International ecosystems in coastal waters, the Gulf commentary on the article “Exercise and Film Festival in April; the Connecticut Stream, and the Sargasso Sea in order to Cardiovascular Risk Reduction: Time to Film Festival in Danbury in May; the test ideas about the regulation of Update the Rationale for Exercise?” by Seattle True Independent Film Festival in photosynthetic efficiency in phytoplankton. D.J. Green, G. O’Driscoll, M.J. Joyner, and June; BridgeFest in Vancouver, Canada; N.T. Cable, in the Journal of Applied Belgrade, Serbia; and Trebinje, Bosnia Paul McCabe, Education, wrote “Academic Physiology 105, no. 2 (2008). and Herzegovina, in June; the Philadelphia Functioning and Quality of Life of Children Independent Film Festival in June; the and Adolescents with Allergic Rhinitis: Carolina Bank Muñoz, Sociology, is the Golden Apricot International Film Festival Parts I & II,” in Communiqué (September author of Transnational Tortillas: Race, in Yerevan, Armenia, in July; the University and October 2008). He presented Gender and Shop Floor Politics in of Film & Video Association in Colorado “Evaluating RTI in Early Childhood: Efficacy and the United States (Cornell University Springs in August; and the Peace on Earth with Preschoolers with Delays” at the Press, 2008). Film Festival in Chicago in August. The American Psychological Association short film Second Egyptian, which Patkanian convention in Boston in August. Sonia E. Murrow, Education, presented adapted, directed, and produced, played “Shaping the Destinies of the Nation: at the Women’s International Film Festival Ian McMahan, Psychology, emeritus, Teachers and the Social Frontier, 1934–1943,” in Florida in April; the New Filmmakers wrote Adolescence (Allyn & Bacon, 2008). at the April 2008 American Educational Series at the Anthology Film Archive in Research Association Conference in New York; the University of Film & Video Michael Meagher, Education, presented New York. Association in Colorado Springs in August; “Mathematics Instruction in High-Needs and Arts on the Lake in Kent, New York, NYC Middle Schools” at the Thirtieth Rohit Parikh, Computer Information and in September. Annual Meeting of the North American Science, gave the following presentations: Chapter of the International Group for “Epistemology, Pure and Applied,” at the Margaret-Ellen (Mel) Pipe, Psychology the Psychology of Mathematics Education Proof, Justification, and Learning Workshop, and Children’s Studies, presented and Thirty-Third Meeting of the International in Nancy, France, in June; “Knowledge and “Interviewing Children about Abuse” Group for Psychology of Mathematics Structure in Social Algorithms,” at the at the International Conference of Education, in Morelia, Mexico, in July. He Third World Congress of the Game Theory the International Childhood and Youth presented a commissioned report, “The Society, in Chicago in July; and “Language Research Network: Child and Youth Effect of a CAS Calculator on the IB Games and Social Software,” at the thirty- Research in the 21st Century: A Critical Mathematics Exams of May 2007,” to the first Wittgenstein Meeting, in Kirchberg, Appraisal, in Nicosia, Cyprus, in May. International Baccalaureate Curriculum Austria, in August. In September, Parikh Pipe presented the keynote address, and Assessment Organization in Cardiff, presented “Talk, Cheap Talk, and States “Interviewing Young Children about Wales, in March. He presented a paper of Knowledge,” at Computational Social Abuse: What Can We Expect Them written with Todd Edwards, Miami Choice, in Liverpool, England; “States of to Remember and Recount?” at the University of Ohio, and Asli Ozgun-Koca, Knowledge and the Logic of Campaigning,” conference of the Association for Early Wayne State University, “A Trinomial at Oxford University; “Knowledge, Games, Childhood and Infant Psychologists, at Factoring Investigation with Pre-Service and Tales from the East,” at Kings College, Pace University in March. She gave an

13 invitational address, “Investigating Child 35, no. 2 (2008). Abuse,” to the counseling supervisors at Pace University in April. She presented Laurie Rubel, Education, wrote “Teaching two papers that she coauthored at the with Games of Chance: A Review of the American Psychology-Law Society Mathematics of Games and Gambling” Conference, in Jacksonville, Florida, in in the Journal for Research in Mathematics March: “Do Best-Practice Interviews Have Education 39, no. 3 (May 2008). Rubel an Impact on Case Outcomes?” and has been awarded a career grant “Show Me on the Drawing Where She ($625,137 over five years) from the Touched You: The Impact of Interview National Science Foundation for her Technique and Delay on Children’s Recall project “Teacher Learning Communities: of Bodily Touch.” Centering the Teaching of Mathematics on Urban Youth.” She has been named Tanya Pollard, English, made the following to the review board of the American presentations: “Translating Greek Drama: Educational Research Association’s Schoolbooks and Popular Theater in Early Division C Teaching and Learning Section Modern England,” at the Forms of Early 3 Mathematics. Modern Writing Conference, at Columbia University in April; and “After Aristotle: Viraht Sahni, Physics, presented two Theorizing Dramatic Genres in Early papers at the American Physical Society Modern England,” at the English Renaissance meeting in New Orleans in March: Classicisms Conference, at Cambridge “Construction of Wave Function University in June. Functionals” and “New Perspectives on the Fundamental Theorem of Density Hervé Queneau, Economics, wrote “A Functional Theory.” He wrote “Quantal Note on Gender Diversity in Managerial Density Functional Theory: Beyond and Professional Occupations,” in Journal Hohenberg-Kohn-Sham Theory” in the of Collective Negotiations 32, no. 2 (2008). Proceedings of the 26th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods Nava Renek, Women’s Center, edited in Physics (Springer-Verlag, 2008). Wreckage of Reason: An Anthology of Contemporary Xxperimental Prose by Women Roberto Sánchez-Delgado, Chemistry, Writers (Spuyten Duyvil, 2008). She presented an invited lecture, “Ruthenium moderated two panels, “Going Commando” Complexes as Potential Antiparasitic and “Wreckage of Reason,” at the and Antitumor Agents,” and acted as & Now Literary Festival at Chapman chairperson of the Inorganic Chemistry, University, in Orange, California, in April. Bioinorganic Chemistry, and Metal Complexes in Diagnostic and Barbara Rosenfeld, Education, wrote Chemotherapy Sessions of the 40th “The Challenges of Teaching with Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the Technology: From Computer Idiocy American Chemical Society, in New to Computer Competence,” in the York in May. He spoke on “Ruthenium International Journal of Instructional Media Chloroquine Complexes as Potential

14 Antimalarial and Antitumor Agents” at John Van Sickle, Classics, reviewed Denis Research Committee of the Library & the 23rd International Conference on Feeney’s Caesar’s Calendar (Sather Classical Information Technology Association, a Organometallic Chemistry, in Rennes, Lectures 65) for the online Bryn Mawr national division of the American Library France, in July. Classical Review. In March and April, he Association. made presentations related to his new E. Lynn Savage, Geology, received a translation of Virgil’s Book of Bucolics on Pat Willard, Communications, Editorial Certificate of Appreciation voted on “VirgilionVate: Ricupero dell’antico per Services, wrote America Eats! On the Road by the officers and members of the una nuova poetica del potere” (Virgil as with the WPA—The Fish Fries, Box Supper 2006–2007 Council of the Geological Bard: Recovering the Ancient for a New Socials, and Chitlin Feasts that Define Real Society of America and GSA Headquarters Poetics of Power), at the Universita’ degli American Food (Bloomsbury USA, 2008). to commemorate the three years she Studi and the Universita’ Cattolica del dedicated to create her concept of a Sacro Cuore in Milan, the Universita’ degli Brian Willson, Music, performed as new division in the GSA to recognize the Studi in Padua, the Universita’ degli Studi drummer on three CDs—Border Crossing influence of geology and the environment in Pavia, and the Universita’ degli Studi, (Nottwo Records, 2008), Tim Siciliano Trio on human, animal, and plant health and Roma 1, in Rome. (CIMP Records, 2008), and JDB: Giant disease, now established as the Geology Steps (Cadence Records, 2008)—and as and Health Division of the GSA. Alex S. Vitale, Sociology, wrote City of conductor for Songs from Another Place Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign (MSR Recordings). He was featured Doug Schwab, Art, ’98; M.F.A., ’03, had Transformed New York Politics (NYU Press, guest conductor, percussionist, and ten photographic prints featured in the 2008). He was quoted on Minnesota clinician at the Dublin Percussion Festival group show Summer Nudes, at the Lana Public Radio and in the Minneapolis-St. in April. His performance of Pauline Santorelli Gallery in New York this Paul Star Tribune concerning the policing Oliveros’s work Circuitry for Percussion summer. He was the prepress digital of demonstrations at the Republican and Light is documented on the DVD editor for Andre Kertesz: On Reading National Convention. He appeared on accompanying the new book The San (W.W. Norton, 2008). WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show in July, and Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960’s he gave a paper on the criminalization Counterculture and the Avant-Garde Jessica Siegel, English, presented “Using of homelessness in at the (University of California Press, 2008). He the Web to Critique and Learn from American Sociological Association meetings also participated in concerts with Roberta Global Journalism” at the Convention of in Boston in August. Flack, in Kingston, Jamaica, in March, and the Conference on College Composition, reggae legend Freddie McGregor, in in New Orleans in April. Stephanie R. Walker, Library, wrote the Miami in April. following: “Patron Confidentiality and Tobie Stein, Theater, wrote Performing Privacy in Public and Academic Libraries Noson S. Yanofsky, ’90, Computer Arts Management: A Handbook of Professional After the Patriot Act,” in Evidence- and Information Science, wrote “An Practices (Allworth Press, 2008). Based Library & Information Practice 3, Introduction to Quantum Computing,” in no. 3 (2008); and “Computer-Assisted Logic at the Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Jeff Suzuki, Mathematics, delivered the Library Instruction and Face-to-Face View (Allied Publishers, 2007). keynote address, “The Changing Nature Library Instruction Prove Equally Effective of ‘College Algebra’: Lessons from the for Teaching Basic Library Skills in Nineteenth Century,” at the New York Academic Libraries,” in Evidence-Based State Mathematics Association of Two- Library & Information Practice 3, no. 1 Year Colleges annual conference in (2008). She has been reappointed for Suffern, New York, in April. a two-year term to the Assessment &

15 Myles Bassell and Tomás López- undergraduate student, presented Pumajero, Economics, presented “How “Spam E-mail and Romance: Consumer Technology Transforms Outdoor Responses to These Solicitations” at the Advertising: Succeeding in a Global 116th American Psychological Association Environment” at the Midwest Business National Convention, in Boston in August. Administration Association International Conference, in Chicago in April. Charlene Forest and Munevver Aksoy, Biology, made a platform presentation, Elisabeth Brauner, Psychology, and “Cloning Gamete Fusion Genes in doctoral candidate Rommel Robertson, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii,” at the M.A., ’01, Brooklyn College and the Thirteenth International Chlamydomonas Collaborations Graduate Center, presented research Conference, in Hyeres-les-Palmiers, projects on “Transactive Memory in France, in May–June. Organizations,” at the Conference of the European Association for Experimental Hershey H. Friedman, ’68, Economics, Social Psychology, in Opatija, Croatia, in and Linda W. Friedman, Baruch College, June, and the International Congress of cowrote the following: “High Impact Psychology, in Berlin in July. Areas of the New Media Technologies: A Review,” in Management Online Review, Joseph Entin, English, coedited Controversies www.morexpertise.com (July 2008); and in the Classroom: A Radical Teacher Reader “Ethical Academic Leadership: Lessons (Teachers College Press, 2008), with from Ancient Times,” in the John Ben Robert Rosen, William Paterson University, Shepperd Journal of Practical Leadership 3 and Leonard Vogt, LaGuardia Community (spring 2008). College (emeritus). Kenneth A. Gould, Sociology; Allan Joshua Fogel, ’93, Economics, cowrote Schnaiberg, Northwestern University; the following: “The Underrepresentation and David N. Pellow, University of of African Americans in Online Cancer California– San Diego, wrote The Treadmill Support Groups,” in the Journal of the of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability National Medical Association 100, no. 6 in the Global Economy (Paradigm, 2008). (2008), with Kurt M. Ribisl and Elizabeth J. They also spoke on “Treadmill Realities Lyons, University of North Carolina–Chapel Versus Sustainability Fantasies: A Critical Hill; Phyllis D. Morgan, Fayetteville State Prediction” at the annual conference University; and Keith Humphreys, Stanford of the Sociological Imagination Group, University; and “Using Population in Boston in August. At the same Attributable Risk to Help Target Preventive meeting, Gould, Tammy L. Lewis, Interventions for Adolescent Depression,” Honors Academy, and J. Timmons in the International Journal of Adolescent Roberts, the College of William and Medicine and Health 20, no. 3 (2008), Mary, spoke on “Warming Climate?: with Karin Vander Ploeg Booth, David Labor-Environmentalist Relations and the Paunesku, Michael Msall, and Benjamin Global Climate Crisis.” Gould and Lewis W. Van Voorhees, University of Chicago. coedited Twenty Lessons in Environmental Fogel and Sam Shlivko, economics Sociology (Oxford University Press, 2009).

16 Alexander Greer, Chemistry, and Joel F. Hong-Jen Lin, Economics, and Winston Liebman, ’67, University of Maryland– T. Lin, SUNY Buffalo, presented “Banks Baltimore, coauthored “Quinones, in China: An Analysis of Cost and Profit Monoradicals, and Diradicals from Efficiencies” at the annual conference of 3- and 4-Mercaptocatechol, and the American Association for Chinese 3,4-Bismercaptocatechol: A Study, in Richmond, Virginia, in October Computational Study of a Plausibly 2007, and at the annual conference of Biomimetic Reaction,” in Journal of the Eastern Economic Association, Sulfur Chemistry 29 (2008). in Boston in March. They wrote “International E-Banking: ICT Investments Olympia Hadjiliadis, Mathematics, and and the Basel Accord” in the Journal of H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University, Comparative International Management 10, wrote “On the Best 2-CUSUM Rules no.1 (August 2007). for Quickest Detection of Two-Sided Alternatives in a Brownian Motion Susan Longtin, Speech Communication Model,” in Theory of Probability and Its Arts and Sciences, and Sima Gerber, Applications 53, no. 3 (2008). Hadjiliadis, Queens College, wrote “Contemporary Poor, and Hongzhong Zhang, CUNY Perspectives on Facilitating Language Graduate Center, wrote “One-Shot Acquisition for Children with Autistic Schemes for Decentralized Quickest Spectrum Disorders: Engaging the Parent Change Detection,” which she presented and Child,” in Journal of Developmental at the 11th International Conference on Processes 3, no. 1 (spring 2008). Information Fusion, in Cologne, Germany, Longtin and Renee Laura Fabus, Speech in June–July. She and T. Schaefer, College Communication Arts and Sciences, of Staten Island, received a CUNY cowrote “The Use of Videotape Self- Collaborative Grant for their project Monitoring to Facilitate Interactive “Multidimensional Quickest Detection.” Intervention in Speech-Language Therapy with Preschool Children with Autism,” in Andrzej Jarzecki and Jason R. Bingham, The Clinical Supervisor 27, no. 1 (2008). Chemistry, and Pawel M. Kozlowski, University of Louisville, wrote “Theoretical Tomás López-Pumarejo, Economics, and Analysis of Core Size Effect in Aguida Sanfiz, Ibero-American Television Metalloporphyrins,” posted on the website Fiction Observatory USA, wrote the of the American Chemical Society in chapter “A televisão em espanhol August. se fortalece, a televisão em inglês se debilita” (“United States: Spanish-Language Dominick A. Labianca, Chemistry Television Grows Stronger as Television in (emeritus), and Edward F. Fitzgerald, English Weakens”) in Culturas e mercados consultant to attorneys on alcohol law da ficção televisiva em países ibero- and science, cowrote the chapter “The americanos: Anuario OBITEL 2007 (Cultures Intoxilyzer 8000: Specificity for Ethanol and Markets of Fiction in Ibero-American and Possible Contamination of Test Countries: 2007 OBITEL Yearbook) (Globo Results,” in Intoxication Test Evidence, Universidade, 2008). second edition (West Group, 2008).

17 Paul McCabe, Education, and graduate She cowrote the chapter “Pursuing ‘The student Caryn DePinna wrote “The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing Exigency of Immediateness: Reconciling but the Truth’: Forensic Interviews with the Lack of Empirically Validated Child Victims or Witnesses of Abuse,” Intervention when Immediate Action Is in Stress, Trauma, and Children’s Memory Sought,” in Communiqué (June 2008). Development: Neurobiological, Cognitive, Clinical, and Legal Perspectives (Oxford Michael Meagher, Education; Asli University Press, 2008) with Yael Orbach, Ozgun-Koca, Wayne State University; and Children’s Studies Center; D.A. Brown, Todd Edwards, Miami University of University of Lancaster (United Kingdom); Ohio, presented “Computer Algebra and M.E. Lamb, Cambridge University Systems (CAS) as Teaching and Learning (United Kingdom). Facilitators” at the Research Presession of the National Council of Teachers of Hervé Queneau, Economics, and Robert Mathematics Annual Meeting, in Salt Oliva and Pam Brown, Magner Center Lake City in April. Meagher and Andrew for Career Development and Internships, Brantlinger, University of Maryland, have received a CUNY Work Force presented “Mathematics Education in Development Grant. Queneau and Amit Urban Environments” at the 89th Annual Sen, Xavier University, wrote “Evidence Meeting of the American Educational on the Dynamics of Unemployment by Research Association, in New York in Gender,” in Applied Economics 40, no. 16 April. (2008).

Margaret-Ellen (Mel) Pipe, Psychology Laurie Rubel, Education; Noel and Children’s Studies; K. Salmon, Victoria Enyedy, Viviana Castellon, and Shiulu University of Wellington, New Zealand; Mukhopadhyay, UCLA; Indigo Esmonde, and F. Champion, L. Mewton, and S. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education; McDonald, University of New South and Walter Secada, University of Miami, Wales, Australia, coauthored “The Child wrote “Revoicing in a Multilingual in Time: The Influence of Parent-Child Classroom,” in Mathematical Thinking and Discussion about a Future Experience Learning 10, no. 2 (May 2008). on How It Is Remembered,” in Memory 16, 2008. Pipe, Salmon, and K. Yao and Roberto Sánchez-Delgado, Alberto O. Bernsten, University of New South Martinez, Chandima S. K. Rajapakse, Wales, wrote “Does Providing Props Yasemin Kopkalli, and Lesley Davenport, During Preparation Help Children to Chemistry, and Becky Naoulou, ’07, Remember a Novel Event?” in the Journal wrote “The Mechanism of Antimalarial of Experimental Child Psychology 97, 2008. Action of the Ruthenium(II)-Chloroquine Complex [RuCl2(CQ)]2,” in the Journal Howard Z. Zeng and Raymond W. of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 13, no. 5 Leung, Physical Education and Exercise (June 2008). Science, presented four research articles at the Pre-Olympics Scientific Convention, Deborah J. Walder, Psychology, received officially called the 2008 International a National Alliance for Research in Convention on Science, Education, and Schizophrenia and Depression 2008 Young Investigator Award for the project “Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Structural MRI Abnormalities in Adolescents At-Risk for Depression: The Role of Early Life Stress and 5-HTTLPR,” along with Anthony Sclafani, Psychology (mentor); Jeremy D. Coplan, SUNY Downstate Medical Center (mentor); and consultants Joel Gelernter and Joan Kaufman, Yale University School of Medicine; Cheuk Tang and Sanjay J. Mathew, Mount Sinai Medical Center; and Elaine F. Walker, Emory University. Walder, Walker, and Vijay Mittal, Hanan Trotman, and Amanda McMillan, Emory University, cowrote Howard Z. Zeng, Physical Education “Neurocognition and Conversion to and Exercise Science Psychosis in Adolescents at High Risk,” in Schizophrenia Research 101, nos. 1–3 (April 2008). Medicine in Sport, in Guangzhou, China, in August, all of which were published in the Stephanie R. Walker, Library, and convention proceedings: “Competitive Richard A. Wennberg and Howard B. Anxieties and Self-Confidences among Cohen, University of Toronto, cowrote NCAA Division III College Varsity “Neurologic Injuries in Hockey,” in Athletes,” “Learning Outcomes of Three Neurologic Clinics of North America 26, Teaching Styles in Collegiate Volleyball no. 1 (2008). Classes,” “Time Allocation in Physical Education Classes among Three Levels of Noson S. Yanofsky, ’90, Computer and Teachers,” and “Perspective of Physical Information Science, and Joachim Lambek, Educators on Current Issues and Solutions McGill University (emeritus), wrote “A of Physical Education in a Public Education Computational Approach to Biblical System.” Hebrew Conjugation,” in Computational Algebraic Approaches to Natural Languages (Polimetrica International Scientific Publisher, 2008).

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