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Meet President Félix V. Matos Rodríguez

On August 28, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez Could you tell us a little about your life became Queens College’s tenth president. growing up? He has a resume that spans academia I am the oldest of three brothers in a and the public sector: He is a scholar, traditional middle-class family in Puerto Rico. teacher, administrator, and former cabinet My paternal grandparents were of humble secretary of the Department of Family backgrounds, country people with eighth-grade Services for the Commonwealth of Puerto educations who moved to the city. My maternal Rico. Immediately prior to his appointment grandmother taught English in a public high at QC, he spent five years as president of school for 35 years. I was very blessed in that Hostos Community College/CUNY, where he I grew up knowing all four of my grandparents significantly increased its student retention and five of my great-grandparents. and graduation rates. He has taught at My parents have always worked very hard. Northeastern University and Hunter College/ They both attended the University of Puerto CUNY, where he directed the Center for Rico—which is the CUNY of the island—and Puerto Rican Studies. An expert on the were part of the generation that saw a social history of women in the Caribbean, Matos transformation in Puerto Rico. My Dad became Rodríguez is the author of Women and an engineer and spent most of his career work- Urban Life in Nineteenth-Century San Juan, ing for a large flour and feed mill processing Puerto Rico, 1820–1862 and editor of A plant. He rose from being shift supervisor to Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks becoming the plant’s chief operating officer. Out. He holds a BA from Yale University and My Mom was going to be a Spanish teacher, two MAs and a doctorate from Columbia but then I was born and that was the end of her University. (For a more extensive biography, professional life. Mom and Dad were hyper- go to www.qc.cuny.edu/president.) involved parents, always engaged in volunteer work and community service.

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Samuel Jaboin ’15 and Alexandra Nicoletti ’15 talk with President Matos Rodríguez. Changes Near the Top Dennehy Appointed Head QC started the fall semester with new senior tion officer following 10 months as QC’s of Undergraduate Research staffers, as well as veterans in new positions. executive director for program manage- Glenda Grace has joined the college ment. Colbert has been with CUNY for 10 As Queens College’s first director of as assistant vice president, chief of staff, and years. In 2004 she joined the university’s undergraduate research, John Dennehy deputy to President Félix V. Matos Rodríguez. Computer and Information Service Group, (Biology) wants to ensure that freshmen know A Long Island native, Grace holds two bach- where she was responsible for establish- from the outset everything they should about elor’s degrees—in economics and psychol- ing the CIS Project Management Office for research opportunities at the college so that ogy—from the University of Pennsylvania and CUNYwide system implementation; she they can get on the right track and stay on it. a JD from Columbia Law School. She came to left that office to become AVP and CIO at “We’re trying to formalize a system. Up to QC from Hostos Community College, where Medgar Evers College. now, it’s been rather ad hoc,” he says. “There is she served as executive counsel to the presi- Supporting Colbert at QC’s Office of no structure to connect students and professors. dent and labor designee. Information Technology (formerly called Many undergraduates are unaware of the Claudia Colbert was appointed interim opportunities until quite far into their careers. assistant vice president and chief informa- CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Some students come to me as seniors and say, ‘I want to apply to med school, so I should get some research experience.’ But by that point, it’s really too late.” The impetus to create the new position came current QCard in order to board. All from Richard Bodnar, the dean of research students pay for the bus through their and graduate studies. He encouraged Dennehy Student Activity fee. (Faculty and staff must to become involved in a CUNY consortium buy a sticker to ride the bus. For rates, go that participated in workshops offered by the to http://qc.cuny.edu/?id=VZOJ.) Council on Undergraduate Research. Dennehy “It’s very good,” says upper junior When he received his new appointment, Domisah Purnell, who travels from Brooklyn Dennehy says, “I sat down and made a list of and changes at Jamaica. “I get to class faster.” all the things I want to accomplish, because as ask if we have any positions,” he says. “It The trip that used to take her an hour has the inaugural director, I wanted to set the tone would be good if the process were a little shrunk to less than 45 minutes. for all the future directors. This is a three-year more formal: If students feel more like they’re Shuttle Bus For second-semester freshman position. What I do now should define the applying for a job, when they start working, Emmanuel Rodriguez, shuttle bus travel responsibility for future years.” they will treat it more like a job.” Gets in Gear is easier, as well as faster. “I worry less His first priority has been the creation of Since 2009 Dennehy has run Phage about my destination,” he notes. “It’s my a web page to serve as a central repository Hunters, a very successful undergraduate For commuters from Queens, Long Island, last stop.” He isn’t the only passenger who for information on all undergraduate research genomics research program that is supported and even Brooklyn and , the trip relaxes in transit. At the end of a recent opportunities at QC. by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. to QC has gotten appreciably easier: The run to campus, “One kid was asleep at the “There also are a number of successful “Students go out, collect soil, and isolate college’s new shuttle bus provides daily back of the bus,” reports MV Transit driver research programs at Queens College I’m going bacterial viruses,” he recounts. Back at the nonstop service between campus and two Jimmy Fogle. “When I woke him, he said, to become more involved with,” Dennehy says, lab, they characterize the viruses, isolate their major transit hubs, Jamaica Station and ‘Oh, I’m here?’” citing the URME program (Undergraduate DNA, and sequence their genome. In the Flushing–Main Street Station. The bus also Ridership is highest at rush hours, adds Research and Mentoring Education) and second semester, they take a genomics class in provides cross-campus service between Fogle. “It’s a good thing for the kids. They the MARC program (Maximizing Access to which they annotate the genome, then compile Queens Hall and the Student Union. have their own private space.” Research Careers), specifically. it into a database with almost 3,000 phages. Launched on August 28 after a three- Information about pickup locations, “I hope to develop a database where “We’ve published a number of papers,” day pilot, the shuttle is winning converts routes, and hours of operation is available professors can upload research position listings says Dennehy. “I’ve had over 100 students among students, who must display a at www.qc.cuny.edu/shuttle. and students can apply for them. Right now go through my class and many of them have students come by and knock on my door to continued on with research, which is my goal.”

FYI OCTOBER 2014 | 2 PRESIDENT MATOS – from page 1 classes. When a player would get mad and yell things at me, I would say, “What did you How did you become interested in call me? And can you spell that, please?” And Douglas Rushkoff studying history? a yellow or red card usually followed that! Joins Media Studies I went to a Jesuit school, Colegio San Ignacio High School, which was one of the best high Much of your scholarship centers on Faculty schools in Puerto Rico at the time. And there I the role of women. What drew you to met Puerto Rico’s most prolific and influential this topic? historian, a Jesuit priest named Fernando Picó. During my years at Columbia University, most Douglas Rushkoff, the cyberculture expert He became a mentor of sorts, a model of what of the students and scholars who were working who originated such concepts as “viral an intellectual could be. I also think part of the on Latin American topics were women. We media” and “social currency,” joined the reason I became a historian is that I grew up in would talk all the time about feminist theory college’s Media Studies faculty this fall. a house in which I heard so many stories from in literature and in history. When I was Besides teaching, he will help lead the my grandparents, stories that became a part looking for a topic for my doctorate, I realized development of a master’s degree that of my life and made me want to know more that very little work had been done on pre- will address the technological and market Rushkoff about the past. twentieth-century Caribbean women’s history, forces that dominate our lives. and so I chose that. Some people thought I With four PBS documentaries, three What was your college experience like? shouldn’t take on this topic because I was graphic novels, and more than a dozen the lens of media studies, you can look I came to Yale in 1980. I had been to the U.S. a man. In fact, many times I would go to a best-selling books to his credit, Rushkoff at other systems, such as economics: briefly twice before—once to Disneyland— conference to deliver a paper and I would be knows all about cutting-edge trends. But Money is an operating system, and the but this was my first extended time there by the “token” male on the panel. I think this his approach to education is surprisingly corporation is software.” One of his myself. As soon as I landed in New Haven, I gave me a little bit of insight into what it must old school. “I don’t particularly like digital goals as an educator is to help students was told my luggage had been lost. And then, be like for women breaking into any field that tools in the classroom,” says Rushkoff, analyze—and counteract—corporate as I spoke English with a combined Spanish is dominated by men. whose latest title is Present Shock: When values that have been embedded in our and Long Island accent—almost all my CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Everything Happens Now (Current). “If increasingly synthetic landscapes. “We have English teachers back home came from Long you’re going to take the time to put 30 to become aware that they are not natural Island—it was a challenge to find a cabdriver bodies in a room together, I don’t want to environments,” he adds. who understood what I was saying. have them look at iPad screens. Socrates “Rushkoff’s contributions to current But once I found my luggage and the said that learning is a kind of conspiracy— thinking in technology, media, and society campus, I had a wonderful time at Yale; it was literally, ‘breathing together.’” are at the forefront of the evolving study of a great intellectual experience. Yale had on its A Whitestone native, Rushkoff media,” notes Media Studies Chair Richard faculty the leading Caribbean anthropologist, attended PS 79 before his family moved Maxwell. “He’s a great fit for our program Irving Rouse, a giant in the field, the man to Larchmont, where he went to public and will complement our existing faculty in who dug up the most important Caribbean schools. Thereafter, appropriately enough, providing a transformative learning experi- archaeological sites from Venezuela to Cuba. the future public intellectual followed a ence.” Well, with some of the great naiveté you multidisciplinary path, completing pre-med While Rushkoff has taught at NYU and sometimes have as an undergraduate, I thought requirements while majoring in English the New School, he is especially proud that I would just go up to him one day and start at Princeton and completing an MFA in his first full-time professorship affiliates talking. I did, and he turned out to be receptive theatre from the California School of the him with QC. This fall he is teaching an and asked me to take a course with him, which Arts before earning a PhD in new media undergraduate course on propaganda and would basically be a one-on-one tutorial. and digital culture from Utrecht University a graduate seminar on interactive media What a gift it was to study with a man like in the Netherlands. theory. “Most schools have to balance the Professor Rouse. “Media studies used to be about how needs of students against those of their To help support myself during my college we receive media: books, radio, TV, and sponsors,” he notes. “At Queens, I’ll be years, I would referee soccer, basketball, and movies,” comments Rushkoff. “Now able to teach without putting my students volleyball, which was a great way to expand we look at all the ways that people act into hundreds of thousands of dollars of my vocabulary, particularly slang, which you through media, from the net to software debt. I’m coming to affirm the values of don’t learn in formal English high school development. More important, through public education.”

FYI OCTOBER 2014 | 3 Finding Her Voice at the Copland School JIN-XIANG "JX" YU ’14 is already a the two-stringed Chinese violin, and her come in with all the tools, professors are soprano of note. After only three years mother plays piano and the Chinese dulcimer. able to see your potential and give you a of classical training at the Aaron Copland Nonetheless, when Yu came to in chance,” she observes. School of Music, she gained admission to the 2007, she thought of herself as a dancer. She Yu also completed a major in linguistics. Yale School of Music’s opera department, a completed a two-year certificate program at She’s fluent in Mandarin and Japanese, program so exclusive that it accepted just the American Musical and Dramatic Academy studied Spanish at the international schools six singers this year, giving all of them full in 18 months and then hit the road with she attended at home, and at QC immersed scholarships. She also won a 2014 Graduate regional companies. herself in other European languages. Her Arts Award from the Jack Kent Cooke A year later, to keep her student senior recital featured selections in Chinese, Foundation; recipients are eligible for as much visa, Yu enrolled at Mercy College as a English, French, German, Italian, and Russian. as $50,000 a year for up to three years, to communications disorders major. She was But when the artistic director of Yale’s cover tuition or living expenses. “When I’m then recruited to play volleyball for the QC program called Yu to notify her of her 70, I will look back and still be amazed at Lady Knights. Benched by injury in her first acceptance, she found herself at a loss for this opportunity,” says Yu, overwhelmed. “I’m year here, she took up classical music as a raw words. “I had slept in that morning, so I was going to take it from here and run with it.” beginner; indeed, she had to audition at Aaron pretty sure I was dreaming,” she recalls. Born in China and raised in Japan, Copland twice before being accepted as a “I said, ‘You’re kidding, right?’ The director the future diva grew up in a musical vocal performance major. “Queens College answered, ‘I’m not kidding, dear.’” household; her father plays the erhu, is the kind of place where even if you don’t That’s success, in any language. Xiang Yu

PRESIDENT MATOS – from page 3 104 regional offices, and a lot of tough cases We achieved many good things while I to handle. was at Hostos, but good things don’t happen CHANGES NEAR THE TOP After years of teaching, you accepted I traveled all over the island, to because the president is good; they happen from page 2 an opportunity to go back to Puerto communities where people had never seen because the president has a very good Rico with your family. What was behind a high-level government official before. I leadership team and dedicated faculty and the Office of Converging Technologies) is this decision? listened to their issues, and in many cases staff on campus. We were able to improve our Markus Erndl, interim deputy CIO. While I was director of the Center for Puerto helped to make their lives a little better. I graduation and retention rates, develop more To replace Sidney Grimes, who left the Rican Studies at Hunter, I was approached also learned that little things mean a lot to community partnerships, work more closely college for a senior managerial position by the deputy chief of staff for the governor the people who work with you. So whenever with area employers, and create more student- at Bronx Community College, Denese of Puerto Rico, who recommended me for a I could, I would go out in the field with, for centered programs. Gordon was appointed interim adminis- position with the governor. My wife, Liliana, example, the social workers who investigated I am so proud of what we were able to trator of Campus Plant Operations and is also from Puerto Rico, and we thought this child-abuse hotline cases. They were very accomplish. Recently, we started a Student Construction Services. Her connection to was an opportunity for us both to go back grateful that I cared enough to see firsthand Success Coach program in which every fresh- CUNY began at CCNY, where she earned home and serve. Our sons were very young at the obstacles they faced in their jobs. man is assigned a student service professional her BS and BArch in architecture. that time, so this could be a wonderful chance who remains with the student until they gradu- She has worked at QC since 1996. for them to get to know their family and heri- Could you tell us about your years ate or transfer. We also received grants from QC’s Director of Procurement, tage better. So after a few meetings, the gover- at Hostos? the Aspen Institute and Citibank, for example, Property & Fleet Management—a new nor offered and I accepted a job as head policy Hostos, as you might know, is a beloved to encourage students to go to summer classes, title—is Surinder (Sunny) Virk. He advisor on health and social welfare. institution in the Bronx because it was created and thus accelerate their time-to-degree. has more than 22 years of procurement After a year in this position, the governor out of community activism. The main campus But most important, our retention rate went experience within CUNY, the last asked if I would serve as cabinet secretary building used to be an abandoned tire factory, up about ten percent in five years, the highest 14 of them at Lehman College; his for the Department of Family Services. I had but the community took it over and said they responsibilities at QC include the shuttle a budget of $2.2 billion, 11,000 employees, were not leaving until a college was built there. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 bus launched this semester (see p. 2).

FYI OCTOBER 2014 | 4 Looking for Middle Ground Music Library Receives in the Middle East Generous Estate Donation The search for common ground is most occurring in the Middle East, with Arab The Queens College important in the places where it seems elusive. women holding prominent positions. Music Library recently That’s why the Ibrahim/Queens College For his part, Kaplan developed a new received $386,000 from Student Leadership & Dialogue Middle East perspective on the Israeli–Palestinian the estate of Claude V. Program sent 11 students last summer on a conflict. “I no longer view it as one-sided, Palisca upon the death of free three-week trip to Israel, Jordan, Oman, but rather as a multifaceted, complex debate his wife, Elizabeth Keitel. the United Arab Emirates, and the West Bank. of narratives,” he observes. “Both sides have This bequest will Participants—a mix of Christians, Jews, and strong emotional ties to parts of the land being facilitate the creation of Muslims drawn from QC, Barnard, Johns controlled by the other. For example, the an endowment to fund Hopkins, Syracuse, University of California– Jews have no access to the Tomb of Joseph in acquisitions for the Music Library as well of music from 1969 to 1975 (and again in Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, Nablus, while many Muslims from Ramallah as minor renovations to the circulation 1992) and was named the Henry L. and and Virginia Tech—interacted not only with cannot reach the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. . desk. “Renovating our lone service point Lucy G. Moses Professor Emeritus of Music each other but also with national leaders, . . It is tremendously difficult to acknowledge will improve the efficiency and effective- upon his retirement. Palisca’s monograph grassroots activists, and social and economic and witness how much pain, suffering, and ness of our public services,” notes Music on Baroque music (originally published entrepreneurs at each destination. damage has been caused by the conflict.” Library Head Jennifer Oates. “With in 1968 and now in its third edition) The experience was eye-opening for all. Upon their return to the United States, library acquisitions in all subject areas remains a standard textbook on the topic; In Tel Aviv, Fahmida Sarmin, a junior at U. Sarmin, Kaplan, and their fellow travelers suffering from repeated budget cuts, this his translation (with Guy A. Marco) of Penn, got the sense that it wasn’t acceptable were asked to address seven key topics, from endowment will significantly improve our Zarlino’s Istitutioni harmoniche (1558) is the for her to interact in public with a Jew—until their assumptions before the trip to their annual acquisitions and allow us to build most widely used translation of one of the QC’s Daniel Kaplan ’16 invited her to hop on plans for promoting greater cross-cultural and the collection and better support the most important treatises on music theory. his bicycle. “I sat behind Daniel as he biked interfaith understanding in their respective Copland School’s curricula.” Shortly after her husband’s death in 2001, me down the streets of Tel Aviv,” she says. community or school. “Each individual Claude Palisca (1921–2001) earned Ms. Keitel donated his rare books to the “It was a rare sight, an Orthodox Jewish boy has to make a commitment,” says Mark his bachelor’s degree in music from college; they are available to researchers in and a hijab-wearing Muslim girl riding a bike Rosenblum (History), who as director of the Queens College in 1943 before earning the Special Collections Department in the together.” Sarmin was equally surprised to leadership and dialogue program led this his master’s and PhD in musicology from Rosenthal Library. In 2009 she also donated learn about the wide range of entrepreneurship year’s tour and the three that preceded it. “We Harvard in 1948 and 1954. He spent most funds to purchase and install display cases in want to multiply of his career on the music faculty at Yale the Music Library. the impact.” University, where he chaired the faculty Toward that end, participants received training that will enable them to America—and QC, the leadership and facilitate communication and serve as “shock dialogue program grew out of Rosenblum’s absorbers” if the events in Gaza play out innovative class, “The Middle East and negatively on their respective campuses. America: Clash of Civilizations or Meeting Sponsored by the Ibrahim Family of the Minds.” As part of their assignments, Foundation—which aspires to share America students research and support positions with the world and share the world with opposite to the ones they grew up believing. The Center for Ethnic, Racial and Religious Understanding (CERRU), which promotes FAR LEFT: Dome of the Rock, in Jerusalem; cross-cultural communication on the QC NEAR LEFT: Nashwa El-Sayed ’13 and Dalya campus and elsewhere in , is Arussy ’14 flank Mark Rosenblum. another legacy of that course. © Shmuel Magal / Sites & Photos

FYI OCTOBER 2014 | 5 PRESIDENT MATOS – from page 4 Rodríguez. “I couldn’t be more pleased and Along the same lines, in Money More Kudos for proud that Queens College is being recognized magazine’s new best colleges list, which percentage increase of any CUNY community the College nationally for the exceptional results of this focuses on quality, affordability (the cost college in those five years. And we more than longstanding commitment.” of earning a diploma in tuition and loans), doubled our fundraising dollars destined for A college’s “value” is now receiving and outcomes (how much the diploma will student scholarships. For the second extra scrutiny. In August 2013 the Obama be worth in salary after graduation), Queens consecutive year, administration declared that the federal College was evaluated among 665 higher Why did you want to become president Queens College has government would begin to rate colleges to education institutions, ranking in Money’s of Queens College? been recognized by determine “who’s offering the best value, so top 30 percent. I truly believe that many of the things I have Washington Monthly students and taxpayers get a bigger bang for In the just-released 2015 U.S. News been able to accomplish in my professional as the #2 college in their buck,” in the president’s words. Because America’s Best Colleges, Queens College life I owe to my liberal arts education. So, America for doing student debt is so high nationwide, colleges ranked #8 among “Top Public Schools” in when the opportunity came to become a part “the best job of are increasingly being ranked for their the Regional Universities–North category. of CUNY’s top and quintessential liberal arts helping non-wealthy affordability and students’ earning power Colleges in this category are defined as and sciences institution, I knew I had to give students attain after graduation. offering a broad range of undergraduate it a try. Also, Queens College’s stellar faculty marketable degrees For instance, Forbes magazine recently degrees and some master’s programs and talented students had always impressed at affordable published a list of the “Top Best Value but few, if any, doctoral programs. me, so I thought it would be an honor to be prices.” The magazine analyzed 1,540 U.S. Colleges 2014,” and QC makes the grade, And, as usual, QC is featured in the associated with them. colleges and selected 386 that delivered the ranking #16. These are “top colleges and Princeton Review’s The Best 379 Colleges The Queens College motto—We learn so “Best Bang for the Buck.” universities that deliver the goods without 2015 Edition. “Queens College offers that we may serve—is something that is very “Since its founding, Queens College has picking your pocket,” advise the editors, who outstanding academics, which is the chief much a part of my life. I strongly believe that been dedicated to providing a high-quality also state, “While college is always going to reason we selected it for the book,” says a good life is a life that is dedicated to service. education to deserving students regardless of be a significant financial undertaking, a great Rob Franek, the Princeton Review’s senior I saw what public education did for my grand- their finances,” says President Félix V. Matos education doesn’t have to break the bank.” VP and publisher. parents and parents, and I want to be part of helping to create those same opportunities for students here.

What do you do to relax? Fourth Year for Teaching I try to spend as much time as I can with my family. My wife and I are in Vietnam Project big movie fans, and we recently saw A Hard Day’s Night on a big Having just sent their fourth group of (SEAMEO RETRAC) in Vietnam, who screen in Pelham, where we live. students to Vietnam for the summer each July host six QC students in Ho I play tennis, softball, and golf. I Teaching in Vietnam Project, co-coordi- Chi Minh City. love to read and just finished a fine nators Donna Gruber (Director, ELI) and “Our students are really the star book about World War I, The War Thomas Szlezak (Project Manager, CTL) of the show,” notes Gruber. These that Ended Peace, and now I’m into feel they’ve developed a strong partner- students—in coordination with a Walter Isaacson’s biography of Ben ship with their Vietnamese colleagues, native Vietnamese teacher who is Franklin. I have no talent for music, who do much to facilitate a learning also a skilled teacher of English—use but I love it. My son Lucas plays the experience that is unique within CUNY. games, songs, and other activities to bass and Juan Carlos plays the cello, “We’re very lucky to have partners teach speaking, reading, and writing so I spend a lot of time with them at who are so organized and responsible,” skills to elementary school children in what’s music lessons and recitals. says Gruber of her collaborators at the called the Summer Fun program. But even though I love music, I am one of Southeast Asian Ministers of Education the few Latinos who cannot dance. Organization Regional Training Center CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

FYI OCTOBER 2014 | 6 QC Authors Tamburri Named Distinguished Professor In his new novel, Song of the Shank an ethnic enclave model in understanding Congratulazioni are due ANTHONY projects in Italy. Under his leadership, the (Graywolf Press), JEFFERY RENARD their sense of place, identity, and collective JULIAN TAMBURRI (European institute launched an annual international ALLEN (English) explores the meaning of agency. That model, which projects a path Languages), dean of QC’s John D. Calandra conference, two book series, and a peer- the life of Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins toward spatial assimilation into the larger Italian American Institute: reviewed social science journal, the Italian (1849–1908), a musical society, begins from a notion of “isolated and Over the summer, the CUNY American Review. prodigy and perhaps an insular enclaves” where internal community Board of Trustees named him “I am both honored and humbled to be autistic savant as well. differences are given little weight. In its place, a Distinguished Professor, recognized as a Distinguished Professor Blind Tom lived in the Hum emphasizes the multi-racial, classed, effective September 1. by the City University of New York,” said public eye most of his and highly contested space of Sunset Park Author of 14 books and Tamburri, who is now the fifteenth distin- life, beginning his career as a complex neighborhood experiencing editor of 20, Tamburri is guished professor at the college. “What Tamburri as a performer while multi-national gentrification and real estate an internationally acclaimed makes this truly special is, first of all, that still an enslaved child speculation, much of it led by Chinese scholar in the fields of Italian and Italian it has its origins at the level of peer evalu- (including a concert banks and affluent immigrants. She follows American Studies. In his eight years as ation—my colleagues at Queens College. for President James the development of a grassroots Asian and dean of the Calandra Institute, he has That the nomination was then reconsid- Buchanan). The novel, however, opens in Latino coalition seeking a sustainable form dramatically increased its public pres- ered and approved by a university-wide 1866, when the emancipated Blind Tom of community development that would ence and extended its academic profile was subjected to new and continued forms not displace working-class residents. In to include faculty exchange and research CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 of exploitation as the ward of his former the process, as Hum shows with passion owners, becoming a world-famous pianist and a tremendous knowledge of politics and composer. A story this big and fantastic and everyday life in Brooklyn, these new winning work, including comedy, plays, Look no further than current headlines to requires a large canvas, and Allen devoted immigrants are helping to create new forms of screenplays, essays, novels, memoirs, art see epidemiologists tirelessly working to about ten years to the novel. In it he brings democratic practice and vision. criticism, and songs. Kapsis provides a full sort through the common and disparate Blind Tom and the hucksters, admirers, chronology of Martin’s work along with an elements that, when properly interpreted and detractors, and former slave owners around ROBERT KAPSIS engaging collection of interviews in which assembled, may explain the unprecedented him to life, in the process exploring such (Sociology) is best Martin reflects on his personal background, scope of the latest outbreak of Ebola on the questions as genius and identity. The novel known as a scholar artistic experiences, influences, intentions, and African continent. To be sure, there have been has been widely praised for its own musical of film, especially of the back story to particular works. On October other Ebolas: the Black Death (plague) in the prose, virtuosic use of magical realism, filmmakers Alfred 5 Kapsis will be at the Museum of the Moving 1400s, the Blue Death (cholera) in the early psychological insight, and profound study of Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Image in NYC to sign copies of his book and 1800s, consumption (tuberculosis) in the late race and freedom in American society. and Clint Eastwood. introduce Martin’s film The Jerk. He is also 1800s, the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918, and, Recently, though, working with MOMI and the Academy of more recently, HIV in the 1980s. Morabia In a globalizing world, how can we make with Conversations Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to develop a (Prof. of Epidemiology, Barry Commoner sense of the city’s post-industrial, multi-racial, with Steve Martin full-scale retrospective on Martin. Center), who is board certified in internal ever-changing neighborhoods of new and (University Press of Mississippi), he has and occupational medicine, explores these recent immigrants? TARRY HUM (Urban branched out to a figure best known as a With the publication of Enigmas of Health and other medical scourges in recounting the Studies) has conducted extensive ethnographic comedian. Why? As Kapsis puts it, “While and Disease: How Epidemiology Helps evolution of what we’ve come to know as and action research those less familiar with his full body of work Unravel Scientific public health. Enigmas of Health and Disease among New York’s may think of Martin as primarily the ‘funny Mysteries (Columbia is an English-language adaptation by Morabia Chinese immigrants man’ with an arrow through his head, this University Press), of a book he published in France in 2011. and, in Making a book makes the case that he is in fact one of English readers may He opted to adapt rather than translate, he Global Immigrant our nation’s most accomplished and varied now enjoy ALFREDO explains in the prologue, to frame his ideas in Neighborhood: artists.” In a compilation of profiles and MORABIA’S elegant cultural concepts that would better resonate Brooklyn’s Sunset Park interviews conducted with Martin over some and accessible exploration for English speakers. The result, he believes, (Temple University forty years, Kapsis foregrounds the artist’s of the medical science is a book with a distinctly different character. Press), she questions many achievements as a writer. In fact, his that daily touches our Different, but no less fascinating. the continued use of writing comprises a wide range of award- lives in countless ways.

FYI OCTOBER 2014 | 7 TEACHING IN VIETNAM – from page 6 ELI forged another significant cultural QC People link on the opposite side of the globe this JOSÉ ANADÓN (Biology) participated ANDREW BEVERIDGE (Sociology) The selection process begins in January past summer when Associate ELI Director in an international study of ecological dam- became a talking point in the contentious with typically 40–45 applicants for the six Lorraine Smith taught an intensive two- age to grasslands, funded by the National labor relations of the Long Island Rail internships. “We try to push for education week professional development workshop Academies Keck Futures Initiative and the Road, when he found that median earnings students, TESOL, linguistics; they can be for professors at the National University National Science Foundation. In a com- of railroad workers are above those of graduate or undergraduate,” says Szlezak, of Mongolia (NUM). The groundwork parative study of the United States and the passengers . . . TARRY HUM (Urban who is uniquely qualified to work with for this was laid by members of QC’s Argentina, Anadón joined researchers from Studies) is profiled in Chinese American: the program: As an undergraduate, he was administration and faculty in visits to the Arizona State and McGill Universities in Exclusion/Inclusion, an exhibition at the New- among the first group from QC to make region in recent years. evaluating the impacts of invasive trees and York Historical Society on the history of the Vietnam trip. “Donna had the idea of sending shrubs on lands used for pasture and other SEAMEO funds much of the cost, someone to do a workshop as a piece of an purposes. The findings were pub- CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 including housing, a daily $20 stipend for ongoing collaboration,” says Smith. lished in August in the Proceedings expenses, and complimentary weekend trips Approximately 54 teachers were of the National Academy of Sciences to destinations such as the Mui Ne resort recruited for the program by NUM from . . . KATHERINE PICKERING area and the Mekong Delta. QC partially across a wide variety of disciplines. Another ANTONOVA (History) was subsidizes airfare. 12 teachers joined during the first few days interviewed August 17 by New “I believe this is the first international of the program. Books in Russia and Eurasia, a internship for Queens College that’s a paid “The way I set up the program was by channel of the online New Books internship,” explains Gruber. “It’s very dif- picking college-level content that they had Network. The subject was her ferent from a study abroad program where not taught,” explains Smith. “So it was a new work, An Ordinary Marriage you’re paying to go abroad. This program level playing field; everything was new and (Oxford University Press) . . . pays you to go to another country where hopefully fresh and definitely different from An analysis of census data by you're working and living with the people. what they usually teach.” Hum (far left) “It’s also a value-added for ELI,” she To further the relationship with NUM, continues, “because the interns have two professors were awarded a scholarship to tutor students in our ELI classes in by Gruber to enroll in ELI this fall. preparation for going.” Interns have to “One of the women who’s coming was prepare 30 lessons before they go; Gruber my helper, my translator, my assistant, my In Memoriam the CUNY programs in both chemistry and says they are creating a database of the everything,” says Smith, who notes that biochemistry since coming to Queens. most successful lessons. all the participants Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Bob was other scientists’ ideal collaborator This year, interns were required in her program were ROBERT BITTMAN passed away on as it was generally known that his approach to check in with weekly progress reasonably fluent October 1 after a prolonged battle with cancer. to solving chemistry problems was the best reports. “It’s an email, very informal, in English. A native of Queens, he grew up in Forest approach available. His research output very conversational,” says Szlezak. Hills. Following his graduation from high was spectacular, with over 320 papers in “We want to know if they’re school at the age of 16, he came to Queens refereed journals, 64 book chapters, and 19 healthy, what are they teaching, did College and received his degree in chemistry patents (more are currently in preparation and they go on any weekend trips.” in 1962. He went on to the University of pending), and continuous external support “Also,” notes Gruber, “there is California at Berkeley, where he obtained for his research from 1967 to the present. He a SEAMO requirement that the his PhD in 1965, and then went to the Max also served on the editorial board of Organic interns must visit the museum Planck Institute in Göttingen, Germany, to Reactions for many years. devoted to the Vietnam War, as well work with Nobel laureate Manfred Eigen. In his last days, Bob’s major concern as some of the tunnels used by North Upon his return to the US in 1966, was not for himself; he was totally realistic Vietnamese troops during the conflict. But Bob became an assistant professor at QC, about his situation and the process of life. His their insistence is very gentle. It’s a very rising through the ranks to being named concern was that his students would continue polite culture.” distinguished professor in 1988. He has to be well served. We mourn the passing of a been a member of the doctoral faculty of great scientist, scholar, and colleague.

FYI OCTOBER 2014 | 8 QC PEOPLE – from page 8 ing of a survey of 5,000 people. It concerns Using China to Teach about China trade and immigration between China and community preferences related to com- the United States. It highlights the work peting proposals for the Rockaway Beach The QC community knows William of eight Chinese Americans—including Line, a stretch of unused Long Island Rail Daghlian as a former adjunct at Hum—whose “visions for the 21st century Road track between Ozone Park and Rego the Aaron Copland School of influence the arts, academia, journalism, Park—the question being whether to rede- Music, where he taught piano. politics, business, and social and environ- velop this track for mass transit or convert But he is also an art collector mental justice.” She also was interviewed it to a park modeled on Manhattan’s High who specializes in Chinese on “The Brian Lehrer Show” on August 6. Line . . . As the LIRR labor dispute heated ceramics and sculpture spanning The exhibition is scheduled to be up from up, KENNETH RYESKY (Accounting) approximately 5,000 years. In September 26 through April 19 . . . CHINA contributed an analysis of workers’ right to 2012, in response to the Year of JUDE’S (Athletics) article on “Service in strike under federal and state laws to the China—the inaugural program in the City” in the June/July issue of Athletic July 10 installment of the American Thinker QC’s annual “Year of” series—he Management describes the blog . . . TOM SANGIORGI (Chemistry) donated 1,650 pieces to the college. many community service recently received the ’ Sixty of those items will go on public projects of QC athletes, Hometown Hero in Education Award and view November 19, when Highlights of how these reflect the col- a Math for America 2014 Master Teacher The Daghlian Collection of Chinese Art lege’s values, and what service Fellowship. He earned his BA and MA at opens at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum. means to students . . . FRED the college, and also teaches at Townsend (All are welcome to the opening reception KAPLAN (Emeritus English) Harris HS . . . NATHALIS WAMBA that night at 6 to 8 pm.) Jude has resurrected the reputa- (ECP) was a Visiting Fulbright “Visitors can scarcely gain a better intro- tion of one of the lesser known presidents Scholar at University College duction to Chinese culture than by examining in John Quincy Adams: American Visionary. Cork in Ireland. There he con- its works of art,” says Distinguished Professor Kaplan draws heavily on Adams’s 50-volume tinued his work with Mzuzu Morris Rossabi (History). “In addition to their diary, begun at age 12, in drawing out what University in Malawi, especially beauty, they often reveal a great deal about the Miami Herald terms an “almost dizzying with the new Supporting LIFE Chinese values and beliefs.” list of achievements” and in telling the story Institute, which will train Specifically, Highlights of The Daghlian Wamba of the son of one of the country’s most faculty and community health Collection uses ceramics, jade, pottery, distinguished founding fathers . . . SCOTT workers in eHealth and the and wood objects to document Chinese LARSON (Urban Studies) has been work- use of digital tools to improve health care history and culture from the Stone Age ing with State Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder during maternity and childhood. Wamba (ca. 6000–2500 BCE) to the Ming dynasty (D-Rockaway Park) in conducting a study received a commendation from the Irish (ca. 1368–1644). Like the website (http:// of Queens transportation needs, consist- Fulbright Commission. daghlian.qc.cuny.edu/) created for study of the collection, the show is organized in TOP: Cizhou jar with brown painted design, chronological sections. from the Ming dynasty (1368–1644 CE). “My hope is that students, faculty, and ABOVE: Miniature acrobat, “a foreigner,” DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR from the University of California, Berkeley. the public will learn from it and enjoy the from the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE). from page 7 Before coming to QC, he taught at Smith pieces,” says Daghlian. “If others can learn College, Middlebury, Auburn University, from my collection, research further, and committee of Distinguished Professors is an Purdue University, and Florida Atlantic contribute new perspectives, it will be just 2015. Daghlian will talk about collecting on even higher honor. One could not ask for University. The recipient of numerous wonderful.” As it happens, QC students November 19. Rossabi will give a lecture greater validation of one’s work.” grants and honors—such as awards from have been involved in this project since about the Yuan dynasty and the Mongols on A native of Stamford, Connecticut, the Association of Italian American its inception; a companion exhibition in December 3; at noon a week later, Marleen Tamburri holds a BA in Italian and Educators and the Italian Language Inter- the upstairs gallery presents ceramics that Kassel (Chinese history) will discuss the Spanish from Southern Connecticut State Cultural Alliance—he received the Order students, alumni, and faculty created in collection. Sin-ying Ho (Ceramics) and GTM University, an MA in Italian from Middlebury of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2010, response to the collection. Director Amy Winter will lead gallery tours. College, and a PhD in Italian and Spanish making him a low-ranked knight. Free public programs will accompany For more information, please email Marleen. the show, which closes on January 10, [email protected].

FYI OCTOBER 2014 | 9 IN THE MEDIA IN THE MEDIA IN THE MEDIA IN THE MEDIA MacArthur Fellow Makes PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA classes, the effect the Ebola virus outbreak is Campus Appearance having on the city’s West African immigrants, NANCY AGABIAN (English) was profiled and plans to give the Bronx Children’s “Poems are not read only re-read,” says poet and University of Pittsburgh in the “Local Express” feature of the Queens Museum a permanent home . . . The Forward professor Terrance Hayes, a recipient this year of a MacArthur Foundation Gazette . . . An interview with SALMAN reported an event at the Center for Jewish Fellowship (the so-called genius grant). The QC community had the AHMAD (Music), conducted History chaired by THOMAS BIRD opportunity to see Hayes, the author of four published collections— as he was about to perform (European Languages) commemorating the including Lighthead, which won the 2010 National Book Award with his band Junoon at the deaths of Soviet Yiddish writers at the hands for Poetry—when he shared his work at the Godwin-Ternbach first Louis Armstrong Music of Stalin . . . A talk by ANNA BOUNDS Museum on October 8. The free event, which was co-sponsored Festival, appeared in the New (Sociology) at the American Sociological by the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation Yorker . . . MORRIS ALTMAN and the Poetry Society of America, also featured Hayes’s U. of (Information Technology) Pittsburgh colleague Lynn Emanuel. The poetry re-reading was Ahmad shared his thoughts on followed by a Q-and-A session and book signing. keeping QC’s network services secure Hayes with the journal HELP NET SECURITY. He was also quoted at MarketWatch.com in a feature about the college’s successful use of ForeScout CounterACT to monitor and QC Explores the secure network services . . . KATHERINE ANTONOVA (History) discussed the Rainbow Nation everyday lives of the Russian gentry in an After focusing on countries in Asia and South America, QC’s interview with the journal Fair Observer Bounds signature “Year of” initiative—which presents multidisciplinary . . . A study by CLIVE BELFIELD Association’s annual meeting concerning programming about the history, culture, and contributions of (Economics) was cited as one of the urban “doomsday” survivalists was reported a single nation—is moving to a new continent with the Year sources of data used by a group of Arizona at livescience.com, techtimes.com, and the of South Africa. This semester’s events include a soccer match, mayors to determine the economic impact Myrtle Beach Examiner . . . NICHOLAS a student dance concert featuring choreography by Sduduzo of students dropping out of high school, COCH (Earth & Environ. Sci.) was quoted Ka-Mbili, and a film series. For the latest listings, visit www.qc.cuny.edu/yosa. according to azednews.com . . . ANDREW at maritime-executive.com debunking the BEVERIDGE (Sociology) theory that offshore wind used a federal survey to farms could help weaken large analyze the racial composition storms . . . A Providence Journal of police departments for story concerning stagnant New QC Shop Clicks , and wages among Rhode Island’s determined that nearly 400 workers quoted JOSEPH with Patrons Beveridge were 50 percent whiter than COHEN (Sociology) Coch the communities they served. . . . JOHN COLLINS If you want to purchase official Queens College He also provided statistical data for Times (Anthropology) was quoted in a Wall Street apparel and accessories, you’ve got a surprise stories concerning the growing population Journal story about the effect gentrification in store: The QC Shop is now open for online of New York’s financial district and the is having on his neighborhood in Astoria . business at www.thecunystore.com/queens_ growth of the city’s non-Hispanic white . . A story at capitalnewyork.com about the college. As the URL suggests, the shop is part of population. The Sociology Department decision by the New York State Nurses a venue that gives virtual shelf space to every school in the CUNY also provided data for Times stories on the Association and 1199 SEIU to oppose system. Merchandise ranges from T-shirts, sweatshirts, and hoodies changing demographics of New York’s 13th the Keystone XL pipeline project quoted to key chains, office supplies, and folding chairs, all featuring the congressional district, efforts by city libraries distinctive QC logo. For motorists, there’s a highway safety kit that includes jumper cables, to meet the demand for English-language CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 a siphon, a blanket, a flashlight, and a tire gauge. What could be more appropriate for—or from—people affiliated with a commuter campus?

FYI OCTOBER 2014 | 10 IN THE MEDIA IN THE MEDIA IN THE MEDIA IN THE MEDIA In Memoriam thought; indeed, he was deeply concerned with social justice. To that end, in 1983 he PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA – from page 10 He was also quoted at Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages co-founded the Research Group on Socialism theforumnewsgroup.com in an FRANK ROSENGARTEN died on and Democracy and served as editor of the JOSHUA FREEMAN article about the difficulties August 4. Before his retirement in 1992, he group’s journal from 1984 to 1992. His books (History). He was also cited faced by political newcomers taught Italian at the college and comparative include the two-volume edition of Antonio in a Daily News story on in Queens . . . A report at literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. Gramsci’s Letters from Prison (1994) and nonunion workers participating allgov.com concerning a court Rosengarten, who received his PhD in The Writings of the Young Marcel Proust in the Labor Day Parade for of appeals ruling declaring that Italian from Columbia University in the (1885–1900): An Ideological Critique (2001). the first time . . . ANDREW FedEx workers be classified as Krasner 1950s, taught in QC’s Romance Languages This past June he celebrated with family and HACKER’S (Political Science, employees, not independent Department from 1967 to 1992, following friends the publication of his two most recent Freeman emeritus) opposition to the contractors, referred to an article BARRY earlier appointments at Adelphi University books, The Revolutionary Marxism of Antonio tenure system was mentioned LEIBOWICZ (Accounting) wrote in 2011 and Case Western. Remarkably, following Gramsci (Brill, 2014) and Through Partisan in a PBS News Hour report on for CPA Journal . . . A story at newscenter. his retirement, he obtained a second PhD in Eyes: A Memoir (Firenze University Press, the backlash against adjuncts. berkeley.edu describing a daylong celebration French at the CUNY Graduate Center with a 2014), regaling all with reflections on his life, He was also cited in columns of the work of UC Berkeley sociologist dissertation on young Marcel Proust. career, friendships, and encounters. in the Village Voice and at Troy Duster quoted another Berkeley PhD, Rosengarten’s scholarship was at the Frank is survived by his sister, Jo; his chil- Newsmax.com about students HARRY LEVINE (Sociology) . . . ALLAN intersection of Italian culture and political dren, Dan and Lydia; and several grandchildren. not being sufficiently challenged LUDMAN’S (Earth & Hacker to think in some of their Environ. Sci.) discovery that classes . . . JESSICA HARRIS a 153-year-old tombstone (SEEK) authored a piece for nassaunewslive. dumped in his yard belonged com about author Maya Angelou’s love of to a famous abolitionist cooking . . . RON HAYDUK’S (Political generated multiple stories in Science) article at Quartz. the Daily News and on NY1 com advancing the proposal and NBC 4 New York . . . The Ludman that noncitizen immigrants be announcement that FÉLIX allowed to vote was the subject V. MATOS RODRÍGUEZ would be the of a column at breitbart.com . . . next president of QC was reported by the QUEENS COLLEGE A column in the Forward on the Queens Chronicle, Queens Tribune, TimesLedger, relative value of prayer in times theforumnewsgroup.com, El Diario, Queens HOME Hayduk of crisis quoted from a column Latino, El Nueva Dia, the Pelhams-PLUS, the by SAMUEL HEILMAN Pelham Daily Voice, and jewishvoiceny.com COMING (Sociology) that had appeared in Haaretz . . . A Reuters story concerning a study . . . TARRY HUM (Urban Studies) was linking the use of nicotine patches during 2 O14 interviewed for an article in World Journal pregnancy with a greater risk of attention SUNDAY OCTOBER 26 and on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show in deficit hyperactivity disorder in children MEET FORMER CLASSMATES! connection with her new book, Making a quoted YOKO NOMURA (Psychology) TOURS, ENTERTAINMENT, AND MORE! Global Immigrant Neighborhood (see p. 7) . . . TIMOTHY PUGH (Anthropology) . . . The New York Times Book Review praised was quoted in stories at hyperallergic.com, www.qc.cuny.edu/homecoming FRED KAPLAN (English, Emeritus) and his livescience.com, and ibtime.co.uk concerning book John Quincy Adams: American Visionary an ancient Mayan temple in Guatemala (HarperCollins), calling the biography a that he helped to discover . . . A story at “valuable book about an important American theforumnewsgroup.com about QC’s efforts figure” . . . MICHAEL KRASNER (Political to help students manage debt quoted Science) was interviewed by the Queens JEFF ROSENSTOCK (External & Govt. Gazette for its “Local Express” feature. CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

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Relations) . . . ULDIS ROZE (Biology, A current and a recent graduate of the Emeritus) described the ferocity of long- MFA in Creative Writing and Literary tailed carnivores called fishers for a story Translation program have just won awards. at nationalgeographic.com . . . JOSEPH ERIC M. B. BECKER received the PEN/ SCIORRA’S (Calandra Institute) role Heim Grant for his translation of Selected in the acquisition by the Fenimore Art Stories by Mozambican Mia Couto. RAJIV Museum of an ornate work box created by MOHABIR ’13 was awarded the Four Way an Italian bootblack in the 1930s and once Books Intro Prize for his poetry manuscript displayed at the Museum of Modern Art was The Taxidermist's Cut . . . The experience reported in the New York Times . . . In a story of NICOLINA DAPILMA, an immigrant at scienceworldreport.com, FARAH TAHA from Togo who was recruited by CUNY to (Psychology) described the study, of which enroll tuition-free in its Accelerated Study she is the corresponding author, that reveals in Associate Programs, was highlighted in a evidence of a strong association between story in the Chronicle of Higher anxiety disorders and the prevalence and Education . . . A story about incidence of ulcers . . . The Queens Gazette CUNY’s 2014 valedictorians reported ANTHONY TAMBURRI’S at jewishvoiceny.com included (European Languages) being named QC’s L–r: Dean of Math & Natural Sciences Robert Engel, Senator Tony Avella, and former PATRYK PERKOWSKI, who 15th distinguished professor . . . JOHN Interim President Evangelos Gizis celebrate the awarding of a $2 million grant to help majored in mathematics and WALDMAN (Biology) co-authored a renovate the science labs in Remsen Hall. economics . . . Eagletribune.com column in the Providence reported on junior JESSICA Perkowski Journal about how dams EVENTS IN THE MEDIA TimesLedger and Queens Gazette reported WIGGINS who, with other severely inhibit the ability Godwin-Ternbach Museum’s acquisition QC students, created a Global Brigades of fish to migrate to their The inaugural Louis Armstrong International of seven color silkscreen prints by Andy chapter to send volunteers abroad to assist traditional spawning grounds Music Festival presented by the Kupferberg Warhol . . . A report by Riverkeeper in medical professionals in countries in need of . . . Southernstar.ie described Center generated stories in the Daily collaboration with scientists from QC and assistance. Wiggins and members of the QC the efforts of NATHALIS News, Queens Chronicle, Queens Gazette, Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty chapter went to Ghana. WAMBA (Educ. & Comm. and at theforumnewsgroup.com. The Queens Earth Observatory on the poor quality of Waldman Progs.) as a Fulbright Specialist Gazette and broadwayworld.com featured water in the Hudson River was featured at Andy Warhol, Sitting Bull, Scholar at University College Cork in Ireland stories about the 20th anniversary of the gothamgazette.com and allmediany.com. The 1986, silkscreen print, on to advance an initiative to develop the Armstrong Archives at QC, and the New Poughkeepsie Journal published an editorial view through November 1 knowledge and skills of community healthcare York Times offered a substantial feature on the report’s findings . . . Jewishvoice. at the Godwin-Ternbach workers in Malawi . . . A Business News about the archives and the Armstrong com reported on Forbes’ release of its list Museum exhibit Andy Warhol’s Photo-Aesthetic Network report concerning Amazon’s dispute House Museum . . . The study conducted of America’s Top Colleges that included and Beyond. with publisher Hachette over the pricing by the QC Office of Community Studies to Queens College. Crain’s New York Business of e-books quoted DANA explore redevelopment of the abandoned reported on Money magazine’s inaugural list WEINBERG (Sociology) . . . Rockaway Beach Rail Line was reported of the 665 colleges that deliver the best Huffingtonpost.com published in the Queens Chronicle, Queens Gazette, education for the money that ranked an interview with MYRA and at theforumnewsgroup.com . . . Sen. Queens College 194th . . . An initiative ZARNOWSKI (Elementary Tony Avella’s securing of a $2 million by Calandra Institute to publish works Ed.) concerning the Common grant for the renovation of labs in Remsen by high school students in the 10th Core State Standards for Hall (above) was reported by the Queens annual edition of Il Giornalino was Weinberg grades K-12. Chronicle and at forumnewsgroup.com . . . The reported by the Pelham Daily Voice.

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