PSC-CUNY 48
New Announcements 2016-2017
Art and Design
Prof. Javier Cambre: Soundtrack (Improvisations on Mallarmé after Pierre Boulez)
Prof. Annemarie Coffey: Silence in a golden world
Prof. Kenneth Golden: Figurative readings / etiquette
Dr. Nathaniel Sullivan: Mapping Abstraction
Biological Sciences and Geology
Dr. Urszula Golebiewska: Formation of pools of PIP2
Dr. Gheorghe Proteasa: New Drug Development Initiated by the Mucolytic Effect of Plantago Lanceolata on Respiratory Tract Mucus
Dr. Christopher Roblodowski: Functional Characterization of the Actin-binding domain of the Drosophila Protein Dunc115
Dr. James Timbilla: Biodiversity and Bionomics of Blow Flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in Urban Parklands
Dr. Sara Danzi-Engoron (Co-PI): mtDNA Lab: The Science and Politics of Identity and Race
Chemistry
Dr. Derek Bruzewicz: Reversibly bonded elastomeric channels for repeated replica-molding of metal microstructures
Dr. Sasan Karimi: Substituted Pyrrole Synthesis
Dr. Sharon Lall-Ramnarine: New Ionic Liquids for Superior Battery Electrolytes
Dr. David Sarno: An investigation of polyaniline and its derivatives as a scaffolding material for ruthenium nanoparticles for the degradation of azo dyes
Dr. Jun Shin: Syntheses of Aromatic Polycarbamates from N-Hydroxyphenyltrichloroacetamide Derivatives Using a Scientific Microwave Reactor
Dr. Paul Sideris: Surfactant-Assisted Solvothermal Synthesis of LiFe1-xMxPO4 (M= Mn, Co)
Dr. Sujun Wei: Imidazole as a Novel and Robust Gold Binding Group at STM-BJ Method
Engineering Technology
Prof. Raymond Lam and Prof. Michael Lawrence: Mechanical Properties and Microstructures of Materials Printed by 3-Dimensional (3D) Printers
Dr. Dugwon Seo: Solar Photovoltaic Modules Degradation Rate Comparison and Data Analysis
Prof. Michael Lawrence (Co-PI): Mechanical Properties and Microstructures of Materials Printed by 3-Dimensional (3D) Printers
English
Dr. Leah Anderst: Exploring the Impact of Marlon Riggs's Documentary Films through PBS Viewers' Feedback Calls Housed in Marlon Riggs Papers, Stanford University
Dr. Aliza Atik: “I am come to give you back your kiss”: The Feminist Histories of Late Victorian Fantasy
Dr. Johannes Burgers: Students as Global Citizens: Social Justice-Based Undergraduate Research in the Classroom
Prof. Alisa Cercone: Students Working in Interdisciplinary Groups (SWIG) at Queensborough Community College: Studying Student Learning for Content Mastery in an Interdisciplinary and Integrative Learning Environment with EN 101 Courses
Prof. Alison Cimino: Year of the Horse, a collection of poems
Dr. Robin Ford: Critical Spatial Literacy: Theorizing Students' Experiences in Spaces of Literacy
Prof. Susan Lago: What We Inherit: A Collection of Linked Stories
Prof. Manuel Martinez: Miami Don't Know (a novel)
Dr. Vartan Messier: Predatory Desires: Sex, Race, and Privilege in J.N. Coetzee's Disgrace
Dr. Angela Ridinger-Dotterman: "Such a Nasty Woman": Positioning Hillary Clinton in the History of American Women's Public Speech
Dr. Elizabeth Toohey: If Walls Could Talk: Reading the Illegible Arab in Laurent Cantet’s Entre les murs
Dr. Agnieszka Tuszynska: Mapping out the Walled Town of Prisoner B. 8266
Dr. Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson: reStaging Our Past: Sub-Altern/native Histories on the Contemporary Stage
Prof. Irvin Weathersby: In Open Contempt: Monuments, Museums, and Public Spaces Commemorating the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Dr. Tanya Zhelezcheva: Thomas Traherne’s Commentaries of Heaven: Post-Cartesianism and the Early Modern Encyclopedia
Health, Physical Education and Dance
Dr. Anthony Monahan: Assessing empathy and inter-cultural understanding through the Global Citizenship Alliance experience
History
Dr. Nicole Lopez-Jantzen: Between Empires: Ravenna’s Pivotal Role in Early Medieval Italy
Dr. Gilmar Visoni: Fortification Construction in Lombardy and the Military Revolution
Mathematics and Computer Science
Dr. Carolyn King: Black Girls Count! Black Girls and STEM
Dr. Wenjian Liu: The Kesten-Stigum Reconstruction Bound of the General d-ary Tree
Dr. Azita Mayeli: Fuglede Conjecture and Exponential bases in continues and arithmetic settings
Dr. David Pham: Lie groupoids, Frobenius Algebras, and Category Theory
Dr. Biao Wang: Minimal fibration in hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Dr. Fei Ye: On a Characterization of Big Divisors and its Applications
Office of Students Affairs
Dr. Wilma Fletcher-Anthony: Integrating internationalization concepts into a college orientation course
Physics
Dr. Raul Armendariz: Installation of a Cosmic Ray Detector for Undergraduate Student Research
Dr. Jill Bellovary: Predicting Gravitational Wave Signals by Merging Black Holes in Migration Traps
Dr. Sunil Dehipawala: Investigation of structural and magnetic properties of iron and nickel mixed oxide nano particles-Continuation
Dr. Rex Taibu: Physics Language Anxiety among Students in Introductory Physics Classes
Social Science
Dr. Larisa Honey and Dr. Sara Danzi Engoron: mtDNA Lab: The Science and Politics of Identity and Race
Dr. Chukwudi Ikwueze: Crowding Out As a Cause of U.S. Declining Business Dynamism
Dr. Julia Rothenberg: Dodging the “Highline effect”: Between Utopia and Realpolitik on the Montauk Cutoff
Dr. Amy Traver: “Placing Out” in Upstate New York: The Phenomenon and its Regional Impacts
Speech Communication and Theater Arts
Prof. Aviva Geismar: "The Bind"
Prof. Georgia McGill: Sailing With Goddesses and new adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey for the stage
The Kurt R. Schmeller Library
Prof. Mi-Seon (Christine) Kim: Assessing the Effectiveness of Information Literacy (IL) Competency on Writing Performance of Students Enrolled in Writing Intensive (WI) STEM Courses in Queensborough Community College
Prof. Susan Wengler: Sense-Making and the Community College Student