Summer 2010 Vol. 37 I No. 4

The alumni magazine of Polytechnic Institute of New York University

OURNEWWORLDOF POSSIBILITYA LOOK AT THE INSTITUTETWO YEARS AFTER THEAFFILIATION WITH NYU

DID YOU KNOW?Mario Cardullo ’57 ’59 received the

first patent for an active RFID tag on

January 23, 1973.

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navigation[3] NYU-Poly in the News

[3] On the Navy’s Radar: Chief of Naval OperationsTours NYU-Poly Campus

[5] Cover Story: The NYU-Poly New World of Possibility[11] Top Seeded[13] What Is Research?[17] Class of 2010 Hailed as “Agents of Change”

at 155th Commencement[19] Project 2010: Plans for the First i2e Campus Transformation

Initiative Unveiled[21] President Hultin Receives Ellis Island Medal of Honor[22] Barbara Noseworthy Named VP of Development

and Alumni Relations[22] Dr. Ines Mandl’s Drug Discovery Has

Newfound Purpose Nearly 60 Years Later![23] Kalle Levon Among First Winners

of BioAccelerate NYC Prize[25] A First for NYU-Poly: Evangelos Limpantoudis

Receives Reynolds Fellowship[26] Student Wins Prestigious NSF Fellowship[27] Myles Jackson Awarded Bacon Prize[27] Earth Day Green Expo[28] SAIC/NYU-Poly Agreement Builds Cybers ecurity Powerhouse[29] Dr. Lien Chan Delivers Lecture on “Cross-Strait Relations”

[30] Faculty News and Notes[30] Faculty Notes

[31] Campus Buzz[31] Service Awards[31] Zahra Patterson Receives LIU’s Hynenman Award[32] Yau Lecture[32] Women’s Softball Team Wins First-Ever Skyline Crown[32] Toast ’10[32] Athletes Celebrate at Annual Year-End Varsity Awards

Banquet

[33] PolyGiving[33] Harry C. Wechsler[33] Charitable Remainder Trusts & Gift Annuities

for Your Retirement

[34] Alumni News[34] Letter from the Alumni President[35] Class Notes[36] In Memoriam[37] Harvesting the Chemicals of the Good Earth[37] Trustees Mario Cardullo and Michael Kappaz Receive

Distinguished Alumni Awards[38] Upcoming Events

About the Cable SurveyDear Members of the NYU-Poly Community,

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Michelle KerrEditor, Cable

Anthony KappDirector of Alumni Relations

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Chief of Naval Operations Tours NYU-Poly Campus

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Admiral Roughead fieldsquestions from studentsregarding the navy'scybersecurity initiative.

On a warm, spring afternoon, NYU-Poly welcomed AdmiralGary Roughead, advisor to President Barak Obama, chief ofnaval operations and the highest-ranking officer in the navy,to the Brooklyn campus . During his visit, he received a guidedtour of the campus by President Jerry Hultin.

It was the only visit he would pay to any school during his tripto New York. His visit highlighted the importance of technologyto the navy: “The navy is known for having been on theforefront of many technological advances,” said Roughead.“Technology is very much a part of who we are.”

At the historic Wunsch Building, undergraduate and graduatestudents met the admiral and the handful of navy personnelwho accompanied him. Attendees highlighted NYU-Poly’s globaldiversity and represented a spectrum of majors includingconstruction management, mechanical engineering, computerengineering and financial engineering.

The students asked the admiral about his decision to join thenavy and about its work environment. “I can’t think of anotherprofession where you’re surrounded by so many young people,”Admiral Roughead said. The “passion to serve,” as AdmiralRoughead put it, is a trait the navy seeks among candidates.

Academic excellence is also important, he said, with the STEM— science, technology, engineering and mathematics — fieldsespecially important. “It’s where we have to go in the future”for highly educated officers that the navy needs, he said.

NYU-Poly’s contribution to that future of high technology wasoutlined by faculty who recently worked with the navy or who

are researching topics with potential ties to its needs. Theadmiral met with faculty–among them were AssistantProfessors Nikhil Gupta and Maurizio Porfiri, Mechanicaland Aerospace Engineering, who described researchcollaborations with the U.S. Navy, and Professor NasirMemon, Computer Science and Engineering, who spoke ofnovel authentication techniques and their possibleapplication for the navy’s unmanned vehicles.

Provost Dianne Rekow introduced the admiral to the Institute’sInnovation Think Tank (ITT), an initiative that gathers selectedacademics from multiple disciplines for one semester to solvea given problem. Charles Camarda ’74AE, DistinguishedEngineer-in-Residence at NYU-Poly and a NASA astronaut, is thissemester’s ITT leader. Camarda’s description of the ITT’s workwith NASA sparked an invitation from Admiral Roughead for allfaculty to consider future collaborations with the U.S. Navy.

“The navy is known for havingbeen on the forefront of manytechnological advances”

-Admiral Gary Roughead

Admiral Roughead and President Hultin look on as astudent demonstrates her work in Professor Gunter Georgi’s freshman engineering course.

A look at the Institute two yearsafter the affiliation with NYU

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As an award-winning researcher who has done pioneering work at the intersection ofengineering and biology, Rastislav Levicky isused to solving thorny problems. In this case,however, the Donald F. Othmer AssociateProfessor of Chemical and BiologicalEngineering had hit a snag.

Levicky and his graduate students weremodeling the behavior of synthetic DNA-likemolecules to make more accurate andefficient bio-detectors: electronic devices thatscan for biological molecules like genefragments and bacteria. There is a large andgrowing market for such instruments, withestablished companies and emerging startupsall vying to come up with the nextbreakthrough technology.

Levicky’s approach, which employs syntheticrather than natural DNA to bind with andidentify dangerous environmental pathogenssuch as E. coli and Staphylococcus, couldmake existing bio-detection systems morereliable and less expensive. But turning it into

a viable technology will require understandinghow synthetic DNA binds to the real thing. AndLevicky had reached a point in his researchwhere he could not explain some of the datathat he and his team had collected.

So he called a couple of colleagues: the NYUchemists Nadrian Seeman and James

Canary, both of whom work withLevicky on a project to develop

better models for designingsynthetic DNA and

understanding its behavior. Together, theycomprise one of 21 collaborative teams madeup of NYU and NYU-Poly faculty that NYU hasfunded to the tune of $1.5 million sincePolytechnic entered into an affiliation with the university.

“They said, ‘Well, take a look at thisphosphorous molecule—it’s chiral,’” saysLevicky, using the technical term for amolecule that has distinct left-handed andright-handed forms. “‘That could explain someof the behavior.’” It did, and the chemicalfeature that Seeman and Canary had noticedwas not the kind of thing that would havebeen obvious to Levicky or his students. “Achemist and an engineer, looking at the samephenomenon, see complementary things,”Levicky says.

Seeman, who invented structural DNAnanotechnology, sees similar benefits to theircollaboration. “My own research has comecloser and closer to engineering during mycareer, so the addition of an engineering schoolat NYU was really important to me,” he says.“I’m working on projects that I might not havecontemplated earlier.” Seeman adds thatLevicky brings not only specific technicalexpertise to their work, but also an engineer’sunique perspective on science and technology.“The ability to reduce a scientific idea to aworking device is invaluable,” he says.

The affiliation with NYU, an agreement thatturned Polytechnic University into PolytechnicInstitute of New York University, and that willultimately lead to a merger in which NYU-Polywill become NYU’s school of engineering andtechnology became official in July 2008. Yetthe work that Levicky, Seeman and Canary arepursuing illustrates in microcosm the tangiblebenefits that have already accrued to bothinstitutions, and the promise of far more tocome—for NYU, NYU-Poly and the world beyondtheir doors.

From the very outset of the negotiations—aprocess that was led on the NYU-Poly side by

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The work that Levicky, Seeman and Canary arepursuing illustrates inmicrocosm the tangiblebenefits that have alreadyaccrued to both institutions...

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PresidentJerry Hultin,then-Board

Chairman CraigMatthews, his

successor RalphAlexander and

former Provost ErichKunhardt; and on the NYU

side by President John Sexton,Board Chairman Marty Lipton, Provost DavidMcLaughlin and Senior Vice-Provost DianneRekow (now provost for NYU-Poly)—theadvantages for both institutions were clear.

“The biggest reason for the affiliation was toaccelerate the strategic growth of Poly,” saysHultin, noting that the relationship willfurther enhance the quality of the school’sfaculty, students and facilities, whileproviding access to the resources, recruitingpower and fundraising network of a globalresearch university. Even at this early date,the results are impressive: enrollments andSAT scores are up, NYU-Poly is drawing farmore students from beyond its traditionalrecruiting grounds, and NYU is makingavailable $50 million for new faculty hiresand campus upgrades.

NYU, which today is one of the top rankingacademic institutions in the nation, onceagain has access to a school of engineeringand technology, something it lost in 1973when its own College of Engineering, locatedat the old University Heights campus in theBronx, merged with Poly. The recent affiliationand subsequent merger will, therefore,significantly enhance the university’sscientific resources and technical capacity,creating a unique regional engine forinvention, innovation and

entrepreneurship— the three pillars ofNYU-Poly’s i2e philosophy.

And that, in turn, will be a boon to the city ofNew York. Following the financial crisis of2008, the mayor’s office recognized that ifthe city’s economy were to recover andgrow, it needed to diversify—namely, bydeveloping a healthy entrepreneurial techsector of the sort that exists in SanFrancisco and Boston. By establishing ascientific and technological powerhousecapable of driving innovation all the wayfrom the laboratory to the marketplace, theaffiliation promises to help fill a gap in NewYork City’s economic landscape.

It will also extend NYU-Poly’s reach wellbeyond the city itself. NYU has 10international sites on five continents; with that

kind of international footprint, NYU-Poly willbe in a position to spread the message of i2eboth near and far, providing technologicalsolutions to problems faced around theglobe. For example, the engineering programat NYU Abu Dhabi was established byNYU-Poly, developed by its faculty and is ledby Associate Provost Sunil Kumar, who servesas dean of the program. The inclusion ofbiotechnology and biochemical engineeringin the curriculum is expected to help “green”the Emirates by producing young engineers

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“The biggest reason for theaffiliation was to accelerate thestrategic growth of Poly.”

- Jerry Hultin

who can help move the region towarda non-petroleum economy.

As the explosive growth in well-fundedjoint projects between NYU and NYU-Polyfaculty demonstrates, such expectations arealready being met. Three rounds of seed grantshave been awarded for research in areas rangingfrom physics to dentistry, and other collaborativeprojects between NYU and NYU-Poly faculty havealready attracted millions of dollars from externalsources like Microsoft Research and the National ScienceFoundation. “What we are experiencing here usually takesyears to realize,” says McLaughlin, the NYU provost. “Ourfaculty members are experiencing collaborative relationshipswith faculty and students at NYU-Poly that take researchprojects from inception to development to completion andinto society.”

Examples of such productive teamwork abound. MelHorwitch, a professor of technology management atNYU-Poly, and Ari Ginsberg, a professor of management andentrepreneurship at NYU’s Stern School of Business, havejoined forces to create CleantechExecs, an executive trainingprogram that teaches senior managers how to market,finance and support clean technologies. In analyzing existinggreen technology programs at other universities, Horwitchand Ginsberg discovered that most focused on the process ofmanufacturing high-tech products and systems, whileignoring the question of how to promote and invest in suchtechnologies in a city like New York, where manufacturingtakes a backseat to sectors like financial services, realestate, and insurance. So they designed a unique program togive experienced executives the skills to start their ownclean-tech businesses and to support green technology atexisting companies.

“This program shows how the affiliation has benefit for thelarger community,” says Horwitch. “We can help make NewYork a center of clean technology management andentrepreneurship.”

“I would never have worked as closely with Ari on aprogrammatic basis unless we had joined with NYU,” he adds.

The first group of traineesattended tuition-free thanks to a$1.5 million grant from the New YorkState Energy Research and DevelopmentAuthority (NYSERDA); and workshops were held at 160Varick Street, the Manhattan incubator that NYU-Polylaunched in partnership with New York City and Trinity RealEstate in February 2009. Bruce Niswander, the incubator’sdirector, says that it has benefited from the affiliation, as well.

160 Varick Street allows participating businesses to enliststudent workers, either for pay or for course credit. It’s anideal realization of the i2e concept: a system that letsNYU-Poly help get innovative companies off the ground,while providing small businesses with limited budgetsaccess to talented workers. “It’s great for students, and it’s great for the companies,” Niswander says. Andthe affiliation has only made things better byadding NYU students to the mix,further enriching thetalent pool.

NYU HAS COMMITTED$50 MILLION FOR HIRING NEW FACULTY AND UPDATING THE BROOKLYN CAMPUS

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Artist’s rendering of corridorrenovations, part of the i2eTransformation/Project 2010.

Niswander has also been presenting patents held by NYU-Polyfaculty to Ari Ginsberg’s students at Stern to see if they can comeup with viable commercialization strategies. “We’ve been gettinga higher velocity of stuff coming from our professors,” he says.“There’s much more interest in taking an old patent and seeing ifit’s got commercial potential.”

If the affiliation has opened up a host of fresh opportunities forcollaboration and synergy between the two institutions, it has alsoprompted enhancements to NYU-Poly’s own faculty andcurriculum. With financial support from NYU, the school iscurrently recruiting new faculty in key areas that specifically alignwith its Strategic Plan; and new courses centered upon i2e arebeing introduced, including undergraduate offerings in engineeringcomputation, simulation and design. Students, meanwhile, cannow cross-register for classes at both institutions.

Michael Hailemariam’10CBE was one of the 50students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels who tookadvantage of cross-registration. The sociology classes that heattended at NYU exerted a powerful influence on his attitudestoward engineering and its social implications.

“You get to interact with students who aren’t in engineering, andit gives you a different perspective, influencing what you want todo,” he says. “If I can innovate and create and develop newtechnology, how is that technology going to affect the societythat’s going to receive it?”

The affiliation allowed Hailemariam to apply such comprehensivethinking to real-world challenges. He was involved in two studentcompetitions that were limited to teams containing NYU students:the Stern Social Venture Competition, which offers a $100,000prize to students and alumni who use their entrepreneurial skillsto come up with innovative solutions to social problems both hereand abroad; and the NYU Reynolds/Youth Venture “Be aChallenger Challenge,” which offers $1, 000 in seed money to 25

teams whose projects benefit the community and a $10,000prize. (In a separate development, Evangelos Limpantoudis,

who will begin work on an MS in constructionmanagement this fall, recently became the first

NYU-Poly student to receive the Catherine B.Reynolds Foundation Fellowship for Social

Entrepreneurship. See page 25.)

Hailemariam’s teammates included a SternMBA student, an NYU undergraduate, andeight other NYU-Poly undergrads. Together,they worked to create innovativetechnologies for the developing world: theStern Social team refined solar technologyfor use in cell phones and other electronicaccessories, while the Reynolds teambuilt a web application to help NGOscoordinate and share resources.

None of these opportunities would havebeen available without the affiliation, says

Hailemariam, who also appreciates his

“YOU GET TO INTERACT WITHSTUDENTS WHO AREN’T INENGINEERING, AND IT GIVES YOU A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE,INFLUENCING WHAT YOU WANT TODO. IF I CAN INNOVATE AND CREATEAND DEVELOP NEW TECHNOLOGY,HOW IS THAT TECHNOLOGY GOINGTO AFFECT THE SOCIETY THAT’SGOING TO RECEIVE IT?” - Michael Hailemariam ’10CBE 2010 Outstanding Graduate

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CleantechExecs, an executive training program that teaches seniormanagers how to market, finance and support clean technologies,is a powerful result of the collaboration between professors fromNYU-Poly's Department of Technology Management and NYU'sStern School of Business.

newfound ability to use the databases inNYU’s library system to perform researchand analysis for his teammates. NYU andNYU-Poly students can now use their IDbadges to gain access to most facilities ateither institution, including libraries,student centers and bookstores. NYU-Poly’scounseling and psychological services have

been supplemented by NYU’s, as well. Inaddition, NYU-Poly alumni can enjoy specialevents, club memberships, access to NYUlibraries and discounts for car rental, hotelsand travel.

Over time, NYU-Poly’s own facilities will alsoprofit from the affiliation. The $50 millionthat NYU has made available for both facultyhires and campus upgrades will help expandits research laboratories, modernizeNYU-Poly’s classrooms and provideinnovative workspaces for faculty andstudent collaboration. And thoseimprovements are just part of a largerredesign, “i2e Campus Transformation,” thatwill play out over the next 10 years;sustainability is a driving principle, and theJonathan Rose Companies, a “green” realestate policy, planning and developmentfirm, acts as the owner’s representative forthe school.

As that decade-long timeline suggests, theeffects of the affiliation on NYU-Poly’s physicalplant, as on so many other aspects of theinstitution, have only just begun. For all thebenefits that have already materialized, thebest is yet to come “We’ve accelerated thestrategic growth of Poly and given NYU astrong engineering partner. And that’s notjust good for NYU and NYU-Poly,” says Hultin.“Inventing new technology is the only waywe’re going to solve global issues like climatechange, healthcare and job creation.”

Thanks to the affiliation, he adds, “-- i2e is goingto have a lot of power in the 21st century.”

“Inventing new technology isthe only way we’re going tosolve global issues likeclimate change, healthcareand job creation.”

- Jerry Hultin

160 Varick Street, the Manhattanincubator that NYU-Poly launched inpartnership with New York City and

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Stephen Arnold, Thomas Potts Professor of Physics andInstitute Professor of Chemistry and Physics, remembersthe Eureka moment when he solved the physical puzzle atthe heart of his project.

Arnold works with light-powered sensors to detectnanoparticles suspended in solution. Each sensor consistsof a miniature glass bead, or microsphere; laser light ismade to circle endlessly around the interior of the bead,generating a light field just beyond it. Particles moving

through the field create fluctuations in it, thereby,revealing their presence.

But sensing rates seem to be much faster than theyshould be, given how slowly one would expectparticles to drift randomly toward the sensor. SoArnold, who applied for seed funding with NYUphysicist David Grier, asked David Keng, anNYU-Poly graduate student, to run some tests onthe particles floating around a sensor in his lab.

“He ran back into the lab after around an hour andsaid, ‘They’re in orbit!’” Arnold recalls. “Iremembered that I distinctly said,‘We’re moving

them with massless particles; I think we’ve createdan optical tractor beam.’” (To see what Keng saw, go

to NYU-Poly’s channel on YouTube.com and search for“Whispering Gallery Mode Carousel.”)

After months of more detailed measurements, Arnoldconfirmed that the light field around the sensor wasindeed driving the particles around the sphere, whilesimultaneously pulling them towards it 50 times fasterthan one would expect. The phenomenon could be used tobuild biodetectors capable of rapidly sensing something assmall as a single influenza virus.

Arnold recently won a $400,000 grant from the NationalScience Foundation to continue this research, and hasfiled a patent on several inventions that could flow from it.

Last March, New York University ProvostDavid McLaughlin announced the first 15research collaborations between NYU andNYU-Poly faculty to receive “seed” fundingfrom a special competitive research pool.

As that first batch of projects nears completion,results are beginning to pour in -- and more

than a few good ideas have taken root.

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David Keng, left, and Stephen Arnold

Call it a match madein heaven–or at leastin the lab. RastislavLevicky, an associate

professor of chemicaland biological

engineering, uses asynthetic DNA-like

molecule called morpholinoto bind with and identify the

natural DNA from dangerouspathogens. The NYU chemists James

Canary and Nadrian Seeman use both naturaland synthetic DNA to assemble nanoscale structures. Bypooling their respective expertise, both groups came out ahead.

Canary and Seeman, for example, borrowed Levicky’s technicalknow-how to learn more about morpholino and how they mightuse it. “We drew on his expertise to test out some structuralcharacteristics of the molecule, to see if we could incorporate itinto our designs,” Canary says.

And Levicky drew on his colleagues’ expertise to betterunderstand exactly how natural and synthetic DNA bind to oneanother—a crucial step towards building a commercially viablebiodetector, which could happen within a year or two.

Now Levicky would like to begin testing a synthetic DNAmolecule that Canary and Seeman have developed. They, inturn, are already planning additional experiments of their own.

“We’re learning a lot from each other,” Levicky says, “andwe’re very much looking forward to continuing this productivecollaboration.”

To date, three rounds of seed grants have initiated33 collaborative research projects involving

researchers from eight departments at NYU-Polyand seven schools of NYU. Several projects have

already resulted in joint publications and infollow-on research proposals to federal funding

agencies such as the National Science Foundationand the National Institutes of Health.

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L-R, Rastislav Levicky, NadrianSeeman and James Canary

Nikhil Gupta, an assistant professor ofmechanical and aerospace engineering atNYU-Poly, and Paulo Coelho, assistant professorfrom NYU’s Department of Biomaterials andBiomimetics, chose to investigate multipleaspects of how natural and man-madecomposite materials behave under pressure.Now they’re reaping multiple rewards. “We’reprobably going to have to start dividing this thinginto three or four different pieces,” Coelho says.

In addition to running computer simulations of howbones shift around biomedical implants, a subject withimplications for dentistry and orthopaedics, the pair alsolooked at how the engineered composites used inbattlefield armor and the natural ones that comprise bonebehave when battered by shockwaves—a topic ofconsiderable interest to the military.

“There are two problems when IEDs explode,” says Gupta,referring to the improvised explosive devices that havewreaked havoc on American troops in Iraq. “All the debris,the gravel and sand covering the IED, are accelerated. Ifpeople are wearing ballistic armor, that can save themfrom the impact. But it can’t protect them from theshockwave, which passes right through it.”

Using specialized equipment built by Gupta and hisstudents, the researchers examined how rabbit femurbones held up under pressure. “It’s important to see howthey fracture, and what the mechanisms are, in order toreverse-engineer armor that would protect againstshockwaves,” Coelho says. They also studied themicroscopic structure of engineered composites that areused to make protective gear.

Vasanth Shunmugasamy, an NYU-Poly student who didmuch of the testing and analysis, received an award for themaster’s thesis he wrote summarizing the work. And Gupta

along with Assistant ProfessorMaurizio Porfiri has

already landed a $2million grant from

the navy to studymarine

compositesfor blast andimpactresponse.

Nikhil Gupta, left,and Paulo Coelho

REFLECTING ABOUT RESEARCH PRACTICE(S)by Anne-Laure Fayard, Assistant Professor, Department of Technology Management

what is research?“Researchers, as workers, can and should care deeply about their work—not being

simply possessive about its products or jealous of their research reputations, but find

deep and satisfying meaning in their work (…) the researcher if more than merely

competent will be ‘in the work’—emotionally and intellectually—and often will be

profoundly affected by experiences engendered by the research process itself.”

-Anselm L. Strauss, Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists

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---As an academic, research is part of my life, a sort of tacit assumptionthat I share with my colleagues at NYU-Poly and scholars in otherinstitutions. Yet, as years have passed, from my dissertation in cognitivesciences to my work in human-computer interaction and my research insocial sciences to my recent work with artists and designers, I realizedthat the question “what is research?”—what do we have in mind when wetalk about “research?”—is worth asking and the answer not a simple one.In this essay, I would like to start a reflection and hopefully encourage adialogue on this exciting activity we are all engaged in—research.

Such a reflection is timely in the context of i2e and the collaborations itinvites. There is also a lot of encouragement for interdisciplinary research,from policy makers and research founders, and it is generally seen as a“good thing.” Yet the reality is that it is often very difficult to execute. Forinstance, the definition and the evaluation of the outputs (e.g., prototypes,patents or papers) vary across the disciplines, and the results ofinterdisciplinary work might well be regarded as below the standard thateach individual discipline seeks to impose on its own work. Consequently,those engaging in interdisciplinary projects might lose rather than gaincredibility in their own “home discipline.” One of the reasons is that eachdiscipline presupposes a certain definition of what “good” research, orsimply of what research is.

From philosophy via cognitive sciences and design to social sciencesand art research

I’ve always been interested in combining different disciplines. My originalattraction for philosophy is related to this interest, as philosophy isessentially a way of asking questions. Philosophy is always a reflectionabout a topic; one does philosophy of science, philosophy of art, moralphilosophy, political philosophy, etc. Cognitive sciences attracted mebecause of their interdisciplinary nature. My dissertation work wasinterdisciplinary: looking at a debate among psychologists andneuroscientists, the debate on the nature and role of mental images, froma philosophical perspective. I loved working on this question, trying toanalyze the different perspectives involved, “turning around the object” toget a richer picture and a deeper understanding. The members of thedissertation jury, two philosophers, a neuroscientist and a psycholinguist,all thought it was an interesting and original piece of work, but eachthought it did not belong to their respective field.

I did not give up on the interdisciplinary approach. On the contrary, I wentto work with designers, engineers and computer scientists on aparticipatory design project with air traffic controllers. This led me toinvestigate more explicitly interdisciplinary work and triangulation (Mackayand Fayard, 1997). My current research is an attempt to examine aproblem in organization studies using a lens from another discipline, be itphilosophy, psychology or history. I continued my reflection as I embarkedlast year on collaboration with Aileen Wilson, an artist and educationalscholar from the Pratt Institute with whom I designed an interactive,multimedia installation, “building_space_with_words” (Wunsch Building,NYU-Poly, March 2009).

Because of my personal interest in installation works and new media art,I thought of using art as a language to present my work and invitedAileen to join my investigation. I was curious to present research ideasoutside of the usual frame of an academic paper and to exploredifferent methods for visualizing findings. The collaboration becamemore than an exercise in visualization. I examined the relationships

between two streams of my research in the context of the installationproject—using the installation project as a scaffolding space to exploreideas. The installation became an epistemic object, i.e., “processes andprojections rather than definitive things (…) more like open drawers filledwith folders extending indefinitely into the depths of a dark closet”(Knorr-Cetina, 1997).

I revisited this question while organizing with Bruce Tether (ImperialCollege) a workshop on multi-disciplinary research at the Royal College ofArt in January 2010. We invited the participation of scholars doingresearch in engineering, design and social sciences with the purpose ofexamining the barriers, challenges and rewards to multi-disciplinary work.As we were putting the workshop together, the question “what isresearch?” emerged. I found myself wondering how to define researchand come up with a common definition that would encompass the varietyof methods and approaches across as well as within disciplines. At firstsight, this seems a difficult, maybe impossible question to answer.Indeed, researchers, educated in specific traditions, operate withinparadigms (Kuhn, 1962), that dictate which questions are considered“interesting” and which specific methods can be used to address thosequestions. Yet, if one wants to entertain the possibility of multi-disciplinaryresearch, it is indispensable to define a common ground that allowsresearchers to share “interesting” questions and build on the differencesof perspectives and methods.

Taking seriously the differences in the different productions of research, Icurated “Investigatio” (in Latin, “thorough search,” “investigation”), agroup exhibition exploring research through the presentation of researchworks from different disciplines (Hockney Gallery, RCA, January 2010). Itaimed to define research by presenting different outputs and methods,thereby illustrating the multiplicity of meanings research can entail.Several researchers—sociologists, designers and artists—presented theirwork. The intention was to offer to the visitor a palette of research work tohighlight similarities and differences, and hopefully illuminate whatresearch “is”—its objects, methods, practices and productions. Some ofthe works exhibited were rooted in a discipline; others were attempts to

The intention was to offer to the visitor apalette of research work to highlightsimilarities and differences, and hopefullyilluminate what research “is”—its objects,methods, practices and productions.

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cross boundaries—borrowing techniques fromone field to explore questions raised in otherdisciplines. All were defined as research work bytheir authors.

From “what” to “how”: a phenomenologicalexploration

When you ask “what is research?” you ask thequestion in essentialist terms as if you couldignore the multiplicity of meanings—objects,practices, productions— associated with theword research. Yet, how to compare theresearch work of the scientist on a laboratorybench, of the engineer building a model, of theethnographer in the field, of the designercreating new objects? Are we then only left witha motley of practices, objects studied andproductions of research that have nothing incommon, various paradigms which share littleand cannot communicate?

One alternative is to abandon an essentialistapproach for a phenomenological one—to movefrom what to how, taking an exploratory anddescriptive approach that could allow us toidentify shared characteristics of research. Thequestion then becomes: how can we recognize,identify research?

Curating “Investigatio” was such an attempt ata phenomenological exploration. Beyond thedifferences in their form (artifacts, drawing,

video, photos, text, etc.), the works exhibitedpresented some similarities in their questioningprocess. They suggested the possibilities of richinteractions across disciplines, beyondtraditional divisions, while still maintaining openthe question of what research is—which may bean ongoing reflection at the heart of allresearch practice. The design of the spaceitself—conceived as work in progress,scaffolding—reflected this continuous process withwhich visitors were invited to engage by writingdown on a card their definition of research.

Thinking with our hands…thinking-in-action

As I was working on “building_space_with_words,”I reflected on the materiality of the work, sodifferent in practice from field notes, theanalysis and the writing on paper. Instead of mynotebook, my recorder (sometimes a camera ora video camera), and my laptop, here I was withfabric, ladders and projectors trying to create aspace that would invite visitors to question andreflect. This reminded me of my experience ofprototyping during the project with the air trafficcontrollers and triggered a reflection on theprocess highlighting the scaffolding nature ofresearch and thinking. One does not think if one“knows”… This might sound very Socratic but Ifeel there is something similar in a constantexploration, a re-search. Who said that if we

knew what we would find, we would not doresearch, but search?

This process-in-action is very well described bythe designer Terry Rosenberg as he defineswhat he calls “ideational drawing” as a processand always in-process; thinking-in-action andaction-as-thinking” (2008, p. 109). It is a draftingprocess and it includes not only the production—thedrawing—but also the act of drafting. Ideational drawing is evocative of my notes innotebooks and on small pieces of paper. It alsoreminds me of the correspondences ofintellectuals during the Republic of Letters whoexchanged ideas, challenging each other,developing their ideas and exploring new ones.This is thinking with words, thinking with yourhand holding the pen—taking notes, writingletters (or even typing on the keyboard). There issomething similar in the act of writing anddrawing: drafting, scaffolding intuitions andcomplex ideas, objectifying them for yourselvesand others, so that you can interact with them.

The work with Aileen (Wilson), drawing,prototyping and building an installation was away of thinking out loud, sharing and developingideas. More than that, the process is ametaphor of what thinking is about—thisongoing process of drafting, scaffolding.

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From an illustrative to a generative form

As you write an academic paper, you focus onillustrating the findings and theory to bepublished. Yet, one must not forget that thepaper’s value does not lie so much in itsillustrative rather than its generative nature. Tomake a contribution, a research piece should notmerely illustrate an idea, but generate others.

Art and design research reminds us of theimportance of nurturing generative forms.Working with Aileen it became particularlycrucial that the project must move beyond themere presenting of ideas; it must in and of itselfbecome a new idea. Art practice as a researchpractice is distinct from other researchpractices as “arts research calls for a differentset of categories where the arts do not searchfor stuff or facts, but they generate it.”(Baldacchino, 2009, p.4)

“building_space_with_words” started to presentresearch became “something else,” an openform definitely, a form of “purpose withoutpurposeness” (Baldachinno, 2009). Theresearch question re-emerged, brought usback—nearly “by surprise” to our researchquestions, providing us with rich insights anddata to explore. Similarly, curating “Investigatio”started with the idea of presenting ideas thatemerged while preparing the workshop but onceagain, through the collaboration with the

exhibition space designer and the conversationswith the different participants, it led me beyonda mere illustration of ideas to the generation ofnew ideas. This attention to generative formsrequires “a constant questioning and doubtingof what we are doing, searching for holes,contradictions, weaknesses, etc.” (Dunne,2008) which preserves an intellectual rigor andallows us to imagine new questions. Thus, the“other” and her different perspective arecrucial, allowing us to reflect about andquestion our practice.

Opening my drawers

To finish, I thought I’d open my drawers andshare some key words, ideas and quotes I foundthere—some jotted on the “Investigatio” cards, others that emerged from my readings anddiscussions.

Process: questioning, hypothesizing, doubting;rigor and imagination; what if; play; discovery;investigate; poke around; find out; critical…

Material / medium: objects, molecule, code,observations, interviews, discourse, drawing,fabrics, dependent and independent variables,circuits, figures, books…

Dialogue: with the “work” (research question,data, variables), with the literature and yourpeers, with yourself, with the public; newmeanings emerging through interactions…

Journey: ongoing, scaffolding, peregrination,curiosity, frustration, passion, “No, it is not thegoal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way, the more worthwhile thejourney.” (British explorer, Wilfred Thesiger)

Acknowledgement: I would like to thank AileenWilson and Milena Nuti for engaging with me inthis ongoing exciting conversation.

References:

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Dunne, T. 2008. Interpretation, Collaboration, andCritique, Interview with Anthony Dunne by RaoulRickenberg, The Journal of Design + Management, Vol. 3,No. 1, pp 22-28, Parsons the New School, New York, USA.

Knorr Cetina, 1997, “Sociality with Objects: SocialRelations in Postsocial Knowledge Societies,” in Theory,Culture and Society 14 (4): 12

Kuhn, T. 1962. The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsChicago, University of Chicago Press

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CLASS OF 2010 HAILED ASAGENTS OFCHANGE

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The class of 2010 closed the first decade of the 21st century and entered the world as graduates of Polytechnic

Institute of New York University. Friends, classmates and family members dressed up for commencement exercises

at Radio City Music Hall where they waited patiently on a two-block line to the building’s iconic entrance.

Once inside, they united with the graduates, who had arrived early to prepare for theevent. Lights flashed as families took photos of graduates posing against theimpressive backdrop of the landmark building’s interior with its lighted crystalchandeliers, grand staircases and gold, embossed doors.

A loudspeaker invited guests to take their seats, and soon the familiar strains of“Pomp and Circumstance” greeted undergraduate, graduate and doctoral studentsas they filed into the main hall. Some of their faces could be seen in the revolvinggallery of photos projected onto a large screen facing attendees, who wereentertained by images of students conducting lab experiments, playing soccer, ormugging for the camera with their friends.

Watching her fellow classmates enter the hall, Onicka Benfield said, “I’m reallyexcited.” She completed a master’s degree in organizational behavior this spring andwill continue as a recruiter at a staffing agency upon graduation. “It’s a foot in thedoor,” she said about the job, fully expecting to rise through the ranks with the aid ofher degree.

Official ceremonies begin

On the stage, faculty and honored guests joined the proceedings, withProvost Dianne Rekow officially opening the 155th commencementceremonies. She introduced the Chair of NYU-Poly’s Board of Trustees, RalphAlexander ’77NE, also a graduate of the Institute who addressed thestudents: “You’re pretty tough. You’re pretty smart. This place is hard,” hesaid, describing the Institute’s academic programs. He expressed furtherconfidence in their abilities, closing with, “I know that out there is thechairman of the board of trustees of the future.”

President Jerry M. Hultin followed Alexander, and he, too, recognizedthe graduates’ achievements. Recalling the earthquakes in Haiti andChile earlier this year, President Hultin observed, “Rather than feelpowerless in the face of these natural disasters, you thought of ways tomitigate damage through resilient engineering. You imagined ways tostrengthen buildings and roads and to use telecommunications andtechnology to lessen the loss of lives.”

Change, collaboration and diversity

For President Hultin, such accomplishments proved the graduates’ potentialto become “change agents,” a term he borrowed from social entrepreneurBill Drayton, founder and CEO of global non-profit Ashoka. “Engineerscreatively using science and technology — whether solving specific problemsor designing systemic solutions — are some of the best change agents in theworld,” President Hultin said.

Behind every change agent are family and friends, the theme addressed byvaledictorian Fnu Maheshdeep, who received in fewer than four years acombined bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering andcomputer science. He described how his father passed away whileMaheshdeep was in the third week of his first year at NYU-Poly. Only throughthe encouragement of his family was Maheshdeep able to reach his goals,and he believed such support propelled the efforts of his fellow classmates.“Our education has been a collaborative effort,” he told them.

Dr. Irving McPhail, president and CEO of the National Action Council forMinorities in Engineering and recipient of this year’s honorary doctor ofengineering degree, chose to address another topic: diversity. Heacknowledged the nation’s struggle as it tries to maintain its edge over othercountries that are quickly gaining ground in the science, technology,engineering and math (STEM) fields dominated by the United States in pastyears. “The solution to America’s competitiveness problem,” said McPhail,“is to activate the hidden workforce of young women and men who havetraditionally been underrepresented in STEM careers...that is manifestedhere at NYU-Poly.”

Soon afterward degrees were conferred (approximately 380 bachelor’s, 1,225master’s and 25 doctorate). Friends and families again requested photos, andthe lobby was once more filled with flashing camera lights.

Veena Patel stood patiently by a guardrail, waiting for her nephew to emergefrom the proceedings. She said he and his family relocated from India toChicago eight years ago, and graduation was “a big event for them.” Hernephew finally joined her, and soon they were one of the many families proudlycelebrating the well-earned diploma of their graduates.

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The NYU-Poly community previewed plans for Project 2010, the firstreconstruction effort of i2e Campus Transformation, at a town hallmeeting in the spring. Award-winning Grimshaw Architects presentedthe renderings and schematic designs slated to come to life this fall inthe Jasper Kane Dining Hall and the adjacent corridor in Rogers Hall.

NYU-Poly President Jerry Hultin explained why those areas were selectedas the first to be revived in the 10-year plan to redesign areas of theBrooklyn campus. “The Steering Committee, a group of faculty,administrators, students and trustees, were issued a challenge:determine a ‘special project’ that would quickly and dramatically signalthat our physical campus is transforming to reflect our academictransformation,” he said.

The “special project” needed to promote collaboration as part ofNYU-Poly’s i2e (invention, innovation and entrepreneurship) philosophy,contribute to becoming a more sustainable campus and cost less than$2 million.

“The corridor, a main artery for student, faculty, staff and visitor traffic,and the dining hall, one of the campus’ central gathering spaces, werenatural choices,” said Dennis Dintino, vice president of finance andbusiness affairs and Steering Committee chair.

Dintino reviewed the process by which requirements for Project 2010were met. Last fall, i2e Campus Transformation committees comprised offaculty, students, staff and trustees were established. In January,

rigorous planning began. Since then, Project 2010 has been unanimouslyapproved by the Special Projects Committee, the Space Committee, theSteering Committee and the Finance and Business Affairs Committee ofthe Board of Trustees. The Board approved the plan unanimously.

President Hultin also emphasized the importance of Project 2010’ssustainability focus: “As a signatory to the American College & UniversityPresidents’ Climate Commitment, we have committed to promote

Plans for the First i2e Campus Transformation Initiative Unveiled

The newly designed cafe consists of a higher ceiling, vibrant colors andthe use of light harvesting to reduce energy consumption.

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research in this vital area and to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissionson the Brooklyn campus. Project 2010 will play an important role in ourprogress.”

Phyllis Frankl, professor of computer science and engineering and chair ofthe Space Planning Committee, added that Project 2010 is the firstexecution of i2e Campus Transformation’s Phase One, which will continue forthree years. Multiple committees are currently assessing academic andlaboratory space needs.

A Tour of Project 2010

Before introducing design specifics, project architect Robert Garneau fromGrimshaw Architects likened the corridor and dining hall to a gateway forcampus visitors. “Once they’re in the door, it’s one of the firstimpressions,” he said.

Garneau described a key concept of the renovation: visually connecting thecorridor to the dining room, or “café,” as project plans refer to it. Instead ofthe concrete walls that now create structural and perceptual barriersbetween the two spaces, large, glass doors will allow visitors to see from thehallway into the café’s interior and, ultimately, the plaza outside.

This change will lengthen visitors’ sight lines, and a change to the ceiling willheighten their experience — literally. The height of the corridor will extendanother four feet when the dropped ceiling is removed and the corridor’swest wall is resurfaced with a textured material (stippled glass perhaps, oriridescent resin) in a bold color.

The corridor will also become a center for information exchange, with hubsof LCD screens on the east wall displaying everything from campus eventinformation to course projects to an “eco-dashboard” that monitors energyusage and savings in the building. Garneau also shared working conceptsfor the modular floor-to-ceiling display system that will house the LCDscreens and provide tabletop space as students chat over coffee orpromote club activities.

“The dining hall will change dramatically, too,” said Garneau. A morethoughtful arrangement of new, modern furniture, selected by a studentfocus group, will create distinct spaces for eating, studying and informalgathering. And the existing gray ceiling, which absorbs light, will be paintedwhite to reflect light. The color is expected not only to greatly improve light

levels for studying, but also to improve energy performance. New lightingfixtures in the dining hall and corridor will also go a long way to provideenergy savings, as controls will automatically regulate light according todaytime and nighttime need. Motion sensors might also be added to lightareas only when in use.

“Such changes will reduce NYU-Poly’s carbon footprint, as well as itsoperating costs,” said Garneau, who also discussed planned upgrades tosome of the restrooms, including water-conserving fixtures, as well asbuilding performance measures to be incorporated during the phasedrenovation. He also explained that project architects intend to integrategreen-certified materials and solutions whenever feasible.

Q & A

Daniel Hernandez from Jonathan Rose Companies, which is overseeing thei2e Campus Transformation as NYU-Poly’s owner’s representative, led the Q & A session that followed. He asked the audience to focus its feedback onthree points: how the designs presented might be improved; how NYU-Poly’sfacilities — its labs, classrooms or outdoor areas — could be different; and howthe Institute can realize its goal of becoming a green campus. Faculty, staffand students alike responded with suggestions, questions and comments.

Early in the event, President Hultin addressed issues that were not askedduring the Q & A, but which arose following New York University’s expansionplan announcement (NYU 2031: NYU in NYC) in mid-April. In addition tobuilding facilities along its Health Corridor on Manhattan’s First Avenue andon Governor’s Island, the 25-year plan proposes building in downtownBrooklyn. Hultin explained that NYU’s and NYU-Poly’s plans would be wellcoordinated and ultimate designs will be made in concert to create facilitiesthat respond to student and faculty needs. He challenged attendees to joinNYU-Poly in finding ways to energize MetroTech, creating a campusatmosphere as vital as that in Washington Square.

Plans for the connecting corridor include removing the suspended ceiling and the addition of bright translucent resin panels and new energy-efficient lighting thatautomatically regulates lights according to daytime and nighttime need. The designs for the corridor and café unify the two previously distinct spaces.

This change will lengthen visitors’sight lines,and a change to the ceiling will heightentheir experience — literally.

President Hultin Receives Ellis Island Medal of HonorPresident Jerry M. Hultin was among the American leaders honored with the Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic Coalition ofOrganizations (NECO). Medalists of diverse ethnic origins were celebrated for outstanding contributions to their communities, their nation, and the worldat a dramatic ceremony on Ellis Island.

Each year since 1986, NECO – whose mission is to “honor our diverse past, to advocate for positive change in the present and to build strongleaders for the future” – has recognized America’s diverse past by sponsoring the event. The honor pays tribute to the ancestry groups that compriseAmerica’s unique cultural mosaic.

The grandson of Swedish immigrants, Hultin was recognized for his contributions to providing immigrants and their sons and daughters witheducations that lead to successful lives around the globe. Even before joining NYU-Poly as president in 2005, he demonstrated a commitment toimproving the lives of Americans through educational opportunities developed by community leadership projects in Ohio and, while UnderSecretary of the Navy.

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Barbara Noseworthy, aconsummate fundraiser and the former senior resourcemobilization officer for AGRA, the Alliance for a Green Revolutionin Africa, is NYU-Poly’s new vicepresident of development andalumni relations. Her appointmentwas effective July 1.

Noseworthy brings a wealth ofprofessional experience to theposition with more than 20 years

partnering with visionary institutions and individuals in the areas of institutionaladvancement and management.

AGRA was established with the initial support of the Bill and Melinda GatesFoundation in 2006. Noseworthy was responsible for securing over $130Mfor the non-profit organization and its agricultural efforts from bilateraldonors, the private sector and the philanthropic community. AGRA ischaired by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.

As the director of funding initiatives for the Earth Institute at ColumbiaUniversity, she worked directly with its internationally renowned directorJeffrey Sachs. Noseworthy was a key member of the management andstrategy team with lead responsibility for fundraising and grant writing,management and development of new programs. Over three years, sheincreased annual funds to the institute from $5M to $22M and realizedmore than $100M in gifts and pledges.

Before joining the Earth Institute, Noseworthy was vice president fordevelopment and alumni affairs at Whitman College, where she built andsupervised a staff of 20, increased annual support from $4M to $14M andled campaigns to secure more than $75M for buildings, endowment andoperations. Before joining Whitman, where she served for 10 years, she wasat the University of Washington as the assistant director of corporation andfoundation relations working with 29 corporate CEOs to secure $100M ofthe university’s $250M campaign.

Noseworthy will work closely with President Hultin and the NYU-Poly Boardof Trustees and all constituencies at the Institute as well as colleagues inUniversity Development and Alumni Relations at NYU to achieve theInstitute’s ambitious fundraising goals.

When polymer chemist, Dr. InesMandl ’47 ’49Chem, discoveredthe drug collagenase, she neverimagined that researchers wouldfind a new medical purpose for itnearly 60 years later. The drugdiscovery occurred while workingas a research associate atColumbia University in the early1950s. Inside her laboratory, shetested 80 strains of clostridiumhistolyticum bacterium foundduring World War II. Whilescreening each strain, Mandl

discovered one that was rich in collagenase and had the potential to destroynative collagens. Collagenase is a very specific enzyme that destroys thebody’s connective tissues and is a component of skin, tendons andcartilage, but it does not affect other tissues or organs. The Army sponsoreda project for the creation of a topical collagenase ointment to treat thirddegree burns. It is also used to treat decubitus ulcers commonly known asbed sores. The beauty of this product was its ability to break down collagenand scar tissue, without harming the healthy tissue. Years later, a purifiedinjectable form of collagenase was used for treatment of herniated discs.

Although Mandl’s drug was never patented, she advises young researchersto have patience with their discoveries. “Your basic research may beimportant to future diseases and eventually, it will be profitable. Somethingyou invent today may become quite important many years from now,”

stresses Mandl. This is true for collagenase, which the Food and DrugAdministration recently approved in a new injectable drug called Xiaflex. Theenzyme produced drug uses collagenase to help combat orphan diseasessuch as Dupuytren, a condition that causes the fingers to curl and Peyronie’sdisease to correct bent male genitalia. Orphan diseases are those conditionsthat do not have a sufficient number of people afflicted by them to be ofinterest to large pharmaceutical companies.

Currently, BioSpecifics Technologies, a Long Island drug company, which wasthe original developer of collagenase, outsources their product to AuxiliumPharmaceutical for mass production. Xiaflex is a costly non-surgicaltreatment and sales are expected to reach hundreds of millions of dollarsannually, according to a recent New York Times article. Mandl retired over 20years ago and has not been involved in the company’s recent developments.As a consultant for BioSpecifics, she received over 30,000 shares which shesold over the years. Dr. Mandl learned a lesson from that experience and isfirm in her belief that young scientists retain their patent rights and stockshares. The best advice she can offer young inventors is to always look forother possible uses for drug discoveries. Dr. Mandl suggests that “basicresearch should be encouraged for its own sake. It’s wise to learn moreabout the properties, substances, byproducts and biological chemicals,” inorder to find alternate medical solutions….and perhaps, good fortune.

Dr. Ines Mandl’s Drug DiscoveryHas Newfound Purpose 60 Years Later!

Barbara Noseworthy NamedVP of Development and Alumni Relations

Kalle Levon is on the brink ofrevolutionizing point-of-care (POC)medical diagnostics.

Levon, director of the BioinformaticsProgram at NYU-Poly, has developed aconcept that uses an inexpensive creditcard-sized device requiring no advancedtraining to operate and minimal power toprovide high-accuracy detection ofinfectious diseases from a single patientsample in less than 30 minutes.

The concept and the possibility ofmaking it a reality was so intriguing tothe New York City Investment Fund thatLevon was named one of six winners ofthe first BioAccelerate NYC Prize, a $1.5million grant created to fuel the growthof life science and biotech businesses inNew York City. BioAccelerate NYC is aproject of the Partnership for New York Cityand the New York City EconomicDevelopment Corporation (NYCEDC).

“I have always emphasized research insocially sensitive areas,” says Levon,“and now with this award, I am able toinclude the genome as a diagnostics tooland get involved with genome-wideassociation systems—an importantchallenge in my career.”

Each BioAccelerate NYC winner receives a $250,000 grant to conduct late-stage,proof-of-concept research on products toimprove health and wellness. Thefinalists were also given mentors toguide them through the proposalprocess. Levon was assigned David E.

Shaw, founder of Idexx, a veterinarydiagnostics firm, whose assistanceproved invaluable in determining areasto emphasize in the proposal and whatmodifications needed to be made.Levon’s proposal—the sole winner toaddress a diagnostic issue—tackles theinefficiencies of infectious diseasediagnostics including high cost, lengthyresult times, bulky equipment and theneed for large sample sizes and highlytrained personnel. “The idea for thisproject was derived from work I did onpathogen detection in 1998 with aDARPA grant,” says Levon. “In thisinstance, it is being directed tohealthcare diagnostics.”

Uniting experts in polymer chemistry,electrical engineering and medicalresearch, Levon conceptualized ahandheld, point-of-care device to detectinfectious diseases using a patentedfloating gate field effect transistor(FGFET) biosensor. Levon worked withconductive polymers for over 30 yearsand found that polymer films, fibers andgels worked best with biologicalmolecules. The POC device leveragesthe ion-sensitive floating gate transistor,developed and patented together withformer Poly Professor and alumnusArifur Rahman, to measure the electricalcharge of bio-molecules. The biosensorcan be combined with integrated circuitsto analyze and transmit test results. Thewireless transmission is particularlyimportant in developing countries where

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patients will mostly likely administer the testthemselves.

This cost-effective biosensor utilizes readilyavailable CMOS transistors coated with aconductive polymer. When in contact with asmall sample of body fluids, the polymer detects

biological and chemical binding reactions with ahigh degree of sensitivity, translating thesesignals into electrical signals. Due to small size,

easy interpretation of results and low samplevolume required, a doctor could utilize the deviceduring the course of a patient’s examination andreceive results almost immediately in any clinicalsetting, no matter how rudimentary, anywhere inthe world.

This field of study, known as organic electronics,has been applied to solar cells and displaytechnologies in research and academia for adecade, but Levon’s team is the first to apply itto health diagnostics with a potentialcommercial application.

The BioAccelerate grant will facilitate thedevelopment of a complete prototype, created inpartnership with The Brooklyn Hospital. The pilotwill focus on chlamydia and gonorrhea detection,but the technique will be applied to otherinfectious diseases, including H1N1 or HIV.

Previous lab tests proved the FGFET biosensor’sefficacy in detecting a single biomarker, butLevon’s vision includes the creation of ascalable, multiplex array of sensors capable oftesting for several agents simultaneously, as wellas applications for cancer diagnostics.

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Kalle Levon and Arifur Rahman displaying their point-of-care floating gate field effect transistor biosensor.

“I have always emphasizedresearch in sociallysensitive areas, and nowwith this award, I am able toinclude the genome as adiagnostics tool and getinvolved with genome-wideassociation systems.”

- Kalle Levon

Evangelos Limpantoudis is making news atNYU-Poly four months before he sets foot in aclassroom. Limpantoudis, who will begin theMS in construction management programthis fall, received the Catherine B. ReynoldsFoundation Fellowship for SocialEntrepreneurship, which prepares recipientsto be leaders in the next generation of social entrepreneurs.

He and the seven other students from NYU’s 11 schools honored with the competitiveReynolds Fellowship will receive a total of up to$50,000 for two years of study and participatein an intensive curricular and co-curricularprogram comprised of workshops, retreats andone-on-one coaching sessions with executivesin the field of social entrepreneurship.Limpantoudis is the first student from NYU-Polyto receive the fellowship.

He received a master’s of architecture degreefrom MIT, is a LEED AP and an associatemember of the American Institute of Architects.He has worked for several architecture firms inNew York and Boston and has served as adjunctfaculty at the New York Institute of Technology,where he taught courses in visualization andurban theory. His goal is to spread the messageabout the importance of affordable sustainablearchitecture through both practice and

education, by establishing a non-profit designcollaborative that will offer pro bono sustainablearchitecture services and education tolow-income families and communities.

One of the characteristics of Evangelos’sventure, which will be called Collaborative forAffordable Sustainable Architecture, is theextent to which Evangelos has thought itthrough. From the business plan, to the initialgroup of volunteers, everything seems to beclear, and still Evangelos wants to allow asmuch feedback from the NYU-Poly and NYUcommunity as possible. “I would be happy to see the collaborative become something I haven’t even thought of yet,” he says.“Conversation and feedback from members ofthe program and the NYU-Poly community willhelp guide me.”

When asked what most excites him about theReynolds Fellowship, Evangelos expressesgratitude for the financial support it will provideand the structured curricular activities in socialenterpreneurship. Still, what he values the mostis the social connections it is sure to yield. “I will be part of a group of amazing people whoare fully dedicated to their causes and thecause of social entrepreneurship in general,” hesays. “Having access to such a team of talentedindividuals, all thirsty for change and for making

a difference, is the best resource a socialentrepreneur could ever ask for.”

The cadre of socially minded scholars chosenas Reynolds fellows are typically motivated by adesire to remake the world by disruptingcorrosive social patterns with innovative andlasting solutions. Some join the program still inthe development stages of their idea; othersarrive ready to launch a change-makingventure, while a few are somewhere inbetween. Representing a range of disciplines,applicants are also academically accomplishedin their fields and can demonstrate an activehistory in issues of social importance.

For Evangelos, that history stretches to hisundergraduate years at Hobart & William SmithColleges, where he received his bachelor’sdegree in fine arts and architecture studies.There, he led a student group that worked toend crimes against humanity, an early signal ofhis passion for civic involvement. He also led anarchitecture student group and wrote an honorsthesis about affordable sustainablearchitecture, an interest which he has carriedwith him ever since, through his architecturestudies at MIT, to his teaching and his practice.Now he hopes to make affordable sustainablearchitecture part of his focus at NYU-Poly.

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Vladislav Kopmanis the recipient of the prestigiousNational ScienceFoundation (NSF)Graduate ResearchFellowship that willfund his path to adoctoral degree inmechanicalengineering. NSF’shighly competitiveGraduate ResearchFellowship Programsupports

outstanding graduate students who are pursuingresearch-based degrees.

Recipients of the NSF’s fellowships receive athree-year annual stipend along with educationallowances for tuition and fees. They are free toconduct their own research at any accredited U.S.or foreign graduate education institution. ForKopman, that will mean continuing his work in theDynamical Systems Laboratory (DSL) at NYU-Polydirected by Maurizio Porfiri, assistant professor ofmechanical engineering.

Kopman’s work takes robotics underwater byhelping to develop vehicles that caninteract with live aquaticcreatures without causingharm to the animals. Hiscurrent project is aremotely operated,

battery-powered, submersible vehicle that is abouttwo feet long and shaped like a torpedo. The vehicleis a second-generation model of a prototypedeveloped during previous collaborations withmarine biologists at the New York Aquarium andwith the Wildlife Conservation Society. The vehiclesinteract with marine mammals and participate intraining them. Videos of the aquatic robots can beseen at: faculty.poly.edu/~mporfiri/media.htm

The prototype vehicle can dive about 15 feet, whichis the depth of the New York Aquarium’s pools. Itcan “swim” at a speed of around 1.5 meters persecond for as long as a few hours using power froma set of onboard rechargeable nickel-metal-hydridebatteries. For safety of the marine creatures, thesubmersible’s propulsion system is completelyenclosed, and it lacks fins or other surface featuresthat could cause harm. The propulsion system issimilar to a personal watercraft, with an internalpropeller forcing water through a multi-directionalsteerable nozzle.

During the course of his fellowship,Kopman will expand on the current

underwater vehicle to allow

for autonomous operation, assisted by newcomputer algorithms and sensors such as vision orheat-sensing devices. Kopman calls the operatingstrategy that will be used in the autonomous vehicle“bio-responsive control.” Future versions couldoperate in the ocean, mapping environments,monitoring wildlife populations or detecting waterpollution, all while in the presence of marinecreatures and guaranteeing their safety.

Kopman has worked since his junior year withPorfiri. His master’s thesis focused on modelinga robotic fish propelled by a flapping tail similar toan actual fish’s; the robot has been used to studythe behavior of so-called “gregarious” fish that swimin schools. He hopes to teach mammals who havelived their lives in captivity to successfully hunt forprey using robotics.

Kopman’s undergraduate and graduate researchhas been supported by NSF under the CAREERaward to Porfiri, the GK-12 Fellows Programscoordinated by Vikram Kapila and by NASA SpaceGrant Consortium. The GK-12 Programs allowedKopman to reach out to local schools by bringingscience and engineering into the classroom. Part ofKopman’s NSF funding will be used to developfurther outreach programs in underwater roboticsfor K-12 students.

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National Science Foundation Awards Prestigious Fellowship to NYU-Poly Student Developing Submarine for Safe Marine Animal Interactions

Top left: Vladislav Kopman examines robotic prototype.

Bottom: Vladislav Kopman, left, at the controlsof a robotic fish during lab with fellow studentsand Assistant Professor Maurizio Porfiri, right.

Kopman’s work takes roboticsunderwater by helping to developvehicles that can interact with liveaquatic creatures without causingharm to the animals.

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... held on Earth Day, April 22 at the Urban Assembly Institute (UAI) of Mathand Science for Young Women attracted students throughout New York City.Career panels, competitions and presentations exposed students to professionals in various engineering fields. The expo was sponsoredby National Grid, which collaborated with NYU-Poly and UAI to organize the event.

The desire — to show how engineering infuses everyday life — characterizesNational Grid’s goal of promoting science, technology, engineering andmathematics (STEM) education.

The Green Home Contest, a competition requiring students to build a modeleco-home with supplied materials, was won by UAI and the Agnes Y. HumphreySchool for Leadership teams.

“We owe a debt of thanks to National Grid,” said Dianne Rekow, NYU-Poly provost, describing the company as a “true partner over the decades.”

Co-principal Kiri Soares seconded the cooperation between the three organizations,“We have the shared vision of encouraging STEM-based careers, which is why eventslike this are so important.”

The Green Expo...

Team Eco from the Urban Assembly Institute ofMath and Science for Young Women work ontheir green home.

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Myles Jackson, the Dibner Family Professor of History and Philosophy ofScience and Technology and Director of Science and Technology Studiesand Professor of the History of Science and Technology at NYU’s GallatinSchool of Individualized Study, has been awarded the prestigiousFrancis Bacon Award in the History of Science and Philosophy.

The award, which is funded by the California Institute of Technology(Caltech) and the Francis Bacon Foundation, is presented to anoutstanding scholar whose work continues to have substantial impact inany of the following three fields: the history of science, the history oftechnology or the historically engaged philosophy of science. The winnerreceives $20,000, is invited to spend a semester at Caltech and is thefeatured lecturer at the biennial conference, which brings together the bestyoung and established scholars in the area of the Bacon Visiting Professor’sspecific interests.

Jackson was also named Cambridge University’s 2010 Hans RausingLecturer. In May, he presented a public lecture, “From ScientificInstruments to Musical Instruments: The Tuning Fork, Metronome andSiren” in which he analyzed how 19th-century acoustical instruments meant

to standardize musical performance and measure dimensions of soundwere used a century later as musical instruments.

In the annual lecture, leading foreign scholars provide current internationalperspectives on the history of science.

Myles Jackson Awarded Bacon Prize;Will Deliver Rausing Lecture in the Fall

In an unprecedented agreement, Polytechnic Institute ofNew York University and Science Applications InternationalCorporation (SAIC), a FORTUNE® 500 scientific, engineeringand technology applications company, have partnered indelivering an online master’s program in cybersecurity to top-performing employees over the next decade.

The first 20 employees in the program entered a blendedcurriculum starting with traditional classroom instructionby NYU-Poly faculty members Lok Yan, adjunct professorand Joel Wein, associate professor of computer science,and continuing over 30 months with online classesdelivered through the school’s e-learning unit, NYU-ePoly.An additional 20 students will enter the program this fall.Cybersecurity experts who enter the program arenominated by their managers and must satisfy NYU-Poly’sgraduate admission requirements. NYU-Poly was selectedfor the agreement following a search in which 20 othertop-ranked schools competed.

“Every form of information technology–from the powergrid to defense–requires strong digital protection,” saidSAIC Vice President and Cybersecurity Program DirectorRobert Giesler. “Many of the services and solutions weprovide to government and commercial customersdepend on highly talented people. To be at the forefront,we will help empower the next generation of skilledcybersecurity experts.”

In the United States today there are an estimated 1,000

highly qualified personnel with specialized degrees incybersecurity. According to a national security expert, thenation needs 10,000 to 30,000. Companies such asBoeing, Lockheed, and many others have announced newcybersecurity business units.

NYU-Poly was one of the earliest schools to introduce a cybersecurity program, receiving National SecurityAgency (NSA) approval nearly a decade ago. Designatedas both a Center of Academic Excellence in InformationAssurance Education and a Center of AcademicExcellence in Research by the NSA, the school houses aNational Science Foundation-funded Information Systemsand Internet Security (ISIS) Laboratory, the nerve center ofcybersecurity research.

“SAIC employees will perform lab assignmentsremotely on the school’s Remote Virtual SecurityLaboratory,” said Nasir Memon, director of NYU-Poly’sCybersecurity Program. “Known as VITAL, it is thenation’s only university-based virtual cybersecurity laband is at the core of many of the courses to bedelivered to company personnel.”

The SAIC agreement is one of the first to be signed by NYU-Poly’s Enterprise Learning team, headed by VicePresident Robert Ubell. The unit partners with companies,government agencies and non-profit organizations,matching NYU-Poly’s resources to the needs of largeorganizations for education and training.

SAIC/NYU-Poly Agreement Builds Cybersecurity Powerhouse

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Dr. Lien Chan delivers lectureson “China-Taiwan Cross-StraitRelations;” visits NYU and NYU-Poly Dr. Lien Chan, former vice president of Republic of China in Taiwan andhonorary chairman of the Kuomintang Party (KMT) spoke on “Cross-StraitRelations” at the Council on Foreign Relations’ Winston Lord Roundtableon Asia and U.S. Foreign Policy on April 13. The talk was moderated bythe renowned China expert, Professor Jerome Cohen, co-director of NYU’sU.S. Asia Law Institute.

In the afternoon, Dr. Lien gave a public speech entitled “China-Taiwan Cross-Strait Relations-Retrospect and Prospect” at NYU Law School, organized byProfessor Xudong Zhang, director of NYU’s China House; Professor DavidChang, chancellor of NYU-Poly; and Professor Cohen. Dr. Lien shared withover 400 attendees his historical perspective on the events that led to his“ice-breaking journey” to China to meet with President Hu Jing-Tao in 2005.He was the first KTM chairman to visit the mainland since his governmentrelocated to Taiwan in 1949 when the KMT lost a war to the CommunistParty of China (CPC) and fled to Taiwan. Dr. Lien articulated that thecollaboration between China and Taiwan can benefit people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and that the resulting talks led to the unprecedentedwarming of the cross strait relations in recent years. Chancellor Changpraised the courageous and visionary statesman, saying “Dr. Lien was bothoutspoken and insightful in analyzing the dynamics between China, Taiwan

and the U.S.” Lien’s talk sparked interest from the press in China, generatingarticles and online commentary.

President Jerry M. Hultin hosted a dinner in honor of Lien Chan’s visit. “I amhonored that Lien Chan chose to spend time with us and at New YorkUniversity,” said President Hultin. “We were able to take full advantage ofLien’s visit and had the privilege of welcoming him back to NYU-Poly as anhonorary alumnus. It’s not often a university president gets to intimatelybrainstorm with a statesman of his stature and accomplishment.”

In his remarks, Lien expressed his deepest appreciation for his honorarydegree from NYU-Poly and for the warm welcome he received uponreturning to campus. Among the honored dinner guests at the UniversityClub, were Lien’s wife, Fang-Yu Lien; Ambassador Andrew Kao, directorgeneral in charge of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in NYC; andAmbassador Stephen Chen, retired representative of the Taipei Economicand Cultural Office.

Lien earned a BS in Political Science at National Taiwan University in 1957,an MS in 1961 and a PhD in Political Science in 1965, both from theUniversity of Chicago, and an honorary doctorate of laws from PolytechnicUniversity (now Polytechnic Institute of NYU) in 1996.

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Clockwise: Andrew Kao; Cecilia Chang; Fang-Yu Lien; Lien Chan; Angela Chao;Jill Hultin; Ming Lee; Liang-Hua Yu; Xudong Zhang; David Chang; Jerry Hultin;James Chao; and Stephen Chen

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[1] George Bugliarello, president emeritus,opened the Third Indo-American Frontiers ofEngineering Symposium, welcoming attendees on behalf of the U.S. National Academy ofEngineering. Bugliarello was the DistinguishedSpeaker at the University of Miami where helectured on “Urban Sustainability and its NewCritical Challenges.” He also chaired a committeeof the Division on Engineering and PhysicalSciences of the National Research Council toreview the Board on Infrastructure and theConstructed Environment.

[2] Deo C. Choudhury, professor emeritus,Physics, will be a guest physicist at theBrookhaven National Laboratory for one year. Hisappointment is based on his expertise in the areasof theory of nuclear structure, nuclear reactions,nuclear models, high-energy nuclear scatteringand modern cosomology.

Choudhury was also invited to participate in theBrookhaven Forum 2010: A Space–Time Odessey.

[3] John Falcocchio, professor of transportationplanning and engineering and executive director ofUrban Intelligent Transportation Systems Center,Civil Engineering, has been appointed a visitingscholar and faculty affiliate to the Rudin Center forTransportation Policy and Management at theWagner School for Public Service at New YorkUniversity. He was also named to the advisoryworking group of the New York State Transportationand Climate Change Adaptation Project at ColumbiaUniversity’s Earth Institute Center for ClimateSystems Research. He is a member of the New YorkAcademy of Sciences Discussion Group on the“Greening Transportation and Infrastructure.”Falcocchio organized and moderated atransportation symposium on “Real-time andOn-line Transit Information for a Connected Region”at the New York Academy of Sciences.

[4] Richard Gross, the Herman F. Mark Professorand director of the NSF Center for Biocatalysisand Bioprocessing of Macromolecules, Chemicaland Biological Sciences, has been named the2010 Turney Alfrey Visiting Professor by theMichigan Molecular Instititute, an honorrecognizing the top leaders in polymer scienceand technology worldwide.

[5] Zhong-Ping Jiang, professor, Electrical andComputer Engineering, gave a semi-plenary talk atthe 2010 Chinese Conference on Decision andControl in Xuzhou, China. He also delivered adistinguished lecture at the 5th IEEE Conferenceon Industrial Electronics and Applications inTaichung, Taiwan.

[6] Kalle Levon, director of the BioinformaticsProgram, Chemical and Biological Sciences,received a Finland Distinguished Professor Awardfrom the Finnish Government for 2009-2010. Thisprestigious designation is given to a small numberof foreign scientists and includes 2.5 Euros inresearch funding.

[7] Eli Pearce, university research professor,Chemical and Biological Sciences, was namedFounding POLY Fellow of the Division of PolymerChemistry by the Executive Committee of theAmerican Chemical Society. The award recognizesthose individuals who have made significantscientific accomplishments or contributedsignificant service or both. Pearce and a group of59 past awardees were inducted as POLY Fellowsfor their outstanding achievements andcontributions to polymer science.

[8] Keith Ross, the Leonard Shustek DistinguishedProfessor of Computer Science and head,Computer Science and Engineering, gave adistinguished lecture at NYU Abu Dhabi on May11. The talk covered an emerging paradigm shiftin information technology in which Google replacesMicrosoft as the dominant player in the industry,as well as how peer-to-peer paradigms cancompete with cloud computing. During his trip,Professor Ross also gave research talks at UAEUniversity and at Injazet, a data center company.

[9] Romualdas Sviedrys, associate professor,Humanities and Social Sciences, was awarded apresidential medal for “outstanding service inrecovering Lithuania’s scientific and technologicalheritage over the past decade.” The presentationwas made by Lithuanian President DaliaGrybauskaite.

NYU-Poly recognized its dedicated faculty and staff on April 22during the Institute’s Annual Service Awards ceremony in PfizerAuditorium. A partial list of honorees appears below.

15 Years Maria De Pascale, Magued Iskander, James Lewis,Lorraine Pizzirusso, Jana Richman

20 Years Boris Aronov, Nancy Byrne, Nirod Das, Claudette Dume,Lloyd Edwards, Bonnie Harper, Ilan Juran, Sunil Kumar, ZahraPatterson, Stacey Spears, Yao Wang

25 Years Lorraine Bildzukewicz, Thomas Daly, Haldun Hadimioglu,I-Tai Lu, Shivendra Panwar, Dennis Small, Teresina Tam, Peter Voltz

30 Years Haang Fung, Mark Green, Sylvia Marks

35 Years Kathryn Kuiken, Erwin Lutwak

40 Years Frank Cassara, Harold Kaufman

45 Years Edward Ziegler

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Zahra Patterson, development program manager, Development andAlumni Relations, savors a congratulatory kiss from her youngest son, Taj,after commencement on the Long Island University (LIU) Brooklyncampus on May 13. “Z,” as she is known to her colleagues at NYU-Poly,returned to college at Taj’s behest earning a Bachelor of Letters from theCollege of New Rochelle in 2007. That fall, she entered LIU on fullscholarship to begin working on an MFA in creative writing. Shemaintained an “A+” average, while juggling a full-time job at NYU-Poly,evening courses and tutoring, putting her three sons through college andrunning a household with her husband, Tony. The hectic schedule onlyseemed to energize her.

For her thesis, Zahra wrote her memoir “Rich Soul Born on a Poor Block,” for which she received the Esther Hynenman Award. In the past, the award was given to authors of fiction and poetry. However,LIU’s English department found her work so compelling, they changed thecriteria to a cross-genre category allowing authors of memoirs to beconsidered. One professor said of her work, “The writing…is aninspirational reminder of how transformation can and does change theperception of remembered events from those of heartbreak to triumphwhen viewed with deep honest, scrutiny and unflinching courage.”

She also received the Symbolic Graduate Award, given to the individualwho best represents the highest standards of the English department.

Zahra is hoping to find a publisher for the memoir next year. Congrats, Z!

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Zahra Patterson Receives LIU’s Hynenman Award

Professor Shivendra Panwar, right, accepts his certificate of recognition for 25 years of service and a gift from President Jerry Hultin.

Renowned MathematicianShing-Tung Yau Delivers LectureMathematician Shing-Tung Yau, chair of the mathematics department atHarvard University and recipient of the Fields Medal, MacArthur Fellowshipand Wolf Prize, delivered a lecture on April 30 to a capacity crowd of faculty,students and the general public (famed mathematician Louis Nirenbergwas there). The inaugural lecture in the Polytechnic Eminent Scholar Series,“From Riemannian Geometry to Modern Computer Graphics,” the talkfocused on Yau’s work with David Gu, associate professor at Stony BrookUniversity, in using techniques from pure mathematics to do imaging. Yau is best known for proving the Calabi conjecture, which contributed themathematical basis for string theory or the belief that 10-dimensional,vibrating strings construct the core of the universe.

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Women’s Softball Team Wins First-Ever Skyline CrownVictory was ever so sweet for the Lady Blue Jays when they capturedthe coveted Skyline Conference crown defeating Farmingdale 8-7 in 8 nail-biting innings.

It was a first-time title win for the Lady Blues—a bid that earned theman automatic ticket to the NCAA Division III tourney.

Athletes Celebrate at AnnualYear-End Varsity Awards BanquetNYU-Poly athletes were honored at the Institute’s annual Varsity Awards Banqueton April 28. Special awards were presented to individual athletes and three formerplayers were inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Hall of Fame Inductees, from left to right, Simone Derby ’06, tennis and volleyball; KevinPower ’04, soccer; and Sarah Walter ’06, basketball, softball and soccer are joined bystanding left to right, Anthony Kapp, director of alumni relations; Maureen Braziel, director ofathletics; President Jerry Hultin; James Oussani Jr. ’77 president, Staplex Co.; and ChristineIanuzzi ’87 ’94, president, Polytechnic Institute Alumni Association.

Toast ’10Alumni, faculty and staffcongratulated the Class of 2010and wished them well on the eveof their graduation at TOAST ’10,sponsored by the PolytechnicInstitute Alumni Association.

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polyGiving

“NYU-Poly: A Good Investment”“Over three decades havepassed since I became activein Polytechnic’s affairs. Sincethen, the school wentthrough manyproductive initiatives led byGeorge Bugliarello until1994, then by David Changand after 2005, Jerry Hultin.

Stand outs among theseinitiatives are: the MetroTechdevelopment, the DibnerLibrary, the Poly 100Scholarship Fund, theHerman Mark Chair, the

Promise Fund dinners, the Othmer dormitory, the Fulfilling theAmerican Dream capital campaign, and, of course, the verysignificant recent affiliation with NYU. These projects served toinstill life and substance in the school and I participated andsupported them all wholeheartedly. All in the above list are “macro”projects. It turns out that Polytechnic’s individual departments,however, also have an abundance of “micro” projects.

Several years ago, during a visit to the school, I ran into ProfessorBruce Garetz, department head of Chemical and Biological Sciences.He told me about his research and about what some of his seniorstudents were doing in the summer, a season of the year when moststudents are taking a rest or trying some temporary work other thanchemistry. Dr. Garetz was supervising three student-volunteers(“interns”) who in the previous summer did chemical research in hislab. Now their stipend ran out. Would I consider supporting them?The cost was modest, $6,000 per year, much less than the customaryschool-wide Polytechnic projects. I asked to see reports of their workand gave the idea some thought. Here were three students in theearly stage of their education and development, probably moreenergetic and ambitious than average. A modest gift could influencethem favorably toward their profession and their school. I called Dr. Garetz and granted him his request.

The arrangement is ongoing and will provide the needed support forthree interns this summer, as in the past few years. At no cost to theschool, one of its departments will operate under an increasedbudget, while the selected students will gain a greater attachment to their school and to their chosen profession.

By all accounts, I call this a good investment.”

Charitable Remainder Trusts & Gift Annuities for Your RetirementCharitable remainder trusts and gift annuities offer you the meansto solidify your retirement income while giving you a meaningful wayto direct a portion of your life’s legacy. With NYU-Poly as the ultimatebeneficiary to the trust’s principal, your gift expresses your wishesafter death. Thoughtful estate planning is critical to ensuring thatyour wishes will direct the proper distribution of your assets.

Here are some benefits of charitable remainder trusts and giftannuities:

•A federal charitable tax deduction in the year the trust is established based on the age of the beneficiaries (if you itemize).

•Assets removed from your probate estate.•Payments for as long as you live.

Individually, these options offer unique benefits. Let’s take a closerlook at each one:

The Charitable Gift Annuity with a minimum gift of $10,000. This is a contract between you and NYU-Poly that is simple toexecute. The lifetime pay-out percentage rate is determined by aformula based on the age(s) of the beneficiaries.

The Charitable Remainder Unitrust with a minimum gift of $100,000.This requires a trust agreement. You select the income pay-outpercentage (usually between 5-8% depending on age). While thatpercentage remains constant over the life of the trust, the value ofthe principal will change with market conditions and will directlyaffect your actual annual income. The unitrust favors those whowant to see growth in principal and income. Investmentresponsibility of your portfolio is given to experienced investmentadvisors. As an added value, capital gains taxation is eliminated forreinvestment purposes.

The Charitable Annuity Trust with a minimum gift of $100,000. Again, a trust agreement is required. You choose the income pay-outpercentage (usually between 5-8% depending on age), but income isfixed at the time the trust is established. Regardless of the rise orfall of market conditions, your annual income stream will remain thesame. This trust favors those who want to guarantee a set incomeover time.

If trust options do not satisfy your commitment to supportNYU-Poly, you can always opt to include us in your will througha bequest.Polytechnic’s commitment to i2e will create an even more robustgeneration of inventive engineers whose innovative technologies willimprove the lives of your heirs. These students need your support.

Please note the following suggested language for your bequestshould be reviewed by your attorney:

“I hereby give, devise and bequeath to the Polytechnic Institute ofNYU, a non-profit corporation organized and operating under thelaws of the State of New York, currently located at Six MetroTechCenter, Brooklyn, New York, 11201, or its successor school throughmerger, consolidation or otherwise, the sum of $________ , (or, therest, residue and remainder of my estate) to be used for the generalpurposes of the Institute (or for a particular program of yourchoice).”

For more detailed information or a free estimate of financialbenefits, please call Barbara Noseworthy, vice president, Development and Alumni Relations, at (718) 260-3982, or e-mail her at bnosewor@poly.edu.

HARRY C. WECHSLER ’48Chem PresidentBoston Systematics, Inc.$6,000 Wechsler Summer Internships 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 (per annum)Chevalier Society Member ($1M lifetime donor)Polytechnic University Board Member, 1980-2008Herman Mark Chair, chairman of fund-raising committeeWechsler Award for Excellence, Founder

Letter from the Alumni President

Dear Fellow Alumni,

As you read this letter, the Polytechnic Institute Alumni Association (PIAA) has ended another successful term, and we are transitioning to a newleadership team who will carry on the work of the association with a revivedenergy and passion for supporting our alma mater.

As alumni, we have had much to be proud of over the past year:

• We have engaged with the alumni leadership at NYU, and are exploringopportunities to increase collaboration between our alumni programs;

• We have increased communication and involvement of our alumni throughonline communication, networking events and regional alumni gatherings;

• We welcomed the Class of 2010 into our alumni family by sponsoring Toast ’10 on May 17th and we held a prominent role at NYU-Poly’s 155thCommencement exercises on May 18th;

• We participated in an expanded Alumni Weekend & Back to School Dayprogram, and inducted the Class of 1960 into the Golden Jubilee Society;

• The Scholarship Committee received 17 outstanding nominations for theOutstanding Graduate Award, and the 2010 recipient was MichaelHailermariam;

• The Awards Committee honored Michael H. Kappaz ’70IE and Mario W.Cardullo ’57 ’59ME as our 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients. These awards were presented for the first time at NYU-Poly’sCommencement;

•and, the association made notable contributions to the Poly Fund, ASCEConcrete Canoe & Steel Bridge Competition, the Polytechnic Classic GolfTournament, Engineers Without Borders, and a new summer engineeringclass for high school students led by fellow alumnus and faculty memberCharlie Camarda ’74AE.

As I look towards the 2011 academic year, I am excited about theopportunities that lay ahead for the alumni association. We have recentlylaunched our new Polytechnic Alumni Visa® Platinum Rewards Card, a greatopportunity to give back to the association by using the card for your everydaypurchases (details available at www.poly.edu/alumni/services). We are alsolooking forward to welcoming the newest Polytechnic class during orientationand New Student Convocation this fall, where we will be distributing freeschool supplies and promoting the importance of getting involved inNYU-Poly’s Student Alumni Association.

I hope you will consider getting involved by serving on a PIAA committee, being a mentor for a current student, or taking on a leadership role to helpstrengthen our regional alumni chapters. To get involved and learn about waysyou can support your alma mater, visit www.poly.edu/alumni or call ourDirector of Alumni Relations, Anthony D. Kapp, at (718) 260-3424.

With warm regards,

Christine Ianuzzi ’87BSEE ’94MSISE

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alumninewsNYU-Poly Alumni Custom Visa® PlatinumRewards Card Makes Giving Easier than Ever!There’s a new, convenient way for alumni to support the Polytechnic Institute Alumni Association (PIAA)… and it fits in your wallet!

The alumni association has joined forces withCardPartner.com to launch the PIAA Visa® AffinityPlatinum Rewards credit card. When a cardholderactivates the card, the PIAA receives $50. Then once a month for the life of the program, the association receives a check for a portion of every dollar that every cardholder charges.

Using the PIAA Visa Affinity Platinum Rewards credit card for everyday purchases is an easy way for alumni to support their alma mater and enhance programs thatdirectly impact the lives of our alumni and future alumni of NYU-Poly. Thank you for choosing and using your card.

APPLY ONLINE at www.cardpartner.com/app/piaa.

E-mail alumni@poly.edu or call (718) 260-3885 to request an application.

70sRosa Blitzer Oppenheim ’70ChE ’71 ’73OR recently returned to thefaculty of Rutgers Business School’s Department of Supply ChainManagement, after serving as executive vice dean. Oppenheim andher husband, Alan Oppenheim ’66ME ’68IM, are the proud parentsof Adam and David, and ecstatic grandparents of Maddie and Ellie.

Rachelle Friedman ’71Chem was inducted to the CE Hall of Fameby The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Along with herhusband Joe, Friedman founded J&R Music & Computer World indowntown New York. The store began as a small 500 square-footspace in 1971 and now encompasses an entire block.

Tom Congedo ’72PH is director of the R&T Operations group, whichprovides technical expertise and facility capabilities to supportWestinghouse commercial activities, as well as evolutionary andrevolutionary technology development. This group is comprised ofsome of the world’s leading nuclear and energy experts andresearchers with access to global networks of other scientists,experts and research facilities.

Edward Manzo ’72PH was one of five lawyers recognized for bothintellectual property and litigation by Illinois Top 100 Super Lawyers.Mr. Manzo, a leader in his field, has practiced in the area ofintellectual property for nearly 35 years. He represents clients fromindividuals to multi-national corporations in the areas of litigation,mediation, opinions, counseling, patent prosecution and expertwitness engagements.

Rana Ebrahimoff Slosberg ’75SE, after 34 years at BAE Systems,started an independent college admissions consulting business,Slosberg College Solutions LLC in Bridgewater, NJ. She is a memberof the Higher Education Consultants Association.

60sAlbert Castleman ’63ChE ’69ChemPH received the 2010 IrvingLangmuir Award in Chemical Physics. This award is intended torecognize and encourage outstanding interdisciplinary researchin chemistry and physics, in the spirit of Irving Langmuir, anAmerican chemist and physicist. A member of the faculty atPenn State since 1982, Castleman conducts research thatfocuses on small clusters of atoms and molecules. In particular,he is interested in investigating why nanoscale matter behavesdifferently from large-scale matter.

Robert H. Jankowski ’65CE is working as a senior systemsengineering, writing software for Northrop Grumman inBethpage, NY.

Paul Dillon ’66Chem presented an invited talk entitled “SerumMarkers of Liver Fibrosis” to the NYU-Poly Student ACS Affiliate.Dillon is a biostatistician with Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics inTarrytown, NY. He is proud to note that one of his daughters,Karen Rodriguez, just gave him a grandson, John DillonRodriguez, on February 27. He has four older granddaughters,Elizabeth (age 4 1/2) and Isabella (age 3) Rodriguez and10-year-old twins, Alexandra and Olivia, by his other daughter,Joyce Reinecke.

Daniel E. Johnson Sr. ’67EE celebrated his 40th anniversary atHewlett-Packard Company on June 1st in San Diego, CA. Johnsonalso welcomed a grandson to his family on April 14th and isenjoying coaching a soccer league for his 9-year-old daughter.

classnotes

Major Codes:

AE: . . . . Aerospace EngineeringCE: . . . . Civil EngineeringChE: . . . Chemical EngineeringChem: . . ChemistryChem . . Chemical CM: . . . . Construction ManagementEE: . . . . Electrical EngineeringHon: . . . HonoraryIE: . . . . . Industrial Engineering

IM: . . . . Information Management MA: . . . . MathME: . . . . Mechanical EngineeringMG: . . . . ManagementMOT: . . . Management of TechnologyNE . . . . . Nuclear EngineeringOR . . . . Operations ReserchPH: . . . . PhysicsSE: . . . . Systems Engineering

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50sLawrence J. Hahn ’52 ’62ME is currently serving on the ExecutiveCouncil Committee of the Long Island Section of The AmericanSociety of Mechanical Engineers and is also the treasurer of the Cold Spring Harbor Civic Association.

Robert Newlander ’57OR is now living in Sun City, Texas and is remaining active by working as a substitute teacher and volunteering for community service programs.

40sLawrence J. Lauck ’43ME, at the age of 89, is enjoying life andlooking forward to turning 90!

Charles J. Knuth ’44 ’47 ’49ChE is 85 and continues to write hisfamily’s history. He has already completed six volumes and is workingon volume 7.

00sDennie M. Beach ’02MOT recently completed a PhD in Public Policyand is currently employed at IBM in their business analytics andoptimization group.

Charles O. Holliday Hon ’05 is chairman of Bank of America.

Andrew J. Viterbi Hon ’09, co-founder of Qualcomm Incorporated anddeveloper of wireless technologies that became the internationalstandard for third-generation cellular phones, was named the 2010IEEE Medal of Honor recipient. The Medal of Honor, IEEE’s highestaward, was presented on June 26, 2010 in Montreal, Quebec,Canada as part of IEEE’s annual Honors Ceremony.

90sDouglas J. McCrosson ’90MG was named chief operating officer forCPI Aerostructures on January 1st. Since January 2008 McCrossonhas served as senior vice president of operations for CPI Aero’sBusiness Development, Engineering, Procurement and Manufacturingorganizations. He joined CPI Aero in May 2003 as director of businessdevelopment, was promoted to vice president of businessdevelopment in January 2006 and became vice president ofoperations in January 2007.

James Hanratty ’93CM works as engineer for NYC Department ofOperation in Valhalla, NY and is working on the CAT/DEL UV plant.

Jason M. Okun ’97Chem has been elected partner at the Fitzpatrick,Cella, Harper & Scinto, one of the nation’s premier intellectualproperty law firms.

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80sUrsula Burns ’80ME, Hon’05, chairman and CEO, XeroxCorporation, spearheaded the biggest deal in the history of Xerox.Burns oversaw a $6.4 billion acquisition of Affiliated ComputerServices, an outsourcing firm, in an effort to further improve theirtechnology efforts.

Burns also received an honorary doctorate in commercial scienceat NYU’s 178th Commencement exercises. She delivered thekeynote address at the NYU pre-commencement dinner, whereshe praised NYU-Poly for the impact it had on her life andsuccessful career.

Robert Stevens ’85IE, CEO of Lockheed Martin, was announced onthe annual list of Beltway Game Changers to Watch — individualssetting the terms of engagement, and coming out ahead, ingovernment contracting.

Paul Kalb ’84NE will be honored as Brookhaven’s “Inventor of theYear” by Battelle, the global science and technology company that,together with Stony Brook University, manages Brookhaven Lab.Kalb developed “in situ mercury stabilization,” a new method thatremoves toxic mercury from soil, sediment, sludge and otherindustrial waste.

Matthew J. Duthie ’85CE joined Jones Lang LaSalle as managingdirector for the firm’s property management team. Duthie has over

IN MEMORIAMWilliam Gatti ’33

Carl A. Setterstrom ’36

Attilio A. “Bob” DeMeo ’44

William E. Engeler ’51

Thomas P. Santry Sr. ’54

Charles W. Fleischmann ’65 ’70

Monroe Herbert Waxman ’53

Samuel J. Huang ’64

Robert Kahal ’47 ’50

Emil Gaynor ’50

William E. Engeler ’51

August C. Clark ’47

Robert B. Weiner ’74

Robert B. Marcus ’52

John J. Dunleavy ’61

Rolf Goderstad ’50

Arnold J. Rosenthal ’58

Tito Arguello ’88

Trustees Mario Cardullo & Michael KappazReceive DistinguishedAlumni AwardsMario Cardullo ’57 ’59ME, right,managing director, The Belfield Group,and Michael Kappaz ’70IE, left,chairman and CEO, K&M Engineeringand Consulting Corporation, are joinedby honorary Doctor of Engineeringrecipient Irving McPhail, president andCEO, NACME, before receiving the 2010Distinguished Alumni Award duringcommencement on May 18.

Cardullo has enjoyed over four decadesof professional success in the fields of technology management andengineering, most recently at TheBelfield Group, a consulting firm fortechnology transfer, corporate strategy,and private equity concerns. He is theinventor of the RFID-TAG transponder,which was built as a license toll systemin 1970.

In 1987, Kappaz established K & MEngineering and Consulting Corporation,an internationally recognized leader in

infrastructure development, financing,engineering and construction.

K & M combines innovative engineeringtechnology and financing strategies tofacilitate project implementation.

Both Cardullo and Kappaz currentlyserve as NYU-Poly trustees.

The Distinguished Alumni Award is givento graduates from NYU-Poly, Polytechnic

University, Polytechnic Institute of New York, or Polytechnic Institute ofBrooklyn who have attained outstandingleadership and accomplishments in thefields of engineering and technology, or have demonstrated notablecontributions to the world of sciencethrough invention, innovation andentrepreneurship (i2e).

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After 25 years as a chemical engineer, Jack Florence’58ChE decided to start his own vineyard in 1979.When Jack began working the vineyards full time, hisformer associates marveled at the courage it took totake on a completely different occupation. Success,however, didn’t come overnight. He started classes atthe local community college, formed industry groupsand picked the brains of fellow experienced growers.Jack’s Rockpile vineyard in Sonoma County is situated

2,000 feet above sea level, on 15 acres of land. Winelovers appreciate the distinct taste of the vineyard’ spremium harvest.

His 2003 Zinfandel made by Rosenblum Cellars wasnamed the third best wine in the world. A wine criticdescribed its distinction as, “the generally hot growingseason enhanced the luscious, exotic notes in thiswine.” Rockpile grows a variety of red grapes: Zinfandel,Syrah and Petit Sirah—all big red wines—as growers liketo call rich, flavorful wines with a deep red color.

Jack is known as the “father of Rockpile,” an appellationapproved by the Treasury Department in 2002. He waselected to the founding board of the Sonoma CountyGrapegrowers Association. Before his retirement fromcorporate industry, he worked as a chemical engineer inR&D for Atomics International firm and MarketingDirector for an engineering company.

Harvesting the Chemicals of the Good Earth

Jack Florence and his wife, Fran, in the Rockpile vineyards.

alumnieventsWe are currently planning our 2010-2011regional events calendar. If you have asuggestion, or would like to host an eventin your area, please send an e-mail toalumni@poly.edu.

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HomecomingThursday, October 28, 2010 NYU-Poly Brooklyn Campus

Join us for this campus-wide celebration of our innovative spiritand Poly Pride. Coordinated by the Department of Athletics,Office of Development and Alumni Relations, Student AthleticAdvisory Committee, Student Council and Polytechnic AdvisoryBoard. www.poly.edu/homecoming

For more information or to register for alumni events, please visit www.poly.edu/alumni or call (718) 260-3424.

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The Golden Jubilee festivities honoring the Class of 1960 included campus tours, an engineering-focused bus tour and a tour of the World Trade Center Memorial,classroom sessions with faculty as well as a special luncheon. From left to right, starting from the back row: Stephen Warshaw, Russell Dietz, Patricia Yalden,Richard Meier, Herbert Tesser, Bob Michalak, Carl Sloan, and Jeanette and Peter Fleig. Front row: Betty and Herbert Hoffman, Margaret Goodman, Jack Nachamkin,Sidney Perkowitz, Phillip Furgang, Bill Harazim, Joseph and Helen Mesquita, Tom and Carol O'Brien, Louis and Florence Citarel and John and Susan Hassell.