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DRIVEN BY VALUE-SEEKINGSTUDENTS, including surgingnumbers of high academic achiev-

ers and community college applicants,enrollment at The City University of NewYork will reach its all-time high this fall,according to preliminary figures.

Based on late summer data, theUniversity projected record-breakingenrollment for the 2009-10 academic year,surpassing the 252,956 high point reachedin 1974, 35 years ago.

Nearly 250,000 were enrolled at CUNYcolleges as the start of the semesterapproached, with enrollments running 10percent ahead compared with the sameperiod last year. While this fall’s final head-count is not expected to jump by quite thatmuch due to changes in campus registrationpractices, a significant surge is expected overlast fall’s total enrollment of 243,819. Finalfigures will be available in mid-October.

“The University’s strong enrollmentgains make a powerful statement,” saidChancellor Matthew Goldstein. “Studentsand families connect with CUNY’s consis-tent focus on academic quality, on provid-ing value, and on the changing needs of ourstudents, present and future.”

The fall 2009 gains reflect new and

important trends. There were notableincreases in applications from new freshmen:As of the end of July, close to 64,000 fresh-men had been admitted to the University, anincrease of almost 9,000 over roughly thesame period last year. The number of stu-dents transferring to CUNY schools was alsoup, by 11 percent. Applications from subur-ban students jumped by almost 20 percentand those from non-New York Stateresidents by more than 12 percent.Approximately 5,000 out-of-state, U.S.students were admitted for fall.

The number of applicants with strongacademic preparation continues its upwardtrajectory, underscoring the University’sgrowing reputation as a high-quality highereducation option for value-conscious fami-lies. College applications from students withaverages of greater than 85 percent increasedby close to 2,000, compared with last year.

High-achieving students are increasinglydrawn to CUNY on the graduate level, aswell. CUNY School of Law’s first-year fallenrollment jumped by 23 percent over lastyear. The LSAT scores and GPAs of thislaw school class are the highest in theschool’s 25-year history.

At the community colleges, there is dra-matic growth. The University has seen an

almost 60 percent increase in the numberof applying students who have chosen aCUNY community college as their first-choice school.

The stepped-up demand for a CUNYeducation, spurred by the University’sspreading reputation for quality academicsas well as families’ tight budgets, has alsoprompted the University to make its high-value programs more accessible to a widerrange of students.

To make it easier for students to fulfilltheir degree requirements on time, CUNYhas expanded and promoted its summer andwinter sessions. And students are responding:Enrollment this summer was 73,202, reflect-ing a 3 percent increase since 2008 and an8.7 percent increase since summer 2005,when 67,318 were enrolled and theUniversity boosted promotion of its summerofferings. According to a survey of 2,500 ofthe 2009 summer enrollees, 93 percent werefull- or part-time CUNY students looking tomove ahead with their coursework.

The availability of more on-campushousing is also a big draw for CUNY’s newstudents. The new Queens College studentresidence, The Summit, has opened for thefall semester with 481 of the 489 availablebeds — 98.4 percent — filled.

Historic Highs, Driven By ValueHigh Achieving Freshmen, Transfers Flock to Colleges

“Open the doors to all — let the childrenof the rich and the poor take their seats

together and know of no distinctionsave that of industry, good conduct,

and intellect.”Townsend Harris, founder

FALL 2009

Dreams on HoldTwo years after a devastating explo-sion, a student struggles to adjust.

Explore Ocean Depthsand a Polar Ice SheetTravel from the tropics to thepolar region on diverse research

expeditions viascientists’ blogs.

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What Makes New York —And CUNY — Great?Chancellor Goldstein offers his insightsin a keynote address to business leaders.

Justifiably ProudNew Supreme Court Justice SoniaSotomayor andher familyrecentlyaccepteda specialUniversitytribute.

Breaking New GroundSee how faculty collaborationhelped shape the University’sAdvanced Science Research Center.

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AT THE SUMMIT:Queens College students move into their newly constructed campus residence, The Summit, which filled to capacity at the start of the semester.

FROM RESEARCH GRANTS toenergy-saving building upgrades toworkforce development contracts,

millions of dollars in federal stimulus fundshave been awarded to University projectsand programs, less than a year afterChancellor Matthew Goldsteinchampioned higher education as critical tothe nation's economic recovery efforts.

President Obama’s sweeping AmericanRecovery and Renewal Act (ARRA) is mak-ing billions of federal dollars available toeducational and research institutionsthrough federal, state and city agencies,exciting researchers and setting off a flurryof grant proposals from CUNY. The fundshave started to come in, as grant seekersacross the University contemplate new sub-missions or await word on theirapplications.

“The Recovery and Renewal Act is pro-viding more opportunities for our scholarsto pursue their cutting-edge discoveries,and for the University to expand its role asNew York’s leading provider of highlytrained health careworkers, teachers and‘green economy’employees,” saidChancellor Goldstein,who last year ledefforts to spotlight theeconomic challengesfacing public universi-ties. Goldstein andVartan Gregorian,president of theCarnegie Corporation of New York, con-vened a summit of higher education leaders— including the heads of CUNY, SUNYand state systems in California, Florida,Arizona and Wisconsin — last October andspoke with Obama’s transition team aboutthe need for investment of federal stimulusfunds in public universities, colleges andcommunity colleges, which educate themajority of the nation’s work force.

ARRA, signed by Obama in February,targets the stimulus funds for higher edu-cation to research, development and train-ing. Investments in renewable energy andjob creation are also key goals. As of lateJuly, at least 30 projects reflecting thosepriorities had been approved for stimulus

MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERGboosted the University’s commu-nity college system by pledging

$50 million over the next four years in aneffort to increase the city’s skilled laborforce and bring more residents into themiddle class.

Bloomberg’s Gateway to the MiddleClass hopes to graduate 120,000 NewYorkers by 2020 who will be trained ingrowing fields including health care andgreen technology.

A portion of the money will go to a mod-el community college — the first new two-year school in 37 years — now in theplanning stages. It will enroll 5,000 studentsand be located in Manhattan.

The new college is moving ahead three

years after Chancellor Matthew Goldsteinapproached Bloomberg to support an inno-vative plan to increase the graduation rate ofcommunity college students.

That plan, Accelerated Study in AssociateProgram (ASAP), is now in place at all ofthe University’s six community colleges andis expected to graduate more than 50 per-cent of its students within three years. Thenational rate is 20 to 23 percent after threeyears. “We are going to exceed well over 50percent in three years,” Goldstein said. “Andwe are going to take those ideas that welearned through ASAP, which we nevercould have implemented were it not for thismayor, and hope to extrapolate that experi-ence into a new community college that willget national attention.”

to encourage degreecompletion, such asfull-time study andenhanced employ-ment support.

Key to sustainingNew York’s attractiveness is our ability torespond to growth opportunities in emergingand high-need markets. CUNY programsfocusing on health care and energy arepreparing thousands of people to work inthe city. The sad reality is that the jobs theytrain for may not be here. The city’s 220,000small businesses employ half of its private-sector workforce, 1.5 million people. But thecredit recession has devastated small busi-nesses. Without access to working capital,they can’t rent space, purchase supplies orhire workers.

Small businesses must get the financingthey need. Government must create a cli-mate conducive to attracting private invest-ment around industry segments, whileworking with lenders to facilitate access tocapital, and creating incentives for universi-ties to develop programs.

To attract New York’s human capital,priority must be given to advancedresearch. Our city and state rely on univer-sities to be the catalyst for new industries,economic development, and high-skill jobs.But quality research takes time andresources, and today, we exist in a far morecompetitive environment for grants.

We must emphasize collaboration andshared resources in building our researchcapacity. An example is the New YorkStructural Biology Center, developed coop-eratively by 10 public and private researchcenters, including CUNY. By leveraging thework of several partners to advancebiomedical research, we all gain the advan-tage of high-end equipment necessary tothat research. The center houses thenation’s largest, most advanced cluster ofhigh-field research magnets, and brings tobear a community of scientific talent toareas like structural genomics.

To build research capacity, we must alsokeep in mind our historically welcomingattitude toward immigrants. Post-9/11immigration policies often create unneces-sary obstacles for scholars, scientists andinternational students seeking to study andwork here. The federal administration mustaddress these issues.

As the country works to stimulate its econ-omy and bolster its competitiveness, fosteringa talented, highly skilled, world-class work-force must be a national priority.

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This column was adapted from ChancellorGoldstein’s keynote address July 23 at theCenter for an Urban Future/CommunityService Society Forum on “New York’s HumanCapital: The Next Generation.” You canwatch the full speech on the CUNY Channelat www.cuny.edu/youtube

NEW YORK CITY has long beena beacon of talent. As the songgoes, if you can make it here,you can make it anywhere. But

to sustain its ability to attract human capi-tal, particularly during difficult times, thecity — like so many cities across the coun-try — must preserve its assets, those thingsthat draw motivated, highly skilled people.

A welcoming attitude towardimmigrants, unparalleled cultural opportu-nities, preeminent health-care options, pub-lic schools, and top-notch universities havehistorically been among New York’s keyattractors. In these recessionary times, sus-taining those factors that allow the city toattract and retain talent must be a priority.

With city and state support, there are fun-damental ways that higher education can help.

First, we will always be well served by aworkforce with advanced critical thinking,judgment and communication skills. In aworld that is increasingly unforgiving ofthose without such skills, universities mustcontinue to insist on high academic stan-dards, rigorous programs and talented fac-ulty in order to offer graduates a strongeducational foundation.

Second, we must emphasize graduation.A degree matters. Degree holders earnmore over a lifetime than those withoutdegrees, and have greater career securityand resiliency during tough economictimes. But today, according to the GatesFoundation, only about 20 percent of full-time community college students national-ly earn an associate degree in three years.

There are many reasons students don’tgraduate, including inadequate preparation,financial pressures and family obligations.We need to address these concerns moreaggressively, particularly at community col-leges, where almost half of our nation’sundergraduates study. President Obama’sannouncement of $12 billion in funding forcommunity colleges, mostly to boost gradu-ation rates and spark new designs for stu-dent engagement, is particularly welcome.

To that end, CUNY is developing a newcommunity college in Manhattan. It willdraw on lessons learned from theUniversity’s current initiative with NewYork City’s Center for EconomicOpportunity — called the AcceleratedStudy in Associate Programs, or ASAP —incorporating innovative, promising practices

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Great Cities, Great Universities

funds, to be allocated through federal andcity agencies.

Two CUNY websites — http://web.cuny.edu/research/AmericanRecoveryAct.html and http://web.cuny.edu/academics/infocentral/addresources/facultystaff/fundingopps.html — have been created todetail funding opportunities and providelinks to allocating agencies. CUNY’s Officeof Research, and grants offices at the col-leges, are assisting faculty in submitting pro-posals, modifying and resubmitting earliersubmissions, and requesting supplements toexisting grants.

“With these two websites up, we are get-ting a tremendous amount of interest acrossthe University,” said Allan Dobrin, execu-tive vice chancellor and chief operating offi-cer. “People are looking at the websites,thinking about applying.”

More than $15 million of the CUNYstimulus funds granted so far is for research,mostly in science, some in the socialsciences, funded by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF), the National Institutes

of Health (NIH),NASA and other agen-cies, said ViceChancellor GillianSmall.

The funded projectsspan groundbreakingscientific inquiry andresearch with a timelyedge. They include a$680,000 NSF grant forHunter College chem-

istry professor Nancy Greenbaum’s explo-ration of the “splicing” mechanism criticalto development of RNA molecules, andQueens College sociology chair AndrewBeveridge and co-Principal Investigatorand collaborator Elena Vesselinov’s$144,995 NSF grant to study “TheDistribution and Social Impact of MortgageForeclosures in the United States.”Anthropologists Sophia Perdikaris andThomas McGovern were awarded morethan $1.1 million in NSF funds for “Islandsof Change,” a Research Experience forUndergraduates historical ecology projectinvestigating people’s relationships withchanging environments, including climates,in Iceland and Barbuda, West Indies.

“ The funded projects span

groundbreaking scientific inquiry and

research with a timely edge. ”

Millions in Federal

Mayor Bloomberg Pledges

Simone Lamont Manfred PhilippChairperson, Chairperson,University Student Senate University Faculty Senate

Benno Schmidt Philip Alfonso BerryChairperson Vice Chairperson

Valerie L. Beal Kathleen M. PesileWellington Z. Chen Carol Robles-RománRita DiMartino Marc V. ShawFreida Foster-Tolbert Charles A. ShorterJoseph J. Lhota Solomon A. SuttonHugo M. Morales Jeffrey WiesenfeldPeter Pantaleo

Matthew GoldsteinChancellorJay HershensonSecretary of the Board of Trustees andSenior Vice Chancellor for University RelationsMichael ArenaUniversity Director for Communications and MarketingBarbara Shea Managing EditorRich Sheinaus Graphic Design DirectorCharles DeCicco, Ruth Landa and Neill S. RosenfeldWritersMiriam Smith Issue DesignerAndré Beckles Photographer

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generally grim funding climate, she noted.While much of the stimulus money is

targeted to research, funds also are going tojob creation and “green” projects — sectorswhere CUNY is attaining prominence.

Borough of Manhattan CommunityCollege received $11 million in federalstimulus funds for an extensiveenvironmental upgrade — 10 projects toboost the energy efficiency of mechanicaland electrical systems at its main building at199 Chambers St., for an annual cost sav-ings of more than $1 million. When com-pleted, the upgrade, funded through theMayor’s New York City Department of

The strengthened commitment to com-munity college education is in keeping withthe initiative of President Obama, who onJuly 14 set a goal of graduating 5 millionAmericans from two-year colleges by 2020.

“Like we do in so many other areasfrom green jobs to community service,New York City can and will lead the way,”said the mayor at a press conference lastmonth. “Sixty percent of CUNY’s commu-nity college students come from house-holds that earn less than $30,000 a yearand 66 percent of them work at least parttime while taking classes. We owe it tothem to make our community collegesmore accessible, accountable and effectiveat preparing New Yorkers for high demandand higher paying jobs.”

Among the highlights of the plan are:• Expand the ASAP program, which helpshigh-risk students complete communitcollege within three years.

• Doubling the capacity of communitycolleges’ on-campus child care so studentshave a safe place to leave their childrenwhile attending classes.• Help students start their own businessesby providing training in planning, marketingand financial management.• Help students save for school through$aveNYC, a consumer-friendly savings accountthat will offer students matching funds if theymaintain their initial deposit for one year anduse the money for tuition and expenses.• Make capital investments to expand thecapacity of the community colleges.

College of Staten Island’s TeacherAcademy, an honors program for incomingfreshmen wishing to major in mathematics,biology or chemistry, received $839,000from the NSF for scholarships to train 29mathematics and science teachers for grades7-12. York College received a similar NSFgrant of nearly $900,000 for a similarteacher training program.

Overall, funds requested for researchexceed $90 million, including 64 submis-sions for $39 million in new NIH “challengegrants” for health and science research, saidVice Chancellor Small. Included are fundsNIH and NSF may approve to renovate

science facilities and provide instrumenta-tion necessary to the funded research.

“Clearly, the stimulus has stimulatedmany of our faculty to write grant propos-als,” she said. “We understand they mightnot all be funded, but we’d like to keep themomentum going.”

Small noted that much of the stimulusmoney awarded to University researchersthus far is for existing or ongoing proposalsand projects. The ARRA opportunities — atleast $26 billion is expected to go toresearch nationwide — are “a good thing forCUNY” at a time when the University hasbeen “ramping up” research efforts amid a

Energy Management, is expected toreduce BMCC’s annual electrical ener-gy consumption by more than 4 millionkilowatts, and shrink its carbon foot-print by approximately 5,400 metrictons of CO2.

Some $15 million in stimulus fundshave been allocated by the New YorkCity Department of Small BusinessServices for new health care programsat LaGuardia Community College andfor expansion of nursing, radiologic,EMT and other health care training atNew York City College of Technology,Kingsborough and QueensboroughCommunity Colleges and College ofStaten Island.

“Federal workforce funds are beinginvested in intensive, long-term educa-tion and training programs in a waythat they haven’t been before,” notedSuri Duitch, University director ofadult andcontinuing education. “The city is pay-ing for people to get degrees in nursing.There’s no better investment. It’s a verybig deal.”

Recovery monies may alsopartially fund projects that touchCUNY. For example, $5 million inARRA funds are part of an $11.8 mil-lion U.S. Department of Energy invest-ment, announced July 29, in five solarenergy grid integration systems aimed atlowering energy consumption andAmericans’ utility bills. LaGuardiaCommunity College is partnering withPrinceton Power of Princeton, NJ, onone of the DOE-funded projects, focus-

ing on lowering manufacturing costs throughintegrated controls for energy storage.

Some at CUNY viewed the stimulusfunds’ availability as a positive reflection ofchanging federal priorities.

“It’s led to a real renewal,” said professorGreenbaum of Hunter. “There is going to bean improved emphasis on research ... whichnot only makes it possible to do ourscience, but enables us to educate students,training young people for the next genera-tion of researchers.

“The money is being offered and spreadout in such a way, as to enhance the entireclimate,” she added. “May it continue.”

Aid Is Stimulating CUNY Programs

$50 Million to University’s Community CollegesChancellorGoldstein andMayorBloomberg atrecent pressconference wherethe mayorannounced astrengthenedcommitment tocommunitycollegeeducation.

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Queens College sociology chair Andrew Beveridge and collaborator Elena Vesselinov received a $144,995 NSF grant to study the social impact ofU.S. mortgage foreclosures.

TWO YEARS AGO, filled withpassion and drive, GregoryMcCullough enjoyed the challenges

and rewards of his daily life: classes at NewYork City College of Technology, mentoringkids, attending church, mastering martialarts, towing cars to save money for schooland his own car.

The greatest challenge was yet to come.On July 18, 2007, McCullough, then just 21,was at the wheel of a red tow truck duringrush hour in Manhattan when suddenly hewas engulfed in the horrific ConsolidatedEdison steam pipe explosion that searedthird-degree burns over 80 percent of hisbody.

Today, buttressed by faith, familyand friends, McCullough strugglesto recover from his devastatinginjuries, and to begin to reclaim hisdreams. Remarkably, despite hismedical condition and persistentpain, he is trying to keep up withhis studies through CUNY’s newSchool of Professional Studiesonline, though, “Sometimes I’m justtoo tired.”

Had the accident not happened,he says, “I’d definitely be in school.”City Tech “was a great learning envi-ronment. I would do my homework;I developed the discipline.”

“The courage and determinationthat Gregory has shown . . . reflectsthe remarkable strength of his char-acter and his faith. Gregory is a val-ued member of the City Techfamily and we are all supportive ...and confident he will attain hisgoals,” said City Tech PresidentRussell K. Hotzler.

Before the explosion,McCullough was living with hismother and father in Canarsie, jug-gling evening and Saturday classes atCity Tech; 12-hour shifts towingcars for a Bensonhurst company;martial arts lessons; and running amilitary cadet mentoring programfor youth in Bushwick and a NewYork City Police Department ExplorerProgram to keep kids off the street.

He dreamed of becoming a Marine, thenjoining the FBI or U.S. Department ofHomeland Security. He enrolled at City Techin 2006 and took classes in the legal studiesdepartment before switching to liberal arts in2007. He planned to transfer to John JayCollege of Criminal Justice to study businessmanagement and criminal justice.

Those dreams are not dashed, althoughthey are less certain now because of hisextensive injuries, scarred body and the like-lihood of a long road to recovery.

McCullough was at the New York

left hand,” he said. Being in the sun can be hazardous. “That

bothers me, the heat.…It could be the mid-dle of winter and I’ll be hot, summer and I’llbe cold. My body is still adjusting.” Thenthere’s the itching: “I can’t scratch because Icould damage my skin even more,” he said,“and when you get a sensation back, it startsoff as pain. I’m still going through the painstage with my fingers and feet…for the mostpart, I try to be happy.”

His new, 4-month-old brother helps. “Ican be having a really bad day, I pick him upand he smiles at me and all that goes away.”

He reads — “I like horror and suspense,and I watch the History Channel”— and friends drop by. He smiledwhen asked if he had a girlfriend,but declined to comment.

There are things that he misses.“I want to drive so bad,”McCullough said. “I haven’t beenable to do sports — weight liftingand football,” and the First MarineCadet Corps kids are “always askingme, ‘How’re you doing, SergeantMajor, when are you comingback?’ It feels good. I’m very hum-ble, but I was the first blacksergeant major in that program.”

That fateful Wednesdayevening, McCullough was on hisway to Brooklyn, taking home acustomer, Judith Bailey, whosedisabled car he had towed to aBronx repair shop. As they waitedfor a light to change at LexingtonAvenue and 41st Street, a geyserof hot steam from a broken under-ground pipe sent his truck soaringinto the air. It crashed back into a15-foot-deep crater created by theexplosion.

As the cab filled with scaldingwater, he and Bailey staggered outto the street. A woman fleeing themud and debris suffered a fatalheart attack. Forty people wereinjured.

“I knew I was burned becausemy skin was a different color,” McCulloughrecalled. “When I woke up [from the coma]I think I cried. I couldn’t have gone throughthat alone. That was divine intervention.”

Bailey, a single mother of two school-agegirls, was burned over 30 percent of herbody and hospitalized for three weeks.Derek Sells of the Cochran firm, co-counselwith Thompson, is her lawyer. “Judith is stillstruggling to overcome her injuries,” he said.

For McCullough, faith, family and friendsgive him the will to keep going.

“We try to stay strong for him, keep himmotivated.…I’m thankful that he’s still here,”Tanya McCullough-Stewart said.

Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Centerburn unit in a medically induced coma formore than two months to control his painwhile doctors worked to save his life.

He has undergone a dozen operations andmultiple skin grafts. There will be more surg-eries and years of physical therapy, said hislawyer, Ken Thompson, of Thompson,Wigdor & Gilly.

In the boardroom at Thompson’sManhattan office on Aug. 12, in the presenceof his mother, Tanya McCullough-Stewart,and father, Frank, McCullough talked abouthow he is coping with the rigors of his day-to-day life.

He wore sneakers and jeans with a short-sleeved blue shirt, revealing deeply scarredarms and hands mottled where the skinpeeled off but camouflaging the extensivedamage to the rest of his body. He used acane to support his halting steps.

McCullough spoke softly, a broad smilelighting up his handsome features - miracu-lously unmarred — from time to time.

“I still get pains throughout my body,” hesaid. “Some days I’m really tired. I have tohave help,” to button shoes, to put on socks.Even eating is difficult because “opening asoda can is a task in itself.” Right-handed, “Ihad to teach myself how to write with my


STUDENTHONORS

Adjusting to a Lifeon HoldTwo years after being injured by a devastating blast, a determined student struggles to reclaim his dreams.

Teamwork Equals VictoryBaruch College’s chapter of theNational Association of BlackAccountants has won the KPMGNational Student Case StudyCompetition over teams from ninecolleges and universities nationwide.Baruch earned an automatic berth innext year’s competition and a $500prize for each team member: ChaneeD. Bridgewater, Charlene S. Fessal,Barbarah Gelin, Nyla Samuel andJanelle A. Shillingford. Their advisersincluded Baruch ’02 alumnus AntonyMuriithi, a senior manager at theaccounting firm KPMG.

Salk Scholars AnnouncedEight premedical students havereceived prestigious Jonas E. SalkScholarships to study medicine, fortheir academic achievement andresearch excellence. They are: JasonAbramowitz, Queens College, who willattend SUNY Downstate MedicalCenter; Mikhail Bekarev, HunterCollege, Albert Einstein College ofMedicine; Chantal Bruno, MacaulayHonors College at Queens College,New York College of OsteopathicMedicine; Martin Detchkov, MacaulayHonors College at City College, SUNYDownstate Medical Center; MichaelIgnat, Hunter College, New YorkCollege of Osteopathic Medicine;Dalanda Jalloh, Brooklyn College,SUNY Upstate Medical University;Mario Pinto, City College, A.T. StillUniversity School of OsteopathicMedicine; and Sheryl Purrier, YorkCollege, Penn State College ofMedicine. Dr. Jonas E. Salk (CCNY,1934), who developed the polio vac-cine in 1955, turned down a ticker-tape parade and asked that the moneybe used for scholarships. Each SalkScholar receives a stipend of $8,000.

Seven Kaplan Leaders SelectedLaGuardia Community College stu-dents Jonathan Chavez and KaireColwell, who were once high schooldropouts, have received 2009 KaplanEducational Foundation Scholarshipsfor outstanding academic achieve-ments. They are among seven CUNYstudents to receive the highly competi-tive awards. The scholarships — aimedat students pursuing the associatedegree who have high academic andleadership potential — provide winnerswith financial and academic support,including mentoring and tutoring,through completion of their bachelor’sdegrees. The other winners are: KomiAttitso, Bronx Community College;Valerie Alverio, Hostos CommunityCollege; Ebony Childs, Borough ofManhattan Community College; AlmaOsorio, John Jay College of CriminalJustice; Gary Waiyaki, Borough ofManhattan Community College.

Senior Wins Research SpotCollege of Staten Island senior Eric Rios-Doria, a chemistry/math double-major,was accepted to the University of Iowa’sprestigious Summer UndergraduateMedical Scientist Training Program andits research program. He was exposed toM.D./Ph.D. training that included per-forming biomedical research and shad-owing a physician-scientist during theintensive eight-week summer program.

McCullough’s towtruck at scene of

steam pipe explosionin July, 2007.

Gregory McCullough’smottled hands are avisible result of hisexplosion injuries.

Baruch Interim President Named

BARUCH COLLEGE President KathleenWaldron has stepped down after five

years of service to become a University pro-fessor and Stan Altmanhas been named interimpresident by the Board ofTrustees ExecutiveCommittee, on the rec-ommendation of thechancellor. Altman servedwith distinction as deanof the School of PublicAffairs at Baruch Collegefrom 1999 to 2005 andhas continued to serve asa professor at the school. “Interim PresidentAltman has extensive academic and adminis-trative experience in higher education andwe are fortunate that he is available to servethe college in this interim capacity,”Chancellor Goldstein said. A national searchfor a permanent president is under way, thechancellor noted, adding, “We are grateful toDr. Waldron for her presidential service dur-ing the past five years and join with all mem-bers of the Baruch College community inexpressing our very best wishes.”

Presidential Honors

COLLEGE of Staten Island PresidentTomás D. Morales was one of eight

members appointed by Mayor Michael R.Bloomberg to the Panel for EducationalPolicy, which was re-established when Gov.David A. Paterson signed the New YorkCity school governance legislation into lawAug. 11. In July, President Morales receivedthe honorary degree of Doctor of HumaneLetters from the American College ofThessaloniki (ACT), a longtime CSI study-abroad partner, at ACT’s commencement inGreece. Lehman College President RicardoR. Fernandez was to travel in late August toSungshin Women's University in Seoul,South Korea — which has a dual degreeprogram with Lehman — to receive anhonorary degree in late August. MedgarEvers College President William L. Pollardwas featured by the Daily News in aSpotlight on Great People column thatdetailed the new president’s rise from hum-ble beginnings to the heights of academia.


NOTED&QUOTED

CREATIVE ENERGIES Among the outstanding teams of professors and students who represent the spectrum of graduate education at the Universityare the following: at right in photo left, Sanjoy Banerjee, City College distinguished professor of chemical engineering, explores the boundaries ofbattery technology with Lorraine Leon (Ph.D. 2010) and senior and Ph.D. applicant Jude Phillip. In photo right, poet and distinguished professorKimiko Hahn, center, has worked with novelist La Forrest Cope (2009) and memoirist John McLaughlin (2010) in Queens College M.F.A.program. Their stories and those of many other outstanding students and faculty are featured this fall on www.cuny.edu and other venues.

Pride of New York

AMERICA'S NEWEST Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, right, the firstLatina to sit on the high court, celebrated her elevation with her mother and

brother at her ceremonial induction on Aug. 8, 2009 in Washington, D.C. Followingthe ceremony, they proudly displayed a commemorative “Pride of New York” postercreated by CUNY’s Office of University Relations in honor of their family’s achieve-

ments. The justice’s mother, CelinaSotomayor, left, was a widow withtwo young children when shebegan evening studies at HostosCommunity College. She receivedher degree in nursing in 1973, ayear after her daughter graduatedfrom a Bronx high school. The jus-tice's brother, Juan Sotomayor,center, who graduated from theprestigious Sophie Davis School ofBiomedical Education at CityCollege in 1979, is an assistantprofessor of medicine atUniversity Hospital in Syracuse, aclinical researcher and a physicianwho specializes in allergy, asthmaand immunology pediatric care.

Stan Altman

IN THIS GLOBAL RECESSION, how do you create jobstoday that will help New Yorkers compete in the econo-

my of tomorrow? It’s as easy as business + government +universities.

This seemingly simple equation was the focus of “NewYork’s Human Capital: The Next Generation,” a summerconference held at Baruch College and organized by the

Center for an Urban Futureand the Community ServiceSociety.

The panel discussion,moderated by Greg David,editorial director of Crain’sNew York Business, exploredthe current and future work-place needs of the city’semployers and how policy-makers, educational institutions and thebusiness community are addressing thechallenges. Chancellor Matthew Goldsteingave the keynote address.

The panelists — Cristóbal Conde,president and CEO of SunGard; ColvinGrannum, president and CEO of Bedford

Stuyvesant Restoration Corp.; Tim Nitti, principal ofKLG Advisers, Herbert Pardes, president and CEO ofNew York-Presbyterian Hospital; Frank Sciame, CEO ofthe construction company that bears his name; andKathryn Wylde, president and CEO of Partnership forNew York City — agreed that for New York City toremain the intellectual capital of the world, highereducation must continue to play a leading role.

“I went to City College and have had a chance towitness firsthand what Matt Goldstein did for theUniversity,” Sciame said. “Andwhen you see the students thatcome from all over the world andthe talent, it is so important to thistown, because the future leadersare there, the Rhodes Scholars areback there, they’re at CUNY.”

The impact of universities like CUNY, Nittisaid, goes far beyond the classroom.“Increasingly, employers are positioning them-selves in locales to leverage the university andcollege systems that are natural feeders. …”

“I want to applaud Dr. Goldstein’s presenta-tion, because I thought it was superb,” Pardes

said, “and what we have got to do iscapitalize on the youth across theboard, all the talent we can get, andprovide them with education. We needthem as nurses, pharmacists, techni-cians, doctors.”

Wylde held CUNY up as a role model,praising the “phenomenal job”Goldstein has done in “the transforma-tion of the CUNY system.” Citing the

aggressive part that communi-ty colleges play in workforcedevelopment in other states,she said that CUNY is on thefast track to take a more activerole in creating employee pools.“That’s one area I know he’s working on now, and I hope it willbe one in which we will have no peers.”

When asked what the city could do to stimulate job cre-ation, the panelists offered a variety of ideas that ranged fromimproving the infrastructure to providing affordable housingfor middle-class workers.

As for CUNY, “It’s doing everything it should do,” Sciamesummed up.

“…it is so important tothis town, because thefuture leaders are there, theRhodes Scholars are backthere, they’re at CUNY.”

Frank Sciame, CEO of theconstruction company that

bears his name

“…what we have got to dois capitalize on the youthacross the board, all thetalent we can get, and pro-vide them with education.”

Herbert Pardes, presidentand CEO of New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Chancellor Goldstein hasdone a “phenomenal job…”

Kathryn Wylde,president and CEO ofPartnership for NYC

“Increasingly, employers arepositioning themselves inlocales to leverage the uni-versity and college systemsthat are natural feeders….”

Tim Nitti, principal of KLG Advisers

Business Leaders Praise CUNY’s Key Role In Developing Top Workforce Talent

to the shallow reef. “The shallow reef isunder quite a bit of stress right now,” saysGruber, “and if they are genetically connect-ed it might mean the deep reef is just as vul-nerable.”

The reason there’s been virtually nostudy of the deep reef — some as far downas 300 feet or more — is that getting to itis so difficult. “If you’re diving with justcompressed air, the limit is about 130 feetand you can’t stay down longer than a fewminutes,” Gruber says. On Little Cayman,he was joined by two top research diversfrom South Florida who used an advancedmethod for deep dives — a mixture of oxy-gen, helium and nitrogen known as “trim-ix.” The divers descended to 300 feet andreturned with some of the deepest coralever recovered from that area of theCaribbean.

In that way alone, the expedition wascutting-edge research. The deep-dive tech-nique hasn’t been readily available tomarine scientists because it’s expensive andrequires a team of highly skilled technicaldivers. Ever the scientific adventurer,Gruber is training to make those deepdives himself when he returns to LittleCayman next summer. In the meantime,he’ll be back there in January — this timewith a contingent of CUNY students —teaching a course in tropical reef ecology.

DAVID GRUBER went tothe depths of two of theworld’s great seas in a questto unlock the mysteries ofthe deep coral reef.

Marco Tedesco went to Greenland totake measure of the melting polar ice cap.

Will Harcourt-Smith went to Africa —and back 18 million years — in a search forbones of the oldest apes.

For these CUNY scientists, the summerof 2009 was a time to get out of the lab,out of the classroom, out of their New Yorkenclosures — and into the field. Far afield.Their expeditions were each something towrite home about — and so they did. Thescientists helped launch the University’snew Decade of Science website with blogschronicling their adventures in words, pic-tures and video. For their blogs and more,go to www.cuny.edu/decadeofscience.

Here’s a look at what three Universityresearchers did on their summer vacations.

Investigating Deep Coral Reefs

DAVID GRUBER, assistant profes-sor of biology and environmentalscience at Baruch College and the

Graduate Center, is a rare scientist whocombines talent in the laboratory with anadventurous spirit. In his ongoing researchinto the physiology and evolution of theworld’s deepest coralreefs, the specimenshe studies in the labare corals he’s col-lected himself.

In June, Gruberclimbed into his scubagear on LittleCayman Island andspent a week collect-ing coral from thewarm waters of theCaribbean. Back inNew York, he put thespecimens in cryo-genic storage for studyunder a grant fromthe National ScienceFoundation that alsoincludes corals he col-lected on Australia’sGreat Barrier Reef. Afew weeks later,Gruber was in Israel,diving for coral in theRed Sea.

Gruber’s area ofinterest is the little-studied deep coralreefs — some as fardown as 300 feet —and their relationshipto those in shallowerwaters whose precari-ous status has gottena lot of attention inrecent years. He ismost focused on fluo-rescent proteins, sub-stances found in coralthat could shed lighton the physiology ofthe deep reef and leadto better understand-ing of its connection


Measuring a Melting Ice Sheet

MARCO TEDESCO, assistant pro-fessor of earth and atmosphericsciences at City College, went in

the opposite direction from Gruber — andto decidedly less tropical waters.

Tedesco studies the melting of polar icesheets and how it is contributing to theworld’s rising sea levels. It’s well-known inhis field that the Greenland “ice sheet” hasbeen melting at an increasing rate in recentyears, and that some of the water accumu-lates in large ponds called supraglacial lakes.Accompanied by graduate student NickSteiner and several hundred pounds ofequipment, Tedesco flew to Greenland totake measurements that he would latercompare to those taken by satellites. Therewas a spectrometer, a microcomputer andan underwater video camera, all to be trans-ported around the lakes by a miniatureremote-controlled boat equipped with GPS.

The boat turned out to be a little star-crossed. Tedesco tested it in the lake inCentral Park a few weeks before departure,then shipped it to Greenland in a woodencrate. Six other crates of technical geararrived as scheduled. The one containingthe boat did not. It was missing for a week,threatening Tedesco’s entire venture, forwhich he had planned nine months. Finally,

it showed up, and the mission proceeded. “Everything worked fine and the boat

exceeded our expectations,” Tedesco reports.“The remotely controlled boat reached up tohalf a mile from the lake edge and we wereable to collect all the data we wanted to andeven more.” But on the last day of the expe-dition, Tedesco pressed the limits. He tied thelittle research vessel to a colleague’s inflatableboat. Off it went. In the middle of the lake, itsubmerged. “He came back with our boat 3feet below the surface. Everything wassoaked — computers, instruments.” Tedescowas philosophical: “There’s no experimentwithout sacrifice.” Of course, he said this afterhe knew the sacrifice was minimal. “We lost afour-hundred-buck computer, but we wereable to recover the hard disk, and the GPSand spectrometer and it’s amazing but all theinstruments worked fine.”

Besides taking their measure of themelting ice sheet, Tedesco and Steinerfound something interesting in the iceitself. “People imagine the ice sheet beingvery bright, but it appears a little dark.There’s this fine black powder called cry-oconite, which we called kryptonite, ofcourse. We collected samples to analyze.

Join the Paths of Disco

Marco Tedesco studies how Greenland’smelting ice sheet contributes to theworld’s rising sea levels.

David Gruber with diving finds: Red Sea corals, below right, andLittle Cayman anemone, which is shown under special light thatreveals its fluorescent proteins.

We found a lot of interesting things: mete-or dust, soot from burned forests, gold,titanium. We even found radioactive mate-rial. So now we wonder how much thischanges the melting.”

Whatever his data ultimately reveal,Tedesco’s first trip to the Arctic yielded oneimmediate discovery: He’s no fan of thecold. Just a slight problem with his nexttrips to Greenland, Norway and northernCanada already in the works. “Maybe I haveto change my field,” he jokes. “I’ll studycoral and go to the Cayman Islands.”

In Search of the Oldest Apes

THERE’S NO SHORTAGE of pale-ontologists searching Africa for theremains of our closest fossil ances-

tors. Most are after primates such as Lucy,who gained modern fame for walkingupright three million years ago. Thenthere’s Will Harcourt-Smith, a hunter-gatherer of much older fossils — those ofapes that lived 18 million years ago.

Harcourt-Smith, a paleoanthropologistat the American Museum of NaturalHistory who begins a faculty appointmentat Lehman College this fall, spent several


weeks this summer scouring RusingaIsland, in Kenya’s Lake Victoria. It’s been ahallowed place in paleontological circlessince the 1930s, when a fossil ape calledProconsul — a genus considered to bebetween 14 and 23 million years old —was discovered there.

“I’m fascinated by the factors and condi-tions that led to the emergence of thesecreatures, and why they proliferated into somany different lineages,” Harcourt-Smithblogged from his camp on Rusinga, wherehe was accompanied by a number of col-leagues from other universities and threeCUNY graduate students. “The wonderfulthing about these islands is that they arestill packed with fossils. And not just fossilapes. We have fossil plants and seeds,miniature insects, the remains of giant lum-bering mammals, birds, reptiles, bats — youname it.”

As they collected fossils, Harcourt-Smithand his colleagues conducted a series ofgeological analyses that they hope willallow them to accurately reproduce boththe evolutionary events and environmentaland ecological conditions on the island 18million years ago. From this they can then

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IN MOST corporate and educationalcultures, summer is a time of slowerpace and time off — a season torecharge the batteries. But there aredifferent ways to rev up the institu-

tional energy, and John Jay College ofCriminal Justice seems to have found onethat works.

In July, the college held its second annu-al Bravo! Summer Employee Institute, amidweek symposium open to all employ-ees, both full-time and part-time, whowanted to take a break from their worka-day routines in favor of two days of “per-sonal and professional enrichment anddevelopment.” The 300 employees whotook part had a choice of more than 40seminars — from managing personal debtto dealing with difficult people; from medi-tation to team-building; from “Learn topodcast” to “So you want to be a crimescene investigator.”

The Bravo! Institute idea is part of abroader attempt by the college to improvehow employees feel about their jobs andtheir lives. More than 200 employeesresponded to an “Employee EngagementSurvey” conducted last year under the direc-tion of Senior Vice President Robert M.Pignatello. The survey was meant as a startingpoint for addressing a dismal reality of mod-ern life: A study of 90,000 people worldwideby Towers Perrin, a firm that helps organiza-tions improve performance, found that just21 percent were engaged by their work.

As a result of last year’s survey, John Jay’sadministrators took a number of steps toaddress what seemed to be the areas of mostpressing concern. They increased the college’straining budget, offered more professionaldevelopment opportunities and embracedthe new CUNY Work/Life program, aUniversity-wide initiative to help employeesbalance their work and personal lives.

Judging by the results of the same sur-vey this year, some attitudes seem to havechanged for the better. For instance, therespondents were asked whether theyagreed or disagreed with the statement,“Doing my job well gives me a sense ofpersonal satisfaction.” In 2008, only 69 per-cent agreed; this year, virtually everyonedid — 98 percent. Other areas changed lessdramatically, but still significantly. Elevenpercent more said the college cares aboutits employees this year than last year —from 47 percent to 58 percent.

The Bravo! Institute alone doesn’taccount for the improvement, but it’s astart, and one that Pignatello hopes will bea model for other CUNY colleges.

John Jay College employeesapplaud varied enrichmentopportunities closer to home.

Dive beneath the warm waters of the Caribbean and Red Seas,explore Greenland’s polar ice sheet and hunt for fossils millions ofyears old via three globe-trotting University scientists’ summer blogs.

Employees at a ceramics class, one of manypersonal and professional summer workshopsoffered via Bravo!

Bravo! Encore!

explore how the changes in these condi-tions may have influenced the emergenceof Proconsul and its cousins. “This yearwe’re doing things with much greater pre-cision,” Harcourt-Smith said. “We’vebrought out a sophisticated piece of GPSequipment that tells you the exactgeographical position of every single pieceof fossilized bone you find on the ground.This will help us build up a more accuratepicture of how the site was formed, whatgot preserved and what did not.”

After three weeks in camp, Harcourt-Smith declared it “a terrific season.” Theteam had found more than 1,000 identifi-able fossils by then, along with thousandsmore “scrappy pieces.” He gave a lot ofcredit to his CUNY students — JuliaZichello, Scott Blumenthal and JennHodgson — who contributed to the exca-vation as well as to the blog.

“I can see why looking for fossils can beaddictive,” wrote Zichello, a doctoral stu-dent in biological anthropology on her firstfield work experience. “It’s a lot like gam-bling. There is so much chance involved, 17million years of possibilities. But unlikegambling, there’s nothing to lose.”

ONE DAY a few years ago, City College chemistry professorJohn Lombardi got a phone call from a peer with anunusual specialty. Marco Leona was calling from the

Department of Scientific Research at the Metropolitan Museum ofArt — a subterranean lab that even the most avid patrons of themuseum might be surprised to know exists.

The museum scientists’ primary mission has been to develop bet-ter ways of preserving works of art — everything from determiningthe optimal interior climate for a Botticelli to discovering that a dis-play case made of plywood produces organic vapors that can cor-rode a silver vessel from the timeand place of Alexander the Great.But Leona, a chemist who headsa staff of eight, has a personalinterest that veers down a differ-ent avenue of art history. He’smade a specialty of identifyingthe materials — down to themolecular level — used by theartists whose works fill the Metand the world’s other preeminentmuseums. It’s less about conserva-tion than about history andauthenticity. “The brushwork of apainting could look like aRembrandt, but we’re interestedin seeing if the trace elementsmatch,” says Leona. “So there’s an element of forensic science.”

The problem for Leona was that even the best availabletechniques made it nearly impossible to identify the molecular com-pounds in centuries-old pigments and dyes without damaging theartwork. “You can’t return a painting to the collection full of holes,”he notes.

That’s where John Lombardi came in. The City College chemistis a leading light in the field of Raman spectroscopy, a techniquethat uses laser beams to scatter and then identify the molecules of asubstance. Leona thought the technology could put his work on afast track, perhaps leading to dramatic developments in his field. In2005 he met with Lombardi and the two decided to collaborate.They sought a grant from the National Science Foundation but wereturned down because the work was judged less basic science thanpractical application. They found another source of funding in anunlikely place. “It was a solicitation from the Department of Justice,”Lombardi says. “They were interested in forensic applications foridentifying trace materials. We said, ‘You know, that’s what we do,after all.’ ”

With a three-year, $300,000 grant (renewable this year), thechemists have gone on to accomplish what they hoped, and thensome. They’ve used Raman spectography to positively identify somany different substances in so many disparate works of art that

they’ve produced more than two dozen scientific papers. The key from the beginning, Lombardi and Leona agree, was not

just the technology or their own expertise. “We both saw that a wayto make this go forward was to include City College students,”Leona says. “They could work on the problem, go back and workwith John on more in-depth approaches so we could really makeprogress.”

That they did. Lombardi’s students — two post-doctoralchemists, two graduate students and four undergraduates — havehelped Leona and Lombardi identify and catalogue some 50 com-

pounds in dyes from all overthe world and many centuries.“It’s painstaking work,” saysLombardi. “One molecule at atime.” He and Leona haveestablished a database that theyand their colleagues at othermuseums can use to findmatches in works that are beingexamined for practical reasons— authentication — or histori-cal analysis.

“A whole group of materialsis now within reach,” saysLeona. “Before, we could say, ‘Ithink this was painted with thismaterial, but I can’t tell youbecause I can’t remove enough

of it to study with available techniques and without destroying it.Now we can take an essentially invisible piece of a work of art andsay it was dyed with carminic acid, which comes from cochinealbugs, which are used in lipsticks and pink sodas.”

Leona at one point used the Raman spectrometer to examine anobject the museum was considering for acquisition: a rug of histori-cal significance, said to have been the work of a renowned 16th cen-tury Romanian weaver. The laser generated an analysis that showedthat the dye in the rug wasn’t available until three centuries later —right around the time a famous forger of these rugs was known tobe active. It was the first time one of the suspected forgeries hadbeen scientifically proven. “It’s like the difference between a policelineup and DNA,” says Leona.

The Leona-Lombardi team’s work has caught the attention ofmuseum and research chemists alike, many of whom came to hearLeona discuss it at a recent meeting at the National ScienceFoundation. Though the research was considered outside the NSF’sformal criteria for funding when Lombardi and Leona began, theresults have apparently expanded the foundation’s horizons. “Myconversations with them continued,” says Leona, “to the point thatthey got interested in the general topic of fundamental scientificresearch on cultural heritage.”


Professor Emerita SiraisiTo Be Haskins Prize LecturerHunter Distinguished ProfessorEmerita Nancy Siraisi was namedthe 2010 Charles Homer HaskinsPrize Lecturer by the AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies. Siraisi,a recent recipient of a MacArthurFoundation “genius grant,” is a lead-ing scholar in the history ofmedicine and science of the MiddleAges and the Renaissance. Herresearch has ranged widely acrossthese fields, from her first book onthe university curriculum inmedieval Padua to her current workon the role of doctors in history-writing in the Renaissance. She willlecture at the ACLS annual meetingin May 2010.

Caws, Sorkin Elected to Elite Academy of Arts and SciencesMary Ann Caws, DistinguishedProfessor of French, English, andComparative Literature at theGraduate Center, and MichaelSorkin, Distinguished Professor ofArchitecture and director of theGraduate Urban Design Program atCCNY’s Spitzer School ofArchitecture, are the latest CUNYfaculty members elected Fellows ofthe American Academy of Arts andSciences, one the nation’s highesthonors. Caws has written or editedmore than 60 books; her expertisecovers a wide swath of 20th Centuryavant-garde literature and art. Sorkinis president of the Institute forUrban Design and a contributingeditor for Architectural Record.

Salamandra Wins FellowshipFor Syrian TV ProjectLehman anthropology professorChrista Salamandra has won theAmerican Council of LearnedSocieties/NEH/SSRC InternationalArea Studies Fellowship to completea book on Syrian TV productions.Her work will explore the paradoxof Ramadan broadcasting in Syria —special dramatic series shownthroughout the Arab world duringthe Islamic holy month of Ramadan— set against Syria’s ruling Ba’thparty and its socialist and secularideologies. She will explore the pro-cesses of regionalization, liberaliza-tion and Islamization through thecultural politics of Syrian TV dra-mas.

Johnson Honored for WorkIn Liberal Arts EducationBrooklyn College and GraduateCenter history professor RobertDavid Johnson has won the fifthannual Philip Merrill Award forOutstanding Contributions toLiberal Arts Education. The prize,sponsored by the American Councilof Trustees and Alumni, honorsthose who have made an extraordi-nary contribution to the advance-ment of liberal arts education, corecurricula, and the teaching ofWestern civilization and Americanhistory. Johnson is the author of sixbooks, including All the Way withLBJ: The 1964 Presidential Election.

FACULTYHONORSCity College chemistry professor John

Lombardi, right, and MetropolitanMuseum chemist Marco Leona

discuss joint projects at the Met.

Print of 1895 Japanese Kabuki theater ad being studied for authenticity.

The Chemistry of Art

like animal carcasses,then taken to the sandyWallabout shore and buried in shallowmass graves. Playing children or buildersat the Navy Yard would happen upon thebones for more than a century.

Burrows covers in colorful detail thevarious failed attempts to negotiate prison-er exchanges, and the ensuing war of wordsas horrific news of prison life spread. Anopening shot in the propaganda war wasthe dashing Col. Ethan Allen’s Narrative(1779) of his two years in British captivity,which became a huge best-seller.

Among the scoundrels Burrows shineslight on, one of the most fascinating is BenFranklin’s only son William, who became avocal opponent of independence.

Eventually having to escapefrom patriot-heldPhiladelphia, he spent twoyears in confinement, and hisroyalist group was involved inthe first summary execution ofa patriot prisoner. Needless tosay, father and son weredeeply estranged.

Burrows notes that the U.S.had prison ships too, four ofthem, of which he writes:.“One searches in vain for theirequal in the sorry parade ofarrogant British commandersand corrupt bureaucrats.” Onlyone good thing can be said ofthe prison ships: There seemsto have been no 18th centuryequivalent of water-boarding,no torture to extract intelli-gence. The bedraggled prison-

ers, brought in from hither and yon, obvi-ously had no intelligence in them.

The horror ended abruptly in 1782, withthe British cave-in and a preliminary peacetreaty, thus ending what was becoming anincreasingly unpopular war back home.Within a few years the age of humanetreatment of POWs had dawned, asJefferson, Adams, and Franklin negotiated atreaty with Prussia in 1785 that aimed "toprevent the destruction of prisoners of war."

Unfolding his story, Burrows reminds usthat New York was very tiny at the time,only 33,000 inhabitants in the 1790 census(500,000 by 1850), that it was the city mostseriously devastated during the war, and thatabout one percent of the total U.S. popula-tion in 1780 died during it (compared totwo percent in the Civil War, 0.12 percentin WWI, and 0.28 percent in WWII).

Burrows ends with a chapter (also titled"Forgotten Patriots") telling the fascinatingread-it-and-weep tale of plans to memorial-ize the victims of Wallabout. The pro-BritishFederalists wanted to sink the prison-shipsin lethe; the Democratic-Republicans (yes,such a party there once was) wanted to rubit in. Others thought this business of warmemorials simply too Old World. Congressstayed stingy, but the idea simply refused todie. Around 1808 the “Wallabout DeadMarch” became about as popular at publicfestivities as “Yankee Doodle.”

Several schemes were proposed, but allfailed. An 8-by-8-by-10 “antechamber” to acrypt for some martyrs’ bones was builtabout 1840 and tumbledown by 1897. Aneditorial writer for the Brooklyn DailyEagle named Walt Whitman urged thememorial on in 1846 to no effect. (Surpris-ingly, Burrows never quotes Whitman’s fineshort 1888 poem, “The Wallabout Martyrs.”)Finally, with the 30-acre Washington Park(later changed to Ft. Greene) becomingthe center of a fancy neighborhood, theBrooklyn City Council funded a mau-soleum for the martyrs. Designed byOlmsted and Vaux and completed in 1873,it still lacked a proper monument.

After wandering in the mists of oblivionfor decades, the martyrs’ ghosts finallyreceived their due largely, Burrows says,because the Daughters of the Revolutionand their rival Daughters of the AmericanRevolution joined hands for once and puttheir minds to it. They spearheaded a con-sortium of societies that at last broke openthe Congressional bank. It helped thatanother 100 skeletons had just been uncov-ered at the Navy Yard.

New Yorkers are currently restless aboutall the dithering and delay over the 9/11memorial after 10 years. They may bechastened to learn that from 1800, whena young Democratic-Republican oratornamed Jonathan Russell proposed a“Colossal Column” to remember 11,000“willing martyrs,” to the day President-electTaft assisted at the unveiling of the spec-tacular Stanford White-designed columnwas exactly 108 years!

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CLIMBING THE HILL in Ft. Greene— Brooklyn’s first park, laid out byOlmsted and Vaux after their

Central Park success — is one of the grand-est staircases in New York City; on its sum-mit stands the world’s tallest Doric column(nearly 150 feet): the Prison Ship MartyrsMonument, which celebrated its centenniallast year (visit: www.fortgreenepark.org/pages/prisonship.htm). And thereby hangsthe grim tale told in historian EdwinBurrows’ new book, Forgotten Patriots: TheUntold Story of American Prisoners Duringthe Revolutionary War (Basic Books).

Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison was amere picnic compared to the prisons theBritish established in New York — “thenerve center of British operations in thecolonies” — both on land and in hulkedformer battleships in the Hudson and EastRivers. Burrows, co-author with MikeWallace of the massive, Pulitzer-winningGotham and a Brooklyn College Disting-uished Professor, begins by the numbers ashe shows how significant the subject ofprisoners is for the War of Independence.About 6,800 Americans died in battle dur-ing the war (another 10,000 of injuries incamp), but Burrows comes up with muchhigher numbers of captives (30,000) andprisoner fatalities (18,000) between 1775and 1783 than hitherto thought. Most ofthe Revolutionary dead breathed their lastin prison.

This is a New Yorkstory. A vast majority ofthe prisoners, from allaround the colonies andbeyond, ended up in oneof several prison shipsgathered together inWallabout Bay, which theBrooklyn Navy Yardbegan to encroach on in1806. On these dismalhulks prisoners suffered,as one survivor laterrecalled “every inconve-nience but death,” or, asBurrows lists them,“overcrowding, hunger,sickness, appallingsqualor, and petty, capri-cious cruelties.” Andthere was plenty ofdeath, too: Burrows andothers have arrived, by pure guesswork(virtually no records survive), at a figure of11,000 prison-ship fatalities, plus anotherthousand or so in such notorious LowerManhattan prisons as the Provost and theSugar House near present-day City Hall.(The tricky business of guessing the num-ber of victims — “conjectures wobblingatop assumptions,” Burrows says — is dis-cussed in the chapter “Dead Reckonings.”)

Easily the most infamous of the shipswas the largest, the former 64-gun frigateJersey, which one captive 17-year-old sea-man called a “floating Pandemonium.”Another captive sneaked out a letter, pub-lished in the Boston Gazette, in which hesaid that the Jersey was “popularly calledHELL” and that “our morning’s salutationis, ‘Rebels! turn out your dead!’ ” Betweensix and 11 bodies were daily hoisted off

Stylish Balancing ActIt’s August 1974, and a mysterioustightrope walker is running, dancing,leaping between the Twin Towers aquarter mile above ground. Below him,

a slew of ordinarylives become extraor-dinary in Let the GreatWorld Spin, novelistColum McCann’sstunningly intricateportrait of a city andits people. The novel(published by

Random House) is a dazzlingly richvision of the pain, loveliness, mystery,and promise of New York in the 1970s.McCann teaches in Hunter’s MFA inCreative Writing program.

Becoming MohaveIn 1851, Olive Oatman was a 13-year-old Mormon pioneer traveling westwhen her family was killed by Indians.She lived as a slave to her captors andbecame a white Indian with a chin tat-

too, caught betweencultures. In The BlueTattoo (University ofNebraska Press)Lehman College pro-fessor Margot Mifflinrecounts how Oatmanbecame a celebrity atage 19 when she wasransomed back to

white society. But the price of famewas high and the pain of her childhoodlasted a lifetime.

Critiquing U.N. IdeasUN Ideas That Changed the World(Indiana University Press: U.N.Intellectual History Project Series)assesses ideas regarding sustainable eco-nomic development and human securi-

ty, and suggests waysthe world organizationcan play a fuller role inconfronting the chal-lenges of human sur-vival in the 21st centu-ry. The book is co-authored by LouisEmmerij, seniorresearch fellow at the

Graduate Center, Thomas G. Weiss,Presidential Professor of PoliticalScience at the Graduate Center, andRichard Jolly, of the University ofSussex. It includes a foreword by for-mer U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Music at WarSound Targets: American Soldiers andMusic in the Iraq War, by JonathanPieslak, studies how popular music has

shaped contemporaryU.S. military culture.Pieslak, an associateprofessor of music atCCNY and theGraduate Center,interviewed veteransabout the place ofmusic in the Iraq Warand American military

culture. The book, from IndianaUniversity Press, describes how soldiershear, share, use, and produce music andstudies its role from recruitment cam-paigns and basic training to wartimemissions.

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Walking to her office in themorning, Ruth Stark oftenstops to observe a large con-

struction site on the South Campus ofCity College. To many passersby, the siteis just a yawning pit of earth and rocks.But to Stark, a distinguished professor ofchemistry, it represents something muchmore — a groundbreaking vision for 21stcentury science to which she hascontributed many ideas.

After years of planning, the University’sAdvanced Science Research Center(ASRC) has emerged as a bold, much-anticipated initiative that will link scien-tists in radically innovative ways —mixing disciplines like chemistry and biol-ogy, as well as promoting interactionamong five exploding interdisciplinaryareas, such as nanotechnology. The build-ing itself will provide an unusual design toencourage formal and informal collabora-tion, with features like an open centralstairway connecting research areas on sep-arate floors — literally, a “vertical” integra-tion of the “horizontal” blend of manydisciplines. The center also will house acritical core of state-of-the-art facilitiesnever before available at CUNY, includinga “clean room” for the fabrication of tiny,sensitive scientific devices. Ultimately, theASRC reflects an unprecedentedUniversity-wide effort to create a facilitythat not only serves the needs of cutting-edge research today, but envisages thedemands and direction of scientific explo-ration for the next few decades.

By all accounts, the planningprocess itself stressed a high levelof collaboration across the

University. Led by ViceChancellor for ResearchGillian Small, a diverseadvisory group of faculty,University officials

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and consultants took on the task of estab-lishing “flagship” areas of scientificresearch. Stark, along with many of hercolleagues from various fields of science,played a major role in refining the visionand design of the center.

“We had a whole series of meetingswith people who would be using thebuilding,” says David Salmon, assistantdirector for CUNY’s department ofdesign, construction and management. “Allthe players were in the room. A lot ofquestions were asked of the scientists, interms of making sure this facility wasproperly designed to support their work.Gillian was such a force in this effort,”Salmon says

“We talked about what our strengthsshould be to build national and interna-tional recognition,” Small recalls. “Wewanted to take advantage of strengths wealready had,” she notes, such as the neuro-sciences, which already had a network of55 laboratories throughout CUNY cam-puses. “But we also wanted to considerwhat areas were important to the futureof the country.”

The areas that emerged were more the-matic than discipline-based — nanotech-nology, for example, often involves acomplex integration of chemistry, physics,biology and engineering. It was alsoimportant that these research areas notbecome “distinct silos,” says Small. Thefaculty focus groups questioned howcould a center be most useful to facultyacross the University? How could theyencourage ways for scientists to interact?And if they wanted to support these areas,what would CUNY faculty need?

Among those eager to test the cleanroom is Queens College assistant professorVinod Menon, whose specialty is photon-ics, the science and technology of manipu-

lating light. Menon, who is also afocus group member, says

he expects to collabo-rate with nanoscien-tists in creating

devices

with new applications in areas liketelecommunications, data processing, biol-ogy and medicine. “I see great advantagesin bringing people together from differentcampuses,” he says. “You can get muchbetter ideas than working individually.”

“It’s opening up a new dialogue, mixingthe social and physical sciences together,”says Charles Vörösmarty, the newlyappointed director of the CUNYEnvironmental Crossroads Initiative, oneof the program areas to be housed at thecenter. In tackling complex problems,Vörösmarty’s team will mingle interdisci-plinary science experts, from environmen-tal chemists to nanotechnologists, witheconomists and social policy experts, hesays. “You put these teams together andthey incubate,” he says. “I don’t knowwhat’s going to come out of it — but it’sgoing to be wonderful.”

The defining principles behind ASRCbegan germinating several years ago, saysSmall, when Chancellor MathewGoldstein “understood that in order to bea great university, we needed greatsciences.” And to support all the sciencesthe University needed asubstantial, state-of-the-art science facility.

With about 200,000square feet, the five-story science center willprovide flexible spacefor laboratories, meetingrooms and offices for 75professionals, including20 new faculty mem-bers. Each floor willessentially be devoted toone of the five programareas — which, besidesnanotechnology and environmental cross-roads, include neurosciences, photonics,and structural biology. There will be arooftop observatory for measuring andanalyzing environmental data; electronmicroscopes and other sophisticated imag-ing equipment; a high-tech “visualizationroom”; a 100-seat auditorium for scientific

symposia; a public education center wherevisitors can learn what’s going on at thecenter; and a café.

“It’s really creating a science park,” saysSmall.

One of the center’s high-impact facili-ties will be its clean room, a large, highlycontrolled, filtered environment located inthe basement, which can be used to fabri-cate tiny “nanostructures” for a host ofcomplex research problems. When com-pleted, this clean room will likely be theonly one in New York City with “this levelof refinement,” Small says.

Stark envisions working with nanotech-nology experts at the ASRC to helpadvance her research in molecularbiophysics at City College. For example,by examining how scientists engineernanostructures for the delivery of drugsinto patients, Stark says she could discovertechniques that could help “get a molecu-lar view” of how melanin pigments devel-op — and under what conditions theybecome malignant. “A lot of times it’s amatter of making connections, just gettingpeople in a room and asking how they

attacked similar researchproblems,” says Stark,who is also director ofthe CUNY Institute forMacromolecularAssemblies, whichincludes faculty acrossseveral campuses.“Nothing really substi-tutes for face-to-facecontact.”

Indeed, the sciencecenter was designedspecifically to promotecollaboration while pre-

serving privacy and flexibility for unantici-pated changes in research needs, saysDavid Halpern, a senior associate at FladArchitects, a Wisconsin-based firm recog-nized for its planning and design of high-tech buildings. The center offers anabundance of spaceconducive to informal

“ The building itself will

provide an unusual design to

encourage formal and informal

collaboration . . . ”

BRAINSTORMING: Seated at ASRC planning session are, from left, architect Rich Zottola; City College lab technician Tom Legbandt;architect David Halpern; David Salmon, assistant director ofCUNY’s department of design, construction and management; CityCollege associate professor Fred Moshary; architect Chuck Gantt.Standing next to rendering of the building are Graduate Centerprofessor Ted Brown and University Vice Chancellor for ResearchGillian Small.

Faculty ideas helped mold the University’s unique Advanced Science Research Center, s


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the Ground Updiscussion among researchers. Example:the easily accessible conference rooms andnumerous open areas — the so-called “tearooms”— near stairways, notes Halpern,who worked closely with CUNY facultyand officials in creating the facility. “A lotof science happens on stair landings,” hesays.

Vörösmarty, the envi-ronmental crossroadsdirector, has alreadyembraced the collabora-tive philosophy of thescience center — evenwhile housed at his tem-porary quarters at CityCollege.

“What I’m excitedabout is moving intothat new building whereI will have on otherfloors experts on nan-otechnology, photonics,chemistry, structural bio-chemistry,” he says. “Iwould love to have a dialogue about howtheir technologies can be brought to bearon some of the big environmental ques-tions … I could walk down the stairs andpose them a challenge of how we couldproduce miniaturized sensing systems thatwould allow us to better understand thechemistry and quantities of waterdistributed in many parts of the develop-ing world.”

When completed, the ASRC will be a“LEED-certified” building — meeting highenvironmental standards set by the U.S.Green Building Council. The center’sdesign also had to meet a demanding setof requirements for maintaining its high-end equipment and instrumentation, notesHalpern. Such facilities, like the cleanroom, are “technically complex spaces”that require the ability to containhazardous substances while being protect-ed from vibrations and other interferencepervasive in a busy metropolitan area. Atthe same time, “we need

the building as a whole to function collab-oratively,” Halpern says.

The center is going up next to anothermajor facility, a new science building forCity College. Together, the projects willcost about $700 million in construction,furniture and initial equipment costs,according to Salmon. (A second advanced

science facility, ASRC II is stillin the planning stage.)

Mingling the science —and the scientists — amongthe five research areas “has alot of potential,” says Small,who is also an expert inmolecular and cellular biology.“I see it [the center] enablingCUNY scientists to take theirwork experiences to a differ-ent level and form partner-ships with other facilities andNew York institutions.”

Vörösmarty and Stark seethe center as nothing less than“an intellectual crossroads” for

science in the coming years. Pointing toNew York City as one of the world’s greatcultural and financial crossroads,Vörösmarty says he plans to bring “thisnotion of crossroads dialogue” to environ-mental research at the Advanced ScienceResearch Center.

By their very nature, problems likehunger alleviation and environmental sus-tainability are questions that cross manydisciplinary boundaries, Vörösmarty says, sodecisions made in one arena, like the use ofagricultural nutrients to grow crops, can nolonger be viewed through a narrow locallens. “These questions are not just agrono-my issues,” he says. “They reverberate inthe chemistry of the earth, thehydrology of the earth, its atmo-sphere and coastal zones,” hesays. “That’s the kind of dia-logue we’re trying to catalyze.”

“ We talked about what

our strengths should be to

build national and inter-

national recognition. ”— Vice Chancellor for ResearchGillian Small

soon starting construction uptown.HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY improved essential services for students,

Garrie W. Moore, University vice chancellor for student development, hasannounced his retirement, effective Sept. 30. Moore and his wife,

LaVonne, will pursue “a spiritual calling” — helping North Carolina high schoolstudents and dropouts who “need extra help preparing for the next phase of life,"he said. Before joining the University three years ago, Moore taught in EastCarolina University’s School of Allied Health in Greenville, N.C., after serving as itsvice chancellor for student life. He holds a doctorate in adult education and servedin the U.S. Army Medical Corps during the Vietnam War. "Vice Chancellor Moorehas garnered the trust and respect of students across the University,'' saidChancellor Matthew Goldstein. “He has been their strongest advocate, and we aredeeply indebted to him.”Moore recently discussed University initiatives for students with the CUNYChannel at http://web.cuny.edu/administration/sa/video.html.Here are edited excerpts:

Q: How does CUNY help returning veterans?

Vice Chancellor Moore: There are 27,000 veterans atCUNY and we expect 10,000 more. We have a veter-ans’ resource office on every campus where they canmeet with counselors, get advice and obtain resourcesto assist with mental health problems, domesticissues, academics and employment concerns. Veteranswho are called back to active duty are encouraged toreturn when their service is completed, and our dis-tance learning programs let them use laptops to con-tinue course work while in the service.

Q: What is CUNY’s approach to health counseling?

A: We established counseling centers at every campusto address all student health issues, not just mentalhealth, but also wellness. Many students do not havefamily physicians, so we provide access and referrals and offer reasonably pricedhealth insurance. We developed a medical withdrawal policy so students who arehaving difficulty coping in or out of the classroom can withdraw from school inorder to obtain the help they need and re-enter without penalty.

Q: You believe in leadership training.

A: We're not just educating students in the classroom; we're educating them tobecome future leaders. The Leadership Academy engages our students in servicelearning activities, leadership seminars and national leadership programs. We devel-oped an official cocurricular transcript that documents their cocurricular activities,which they can provide to an employer or graduate school along with their aca-demic transcript.

Q: What does the Office of Student Advocacy and Referral do?

A: It gives students the chance to contact a professional when they are having diffi-culty, for example with a faculty or staff member, or problems at home. It can bean ombudsman on the student’s behalf.

Q: You take a comprehensive approach to fostering students’ well-being.

A: A great university should address its students holistically: their physical andmental health and family issues, not just their academic and intellectual concerns.Because many students work, we provide child-care centers on most campuses.And we established centers where women — and men — in abusive domestic situ-ations can get help.

Q:: Tell us about the Black Male Initiative, which helps African-American mengraduate.

A: The initiative addresses the need to increase the number and success of blackmales in higher education. But there is a diverse group, including women and men ofall races. They are taught leadership skills, coping skills and are provided with coun-selors and advisers. It’s successful and is impacting the entire CUNY community.

Q: What about career services?

A: We have career centers throughout the University where they can receive helpwith curriculum and career planning from the freshman year onward.

Q: How is CUNY meeting the needs of its students with disabilities?

A: While 8,000 students have self-identified as disabled, there are probably manymore. We have a Disability Support Service Office on every campus, and Dr. ChrisRosa, our director of disability support, received a $7 million grant to address theneeds of these students.

Q: What is your greatest satisfaction?

A: Meeting and working with people from so many different countries and back-grounds and interacting with talented students who are deeply committed to theireducation. I'm proud of our accomplishments with health care generally and men-tal health in particular. I’m also proud of my talented staff and the wonderfuladministration that is so focused on student success and well-being. There is noother place where you can gain the rewards that come from working at CUNY.

Garrie W. Moore

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