February 14, 2005 (Vol. 1, No. 2)

Quorum Series: New Faculty Research

With this installment, Lehman E-News begins the "Quorum Series," featuring information on recent faculty research, publications and presentations. The series will continue through March.

Evelyn Ackerman
Stefan Bernard Baumrin
Nicholas Boston
Joanne C. Chang
Eugene M. Chudnovsky
Anthony Cocchi
Billy Collins
Frances Della Cava
Brian Leahy Doyle
Melvin Fitting

Evelyn Ackerman

Evelyn Ackerman (Professor, History) presented "Waldemar Haffkine à Paris" at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies in Paris in June 2004. She also organized a symposium entitled "East Asian Medicine under Communism" at the CUNY Graduate Center in July 2004.

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Stefan Bernard Baumrin

Stefan Bernard Baumrin (Professor, Philosophy) published "The Shoes of The Other" as the lead article in Philosophical Forum in Dec. 2004. He presented "Becoming Moral" in Feb. 2005 at the Moral Education Seminar, Columbia University, and in April at the Oxford/Mt Sinai Consortium in Bioethics at Oriel College, Oxford.

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Nicholas Boston

(Substitute Assistant Professor, Journalism, Communication and Theatre) presented "The Illest Ever: Black Men and the New Men's Magazine Genre" in Feb. 2005 at the Black Masculinities Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center.

He reports and writes frequently in the popular media. As a writer and consultant for PBS, he recently contributed to the nationally broadcast documentary "Slavery and the Making of America." Click on the links below to read his essays.

Responses to Enslavement
Living Conditions
Freedom & Emancipation

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Joanne C. Chang

(Assistant Professor, Music) completed her concert tour in Switzerland in Nov. 2004 where she performed with the Chao Ai Choir and Hua Yun Choir from London. She also performed piano solos in Bern and Olten, Switzerland. In Jan. 2005, she gave master classes in South Carolina. In April, she will give more concerts in New York at Symphony Space and in South Carolina.

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Eugene M. Chudnovsky

(Distinguished Professor, Physics & Astronomy) published the following papers: "Universal Decoherence in Solids," Physical Review Letters (March 2004); "Electromagnetic Radiation Produced by Avalanches in the Magnetization Reversal of Mn-12 Acetate," Applied Physics Letters (March 2004); "Generic Mechanisms of Decoherence of Quantum Oscillations in Magnetic Double-Well Systems," Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (June 2004); "Quantum Dynamics of Crystals of Molecular Magnets Inside Microwave Resonators," Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (June 2004); "Decoherence Through Superradiance in Quantum Computers," SPIE Magazine (April 2004); co-authored by Bronx High School of Science student Collin Joseph "Collective Electromagnetic Relaxation in Crystals of Molecular Magnets," Physical Review B (November 2004); "Pulsed Field Studies of the Magnetization Reversal in Molecular Nanomagnets," Physical Review B (2004); "Phonon Superradiance in Nanomagnets," Physical Review Letters (2004). He presented the "Terahertz Radiation from Molecular Magnets," at the International Workshop on Electron Properties of Nanoscale Systems in Nov. 2003; "Molecular Nanomagnets: Theory, Experiment, Applications," at the International Workshop on Transport and Magnetism in Jan. 2004; "Decoherence Through Superradiance in Quantum Computers," at the Defense and Security Symposium in Orlando, Florida, April 2004; "Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization in Molecular Magnets," at the Joint European Magnetic Symposium in Dresden, Germany, Sept. 2004; and "Phonon Laser Effect in Nanomagnets," at the Fifth International Workshop on Electron Properties of Nanoscale Systems in Argonne, Illinois, November 2005. Prof. Chudnovsky also served on the NSF Panel on Material Research Science and Engineering.

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Anthony Cocchi

(Distinguished Lecturer, Math and Computer Science) wrote "The Jikes RVM Project: Building an Open Source Research Community," in the IBM Systems Journal.

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Billy Collins

(Distinguished Professor, English) edited the following two anthologies of contemporary poetry: Poetry 180: A Turning Back To Poetry (Random House) and 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Everyday Life (Random House Trade Paperbacks). His new collection of poems, The Trouble With Poetry (Random House), is due to be published in fall 2005. His poems have appeared in the following periodicals and textbooks: The Atlanta Review, The Florida Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, Five Points, Margie, Atlantic Monthly, London Review of Books, The Best American Poetry 2004, and The Norton Introduction to Literature. He wrote the foreward to the Signet 150th anniversary edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and the introduction to The Subway Photographs (Random House, 2004). Poetry gave him The Mark Twain Award, and his most recent poetry book, Nine Horses, was short listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize.

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Frances Della Cava

Frances Della Cava (Assistant Professor, Sociology and Social Work) co-wrote (with N. Kolko-Phillips & M.H.Engel) "Adoption in the U.S.: The Emergence of a Social Movement," Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare (December 2004).

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Brian Leahy Doyle

(Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism, Communication and Theatre) presented "In the Pocket with Larry Kirwan" at the Columbia University Irish Studies Seminar, Columbia University, Nov. 5, 2004. He also presented "Preparing the Theatre's Next Generation Through Writing Across the Curriculum" at the Hawaii International Conferences in Arts and Humanities in Honolulu, Jan. 2005. For the Lehman College Theatre Program, he served as dialect coach for its production of "The Glass Menagerie" in Nov. 2004 and served as vocal coach for the program's production of "Othello" in March 2005.

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Melvin Fitting

(Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science) published "Modal Proof Theory" to appear as Chapter One in The Handbook of Modal Logic (Elsevier, 2005) and "A Logic of Explicit Knowledge," which will appear in the Logica 2004 Proceedings, a volume from the Czech Academy of Sciences (2005.) He also published the following articles in the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic: "First-Order Intentional Logic," vol. 127, pp. 171-193 (2004) and "The Logic of Proofs, Semantically," vol. 132, pp. 1-25 (2005). He was invited to speak at the Studia Logica Anniversary Conference in Denmark (Nov. 2003), Tel Aviv, Israel (March 2004), and Liverpool, England (June 2004) and at the Logica Conference, Czech Republic (June 2004)

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