March 28, 2005 (Vol. 1, No. 5)

Quorum Series: New Faculty Research

The following is the final installment of Quorum for the 2004-2005 academic year. Look for the next edition in Spring 2006.

Julianna Maantay
Penny Prince
Gaoyin Qian
Jose L. Rénique
Andrew W. Robertson
Marjorie Rosen
Thomas C. Spear
Duane Tananbaum
Patricia J. Thompson
Terry Towery
Robert Whittaker
Esther I. Wilder
Marcie Wolfe
Eleanor Wurtzel

Julianna Maantay

Julianna Maantay (Professor, Environmental, Geological and Geographic Sciences) wrote (with J.A. & Ziegler, J.) Geographic Information Systems for the Urban Environment (Environmental Systems Research Institute Press, In Press).

She coauthored (with Marokko, A., Porter-Morgan, H. and Ramsay, B the technical report Predicting West Nile Virus Risk in New York State by Characterizing the Optimal Breeding Habitat of Four Mosquito Vectors (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration CREST Publications Series, #04-2004, 2004).

She published the following articles: "Industrial Zoning Changes in New York City and Environmental Justice: A Case Study in 'Expulsive' Zoning," Projections: The Planning Journal of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Special issue Planning for Environmental Justice, 2003), pp. 63-108; "Asthma and Air Pollution in the Bronx: Methodological and Data Considerations in Using GIS for Environmental Justice and Health Research," Health and Place (Special issue Linking Environmental Justice, Population Health, and Geographical Information Science, forthcoming 2005).

She wrote the following book chapters: "The Geography of Environmental Injustice," in WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems. Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Association of American Geographers, 1904 - 2004 (Kluwer Academic Press, 2004), pp. 163-169; "Zoning, Equity, and Public Health," in Health and Social Justice: A Reader on Politics, Ideology and Inequity in the Distribution of Disease (JosseyBass/John Wiley & Sons, 2003), pp. 228-250; "Expulsive Zoning in New York City: The Environmental Justice Implications of Gentrification and Intensification of Industrial Zones," in Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity (MIT Press, In press).

She presented the following papers: (with Dr. Hal Strelnick of Albert Einstein College of Medicine) "Mapping Asthma Hot Spots: The Geography of Air Pollution and Asthma in the Bronx," at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Meeting "Addressing Cross-Cultural Issues and Health Care Disparities: Collaborating to Transform Primary Care Education and Clinical Practice" (Oct. 2004, NY); "The Environmental Health and Justice Implications of Industrial Zoning Changes in New York City: A Case Study in 'Expulsive' Zoning," at the Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference, Howard University/Association of American Geographers (Sept. 2004, Washington, DC); with (Dr. Marjorie Clarke of the City University of New York) "Recycling and Demographics in New York City," at the Association of American Geographers 100th Annual Meeting (March 2004, Philadelphia); "Environmental Justice and Health: Using GIS and Statistics to Model Environmental Phenomena and Health Inequities," at the University of British Columbia, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies conference, titled "From Theory to Method and Back Again: Linking Environmental Justice, Population Health, and Geographical Information Science" (Oct. 2003).

She received a grant from the New York City Department of Parks for the Geographic Feature Identification Project, for which she served as principal investigator. Five students from Lehman's Geographic Information Science program were selected by the NYC Parks Deparmtnet to work on an innovative citywide mapping project involving GIS, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), remotely-sensed images, and ground truthing activities for the summer and fall 2004.

Professor Maantay received a 2-year extension on a research and education grant from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. Lehman is working in collaboration with City College, Lehman, University of Puerto Rico, Bronx Community College, Columbia University, and six other institutional and industrial partners on this grant.

In other news, several Lehman students and Prof. Maantay attended the Oct., 2004 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Educational Partnership Program Conference at CCNY's NOAA-CREST Center. These students presented posters of their research projects. Prof. Maantay was the lead evaluator for the Environmental Science poster session.

The EGGS Dept. was featured in the award winning "Inside Lehman" TV series, and a number of GISc students and faculty were interviewed for a segment of the show, which highlighted the Geographic Information Science program.

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Penny Prince

Penny Prince (Lecturer, Music) composed the music for "Flight to the Mushroom Planet," a play based on Eleanor Cameron's classic children's book. The play was performed at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls, New York, from Dec. 17 - Dec. 31.

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Gaoyin Qian

Gaoyin Qian (Associate Professor, Specialized Services in Education) presented "Domain Specificity and Domain Generality of In-Service Teachers' Epistemological Beliefs: Their Role in Instructional Practices in Reading," at the annual meeting of the National Reading Conference (Texas, Dec. 2004). This work received $3,600 in funding from the PSC-CUNY Research Award Program.

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Jose L. Rénique

Jose L. Rénique (Associate Professor, History) published La Batalla por Puno: Conflictos Agrarios y Nación en los Andes Peruanos, 1866-1995 (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales and SUR, 2004). He also published the following articles: "Sendero Luminoso: de La Guerra a La Política," Política y Gestión, pp. 11-26 (Feb. 2004) and "De la 'Traición Aprista' al 'Gesto Heroico': Luis de la Puente Uceda y La Guerrilla del MIR," Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe (April 2004).

He presented "Escribir al Indio: Novela e Historia en el Peru" at the Latin American Studies Association, XXV International Congress (Nevada, Oct. 2004) and "De la Ciudad letrada a la Sierra Telurica: Intelectuales y Tradicion Radical en el Peru," at the Coloquio Internacional "Intelectuales y Poder en el Peru" Universidad Catolica del Peru (Peru, Dec. 2004). He received a PSC-CUNY Award, 2004-2005.

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Andrew W. Robertson

Andrew W. Robertson (Associate Professor, History) published The Language of Democracy: Political Rhetoric in the United States and Britain, 1790-1900 (University of Virginia Press, Feb. 2005). He edited (with Jeffrey L. Pasley and David Waldstreicher) Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic (University of North Carolina Press, 2004).

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Marjorie Rosen

Marjorie Rosen (Associate Professor, Journalism, Communication & Theatre) is the editor-in-chief of The Bronx Journal, a newspaper written by students in the department and geared toward Lehman students and the Bronx community. The first issue in almost three years was released in December 2004.

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Thomas C. Spear

Thomas C. Spear (Professor, Languages and Literatures) published "Patrimoine Haïtien (Ayiti Toma)," Africultures, vol. 58, pp. 11-18 (March 2004) and "Élans du Bicentenaire Haïtien," Revi Kiltir Kreol, vol. 4 (Oct. 2004).

He presented the following papers: "Online Voices in French," at French Moves: Performance, Language and Identity in the Francophone World Conference, Columbia University (New York, March 2004); "Productions Marginales et Décentrées (l'exemple d'Haïti)," at the Dérives et Déviances Conference at the Université de la Réunion, Saint-Denis (Réunion Island, May 2004); "La Littérature Néo-Québécoise et sa Disparition" at the American Council on Quebec Studies Conference (Québec City, Nov. 18-21, 2004.)

Professor Spear was awarded "Le Trophée de la Diversité Culturelle 2005" at the "Trophées de la Langue FranÁaise" ceremony (Amiens, France, March 2005) for his Web site, "île en île." The website was also named Literary Web Site of the Week for the Paris daily Le Monde (January 2004); featured in the Paris monthly, Le Magazine Littéraire (May 2004); and featured in the Antananarivo daily, La Gazette de la Grande île (April 2004).

He was a featured guest on the French television program "Double Je," which was broadcast on France 2 (May 2004) and internationally on TV5 and Tempo (June 2004) and in New York on CUNY-TV (July-Oct. 2004).

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Duane Tananbaum

Duane Tananbaum (Professor,Chair, History) received a grant from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute to organize and co-chair the conference on Herbert Lehman: Governor, Statesman, Humanitarian, where he presented the paper "Herbert Lehman: The 'Conscience of the Senate'" (Nov. 2004).

The Lehman College History Department is a partner with Region 2 of the New York City Department of Education in "Telling America's Story," a $990,000, three-year program funded by the U.S. Department of Education to improve the teaching of United States history in the region's 53 middle and high schools, and "Telling America's Story" for elementary-school educators, a similar program to improve the teaching of United States history in the region's 41 elementary schools.

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Patricia J. Thompson

Patricia J. Thompson (Professor, Specialized Services in Education) (who is also Yelena Vladimirovna Mayakovskya, daughter of the famous Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky) was guest speaker at her alma mater, Barnard College, at a meeting of Barnard's Russian Cultural Association, in conjunction with the Russian-American Cultural Heritage Center (Feb. 2005). She accepted the Tower Award in her father's memory at a "Russian Nights Festival" ceremony at the Museum of the City of New York (Oct. 2004), and on April 17, 2005, she will deliver a talk, entitled "Mayakovsky in Manhattan," at the Brooklyn Public Library.

Professor Thompson's "Hestia Triology" was nominated by her publisher, Peter Lang, for the 2005 Criticos Prize from the London Hellenic Society.

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Terry Towery

Terry Towery's (Assistant Professor, Art) photographs were featured in Robert Hirsch's Exploring Color Photography: From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio (McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 4th edition, March 2004), as well as in Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas, Materials and Processes (Focal Press, 2nd edition, May 2004). He also published nine images in an article in P magazine, Issue 27. He presented "Kodaculturalism and the Transnational Tourists' Eye A.K.A. Pictures from a Trip" at the Northeast regional conference of the Society for Photographic Education, Parsons School of Design (New York, 2004).

Recent exhibitions include: "Revealing the Obscure" (postpicasso.com); "Night of 1000 Drawings" (Artists Space); "Winter Auction" (Dumbo Arts Center and scheduled to be included in "The Obsessive Surface" at the Tower Gallery at SUNY Brockport March 1-29, 2005). Professor Towery also received the PSC CUNY 35 grant.

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Robert Whittaker

Robert Whittaker (Professor, Journalism, Communication and Theatre) compiled, edited, and also wrote the commentary and introduction (with N. V. Velikanova, Tolstoi i SShA: Perepiska) for Tolstoy and the USA: Correspondence (Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of World Literature, 2004).

He published "Apollon Aleksandrovich Grigor'ev (1822-1864)" and "Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky (1823-1886)," Russian Literature in the Age of Realism, pp. 141-149, 279-299 (Gale, 2003). The book is part of a series, entitled Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 277. He also published "Obraz Moskvy u Chekhova: Gorod Nadezhdy" (Chekhov's Image of Moscow: City of Hope), Moscow at the Turn of the XX Century: Glance into the Past from Afar, pp. 221-240 (Rosspen, 2004).

He presented the following papers: "Early Translators and Translations into English," at a Symposium and Rare Book Exhibit: From Russia in Translation, held at the New York Public Library (Oct. 2003); "Hidden Slavica: Non-University Collections of Slavic Religious, Ethnic and Cultural Materials" and "The Archival Collections of the Tolstoy Foundation," at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies' annual meeting (Massachusetts, Dec. 2004); and "An Illustrated History of the Tolstoy Foundation," at Valley Cottage Library, Nyack Historical Society (New York, Dec. 2004). He received the PSC-CUNY Faculty Research Award, Support for an Edition of A. L. Tolstoy's "Nash Tolstovskii Fond" (2004-2005).

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Esther I. Wilder

Esther I. Wilder (Assistant Professor, Sociology and Social Work) published (with William H. Walters) The Needs and Rights of Individuals with Disabilities: Voices from the Heartland (Brookline Books, in press). Her second book, Wheeling and Dealing: The Reconstruction of Identity in the Aftermath of Spinal Cord Injury, is forthcoming from Vanderbilt University Press. The editorial board at Vanderbilt University Press awarded this title the Norman L. and Roselea Goldberg Prize in November 2004 for the best work in health care and medicine.

Professor Wilder (with co-PIs Kofi Benefo, Elhum Haghighat and Elin Waring) is the principal investigator for a recently awarded $175,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, entitled "Integrating Data Analysis Into the Curriculum: Bridging the Quantitative Literacy Gap among Undergraduates in the Social Sciences." This project has been a collaborative effort on the part of all of the faculty in the Sociology program to enhance students' data analysis skills.

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Marcie Wolfe

Marcie Wolfe (Director, Institute for Literacy Studies) edited (with Bonne August) Facilitating Collaboration: Issues in High School/College Professional Development (The City University of New York, 2004). Her review of Joseph Check's Politics, Language, and Culture: A Critical Look at School Reform (Praeger, 2002) was published in The Quarterly of the National Writing Project, vol. 26, no. 3 (2004). She presented "Keywords in Literacy Education" at the Summer Institute of the National Writing Project Reading Initiative, Babson College (Massachusetts, July 2004).

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Eleanor Wurtzel

Eleanor Wurtzel (Professor, Biological Sciences) published the following: (with Grotewold, E.) "Plant Metabolic Engineering," Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing (Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2005); (with Gallagher, C.E. & Matthews, P.D.) "Gene Duplication in the Carotenoid Biosynthetic Pathway Preceeded Evolution of the Grasses," Plant Physiology, vol. 134, no. 3: 1776-1783; "Genomics, Genetics, and Biochemistry of Maize Carotenoid Biosynthesis," Recent Advances in Phytochemistry, vol 38 (Elsevier, 2004); (with Wong, J.C., Lambert, R.J. & Rocheford, T.R.) "QTL and Candidate Genes Phytene Synthase and Zetacarotene Desaturase Associated with the Accumulation of Carotenoids in Maize," Theoretical and Applied Genetics, vol. 108 (2), pp. 349-359; (with Matthews, P.D. & Luo, R.) "Maize Phytoene Desaturase and Zetacarotene Desaturase Catalyze a Poly-Z Desaturation Pathway: Implications for Genetic Engineering of Carotenoid Content Among Cereal Crops," Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 54 (391), pp. 2215-2230 (2003); and (with Gallagher, C.E. & Cervantes-Cervantes, M.) "Surrogate Biochemistry: Use of Escherichia Coli to Identify Plant cDNAs that Impact Metabolic Engineering of Carotenoid Accumulation," Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, vol. 60, pp. 713-719 (2003, Published online 2002: DOI 10.1007/s00253-002-1182-6).

She presented the following papers: "Plant Genomics: Molecular Solutions to Global Nutritional Deficiency," at a public lecture sponsored by Gujarat State Biotech Mission and Shri M. & N. Virani Science College (India, Nov. 2004) and at a public lecture sponsored by Gujarat State Biotech Mission and M.G. Science Institute (India, Nov. 2004); "Plant Genomics: Molecular Solutions to Global Vitamin A Deficiency," at the International Knowledge Millennium Conference (India, Oct.-Nov. 2004) and at Osmania University (India, Oct. 2004); "Genomics, Genetics and Biochemistry of Maize Carotenoid Biosynthesis" at Cornell University, Dept. of Plant Breeding (New York, May 2004), which was also videotaped for streaming video for access by the University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa.

Professor Wurtzel still holds the title of Honorary Curator for the New York Botanical Garden's Institute of Systematic Botany (2003-present). She is also the organizer and chair of a new Gordon Research Conference that she proposed on "Plant Metabolic Engineering" to take place July 10-15, 2005, in New Hampshire.

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