Past Features
February 14, 2008 (Vol. 7, No. 2)
Quorum Series, Part Two: New Faculty Research
Following is the second segment of the 2008 Quorum Series, presenting highlights of the research being conducted by Lehman College faculty.
Eric Delson
Melvin Fitting
Christy Folsom
Sharon Freedberg
Alyshia Gálvez
Michael D. Garral
Christopher Gerry
Yuri Gorokhovich
William M. Hoffman
Thomas Ihde
Gisela Jia
Alan Kluger
Patricia Kolb
Irene Leung
Sandra Levey
Eric Delson
Eric Delson
Professor Delson co-authored the following book chapters: "Localized Components Analysis," in Information Processing in Medical Imaging, ed. N. Karssmeijer and B. Lelieveldt, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4584, pp. 519-531 (Berlin: Springer, 2007); "Analysis of Selected Hominoid Joint Surfaces Using Laser Scanning and Geometric Morphometrics: A Preliminary Report," in Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay, ed. Eric J. Sargis and Marian Dagosto, Vertebrate Paleobiology & Paleoanthropology (Dordrecht: Springer, 2008).
He also co-authored the following articles: "3D Approaches in Paleoanthropology: Small Steps Beyond William White Howells (abstract)," American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 44 (2007):98; (with T. Harrison) "Mesopithecus sivalensis from the Late Miocene of the Siwaliks (abstract)," American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 44 (2007):126; (with W. Harcourt-Smith, S. Frost, and C. Norris) "Databases, Data Access, and Data-Sharing in Paleoanthropology: First Steps," Evolutionary Anthropology 16 (2007):161-163.
Professor Delson wrote "Paleoanthropology, the Short Version," a book review of Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction by Bernard Wood (Oxford University Press, 2005) in the Journal of Mammalian Evolution 14, no. 3 (2007): 198-199.
In March 2007, Professor Delson organized a symposium on recent developments in the paleontology of Old World Monkeys at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Philadelphia, Penn., and he presented two papers: (with W.E.H. Harcourt-Smith, S.R. Frost, A.L. Rosenberger, F.J. Rohlf, A.B. Amenta, and D.F. Wiley) "3D Approaches in Paleoanthropology: Small Steps Beyond William White Howells" and (with T. Harrison) "Mesopithecus sivalensis from the Late Miocene of the Siwaliks."
Professor Delson was invited to participate in a Wenner-Gren workshop, held in New York in honor of Dr. Clifford Jolly, on future prospects in physical anthropology (October 2007).
From the National Science Foundation (NSF), Professor Delson received additional funding to supplement his ongoing grant "SEI (SBE): Collaborative Research on Visualization of Evolutionary Transformation using 3D Morphometrics: African Monkeys as a Test Case" to provide research experience to Lehman undergraduates Fiona McIntosh, Deola Ladejobi, and Yarimel Lopez; funding from the NSF's Physical Anthropology Program provided dissertation research support for Professor Delson's doctoral student Steven Wang (March 2007-February 2008), "DDI—Testing the Continuity of Middle and Late Pleistocene Hominins in Asia."
Grants from both the NSF Physical Anthropology Program and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research permitted Professor Delson and colleagues to organize the workshop "Databases and Data-Sharing in Paleoanthropology" in April 2007. The workshop was held at the American Museum of Natural History, where twenty-five colleagues from the United States and around the world discussed problems and approaches for two days. A report on this meeting was published in Evolutionary Anthropology (cited above) and a more extensive version will appear in PaleoAnthropology.
Professor Delson and colleagues developed PRIMO (Primate Morphology Online), a publicly accessible, web-based database that contains metrical data collected by Professor Delson and colleagues over the past forty years. Go to www.nycep.org/primo and follow directions. With Ross D.E. MacPhee, Professor Delson served as the co-editor of Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, a new book series published by Springer. Five volumes were released in 2007, a sixth volume is in press for early 2008, and another twenty volumes are in progress. Professor Delson is also planning to edit a volume on the results of his multi-year project at the French paleontological site of Senèze.
Melvin Fitting
Melvin Fitting
Professor Fitting authored the following articles: "Realizations and LP," in Logical Foundations of Computer Science, ed. Artemov and Nerode, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4514, 2007: 212-223; "A Quantified Logic of Evidence," Annals of Pure and Applied Logic (forthcoming); and "Reasoning With Justifications," Studia Logica (forthcoming).
Professor Fitting and Professor Sergei Artemov also received a CUNY Collaborative Grant.
Christy Folsom
Christy Folsom
Professor Folsom presented the following papers: "Bringing Together Intellectual and Social Emotional Learning in Gifted Students: TIEL Curriculum Model" and (with Dona Matthews) "Got It! Professional Development that Facilitates Emotion/Cognition Connections" at the New York City Department of Education Citywide Gifted Conference at Columbia University (May 2007); she presented the latter paper and "Observations of Four Schools for the Gifted in Russia" at the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) 54th Annual Convention in Minnesota (November 2007); and "Cognition, Emotion, and Curriculum Design: Finding and Developing Giftedness in the Twenty-First Century," at the Advocacy for Gifted and Talented Education (AGATE) in New York State Conference in Loudonville, N.Y. (October 2007).
In other news, Professor Folsom has signed a contact with R & L Education, a division of Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., for a book on developing project-based curricula using the TIEL model, drawn from case studies in her dissertation and current work with teacher candidates. Working titles include: "Creating Powerful Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century: Teaching for Intellectual and Emotional Learning (TIEL)."
She has begun to analyze data collected from a three-year research project carried out with teacher candidates to assess how effectively her curriculum and instruction courses trained them in the TIEL model. By following teacher candidates in their classrooms as they implement the model, analyzing teacher-designed materials, observing classrooms, and interviewing students and teachers, Professor Folsom will look for evidence of greater teaching of cognitive and social emotional learning.
Professor Folsom has also been invited to write a chapter for Morality, Ethics, and Gifted Minds, to be edited by Don Ambrose (editor of Roeper Review) and Tracy L. Cross (editor of The Journal for the Education of the Gifted) and to include author Robert Sternberg. The book is expected to be published in 2009.
Sharon Freedberg
Sharon Freedberg
Alyshia Gálvez
Alyshia Gálvez
Professor Gálvez wrote the article "'I too was an Immigrant': An Analysis of Differing Modes of Mobilization in Two Bronx Mexican Migrant Organizations," International Migration, vol. 45, no. 1 (2007): 87-121.
Professor Gálvez (and José Carlos Luque Brazán of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) both organized the session "Putting the 'National' Back in Transnationalism: A Reexamination of Latin American Migrations/Los nacionalismos culturales del transnacionalismo en la migración lationamericana de nuestro continente" (with the participants George Yudice, Alicia Carmona, and Robert Smith) and presented the paper "Proyecto Alternativo de la Nación? The new roles of Mexican nationals residing abroad in Mexican political life" at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress in Montreal (September 2007).
Professor Gálvez gave an invited presentation on one chapter of her book manuscript, "In the Name of Guadalupe: Religion, Politics, and Citizenship among Mexicans in New York City," at "Religions in New York City," a University Seminar at Columbia University (December 2007).
Michael D. Garral
Michael D. Garral (Assistant Professor, Philosophy) published the articles "On 'Becoming Moral': Principles vs. Particular Institutions in Ethics," Philosophical Forum, vol. 38, no. 4 (Winter 2007): 343-355 and "Is the Self in Hume Overmoralized?" Revista de Filosofia (Univ. Complutense de Madrid), vol. 32, no. 1 (September 2007): 165-183. He also presented the paper "'Between Deism and Atheism': Hume and Russell on Religion" at the annual meeting of the Bertrand Russell Society, Monmouth University, N.J. (June 2007).
In November 2007, Professor Garral received a three-credit teaching release from the CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publications Program, effective spring 2008. He will also participate in a bimonthly writing workshop sponsored by the program.
In other news, Professor Garral chaired a session given by the History of Early Analytic Philosophy Society (HEAPS) at the American Philosophical Association – Eastern Division conference in Baltimore (December 2007).
Christopher Gerry
Christopher Gerry
Professor Gerry also presented the papers "Quantum State Engineering and Measurement with Cross-Kerr Interactions" at the Quantum Optics Colloquium at the University of Rochester (February 2007) and "Quantum Precision Measurements: The Entanglement Advantage" at a colloquium held at Colgate University (April 2007).
He has also been awarded a grant from the Research Corporation to study "Temporal and Spatial Resolution of Fundamental Processes in Quantum Field Theory."
Yuri Gorokhovich
Yuri Gorokhovich
In January 2008, Professor Gorokhovich and two Lehman undergraduate assistants traveled to Peru where they and a group of graduate students, under the direction of Dr. Shannon Doocy of Johns Hopkins University, collected data to assess the risks to the population from a large earthquake that devastated the coastal towns of Ica, Pisco, and Chincha in August 2007. The project, which has been funded by the National Science Foundation, relies on the analysis of spatial and socio-demographic data gathered by remote sensing instruments, field surveys of the affected population, and the testing of construction materials. The collected data and subsequent analysis will help decision makers save lives after disasters occur, improve post-disaster management, and reduce population vulnerability. The two Lehman students, Shiloh Herbert and Andrea K. Diaz, assisted Professor Gorokhovich with fieldwork.
William M. Hoffman
William M. Hoffman
Professor Hoffman published his play Good Night, I Love You, pp. 185-194 and the essay "I Was Reborn on Cornelia Street," pp. 34-36 in Return to the Caffe Cino, ed. Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa (San Francisco: Moving Finger Press, 2007).
The Ghosts of Versailles, a two-act opera composed by Lehman Distinguished Professor John Corigliano to a libretto written by Professor Hoffman, premiered by the Metropolitan Opera and scheduled for revival in 2009-10, was performed at the University of Houston (February-March 2007).
Professor Hoffman served on a panel on modern opera libretto at a conference sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera in New York (February 2008) and gave a presentation on his play As Is at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, Penn. (May 2007).
He directed The Blue Monster at Lehman College (May 2007). Professor Hoffman's play A Quick Nut Bread to Make Your Mouth Water was produced by the Peculiar Works Project and performed in November 2007 in Soho, New York. A staged reading of his play Cornbury, also produced by the Peculiar Works Project, was performed in November 2007 at the Greenwich House, New York. In January 2008, his play, Good Night, I Love You, was performed at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York.
Professor Hoffman taped five episodes of his CUNY TV program Conversations With William M. Hoffman. He interviewed: Ricky Gordon and Michael Corie, Sir Arnold Wesker, Peter Gelb, Kent Nagano, and Adam Guettel. In November, he was interviewed on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) news magazine show, In the Life, about the Caffe Cino.
Thomas Ihde
Thomas Ihde
Professor Ihde was awarded a PSC-CUNY grant for "A Sound Atlas of Galway Irish" (2007).
In other news, Professor Ihde successfully applied to Fulbright to have Ms. Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, a foreign language teaching assistant, spend 2007-2008 teaching the Irish language at Lehman College. Ms. Ní Ghearbhuigh arrived in August 2007 and is teaching both Lehman and Queens College students. Professor Ihde also led seven students to the west of Ireland last summer for a four-week study abroad program.
Gisela Jia
Gisela Jia
Professor Jia gave an invited talk, "Bilingual Language Development among Asian American Children–Research Findings and Implications for Educators and Parents," at CUNY's Asian American/Asian Research Institute (February 2008). In March 2008, she will present "Language development among young bilingual children in the Asian communities in New York City" at a full-day institute, entitled "Early Childhood Education for Bilingual Children in California: Drawing on National Research and Promising Practice," at the Annual Convention of the California Association for Bilingual Education in San José.
Professor Jia also received a PSC-CUNY Grant that supports a research project on the early language development of bilingual Mandarin-English speaking children.
In other news, she was invited to serve on the planning committee of "Language and Literacy Development of Minority Children," a national roundtable to be held in Washington, D.C. in April 2008. Currently, Professor Jia is researching bilingual language development in Asian communities with assistance from Lehman undergraduate Shan Chang, CUNY Graduate Center doctoral student Changmo Jeung, and two graduate students from New York University. She is also sponsoring a research project by Lehman undergraduate Joy Brown on parental knowledge about child development in minority communities.
Alan Kluger
Alan Kluger
Professor Kluger published the abstract (with J.G. Gianutsos, K. Sawyer, and J. Golomb) "The Effect of Exercise Combined With Donepezil on the Mental and Motor Activity of Persons With Alzheimer's Disease," Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, vol. 87, no. 11 (November 2006): e42.
Professor Kluger also presented the paper (with L. Nakhutina, J.C. Borod, Y. Stern, K.T. Kreiter, S. Peery, M. Schmidt, and S.A. Mayer) "The effect of educational attainment on cognitive performance and recovery in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage" at the International Neuropsychological Association Meeting, Portland, Ore. (February 2007).
Patricia Kolb
Patricia Kolb (Associate Professor, Sociology and Social Work) edited Social Work Practice with Ethnically and Racially Diverse Nursing Home Residents and Their Families (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007) and wrote the introduction, conclusion, and chapter (with Rosemarie Hofstein) "Italian American Elders."
Professor Kolb published the article "A Snapshot of Aging and Philanthropy Today" in Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging 31, no. 2 (Summer 2007).
She wrote the chapter "Developmental Theories of Aging" in Developmental Theories Through the Life Cycle, 2nd edition (New York: Columbia University Press), forthcoming in spring 2008.
Professor Kolb presented the following papers: (with M. Cuadrado, S. Park, and R. Wong) "Interventions Before and After Admission: Ensuring Culturally Enabling and Supportive Nursing Home Care," at the Annual Conference of the State Society on Aging of New York in Albany (October 2007); (with M. Cuadrado) "Teaching Cultural Competence for Social Work with Older Adults: Addressing Nursing Home Placement and Adjustment," at the Annual Conference of the New York State Social Work Education Association in Saratoga Springs (October 2007); and (with M. Davis and S. Park) will be presenting "Approaches and Issues in Providing Culturally Competent Services for Planning and Adjustment to Nursing Home Placement" at the 2008 Joint Conference of the National Council on Aging and the American Society on Aging, Washington, D.C. (March 2008).
Irene Leung
Irene Leung (Professor, Geology & Geography) presented the paper, (with Jonathan Hagstrum) "Clasts of Bladed Serpentine in a K/T Boundary Layer From the Central North Pacific: Implications for Catastrophic Impact by a Chondritic Projectile," Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco (December 2007).
Sandra Levey
Sandra Levey
She also presented the paper "Reports of Best and Least Learned Information in Formative Assessment" at the meeting of the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association, Boston (November 2007).
Professor Levey was an invited reviewer of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Continuing Education Developing Cross-Cultural Communicative Competence (April 2007) and the Journal of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences (October 2007).
In recent news, Professor Levey, received a Faculty Development Grant to support her study of "Noise-Induced Hearing Loss and Portable Music Players." She has initiated a campaign to educate Lehman students in the appropriate use of portable music players, such as iPods, to prevent noise-induced hearing loss. The Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences will offer free hearing screenings to all students on Monday, May 5, and Tuesday, May 6, in the Speech and Theatre Building. This campaign coincides with Better Speech and Hearing Month, sponsored by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Other features in the issue:
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New Exhibit Explores Sculptural Designs
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Celia Cruz Students Headed to Disney World
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Student/Faculty Read-In to Feature Philadelphia Poet
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Chamber Players to Give Free Concert Feb. 20
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Lehman to Host Day-Long 'Dropout Summit II' Feb. 22
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Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis to Visit Lehman Feb. 21
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Chancellor Goldstein Discusses CUNY's Future
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Bronx D.A. to Speak at Annual M.L.K., Jr., Lecture
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Student Club Explores Asian Culture and Beauty in NYC
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Quorum Series, Part Two: New Faculty Research