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Last Updated - 07.25.2023

Grants

• Dr. Lorraine Cupelli and Dr. Georgina Colalillo were awarded the 2022-2023 Nursing Innovation Grant on October 24, 2022, for the implementation of a bridge program and supplemental instruction for second-semester nursing students from January to May 2023.

Publication

• Dr. Sarbani Ghoshal of the Biological Sciences Department co-authored a peer-reviewed research article published in collaboration with Saint Louis University School of Medicine entitled "Adropin correlates with aging-related neuropathology in humans and improves cognitive function in aging mice." Published in NPJ Aging and Mechanisms of Disease (Nature Publishing Group) on August 30, 2021. 

Publication

• Dr. Lorraine Cupelli of the Nursing department published an article entitled "From the ground up: An immersive farm experience for nursing students" in Creative Nursing on July 11, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/CRNR-D-20-00059

Presentation

• Dr. Kevin Kolack presented an invited lecture on March 24, 2021 entitled "Academic Integrity vs. Google and Chegg" as part of the American Chemical Society's seminar series "Platforms for Academic Integrity."

Presentation

• Dr. Clarence Hall was invited by Dr. Joseph Henderson, faculty in the Department of Environment and Society at Paul Smith's College to talk about his recently published book, "A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York's North Country," in a Zoom webinar held on March 18, 2021. 

Publication

• Dr. Mélida Sánchez of the Foreign Languages and Literature department published the book Estudio y edición anotada de la prosa de Josefa Acevedo de Gómez. Madrid: Editorial Pliegos, March 15, 2021.

Publication

• Dr. Kerri-Ann Smith of the English department Co-authored with Dr. Paul M. Buckley a peer reviewed chapter in the anthology, Teaching Race in Perilous Times (SUNY Press) on February 13, 2021.

Publication

• Dr. Patrick Byers, Assistant Professor of Psychology, published a peer reviewed article in the journal Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science titled "There Can Be no Other Reason for this Behavior: Issues in the Ascription of Knowledge to Humans and AI" (May 2020) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12124-020-09531-6

Publication

• Dr. Clarence Hall's first book, A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York's North Country, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in November 2020. The book investigates the pivotal role that environments, environmental politics, and environmentalists played in the planning, construction, and operation of penitentiaries in five communities in New York's Adirondack Park.

 

4.06.2021

Publication

• Drs. Kevin Kolack, Tirandai Hemraj-Benny, and Moni Chauhan in chemistry, have published the peer reviewed article "Community College Chemistry Instruction and Research in the Time of COVID-19" in the Journal of Chemical Education, in August 2020. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c00700

Publication

• Dr. William Blick, assistant professor of Library, published "Cyber Panic: Social Media as Horror", Cineaction, no.100, in May, 2020.

Publication

• Dr. Constance Williams, associate professor of Library and Johnathan Thayer published the peer reviewed article, "Connecting community college students to primary sources in the archives in College and Undergraduate Libraries, in March 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/10691316.2020.1739585

Publication

• William Blick, assistant professor of Library, published "The role of remediation in library reference" in College Student Journal, 54(1), 57-62, in March 2020

3.12.2020

 Student Accomplishments Mentored by Faculty

• Aviva Geismar, assistant professor of Health, Physical Education and Dance, mentored the student Victoria Edwards to perform on the gala concert at the Northeast Regional American College Dance Association conference at SUNY Potsdam.

3.6.2020

Publications

• William Blick, assistant professor of Library, published "Excavating a Future Vision Past: Mike Davis’ City of Quartz" in the March 2020 issue of the Journal Architecture and Culture, DOI: 10.1080/20507828.2019.1706980

Presentation

• Heather Huggins, assistant professor of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts, presented the paper titled “Future-making in Education through Social Presencing Theater: An awareness-based anticipatory methodology” at the 2019 Anticipation Conference, an interdisciplinary and international gathering, and the paper titled “Social Field Research Summer School, a gathering of researchers and practitioners selected through an application process” at Presencing Institute in Berlin, Germany, June 2019.

1.28.2020

Publication

• Neera Mohess, assistant professor of Library, published the article "The Research 101 certificate program at a community college: Giving all students the chance to learn basic information literacy skills" in the Journal of New Librarianship in January 2020. 

1.07.2020

Publication

• Madeline Ruggiero, assistant professor of Library, published a book chapter "Diversity Training for Culturally Competent Library Workers" in the book The Library Workplace Idea Book: Proactive Steps for Positive Change in January 2020. 

Publication

• Dr. Paris Svoronos, professor in chemistry and Thomas J. Bruno have published a reference book chapter, "Materials Characterization" in Electrochemical Methods, Volume 10, PP.266-291, December 2019.

10.30.2019

Presentations

• Susan Wengler, assistant professor of Library, presented a poster session “Leveling the playing field: Community college librarians discuss the ACRL Framework” at the 2019 Library Research Seminar VII at Columbia, South Carolina.

10.16.2019

Publications

• John Schriner, assistant professor of Library, published the book review of “Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P by Robert W. Gehl” in the journal Internet Histories on June 3, 2019.

10.10.2019

Grants

• Wenjian Liu, assistant professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, received the 2019-2020 Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (CURM) mini-grant award for $15,700.

Presentations

• Wenjian Liu, assistant professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, presented the following papers and posters: “Spectrum Analysis on a Positive Stochastic Process with Multiple Driving Processes” at the Third Biennial Conference on Financial Mathematics in Farmingdale State College, March 2019; “Big Data Information Inference on the Infinite Communication Tree Network of DNA Evolution” at the Seminar on Stochastic Processes 2019 in University of Utah in March 2019, “Big Data Information Reconstruction on the Infinite Communication Tree Network” at the Finger Lakes Probability Seminar in Cornell University in April 2019; “Big Data Information Inference on an Infinite Tree for a 4-state Asymmetric Model with Community Effects” at the 31st Cumberland Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, in University of Central Florida in May 2019.

Publications

• Wenjian Liu, assistant professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, published the following peer-reviewed articles: “Large Degree Asymptotics and the Reconstruction Threshold of the Asymmetric Binary Channels” in the March 2019 issue of the Journal of Statistical Physics, Volume 174, Issue 6, page 1161–1188; “Evolution of Regional Innovation with Spatial Knowledge Spillovers: Convergence or Divergence?” in the August 2019 issue of Networks and Spatial Economics, page 1-30; and “Information Reconstruction on an Infinite Tree for a 4 × 4 -State Asymmetric Model with Community Effects” in the August issue of the Journal of Statistical Physics, page 1-30.

10.1.2019

• William Blick, assistant professor of Library, published "Wading Through the Predators: Using Electronic Resources to Avoid Unscrupulous Publishers" in the September 2019 issue of the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, page 103-193.

9.13.2019

Publications

• Sarbani Ghoshal, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biological Sciences and Geology, published a peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Biological Chemistry in July 2019, as a co-first author from her collaborative work with Professor Butler, the discoverer of peptide hormone, adropin. Her publication provides important insights about the role of adropin in maintaining liver glucose metabolism.

8.27.2019

Publications

• Sharon Lall-Ramnarine, professor in Chemistry, published “Structural Analysis of Ionic Liquids With Symmetric and Asymmetric Fluorinated Anions” in the Journal of Chemical Physics on August 21, 2019. Dr. Lall-Ramnarine mentored four QCC students to co-author the article: Jasodra D. Ramdihal, Kristina Papacostas, Eddie D. Fernandez, and Rawlric Sumner. Dr. Lall-Ramnarine also published “Spectroscopic Assessment of Intra- and Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding in Ether-Functionalized Imidazolium Ionic Liquids” in The Journal of Physical Chemistry on August 16, 2019, with three QCC students Jasodra D. Ramdihal, Rawlric A. Sumner, and Chanele Rodriguez.

7.3.2019

Media Presence and Publications

• Kimberly Riegel, assistant professor in Physics, was the member spotlight for the American Association of Physics Teachers for June. The announcement was published in the AAPT June eNNOUNCER newsletter. Kimberly also published “Sonic boom propagation around a large building using a combined ray tracing/radiosity method” in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America in April 2019.

4.9.2019

Publications

• Christopher Leary, assistant professor in English, published “Editing, Translation, and Recovery Work in Community College Classes,” in Teaching English in the Two-Year College in March 2019.
• “Community College Librarians and the ACRL Framework: Findings from a National Study” was accepted for publication, authored by Susan Wengler, assistant professor in Library, and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg in Ithaka S+ R in College & Research Libraries in April 2019. The preprint is available at CUNY academic Works:  https://academicworks.cuny.edu/qb_pubs/56

3.26.2019

Publications

• Richard Mako, assistant professor of Library published “Marginalia, Value and Meaning: A Study” in Community & Junior College Libraries on March 19, 2019.

3.12.2019

Publications

• Sebastian Murolo, assistant professor of Business, published “New tax transcript practice” in Journal of Accountancy, on March 1, 2019.

Presentations

• Sebastian Murolo, assistant professor of Business, presented “Assessing critical listening skills across disciplines” at the Bergen Community College in New Jersey. His focus was on the results of the Listening in Business and how this affected his own teaching style.

3.5.2019

Publications

• Leslie Ward, assistant professor of Library, and Mi Seon Kim, assistant professor of Library, published “Faculty perception of information literacy at Queensborough Community College” in Community & Junior College Libraries in February 2019.

2.11.2019

Publications

• Kathleen Wentrack, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Art and Design, published “MOOCs 2.0: Reviewing n.paradoxa's MOOC on Contemporary Art and Feminism” in Art History Pedagogy & Practice, Volume 2, Issue 2 in 2017.

Book Chapter

• Kathleen Wentrack, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Art and Design, published two book chapters, “1970s Feminist Practice as Heterotopian: The Stichting Vrouwen in de Beeldende Kunst and the Schule für kreativen Feminismus,” in  All Women Art Spaces in the Long 1970s, in 2018, edited by  Agata Jakubowska and Katy Deepwell.  And “The Power of Images: Enhancing Learning Outcomes in a History of Photography through the Refugee Experience,” in Humanistic pedagogy across the disciplines: Approaches to mass atrocity education in the community college context, in 2018. Dr. Wentrack is a co-founding editor of Art History Pedagogy & Practice. AHPP is an open access peer-reviewed journal launched fall of 2016 and sponsored by the Graduate Center, CUNY on academic Commons.  

Presentations

• Sarbani Ghoshal, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biological Sciences and Geology, presented a poster session titled “IP6K1 is a novel target in age or obesity induced fat accumulation, insulin resistance and NAFLD” at the Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology conference on January 21, 2019..

 Performance

• Arthur Adair, M.F.A., assistant professor of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts, directed the performance “Chasing the New White Whale,” from November 24 to December 9, 2018, at the Ellen Stewart Theatre.

12.18.2018

Publications

• Melissa Dennihy, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, published a book chapter, “Where History Meets Literature: Teaching the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Atrocity Through a Creative Approach in the Community College English Classroom,” in Humanistic Pedagogy Across the Disciplines: Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education in the Community College Context, in October 2018.
• Melissa Dennihy, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, published articles “How to Land a Community College Job” in Inside Higher Ed on March 13, 2018, “7 Resolutions Job Seekers Can Make in the New Year" in Inside Higher Ed on January 17, 2018, and “Preparing for Job Season” in Inside Higher Ed on September 19, 2018.
• Merlinda Drini, Ph.D., professor of Engineering, published a conference proceeding “Using new methodologies in teaching computer programming” in 2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) in 2018.

Presentations

• Kathleen Tamayo Alves, D.A., assistant professor of English, presented “Never have I ever found a way to teach Pamela at a two-year college" and “Embryotic Evils”: Representations of the Aging Father and Parental Attribution in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy” at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies in Orlando, Florida in March 2018.
• Leah Anderst, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, delivered a keynote speech with Holly Hassel, editor of the journal Teaching English in the Two-Year College, for their conference, Critical Pedagogies at CUNY: Learning through Writing. The one-day conference featured speakers from across CUNY and included students and faculty members. The keynote speech is titled "Equity, Justice, and Critical Literacy: Inclusive Placement and Curricular Models," focused on research related to accelerated developmental education, college placement, and the history of basic writing at CUNY.
• Melissa Dennihy, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, presented “Interrogating Language in the Literature Classroom: Reading Alice Walker’s The Color Purple” at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference in Denver, Colorado in November 2018. Dr. Dennihy also presented “More Than Just Convenience: Harnessing the Learning Opportunities of the Online Classroom” and “What is College-Level English? An Examination of the College Now Program” at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention in New York, New York in January 2018.
• Merlinda Drini, Ph.D., associate professor of Engineering Technology, presented “Using New Methodologies in Teaching Computer Programming” at the Integrated STEM Education Conference, IEEE in Princeton, NJ. In March 2018.

Media Presence

• James Kuslan, adjunct assistant professor of Library, discussed opera at a new podcast co-produced by New York Public Radio and the Metropolitan Opera. The podcast episode he participated in focused on Rodolfo's first act air, "Che gelida manina," "What a cold little hand."

12.11.2018

Publications

• Kathleen Tamayo Alves, D.A., assistant professor of English, and Mirna Lekic, D.M.A., assistant professor of Music, published a book chapter “Textual Approach to Mass Atrocity” in Humanistic pedagogy across the disciplines: Approaches to mass atrocity education in the community college context by Palgrave Macmillan.
• Leah Anderst, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, Jennifer Maloy, Ph.D., associate professor and acting chairperson of English, and Jed Shahar, Ph.D., associate professor of English, co-edited a special issue of the Basic Writing E-Journal focused on acceleration in developmental writing instruction in February 2018. The special issue "Accelerated Learning in Basic Writing: Investigating the Successes and Challenges of ALP Models," features studies focused on a variety of ALP models by scholars from around the country. The issue is broken up into three sections: Creating and Assessing ALP, From the Students’ Perspectives, and Alternative Forms of ALP.
• Melissa Dennihy, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, and Neera Mohess, assistant professor of Library, co-published a book chapter, "Joining the Conversation: Using a Scaffolded Three-Step Information Literacy Model to Teach Academic Research at a Community College" in  Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies: Volume 1, First-Year Composition Courses in September 2018.
• Glenn Shaheen, Substitute Assistant Professor of English, published the book “Carnivalia” by Golden Wake Press on February 1, 2018.
• Kathleen Tamayo Alves, D.A., assistant professor of English, published a book chapter “Thirsty Women and Fuckboys: Teaching Shakespeare with Memes” Poetry across the curriculum: New methods of writing intensive education for US community college and undergraduate education on July 26, 2018, by The Netherlands.
• Weier Ye, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, published “Overview of Academic Writing in China: A Response to Wesley O’Morrow’s Materials Review, “Texts in Context: Textbook Choice in an Evolving ELT Environment” in NYS TESOL Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1 on January 15, 2018.  While Chinese university best practices for the adoption of the Academic English textbook series initially intended for the North American educational and cultural context is a great choice, good teaching materials are not enough to resolve the longstanding issues in teaching English to Chinese EFL students. The reasons are threefold: the importance of teacher competence, student learning skills, and the problem of teacher/student resistance to change in English language education. By presenting an overview of China’s academic English writing instructions as it exists today, this paper aims at providing American readers with direct insights into how cultural practices might hinder the effective use of academic English reading and writing textbooks

Presentations

• Steven Dahlke, D.M.A., associate professor of Music, participated in the panel discussion “Humanistic Pedagogy Across the Disciplines: Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education in the Community College Context." at the Graduate Center, CUNY, on October 19, 2018.
• Susan Jacobowitz, Ph.D., associate professor of English, and Magdalena Bogacka-Rode, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, participated in the panel “Daughters Draw War: C. Tyler’s You’ll Never Know Trilogy and Berniece Eisenstein’s I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors,” at the Daughters’ Stories of the Spanish Civil War and World War II, War, Literature and the Arts Conference, held at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs in September, 2018. Dr. Jacobowitz also served as the respondent for the session “The Forgotten European post-Holocaust Trials Against Jewish ‘Collaborators’ and the 1948 Dutch Execution of Anna van Dijk,” at the Lotte Houwink ten Cate, Ph.D. candidate, Women and Society Seminar, Columbia University on April 13, 2018.
• Jose Osorio, Ph.D., associate professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented “Los conflictos fronterizos representados en la literatura mexicana contemporánea.” at The Hispanic Association for the Humanities IX International Congress in Cáceres, Spain in June, 2018. He also presented “Maigret y Conde: dos detectives para dos mundos distintos.” at the XIV Congreso de Novela y Cine Negro conference at the University of Salamanca in Spain in April, 2018. Another paper he presented was titled “Mundo infernal globalizado: límites geográficos y simbólicos en la obra de Luis Humberto Crosthwaite,” at the 4th International Conference on the Historical Links between Spain and North America: New Cultural Cartographies in New York, in April, 2018.
• David Rothman, the lecturer of English, gave the closing speech titled “If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them “at the Pixel International Conference on Innovation in Language Learning, held in Florence, Italy on November 8, 2018. This conference is run by Erasmus, the education wing of the European Union. He also discussed innovative ways to make use of smartphones in the classrooms for academic, and not social, purposes.
• Dugwon Seo, Ph.D., assistant professor of Engineering Technology, presented "Promoting Women’s Interest in Technology by Makerspace and Coding Project" at the CUNY’s 17th Annual IT Conference (Innovation and Emerging Technologies) at John Jay College on November 30^th, 2018.
• Paris Svoronos, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry, gave a speech titled “The History and Chemistry Associated with the Use of Lethal Gas Weapons During World War I” at the American Chemical Society-Long Island Subsection held at Nassau Community College on December 6, 2018.
• Susan Wengler, assistant professor of Library, presented a poster session “Sense-making and the community college student” at the 2018 ALA Annual Conference held in New Orleans on June 23, 2018. Funding for this project was provided by a PSC CUNY Cycle 48 grant.

Grants

• Kathleen Tamayo Alves, D.A., assistant professor of English, received the 2018 City University of New York Book Completion Award for "Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel."
• Regina Rochford, Ed.D., professor of English, and Ilse Schrynemakers, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, received the 2018 CUNY Community College Collaborative Pedagogical Research Grant to study the long-term performance of a large remedial-student cohort in the Accelerated Learning Program (ALP). In a small pilot investigation, it was determined that in contrast to traditional remedial-writing students, ALP students: a) were more likely to complete English 101 and English 102; b) earned significantly more college credits; c) achieved significantly higher GPAs; d) exhibited significant correlational relationships; and e) evidenced statistically similar grades in English 101 and English 102. This grant will expand this research to assess its impact on a larger population at Queensborough by analyzing the students’ ACT Reading scores, CATW scores, English 101 and 102 grades, GPAs, the number of credits earned, races/ethnicities, gender, ages and first-generation status.

 Awards

• Kathleen Tamayo Alves, D.A., assistant professor of English, received the 2018 City University of New York Book Completion Award for "Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel."

Mirna Lekic, D.M.A., assistant professor of Music, received the 2018 Henry Wasser Award. The award is given by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences and recognizes CUNY's most promising0 assistant professors.

 Student Accomplishments Mentored by Faculty

• Patrick Byers, Ph.D., assistant professor in Social Sciences, mentored a student, Shahida Abdulsalam, to present and co-present  the paper titled “The Controversy Over Sex-Linked Differences in Cognition: An Important Opening for Social Constructionism” at the Long Island Social Science Conference on October 12, 2018.
• Paul Marchese, Ph.D., professor of Physics and Paris Svoronos, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry, mentored the student Leslie Ramirez Medrano to present and co-present “Nitrogen concentration trends in Long Island Sound” at the 66th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, New York's American Chemical Society: Student Activities Committee at York College, Jamaica on May 5, 2018. Leslie Ramirez Medrano also presented “Determination of bacteria, chlorophyl-a and dissolved oxygen in wastewater at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYC-DEP)" at the 256th ACS National Meeting & Exposition in Boston on August 20, 2018. She was mentored by Paris Svoronos on the work performed at the NYC-Division of Environmental Protection (DEP) in Brooklyn NY.
• Paris Svoronos, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry mentored a student, Khushpreet Kaur, to present and co-present a poster session titled “Elemental analysis of arsenic in rice speciation” at three conferences: the 256th ACS National Meeting & Exposition in August, 2018, held in Boston, the 46th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting held at Lehigh University in Bethlehem PA on June 3, 2018, and the 66th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, New York's American Chemical Society: Student Activities Committee- York College in Jamaica, NY on May 5, 2018.
• Paris Svoronos, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry mentored two students, HaEun Kim and Xiaofang Yu, to present and co-present a poster session titled “Determination of pesticide residues at the Food and Drug Administration using the QuEChERS Extraction method in conjunction with liquid and gas chromatography” at the 46th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting held at Lehigh University in Bethlehem PA on June 3, 2018.
• Paris Svoronos, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry mentored a student, Edison Mera, to present “Calculation of the Ionization Constant carboxylic acids in mixed solvents via freezing point depression measurements” at the 66th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, New York's American Chemical Society: Student Activities Committee at York College, Jamaica on May 5, 2018.

12.4.2018

Publications

• Leah Anderst, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, Jennifer Maloy, Ph.D., associate professor and acting chairperson of English, and Jed Shahar, Ph.D., associate professor of English, co-edited a special issue of the Basic Writing E-Journal focused on acceleration in developmental writing instruction in February 2018. The special issue "Accelerated Learning in Basic Writing: Investigating the Successes and Challenges of ALP Models," features studies focused on a variety of ALP models by scholars from around the country. The issue is broken up into three sections: Creating and Assessing ALP, From the Students’ Perspectives, and Alternative Forms of ALP.
• Melissa Dennihy, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, and Neera Mohess, assistant professor of Library, co-published a book chapter, "Joining the Conversation: Using a Scaffolded Three-Step Information Literacy Model to Teach Academic Research at a Community College" in  Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies: Volume 1, First-Year Composition Courses in September 2018.
• Glenn Shaheen, Substitute Assistant Professor of English, published the book “Carnivalia” by Golden Wake Press on February 1, 2018.
• Kathleen Tamayo Alves, D.A., assistant professor of English, and Mirna Lekic, D.M.A., assistant professor of Music, published a book chapter “Textual Approach to Mass Atrocity” in Humanistic pedagogy across the disciplines: Approaches to mass atrocity education in the community college context by Palgrave Macmillan.
• Kathleen Tamayo Alves, D.A., assistant professor of English, published a book chapter “Thirsty Women and Fuckboys: Teaching Shakespeare with Memes” Poetry across the curriculum: New methods of writing intensive education for US community college and undergraduate education on July 26, 2018, by The Netherlands.
• Weier Ye, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, published “Overview of Academic Writing in China: A Response to Wesley O’Morrow’s Materials Review, “Texts in Context: Textbook Choice in an Evolving ELT Environment”” in NYS TESOL Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1 on January 15, 2018.  While Chinese university best practices for the adoption of the Academic English textbook series initially intended for the North American educational and cultural context is a great choice, good teaching materials are not enough to resolve the longstanding issues in teaching English to Chinese EFL students. The reasons are threefold: the importance of teacher competence, student learning skills, and the problem of teacher/student resistance to change in English language education. By presenting an overview of China’s academic English writing instructions as it exists today, this paper aims at providing American readers with direct insights into how cultural practices might hinder the effective use of academic English reading and writing textbooks

Presentations

• Steven Dahlke, D.M.A., associate professor of Music, participated in the panel discussion “Humanistic Pedagogy Across the Disciplines: Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education in the Community College Context." at the Graduate Center, CUNY, on October 19, 2018.
• Susan Jacobowitz, Ph.D., associate professor of English, and Magdalena Bogacka-Rode, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, participated in the panel “Daughters Draw War: C. Tyler’s You’ll Never Know Trilogy and Berniece Eisenstein’s I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors,” at the Daughters’ Stories of the Spanish Civil War and World War II, War, Literature and the Arts Conference, held at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs in September, 2018.
• Jose Osorio, Ph.D., associate professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented “Los conflictos fronterizos representados en la literatura mexicana contemporánea.” at The Hispanic Association for the Humanities IX International Congress in Cáceres, Spain in June, 2018. He also presented “Maigret y Conde: dos detectives para dos mundos distintos.” at the XIV Congreso de Novela y Cine Negro conference at the University of Salamanca in Spain in April, 2018. Another paper he presented was titled “Mundo infernal globalizado: límites geográficos y simbólicos en la obra de Luis Humberto Crosthwaite,” at the 4th International Conference on the Historical Links between Spain and North America: New Cultural Cartographies in New York, in April, 2018.
• David Rothman, lecturer of English, gave the closing speech titled “If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them “at the Pixel International Conference on Innovation in Language Learning, held in Florence, Italy on November 8, 2018. This conference is run by Erasmus, the education wing of the European Union. He also discussed innovative ways to make use of smartphones in the classrooms for academic, and not social, purposes.
• Paris Svoronos, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry, gave a speech titled “The History and Chemistry Associated with the Use of Lethal Gas Weapons During World War I” at the American Chemical Society-Long Island Subsection held at Nassau Community College on December 6, 2018.
• Susan Wengler, assistant professor of Library, presented a poster session “Sense-making and the community college student” at the 2018 ALA Annual Conference held in New Orleans on June 23, 2018. Funding for this project was provided by a PSC CUNY Cycle 48 grant.

Grants

• Regina Rochford, Ed.D., professor of English, and Ilse Schrynemakers, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, received the 2018 CUNY Community College Collaborative Pedagogical Research Grant to study the long-term performance of a large remedial-student cohort in the Accelerated Learning Program (ALP). In a small pilot investigation, it was determined that in contrast to traditional remedial-writing students, ALP students: a) were more likely to complete English 101 and English 102; b) earned significantly more college credits; c) achieved significantly higher GPAs; d) exhibited significant correlational relationships; and e) evidenced statistically similar grades in English 101 and English 102. This grant will expand this research to assess its impact on a larger population at Queensborough by analyzing the students’ ACT Reading scores, CATW scores, English 101 and 102 grades, GPAs, the number of credits earned, races/ethnicities, gender, ages and first-generation status.
• Kathleen Tamayo Alves, D.A., assistant professor of English, received the 2018 City University of New York Book Completion Award for "Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel."

Student Accomplishments Mentored by Faculty

• Patrick Byers, Ph.D., assistant professor in Social Sciences, mentored a student, Shahida Abdulsalam, to present and co-present  the paper titled “The Controversy Over Sex-Linked Differences in Cognition: An Important Opening for Social Constructionism” at the Long Island Social Science Conference on October 12, 2018.
• Paris Svoronos, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry mentored a student, Khushpreet Kaur, to present and co-present a poster session titled “Elemental analysis of arsenic in rice speciation” at three conferences: the 256th ACS National Meeting & Exposition in August, 2018, held in Boston, the 46th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting held at Lehigh University in Bethlehem PA on June 3, 2018, and the 66th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, New York's American Chemical Society: Student Activities Committee- York College in Jamaica, NY on May 5, 2018.
• Paris Svoronos, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry mentored two students, HaEun Kim and Xiaofang Yu, to present and co-present a poster session titled “Determination of pesticide residues at the Food and Drug Administration using the QuEChERS Extraction method in conjunction with liquid and gas chromatography” at the 46th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting held at Lehigh University in Bethlehem PA on June 3, 2018.

11.27.2018

Publications

• Steven Dahlke, D.M.A., associate professor of Music, published a book chapter, ”Connecting the dots: Backward course design, arts education, and teaching the Holocaust,” in Humanistic pedagogy across the disciplines: Approaches to mass atrocity education in the community college context, in October 2018.
• Michael Gotesman, assistant adjunct professor of Biological Sciences and Geology, was the leading author to publish the article “A new age in AquaMedicine: unconventional approach in studying aquatic diseases” in BMC Veterinary Research, Volume 14, Issue 1, on June 8, 2018.
• Mi Seon Kim, assistant professor of Library, and Michael Dolan, lecturer in English, published “Correlations between information literacy competency and student writing performance in an English 101 course at an urban community college” in Community & Junior College Libraries, on May 1, 2018.
• Sharon Lall-Ramnarine, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry, co-authored the paper “Photoinduced bimolecular electron transfer in ionic liquids: Cationic electron donors” in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Volume 122, Issue 3, on January 31, 2018.
• William Ryan, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, published “A New Strange Disease': The Feeling of Form in Hans Sloane's Case Studies of English Jamaica" in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Volume 59, Issue 4, in October 2018.
• Richard Tayson, adjunct assistant professor of English, published “Language Sideways: The Poetry of Addiction” in theFix on August 2, 2018. The article focuses on three first-book poets, Kaveh Akbar, William Brewer, and Sam Sax. Their works address addiction--especially the ever-increasing problem of opiate addiction in the U.S.--and ensuing recovery. The author asked in what ways do current poems of addiction represent the minds of addicts in the throes of active disease as well as after the process of recovery’s begun?
• Susan Wengler, assistant professor of Library, published “Branding matters: Reimagine your library services” in College & Research Libraries News, Volume 79, Issue 3, on March 1, 2018.
• Richard Mako, assistant professor of Library, presented “Marginalia, Value and Meaning: A Study” at the Innovative Practices in Academic Libraries conference on September 28, 2018, held at New York.

 Presentations

• Daniel Armstrong, DPT., assistant professor of health, Physical Education and Dance, presented “Traditional vs. Accelerated EMT Courses:  A Paradigm Shift” at the EMS World Expo Educators annual symposium on November 1, 2018 in Washington D.C. The presentation was awarded "Best Research" which comes with a stipend to present at an international EMS conference. It was also featured at EMS World Expo in Nashville, Tennessee and recognized as "Best Educational Research".
• Sarbani Ghoshal, assistant professor of Biological Sciences and Geology, presented “TNP [N2-(m-Trifluorobenzyl), N6-(p-nitrobenzyl) purine] ameliorates weight gain and improves insulin sensitivity via specific inhibition of lP6K1” at the Queens College Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminar on September 24, 2018.   
• Susan Wengler, assistant professor of Library, presented a poster session “Next level learning: Using pedagogically-designed research guides in information literacy instruction” at Personal Librarian & First Year Experience Library Conference 2018 in Cleveland, Ohio. Funding for this project was provided by a Queensborough Community College Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Pedagogical Research Grant. Susan
• Susan Wengler, assistant professor of Library, presented “Finding success in our #fails: Using instructional design to advance online learning” in April 2018 at 18th Distance Library Services Conference in San Antonio Texas.
• Susan Wengler, assistant professor of Library, presented a poster session “Sense-making and the community college student” on June 23, 2018 at American Library Association Annual Conference 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

 Grants

• Dugwon Seo, Ph.D., assistant professor of Engineering Technology, received the NSF H-AGEP grant award: $125,684 for 5 years (7/1/2017-6/30/2022). The Collaborative Research, the Hispanic Alliance for the Graduate Education and the Professoriate on (H-AGEP), is focusing on preparing potential faculty on Environmental Sciences and Engineering fields to respond to the national needs for professionals and instructors in these fields. It will leverage the resources of the partner schools and capitalize on their long history of collaboration in this area. We will identify a promising cohort of under-represented doctoral students, focusing on Hispanics, and provide these AGEP Fellows with the robust skill set and supportive mentoring needed to make them qualified and ultimately successful candidates for the professoriate. As a community college faculty, her role will be helping fellows to create and follow a comprehensive career development plan and extensive training in teaching and academic career skills.
• William Ryan, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, was selected to participate in the CUNY Office of Recruitment and Diversity Faculty Fellowship Publication Program to develop an article manuscript titled, "These Publications are Reckoned Useful': The Medical Periodical in the Early Republic."
• Susan Wengler, assistant professor of Library, received $35,021 funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program to investigate community college librarians use of and engagement with the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (Framework) from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019.

 Honors and Awards

• Paris Svoronos, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry, was honored with the American Chemical Society Fellow Award at the 256th National American Society Meeting in Boston, MA in June 2018.
• Susan Wengler, assistant professor of Library, was selected as one of the 2018 Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL) Scholars for participating in a nine-day workshop.

 Performance and Exhibit

• Steven Dahlke, D.M.A., associate professor of Music, was the musical director of the piece “Singing in the Rain” at the Wick Theatre in Boca Raton, Florida, from January 11 to February 18, 2018.

 Student Accomplishments Mentored by Faculty

• Paul Marchese, Ph.D., professor of Physics and Paris Svoronos, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry, mentored the student Leslie Ramirez Medrano to present a poster session titled “Nitrogen concentration trends in Long Island Sound”, and HaEun Kim to present a poster session titled " at the 256th ACS National Meeting & Exposition on August 20, 2018, held in Boston.
• Paris Svoronos, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry mentored students to present and co-presented the following poster sessions at the 256th ACS National Meeting & Exposition in August, 2018, held in Boston: “Determination of pesticide residues at the Food and Drug Administration using the QuEChERS extraction method in conjunction with liquid and gas chromatography” by Ha Eun Kim; and “Calculation of the Ionization Constant carboxylic acids in mixed solvents via freezing point depression measurements” by Edison Mera. Dr. Svoronos was invited to give the lecture presentation “Role of the MSEIP Grant in the Success of STEM Undergraduate Research at Queensborough Community College.” 

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Publications

• Margaret Stroehlein, assistant professor of Nursing, published “ALS: A progressive neurodegenerative disease” in Nursing Made Incredibly Easy, Volume 16, Issue 6, on November/December 2018.
• Moni Chauhan, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry, published “Convenient and template-free route to one pot green synthesis of polyrhodanine core-shell nanoparticles” in ACS Omega, Volume 3, Issue 9, on 2018. Three Queensborough students Anjali Gaba, Tao Hong and Evens Esperance are coauthors of the publication. Currently, Tao is an undergraduate student at Cornell University (Material Science major), Evens is at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI,Chemical Engineering major) and Anjali (Chemical Engineering major) has transferred to City College of CUNY. Tao and Evens had won full scholarships for their undergraduate studies at Cornelle and RPI respectively.
• Sebastian Murolo, assistant professor of Business, published “IRS touts progress against taxpayer identity theft” in Journal of Accountancy, on January 1, 2018.
• Sebastian Murolo, assistant professor of Business, published “Levy on husband-and-wife LLC is upheld” in Journal of Accountancy, on July 1, 2018.
• Sebastian Murolo, assistant professor of Business, published “IRS clarifies identity theft procedures” in Journal of Accountancy, on July 1, 2018.
• Sebastian Murolo, assistant professor of Business, published “Deduction disallowed for criminal restitution for fraudulent loan” in Journal of Accountancy, on November 1, 2018.

Presentations

• Andrea Salis, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of Health, Physical Education and Dance (HPED), Mangala Tawde, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biological Sciences and geology, and Moni Chauhan, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry, presented “The role of Faculty Coordinators in enhancing student learning across the curriculum and co-curriculum” at the 104th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities on January 27, 2018, held at Washington D.C.
• Richard Mako, assistant professor of Library, presented “Marginalia, Value and Meaning: A Study” at the Innovative Practices in Academic Libraries conference on September 28, 2018, held at New York.

Sarbani Ghoshal, assistant professor of Biological Sciences and Geology, presented “Adropin overexpression is neuroprotective in aging” at the annual conference of Obesity Week on November 13, 2018, held at Nashville, Tennessee.

• Susan Jacobowitz, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was invited to discuss “The Dispossessed in Hungarian Literature and Culture” at the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) convention on January 4, 2018, held at New York.
• interviewed by CUNY SUM for her chapter included in the book “Humanistic Pedagogy Across the Disciplines: Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education in the Community College Context,” edited by Amy Traver, Ph.D., associate professor of Sociology, on October 1, 2018.

Awards

• Paris Svoronos, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry, was honored with the American Chemical Society Fellow Award at the 256th National American Society Meeting in Boston, MA in June 2018.
• Paris Svoronos, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry, received the 2018 Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences, by the American Chemical Society, at the 46th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting at Lehigh University, in Bethlehem, P.A. The award is awarded for promoting diversity in the Chemical Sciences.

Media Presence

• William Blick, assistant professor of Library, discussed the relevance of Open Educational Resources at Community Colleges on Public Radio on the Academic Minute show aired on WAMC on November 1, 2018.
• Paris Svoronos, Ph.D., professor of Chemistry, gave an interview, “Starting an Undergraduate Research program at the Community College-Level” in Undergraduate Research in Chemistry, a blog at the Council on Undergraduate Research, on September 25, 2018.
• Susan Jacobowitz, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was interviewed by CUNY SUM for her chapter included in the book “Humanistic Pedagogy Across the Disciplines: Approaches to Mass Atrocity Education in the Community College Context,” edited by Amy Traver, Ph.D., associate professor of Sociology, on October 1, 2018.