ePoly Briefs

 

 

a monthly publication of news and events for faculty and staff

 

                                                                                            April 2003 Edition

ARCHIVES

HEADLINES

Men’s Volleyball Wins Championship Title for Second Year

University Establishes Honors College

Sunil Gupta Returns to Head Career Services

David Gillette Named to New Position

Poly Honors Employees at Annual Service Awards

Enrollment, Financials, Employee Benefits and Strategic Plan Discussed at Town Hall Meeting

Special Services Celebrates 25 Years at Poly

Tuition Increases for 2003/04 School Year

All-State Soccer Star Commits to Poly

New Poly Exhibit Takes Engineering Spin on Art

KWEA Hosts Faculty Development Conference on Campus

Call for Nominations for Jacobs Award

Schedule of Classes Now Online

Awards and Honors

Publications and Presentations

Poly in the News

This Month in History

 

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL WINS CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE FOR SECOND YEAR

The Blue Jays Men’s Volleyball Team, the defending Hudson Valley Conference champions, continued its reign, once again taking home the championship on April 5 with wins against Webb Institute and SUNY Purchase. James Zeng was named Coach of the Year, also for a second consecutive year. Freshman outside hitter Peter Drys was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player.

During the championship, the Blue Jays dominated play. It swept Webb Institute in a best-three-out-of-five match. The scores for the three Webb games were 30-11, 30-10 and 30-10. Senior middle hitter Ilya Alper contributed with a career-high 10 kills. Drys and freshman middle blocker Mike Kelly each accounted for five kills. Senior co-captain Eugene Lange added 22 assists to the team.

In the championship game, the Blue Jays faced the SUNY Purchase Panthers. Purchase won the first game of the match by a score of 26-30. The Blue Jays rallied in the next three games and beat the Panthers 30-23, 30-21 and 30-18. The final games were played on the Panther’s home court.

With two Hudson Valley wins under its belt, the Blue Jays hopes to advance next season to the Northeast Conference Volleyball Championship, and improve upon its overall record for the season. This year, the Blue Jays finished overall with a 14-12 record.

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UNIVERSITY ESTABLISHES HONORS COLLEGE

On April 5, faculty approved establishing an Honors College at Polytechnic, making way for the inaugural class to enter in September 2003.

The Honors College is housed in the Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. Eligible undergraduates will have superior high school academic records. Once enrolled at the University, they will be assigned a faculty mentor for individualized attention, and will have the opportunity to earn both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in four years. Other benefits include attending smaller classes, chances to study abroad and access to special events, seminars and other activities.

Stephen Arnold, University professor and the Thomas Potts Professor of Physics, heads the Honors College as its first faculty director; a Faculty Governing Board, with representatives from all disciplines, will serve as overseer.

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SUNIL GUPTA RETURNS TO HEAD CAREER SERVICES

Sunil Gupta, former assistant director of alumni relations, returned April 21 to the University as director of career services and cooperative education. He had left Polytechnic in 2000 after four years in Alumni Relations to join the American Institute of Chemical Engineers as the marketing manager of the continuing education and distance learning division.

“I look forward to working with Poly students,” he says, “and to making employers nationwide more aware of the University’s great strength’s in preparing the leaders of tomorrow in science, engineering and technology.”

Gupta believes that his previous work with alumni and his background—he holds a master’s degree in management from Poly and a bachelor’s in marketing from St. John’s—will smoothly translate to effectively work with students, faculty and employers. Strategies he plans to implement include broadening students to career opportunities outside the Northeast and creating a stronger relationship with faculty.

“Many faculty members are responsible for their students’ first jobs,” he says. “Our goals are the same—to see students succeed after Poly. I want my office to work more closely with faculty to accomplish this.”

Gupta can be reached at ext. 3650 and by e-mail.

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DAVID J. GILLETTE NAMED TO NEW POSITION

David J. Gillette, former special assistant to President Chang, has been appointed to the newly created position of executive director for non-degree programs. In his new job—reporting to Ellen F. Hartigan, vice president of student affairs and alumni development, and with guidance from administration, department heads and faculty—Gillette will be responsible for establishing new revenue by developing Cluster III program initiatives. Projects include implementing a new Hendriks Institute computer-training contract; managing a summer-housing program for the Othmer Residence Hall; establishing new certificate, training and conference programs; and expanding the Engineering Conferences International Program. He will also serve as project director for a new business incubator at Poly, funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Gillette can be reached at ext. 3240 and by e-mail.

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POLY HONORS EMPLOYEES AT ANNUAL SERVICE AWARDS

On Wednesday, May 14, from 12 to 2 p.m., Polytechnic will hold its annual Service Awards Ceremony and Reception, which recognizes employees who have provided service to Poly for five years and more in five-year increments. The event will be in the Dibner Auditorium and a reception held afterwards. Please come and applaud your fellow colleagues.

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William R. McShane, professor, Mechanical Engineering

Romualdas Sviedrys, associate professor, Humanities & Social Sciences

 

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George Bugliarello, chancellor

Donald S. Phillips, lecturer, Humanities & Social Sciences

Jonathan B. Rogers, administrative assistant, Dibner Library

Nancy M. Tooney, associate dean of engineering and applied sciences

 

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Stephen Arnold, University professor, Physics

John Cacace, administrative aide, Admissions

Venecia Clark, administrative assistant, Dibner Library

Anne Eisenberg, professor, Humanities & Social Sciences

Bruce A. Garetz, professor, Chemical Engineering

Mona Goldberg, associate director, Financial Aid

Spencer Kuo, professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Roberto Marisi, engineer, Facilities Management

Jovan Mijovic, professor, Chemical Engineering

Lowell Scheiner, associate professor, Humanities & Social Sciences

Zivan Zabar, professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

 

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Santiago Estrada, custodian/driver, Facilities Management

Galena Mann, administrative assistant, Registrar

Bertram Stephens, custodian/driver, Facilities Management

 

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Marie V. Brathwaite, administrative aide, Admissions

Sean D. Brown, systems analyst, Financial Aid

Ellen F. Hartigan, vice president, Student Affairs & Alumni Development

Farshad Khorrami, professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Mayra Ortiz, administrative assistant, Admissions

M. Volkan Ötügen, professor, Mechanical Engineering

Cheryl Robinson, administrative secretary, MOT Program

Josephine Rodriguez, administrative assistant, Chemistry

Joel C.W. Rogers, associate professor, Mathematics

Edward D. Weil, research professor, Polymer Research Institute

 

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Alessandro Betti, senior technician, Mechanical Engineering

Maria De Pascale, administrative assistant, Humanities & Social Sciences

Donald N. Ivanoff, director, Alumni Relations

Michael A. Mainiero, director, Institutional Research & Assessment

Leon M. Selig, associate director, CATT

Iwao Teraoka, associate professor, Chemical Engineering

 

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Alexi Assmus, assistant professor, Humanities & Social Sciences

Jacqueline Bell, associate director, HEOP

Yi-jen Chiang, assistant professor, Computer & Information Science

Symeon Christodoulou, assistant professor, Civil Engineering

Jacqueline Cornelius, assistant director, Academic Affairs

Jerome Epstein, instructor, Mathematics

Ronald Feddersen, lecturer, Computer & Information Science

David J. Gillette, executive director for non-degree programs

Richard A. Gross, professor, Chemistry

Anthea M. Jeffrey, senior administrative secretary, Graduate Center

Ramesh Karri, associate professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Yelizaveta Khobot, technican, Introductory Design & Science

Nasir Memon, associate professor, Computer & Information Science

Nicole L. Peck, director, Special Services

Christine Saunders-Fields, staff psychologist, Academic Success

Shannon V. Scott, coordinator, Development

Yitzhak Shnidman, assistant professor, Chemical Engineering

Fred Strauss, industry associate professor, Computer & Information Science

Priscilla Sturdivant, senior clerk, Admissions

Torsten Suel, assistant professor, Computer & Information Science

Therese E. Tillett, director of editorial services & special projects, University Relations

Blair R. Williams, industry professor, Mechanical Engineering

 

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ENROLLMENT, FINANCIALS, EMPLOYEE BENEFITS AND STRATEGIC PLAN DISCUSSED AT TOWN HALL MEETING

At an April 24 Town Hall meeting—now a monthly event—President Chang and his vice presidents updated faculty and staff on Polytechnic’s current enrollment numbers and financial status, new appointments, employee benefit changes, a new retirement package and the launch of the next strategic plan, among other news.

President Chang reported that undergraduate applications are down seven percent from this time last year. From that figure, the number of applicants who will commute to the University is down 14 percent, and the number of residential students is up nine percent. “Barring the unexpected,” Chang said, he expects a “reasonable” recruiting rate for fall 2003 enrollment.

Chang said the Spotlight on Scholars event, held March 30 on campus for students accepted at Polytechnic, was a success. Approximately 233 students—26 percent of admitted students—attended with their parents and met with faculty and administration, toured the facilities and Brooklyn Heights and received information on financial aid, academic programs, student services and extracurricular activities. In a survey following the event, completed by more than half the attendees, students highly rated the faculty presentations, campus facilities and the Honors College initiative.

Moving on to the University’s financial status, Chang said, “In a nutshell, we don’t have a problem.” The amount of University funds (quasi-endowment plus permanent endowment) has increased by $6 million, thanks to a pledge fulfillment by Joseph J. Jacobs, to $116 million. The University still has $23 million outstanding in campaign pledges and is awaiting $14 million for the sale of the Farmingdale campus, which Chang expects to see completed in June. The projected deficit for next year is $1.5 million. The goal is a balanced budget by June 2005.

For the future, Chang said the priority is create a full-capacity university by growing undergraduate enrollment 10 percent each year to a total of 2,800 students. That many students on campus would increase tuition and dorm revenue by $18 million (in today’s dollar).

Following Chang’s presentation, Lowell Robinson, special counsel to the president and interim vice president of finance and administration, talked about the University’s modified health benefits, an early-retirement plan for faculty and Poly’s investment rating. He said that Oxford Health Plans would remain Polytechnic’s carrier; however, increases to contributions and co-payments will occur. He promised that he and Human Resource Director Susan Karavolas would detail the new changes to employees in the next couple of weeks.

Robinson also announced that an early retirement, severance-incentive plan for faculty was rolled out April 24. The plan will take effect July 1. Approximately 36 faculty members are eligible to elect for the plan.

Robinson and Jonathan Wexler, dean of admissions, recently met with representatives from Moody’s Investor Services, which controls Polytechnic’s bond rating. Robinson said he expects Moody’s to maintain the University’s current rating, which he said was good considering many universities are having their bond rating downgraded in this economic climate.

Executive VP and Provost Ivan Frisch spoke next. He said that an accreditation team from the Middle States Commission of Higher Education is visiting Polytechnic until Wednesday, April 30. He thanked the Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies for the “tremendous job in forming and activating the Honors College,” and for awarding research grants. He also discussed the beginnings of the next strategic plan. Recently, he and Richard Thorsen, vice president for university relations, planning and assessment, met with staff, and received “extremely good input.” On May 1, academic department heads will present their ideas, and administration and faculty are hammering out the first version of the plan, which Frisch expects to be completed by the end of June.

Thorsen followed Frisch’s presentation. He announced that the search for a new registrar, a position left vacant since Ted Witryk’s departure last summer, is over. Robert Pergolis, current registrar at SUNY Maritime, has accepted the offer and will join the University May 19 (a profile on Pergolis will be in the May issue of ePoly Briefs).

Thorsen said plans for Poly’s sesquicentennial in 2004/05 are moving forward. “The 150th celebration will be a great opportunity to position our university,” said Thorsen, “and launch new initiatives, including a small capital campaign.” To help with positioning the University, Thorsen also announced the creation of an in-house branding and marketing committee to develop an image campaign for Polytechnic. The committee is being assisted by marketing professionals from oil and energy company BP plc and advertising firm Ogilvy and Mather, thanks to Poly trustee and alumnus Ralph Alexander, executive vice president and CEO of BP Gas, Power and Renewables.

Ellen Hartigan, vice president of student affairs and alumni development, spoke next. She outlined recent accomplishments in her area, including online registration, new health services, two successful career fairs, online résumé project, a study abroad program and new initiatives for resident students, non-degree programs and increased alumni participation. She introduced Dave Gillette as the new executive director for non-degree programs and Sunil Gupta as the new director of career services (see above articles), and thanked Dorothy Adams for her work as interim career services director.

Hartigan also announced that ROTC will be returning to Polytechnic. The program will be affiliated with Fordham University.

Dean Bud Griffis was the last to speak. He mentioned that he’s been dean and vice president for engineering and applied sciences for the past “six months and nine days.” His goal is to “make a good university into a great university” and to “graduate every student.” To accomplish that, he is currently interviewing every student who has indicated he or she is leaving.

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SPECIAL SERVICES CELEBRATES 25 YEARS AT POLY

In 1978, Polytechnic received its first Special Services TRIO grant, a federal program that provides support services to first-generation, low-income and disabled students to ensure they graduate. Since then, more than 2,000 students who have walked through the doors of the Office of Special Services have graduated from Polytechnic. On Thursday, May 1, from 4 to 6 p.m. in LC 400, Special Services will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the TRIO Program at Polytechnic during its annual TRIO Celebration.

“Twenty-five years later, this program is still providing individual tutoring, academic counseling and other support services to help students succeed at Polytechnic,” says Nicole Peck, director of special services. “I think this achievement is definitely worth celebrating! We are inviting former staff and students to come share their memories, laughs and special thoughts about the program with current Special Services staff and Poly students, faculty and staff.”

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TUITION INCREASES FOR 2003/04 SCHOOL YEAR

The Board of Trustees has approved a 5.5 percent tuition increase, the same percent as last year, for undergraduate and graduate programs. The rates starting fall 2003 will be $12,400 per semester for full-time undergraduate students, $791 per credit for part-time undergraduates and $855 per unit for graduate students. There is no increase in room rates for the Othmer Residence Hall and in the University fee (last year, continuing students received a one-time discount in the University fee as a thank you for enduring the construction).

For more information, contact Student Accounts at ext. 3700 or by e-mail.

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ALL-STATE SOCCER STAR COMMITS TO POLY

Polytechnic’s soccer program has received a commitment from high school all-state star Jarriott Huddleston from Kentucky.

Huddleston, a senior at Oldham County High School in Crestwood, Ky., was named first team all-state and won most valuable player honors in the district tournament. As a striker/midfielder, he led his high school soccer team to both the district and regional championships, and made both the all-district and all-regional teams. In addition to leading the soccer team, he also started as point guard for his high school basketball team, which made it into the elite eight of the high school tournament.

Not only is he a sensational athlete, he is also the type of scholar athlete that Poly prides itself on,” says Athletic Director Maureen Braziel. “His 3.75 grade-point average and his high ACT scores indicate that he will be able to handle our comprehensive curriculum.”

Polytechnic is a Division III member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and a member of the East Coast Athletic Conference and the Hudson Valley Athletic Conference.

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NEW POLY EXHIBIT TAKES ENGINEERING SPIN ON ART

A prison toilet. PVC piping. A box of crushed stones. A rusting steel bar from a 1909 skyscraper. To most people, those items are ugly and unnoticeable yet unavoidable and necessary in today’s culture. But a new exhibit, now on permanent loan at Polytechnic, calls them art. The exhibit, “i on Infrastructure,” was first mounted at the New York Public Library to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Today, it can be viewed on the fourth floor of the Jacobs Academic Building.

“i on Infrastructure” explores 12 themes that shape our views of infrastructure: nature, personality, nostalgia, gender, function, invisibility, information, beauty, nationalism, permanence, size and representation. The theme personality, accompanied by portraits of several civil engineers, questions the stereotype of a typical civil engineer in a field with so many specialties. The theme nostalgia, with a display of the heads of New York City street lamps from today and yesterday, discusses how people yearn for the past yet still want modern conveniences.

A toilet is just a toilet, the exhibit reveals, until you take a closer look and realize that this unsightly object is one of America’s greatest inventions in plumbing, and in the view of many—including artist Marcel Duchamp, who unsuccessfully tried to display a urinal in a 1917 New York exhibition—should be a source of U.S. nationalism.

In addition to the aforementioned pieces, the exhibit includes drawings of bridge frameworks from the 19th century that defy traditional beauty; a large, green exit sign from a Staten Island highway that proves how indispensable standard signs are to inform and guide people; and photographs of a Catskill pressure tunnel under construction that demonstrates how photographs cannot adequately represent the three-dimensionality of a structure, its texture or the way it functions.

“There’s art and beauty in what engineers do,” says Nick Russo, a general engineering instructor who coordinated the exhibit at Poly, “With this exhibit, we want to give students the feel of art in their work.”

Dean Bud Griffis initiated the exhibit’s move from the New York Public Library to Poly. Michael Primeggia, deputy commissioner for traffic operations at the DOT and a 1975 and 1977 Poly graduate, donated three pieces—the exit sign and two street lamp heads. Students from the student chapters of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Construction Management Association of America assisted in the mounting of the exhibit; its opening coincided with National Engineers Week in February, with a grand opening on April 14.

Two pieces will be mounted elsewhere: Large vertical banners that depict cellular towers—and show how size plays a large part in customer satisfaction—will be displayed in the Dibner Library. A reproduction of the da Vinci painting Mona Lisa—centering on the idea of invisibility by pointing out a bridge in the background—is hung in Bud Griffis’ office.

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KWEA HOSTS FACULTY DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE ON CAMPUS

On Friday, May 2, the Knowledge Workers Educational Alliance (KWEA) will host an all-day faculty conference on “Emerging Technologies for Online Learning.” Faculty from Polytechnic and other KWEA member institutions (Adelphi University, Manhattanville College, Marymount Manhattan College, St. Francis College and St. Joseph’s College) are expected to attend.

Keith Ross, Poly’s newly appointed Leonard J. Shustek Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, is the keynote speaker. Other speakers include attorney Paul B. Keller, who will speak on "Patent Law"; Poly Associate Professor Vikram Kapila, who will present "Web-enabled Control Laboratory"; Christine Worden, manager of information literacy programs and Multimedia Lab, who will discuss "Creating Course Web Pages"; and Tibor Farkas from Marymount Manhattan and Joyce Vogel and Allen Berdowsky from St. Francis, will lead a discussion about "Struggling with Online Assessment."

Pre-registration is required to attend the conference. To register or for more information, contact Christine Worden at ext. 3626 or by e-mail; or Noel N. Kriftcher at ext. 3524 or by e-mail.

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR JACOBS AWARD

Nominations are now being accepted for the Jacobs Excellence in Education Awards, which will be presented at the 2003 Commencement Awards Ceremony on Thursday, May 29. Award winners will receive a $10,000 grant and a plaque. Each award is to be given to individuals or groups who have demonstrated educational innovation and excellence based on one or more of the following criteria: special national educational recognition or awards received; outstanding ratings in the University-wide student assessments for commitment to students and active learning; and recognition by department, colleagues or relevant student organizations/groups for innovations in education.

Last year’s award recipients were Vikram Kapila, Nasir Memon and Malathi Veeraraghavan.

Criteria details and guidelines for nominating candidates are posted on My Poly. Nominations are due before 4 p.m. on Friday, May 9. Send your nomination to Christine Worden at LC 303. She may be reached at ext. 3626 or by e-mail.

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SCHEDULE OF CLASSES NOW ONLINE

The summer and fall 2003 Schedule of Classes is now available on My Poly in the documents section.

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AWARDS AND HONORS

Assistant Professor Dariusz Czarkowski, Associate Professor Ramesh Karri and Visiting Professor Thanos Stouraitis from Electrical and Computer Engineering (with students Kaijie Wu and Piyush Mishra) were awarded a $24,000 Design Automation Conference graduate scholarship to support their research in electronic design automation and circuit design.

Hervé Brönnimann, assistant professor of computer science, (with students Guillaume Melquiond and Sylvaine Pion) have designed and implemented the Interval Arithmetic Library, which is included in the repository of software libraries on www.boost.org. The software library is for interval computations, which are a useful way to extend arithmetic on numbers to intervals, and can be used in every field of engineering.

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PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

CHANCELLOR

George Bugliarello, “Rethinking Urbanization,” President’s Circle Meeting: “Sustainable Environments: Land, Oceans and Cities,” National Academies, Boston, Mass. (June 7)

_____, First Annual Accelerating Change Conference, Stanford University, Calif. (July 17-18)

 

INTRODUCTORY DESIGN AND SCIENCE

Vladimir I. Tsifrinovich, “Macroscopic Entangled Spin States in a Self-assembled Monolayer Molecular System,” presented at Meeting on Stability of Quantum Computation, Cuernavaca, Mexico (March 10-21)

_____ (with G.P. Berman, F. Borgonovi, Hsi-Sheng Goan, S.A. Gurvitz), “Single-spin Measurement and Decoherence in Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy,” published in Physical Review B (Vol. 67, 094425, March 27)

_____ (with G.P. Berman, F. Borgonovi, G. Chapline, S.A. Gurvitz, P.C. Hammel, D.V. Pelekhov, A. Suter), “Application of Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy Cyclic Adiabatic Inversion for a Single-spin Measurement,” published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Vol. 36, 4417, April 18)

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POLY IN THE NEWS

Abraham Ulman, the Alstadt-Lord-Mark Professor of Chemistry, and his team’s research in nanotechnology was featured in a special report in Crain's New York Business (April 21), "Nanotechnologists Find Big Things in Small Pond." The article reported that Polytechnic, along with NYU, CUNY, Hunter and Columbia, "are researching infinitesimal particles in a big way. They hope to discover more effective ways for doing everything from fighting bioterrorism to delivery drugs directly to an ailing human organ." The article also reports that Ulman "...is developing inexpensive, enviornmentally friendly and reusable nanoparticle enzymes."

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 THIS MONTH IN HISTORY

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. And then one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Passage from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, published April 10, 1925

England adopts the Union Jack as its flag (1606) . . . Irish immigrant and wealthy New Orleans merchant and slave trader Oliver Pollock creates the dollar sign “$” by having sloppy penmanship, which made his abbreviation for the Spanish pesos look like a combination of a “p” and an “s” (1778) . . . first colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, Wash. (1811) . . . New Yorker Walter Hunt sells rights to his patented safety pin for $100 (1849) . . . Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium (1902) . . . Hermann Göring, president of the Reichstag, establishes the Geheime-Staats-Polizei (Secret State Police), aka the Gestapo, in Germany (1933) . . . Adolph Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, commit suicide in an underground bunker after allies occupy Berlin (1945) . . . Montreal Royals sells its star player, Jackie Robinson, to the Brooklyn Dodgers (1947) . . . Brooklynite Larry King debuts on the air as sports talk-show host in Miami, Fla., under his real name, Larry Zeiger (1957)     . . . “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” singer Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father in Los Angeles (1984) . . . Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone’s vault on live TV and finds nothing (1986)

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Polytechnic University, April 2003

MAY

HAPPENINGS

 

Tuedsay April 29

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

ITE Research Seminar Series

“Managing Organizational Identity: The Case of a Multinational Corporation”

Yair Berson, Polytechnic

RH 517

 

Wednesday April 30

12-2 p.m.

Othmer Institute Monthly Seminar

"Information Retrieval from Memex to Google"

Torsten Suel, Polytechnic

LC 400

 

Thursday 1

4-6 p.m.

Special Services’ 25th Anniversary

LC 400

 

Friday 2

Last day of classes

 

8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

KWEA Faculty Development Workshop

“Emerging Technologies for Online Learning”

Dibner Library

 

7 p.m.

2003 Varsity Awards Banquet

Town House Restaurant, Brooklyn

 

8 p.m.

New York Pinewoods Folk Music

Musicians Anne Feeney & Chris Chandler

Wunsch Hall

 

Saturday 3

12 p.m.

Poly vs. Villa Julia Baltimore

Men’s Baseball

Floyd Bennett Field

 

TBA

Kings Point Invitational

Outdoor Track & Field

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point

 

Sunday 4

9 a.m.

New York Open Judo Championship

New York Athletic Club, Manhattan

 

12 p.m.

Poly vs. NYU

Men’s Baseball

Floyd Bennett Field

 

Monday 5 to Wednesday 7

Reading Days

 

Wednesday 7

4:30-8 p.m.

ITE–Othmer Institute Special Round Table

“Homeland Security and U.S. Innovation”

55 Broad St., Manhattan

 

Thursday 8 to Friday 16

Final Exams

 

Thursday 8

11:15 a.m.

Symbol Technologies Distinguished Seminar

“Multimedia Security: So What’s the Big Deal?”

Edward J. Delp, Purdue University

LC 102

 

7 p.m.

Principal’s Scholars Dinner Symposium

“Challenges in Computer Forensics,” Nasir Memon, Polytechnic

MetroTech Campus

 

Saturday 10

TBA

St. John’s Collegiate Classic

Outdoor Track & Field

St. John’s University, Queens

 

Wednesday 14

12-2 p.m.

Service Awards Ceremony & Reception

Dibner Auditorium/Foyer

 

Thursday 15

11:15 a.m.

Symbol Technologies Distinguished Lecture Series

Andy Lipman

LC 102

 

TBA

Eastern College Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships

Outdoor Track & Field

Springfield, Mass.

 

Sunday 18

1-4 p.m.

Young Alumni / Senior Class Picnic

MetroTech Campus

 

Thursday 22 to Saturday 24

TBA

NCAA Division III Championships

Outdoor Track & Field

St. Lawrence University, Canton, N.Y.

 

Thursday 22

11:15 a.m.

Symbol Technologies Distinguished Lecture Series

Rajiv Laroia, founder & CTO, Flarion

LC 102

 

9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Fifth Annual NYC Science/Technology Forum for High School Students

MetroTech Campus

 

Monday 26

School Closed

Memorial Day

 

Thursday, May 29

7:30 p.m.

Commencement Awards Ceremony & Reception

Dibner Auditorium/Foyer

 

Saturday 31

Class of 1953 50th Class Reunion

MetroTech Campus

 

Sunday June 1

3:30 p.m.

Commencement

Lincoln Center, Manhattan