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ePoly Briefs
a monthly publication of news and events for faculty and staff
January 2003 Edition |
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New Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Named Four Students Semifinalists for Intel Science Competition Part-Time, Evening BS Degree Programs Now Offered In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Hso-hsi Pan Free Book Exchange Now at Dibner Library Publications and Presentations
NEW
DEAN OF UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS NAMED Jonathan
D. Wexler has been named dean of undergraduate admissions. He joins
Polytechnic from Drexel University in Philadelphia, where he was
director of graduate recruitment. Before
joining Drexel University, Wexler was assistant director of admissions
at Bradford College in Haverhill, Mass. Formerly, he was an admissions
representative at Newberry College in South Carolina. In 1991, he served
as an office assistant to the nationally syndicated columnist George
Will. Wexler
holds a master’s degree in higher education administration from the
University of South Carolina, and a combined bachelor’s in political
science and communication from Goucher College in Maryland. He
can be reached at ext. 3759 and at jwexler@poly.edu.
Shirley
Motzkin, professor of biology, retired December 31 from Polytechnic as
professor emeritus. She joined the University in 1966 and for many years
directed Poly’s Life Sciences and pre-med programs. She also served
the faculty as former speaker of the faculty, member of the Tenure and
Appointments Committee and Undergraduate and Graduate Standards and
Curriculum Committee and chair of the Faculty Senate Executive
Committee, Faculty Grievance Committee, Research Policies Committee and
Educational Policies Committee Motzkin’s research included studying the effect of radio frequency on animal tissues, an area in which she was considered an international expert. She contributed to three textbooks, was named an outstanding teacher by New York University’s College of Dentistry and is listed in Who’s Who in Science, World Who’s Who of Women, Foremost Women of the Twentieth Century, American Men and Women of Science, Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in Technology Today and Who’s Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology.
FOUR
YES STUDENTS SEMIFINALISTS FOR INTEL SCIENCE COMPETITION Four
high school seniors who participated in the YES Center’s Summer
Research Institute have been selected as semifinalists in the 2003 Intel
Science Talent Search, the nation’s oldest and most highly regarded
science competition and considered the “junior Nobel Prize.” The
students developed their science projects as interns at Poly’s
Brooklyn and Long Island campuses over six weeks last summer, where they
worked alongside mentors from the University’s faculty and Brookhaven
National Laboratory. Ying
Yi Dang from Bronx High School of Science was mentored by Richard A.
Gross, Herman F. Mark
Professor of Polymer Science. Eric
Friedman from Half Hollow Hills High School West was guided by Joel C.W.
Rogers, associate professor mathematics. James Lin from Great Neck South
High School was supervised by Magued G. Iskander, associate professor of
civil engineering. Lawrence Shieh from Manhasset High School worked with
Kalle Levon, professor of chemistry and director of the Polymer Research
Institute and Olga Tarasenko, a research scientist in the Department of
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Materials Science. Dang,
Friedman, Lin and Shieh were among 300 semifinalists selected from 1,581
applicants nationwide. Each receives $1,000 and their schools receive
$1,000 to support science and math programs. From the semifinalists, 40
finalists will be named on January 19. The finalists will receive an
all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., where they will compete for
college scholarships totaling more than $500,000.
PART-TIME,
EVENING BS DEGREE PROGRAMS NOW OFFERED Starting
January, Poly began offering undergraduate courses in computer science
and construction management in the evening to working students enrolled
part time at Poly. Students
eligible for the programs hold either an Associate in Science (AS) or
Associate in Applied Science (AAS) degree with computer, construction or
science-related majors. To earn a BS degree on a part-time basis,
students must attend classes two nights a week for three years while
continuing full-time employment. The
new evening undergraduate programs, says President Chang “reflects our
continuing recognition that while an associate’s degree may open the
door to a good job, the baccalaureate degree is the necessary degree for
rapid promotion, significant salary growth and true career mobility.” This
is the first time in almost 25 years that the University is offering an evening
undergraduate program.
IN
MEMORIAL: PROFESSOR EMERITUS HUO-HSI PAN Huo-hsi
Pan, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, died December 31, in
Westchester. He
was 84.
B
Author of more than 100 publications in
applied mechanism, he is listed in Who's Who in the World, Notable Americans and
Men of Achievement. He
is survived by his wife, Chao; and daughters Lillian and Nina.
In anticipation of the celebration of Polytechnic’s 150th anniversary, the polytechnic alumni is assembling a database of patents held by Poly alumni and faculty. If you own a patent, send an e-mail to polypatents@yahoo.com and include issue date, patent number, brief description and any anecdotes you wish to pass along. Also let us know of any alum or faculty who owns a patent. As this project progresses, the polytechnic alumni will need volunteers to catalog and present the patents. Send an e-mail to the above address if you are interested.
FREE
BOOK EXCHANGE NOW AT DIBNER LIBRARY Read all the books on your shelves? The Dibner Library now offers a free book exchange, where you can donate a book and pick up another new to you. It may be fiction or non-fiction; if it is a textbook, it must have been published after 1995. For more information, e-mail Yu Zhang, or call ext. 3345.
Mark M. Green,
professor of organic chemistry, has received a fellowship from the Japan
Society for the Promotion of Science. Under the fellowship, he will
travel to Japan in October to lecture at various universities.
PUBLICATIONS AND
PRESENTATIONS
CHANCELLOR George Bugliarello, "The Expanding Frontiers of Engineering," published in The Bridge, National Academy of Engineering (Winter 2002) CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, CHEMISTRY AND
MATERIALS SCIENCE
Christos Georgakis,
“Process Operability,” to be presented at New Jersey Institute of
Technology (March 31)
Kalle M. Levon,
“Development of Multivalent Macromolecular Ligands for Enhanced
Detection of Biological Targets,” presented at Polymer Challenge and
Mission Symposium, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry,
Kyoto, Japan (December 2-5, 2002). Levon was also a symposium panelist. _____ program committee member, "Driving Sustainability through Collaboration," Council for Chemical Research's 24th Annual Meeting, Austin, Tex. (April 5-8) _____ "Detection of Biological Warfare Agents," to be presented at "Nanotech and Biotech Convergence - 2003," 2nd Annual Business Communications Company Conference, Stamford, Conn. (May 6) Mark M. Green, invited lecturer, University of Washington, Seattle (April 25)
_____ Invited lecturer, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
(April 24)
_____ “Chirality Across the Spectrum of Polymer Science,” to be
presented at 50th Anniversary of Polymer Science Program, Peking
University, China (May 21-24) [Green’s wife and two of his children,
Frank, 14, and Carla, 11, will accompany him to China]
_____ Invited lecture, 80th birthday celebration, Princeton Professor
Kurt Mislow, Princeton Club, New York City (June 6)
_____ “Stumbling Around the Mysteries of Structural
Chirality and the Cholesteric State Leads to Some Potentially Useful
Things,”
Gordon Research Conference on Liquid
Crystals, Colby-Sawyer College, New London,
New Hampshire (June 19)
_____ Invited lecturer, National Symposium on Molecular Chirality 2003
(October 19-20)
_____ Invited lecturer, Chirality 2003, Shizuoka, Japan (October 20-23)
_____ (with Harold Wittcoff), Organic Chemistry Principles and
Industrial Practice, to be published by Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany
(June 2003)
_____ (with Roeland Nolte and Bert Meijer), “Materials-Chirality”
to be published in Topics in Stereochemistry, Volume 23, edited
by Scott E. Denmark, WileyEurope (February 2003)
DEVELOPMENT AND UNIVERSITY RELATIONS
George Smith, “Viewing the Martian Sunset,” published on CD included
with book On to Mars, edited by Frank Grossman and Robert Zubrin
(Apogee Books, 2002)
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING Henry L. Bertoni, "Predicting Radio Channel Characteristics for Wireless Systems—Concepts and Approach," and "Improving the Descriptions of Physical Processes in Ray Methods for Channel Predictions," presented at City University of Hong Kong, China (January 15-16)
INTRODUCTORY DESIGN AND SCIENCE Vladimir Tsifrinovich (with G.P.Berman, G.D.Doolen and G.V.Lopez), “A Quantum Full Adder for a Scalable Nuclear-Spin Quantum Computer,” published in Computer Physics Communications (Vol.146, 324, 2002).
MATHEMATICS Jerome Epstein, “What Is the Real Level of Our Students, and What Can We Do About It?” and “An Integrated Math and Science Program for Cognitive Development,” to be presented at 17th Annual Texas Assessment Conference, Austin, Tex. (February 9-12)
MECHANICAL, AEROSPACE AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING Blair R. Williams, “Lean Manufacturing,” presented at American Production and Inventory Control Society, Princeton Trenton Monmouth Ocean (PTMO) Chapter
The following list of new research grants, awarded from
October to December 2002, is provided by
CHANCELLOR
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, CHEMISTRY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE
_____ "Support for Visiting Scientist Dr. Xiaolei Sun," Akzo Nobel, $76,193 _____ "Support for Visiting Scientist Dr. Evgeny Vulfson," Akzo Nobel, $100,632 Richard A. Gross, " Microbial Synthesis of Sophorolipids From Low-Cost Bioresources," New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, $40,000
CIVIL ENGINEERING Magued Iskander, "General Research Support," American Society of Civil Engineers, Metropolitan Section, $500
Ilan Juran, "City Inter-Agency Taskforce," Gas Technology Institute/Institute of Gas Technology, $19,500
Konstantinos Kostarelos, "Workshop on Sufactant Enhanced Aguafer Remediation (SEAR) Design," various sources, $2,345
Hualiang Teng, Research Foundation of CUNY, $29,000
COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE Lisa Hellerstein and Torsten Suel, "ITR: Data On the Deep Web: Queries, Trawls, Policies and Countermeasures," University of California at Berkeley, $50,962
Nasir Memon, "Mathematical Theory for Steganalysis," Stevens Institute of Technology," $50,000 _____ (with Edward K. Wong and Xiaolin Wu), "Steganalysis Techniques for LSB Embedding in Documents and Images," U.S. Department of the Air Force, $119,837
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING David J. Goodman, "Processing in Wireless Video Communications," National Semiconductor Corporation, $25,000
Spencer P. Kuo, "Experiements and Theoretical Study on ELF/VLF Wave Generation by teh HAARP HF Heating Facility," U.S. Department of the Navy/Office of Naval Research, $50,000 _____ "(THEMES) Generation, Characterization and Aerospace Applications of Torch Plasmas EM Radiation, U.S. Department of the Air Force, $163,000
Ivan W. Selesnick, "A Motion-Selective 3D Wavelet Transform for Enhancement of Imagery in Video Data," U.S. Department of the Navy/Office of Naval Research, $209,954
INTRODUCTORY DESIGN AND SCIENCE Lorcan M. Folan, "Department Activities," David Douchette, $2,000
MECHANICAL, AEROSPACE AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING Xiaodong Wang, "Stress Analysis of Polymeric Trileaflet Valves," ABIOMED Inc., $4,000
PRESIDENT David J. Gillette and Barbara Hickernell, "Support for Polytechnic University's Engineering Conferences International Program," various sources, $165,376
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Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church (1521) . . . Columbia University founded in New York as Kings College (1754) . . . California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco (1847) . . . Popular Mechanics magazine debuts at newsstands (1902) . . . U.S. House of Representatives passes women's suffrage (1918) . . . 14-year-old Canadian Leonard Thompson is first diabetic to be treated with insulin (1922). . . British archaeologist Howard Carter uncovers mummified remains of Tutankhamen, boy-king of Egypt (1924) . . . U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry releases report declaring that smoking cigarettes is bad for your health (1964) . . . President Nixon signs into law national highway speed limit of 55 miles per hour (1974) . . . "Dynasty", a prime time soap opera, premieres on ABC-TV (1981) . . . Idi Amin expelled from Zaire (Congo) (1989) . . . Atallah Shabazz, Malcolm X's daughter, arrested for plotting Louis Farrakhan's murder (1994) . . . murder trial against O.J. Simpson, begins in Los Angeles (1995) . . . former pro wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota (1999)
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ART EXHIBITS On the Edge Now
until March 27 Dibner
Library Opening reception: Thursday, January 30 3
to 5 p.m. Nine
Brooklyn artists explore nature and the urban environment Passage of Eras February
12 to March 4 Wunsch
Student Center Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 5 6
to 8 p.m. |
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FEBRUARY HAPPENINGS
Saturday
1
2
p.m.
Poly
vs. Mount St. Mary’s
Men’s
Basketball
Tuesday
4 4-6 p.m. JPMorgan Chase Career Presentation LC 400
7
p.m.
Poly
vs. U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Men’s Volleyball
Wednesday
5 6
p.m.
Young
Alumni Networking Night
LC
400
7
p.m.
Poly
vs. Yeshiva Women’s Basketball
Thursday
6
7
p.m.
Poly
vs. Cooper Union
Men’s
Basketball
Saturday
8 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FIRST LEGO League Competition Riverbank State Park Manhattan
12
p.m.
Poly
vs. City Tech
Women’s
Basketball
Monday
10 4-6 p.m. MIT Lincoln Labs Career Presentation LC 400
7
p.m.
Poly
vs. St. Joe’s
Women’s
Basketball
8
p.m.
McGinn/Cazale
Theater Manhattan
Friday
14
7
p.m.
Poly
vs. Marymount
Women’s
Basketball
8
p.m. English folk singer Bob Fox
Wunsch
Student Center
Sunday
16
9
a.m. Polytechnic Invitational Judo
Monday 17 No classes President’s Day
Tuesday
18 Monday classes meet No Tuesday classes
7
p.m. Poly vs. Brooklyn College
Men’s
Volleyball Jacobs Gymnasium
Saturday
22
12
p.m. Williamsburg
Monday
4-6 p.m. Electric Boat Corp. Career Presentation LC 400
Tuesday
25 7
p.m. Poly vs. Cooper Union Men’s Volleyball
Friday
28 Deadline for filing application for BS, MS and PhD degrees, if completing during spring semester |
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