Poly takes home five medals for advertising
 Poly honors Cerf and Felson, pioneers in Internet and electromagnetics
 Poly table tennis no. 12 in nation
 Community discusses Board decision on NYU at town hall meeting
 Poly leading effort to improve high school math
 How to reserve a room at Poly
 Awards and honors
 Poly in the news
 Publications and presentations
 New grants
 Jobs at Poly
 This month in history

POLY TAKES HOME FIVE MEDALS FOR ADVERTISING

Silver medalist Power of PolyThinking poster

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POLY HONORS CERF AND FELSON, PIONEERS IN INTERNET AND ELECTROMAGNETICS

Honorees Felsen, left, and Cerf with President Chang

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POLY TABLE TENNIS NO. 12 IN NATION

Polytechnic’s table tennis team is ranked 12th in the nation, the National Collegiate Table Tennis Association (NCTTA) announced recently. The Poly team, a member of the NCTTA New York City Division, bested more than 140 participating colleges and universities nationwide to earn its position. READ MORE >

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COMMUNITY DISCUSSES BOARD DECISION ON NYU AT TOWN HALL MEETING

The Board of Trustees has spoken: no merger with NYU. The Polytechnic community gathered at a February meeting to discuss the implications and where Poly goes from here. READ MORE >

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POLY LEADING EFFORT TO IMPROVE HIGH SCHOOL MATH

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HOW TO RESERVE A ROOM AT POLY

Need to reserve a room for a conference or event? Below are the people and places you should contact.

• RH 116, LC 102 and any other class/lecture room: Claudette Dume, cdume@poly.edu, ext. 3793 (cc: Richard Feltman, cfeltman@poly.edu)
• LC 400, LC 433, Dibner Auditorium/Foyer and Silleck Lounge: online at My Poly (Room Reservations, under Tools)
• Skybox: Maureen Braziel, mbraziel@poly.edu, ext. 3458
• Private Dining Room: Edna Castillo, ecastillo@lackmann.com, ext. 3786
• Regna Student Lounge: Michael Hutmaker, mhutmake@poly.edu, ext. 3137

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AWARDS AND HONORS

George Bugliarello	Phyllis Frankl	Mark Green	Spencer Kuo	Eli Pearce

President Emeritus George Bugliarello has been elected a foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL (Italian National Academy of Sciences).

Phyllis G. Frankl, professor of computer science, and Poly alumnus Roonko Doong are very popular. Their published article, “Case Studies on Testing Object-oriented Programs,” ranked No. 1 for 2004 as the most popular paper downloaded from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Refereed Journals and Conference Proceedings (from ACM’s Digital Library). The article was published in Proceedings of the Symposium on Testing Analysis and Verification (October 1991). The article was part of Doong’s doctoral thesis research; he graduated in 1993 and is co-founder and VP of technology of Agitar Software in Palo Alto, Calif.

Mark M. Green, professor of organic chemistry, has received the highest honor from the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, the SPSJ Award for Outstanding Achievement in Polymer Science and Technology. READ MORE >

Spencer Kuo, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been named a 2005 Asian-American Engineer of the Year by the Chinese Institute of Engineers (CIE-USA). READ MORE >

Eli Pearce, university research professor, has been appointed by the American Chemical Society to the following positions: member of Society Committee on Chemical Education, member of Advisory Board for Chemical and Engineering News and consultant for the Committee on Science.

Student mentoring has its rewards for Vikram Kapila, Victor Barinov and Jovan Mijovic.Three high school students guided by the professors have been named semi-finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search, considered the “junior Nobel Prize” of competitions. Kapila mentored Eric Waller of John F. Kennedy HS on his project “Multiple Scattering in Curved Stacks of Polycarbonate Plastic Films and Its Affect on Transmittance.” Barinov mentored Michael Shapiro of Hebrew Academy on “Novel Polyacrylonitrile/Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Composite Synthesis and Structural Infrared Spectroscopic Analysis.” Mijovic mentored Oliver Yang of Hunter College HS on “Synthesis and Analysis of New Pyridyl-substituted Cerium Bisporphyriantes.” In addition, Professor Kalle Levon mentored Anna Cherepanov of Edward R. Murrow HS, who recently won a New York Times scholarship and summer job. All students participated in the 2004 Summer Research Institute, sponsored by Poly’s YES Center.

Congratulations to the following Poly students who were awarded scholarships from the National Society of Black Engineers: Harry Midy (EE), Freescale Semiconductor Corporate Scholars Award, $4,000; and Nikeisha Brathwaite (ME), Pape Sene (EE) and Winiga Sontoua (EE), the GE Lloyd Trotter African-American Forum Scholars Award, $2,500.

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POLY IN THE NEWS

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PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
Mark M. Green, invited lecture, Global Chemistry, Global Education Symposium, Allegheny College, Pennsylvania (April 7, 2005)
_____ invited lecture, American Chemical Society, North Carolina Polymer Discussion Group, North Carolina State University (April 14, 2005)
_____ invited lecture, “Advances in Chiral Materials,” 2005 Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference, Saskatoon (May 29, 2005)
Eli Pearce, presentation of American Chemical Society plaque, Tuskegee University, Alabama (January 27, 2005). Pearce, representing the ACS as past president, designated George Washington Carver a National Historic Chemical Landmark. Carver taught and did research at Tuskegee from 1896 to 1943.

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Spencer P. Kuo (with Daniel Bivolaru), article, “Aerodynamic Modification of Supersonic Flow Around Truncated Cone Using Pulsed Electrical Discharges,” AIAA Journal (accepted for publication)

INTRODUCTORY DESIGN AND SCIENCE
Vladimir Tsifrinovich, (with G.P. Berman, Fausto Borgonovi, V.N. Gorshkov), article, “Modeling and Simulations of a Single-spin Measurement Using MRFM,” IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (Vol. 4, No. 14, 2005)
_____ invited lecture, “Quantum Computation and Single-spin Measurement,” University of Guadalajara, Mexico (January 12, 2005)
_____ invited lecture, “Single-spin MRI,” Technological University of Monterrey at Guadalajara, Mexico (January 13, 2005)

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Nikhil Gupta (with Eyassu Woldesenbet), article, “Microballoon Wall Thickness Effects on Properties of Syntactic Foams,” Journal of Cellular Plastics (Vol. 40, November 2004, 461-480). This article is ranked No. 8 on the list of “50 Most Frequently Read Articles” from the journal.
_____ invited lecture, “Hollow Particle Filled Composites, Nanocomposites and Funcitonally Gradient Materials,” Malaviya National Institute of Technology, India (January 12, 2005)

PHYSICS
Stephen Arnold, invited lecture, “Spectroscopy of Photonic Atoms,” Columbia University (February 21, 2005). Arnold was selected by the State Department and the National Academy of Engineering to be the U.S. representative in the area of bio-sensors and give the same talk at a conference in Tsukuba, Japan.
_____ lecture, “Spectroscopy of Photonic Atoms and Ultra-sensitive Biosensors,” Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Erice, Sicily, Italy (June 6-21, 2005)

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NEW GRANTS

Top grants for FY2004 (covering the period June 30, 2003, to July 1, 2004):

Top five new grants:
• $1,167,090, “Polymer Fuel,” Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; PI: Richard Gross (CBSE)
• $493,254, “Revitalizing Achievement by using Instrumentation in Science Education (RAISE),” National Science Foundation; PI: Vikram Kapila and Magued Iskander (CE)
• $360,000, “Erato POF IV,” Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO); PI: Yukl Okamoto (CE)
• $342,311, “ITR Collaborative Research: Peer-to-Peer Networking Theory,” National Science Foundation; PI: Keith W. Ross (CIS)
• $315,000, “I/UCRC-WICAT,” Membership Fees; PI: David J. Goodman (CIS)

Top five continuation grants:

• $959,258, “Federal Scholarship for Service in Information Assurance,” National Science Foundation; PI: Nasir Memon, Gleb Naumovich and Phyllis Frankl (CIS)
• $577,418, “Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT),” New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research; PI: Shivendra Panwar
  (ECE)
• $388,071, “Higher Education Opportunity Program 2004,” New York State Education Department; PI: Tersina Tam (HEOP)
• $333,915, “Student Support Services TRIO,” Department of Education; PI: Nichole Johnson (Special Services)
• $323,443, “Urban Security Initiative,” various private sources; PI: Kalle Levon (CBSE)

For FY2004, Chemical and Biological Sciences and Engineering led with the highest research revenue, $3.88 million from 29 grants, earning a 49 percent increase over last fiscal year. Computer and Information Science followed, with $3.45 million from 24 grants, a roughly the same as last fiscal year. Electrical and Computer Engineering secured $2.25 million from 31 grants; however, that was a 31 percent decrease from last fiscal year. Mechanical Engineering had a slight increase from last fiscal year, bringing in 10 grants totaling $998,000. Management had three grants, totaling $226,000, and Humanities had one grant, totaling $54,334. "Other" support areas at Polytechnic—including athletics, library, Packard Center and Engineering Conferences International—brought in 1.89 million from 26 awards, down 49 percent from last fiscal year.

Overall, Polytechnic was awarded 142 external grants in FY2004, totaling $14.38 million. This total sum is an 11-percent decrease from FY2003 ($16.17 million from 148 grants), and a 12-percent decrease from FY2002 ($16.7 million from 149 grants).

For more information and a complete list of FY2004 grants, visit the Contracts and Grants website.

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JOBS AT POLY

The following positions are currently open:

Administration
• Web Content Architect/Information Integration Professional, Library/Web Team (non-union) JOB # LIB010
• Administrative Assistant, YES Center (union) JOB # YES002
• Senior Generalist, Human Resources (non-union) JOB # HRS001

Faculty
• Morton L. Topfer Distinguished Chair, Management (non-union) JOB # MGM022
• Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Sciences and Engineering (non-union) JOB # CEM026
• Donald F. Othmer Distinguished Chair, Chemical and Biological Sciences and Engineering (non-union) JOB # CEM024
• Joseph J. and Violet J. Jacobs Distinguished Chair, Chemical and Biological Sciences and Engineering (non-union) JOB # CEM011

Complete job descriptions are available on the Human Resources website. Polytechnic’s job listings are updated weekly. You may apply in person, by mail, by e-mail or by fax for jobs for which you are qualified. Please note open positions are posted internally for five business days on the Human Resources bulletin board, located opposite the mailboxes in Jacobs Administrative Building. Polytechnic University is an equal opportunity educational institution/equal opportunity employer.

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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY

As the Independence movement is essentially
for the poorest in the land, the beginning
will be made with this evil.
—Mahatma Ghandhi

On March 12, 1930, Mahatma Gandhi begins a campaign of civil disobedience against the British government by calling upon the Indian population to refuse to pay taxes, particularly the tax on salt. He sets out with 78 followers on a 241-mile march to Dandi on the sea. There, he makes salt by evaporating seawater, defying the law since the British exercised a monopoly on the production and sale of salt. He is later arrested and spends the rest of the year in jail. The same year, he is named Time magazine Man of the Year.

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