| SEARCH
FOR NEW PRESIDENT BEGINS
The first steps are now
underway in Poly’s search for a new president, and you are
invited to participate in this critical process over the coming
year.
Poly’s
Board of Trustees appointed a presidential search committee in June,
chaired by Trustee Ralph Alexander and composed of other trustees,
alumni, faculty, staff and students (see
full listing at end of article). The committee’s first
task this summer was to select a consulting firm to assist and support
the entire search process and ensure that it casts the widest net
to identify world class candidates. Following interviews with three
firms responding to its Request for Proposals, the committee selected
one of the nation’s pre-eminent practices in higher education,
A. T. Kearney Executive Search. The team working with Poly’s
search is headed by Dr. Charles I. (Chuck) Bunting, vice president.
Bunting had an extensive and distinguished career in higher education
and government prior to assuming his present position with A.T.
Kearney four years ago. The committee and Bunting met in early August
to design and plan the search process, which is anticipated to conclude
with an appointment of a new president by the Board of Trustees
in March 2005.
The very first
stage of the search process is to obtain input and counsel from
the entire Poly community on the priorities and qualifications that
ought to guide the presidential search process, and we invite your
participation. Bunting and his colleague Steve Leo will be on campus
on Monday, September 13, to hold a series of meetings focusing on
a set of broad questions that will guide development of a search
“profile.” They will meet in an open session of the
Town Hall at 11 a.m., on the 13th in Silleck Lounge.
Bunting and
the committee also invite wider Poly input in response to the same
questions, as follows:
- What are the distinctive aspects/dimensions of Poly?
In other words, what should attract candidates to Poly?
- What are the key challenges and opportunities facing
the University over the next five to 10 years? That is to say,
what is the future agenda as it relates to the new president’s
responsibilities?
- What are the priorities, specifically for the new
president with respect to that future agenda?
- Given your responses to all of the above, what are
the characteristics, skills and experiences we should be seeking
in the search for the new president?
You are invited to share your thoughts on these questions and other
related topics with the consultants and the committee. Additionally,
you are invited to share ideas on possible candidates and/or people
who may be excellent sources of ideas on candidates. Please address
all suggestions and comments by e-mail or letter to: Chuck Bunting,
Polytechnic Search, A.T. Kearney Executive Search, 333 John Carlyle
Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. E-mail: charles.bunting@atkearney.com
and stephen.leo@atkearney.com.
Additionally,
the search committee plans to keep the entire Poly community informed
of the schedule and progress of the search through periodic reports
in ePoly Briefs, My Poly, The Polytechnic Reporter,
Cable and the Poly website.
Presidential
Search Committe
Ralph C. Alexander (committee chair), group vice
president of exploration and production, BP plc.; Craig
G. Matthews (committee vice chair), retired vice chairman
and COO, KeySpan Energy; Michael R. Corey, retired
managing director, JP Morgan Investment Management; Arthur
C. Martinez, retired chairman and CEO, Sears, Roebuck &
Co.; Henry J. Singer, retired vice president, General
Electric Co.; James Oussani Jr., president, Staplex
Co.; Stephen Arnold, the Thomas Potts Professor
of Physics and director, Othmer Institute; Vikram Kapila,
associate professor, mechanical engineering; Shivendra Panwar,
professor, electrical and computer engineering and director, CATT;
Roger P. Roess, department head, Civil Engineering;
Cheryl A. McNear, director, student development;
Marlon King, undergraduate; and W. Stuart
Lewis, graduate student.
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PROMISE
FUND RAISES $1.1M AT JUNE GALA
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| Students Yelena Bromberg and Stan
Vaysburd led the dancing. |
The Promise
Fund, Polytechnic’s leading scholarship and pre-college outreach
program, raised $1.1 million at its 16th annual dinner gala in June.
More than 350 guests enjoyed dinner, dancing and entertainment at
the black-tie event, held at Manhattan’s Waldorf-Astoria and
featuring a musical performance by the Three Mo’ Tenors.
Since its inception
in 1988, the Promise Fund has raised more than $13 million to provide
scholarships for more than 2,000 students and to support Poly’s
Center for Youth in Engineering and Science (YES Center), which
develops programs to encourage middle- and high-school students,
especially women and first-generation Americans, to study science
and engineering. Click
here to view photos from the dinner.
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CATT
RECERTIFIED BY GOVERNOR
Polytechnic’s
Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) celebrated
its 20th anniversary with a recertification grant by New York State
Governor George P. Pataki. With the new grant, CATT will receive
up to $1 million annually for the next 10 years.
Russell W. Bessette, executive director of the New York State Office
of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR) which supports
the center, said: “[Poly’s CATT] will be an extremely
important component of the state’s high technology economic
development efforts. With the research in information technology
and telecommunications being done at this center, coupled with technological
research in a wide range of areas, Polytechnic will be a key partner
in helping create a vibrant high technology-based economy for New
York State.”
CATT’s
inception began in the early 1980s, when New York State Legislature
established the Centers for Advanced Technology Program on university
campuses to forge a partnership between the state’s academic
resources and its industry. Polytechnic was one of 10 universities
to be designated a CAT, and the only one in the area of telecommunications.
Today, under CATT Director Shivendra Panwar, the research center
collaborates with companies to meet their evolving needs through
joint research and access to facilities and experts. Among its partners
are MetroTech neighbors KeySpan Corporation, the largest distributor
of natural gas in the Northeast, and the Securities Industry Automation
Corporation (SIAC), the technology subsidiary of the New York Stock
Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. Click
here for more information on CATT and its research.
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POLY
GETS BRANDED
The evidence is
written on the walls: Poly has been branded. A year-long effort has
resulted in the launch of an ambitious campaign to raise the University's
visibility in the New York tri-state area and beyond.
Support for
undertaking a branding campaign came through Poly alumnus and trustee
Ralph Alexander, an executive vice president with BP plc, who enlisted
the assistance of BP's marketing and communications department as
well as the firm's marketing communications agency, Ogilvy &
Mather Worldwide. Together, representatives from BP and O&M
sought imput from the Poly community and researched the University's
rich 150-year history to develop a brand strategy right for Poly.
By exploring the accomplishments of Poly's alumni and its past and
present faculty, the team then hit upon a central theme of Poly
as a gathering place for passionate thinkers—a real-world
laboratory working on solutions that has and will benefit all humankind.
From there, came the overaching brand idea, "The Power of PolyThinking."
The Poly brand
is now being communicated through all University materials, including
brochures, posters, flyers, post cards, letters and business cards.
A dynamic website (www.poly.edu/polythinking) has been created to
provide more information about Poly's achievements. The University
will communicate the brand to an external audience—including
high school counselors, prospective students, alumni, peer universities
and corporations and foundations—through direct mail, e-mail
and print and radio advertisements.
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POLY
HIRES NEW IT SERVICE
Polytechnic
has selected Collegis, an operating unit of SunGard, to manage its
information technology. Collegis services more than 100 higher education
institutions, including Duke and Clarkson universities. It replaces
Northrop Grumman, which has handled Poly’s IT services for
the past eight years. Except for three employees, all IT onsite
technicians will remain at Poly and now work for Collegis.
"We chose
Collegis for two reasons," says VP T.C. Westcott. "It
deals exclusively in higher ed and, more important, it provides
invaluable corporate resources such as strategic planning, disaster
recovery and synergy with other institutions it services."
Other services it offers are a 1-800 Help Desk available 24/7, an
annual tactical plan and certified PeopleSoft consultants. Westcott
stresses that the decision to hire Collegis over Grumman was not
cost related. "In fact," she says, "the costs were
comparable."
Collegis came
on board after Grumman's contract ended August 31. John Southard
is the interim CIO (replacing Tom Schmidt). He can be reached at
ext. 3309 and jsouthar@poly.edu,
and is located in RH 335.
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CHAO
NAMED ECE HEAD
H. Jonathan
Chao, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been
named department head of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He
succeeds Henry L. Bertoni, who retired after 44 years at the University.
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H.
Jonathan Chao |
Chao is recognized
for prototyping the world’s first SONET-like framer chip in
1987. Since then, SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) has become the
transmission standard in today’s optical network. In 2001, he
was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the architecture
and application of VLSI circuits in high-speed packet networks. He
holds more than 20 patents and co-wrote Broadband Packet Switching
Technologies and Quality of Service Control in High-Speed
Networks, both published by John Wiley & Sons in 2001.
A native of
Taiwan, Chao earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees
from National Chiao-Tung University. He came to the United States
in 1981 to pursue his PhD at the Ohio State University in Columbus.
After graduation, he worked for Telcordia Technologies (formerly
Bellcore) and was an adjunct professor at Poly. He joined the faculty
full time in 1992. In 2000, he took a one-year leave of absence
to found and serve as chief technical officer of the Iris Group’s
Coree Networks, where he led the implementation of next-generation
routers.
Chao and his
wife, Y. Ammie, have been married for more than 25 years. They have
three children—Jessica, 24, a nurse; Roger, 17; and Joshua,
11—and live in New Jersey.
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ARNOLD
ELECTED OTHMER INSTITUTE DIRECTOR
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Stephen
Arnold |
The senior faculty
fellows of the Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies have
elected Stephen Arnold for a two-year term as director. He succeeds
Mel Horwitch, professor of management, who was the institute’s
founding director. A 26-year member of the Poly faculty, Arnold is
a university professor, the Thomas Potts Professor of Physics and
the Potts-Othmer Senior Faculty Fellow. He was recently noted in the
research community for his development of an optical biosensor with
unprecedented sensitivity for detecting unlabeled molecules.
The Othmer Institute
was established in 2002 as an incubator for breakthrough interdisciplinary
technology-related research, education and curriculum development.
It houses Poly’s Honors College, which has seen success in
enrollment and retention in its first year of operation.
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MEET
TIMOTHY JOHN, STUDENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT
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Timothy
John |
Quiet and well
spoken, new Student Council President Timothy John has a calm demeanor
that belies a powerhouse of activity. In his four years at Poly—he
graduates next year with a BS in Civil Engineering—he has been
involved in more than half-dozen student organizations, including
NSBE, The Reporter and the Polytechnic Italian Culture Club.
For the past three years, he’s worked with the ASCE student
chapter building a concrete canoe, which won the regional competition
this year [Click
here to read article.] All of these activities are in addition
to his studies and his part-time job in the NYC Department of Parks
& Recreation’s Capital Projects division, where he writes
specifications for contractors, researches data, analyzes price and
bid estimates and writes articles for one of the department’s
newsletters.
Last year, while
serving as vice president of public relations for the Student Council,
John realized that, as he promoted the organization to an external
audience, few students inside the University understood the function
of Student Council. “Student Council is the voice of the student,”
explains John, “but I realized that we need to be a stronger
voice. Students need to know more about what Student Council can
do for them and, also, what they can do for their school.”
For his two-semester
tenure, John is focused on growing Student Council’s role
beyond just governing student clubs to improving the whole student
experience. One area he wants to more fully develop is Poly’s
technical and professional organizations. “These organizations
are what make Poly stand out,” he says. “Besides being
fun to participate in, they offer students practical, leadership
and networking experience that will only help their future career.”
While he plans to expand the student organizations, he also wants
to increase the council’s influence throughout the University,
having a say in academic and administration policies, such as financial
aid and health insurance, that affect students.
The fifth of
six children of Guyanese-born parents, John lives in the same house
in Jamaica, Queens, in which he was raised. While in high school,
he thought he wanted a career in medicine, until an internship at
a Mt. Sinai genetic-research lab convinced him otherwise. “I
couldn’t imagine making [researching fruit flies] my life’s
work,” he says. “For many medical problems, doctors
can’t fix the problem and, instead, try to fix other things,
like pain. I wanted a career where I can fix things. I want to take
the theory you learn in science and make it work in the real world.”
With his civil engineering degree, John plans to work in either
transportation engineering or construction project management after
graduation.
John wants
to hear from faculty and staff. Student Council meetings are held
every Monday at 1 p.m., in JAB 475. He can be reached at ext. 5960
and scpresident@utopia.poly.edu,
and is located in JB 158C.
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POLY
WELCOMES CLASS OF 2008
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| Poly
class of 2008 |
As Polytechnic
celebrates its sesquicentennial anniversary year, the University welcomed
the Class of 2008 at Convocation on September 1. More than 400 new
students met with school administration, faculty and staff, and enjoyed
a barbecue on campus.
“Our job
is to provide you with an excellent education,” President
David C. Chang said in welcoming the students. “And we are
committed to do that.” He encouraged the students to work
hard, manage their time efficiently and to have fun.
In a personal
reflection on the value of a Polytechnic education, Associate Provost
Barry S. Blecherman, recounted to the students how his father, Sid
Blecherman ’56, struggled out of poverty and achieved professional
success. “Polytechnic gave my father the education and tools
he needed to fulfill his American dream,” he recalled. “This
is a great university.”
At the close
of the Convocation, Student Council President Timothy John ’05
(CE) reminded the new students of Poly’s rich history and
strong faculty. “The faculty at Poly are truly world class,”
he said.
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ASCE
HONORS TWO STUDENTS
Civil engineering
students Elda Bruza, left, and Yaye Mah Boye
received scholarship awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE) Metropolitan Section at the section’s 39th Annual Dinner
Dance and Awards Presentation.
The seniors were recognized for their scholastic merit and active
participation in Polytechnic’s ASCE student chapter.
They are pictured with Raymond J. McCabe, president-elect
of the ASCE Met Section and a Poly alumnus, class of 1985.
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POLY-MATCHING CONTRIBUTION TO RETIREMENT PLANS RESTORED
Effectived July
1, the University's matching contribution to employees' 403(b) retirement
plans has been restored to five percent. Eligible employees who
contribute five percent towards the Retirement Annuity program now
receive a five-percent match from Polytechnic towards their account.
The University
previously contributed a 10 percent match to the retirement plans.
In October 2003, in an effort to reduce the 2003-2004 FY budget,
the Board of Trustees approved the elimination of the match from
January 1, to June 30, 2004.
The increased
contribution automatically occured in the first July paycheck for
current participants. Employees who want to change their contribution
or want to enroll in the program should contact Sally Chan at ext.
4038 or chan@poly.edu.
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AWARDS
AND HONORS
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George
Bugliarello |
George
Bugliarello, president emeritus and project director of
Urban Security Initiative, was appointed chair of Sigma Xi's Committee
on Ethics. The scientific research society has a membership of more
than 70,000 scientists and engineers with more than 500 chapters
at universities and colleges, government laboratories and industry
research centers.
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Beverly
Johnson |
Beverly
Johnson, executive director of the YES Center, will receive
the Technology to Empower Community (TEC) Championship Leadership
Award, a congressional recognition sponsored by the Education Technology
Think Tank (ET3). She was nominated by Scientific
Learning Corporation for her work with the YES Center, Poly's pre-college
outreach program. "The awards honor those individuals from around
the country who demonstrate inspiring leadership, exemplary service
to the nation’s underserved youth, and excellence in the field
of community technology." Johnson will receive the award at the
Congressional Black Caucus Education BrainTrust Symposium on September
10, in Washington, D.C.
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Cheryl
A. McNear |
Cheryl
A. McNear, director of student development, and students
W. Stuart Lewis and Mishah Salman
received the inaugural Nick Russo Memorial Helping Hands Award for
their contributions toward students. The award was given out at the
2004 Annual Student Activities Awards Banquet, sponsored by Student
Council and the Student Activities Awards Committee. The names of
the award recipients will be displayed on a plaque in the Regna Lounge.
The award is named in memory of the beloved Poly alumnus and long-time
employee who died in April 2003. For more on Russo's life, read his
obituary in the May
2003 issue of ePoly Briefs.
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POLY
IN THE NEWS
Poly's SMART
program was profiled in a Daily News (August 3, 2004) article,
"Teachers
Go Hi-Tech", and a Brooklyn Daily Eagle (July 20, 2004)
article, "Polytechnic
Program Helps Teachers Integrate High Tech into the Classroom."
The program, funded by a three-year, $450K NSF grant, conducts summer
courses in technology for high school teachers and is led by Mechanical
Engineering Professor Vikram Kapila.
Research by
Ming Leung, professor of physics and computer science,
and Theodor Tamir, university professor emeritus
(with scientists from the Army Research Laboratory) was reported
on in Photonic
Spectra magazine (Vol. 38, Issue 7, July 2004, pg. 22)
and Laser
Focus World magazine (July 2004). Leung and the other researchers
designed a multicolor infrared spectrometer that uses a linear array
of quantum grid infrared photodetectors based on a single material.
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PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
COMPUTER
AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Keith
W. Ross, textbook (with James F. Kurose), Computer
Networking: A Top-down Approach Featuring the Internet
(third edition, May 13, 2004, Addison Wesley)
CORPORATE
AND FOUNDATION RELATIONS
George Smith, paper/presentation, “Mars Exploration:
Some ‘Lesser’ Philosophical Implications,” 7th
International Mars Society Conference, Chicago (August 19-22, 2004)
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Jean Gallagher, poems, Barrow Street (summer
2004), Margie: The American Journal of Poetry (2004), Notre
Dame Review (winter 2004), The Journal (The Ohio State
University; spring/summer 2004), Rhino (2004) and Commonweal
(April 9, April 23, July 16, 2004)
INTRODUCTORY DESIGN AND SCIENCE
Vladimir Tsifrinovich (with G. P. Berman, F. Borgonovi,
Z. Rinkevicius), article, "Single-spin
Measurements for Quantum Computation Using Magnetic Resonance Force
Microscopy," Superlattices and Microstructures (Vol.
34, Issues 3-6, Pgs. 509-511, September to December 2003)
_____ invited lecture, “Modeling and Simulations of a Single-spin
Measurement Using Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy,” 2004
IEEE NTC Quantum Device Technology Workshop, Clarkson University,
Potsdam, N.Y. (May 17-21, 2004)
MATHEMATICS
Jerome Epstein, workshops, “Laboratory Math
and Science for Cognitive Development” and “Dealing with the Real Level
of Our Physics Students,” Physics Education Research Conference,
Sacramento, Calif. (August 4-5, 2004)
URBAN SECURITY INITIATIVE
George Bugliarello, invited speaker, "The
Role of Engineering in Economic Development for Developing Countries,"
World Federation of Engineering Organizations Committee on Capacity
Building, Washington, D.C. (June 29, 2004)
_____ invited NAE representative and speaker, "Biosoma Engineering
and the Advancement of Humankind," Chinese Academy of Engineering,
10th anniversary celebration, Beijing (June 1-4, 2004)
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NEW
GRANTS
Polytechnic
has recently received government grants, totaling more than $2 million,
for interdisciplinary research that will affect how we recycle plastics
and how more quickly and accurately we can detect deadly bacteria
such as anthrax.
The first grant,
$1.1 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
is funding research to change the way plastics are made and disposed.
Using an enzyme engineering strategy developed by Richard
A. Gross, the Herman F. Mark Professor of Polymer Science
and director of the Polymer Research Institute, in conjunction with
biotechnology firm DNA 2.0 Inc., the plastics will be made from
environmentally friendly renewable sources, such as plant oils,
including corn, sunflower and soybean. The new bioplastics will
have a special structure that, once used, allows them to be easily
converted to diesel-like liquid fuels, able to run electric power
generators or even replace a portion of the gasoline in cars. Click
here to read more about the project.
The second grant
is $1 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to support an
ongoing biodetection research project headed by Kalle M.
Levon, professor of chemistry and associate provost for
research and intellectual property. Levon and his research team
are developing new field tests that can detect deadly microorganisms
such as Bacillus anthracis, the spore-forming bacteria that causes
anthrax. These tests will be portable for on-location detection,
allowing the military as well as police officers and postal employees
to quickly analyze suspicious powders and other possible bioterror
agents. Existing military tests are largely laboratory-based optical
examinations and cannot distinguish anthrax from far less serious
agents such as food poisoning. To
read more about the project, click here.
Other recent grants include
the following:
Jerome Epstein and Deane Yang,
"Calculus Concept Inventory Diagnostic Test," National
Science Foundation, $350,000
Elza Erkip and Yao Wang, "Cooperative
Source and Channel Coding, $350,000
John Iacono and Alex Delis, "Support
for Four CIS Doctoral Students," U.S. Department of Education GAANN,
$498,132
Noel Kriftcher, "Future City Competition 2005,"
Consolidated Edison of New York, $20,000
Erwin Lutwak, Deane Yang and Gaoyong
Zhang, "Isoperimetric Inequalities," National
Science Foundation, $450,000.
Jovan Mijovic, "NSF-EC Cooperative Activity
in Materials Research: Dynamics of Nonostructured Systems," National
Science Foundation, $270,000
Carl Skelton, "Intergrated Digital Media MS Program,"
Alden Foundation, $70,000
Keith Ross and Shivendra
Panwar, Yao Wang, "On-Demand P2P
Video Streaming: Integration of Video Coding and Network Application
Design," $400,000
Ivan Selesnick and Yao Wang, "Video Coding Using a 3-D Motion-Selective
Wavelet Transform, $100,000
The following
is a list of new research grants for fiscal year 2003, covering
July 1, 2003, to June 30, 2004. For
more information, visit the Contracts and Grants website.
CHEMICAL
AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
Total: $2,605,619 (new and continuation grants)
Christos Georgakis, "Support for Visiting
Scientists Evgeny Vulfson, Xiaolei Sun, Wei Pan," Akzo Nobel,
$255,135
_____ and Meihua Tai, "Travel Grant to 15th
World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
(IFAC), Barcelona, Spain," National Science Foundation, $33,000
Mark M. Green, "A New Kind of Relationship
Between Chiral Optical Properties and Temperature Arises from the
Competition Between Structurally Different Enantiomers to Control
the Helical Sense of a Polymer," American Chemical Society,
$120,000
_____ "Polymers: Stereochemical Studies and Chiral Materials,"
National Science Foundation, $165,000
Richard A. Gross, "Stimulation Experiments
and Optimization of Time-dose Schedule for SLs," Foster Miller
Inc., $20,000
_____ "Fuel from Self-Degrading Bioengineered Packaging,"
U.S. Department of the Army/Army Research Office, $350,000
"Microbial Synthesis of Sophorolipids from Low-Cost Bioresources,"
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, $40,000
_____ "Denture Adhesives Research Agreement," GlaxoSmithKline,
$70,882
Yoshiyuki Okamoto, "ERATO Koike Photonics
Polymer Project," Japan Science and Technology Corporation,
$410,000
Ei Pearce, "Adhesive Project," Museum
of Modern Art, $37,500
Edward Weil, "Designed Phosphorus Flame Retardants:
Phase 2: Multiple Use," Akzo Nobel, $115,556
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Total: $1,931,345 (new and continuation grants)
John C. Falcocchio, "Transportation Security
Workshop," various private sources, $10,854
Masoud Ghandehari, "Federal Optical Chemo-sensing
for Civil and Mechanical Systems: An Interdisciplinary Exploratory
Research Project," National Science Foundation, $40,038
Magued Iskander, "General Research Support,"
American Society of Civil Engineers, Metropolitan Section, $500
Ilan Juran, "Micropile Technology for Bridge
Foundations," Federal Highway Administration, $75,007
_____ "Comparison Study of the New Media Industry in New York
and Paris," Institut D'Amenagement Et D'Urbanisme De La Region
D'ile-De-France, $1,325
_____ "Support for the Coordination and Technical Support of
the New York City Inter-Agency Taskforce," Gas Technology Institute/Institute
of Gas Technology, $4,5042
_____ "Civil Infrastructure Security Project," U.S.-Israel
Science and Technology Foundation, $200,000
_____ "Development and Demonstration of Innovative Technologies
To Reduce Utility Interference/Construction Costs (CONCORD),"
Consolidated Edison Company of New York, $475,000
_____ "Development and Demonstration of Innovative Technologies
To Reduce Utility Interference/Construction Costs (CONCORD), KeySpan
Energy, $475,000
Konstantinos Kostarelos, "Workshop on Surfactant
Enhanced Aquafer Remediation (SEAR) Design," various private
sources, $2,680
Raman Patel, "Intelligent Transportation System
(ITS): Phase 2," Research Foundation of CUNY, $45,211
Elena Prassas, "Advanced Institute for Transportation
Education Graduate Scholars Program 2003," Research Foundation
of CUNY, $10,000
Roger P. Roess, "Gateway Engineering Education
Coalition," Drexel University, $90,832
Hualiang Teng, "Frequency of Work Zone Accidents,"
Research Foundation of CUNY, $29,000
COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Total: $3,426,002 (new and continuation grants)
Yi-Jen Chiang, "Theory and Practice of Applied
Geometric Computing," National Science Foundation CAREER, $73,260
Joshua Gluckman, "ITR: Novel Imaging Devices
for Motion Estimation," National Science Foundation, $259,706
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
_____ "U.S.-Turkey Cooperative Research: Steganalysis Techniques
for Images and Audio," National Science Foundation, $30,000
_____ and Gleb Naumovich, Phyllis Frankl,
Ramesh Karri, "Information Assurance Scholarships,"
National Security Agency, $218,524
_____ and Edward Wong and Xiaolin Wu,
"Steganalysis Techniques for LSB Embedding in Documents and
Images," U.S. Department of the Air Force (AFOSR), $119,837
Gleb Naumovich, "Improving Scalability of
Finite State Verifiers," National Science Foundation CAREER,
$58,298
Stuart Steele and Edward Weil,
"Salary Support for Dr. Joel Wein," Akamai Technologies
Inc., $137,200
Xiaolin Wu and Nasir Memon, "An
Algorithmic Study of Optimal Multiresolution Quantization and Joint
Source Chann," National Science Foundation, $199,940
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Total: $3,241,154 (new and continuation grants)
Henry Bertoni and Valerie Davis,
"EE-Gifts," ExxonMobil, $2,500
Dariusz Czarkowski, David Goodman,
Elza Erkip and Ramesh Karri, "CISE-RR:
Instrumentation for Research on Energy Aware Multimedia Information
Terminals," National Science Foundation, $120,000
David Goodman, "Research Support In the Area
of Power and Rate Control in Wireless Networks and Adaptive Radio
Transmission and Signal Processing in Wireless Video Communications,"
National Semiconductor Corporation, $25,000
_____ and Elza Erkip, Yao Wang,
"ITR: Power Efficient Multimedia Wireless Communications,"
National Science Foundation, $294,740
_____ and Phyllis Frankl, Shivendra Panwar,
"Planning Grant for an Industry/University Cooperative Research
Center Collaborative Proposal: Wireless Internet Center for Advanced
Technology," National Science Foundation, $10,000
Ramesh Karri, "Research the Use of a Logarithmic
Number System-based Processor for Communications Chips," Sendyne,
$10,000
_____ and Dariusz Czarkowski, "40th Design
Automation Conference Graduate Scholarships," Design Automation
Conference, $24,000
Spencer P. Kuo, "Experiments and Theoretical
Study on ELF/VLF Wave Generation by the HAARP HF Heating Facility,"
U.S. Department of the Navy/Office of Naval Research, $50,000
I-Tai Lu, "EM Radiation Interference/Compliance
of Adjunct ISR Sensors for EW," Northrop Grumman, $15,000
Shivendra Panwar, "CATT Center General Support,"
New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research,
$1,000,000
Ivan 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
Theodor Tamir, "Rigorous Modal Simulations
for Quantum-Well Infrared Photodetectors and Related Optoelectronics,"
U.S. Department of the Army/Army Research Office, $67,135
Yao Wang, "Lossless Image Compression for
High-speed Download over Cordless Link," Symbol Technologies
Inc., $29,400
_____ and Elza Erkip, Andrej Stefanov,
" Cooperative Source and Channel Coding for Wireless Networks,"
Phillips Research USA, $38,000
Zivan Zabar and Dariusz Czarkowski,
"Development of a Unit Substation Demand Estimator," Consolidated
Edison Company of New York, $141,350
_____ "Mitigation of Voltage Disturbances Caused by Non-linear
Operation of Massive Electrical Loads," Long Island Lighting
Company, $99,747
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
TOTAL: $0 (news and continuation grants)
INTRODUCTORY DESIGN AND SCIENCE
TOTAL: $146,535 (new and continuation grants)
Lorcan M. Folan, "Support for Department of
Introductory Design and Science Activities," David Doucette,
$2,000
MANAGEMENT
Total: $70,000 (new and continuation grants)
George Schillinger and George Bugliarello,
"Support for a Special 25th Anniversary Issue of Technology
in Society: An International Journal," John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation, $25,000
_____ "Support for a Special 25th Anniversary Issue of Technology
in Society: An International Journal," Richard Lounsbery
Foundation, $12,000
MATHEMATICS
TOTAL: $92,844 (continuation grant)
MECHANICAL, AEROSPACE AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING
TOTAL: $973,127 (new and continuation grants)
Vikram Kapila, " Space Grant Affiliate Interns
and Attendance at a Summer Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
in Pasadena, Calif.," Cornell University/NASA New York Space
Grant Consortium, $14,700
_____ "Federal Decentralized Hybrid Control Strategies for
Autonomous Multi-agent Swarms," Orbital Research Inc., $5,000
_____ "Federal Swarm Intelligence and Command Interface for
Collective Operation of Military UAV Teams," Orbital Research
Inc., $45,000
_____ "Research Experience for Teachers Site in Machatronics,"
National Science Foundation, $300,000
Meihua Tai, "SGER: Dynamics of Wheeled Mobile
Robots for Control: A Case Study of Advanced Nonlinear Control of
Complex, Interconnected Mechanical Systems," National Science
Foundation, $99,905
Xiaodong Wang, "Private, Stress Analysis of
Polymeric Trileaflet Valves," ABIOMED Inc., $4,000
Blair Williams, George Bugliarello
and Michael Greenstein, "Scanning Bodegas,"
National Science Foundation, $404,598
OTHER
TOTAL: $3,686,049 (new and continuation grants)
George Bugliarello, "Support for the Launch
of the Urban Security Initiative," Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,
$469,293
_____ "Support for the Center for Technology in Supply Chains
and Merchandising," Federated Department Stores Inc., $20,000
_____ "Support for the Center for Technology in Supply Chains
and Merchandising," Jones Apparel Group Inc., $20,000
_____ "Urban Security Initiative," various private sources,
$21,760
Haang Fung and Naomi Nemtzow,
"Support for Communication Skills in Freshman Engineering:
Polytechnic's Fully-integrated EG-1004 Approach," Engineering
Information Foundation, $24,864
David J. Gillette, "Assist the Construction
of the National Center for E-Commerce Business Incubator,"
U.S. Small Business Administration, $400,000
_____ and Barbara Hickernell, "Support for
Polytechnic University's Engineering Conferences International Program,"
various private sources, $178,330
F.H. Griffis, "What Is the Owner's Role in
Project Success," University of Texas at Austin, $162,002
Barbara Hickernell, "Teaching Entrepreneurial
Engineering," National Science Foundation, $25,000
_____ "Computational Fluid Dynamics in Chemical Reaction Engineering
III Conference, Davos, Switzerland, May 25-30, 2003," National
Science Foundation, $25,000
_____ "Boundary Lubrication for Transportation Conference,"
National Science Foundation, $10,000
_____ "Support for International Conference on Thermal Barrier
and Environmental Coatings," U.S. Department of the Air Force/AFOSR,
$5,000
_____ "Thermal Barrier and Environmental Coatings Conference,"
U.S. Department of the Navy/Office of Naval Research, $10,000
_____ and David Clarke, "Support for Conference
on Advances in Optics for Biotechnology, Medicine and Surgery,"
U.S. Department of the Navy/Office of Naval Research, $7,500
Beverly Johnson, "Goldman Sachs Scholars,"
Bank Street Institute for Leadership, Excellence and Academic Development,
$74,750
_____ "High School Students Summer Immersion Program 2002,"
National Action Council for Minorities In Engineering Inc., $22,475
_____ "National Society of Black Engineers National Leadership
Institute," National Society of Black Engineers, $20,107
_____ "New York City Science and Engineering Fair 2003,"
New York Academy of Sciences, $150,805
_____ "New York City Science and Engineering Fair 2004,"
New York Academy of Sciences, $150,805
_____ "SciTech Summer Enrichment Program," various private
sources, $14,580
_____ "Polytechnic University's Outreach to the Cable Telecommunications
Industry," Walter Kaitz Foundation, $50,245
Michael Klidas, "New York State, Institutional
Equipment Support," New York State Education Department, $82,500
Noel Kriftcher, "To Support Aspects of the
October 2003 Student Leadership Conference of the National Consortium
of Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology
That Will Promote Minority Participation," Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation, $30,000
_____ "Future City Competition 2003 and 2004," Consolidated
Edison of New York, $20,000
_____ "Packard Center Special Projects," various private
sources, $4,500
_____ "Conference Sponsored by Polytechnic University and the
National Consortium for Specialized Schools of Math, Science and
Technology," various private sources, $2,500
_____ and Anna Martinez, "FIRST Competition
2003," FIRST Foundation, $107,921
Kalle Levon, "Neuroscience Research,"
Swartz Organization, $25,000
_____ "Micro Electrical Optical Mechanical Systems," Swartz
Organization, $25,000
Nicole Johnson, "Student Support Services
2002/2003," U.S. Department of Education, $332,368
Raina Parandelis, "Brooklyn Career Fair,"
Polytechnic University, $200
Jana Richman, "Library Coordinated Collection
Development Aid 2003," New York State Education Department,
$7,938
Teresina Tam, "Vanguard Scholars Participating
in the High School Students Summer Immersion Program 2002,"
National Action Council for Minorities In Engineering Inc., $3,900
_____ "Higher Education Opportunity Program 2003," New
York State Education Department, $393,764
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NEW HIRES AND PROMOTIONS
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Naimah
Al-Uqdah |
Naimah
N. Al-Uqdah has been hired as an administrative aide in
Admissions. A member of Poly’s class of 2006, she is studying
towards a BS in Technical and Professional Communication. Al-Uqdah
previously worked as a student aide in Alumni Relations and the
YES Center. The Brooklyn native lives in the East Flatbush section.
She can be reached at ext. 5955 and naluqdah@poly.edu,
and is located at the front desk in Wunsch Hall.
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Kathleen
Davis |
Kathleen
Davis has come on board as associate dean of admissions.
She hails from Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., where she was
the assistant director of admissions. She holds an MBA from Clarkson
and a BS in Business Administration from Russell Sage College in
Troy, N.Y. A native of New Hampshire, Davis worked as a claims adjuster
for Peerless Insurance Company in Keene before pursuing her master’s.
She now lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She can be reached
at ext. 5938 and kdavis@poly.edu,
and is located in RH 213.
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Greg
DeMoustes |
Gregory
(Greg) DeMoustes has taken over both the men's and women's
volleyball programs at Poly, replacing James Zeng and Richard Lam,
respectively. He previously served as an assistant coach of women's
volleyball at New York Institute of Technology and as head coach of
the Long Island Boys USA Junior Volleyball Club. At age 25, the Smithtown,
L.I., native is the youngest NCAA head volleyball coach in the country.
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Travis
Gales |
Travis
Gales, a 2003 Poly graduate, has joined Admissions full time
as a counselor as he continues his studies in chemical engineering,
working towards a master’s degree. He replaces Michael Urmenta.
In addition to talking with prospective students in the New York City
area, he is responsible for maintaining Admissions’ database.
A native of Brooklyn, he currently lives in the Flatbush section.
He can be reached at ext. 5916 and tgales@poly.edu,
and is located in WH 106.
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Michael
Hutmaker |
Michael
A. Hutmaker has been named dean of student affairs, a new
position created after former VP of Student Affairs Ellen Hartigan
left last year. He comes from the Staten Island campus of St. John’s
University, where he spent 10 years in the student life office, the
last four years as associate dean of student life and director of
residence life. He holds a BA in Psychology and Sociology from Rutgers,
a Master of Education in Counseling and Guidance Services from Clemson
University and a Doctor of Education in Administration and Supervision
from St. John’s. A native of New Jersey, Hutmaker lives in South
Brunswick Township. He can be reached at ext. 3773 and mhutmake@poly.edu,
and is located (temporarily) in JB 350. He will move to JB 158 after
office renovations are completed.
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| Jamal
Rahhali |
Mohamed
(Jamal) Rahhali has joined as facilities manager in Facilities
Management. He will oversee the technical aspects of Poly's property
operations, including mechanical, electrical, HVAC, contractors and
safety issues. With more than a dozen years in engineering, he has
worked as a control engineer for Boston's Four Seasons Hotel, as chief
mechanical engineer for Aetna Insurance and, most recent, as director
of engineering and environment at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. He
has also served as an energy consultant for Energy Direction. A native
of Morocco, he moved the United States in 1988 and earned a bachlor's
in science and mechanical engineering at Wentworth Institute of Technology.
He is also a certified energy manager. He and his wife, Mamiko, a
painter and sculptor, have two sons, Kamil, 5, and Sofian, 18 mos.
He can be reached at ext. 3932 and jrahali@poly.edu,
and is located in JB 152.
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| Joseph
Lathan |
Joseph
Lathan, a former assistant in Development, has returned to
Poly as coordinator of internships and cooperative education in Career
Services. He left Poly in 2000 to be a meeting planner at the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers. Born and raised in Detroit, he attended
Eastern Michigan University and holds an associate's degree in humanities
and social sciences from Washtenaw Community College. He’s currently
pursuing his bachelor’s at Poly in liberal studies and is an
associate minister at the Spiritual Israel Church in Harlem. He lives
in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn with his wife, Pamela, an HR representative
at Snapple, and his daughters, Paige, 13, and Jade, 11. He can be
reached at ext. 3148 and jlathan@poly.edu,
and is located in JB 359.
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| Chris
Laudando |
Christopher
(Chris) Laudando has been hired as an adviser in Academic
Success. He comes to Poly from the College of Staten Island CUNY,
where he did academic advising and classroom scheduling. Previously,
he worked in finance. A native and current resident of Staten Island,
he holds a bachelor's in sociology and anthropology and master's in
Western civilization from the College of Staten Island. He is also
an adjunct instructor of sociology at Queens College. He can be reached
at ext. 3047 and claudand@poly.edu,
and is located in JB 356.
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| Elayne
Monnes |
Elayne
Monnens has joined Admissions as a counselor. Previously,
she worked in admissions at Radford University in Virginia. Born and
raised in Minnesota, Monnens earned a BA in Psychology from Ripon
College in Wisconsin, and interned in the admissions office there.
She currently lives in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan. As an
admissions representative of Poly, she will cover Manhattan, Long
Island, Westchester and the Midwest. She can be reached at ext. 5929
and emonnens@poly.edu, and
is located in WH 205.
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| Kevin
Power |
Kevin Power
has been hired as an Admissions counselor. As a Poly student—he
graduated in May with a BS in Business and Technology Management—he
was captain and assistant coach of the men’s soccer team, a
member of the Lambda Chi Alpa fraternity and a student aide in Admissions
and the Residence Hall. Born in the Marine Park section of Brooklyn,
he will cover that borough for Poly, as well as the Bronx and Upstate
New York. He can be reached at ext. 5928 and kpower@poly.edu,
and is located in WH 214.
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| Yelena
Shvartsblat |
Yelena
Shvartsblat is the director of inter-collegiate relations
in Academic Affairs. In this newly created position, she works with
academic departments to help create articulation agreements between
the University and institutions nationwide and internationally. She
comes to Poly from Queensborough Community College, where she was
director of academic advisement for five years. Previously, she was
in admissions at Downstate Medical School and held internship positions
at Cornell University School of Industrial Labor Relations. Born in
Russia, Shvartsblat immigrated with her family to the United States
when she was four. Now living on Long Island, she holds a BS from
Hunter College and an MA in Higher Education Administration from New
York University. She can be reached at ext. 3533 and yshvarts@poly.edu,
and is located in RH 321F.
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| Stavroula
Sofou |
Stavroula
Sofou has been named assistant professor in Chemical and
Biological Sciences and Engineering. A graduate of Columbia University,
with MS, MPhil and PhD degrees, she had been a post-doctoral fellow
at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, specializing in applications
of nanoparticles to cancer treatment. She was a summer associate at
Bristol-Myers Squibb and a research assistant at the National Hellenic
Research Foundation in her native Greece. She holds a BS in Chemical
Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, and
received a NATO Science Fellowship from the Hellenic Republic Treasury
Department. She has co-authored several journal articles and contributed
to two patents on liposomal nanostructures and to a chapter in the
Handbook of Nanostructured Biomaterials and Their Applications.
She can be reached at ext. 3863 and ssofou@poly.edu,
and is located in RH 739A.
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| Keni
Yip |
Shun Wah
(Keni) Yip has joined Computer and Information Science full
time as a systems engineer. He had previously been a consulting computer
programmer to the department. He earned a bachelor’s in computer
science from Poly in 2002. Born in Hong Kong, he came to the United
States when he was nine and has lived in Chinatown and, currently,
on the Upper East Side. He can be reached at ext. 3023 and keni@poly.edu,
and is located in RH 225.
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| Diana
Yung |
Diana Yung,
a member of Poly’s class of ’03, is now full time as a
counselor in Financial Aid. The Bensonhurst native, who earned a BS
in Computer Science, has been working at Poly for the past four years
in various offices, including Athletics, Financial Aid, Audio/Visual
and Notebook Media Support. She can be reached at ext. 3774 and dyung@poly.edu,
and is located in JB 256. Congratulations
to the following people who were promoted:
Peggy Chen, to controller from assistant controller,
Financial Operations. Her extension, e-mail and location remain
the same.
Dina Cruz-Cadiz, to events coordinator from Promise
Fund coordinator, University Relations. Her extension, e-mail and
location remain the same.
Raina Vazeos Lamade, to director of special events,
University Relations, from Career Fair coordinator, Career Services.
Her extension and location have changed to ext. 3307 and JB 551B.
Her e-mail remains the same.
Ninh (Kevyn) Mac, to assistant payroll manager,
Financial Operations, from generalist, Human Resources. His location
has changed to JB 454. His extension and e-mail remain the same.
Melissa Melendez, to assistant payroll manager
from staff accountant, Financial Operations. Her extension, e-mail
and location remain the same.
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David
Lin |
Apologies
to Song Lin, database administrator in Development, who was
accidentally omitted in the May issue of ePoly Briefs in
the list of employees who received a Poly degree this year. He earned
a master's degree in computer science. Congratulations
are also in order for Lin and his wife, Wendy, who welcomed their
first child, David, on June 7.
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CLARIFICATION: PROFS SABBATICALS
In the May issue of ePoly
Briefs, nine professors were listed for being approved for
sabbatical for the 2004-2005 school year. Below are the specific
dates they will be on sabbatical:
Lisa Hellerstein:
September 1, 2004, to May 31, 2005
Mel Horwitch: September 1, 2004, to May 31, 2005
Kalle Levon: September 1, 2004, to December 31,
2004
Juan Carlos Álvarez-Paiva: September 1,
2004, to May 31, 2005
Alex Delis: September 1, 2004, to May 31, 2005
David Goodman: September 1, 2004, to May 31, 2005
Sylvia Kasey Marks: January 2005, to December 2005
Richard Van Slyke: September 1, 2004, to May 31,
2005
Edward Wong: September 1, 2004, to May 31, 2005
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JOBS
AT POLY
The following positions are currently open:
Administration
- Budget Director, Financial Operations (non-union) JOB # FNO020
- Director, Financial Aid (non-union) JOB # FAD007
- Senior Generalist, Human Resources (non-union) JOB
# HRS001
- Coordinator, Human Resources (non-union) JOB # HRS003
- e-Learning Curriculum Design Specialist, Graduate
Center (non-union) JOB # GRC012
Academic
- Morton L. Topfer Endowed 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
I will not
carry a gun.... I'll carry your books; I'll carry a torch; I'll
carry a tune; I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant,
cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia; I'll even hari-kari
if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
Hawkeye (Alan Alda) in
“M*A*S*H,” episode "Officer of the Day," original
aired September 24, 1974, written by Laurence Marks
The man behind
the first marathon, Phidippides, runs 140 miles in 36 hours to seek
aid from Sparta after Persian army attacks Athenians on plains of
Marathon; the next day, after fighting the Persians, Phidippides
runs 26 miles to Athens to carry news of victory and warning of
approaching Persians. He dies that night of exhaustion (490 BC)
. . . Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Nachmanides), physician and Torah
scholar, arrives in Palestine to establish Jewish community after
being expelled from Spain for his polemics (1267) . . . Johann Guttenberg's
Bible is first book published in volume (1452) . . . Henry Hudson
discovers mouth of Hudson River (called Muhheakunnuk [great waters
constantly in motion] by natives) while searching for Northwest
Passage to Pacific (1609) . . . Bank of Manhattan Company (forerunner
to Chase Manhattan) opens in NYC as water supply company with right
to engage in banking (1799) . . . 265 students begin first year
at Brooklyn’s first institute of higher learning for men,
the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute (1855) . . . British
surgeon Joseph Lister performs first antiseptic surgery using carbolic
acid solution (1865) . . . 10,000 workers participate in first U.S.
Labor Day parade, in New York City (1882) . . . NYC Mayor James
J. (Gentleman Jimmy) Walker resigns on graft charges and leaves
immediately for Europe, where he remains until danger of criminal
prosecution passes (1932) . . . “The Boss” born Bruce
Frederick Springsteen in Freehold, N.J. (1949) . . . “Rebel
Without a Cause” actor James Dean dies at age 24 in car crash
near Bakersfield, Calif. (1955) . . . Pope John Paul I officially
installed as 264th supreme pontiff (1978) . . . Sandra Day O'Connor
sworn in as first female supreme court justice (1981) . . . 3,021
people die in worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil (2001)
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