A Salute to CUNY Scholars

Chancellor Matthew Goldstein led the CUNY Salute to Scholars, the annual reception honoring faculty and their achievements, last November at the New York Historical Society. One of CUNY’s premiere events, the Salute to Scholars honored over 225 distinguished CUNY faculty who received major competitive awards and fellowships during the past year. Twelve Queens College faculty were honored:

Robert Bittman (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
National Institutes of Health
Synthesis of Novel Bioactive Sphingolipids as a Resource

Richard Bodnar (Psychology)
National Institutes of Health
Neuropharmacology of Learned Food Preferences

Barry Commoner (Center for the Biology of Natural Systems)
The Cornerstone Campaign
A Critical Challenge to the Genetic Engineering of Food

Nancy Foldi (Psychology)
Alzheimer’s Association
Detecting an Early Response to Donepezil with Measures of Visual Attention

Azriel Genack (Physics)
National Science Foundation
Statistics of Electromagnetic Propagation and Localization

Igor Kuskovsky (Physics)
Columbia University
U.S. Department of Energy
Use of Nano-Islands for Improved Doping in Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors

Kui-Lam Kwok (Computer Science)
The Mitre Corporation
Advanced Research for Chinese Information Exploitation Program Support

Andrea Li (Psychology)
National Institutes of Health – The Research Foundation of SUNY
Neural Basis of Shape from Texture

Steven Markowitz (Center for the Biology of Natural Systems)
Queens Ground Zero Workers Health Watch, Environmental Benefit Project
Former Worker Surveillance Program

Corinne Michels (Biology)
National Science Foundation
Acquisition of Confocal Microscope and Biolostic Unit for Interdisciplinary Programs

Sudeb Mitra (Mathematics)
National Science Foundation
U.S.–India Workshop: Teichmuller Theory and Moduli Problems Allahabad, India

John Waldman (Biology)
National Park Service
Developing a Natural Resource and Social Sciences Research Opportunities Catalog for the Jamaica Bay Unit of Gateway