The Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) supports the professional growth of faculty with grant awards for their projects in the creative arts, as well as for their research in the social sciences and humanities, natural sciences, curriculum development and other areas.
In the current PSC-CUNY Cycle 49, 41 Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) faculty members have received Cycle 49 PSC-CUNY awards for their research projects. Traditional-A Awards provide up to $3,500, while Traditional-B Awards range from $3,600 to $6,000. Awards are distributed by the University Committee on Research Awards, a faculty committee, and administered by the Research Foundation of CUNY.
“The depth and breadth of scholarship represented by these awards is impressive, as is the collective impact on a broad range of fields,” said Karrin E. Wilks, Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs. “We are proud of the outstanding research and creative activity of our faculty, providing unprecedented learning opportunities for our students and establishing BMCC as a premier community college.”
Traditional-A Awardees
Jamal Ali, Physics and Engineering: Gender differences in the optical properties and imaging of gray matter In human brain
David Allen, Mathematics: Presheavs of Quasitoric Manifolds and Cohomological Rigidity
Upali Aparajita, Physics and Engineering: Multishell nanorobots for sampling, detecting and treating cancerous cells
Shoba Bandi-Rao, Education: Reviewing by Ear: Helping English Language Learners Revise their Essays
David Bahr, English and Creative Writing: Surrogate Selves: Re-experiencing the Past Through Other People’s Lives
Tracy Bealer, English and Creative Writing: “What’s the opposite of phallic?”: Language, Loss, and Creative Mourning in Y: The Last Man
Rachel Corkle, Comparative Literature and Modern Languages: The Fragility of Virility in 1830s France
Bertie Ferdman, Performing Arts: Curating Dramaturgies
Miguel Fiolhais, Physics and Engineering: Study of the top quark Yukawa coupling at the Large Hadron Collider
Sarah Haviland, Art History, Visual Arts, Communication Arts & Sciences: Avian Habitat: A Sculptural Bird-Figure Installation
Barys Korzun, Physics and Engineering: Preparation and Study of Flash-Evaporated Thin Films of Compounds of the Cu-Fe-S System for Optoelectronic Applications
Cynthia Lam, English: Geographies of Home: Re-membering the Body in the Construction of Latina Subjectivity
Stephanie Laudone, Law and Criminal Justice, Sociology, Urban Studies: Intensive Mothering and Vaccine Choice: Reclaiming the Lifeworld from the System
Kurt Levent, Mathematics: Navigating the Sky with Projective Geometries and Octonionic Algebra
Jun Liang, Biology and Earth Sciences:Developing a novel genetic model of healthy aging with Chloride intracellular channel protein (CLIC)
Laurie Lomask, Comparative Literature and Modern Languages: Oral Histories of the Caribbean Diaspora in New York City
Sarah Madole, Art History, Visual Arts, Communication Arts and Sciences: The Sarcophagi of Ancient Arles and Social Experience among Romans and Christians
Micah Miller, Mathematics: A Dold-Kan Correspondence for Infinity Cosimplicial Chain Complexes and Multicomplexes
Soniya Munshi, Law and Criminal Justice, Sociology, Urban Studies: Mapping Safety Apparatuses: Gendered Violence, Immigrant Victim-Survivors and the Carceral State
Abel Navarro, Chemistry and Biochemistry: Seaweed and Their Hydrogels as Adsorbents of Pharmaceutical Products from Contaminated Waters
Maria Pagan Rivera, Health Sciences, Health and Human Services, Speech and Hearing: Sin Papeles (Without Papers): Generational Transmissions of Trauma in an Undocumented Immigrant Family Living in NYC
Robert Reed, Performing Arts: Performances (Lecture/Recitals) and Master-classes of Bach’s Six Suites for Solo Violoncello, BWV 10
Shari Rothfarb Mekonen, Performing Arts: Heroes (working title)
Roderick S. Snipes, Business Administration: Age as Determining Factor in Youth Entrepreneurship Education Outcomes
Francisca Suarez-Coalla, Comparative Literature and Modern Languages: Literature’s footprint on the city of Oviedo, Spain (La huella de la literatura en la ciudad de Oviedo, España)
Janice Summers, Nursing: Faculty Advisement and Helpfulness and the Retention of First-Semester Associate Degree Nursing Students
Jane Tezapsidis, Biology and Earth Sciences: Forskolin induces apoptosis in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma Cells
Valerie Thiers-Thiam, Comparative Literature and Modern Languages: Reaching out to Armenian Mothers and Grandmothers – Transgenerational Trauma and Resilience
Yan Yang, Art History, Visual Arts, Communication Arts and Sciences: The Influence of 19th century Yamato-e Revivalists (Fukko Yamato-e) on Yamato-e’s Pictorial Style
Hasan Yumak, Education: Correlation between Math Skills and General Chemistry Course Grades
Traditional-B Awardees
Maria de los Angeles Donoso Macaya, Interdisciplinary: South-to-North Photographic Displacements: Susan Meiselas, Chile from within (1990) and Chile desde adentro (2015)
C. Ray Borck, Interdisciplinary: “More aggressive than ever”: Biomedicalization, Discursive Testosterone, and C. Masculine Embodiment
Candido Hernandez, Anthropology, Classics, Philosophy, Linguistics: Use of Technology for critical thinking and decision making among first generation immigrant students at BMCC
Orlando Justo, Business Administration:Trade Openness and Growth: Evidence from the Transitional Economies of Eastern Europe
Kwasi Konadu, History: A People’s History of Jamaica in the World
Leigh LaBerge, Interdisciplinary: Wages Against Artwork: Socially Engaged Art and the Decomodification of Labor
Sophie Marinez, Interdisciplinary: The 1937 Massacre in the Dominican Republic: An Internal Conflict
Khushmand Rajendran, Health and Human Services, Speech and Hearing: Moderators of the Impact of Medications and School-Based Services on Children’s Behavioral Problems Between Early Childhood and Adolescence
Lisa Sarti, Art History, Visual Arts, Communication Arts and Sciences: Screens of Painted Canvas: Panoramas and the Birth of Cinematography
Jill Strauss, Interdisciplinary: On, Off or Under the Pedestal: Reconfiguring Memorials to Change the Conversation
Hao Tang, Computer Science and Library: Semantic 3D Modeling with Prior Knowledge of Indoor Structure
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- PSC-CUNY has provided grant awards for 41 BMCC professors
- Grants support research projects in the creative arts, social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and other areas
- Awards are part of Cycle 49 and are administered by the Research Foundation of CUNY
