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Nucleus A Faculty Commons QuarterlyVolume 5 Summer 2014

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Russell K. HotzlerPresident

Bonne August Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Miguel CairolVice President for Administration and Finance

Marcela Katz ArmozaVice President for Enrollment and Student Affairs

Gilen ChanSpecial Counsel/Legal Affairs Designee

Compliance and Diversity Officer

Stephen M. SoifferSpecial Assistant to the President/

Institutional Advancement

Pamela BrownAssociate Provost

Karl BotchwayDean, School of Arts and Sciences

Kevin HomDean, School of Technology and Design

David SmithInterim Dean, School of Professional Studies

Carol SonnenblickDean, Division of Continuing Education

Faculty Commons A Center for Teaching, Learning, Scholarship and Service

Julia Jordan, Acting DirectorAvril Miller, College Assistant

Assessment and Institutional ResearchTammie Cumming, Director

Raymond Moncada, Assistant DirectorRachel Ng, Assessment AnalystYi Chen, Institutional Analyst

Olga Batyr, Survey Services LiaisonAlbert Li, Research Assistant

Office of Sponsored ProgramsBarbara Burke, Director

Patty Barba Gorkhover, Associate DirectorEleanor Bergonzo, Assistant Director

Grants Outreach Coordinator 2013-2014 Professor Pa Her

US Department of Education Title V A Living Laboratory

Charlie Edwards, Project Manager

National Science Foundation I3

Cinda Scott, Project Manager Coordinator of Integrated STEM Projects

Design TeamProfessor Anita Giraldo, Artistic Director

Kevin Rajaram, Web MasterAngelica Corrao, Matthew Joseph,

Mandy Mei, Dorian Valentine,Eva Zelarayan, Designers

N E W Y O R K C I T Y C O L L E G E O F T E C H N O L O G Y of the City University of New York

Isaac Barjis

Ian Beilin

Nadia Benakli

Karen Bonsignore

Candido Cabo

Sanjoy Chakraborty

Gwen Cohen-Brown

Susan Davide

Lynda Dias

Mary Sue Donsky

Aida Egues

Boris Gelman

Maria Giuliani

Karen Goodlad

Joel Greenstein

George Guida

Pa Her

Louise Hoffman

Neil Katz

Paul King

Darya Krym

Janet Liou-Mark

Karen Lundstrem

Zory Marantz

John McCullough

Djafar Mynbaev

Susan Phillip

Estela Rojas

Walied Samarrai

Ryoya Terao

Shauna Vey

Debbie Waksbaum

Denise Whethers

Gail Williams

Adrianne Wortzel

Farrukh Zia

Pamela Brown, Chair

Professional Development Advisory Council (PDAC)

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Contents

E d itors , Barbara Burke and Julia Jordan | Desig ner, Matthew Joseph | Pr i nt i ng, Digital Imaging Center at City Tech

Summer NightsSunset ParkCover–Photograph by Robin Michals

Summer 14

“ Shooting at the ‘magic hour,’ the hour after sunset, I have used the color of the light to make the waterfront look as artificial as it is while also showing the peace and beauty to be found there.”

Robin MichalsAdvertising Design and Graphic Arts Department

04 Intersecting Circles Bonne August

05 Introducing So Lan Liang Julia Jordan

06 Perkins Patty Barba Gorkhover

08 Comparative Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Healing Mary Sue Donsky

10 Faculty Commons Design Team Julia Jordan and Barbara Burke

11 2014 PSC CUNY Research Awardees

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Intersecting CirclesBonne August

Public Private Partnerships Foster Real-world Learning

When I speak to groups of faculty, I often refer to the many intersecting circles that surround and inform our work

at City Tech—among them are the disciplines that our faculty represent; the industry and community partners who advise degree programs, help nurture students through internships and clinical placements, and eventually employ City Tech graduates; the government agencies and philanthropic organizations that provide funds to support improvements to current programs, as well as new ventures; and of course, the City University of New York and our sister colleges.

This issue of Nucleus highlights a selection of these vital circles. Academic disciplines and professional fields of the faculty will be enriched through the work of forty-six full-time faculty members awarded PSC-CUNY grants this year for research and scholarship in their areas, announced on page 11. Over fifty civic and community partners will host the one hundred-plus CUNY Service Corps members representing City Tech this year; program manager So Lan Liang is featured on page 5. As described beginning on page 6, funding from the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins IV) provides City Tech with nearly $1 million annually in federal non-competitive postsecondary funding via the New York State Education Department (NYSED) for program and institutional efforts focused on associate degree students. Several grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), like the one described on page 8, have enabled faculty in technical and professional fields to work with their colleagues

in the humanities to make important connections for their students between study in their majors and the tools provided by the humanities to frame and address the big questions that govern how their work will be done and what its impact will be.

Each of these ventures echoes others in process at City Tech. Our great and essential challenge as college and university educators lies in forging meaningful connections among these disparate circles and weaving them together to create an integrated whole.

As we end one academic year and launch the next, I want to offer a valedictory, a heartfelt message of congratulation and farewell, to several people who have made significant contributions to the

Faculty Commons and to City Tech, and are now moving on to the next stages of their careers:

The members of the Faculty Commons Design Team who have earned their BTech degrees, whose work is acknowledged on p. 10 in this issue: Kevin Rajaram, Matthew Joseph, Angelica Corrao, and Eva Zelarayan.

Raymond Moncada, Analyst on the AIR team and City Tech alum, who has taken a position in industry.

Dr. Cinda Scott, project manager for the National Science Foundation (NSF) I-cubed grant, who has moved on to an exciting new position, directing the School for Field Studies site in Panama.

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Introducing So Lan LiangProgram Manager of CUNY Service Corps at City Tech

So Lan Liang is the Program Manager for City Tech’s CUNY Service Corps program, which aims to promote a culture of civic engagement by mobilizing

students to work on projects that have a strong social impact on the community. While making a meaningful difference through service, students also gain real-world work experience and increase their transferable skills in leadership, confidence building, knowledge of social issues, and the landscape of community-based organizations.

So Lan Liang has served as program director for more than a decade for award-winning programs that promoted the social well-being of our most vulnerable and underserved populations including the unemployed and underemployed, minority entrepreneurs, new immigrants, the ill and at-risk families in NYC. Her work has received recognition of excellence from the NYC Department of Health

and Mental Hygiene, the American Red Cross and the US Census Bureau. She also provided social work field supervision for undergraduate and graduate students from universities including Columbia University, CUNY, National Taiwan University and Macau University of Science and Technology.

She received her BA from Yale College and her MSW from Columbia University School of Social Work. So Lan is an active member of the Board of Directors for the Association of Asian American Yale Alumni.

As a licensed social worker, So Lan is inspired by the cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead who said, “If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.”

City Tech Faculty Selectedto Lead Service Projects Alexander AptekarArchitectural Technology DepartmentCreating the DURA DwellingUSDOE Solar Decathlon

Soyeon ChoHealth & Human Services DepartmentResearch and Field Study on the Impact of the Affordable Care Act: Facilitating Access to Healthcare for Low-Income Elderly Minority

Sean O’BrienConstruction Management and Civil Engineering Technology DepartmentPassiveHouse for a Sustainable NYC

Diana Samaroo Chemistry Department and Melanie VillatoroConstruction Management and Civil Engineering Technology DepartmentSTEM Education Outreach Program

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The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins IV) provides federal non-competitive postsecondary funding via the New York State Education Department (NYSED). City Tech receives approximately $1M annually to support career and technical education (CTE) for associate degree students. Perkins IV aims to improve students’ technical skills, credential, certificate, and degree attain-ment, retention, transfer, career placement, and non-traditional participation. The Perkins guidelines specifically mandate support of Workforce Development Programs and support to address the needs of students with disabilities.

The Perkins ProcessEarly each May I receive phone calls from faculty asking about submitting a Perkins proposal. Unfortunately it’s too late, I say, I’m finalizing the full proposal now. Then I explain the “Perkins process.” Provost Bonne August sets the deadlines each year in consultation with the deans. Deans

direct department chairs to request ideas or pre-proposals from faculty, who submit them in early March. The Provost and deans review the projects and decide which ones will be included in the final proposal.

The ProposalWhat is ultimately included in the final proposal is usually much different from what a faculty member has submitted. The full Perkins IV proposal is a collection of assurances, plans, lists, amounts and projects. The heart of the Perkins proposal consists of major efforts. City Tech currently has six major efforts, and there is a major effort for each of our three schools. Each school’s effort often contains at least four projects. Each annual Perkins proposal consists of about twenty separate projects. A faculty member may submit a two or three page pre-proposal or follow a template form but a single major effort with four projects will be three pages long. I condense

and combine multiple projects to create most final major efforts.

The elements of a Perkins major effort are the core items that should be considered in any grant proposal. Each project must identify a student need, define objectives aligned with Perkins aims, include activities and a timeline to achieve these objectives, and present evaluation measures with baselines and outcomes. For example, in our 2013-2014 proposal Computer Systems Technology indicated that student retention rates were quite low (40% – demonstrated need) and that students in CST 1100 and 1101 would be better prepared if provided with tutoring and mentoring activities. The objective was to increase retention, and the outcome was to have at least 45% retention rate for participating students.

Our ProjectsPerkins IV funding has supplemented many initiatives at City Tech; some have been very specific, reaching a relatively small number of students such as a clinical tutoring for Dental Hygiene students, and some have a larger scope such as math tutoring provided by the Learning Center.

PerkinsA faculty resource for enhancing the technical skills of associate-level students.Patty Barba Gorkhover

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For several years Perkins has helped the Nursing Department maintain an up-to-date Simulation Lab. Nursing students can practice administering care on simulated people (robots) that are programmed with various medical conditions. Perkins funding is currently supporting the use of standardized patients or actors in the Simulation Lab. Actors are used as patients and family members to improve student communication skills and faculty have a baseline for assessing student skills in handling live situations.

Advertising Design and Graphic Arts used Perkins funding to subscribe to Lynda.com, a website that provides instructional videos on a variety of software programs. Students are unable to learn all the nuances of a software program in the classroom and access allows students to learn at their own pace. Perkins funding purchased licenses for student use and its initial success resulted in the College continuing to provide students with access to the website.

For several years Professor Satyanand Singh of the Mathematics Department has been leading a drop-in lab with

two student experts available to tutor associate degree Computer Science students. It began as a one day a week lab on Fridays and has expanded to having four students work five days a week during the semester. Student pass rates in Pre-Calculus, Calculus I and II, and Statistics increased aproximately 9% compared to students who met with student experts in 2012-2013. Professor Janet Liou-Mark noted that “support for second-year students has resulted in more students passing Pre-Calculus and Calculus and more positive attitudinal changes towards mathematics.” She has coordinated group peer-led tutoring which has “helped undergraduates to empower their peers in foundational mathematics courses necessary to succeed in STEM fields”.

Legislative Status of PerkinsThe federal Perkins IV legislation enacted in 2006 required each institution to write a five-year plan in anticipation that the legislation would be reauthorized. We are currently in the seventh year of our Perkins five-year plan and the federal Perkins legislation has not been reauthorized. In 2012, the US Department of Education released a report, Investing in America’s Future

A Blueprint for Transforming Career and Technical Education which proposed changes to reauthorize the Perkins act based on four core principles: Alignment: To shift basis of funding allocation on future market labor needs. Collaboration: Require stronger partnerships between industry, secondary and post-secondary educational institutions. Accountability: Improvement and alignment of measurable outcomes Innovation: Reform at state level to ensure success at local level http://http://goo.gl/uKkRU

At the state level, NYSED Perkins guidelines did not change for 2014-2015 though this is considered a renewal year. They anticipate changes next year from US Department of Education once federal legislation is passed.

I have been monitoring the latest news at the Association for Career and Technical Education website www.acteonline.org on the Perkins legislation as I write this article. On June 11, 2014 the Full Senate Appropriations Committee was to review and amend the funding bill that included Perkins since it had been approved by the subcommittee. On June 16, 2014 it was reported that the bill has been “indefinitely postponed for consideration for Fiscal Year 2015.” If Perkins legislation is reauthorized for Fiscal Year 2016, then we could see significant changes for funding for fall semester 2016 or later. Since the state fiscal year is July 1st to June 30th and the federal fiscal year is October 1st to September 30th, the effects will be slow. It will also take time for the US Department of Education to amend guidelines for the states and then more time for NYSED to interpret federal legislation and guidelines into state guidelines and align them with statewide education plans.

Patty Barba Gorkhover, Associate Director of Sponsored Programs, has coordinated the Perkins process for the past seven years.

FACULT Y AT WORK. PHOTO BY EVA ZEL AR AYAN

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In spring semester 2013, twelve City Tech Faculty Fellows embarked on a remarkable eighteen month exploration of Comparative Perspectives on Health, Illness and

Healing supported by a Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic Serving Institutions grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

Unusually, the grant had been sought by faculty in allied health care professions (rather than Humanities) who aimed to collaborate with faculty in the Humanities to examine ways to enhance students’ understanding of cultural differences among patients and clients.

The seminars were organized around five topics each facilitated by different Fellows who were responsible for choosing readings, leading discussions, and inviting external scholars to speak. The topics included: • Introduction to the Tools of the

Humanities

• Systems of Medical Knowledge

• Portrayals of Illness in World Art

• Cultural Interpretations of Addiction

• Religious, Ethical, and Legal Meanings of Death across Cultures

Comparative Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Healing

Every other week the Fellows met to conduct seminars on Eastern and Western approaches to health, disease, healing, and death with the goal of enabling them and thus their students to become more thoughtful, culturally competent, and ethically aware practitioners.

In February 2013, the entire City Tech community was invited to an inaugural event featuring a keynote address by world- renowned physician, Dr. Rita Charon, a founding scholar in the field of Narrative Medicine . The Fellows later studied the technique of close reading as described in Dr. Charon’s seminal text, Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness. Fortunately, one of the Fellows, Professor Roxana Delbene Grossi, studies under Dr. Charon at Columbia University, so she was able to provide expert guidance in close reading techniques.

Other highlights included:• A seminar led by the poets Jim

Stubenrauch and Joy Jacobson (co-founders of a program in Narrative Writing for Health Care Professionals at Hunter College) on healing through reflective writing. They asked the Fellows to write and read aloud about personal matters.

Through those exercises, the Fellows gained an understanding of the intense learning and healing that can emerge from sharing stories in supportive situations.

• Lively discussions of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Ann Fadiman, a phenomenal account of a Hmong family and their worldview.

• An examination of the history and laws on the right to die. Not only did the Fellows read the world famous Quinlan case, they also learned how to “brief” a case, with a legal method related to Dr. Charon’s system of close reading. The Fellows also explored The Death of Ivan Illych by Leo Tolstoy using the wonderful Readers Guide and Teachers Guide materials from NEH’s The Big Read website.

NEH funding has enabled faculty to explore medicine and the healing arts as expressions of cultural beliefs and value systems that have varied widely among world cultures over the course of history.Mary Sue Donsky

RITA CHARON, FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIREC TOR , THE NARR ATIVE MEDICINE PROGR AM

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• Two tours of New York City museums—a tour led by Professor Mary Sue Donsky, project director, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled “Honoring Decedents in Art Across Time and Cultures” during which Fellows viewed objects created to dispose of, commemorate, mourn, and connect with the dead and a tour led by external scholar, Harry Einhorn of the Rubin Museum of Art, to study art of the Himalayas related to health, illness, healing, and death.

• A fascinating presentation by external scholar, Dr. Bert Hansen, on photographic portrayals of medically-related topics over the history of Life Magazine, and a discussion of Dr. Hansen’s book, Picturing Medical Professionals from Pastuer to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes as well as other images provided by Faculty Fellow Sandra Cheng.

• An examination of Ayurvedic medicine and a listening session devoted to rock songs related to addiction and death.

The Fellows sponsored two culminating events. The first, open to the entire

CUNY community, was entitled “End of Life Matters. Cultural Competence and Dying”. This event, facilitated by Dr. Christine Thorpe, chair of the Department of Health and Human Services, featured two prominent external scholars. Dr. Charlton McIlwain of New York University, spoke about his book, Death in Black and White: Death, Ritual and Family Ecology, which details his research into African American and European American funeral homes and mourning rituals. Shannon Taggart, a Brooklyn-based photographer, discussed her photographs of Vodou ceremonies as well as her spirit photographs.

The Fellows also sponsored a Sherry Hour and Roundtable to which all faculty and staff were invited. This event featured a talk by Professor Benjamin Shepard on the importance of cultural competence to health professionals as well as a roundtable discussion where Fellows discussed ways in which the grant has informed their work.

The generosity of the NEH has enabled a number of Fellows to develop course modules, activities and assignments inspired by their engagement with the grant topics. Other Fellows have written papers and book chapters

and have presented on the grant work at national conferences. Several faculty were so enthused by the grant experience that they are drafting entire new multidisciplinary courses to offer our students opportunities to become more culturally competent practitioners using the tools and methods of the Humanities.

The cohort of NEH Fellows includes: Gwen Cohen Brown (Dental Hygiene), Sandra Cheng (Humanities), Mery Diaz (Health and Human Services), Mary Sue Donsky (Law and Paralegal Studies), Aida Egues (Nursing), Barbara Grumet, (Dean Emerita), Lisa Fischer (Social Science), Roxana Delbene Grossi (Humanities), Laina Karthikeyan (Biological Sciences), Elaine Leinung (Nursing), Kara Pasner (Vision Care Technology), Denise Scannell and Shauna Vey (Humanities).

You may visit the NEH Fellows OpenLab site http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/nehhealth2013 for more information on the Fellows’ activities.

PHOTOGR APHER SHANNON TAGGART PRESENTS IMAGES OF A VODOU CEREMONY IN BROOKLYN.

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Faculty Commons Design Team

A resident Faculty Commons Design Team composed of students from Computer Systems Technology (CST) and Advertising Design and

Graphic Arts (ADGA) Departments was established as an innovative in-house apprenticeship program when the Commons was founded in 2009. Successive cohorts of able students have been on the job five days a week to create original professional-quality print and web-based visual communications that announce and document faculty initiatives including Black Solidarity Day, Women in STEM, the Literary Arts Festival, and National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored seminars such as Comparative Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Healing.

Nucleus: A Faculty Commons Quarterly, now in its fifth year, is entirely designed by students.

The Design Team is fortunate to have its Artistic Director Professor Anita Giraldo (ADGA), herself a noted artist, guide their hands, refine their concepts, and train their design “eye” to become ever more subtle, individual, and imaginative. The team has produced a steady stream of striking visual materials that broaden the reach of faculty scholarship by creating wider audiences within the college community for their work.

We are especially proud to recognize four members of the team for their dedicated efforts over their time at

City Tech. They are our June 2014 BTech graduates: Kevin Rajaram, web master and designer, Matthew Joseph, web and print designer, Angelica Corrao, illustrator, and Eva Zelarayan, photographer and videographer.

You have left an indelible imprint, set a high standard for future design teams, and helped give City Tech a sophisticated visual identity through your combination of technical skills and artistic imagination. We say Good Luck and Thank You for your work and for the comaradarie and joy that you have brought to those around you.

Julia Jordan and Barbara Burke

LEFT TO RIGHT: EVA ZEL AR AYAN, ANGELIC A CORR AO, MANDY MEI, ANITA GIR ALDO, JULIA JORDAN, MAT THEW JOSEPH, DORIAN VALENTINE , AVRIL MILLER AND KEVIN R A JAR AM | JUNE 2014

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Viviana Acquaviva Nathan Astrof Gulgun Bayaz Ozturk Ian BeilinEsteban Beita

Jill Belli

Oleg Berman

Mariya BessonovCorina Calinescu

Jeirong ChengSoyeon ChoPatrick Corbett

L. Jay Deiner

Andrew DouglasAndrea FerrogliaLaura GhezziIlya GrigorenkoGeorge GuidaCaroline Hellman Pa Her

German Kolmakov

Xiangdong Li Joel Mason Ariane Masuda Suzanne Miller Masato Nakamura

Mark Noonan

Giovanni Ossola

Kate Poirier Lisa Pope Fischer Jose Reyes Alamo Sean Scanlan Hans SchoutensJeremy Seto

Rebecca Shapiro Benjamin Shepard Satyanand Singh Davida Smyth

Jenna Spevack Christopher Swift Junior Tidal Teresa Tobin

Justin Vazquez-Poritz Yu Wang Adam Wilson

Geoff Zylstra

DepartmentAwardee Title

2014 PSC CUNY RESEARCH AWARDEES

PHYSICS Galaxy Classification in HETDEX using Machine LearningBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Quantitative Analysis of Taste Receptor SignallingSOCIAL SCIENCE Wealth Effects of Job Displacement RevisitedLIBRARY Librarians and Resistance in Germany from Weimar to the WallARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY Traditional Japanese Architecture Design Principles and Their Application in Contemporary ArchitectureENGLISH Pedagogies of Happiness: What Self-Help, Positive Psychology, and Positive Education Teach about Well-BeingPHYSICS Bose-Einstein Condensation and Superfluidity of Cavity Photons in Molecular (or Quantum Dots) MediumMATHEMATICS Probabilistic Models in Mathematical BiologyMATHEMATICS Principal Subspaces of Admissible Modules for Symplectic Affine Lie AlgebrasBUSINESS Retirement and Stock Market EvaluationHUMAN SERVICES Racial/Ethnic and Geographic Disparities in Mental Health CareENGLISH A Usability Investigation of OpenLab Best Practices Among Faculty and Staff UsersCHEMISTRY Mechanical Milling Approaches to Graphite-based Supercapacitor Electrode MaterialsMATHEMATICS Lie-Yamaguti Structure on the sl(3)-module V(4,4)PHYSICS Top quarks and other massive colored particles at the Large Hadron ColliderMATHEMATICS Hilbert Coefficients and Reduction NumbersPHYSICS Electromagnetic Field Localization Using Graphene-based NanoantennasENGLISH Virtue at the Coffee House: Poetry and Community in Contemporary AmericaENGLISH Constellations: Formations and Reformations in American LiteratureSOCIAL SCIENCE Hmong American Women’s Identity and Socialization Strategies in the United StatesPHYSICS Turbulence of Exciton and Polariton Bose-Einstein Condensates in Semiconductor HeterostructuresCOMPUTER SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY Quantum Searching Application in Search Based Software EngineeringADVERTISING DESIGN/ GRAPHICS ARTS Re-Thinking Figure-Ground Compositions with Digital TechnologyMATHEMATICS Permutation polynomials over finite fieldsENGLISH Pete the Cat: The MusicalMECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY Assistant Size segregation of municipal solid waste during mixing processes in a waste-to-energy (WTE) combustion chamberENGLISH City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press from the Antebellum Era to the Digital AgePHYSICS Next-to-Leading-Order Corrections to Higgs Boson Production at the Large Hadron ColliderMATHEMATICS String Topology for Mapping SpacesSOCIAL SCIENCE Elderly Hungarian Women’s Reinterpretation of Post Socialist ChangeCOMPUTER ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY A Mobile Cloud Robotics Architecture for Smart Home EnvironmentsENGLISH “Passports Please!,” Submission, Identity, and Globalization at Global AirportsMATHEMATICS Local Cohomology and Higher Local MultiplicitiesBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Modulation of Neurodevelopment Through Cytokine Interventions in Maternal Immune Activation Model of Psychiatric DiseaseENGLISH Principles of Applied Lexicology: A Historical AnthologyHUMAN SERVICES Global Brooklyn Research ProjectMATHEMATICS Limit Points of Nathanson’s Lambda SequencesBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Using Genomic and Phylogenetic Approaches to Elucidate Which Came First, the Pathogenicity Island or the Phage?ADVERTISING DESIGN/ GRAPHIC ARTS InsideOUT House : A Binaural Sound InstallationHUMANITIES Theatres of Absence: Seville, 1248-1550LIBRARY The Usability of a Responsive Designed Library WebsiteLIBRARY Library and Information Science Education in the World Community: A Comparative StudyPHYSICS Investigations in Gauge/Gravity DualityCOMPUTER ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY Self-Optimization for Random Access in LTE NetworkENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY Redefining Implementations of the Factor Oracle Automaton for Automatic Music ImprovisationSOCIAL SCIENCE Geographies of Servitude: Black Experiences of Industrialization in Philadelphia, 1830-1880

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