Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Dr. Robert Sharp, professor of civil and environmental engineering and the Donald J. O'Connor Endowed Faculty, presented the paper “Switching to Chloramines in the New York City Water System: Impacts on Lead and Copper Leaching, Corrosion and Regrowth” at the American Water Works Association's annual water quality technology conference in Charlotte, N.C., from Nov. 4-7. The paper was co-authored by Brent Gaylord '09 and Eamonn Coleman '09, graduate research assistants in the environmental engineering program. It detailed the findings from the initial phases of research on chloramines disinfection and metal dissolution. The research is funded by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and Hazen and Sawyer Engineers.

Dr. Nada Marie Assaf-Anid, professor of chemical engineering, recently published two peer-reviewed journal articles: “Curbing the Greenhouse Effect by Carbon Dioxide Adsorption with Zeolite 13X” and “Sustainable Engineering for the Future: A Laboratory Experiment on Carbon Dioxide Adsorption from a Carbon Dioxide-Nitrogen Stream” in AIChE and the International Journal of Chemical Engineering Education, respectively. Her co-authors on the papers are students John Iarocci '05, Natalie Ivezaj '05, Peter Lindner '05, and Naveen Konduru '06.

Assaf-Anid also has been nominated chair of the programming board of the environmental division of AIChE, for which she will program all sessions and symposia of the division at the national fall 2008 meeting in Philadelphia. In addition, she attended the AIChE national meeting from Nov. 4-9 in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she chaired two sessions on emissions and waste control from emerging industries, and novel risk assessment tools.

Dr. Christoph Lienert, associate professor of physical education and human performance, delivered the keynote speech Adapted Physical Activity: Transcending Boundaries at the Fourth International Mediterranean Sports Science Congress in Antalya, Turkey, from Nov. 9-11. He also conducted the workshop “Strategies for Creating Inclusive Physical Education,” while serving as a member of the Congress' scientific committee.

This past summer, Lienert presented the multimedia case study Collaboration Between College-Based Teacher Education and Public Schools: Creating a Multimedia Case Study to Enhance Physical Education Teacher Education at the 16th International Symposium of Adapted Physical Activity in Rio Claro, Brazil.

Dr. Frederick Schweitzer, professor emeritus of history and director emeritus of the Holocaust Resource Center, has co-authored Antisemitic Myths, which will be published by Indiana University Press on Dec. 18. The book includes documents translated by faculty colleagues: Latin by Joseph Castora, visiting assistant professor of history; Italian by the late Eleanor Ostrau, former associate professor emeritus of government; German by Robert Kramer, professional lecturer in German and fine arts; French by Jeff Horn, associate professor of history; and Russian by former student Tatyana Gourov '95.

Dr. Robert M. Geraci, assistant professor of religious studies, published the article “Robots and the Sacred in Science and Science Fiction” in the winter 2007 edition of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science.

Dr. Bruce Liby, associate professor of physics, and Ryan Scholl '08, presented the paper “Determining the Coefficient of Thermal Expansion of Cooper with a Michelson Interferometer” at the International Student Research Conference at The City College of New York from Oct. 30-31.

Dr. Joseph Lennon, associate professor of English, recently published a collection of poems in the New Hibernian Review .