Worth Noting September 1 4:00 PM Criminal Justice Challenges & Solutions Book & Author Series A crime summit held at John Jay on July Denial: A Memoir of Terror 28-29 marked the first time that a broad Jessica Stern coalition of elected and criminal justice officials Hoover Institute Task Force on gathered with community experts in New York National Security and Law City to collectively address national trends in prosecution, crime prevention and crime Gerald W. Lynch Theater Lobby reduction strategies. The symposium — “Communities & Justice: September 14 6:00 PM Partnerships & Challenges for the 21st Century” Criminal Justice & — was co-sponsored by the College, the Office of the Manhattan District Attorney and the The Lindsay Years Office of the Manhattan Borough President. Keynote Speaker: Police Commissioner Participants included prosecutors, judges and Raymond W. Kelly police executives from New York, New Jersey Moderator: Sam Roberts, and other states from Massachusetts to Oregon, The New York Times along with representatives from community Museum of the City of New York and nongovernmental groups. Attendees heard 1220 Fifth Avenue (103rd Street) keynote remarks from featured speakers Mayor RSVP required: programs@mcny.org Michael R. Bloomberg, Police Commissioner or 917.492.3395 Raymond W. Kelly and Newark, NJ, Police Director Garry F. McCarthy. September 25 7:30 PM “There is no greater mission for law enforcement and government than keeping Music for Humanity our residents safe,” said Manhattan District A narrated concert in memory of Attorney Cyrus R. Vance. “This symposium is DA Cyrus Vance, Borough President Scott Stringer and Mayor Michael Bloomberg (seated, left to right) listen as President Wall Street Journal journalist Jeremy Travis drives home a point in opening remarks during the “Communities & Justice” crime summit held at the College the realization of a goal many of us have shared Daniel Pearl July 28. for more than a year — to bring together great Gerald W. Lynch Theater minds in many disciplines to bring forth the best “Our police officers have made New York conference.” ideas for keeping our streets safe and our justice City a model for the nation by driving crime Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, September 28 3:30 PM system fair.” down 36 percent since 2002 despite a tough a John Jay alumnus, applauded Vance and Fall Faculty Meeting “Through an open exchange of diverse ideas,” economy, fewer resources and the demands of Travis for their leadership roles in organizing the added President Jeremy Travis, “we can build on counterterrorism,” said Kelly. “We look forward crime summit. “The summit is the latest effort Gerald W. Lynch Theater each other’s strengths and expertise and develop to comparing the proactive strategies they have from a DA’s office which has demonstrated its new approaches for addressing some of our employed to make this possible with the best visionary and forward-looking approach to law September 29 7:30 PM nation’s most complex criminal justice issues.” ideas from across the country at this unique enforcement,” Stringer said. Sound + Vision: At War Some of the issues under the microscope A multimedia performance of wartime images from Afghanistan and Iraq Photojournalist Chris Hondros during the symposium included conviction integrity, restorative justice, problem-solving courts, immigration, education and gang John Jay Leads the Way Musical Director Kenneth Hamrick Featuring the music of Johann Sebastian Bach alternatives for youth, new crime prevention strategies, hot-button issues affecting communities and law enforcement, community with First Smart-Phone App prosecution and prisoner reentry. John Jay recently flexed its technological able to connect with John Jay faculty and staff, Gerald W. Lynch Theater “With cities and states from coast to coast muscles, becoming the first CUNY college — and register via smart-phone for events at the College facing a third consecutive year of shrinking one of only a few nationwide — to have its own and get the latest college news updates. October 4 3:00 PM revenues, police, prosecutors and courts are smart-phone app. “This exciting innovation will enable us to Graduate Open House all being asked to do more with less,” said The application, downloadable free for iPhone connect with our entire college community Gerald W. Lynch Theater Bloomberg. “How we rise to that challenge is and Droid users, provides access to the College’s as well as prospective students, through the critical to the people that we serve and what sports news and schedules, calendar of events, communications systems that they use daily,” RSVP: 212.237.8863 we do to keep our streets safe will help create admissions information, telephone directory, said President Jeremy Travis. the sense of confidence crucial to making full faculty profiles, John Jay mobile sites, social The app was created in-house by John Jay’s economic recovery a reality.” media, college newsletters and more. Users are web manager, Johnny Taveras, who read more
Here’s Johnny! Hard-Working, Easygoing Webmaster
than 15 books on building a
Is College’s 2010 Outstanding Employee of the Year smart-phone
app before The standing ovation that greeted the June Taveras’s award. “Almost everyone in the College Janet Rubel (Finance and Administration, and he started 24 announcement that Johnny Taveras, John has, at one point, come in contact with him. Linda Von Lumm (Facilities Management). the actual Jay’s web manager, was the recipient of the No matter how last-minute the request, Johnny, design and 2010 Outstanding Employee of the Year Award always with a smile, tries to accommodate. construction. made it clear that his unanimous selection He juggles many tasks and never seems to get He then by the Bravo! awards committee was an flustered.” applied to overwhelmingly popular one. In addition to his web-management Apple and Taveras, a member of the Office of Marketing responsibilities, Taveras serves as coordinator of Android for and Development, has been with John Jay the annual Jack Brennan Children’s Holiday Party. approval to since 1988. As the web manager, he and his The Outstanding Employee of the Year make the two-person staff — Ahn Phan and Lenis Perez Award was presented at a luncheon during the John Jay app — play a pivotal role in all of the College’s online Bravo! Summer Employee Institute. In addition available efforts. He has been one of the prime architects to Taveras, Dean for Human Resources Donald through their of the redesigned John Jay Web site, the faculty Gray acknowledged the latest group of Bravo! respective app stores. It proved to be a home run and staff intranet Inside John Jay and the divisional award winners. They are: on his first swing. student intranet Jay Stop. His team established Kristina Borowski (Registrar); Mariluz Bribiesca “While the entire process from construction the College’s presence on iTunes University, (Honors, Awards and Special Opportunities); through approval was quite a learning experience Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. And, he created Mario Chabau (Facilities Management); Kinya for me, I was delighted that the College’s app a John Jay app for iPhone and Droid smart Chandler (Academic Affairs); Nadia Griffith-Allen was accepted on our first submission,” Taveras phones. [See related story, at right.] (Accessibility Services); Nyeema Morgan (Art and said. [See also related story on Taveras, at left.] “Johnny works at 110 percent of capacity Music); Michael Merseburg (Central Receiving/ The new app can be downloaded for iPhone year-round and delivers throughout the year an Stockroom); Valentina Morgan (Enrollment users through the iTunes store (www.iTunes. Johnny Taveras, the 2010 Outstanding Employee of the unbelievable amount of energy, commitment Management); Bill Pangburn (Instructional Year, along with five of his biggest fans — (from left) com/Downloads) and for Droid users through and courtesy,” said Vice President for Marketing Technology Support Services); David Rivera (Public daughters Christa, Shantelle, Jonelle and Christine, and the Android Marketplace (www.android.com/ and Development Vivien Hoexter in presenting Safety); Michael Rohdin (First Year Experience); President Travis. market). New (and Old) Faces Join Academic Affairs Leadership Recent months have brought a number of new In other appointments and transitions, Provost John Jay Honors Program. Matteson, who holds a the 2010-2011 academic year. Byrne, a specialist appointments to the academic leadership team at Jane Bowers announced that Professor Nathan law degree in addition to a doctorate in English, in intercultural communication and digital John Jay, including two new associate provosts. Lents of the Science Department will head a won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his media, was a 2009 recipient of the College’s On July 19, James Llana joined the College as newly created Office of Undergraduate Research. book Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Distinguished Teaching Awards. Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness, a Lents, a molecular biologist, has been actively Alcott and Her Father. Professor Carmen Solis, a member of the SEEK role that will include leading the implementation involved in the area of educational technology Professor Dara Byrne of the Department of Department, was selected as the Faculty Fellow and ongoing assessment of the Master Plan, John and innovations since coming to John Jay. Communication and Theatre Arts will become in Graduate Studies, a role in which she will Jay @ 50, and helping to lead the Middle States English Professor John Matteson was named the Interim Director of the SEEK Program and serve as associate to Dean of Graduate Studies self-study and reaccreditation process. Llana, to a three-year term as Academic Director of the Interim Chair of the SEEK Department during Jannette Domingo for a three-year term. who holds a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from Indiana University, was a member of the faculty at SUNY/Old Westbury External Research Funding Sets New Record for 25 years, including seven years as chair of its interdisciplinary humanities program, and for the Faculty Scholarship Brings in $21 Million from Wide Range of Sources past five years, Dean of the School of Arts and John Jay College received a record $21 million U.S. Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, Research. We are particularly proud of the depth Sciences. in external grants during the 2009-2010 fiscal Education and Justice; the National Science and scope of the research emanating from our Professor Karen Terry of the Department year. The funds — a 28.1-percent increase Foundation; the National Endowment for the scholars.” of Criminal Justice, who has been serving as over the previous year, will be used to support Humanities; the Ford Foundation; the McCormick Subjects for current faculty research include: Executive Officer of the John Jay/CUNY Graduate research, education, training programs and Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. Internet privacy protection and authenticity Center PhD Program in Criminal Justice, was community initiatives. MacArthur Foundation; the New York State verification; HIV transmission among intravenous named Interim Associate Provost and Dean for The grantees represent a cross-section of Department of Education, and the New York City drug users; intimate partner violence reduction; Research and Strategic Partnerships. Terry will disciplines and academic departments, including Department of Correction. right-wing extremism; childhood neglect and take the reins of the Office for the Advancement mathematics, the sciences, anthropology, “This is a remarkable accomplishment,” said abuse; prisoner reentry; firearms and toolmark of Research from James Levine, who will retire on psychology, sociology, history and criminal justice. President Jeremy Travis, “a real tribute to our evidence; lineups and mistaken witness August 31. In an expanded role, she will oversee Funding entities included the Centers for Disease research-oriented faculty and to the solid support identification; digital crime, and Italian prison the Institutional Review Board and the Office Control; the National Institutes of Health; the provided by our Office for the Advancement of policy. of Sponsored Programs, as well as the College’s many centers and institutes.
Bookstore Popular Science
Tackles High Cost The streets around Manhattan’s Washington Square Park were packed with curious passersby
of Buying Texts eager for a peek at “The CSI Experience,” John
Jay’s contribution to the 2010 World Science Festival street fair on June 6. Members of the With the high cost of college textbooks Department of Sciences, led by Professor Linda putting an ever-larger dent in students’ wallets, Rourke, along with a cadre of student volunteers, the John Jay College bookstore has launched a organized four tents with a variety of interactive program of renting books to students at savings forensic exhibits and activities. The exhibit fea- of more than 50 percent compared to the cost of tured a cordoned-off “crime scene,” complete with purchasing new books. bloodied “corpse,” where visitors were encour- Selected textbook titles may be rented from aged to investigate the scene from a scientific per- the bookstore, located at the Westport building. spective. Visitors numbering in the hundreds were Students may use financial aid, campus debit able to dust for latent fingerprints, assess blood- cards or any other method accepted by the spatter patterns, examine blood cells, hair and bookstore to pay for rental fees. Rentals may be insects under the microscope, and investigate fire- converted to outright purchase within the first arms evidence. Faculty/staff volunteers included: two weeks if a student decides to keep the book, Shu-Yuan Cheng, Peter Diaczuk, Alison Domzalski, and rented texts must be returned no later than Don Hoffman, Lilja Nielsen, Argeliz Pomales and 10 days after the last day of finals. Marcel Roberts. They were assisted by student The use of highlighting and writing in books is volunteers Michael Gittings, Eric Gosselin, Loretta permitted with rented texts. Kuo, Michael Lugo, Melinda Lui, Zuleyma Peralta, For more information on the rental program, Shay Smith, Anna Stoll, Alicia Williams, Cindi-Ann visit the bookstore or go online to www.jjay. Williams and Kyle Zavinsky. bncollege.com.
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ON BOARD incarceration. In July, she participated in a virtual Union, along with an essay in English about her Nonprofit Service Provision” — as an original and KAMAL HARUNA (Athletics) was named presentation of her “conversational pedagogy” experience during the events of 9/11. incisive work that “shed light on some of the key head coach of the newly formed women’s teaching style at the International Conference on issues at play at the intersection of gender and soccer team. A native of Ghana, Haruna was an Education and New Learning Technologies at the PEER REVIEW politics.” assistant coach of the men’s soccer team in 2009, University of Barcelona in Spain. SAMANTHA MAJIC (Political Science) won the and a member of that team as a student from 2010 Best Dissertation Award from the Women MARIA R. VOLPE (Sociology) received the 2006 through 2008. He received his bachelor’s and Politics Section of the American Society for 2010 Achievement Award from the Association BETWEEN THE COVERS degree from John Jay in 2008. The Athletics Public Administration. The awards committee for Conflict Resolution of Greater New York JEFFREY HEIMAN and ADAM BERLIN program has also named BRITTANY FOUT as praised Majic’s dissertation — “Protest By at its annual conference on June 24. She was (English), co-editors of the College’s J Journal, head coach of the women’s volleyball team. She Other Means? Sex Workers, Social Movement recognized for her innovative work in the dispute recently received a superlative-laden review of was an assistant coach of the team last season. Evolution, and the Political Possibilities of resolution field. the periodical in The Review Review, an online roundup and critique of literary journals. The PRESENTING… Website praised the fall 2009 issue of the J MICHAEL PFEIFER (History) presented a Journal as “a mouthwatering literary surprise” paper titled “The Bitter Seed of Albion and and a “smartly put-together collection of Eire: Extralegal Violence and Law in the writing.” Heiman and Berlin, the reviewer Early Modern British Isles and the Origins of said, “have taken on a big challenge, and they American Lynching” at a conference, Toward deliver.” an International History of Lynching, held at the University of Heidelberg in Germany on June 4. MARGARET WALLACE and DIANA FRIEDLAND (Sciences) published a paper KIMORA (Law, Police Science and Criminal “Genotyping diptera using amplified fragment Justice Administration) was named to the length polymorphism (AFLP): Development of a Speakers’ Bureau at Edgecombe Prison in genetic marker system for species in the families New York City. She spoke to the entire inmate Calliphoridae and Sarcophagidae.” Appearing population on June 18 about the coping skills in the current issue of the Australian Journal of required for satisfactory reentry into society after Forensic Sciences, the article was co-authored with Jason C. Beckert, who received his master’s degree in forensic science from John Jay in @ John Jay is published by the Office of Marketing and Development 2009 and is now a research microscopist with John Jay College of Criminal Justice Microtrace Scientific LLC in Elgin, IL. 555 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 www.jjay.cuny.edu FAINA FRADKIN (Human Resources) had Editor Peter Dodenhoff her book, The Pictures from My Childhood, Professor Ned Benton (r.) of the Department of Public Management led a delegation of faculty members and graduate
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published by a division of RusKniga, a Moscow students from the MPA-Inspector General program who attended the national Association of Inspectors General conference Office of Communications publishing house. The book is a collection of in Indianapolis, IN, on May 12–14. The John Jay representatives met with Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (l.) who, after hearing fax: (212) 237-8546 a description of the MPA-IG program and getting a taste of the research being conducted by John Jay graduate students, Russian language stories, based primarily on e-mail: pdodenhoff@jjay.cuny.edu announced that he planned to replicate John Jay’s program in Indiana. Among the featured speakers at the conference was her childhood in Moldova in the former Soviet John Jay alumnus Frank Straub (MA ‘90, PhD ‘97), who is Director of Public Safety for the City of Indianapolis.
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