Mosquito bites, searing temperatures, rain, and a menacing mother
bird... for CSI students that signed up for Albert Burchsted's
summer class, those outdoor elements have been par for the
curriculum as they perform an ecological survey of Eibs Pond on
Staten Island. [full story]
The key to employment success for many individuals seeking to change
or improve their careers can be found in CSI's certificate programs.
Although today's weakened job market may be fueling the growth of
such curriculums, many of the courses have long been available here.
[full story]
Dropout
prevention program salutes students
More than 50 Staten Island students enrolled in the Liberty
Partnerships Program were inspired to achieve and acknowledged for
their academic accomplishments during last night's recognition
program. [full story]
CSI
alumna to join CUNY Board of Trustees
The State Senate confirmed Rita
DiMartino, a top state Republican Party member, to be Staten
Island's next representative on the CUNY Board of Trustees.
[full story]
How
individual molecules communicate...
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Fred Naider, has spent 30
years studying tiny molecules, called peptides, that drive all life.
This year the NIH awarded Naider a $1.4 million grant to continue
his work for the next four years, marking 30 continuous years of
funding.
[full story]
CSI tops CUNY in passing rate on teacher-certification tests
CSI does a better job of preparing future teachers than any other
public college in the city, new data suggests. In the 2001-2002
academic year, 49 of the 50 students at CSI who took both
examinations for teacher certification in New York State passed.
Standout graduates from 27 classes were honored with certificates in
the Green Dolphin Lounge, but it was a night to celebrate all 750
students who have passed through the center's doors since September.
[full story]
Switch to a plant-based diet could save imperiled planet
An editorial by Richard H. Schwartz, Professor Emeritus.
[full story]
New teachers learn new lessons at Discovery Institute conference
"Meeting the Challenge: The Discovery Institute and New York City's
Educational Initiative," drew more than 300 new intermediate and
high school teachers to campus. [full story]
May 2003
CSI's
27th Commencement
Give back to the community and make a significance in
the lives of others was the message given to 1,983 graduating
students. [full story]
CSI's
brand new media showcase
Who expects to find an art video that is fun to watch, provocative,
stylish and actually leaves you wishing it were longer? In an
academic context?
[full story]
Athletics
Awards Dinner
Senior Tara Gianoulis needed crutches to find her
seat at the annual athletic awards banquet, was named CSI's top
Scholar-Athlete, and enters Yale University in the fall.
[full story]
CSI Summer Sports Academy
Sports -- baseball, softball, basketball, soccer and tennis -- will
be the hook, but more than half the campers' day, from 12:30 to 4:30
p.m., will be devoted to academics: Math, reading, writing and
computer work under the supervision of CSI College Discovery
Institute instructors. [full story]
Willowbrook
School panel: Keep fighting for disabled
Human service advocates and families of former Willowbrook students
gathered in CSI's Library for a two-hour discussion titled "Willowbrook
1972-2003, The Case Continues. The Status of the Willowbrook Consent
Judgment." [full story]
April 2003
Staten Island: fastest growing
county in NY
CSI professor Jonathan Peters asks "Can we continue
to keep this county functioning in terms of transportation and
infrastructure for the next 20 years?"
[full story]
CSI near deal for tennis
bubble
The College of Staten Island is negotiating the terms of a
revolutionary contract to privatize the school's 12 tennis courts
and cover at least half of them with a dome.
[full story]
CSI
launches 'Staten Island Project'
The project aims to use the expertise and resources in the college
to study issues such as transportation, the environment, business,
and health. The key component would be making a comprehensive
selection of issues easily accessible in a single location [full story]
Friends of CSI set benefit
concert
Friends of the College of Staten Island (CSI) will host an evening
of dinner and jazz starring the Duke Ellington Orchestra on Saturday
in the CSI Center for the Arts.
[full story]
Where have all the herons gone?
Researchers at CSI called an emergency meeting last month to
discuss the herons' fate. The event drew dozens of city officials,
scientists and birders from near and far.
[full story]
CSI professor makes case for
traffic trouble
Jonathan Peters, an assistant professor of finance at CSI
has been researching tolls and transportation for the past six
years, gives presentation at Chamber of Commerce breakfast.
[full story]
CSI Alumna nominated to CUNY Board
Rita DiMartino has been nominated by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to a
seven-year term on the board of trustees of City University of New
York. [full story]
Education Department receives
grant
The Richmond County Savings Foundation provided a $25,000 grant to
CSI to renovate the school's Mathematics Teacher Training Center and
create a state-of-the-art teaching facility.
[full story]
March 2003
Following the call to help others
For most of us, it takes years to find our niche in
life. Linda Reese, however, began working toward her dream as a
teen-ager when she got her start as a candy striper at Maimonides
Medical Center during high school.
The records contains 70 years of information on
everything from down-to-the-cent details of routine mailings to
battles for equality. A collection of photographs was part of the
donation. Together, they provide a rare look into the lives of women
activists in the 20th century.
Stress management, legal questions, healing
therapies and the operatic genius of Verdi were some of the topics
addressed yesterday at the eighth annual Women's Conference.
That advice came from Stevie Lacy-Pendleton, deputy
editorial page editor and senior columnist for the Advance, during
her presentation yesterday on "Women in Journalism" at the College
of Staten Island.
Verizon presented the College of Staten Island with a $5,000 check
for a new audience development effort being organized by the
school's Center for the Arts.
2 professors make teaching and learning a multifaceted
experience
One makes objects vanish into thin air and suits up
like an astronaut in protective gear. The other juggles a passion
for snakes with an 8,000-plus collection of old records.
College of Staten Island student Heather Courtney of St. George has
received both the Belle Zeller and Melani scholarships, Citywide,
only 10 students were awarded the Belle Zeller Scholarship and just
five garnered the Melani award.
Influence of former Mayor Robert Wagner topic of forum
While Rudolph W. Giuliani may be more popular with
Staten Islanders, participants in a forum at the College of Staten
Island yesterday might argue that Wagner, who served from 1954 to
1965, had more influence on how borough residents live today.
Business and Professional Women to bestow tributes at brunch
The Business and Professional Women's Club of Staten
Island will present its Award of Distinction to Marina Alexander,
the musical director of the Richmond Choral Society and assistant
professor of choral music at CSI, as well as other prominent
Islanders.
At Collegiate Job fair, interest in military wanes
"It seems like the people who were always interested
are now more interested, and the ones who were never interested are
even less interested," said Army Sgt. Jason Carabello.
Chefs present specialties at CSI's Taste of the
Mediterranean
Almost 50 Island restaurants
will take part in the annual fund-raiser set for March 29, where
chefs will hop-scotch the entire Mediterranean region when
deciding on the specialty foods they'll present at the March 29
event.
[full story]
Free advice fuels expansion
Massage therapy grows to duel locations with the
help of the Small Business Development Center at CSI.
The Business and Professional Women's Club of Staten Island
presented a collection to the
CSI Archives and
Special Collections that included newspaper clippings and
correspondences between women leaders of the last 70 years.
Exhibit showcases the work of Native American artists as
well as their Maori counterparts
Visitors will recognize traditional Indian (i.e.
Native American or indigenous) carvings, baskets and pottery just
inside the College of Staten Island's Gallery.
CSI's president gave tentative support the other day
to taking over the neighboring Institute for Basic Research in Willowbrook, but warned there is “no way” such
a transfer could happen without additional funding to cover the
costs.
A leading foreign policy expert from the Beijing
Pacific Institute for International Strategy Studies discussed
issues facing his country and the changes that enabled its
transformation into a major economic power.
High school on CSI campus would have international focus
High school students who excel in the Romance
languages or who are particularly interested in international
businesses may have an additional opportunity to study at a new high
school located at the College of Staten Island (CSI).
[full
story]
February 2003
Alumni Association's Taste of the Mediterranean
The College of Staten Island Alumni Association has
named Brian Michaelson chairman of its 2003 Taste of the
Mediterranean. The event will be held March 29, beginning at 6 p.m.
in the College of Staten Island (CSI) Campus Center. James McBratney,
proprietor of Jimmy Max in Westerleigh and the Parsonage in Historic
Richmond Town, will serve as the evening’s honorary chair.
A study released yesterday shows that variable tolls, which
encourage drivers to travel during off-peak hours, could
significantly help reduce congestion on city bridges and tunnels,
including the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and raise revenue at the
same time.
Business leaders, CSI professor demand
transportation study
Jonathan Peters, a CSI finance professor, said Staten Island is
always shortchanged when it comes to transportation money, planning
and attention from agencies such as the Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey and the Metropolitan Transit Authority.
The Friends of the College of Staten Island (CSI) is planning a
winter literary brunch featuring author Terrence J. Golway. Golway,
who most recently penned “So That Others Might Live,” (a history of
New York City firefighters), also wrote “Irish in America” (and
Staten Island).
CSI’s new course in Kabbalah will be open to the public
The College of Staten Island’s department of continuing education
and professional development will offer “Kabbalah: Gateway to Self
Discovery” on Tuesdays, beginning Feb. 8, from 6:55 to 8:10 p.m.
At the College of Staten Island’s recreation center, two classes
meet twice a week for a water aerobics class. The group, both men
and women who are predominantly over 50, benefit from the health and
social benefits of the class, according to Pat Mahoney, an adjunct
professor at the college and aquatics instructor at the recreation
center.
Shift toward plant-based diet is important for individual health and
the planet, according to Richard Schwartz.
Gradually, Dr. Schwartz, professor emeritus at the College of
Staten Island, made the shift toward a plant-based diet.
First he gave up red meat, with the hopes of helping world hunger.
After that, through additional research on the benefits of
vegetarianism, he joined the International Jewish Vegetarian Society
and on Jan. 1, 1978, became “a full practicing vegetarian.”
Dr. Richard Schwartz, professor emeritus at the College of
Staten Island, promotes Tu B’Shvat as an environmental Shabbat.
As a Staten Island environmentalist, he has joined the effort
to promote Tu B’Shvat, the Jewish New Year for Trees, as a way
to focus attention on the many dangers facing planet Earth.
[full story]
December 2002
College of Staten Island’s Small Business Development Center
ranks No. 1 in state
Martin Schwartz, director, was lauded for outstanding performance
in counseling 450 clients in the past year, helping them obtain over
$20 million in financing for 79 businesses and helping to create 92
jobs and save 485 jobs
Gallery exhibit considers women in poster art from a century
ago
At first, the women of “Designing Women; American Femininity and
the Poster Arts of the 1890s” appear to resemble their contemporary
counterparts. They’re pretty or beautiful, on the lean side,
alluringly presented.
CSI Alumna Rita DiMartino appointed to Foreign Scholarship
Board
Rita DiMartino has been named by President George
W. Bush to serve on the J. William Fulbright Foreign
Scholarship Board. Her three year- term expires Sept. 22, 2005.
[full
story]
New Species of Snake Discovered
CSI Professor Frank T. Burbrink recently identified a new species of corn snake
that he named "Slowinski's corn snake," or "elaphe
slowinskii" in Latin, for his friend and mentor Dr. Joseph Slowinski
of California, who was bitten by a venomous snake in southeast
Asia on September 11, 2001.
[full
story]
South Richmond development revisited
Thirty years after the most comprehensive
development plan for South Richmond died in a crush of political
and community opposition, key players in one of the borough's
most controversial issues gathered for a discussion in the
Archives and Special Collections at the College of Staten
Island Library. [full
story]
Discovering the value of touch, tears and talk
Hospital seminar teaches caregivers that acknowledging
difficulties and reaching out for support is essential.
“If you are taken care of, the person you are caring for will be
better taken care of,” CSI Professor Irene Deitch told the 90-or-so caregivers
who turned out. [full
story]
October 2002
A 2.5M state grant will allow CSI to expand research programs in
medicine, agriculture
The grant will help create a major
biotechnology research institute at the College of Staten
Island, state Senator John Marchi and Dr. Marlene Springer, the
college president, have announced.
[full story]
Island Seniors mull their futures at college
fair
Although choosing a college can sometimes be overwhelming and
confusing, Staten Island students found plenty of assistance and
advice on how to choose an institution of higher learning at the Big
Apple College Fair, held yesterday in the College of Staten Island, Willowbrook.
[full story]
CSI graduate featured in major CUNY ad campaign
Back in June Pat Panzarino of Castleton Corners earned a
bachelor of arts degree in anthropology from the College of
Staten Island. So what’s so extraordinary, you ask?
[full story]
Ecological
survey of pond performed by students 
Academic
certificate programs helps sculpt careers 
How
individual molecules communicate... 
CSI's
27th Commencement
Athletics
Awards Dinner
CSI Summer Sports Academy
Willowbrook
School panel: Keep fighting for disabled
CSI's
Visiting Executive Visiting Program
2 professors make teaching and learning a multifaceted
experience
Influence of former Mayor Robert Wagner topic of forum
CSI receives records on women activists
Exhibit showcases the work of Native American artists as
well as their Maori counterparts
CSI's Modern China Group hosts Dr. Jin Canrong
High school on CSI campus would have international focus
Gallery exhibit considers women in poster art from a century
ago