Prof. Sema Brainin (Education) is quoted in Education Week
about the professionals in the New York City Teaching Fellows program. She says she is "very optimistic" about their prospects and believes they possess more life experience than the typical education student.
SCHOOLS FOR THE GIFTED
Child
magazine mentions Hunter College Elementary School and its admissions director, Polly Breland, in an article aimed at helping parents choose the right program for gifted kids.
HEALING PROCESS
A new book by Prof. Louise DeSalvo (English) is reviewed in the magazine Writer. Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
discusses the therapeutic benefits of putting on paper one's painful emotions.
REFLECTIONS ON A CAREER
Prof. Rose Dobrof (Brookdale Center on Aging) chronicles her career in
gerontology in Aging Today. The article is based on an address she gave last year when accepting a Senior Award from the American Society on Aging.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE DOCUMENTARY
The Village Voice interviews Prof. Maria Finn (English] for an article on a virtual-reality web documentary about the criminal justice system. Prof. Finn says of the web site's
impact on her students, "It made crime very real to them, not just something they see on TV."
HEALTH OF MINORITIES
The New Pittsburgh Courier
covers a health summit at which Prof. Nicholas Freudenberg (Health Sciences) reports that discrimination subjects blacks to poorer living conditions and social stresses, resulting in poorer health: "We saw higher asthma rates correlated with increased numbers of children living in poverty."
WORKS AS VOLUNTEER
Newsday
profiles Prof. George Getzel (School of Social Work), describing his CUNY education, volunteer activities at Gay Men's Health Crisis and the Momentum AIDS Project, and interest in "building bridges between cultures."
SENIOR CITIZENS AND JOB LOSS
Prof. Marjorie Honig (Economics), who conducted research for the International Longevity Center on a study of recession-related job loss among older
Americans, is quoted in Arizona Senior World, Nevada Senior World, and the Atlanta Inquirer:
"Many men in white-collar jobs who least expected it lost their jobs. But blue-collar men were harder hit."
CENSUS RESULTS
New York City's changing demographics as reflected in
the census is covered by Newsday,
with several quotes by Prof. Philip Kasinitz (Sociology). Kasinitz says it's possible that some New Yorkers counted themselves in a multiple-race category. In a second Newsday
article, Kasinitz notes that Latinos may be checking "other" in the race category as a cultural statement about diversity in their group.
POLICE BRUTALITY
Students in a class of Prof. George Martinez (Political Science) discuss a Village Voice article on police brutality for CBS's "60 Minutes."
ASTHMA TRIGGERS
WNBC-TV
interviews Sergio Matos (Center for Environmental Health) for its coverage of Asthma Awareness Week. Matos describes what happens to an asthmatic when pollutants enter his or her lungs.
DEFINING TERMS
Prof. Stanley Moses (Urban Affairs) defines the meaning of "urban" in urban affairs for NPR.
WHEN IN ROME
In a
U.S. News and World Report
cover story on life in the year 1 A.D., Distinguished Prof. Sarah Pomeroy comments on the barbaric nature of Roman civilization, including the routine killing of women and children. "They didn't think of whether anything was unjust," she says.
FINANCING EDUCATION
Prof. Emeritus Laura Randall (Economics) pens a letter to The New York Times,
expressing the need to study which educational programs can best improve student achievement in reading and math.
APOLITICAL FRESHMAN
Prof. Kenneth Sherrill (Political Science)
discusses the drop in political awareness among college freshman, and the consequences for our society, in the Chronicle of Higher Education and its online version, Academe Today.
Sherrill also speaks on WNBC-TV about Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's public dissatisfaction with the Port Authority; discusses City Council term limits on Voice of America; and talks about the history
of President's Day on NY1.
ART CRITICISM
Artforum
calls Prof. Katy Siegel (Art History) one of "today's most visible critics." The credit follows an article Siegel wrote on artist Andrea Bowers.
TEACHING THE GIFTED
Monitor on Psychology
profiles Prof. Rena Subotnick (Education), who is on leave from Hunter to help spearhead the new Center for Gifted Education Policy run by the American Psychological Foundation.
SUPPORT FOR PROGRAMS
Fox 5's "The O'Reilly Factor" interviews Prof. Willie Tolliver (School of Social Work) about government support for welfare programs.
FOSTER GRANDPARENTS
Gerard Wallace (Brookdale Center on Aging) is interviewed by WNBC-TV for a story about grandparents raising young children, and the financial pitfalls they face. Grandparents often lose
their eligibility for foster care payments; Wallace says, "It's exactly like a Catch-22."
