Virginia Valian, Psychology and GEP, received the Betty Vetter Award
for Research from The Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network
(WEPAN). Valian was described as "a nationally recognized scholar, whose work
on gender schemas has enormous theoretical and practical value. She is best
known for her ability to articulate remedies for inequity in ways that are
useful to those who suffer from inequity, as well as those responsible for
eliminating it."
Margaret Chin, Sociology, was quoted on the nature of skilled immigrants
in a May 8th, 2006 Wall Street Journal article on immigration by J. Millman.
Chin states that so long as skilled immigrants (even the undocumented) can
earn higher wages in the US than in their countries of origin-they will continue
to come to the US.
Dana Draghicescu, Mathematics & Statistics, received a New Investigator
Award from the American Statistical Association (ASA) to present a poster on
space-time maps of risk for air pollution at the ASA conference on Radiation
and Health, Monterey, CA, June 2006.
Marianna Pavlovskaya, Geography, received a Teaching Fellowship from the
Social Science Research Council's Eurasia Program to support the creation of
original and innovative course curricula, After the Future: Geography of
Post-Socialist Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus.
Karen Phillips, Chemistry, received the 2006 Hunter College Presidential
Award for Excellence in Teaching (full-time).
Pamela Stone, Sociology, and two Baruch colleagues, Janet Gornick and
Karen Lyness, received a $40,000 CUNY Collaborative Incentive Research Grant for
their project, Workplace Flexibility in Comparative Perspective. They will examine
access to and use of flexible work arrangements and their implications for job
satisfaction and work-family balance.
