Wednesday, October 12, 2011 (Bronx, NY) - The Grants Office of the Division of Academic Affairs at Eugenio María de Hostos Community College of CUNY held its Eighth Annual Faculty Luncheon in the Savoy Multipurpose Room on  Tuesday, October 4, 2011. Attendees were greeted by Hostos President Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, and the recipients of awards were acknowledged by Provost Carmen Coballes-Vega.

The event was coordinated by Grants Officer Lourdes Torres, who announced: “Honoring our Professional Staff Congress/CUNY Research Award recipients is what this gathering is all about. Our faculty works to excel and deliver, and we want to show them that we are grateful for their dedication.”

Congratulations to this Year’s PSC/CUNY Research Award Recipients:

Street Life: Connecting Cultures of Santo Domingo and New York City
William Casari, Library

Shakespeare’s Sonnets and English Petrarchan Generic Play
Christine Hutchins, English

A Research Analysis of the Applicability of Different iOS development Tools to Library Resource Creation
Catherine Lyons, Library

Ironic Feminist: Phyllis McGinley on the Roles of Women
Gregory Marks, English

 

A Comparative Study on the Effects of Traditional Instruction vs. Hands-On Instruction on the Achievement and Attitudes of Primary-Grade Students in Science
Sherese Mitchell, Education

Biodiversity of Spiders of Dominican Republic
Vladimir Ovtcharenko, Natural Science

Leaving Flagstaff: An Epistolary Novel in Verse
Lee Philips, English

Structured-Based Discovery of EED Chemical Inhibitors
Yoel Rodríguez, Natural Science

Politics Trump Justice: The Case of the Cuban Five
Peter Roman, Behavioral & Social Science

Biochemical Analysis of the CST Complex from Candida Albicans
Olga Steinberg-Neifach, Natural Science

Looks, Looking and Layers of Language: A Pre-Oedipal Reading of Charlotte Bronte’s Novel, Jane Eyre
Elyse Zucker, English

 

About Hostos Community College
Eugenio María de Hostos Community College, part of The City University of New York system, was founded in 1968.  Located in the South Bronx, the college currently serves nearly 7,000 students.  In addition to associate degree programs that facilitate easy transfer to CUNY’s four-year colleges or baccalaureate studies at other institutions, Hostos also has an award-winning Continuing Education and Professional Studies Department that offers courses for professional development and certificate-bearing workforce training programs. In four decades, Hostos has grown from a class of 623 in the fall of 1970 to the spring 2010 enrollment of nearly 7,000 students.  The college also serves an additional 12,000 students through its Continuing Education and Professional Studies Department. For more news and stories about Hostos Community College visit www.hostos.cuny.edu.

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