The 2001 Golden Key Outstanding Advisor Award was presented to Baruch chapter advisor, Ron Aaron, the College’s vice president for student development. Aaron has serv ed the Baruch College chapter of the Golden Key International Honor Society since its chartering in 1989. Aaron was selected for this award from over 300 advisors internationally.

Linda Allen (Economics and Finance) edited a special issue of The Journal of Economics and Business (February 2002) devoted to the topic of managing risk using financial markets.

History Professor Carol Berkin completed four books in 2001, all to be published in 2002. Harcourt is publishing her new interpretation of the Constitutional Convention and the “founding fathers,” tentatively entitled The Nation's Workshop.
Her other publications include Encyclopedia of Early American Culture, The History Handbook, and a new, third edition of the college textbook Making America: A History of the United States.

Baruch Political Science Professors Louis Bolce and Gerald De Maio jointly delivered a paper entitled “Symbolic Politics, Elite Consensus and the Political Contextualization of Anti-Christian Fundamentalist Sentiment” at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association in November.

Ann Cohen Brandwein (Statistics and Computer Information Systems) is proud of the work of her fall Full-Time MBA honors students, who gave presentations on ways to distribute funds to the WTC victims. Several guests attended these presentations. Professor Brandwein just began her fourth term as an associate editor for The Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Baruch Management Professor William Chien passed the 2001 FRM (Financial Risk Manager) Certification Exam. The exam tests knowledge in quantitative and fixed income analysis; market risk management and capital markets; credit risk management; operational and integrated risk management; legal, accounting, and tax risk management; and regulation and compliance.

During 2001, Ajay Das (Management) had three studies accepted in The Journal of Operations Management and The International Journal of Production Research. He also presented a study on technology implementation at the Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference in 2001. He is currently engaged in the investigation of dichotomies in quality perceptions at different organizational levels and their impact on organizational performance. In 2002, he initiated a major study of e-procurement evaluation metrics in 3,000 service and manufacturing companies.

Last year, Management Professor T. K. Das received the College’s Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Scholarship; authored/co-authored six journal articles; presented two papers at the invitational conference on “Cooperative Strategies and Alliances: What We Know 15 Years Later”; received a PSC-CUNY research award for the project “Risk-taking in Strategic Alliance Formation: The Roles of Trust, Control, and Risk Perception”; and was selected to appear in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, and Who’s Who in Finance and Industry.

In December 2001, Gayle DeLong (Economics and Finance) presented two co-authored papers at the International Tor Vergata Conference on Banking and Finance at the University of Rome: “The Geographic Location of Risk and Cross-Border Bank Mergers” and “Cross-Border Bank Mergers: What Lures the Rare Animal?” In April 2002, she presented a paper at the Eastern Finance Association entitled “Dynamic Learning of Markets: Reactions to and Results of Bank Mergers.”

During the Fall 2001 semester, Benedetto Fontana (Political Science) published “Gramsci y el Estado,” a chapter in Hegemonìa, Estado, y Sociedad Civil en la Globalización (Dora Kanoussi, editor). He also delivered two papers: “Hegemony and the New World Order” at the International Conference on Antonio Gramsci and “The Concept of the State in Gramsci” at the Northeastern Political Science Association Meeting.

Michael Gillespie, executive director of communications and marketing, had his translation of a poem from the German by Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945) entitled “A Love Song” (“Ein Liebeslied”) set to music by André Previn and included on his cd, From Ordinary Things (Sony Classical); the song is for soprano (Sylvia McNair), alto flute (Sandra Church), and piano (Previn).

The American Journal of Public Health featured History Professor Bert Hansen’s article “Public Careers and Private Sexuality: Some Gay and Lesbian Lives in the History of Medicine and Public Health” in its January 2002 issue. His study explores the careers of five physicians active in public health and medicine during the first half of the 20th century to illustrate interactions between
private and professional life.

“Monastery of the Moon: Corcomroe Abbey and The Dreaming of the Bones” written by English Department Professor Carmel Jordan appeared in the recent issue of Yeats: An Annual
of Critical and Textual Studies published by the University of Michigan Press. Jordan’s article deals with the cultural, political, and aesthetic significance of the l2th-century monastery of Corcomroe in the west of Ireland.

Ted Joyce (Economics and Finance) presented his manuscript “Did Legalized Abortion Lower Crime?” at seminars at Columbia; Johns Hopkins; NYU; University of Alabama, Birmingham; and RAND/UCLA this past fall. The manuscript was in response to a recently published article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics by Stanford University and University of Chicago economists John Donohue and Steve Levitt, who argued that legalized abortion was responsible for over half the decline in crime since 1991. Professors Joyce and Levitt debated the issue at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology last November.

In 2001, Ramzi Khuri (Natural Sciences/Physics) appeared in Physics Letters with the article “Fundamental Strings and Cosmology.” He is currently writing a follow-up to this paper with CUNY graduate student Andriy Pokotilov entitled “Velocity-Dependent Forces and an Accelerating Universe.” Khuri presented three seminars last year on this paper at Yale University, Rockefeller University, and the CUNY Graduate Center. Another article, “Remarks on Black Hole Degrees of Freedom in String Theory,” appeared in a recent issue of Nuclear Physics.

Marios Koufaris (Statistics and Computer Information Systems) co-authored “Consumer Behavior in Web-Based Commerce: An Empirical Study” for The International Journal of Electronic Commerce and authored “Applying the Technology Acceptance Model and Flow Theory to Online Consumer Behavior” for Information Systems Research.

This spring semester, Baruch’s Weissman Center for International Business welcomed Haim Levy, the Miles Robinson Professor of Finance at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Baruch’s first Global Scholar-in-Residence. Levy is the most widely published author and researcher in finance today. He is teaching in the PhD program in economics and finance and focusing on the areas of
decision-making under uncertainty and asset pricing in capital markets. Levy has also been a guest scholar at other universities in the States, including Wharton (Penn), the University of Chicago, Emory, and Berkeley.

Steven Lustgarten (Economics and Finance) has developed a
Web-based system of assigning and monitoring homework (which he calls HMS, Homework Monitoring System). Its main feature is that it modifies each homework question slightly, so that the exact question and solution are different for each student even though the knowledge tested is the same. HMS keeps track of the student’s performance, summarizes it, and assigns letter grades at the end of each assignment.

Karen Lyness (Management) is on sabbatical as a visiting scholar at Catalyst, a well-known, not-for-profit organization devoted to the advancement of women, in New York City. She is collaborating with their researchers on studies of the careers of women and men in corporate leadership positions in 20 European countries.

The University of Shanghai recently played host to over 40 professors, students, and film and television professionals from the United States and China as part of a two-day salon on “Film and TV in the Millennium.” Among the attendees were English Department Professors Eugene Marlow, Peter Hitchcock, and Talia Schenkel. During the summit, two challenges emerged: how to improve theatregoer attendance in China and how to deal with the influx of new technology. Professor Marlow wrote about these and other issues for New Film in Shanghai (2001).

Accountancy Professor Hugo Nurnberg’s paper entitled “Minority Interest in the Consolidated Retained Earnings Statement” appeared in the June 2001 issue of Accounting Horizons.

Debra Popkin (Modern Languages and Comparative Literature) was knighted by the French government. The French minister of education, Jack Lang, awarded Popkin the title of Chevalière dans l’ordre des Palmes académiques in recognition of her contribution to promoting French culture and her service to the American Association of Teachers of French.

An article of Keith Ramig’s (Natural Sciences/Chemistry) recently appeared in The Journal of Fluorine Chemistry: “Diisopropylethylamine mono (hydrogen fluoride) for nucleophilic fluorination of sensitive substrates: Synthesis of sevoflurane.” This article describes a new preparation of the inhaled anesthetic sevoflurane.

This February, Deborah Saivetz (Fine and Performing Arts) was invited to direct Christopher Durang’s play Betty’s Summer Vacation at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

Cornell University Press recently published Philosophy Professor Barbara E. Savedoff’s latest book, Transforming Images: How Photography Complicates the Picture. In her book, Savedoff seeks to discern the distinctive character of photography as an art, arguing that the way we look at and understand photographs varies dramatically from the way we view other images. Transforming Images was nominated for a PEN Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing in the Visual Arts.

Days of Wonder: New and Selected Poems, the fifth collection of poetry by Baruch’s acclaimed resident poet Grace Schulman, CUNY Distinguished Professor of English, was released this winter by Houghton Mifflin.

Robert Schwartz, Marvin M. Speiser Professor of Finance and University Distinguished Professor of Finance, is co-organizing the international three-day executive training program called Global Equity Markets Seminar (June 17-19, 2002) at Baruch. In April, he organized the one-day conference “A Trading Desk’s View of Market Quality,” also held at the College. Professor Schwartz’s recent publications include the co-edited Report on Quality of European Equity Markets and the article “Quote Setting and Price Formation in an Order-Driven Market.” Schwartz is also a visiting economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Louis Stern (Management) received TQM Magazine’s Most Outstanding Paper of 2001 award for “Techniques: A New Tool for Assessing the Presence of Total Quality.” The Awards for Excellence were held at Lord’s Cricket Grounds, London, in April.

Zheng Wang (Statistics and Computer Information Systems) has created and is teaching an innovative new MBA course, Financial Engineering. This course provides necessary background to be a Wall Street quantitative analyst.

From Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ideas about economy and race to real estate negotiations in the wake of 9/11, Law Professor Jay Weiser has expressed his opinion and published research on a host of controversial topics in the last half year in such publications as Grid: The Magazine of Real Estate Business, City Limits, the Wall Street Journal, and Out magazine. Earlier in 2001, Weiser was the project coordinator of, co-editor of, and contributor to the New York Bar Association study Marriage Rights for Same-Sex Couples in New York.

Sherman Wong (Mathematics) received a $47,880 grant from the Department of Defense to establish a UNIX-based computing facility on the Baruch campus. Baruch’s Weissman School of Arts and Sciences is matching the fund amount. The project is scheduled for completion in June 2003.

Forthcoming in The Journal of Product Innovation Management is Marketing Professor Paschalina (Lilia) Ziamou’s article “Commercializing New Technologies: Consumers’ Response to a New Interface.” Ziamou’s research provides valuable guidelines for firms commercializing new technologies involving a novel interface (e.g., speech recognition, handwriting recognition).