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Academics

Legacy ID
19

Dr. Robert P. Gardella

Professor Emeritus, HumanitiesYear Started

1977

EducationPh.D. University of Washington (Seattle)M.A. University of Washington (Seattle)B.A. Rice University (Houston, Texas)Publications

R. Gardella. Harvesting Mountains: Fujian and the China Tea Trade, 1757-1937. University of California...

Dr. Arthur Donovan

Professor Emeritus, Department of HumanitiesYear Started

1988

EducationPh.D. PrincetonM.S. WisconsinB.A. HarvardPublicationsThe Box That Changed the World: Fifty Years of Container Shipping - An Illustrated History with Joseph BonneyThe Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime...

Dr. Jane Pacht Brickman

Professor, HumanitiesYear Started

1983

EducationPh.D. American History, City University of NY, Graduate CenterMA History Queens College, City University of NYBA History Queens CollegeTeaching InterestsModern American HistoryHistory of PhilosophyEthical StudiesResearch InterestsMedical...

Dr. Charles F. Weber

Professor Emeritus, Math and ScienceYear Started1972EducationPhD Mathematics NYUMS Mathematics NYUBS Mathematics Manhattan CollegeTeaching InterestsCalculusDifferential EquationsComplex VariablesResearch InterestsPartial differential equationsHydrodynamicsWater wavesNumerical analysis 

Dr. David Shinn

Associate Professor, Math and ScienceYear Started

2010

EducationPhD Physical Chemistry Emory UniversityMS Analytical Chemistry w/Marine Mining Emphasis University of Hawai'iBS Chemistry University of South CarolinaTeaching InterestsGeneral ChemistryAnalytical ChemistryInstrumental...

Dr. Paul Serafino

Assistant Professor, Math and ScienceYear Started

2004

EducationPhD Physics Yale UniversityBS Physics Trinity College (Connecticut)Teaching InterestsGeneral PhysicsAtomic PhysicsResearch InterestsAtomic structure and spectra theoryAtomic and molecular collision theory

Dr. Alexander Retakh

Associate Professor, Math and ScienceYear Started

2010

EducationPhD Mathematics Yale UniversityBA Mathematics New York UniversityTeaching InterestsMathematicsStatisticsCryptographyResearch InterestsMathematical physicsRepresentation theoryNoncommutative algebra

Dr. Michael Melcer

Department Head, Department of Math & Science Acting Department Head, Department of Humanities Professor, Department of Math & Science

Year Started

1996

Education

PhD Chemistry SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry MS...

Dr. H. Leroy Hutson

Professor, Math and ScienceYear Started

1989

EducationPhD Mathematics RutgersMS Mathematics RutgersTeaching InterestsEngineering mathProbability and statistics  Research InterestsCommutative AlgebraAlgebraic GeometryNumber Theory

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