Message from the President

Greetings. I am delighted to welcome each and every one of you to the graduate programs at the College of Staten Island, a senior college of The City University of New York.

As the only public institution of higher learning in the borough, CSI is committed to providing you with a variety of learning opportunities both in and outside of the classroom, which, in combination with your own hard work, we are sure will help you continue toward your educational, philosophical, and professional goals. Here on our beautiful 204-acre campus, you will join other students who are pursuing master's degrees in 16 different programs of study, and earning doctoral degrees we offer in cooperation with the CUNY Graduate Center.

CSI's administration, faculty, and staff are singularly dedicated to our students' success, and, as we affirm in the College's mission statement, "practice their commitment to educational excellence as they instill in students preparing to enter their chosen careers an enduring love of learning, a sensitivity to pluralism and diversity, a recognition of their responsibility to work for the common good, and an informed respect for the interdependence of all people."

This focus on mutual interdependence and civic responsibility is nicely illustrated by the research focuses of many of our extraordinary faculty members. For example:

• Professor Eric Ivison (History) has for several years conducted archeological research in Turkey on Byzantium, and was recently awarded a grant to support his work by the Loeb Classical Foundation of Harvard University;
• Ten faculty members in the Modern China Studies Group collaborated with The New York Times to design and develop curricular guides for a Website to complement the Discovery Channel's four-part series, China Rises;
• Professor Cate Marvin (English) has received a 2007 Whiting Writers Award, in addition to a number of other awards in creative writing. Her poems have appeared in The New England Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Fence, The Paris Review, The Cincinnati Review, Slate, Verse, Boston Review, Ninth Letter, and Tri-Quarterly,
• Professor William Wallace's (Biology) area of research, broadly defined as ecotoxicology, examines how metals, such as cadmium, zinc, and mercury, are passed from prey to predator in marine food chains. He has developed a novel approach for monitoring metallic contamination in aquatic animals that may have broad applications for risk management and cleanup; and
• Distinguished Professor Fred Naider (Chemistry) was recently elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a board member of the Federation of the American Societies for Experimental Biology. He has received numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, and was a Fulbright Fellow.

These are only a few examples of what you will find at CSI. I encourage you to explore this catalogue and our Website, www.csi.cuny.edu, to learn more about the programs and the people you are joining by becoming a member of our College community today.

Welcome, and I look forward to seeing you on campus!

Tomás D. Morales, PhD

President