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Dr. Kathy Olszewski is a Professor of Chemistry. She earned a B.S. in chemistry from The State University of New York at Albany, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Inorganic chemistry from Stony Brook University. After completing postdoctoral work on the effects of gamma radiation on DNA at Harvard Medical School, she joined the Science Department faculty at The State University of New York at Maritime College. As Professor of Chemistry and Chemistry Curriculum Supervisor she teaches chemistry and materials science classes and is credited with the design of most of the currently offered chemistry classes and the chemistry laboratory. In 2007, she received a State University Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Olszewski has been serving as Science Department Chair since 2006. She is the Academic Advisor for all students enrolled in the SUNY Maritime-ITUMF (Istanbul Technical University Maritime faculty) Dual Diploma program.
Dr. Daniel An is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics. He has a Master of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Korea University, where he studied differential equations related to fluid dynamics. In 2008, he received his PhD degree from SUNY Stony Brook University. The result of his doctoral research, which deals with Quantum Physics and Mathematical Analysis, was published in Letters in Mathematical Physics. His current research topic is geometrical structures related to 4 dimensional spaces.
Dr. Oganes Bogaryan is a Professor of Mathematics. He worked as a junior researcher at the Computer Center of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia. Then he studied in former Leningrad’s Steklov’s Institute of Mathematics of Academy of Sciences of USSR which ended with receiving a Ph. D. degree for applying different nets (grids) in solving Schredinger’s equation. From 1959 to 1981 he worked as a professor at the State University and Erevan Polytechnic Institute. In 1981 he left USSR for the USA with his family. From 1982 to present, he has worked at SUNY Maritime College teaching mathematics.
Dr. Daniel Cole is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics. He completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in differential geometry at Dartmouth College, and earned a B.S. in mathematics from Yale University. Before coming to Maritime he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Rice University and taught at Adelphi University. His main area of research is the geometry of sub-Riemannian spaces. Dr. Cole is also a member of the curriculum committee and has played an active role in mathematics curriculum reform on campus (most recently in enhancing Maritime’s Calculus III course).
Dr. Marie de Angelis is Professor of Oceanography. She received a B.S. in Chemistry from Hofstra University, a M.S. in Chemical Oceanography from Oregon State University and a PhD in Oceanography from the University of Washington. Her research has focused on methane oxidation in marine environments, hydrothermal vent and seep chemistry and marine methane hydrates. She is also active in projects to improve K-12 science education.
Professor Audrey Gillant is a Lecturer of Mathematics. She went to Université Paris VII (Denis Diderot), in France where she received a Maitrise de Mathématiques. She moved to the USA to pursue further studies in mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle. She received a M.S. in Mathematics with her work in number theory on the p-adic numbers under the supervision of Dr. Ralph Greenberg. Professor Gillant taught as an adjunct for 2 years at community colleges in greater Seattle and then taught for 3 years as an adjunct lecturer at Binghamton University. Professor Gillant joined SUNY Maritime in the fall of 2008. Professor Gillant teaches math courses ranging from Beginning Algebra to Calculus II. She the Computer Lab course and manages the Science Department's webpage.
Professor Conrad Linton is a Lecturer of Mathematics. He received a master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the City University of New York Hunter College. Mr. Linton is the Coordinator of the Learning Assistance Center at SUNY Maritime College since fall 2001. He has also held adjunct lecturing positions at Hunter College, Bronx Community College and Lehman College. Mr. Linton has been an adjunct Lecturer at Lehman College since 1995 teaching pre-calculus, calculus and statistics.
Dr. William Losonsky is a Professor of Physics. He did undergraduate work in Physics and Mathematics at Manhattan College. Graduate work in Physics resulted in an M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from New York University. He then spent several years as a Research Scientist at NYU. His area of research has been experimental atomic physics involving heavy-ion collisions performed on accelerators at NYU, Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Results of this research have been published in the Journal of the Optical Society of America and Physical Review. He has many years experience teaching at SUNY Maritime; presently he focuses on Physics and Materials Science. Currently he is the Physics Curriculum Supervisor.
Dr. Ioana Malureanu is an Associate Professor of Physics. She finished her undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Physics of Bucharest University, Romania, with a specialization in Solid State Physics (1992 – 1997). After this, she pursued the degrees of Master of Arts in Physics, Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy in Condensed Matter Physics at Columbia University, New York (1997 -2003). For several years after graduation (2003 -2006), Dr. Malureanu worked as a part-time Associate in the Physics Department of Columbia University, continuing her research projects on magnetic systems with itinerant electrons in collaboration with her former thesis advisor, Dr. Yasutomo Uemura, and also being a teaching assistant for the Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced Laboratory Work course under the supervision of Professor Morgan May. During the 2003-2004 academic year she worked as an adjunct professor at the Albert Nerken School of Engineering, New York. Since the Fall of 2005, she teaches introductory physics, remote sensing and materials science, while continuing her research projects in the spare time.
Professor Anthony Manzi is an Assistant Professor of Meteorology. He graduated from Maritime College in 1989 with a Bachelors degree in Meteorology & Oceanography and a USCG Third Mate License. After graduation, Anthony served as a Marine Meteorologist for about 5 years with private industry. After receiving a Masters degree in Environmental Science from Montclair State University, Anthony worked as a Project Manager for several environmental companies. In 1996, Anthony began teaching meteorology at Maritime College. Anthony continues his studies at the Teachers College, Columbia University where he is a part-time doctoral student in the science education department. Anthony teaches the following courses; Meteorology for Mariners, Synoptic Meteorology, Dynamic Meteorology, Tropical Cyclones, Weather Forecasting, Marine Climatology, Environmental Pollution, and General Geology.
Dr. William Massano is a Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Computer Science. He received is Ph.D from Fordham University. His current field of interest is condensed matter physics. He has coauthored several papers studying Quantum Mechanical Models of crystal systems. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed Journals such as Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, Il Nuovo Cimento, and others. His papers have been presented at APS meetings including two at the Spring 2007 APS meeting “Variational and Coupled Cluster Methods for Many-Particle Systems” and “Analytic Properties of Moments Matrices”.
On the academic side, he has become interested in microcontrollers and developed a course (taught in Spring 2011) for the Engineering department where the students learn to use microcontrollers to control real world systems. The course was very well received by the students and will be offered again next spring as part of the curriculum.
Dr. Gilbert Traub is Professor of Mathematics. He earned a B.A. in Mathematics from Queens College CUNY, and an M.S. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from NYU. Dr. Traub joined the Maritime College faculty in 1975. He has supervised the Mathematics / Computer Science group within the Science Department since 1986, playing a key role in the development of placement testing, pre-calculus courses, the calculus sequences, and individual course content. In 2005, he was awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Since 2006, Dr. Traub has served as Maritime College's Associate Provost and Academic Dean (currently continuing with the latter position). Dr. Traub has also held a variety of non-academic positions including: programmer / applied mathematician at Bell Laboratories, programmer / statistical consultant at Elias Sports Bureau, and psychoanaltyic psychotherapist at Washington Square Institute clinic.
Dr. Barbara Warkentine is a Professor of Biology. She earned her Doctoral Degree in Biology in 1990 from the City University of New York. She joined the faculty of SUNY Maritime College’s Science Department in 1990, obtained the rank of Full Professor in 1998, and was promoted to the rank of Distinguished Service Professor in 2010. Dr. Warkentine teaches all of the biology classes offered within the Marine Environmental Science Program, the program that she was instrumental in developing for the College. She maintains an active research program as evident from her 33 peer reviewed publications. Her research interests are aquatic ecology with special reference to fish population dynamics and benthic macro-invertebrates from both marine and freshwater environments. In addition to her academic activities, she is an active member of the Throggs Neck American Legion Woman’s Auxiliary and dedicates her time towards supporting veteran’s program.
Professor David Wickham is a Lecturer of Chemistry. He received his Masters of Science at Long Island University and his Bachelors of Science at Stony Brook University. He is responsible for teaching laboratory and lecture courses in chemistry and materials science and also serves as an advisor to MES students. His primary academic interests revolve around analytical and computational chemistry and their applications in industrial and environmental sciences. Prior to pursuing a career in education, Professor Wickham was employed in industry, where he held positions in R&D, marketing and technical training. His most recent industrial position was product development manager for a division of Beckman Coulter Inc. responsible for developing laboratory data products. He has also been a product manager and technical trainer with companies involved in manufacturing analytical chemistry instrumentation for automated wet chemical analysis, near infrared spectroscopy, chromatography and chemical data analysis. Professor Wickham has written a book chapter, manuals and presented technical papers on topics related to chemical data analysis, laboratory data systems and chromatography.
Dr. Debbie Yuster is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics. She studied math and computer science as an undergraduate at Cornell University, and received her Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University. Her research area is combinatorics, a branch of theoretical math that has real-world applications in many fields, including operations research, computer science, and biology. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers University, Dr. Yuster joined the faculty of SUNY Maritime. Her research has been published in journals such as Mathematics of Computation and BMC Genetics. She has also taught in math enrichment programs geared towards middle school and high school students.
Professor Alex Zaharakis is a Lecturer of Physics. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Math & Physics from Hofstra University and a Masters of Science of Physics from Stony Brook University. His academic interests include physical science content, condensed matter physics, general science, and numerical modeling. Alex currently has two published works and a third under review in scientific journals. Alex’s duties at Maritime College include instruction of undergraduate physics courses, laboratory maintenance (technician), and LAC tutoring. Alex has served as an adjunct for several local colleges and continues to further his education.
