Publications by year

2011

*Adams, J. & *Boger, R. (December 2010). Brooklyn College City-as-Lab: Using Community-Based Resources to Enhance Science Learning for Urban Youth. Place-Based Education Symposium, New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford MA.          


*Adams, J., *Handle, K., *Eskine, K., *Petrovicheva, A., *John, J., *Johnson, A., *Nightingale, S., +Defelice, A., +Ceraldi, S. (March, 2011). Place-based Education in the Urban Environmental Context: What Have We Learned as Science Educator and Scientists about Engaging Urban Students in Environmental Studies? Presented at the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Orlando FL.           

Crawford, J., *Magee, M.W., & Grysman, A. (2010 October). The Effects of Mortality Salience in Religious Believers and Non-Believers, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Conference, Baltimore, MD

*DiFrancesco, N., *Kanner, M., +Parker, M, S. (2011) EATS Program and Urban Gardening. Brooklyn College Science Day, New York          

*DiFrancesco, N., *Kanner, M., +Springer, S. (2011) FEV-1 Measurements for Brooklyn High School Students. Brooklyn College Science Day, New York                

*Eskine, K. J. (accepted). Making it matter: Psychological research motivates scientific identity and interest in high school students. Poster to be presented at the Teaching Institute (18th Annual Meeting) of the Association for Psychological Science, 23rd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.  

*Eskine, K. J., & *Petrovicheva, A. (2011). Exposure to social science increases scientific breadth and interest in high school students. Paper presented at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.         

*Eskine, K. J., & Kacinik, N. A. (2010). Idiomatic representation: Can live bodies wake up dead metaphors? Poster presented at the 10th biennial joint meeting with Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (CSDL) & Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP). University of California, San Diego, CA.         

*Eskine, K. J., Kacinik, N. A., & Prinz, J. J. (2011). A bad taste in the mouth: Gustatory disgust influences moral judgment. Paper presented at the Embodiment Pre-conference, Society of Personality and Social Psychology, 12th Annual meeting, San Antonio, TX.     
         

*Eskine, K. J., Kacinik, N. A., & Prinz, J. J. (2011). A bad taste in the mouth: Gustatory disgust influences moral judgment. Psychological Science, 22(3), 295-299. 
      

*Handle, K.C., Powell, W.G., (in review, submitted by invitation April 2011) Geochemical Evidence for Shifting Redox Conditions within Fossiliferous Strata of the Wheeler Formation, Utah, Palaios   

*Handle, K.C., *Johnson, A.M., (in review) Social Networks & Urban Student Literacy Skills, Urban Education    

*Handle, K.C., *Johnson, A.M., (accepted with revisions January 2011) Social Networks in the Urban Classroom, The Science Teacher, NSTA  
            

*Handle, K.C., *Johnson, A.M, (2010) Place-based Science & Minority Urban Student Efficacy, Geological Society of America Abstracts w/ Programs, Poster Session, Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 441.              

*Handle, K.C., Powell, W.G., (in review, submitted by invitation April 2011) Geochemical Evidence for Shifting Redox Conditions within Fossiliferous Strata of the Wheeler Formation, Utah, Palaios   

*Handle, K.C., Powell, W.G., Geochemical Evidence for Shifting Redox Conditions within Fossiliferous Strata of the Wheeler Formation, Utah, Geological Society of America Abstracts w/ Programs, Oral Presentation Session, Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 510.           
 

Hudson, S., *Petrovicheva, A., Muth, T.R. (2011) Comparative analysis of plant pathogen adhesion to Arabidopsis thaliana. Brooklyn College Science Day, New York.              

*John, J., *Rahi, R. (2011). Collaborative Study of Road Salt Pollution in Brooklyn's Largest Park, American Chemical Society Conference, Anaheim, CA.                

*Johnson, A.M., *Handle, K.C., (in review) Place-based Science & Minority Urban Student Efficacy, Research in Science & Technological Education     

*Magee, M. W. & Hardin, C.D. (2011). Parental Attachment and Shared Reality in the Regulation of Anti-Atheist Prejudice, Association for Psychological Science Conference, Washington DC.

*Nightingale, S., *John, J. (2011) Prospect Park-as-Lab: Locating the Natural Sciences in the Urban Environment. Paper presented at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.          

*Nightingale, S., *John, J., (2010) Prospect Park-As-Lab: Place and Inquiry-Based Geoscience Education in an Urban High School. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 590.      

*Petrovicheva, A., Aguirre, L., Muth, T.R. (2010) Quantitative measurement of cell attachment of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to plant hosts with the flow cytometer. Brooklyn College Science Day, NY.      

*Powell, W.; *Hainline, L.; Tisch, S.; Lesser, P. and *Tomkiewicz, M.; "Early Exploration of Opportunities in Science and Careers Encourages Students to Pursue Science Majors", Journal of College Science Teaching (2011)

*Rahi, R. & Sanchez-Delgado, R. (2011). Hydrogenation of Aromatic Compounds by Metal Nanoparticles on Basic Supports, American Chemical Society Conference, Anaheim, CA.    

*Tomkiewicz, M. "From Bergen-Belsen to Climate Change: What this has to do with me?" AUP High school - Brooklyn – NY(invited talk)

* Tomkiewicz, M.; Climate Change: The Fork at the End of Now, Momentum Press (2011)

*Tomkiewicz, M.; Environmental Aspects of Electrodeposition in Modern Electroplating 5th edition; M. Schlesinger ed., John Wiley (2010).        

*Tomkiewicz, M.; "On the Feasibility of a Timely Transition to a More Sustainable Energy Future", Sustainability, 2, 204 - 214 (2010)      

Young, G. & *Magee, M. W. (2011). The Effects of Religion and Science on Superstitious Thinking, Brooklyn College Science Research Day, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY.        

  

2010

Boger, R.A., M. Christiano, and G. Rocha. Historical Analysis of the Changes in the Estuarine Shoreline of Gateway National Recreation Area: Implications for Management, Northeastern Section Geological Society of America Meeting, 2010.


Cheung, R. M., Johnson, A. M., Noel, S., & Hardin, C. D. (2010). Relational motivation in prejudice and discrimination: The case of social exclusion. Society of Personality & Social Psychology (SPSP), 11th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.


DiFrancesco, N., Eskine, K., Handle, K.,  John, J., Johnson, A.M., et al. City-as-Lab: Using Brooklyn’s Urban Spaces to Enact Place-Based Environmental Science Studies, NSF Gk-12 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., March 2010


DiFrancesco, N. & Scarlet, J. Implementation of Student-Centered Environmental Science Research in a High School Setting. AAAS Conference, February, 2010. San Diego, CA


Eskine, K., & Brauner, E. (2010). Effects of Embodied Experience on Self-understanding. Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Conference in Las Vegas, NV, 2010.


Eskine, K., Petrovicheva, A., Johnston, D., & DeFelice, A. (2010). Hands-on Science and Motivation: Using Relevance and Authority Transference to Motivate Students. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting, San Diego, 2010.

 
Hainline, L., Tomkiewicz, M., Boger, R., Adams, J. & Powell, W.: "Brooklyn College's NSF GK-12 Program: City as Lab", Brooklyn College Faculty Day, Brooklyn, NY 2010

 
Handle, K.C., & Johnson, A.M: Social Media in the K-12 Classroom, GSA Eastern Joint Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 2010

 
Handle, K.C., & Johnson, A.M: Social Networks Facilitating Interdisciplinary Collaboration, AAAS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2010


Handle, K.C., Technology in the K-12 Classroom, Plenary Discussion - AAAS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2010


Handle, K.C., Intel New York State Science and Engineering Fair, Scientific Review Committee Volunteer, 2010


Handle, K.C., Earth Systems Science Course, Curriki Summer of Content Winner, 2009


John, J. & Nightingale, S.: Prospect Park-as-Lab: Place- and Inquiry-Based Learning in an Urban High School, GSA Eastern Joint Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 2010.


Johnson, A. M. & Hardin, C. D. (2010). The endorsement of anti-immigration attitudes among immigrants: Social tuning from a system justification perspective. Society of Personality & Social Psychology (SPSP), 11th Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.


Magee, M. W., & Rahi, R.: The Effects of Air Pollution on Brooklyn Residents, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting, San Diego, 2010


Magee, M. W.: Anti-Atheist Prejudice in the Interpersonal Regulation of Religious Belief: A Shared Reality Perspective, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Conference in Las Vegas, NV, 2010


Petrovicheva, A., Aguirre, L., Davitadi, T., & Muth T.R. Quantitative Measurement of Cell Attachment of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to Plant Hosts with the Flow Cytometer. Brooklyn College Science Day. May, 2010. Brooklyn, NY.


Powell, W. and R. Boger, Air Quality as the Focus of a Community-Based Freshman Research Experience in Geoscience, Northeastern Section Geological Society of America Meeting, 2010.


Scarlet, J., Fein, M., *Campese, V., & Delamater, A., R. Sensory-Specific Associations are not Affected by Insular Lesions and Insular-Basolateral Amygdala Disconnection. Eastern Psychological Association. March, 2010. Brooklyn, NY.


Scarlet, J., Dolese, M., Brown, M., & Scarlet, J. Drenamin and its Effects on Stress. Eastern Psychological Association. March, 2010. Brooklyn, NY.

 
Scarlet, J. & Hainline, L. If the Students Don’t Learn the Way I Teach, Then I Will Teach the Way They Learn. Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, March, 2010. Farmingdale, NY.
 

2009

Sparrow, E. B., K. Morris, M . Jaroensutasinee, K. Jaroensutasinee, S. Yule, *R. Boger, L. S. Gordon, K. Yoshikawa, M. R. Kopplin, and D. L. Verbyla. Use of the Seasons and Biomes Project in Climate Change Education. Geophysical Research Abstracts. Vol. 11, EGU2009-8190, EGU General Assembly 2009.
 

Sultana, N, R. Boger, W. Montgomery, Groundwater Modeling Using GIS, NEARC Conference, 2009.

 
Miele, E., Hainline, L, Lesser, P.,  Powell, W., Tisch, S. & Tomkiewicz, M. (in press) Early Exploration of Opportunities in Science and Careers Encourages Students to Pursue Science Majors, Journal of College Science Teaching.

 
Scarlet, J. (in press). SYSTAT. Sage Encyclopedia.


Eskine, K., & Brauner, E. (under review). Looking up to someone: Effects of embodied experience on academic self-efficacy and perspective taking. Journal of Social Psychology.

 
Scarlet, J., Fein, M., Campese, V., & Delamater, A., R. Sensory-specific flavor-nutrient associations are unaffected by basolateral amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex lesions. Eastern Psychological Association. Pittsburgh, PA, March 2009.


Powell, W. et al. Brooklyn College’s ”City As Lab” An Urban GK-12 Initiative, NSF GK-12 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., March 2009.


Campese, V. and Delamater, A. R., The role of the Dorsal Hippocampus in renewal and spontaneous recovery of extinguished appetitive responding. University of Wales Associative Learning Symposium XIII, Tregynon, United Kingdom, April 2009.

 
Delamater. A. R. & Scarlet, J. S. Sensory-specific flavor-nutrient associations. Associative Learning Conference, Gregynog, Wales, April 2009.
 

Simon, C., et al. Air Quality in Brownsville. Brooklyn College Science Day, Brooklyn, NY, May 2009.

 
Soverall, K., et al. Air Quality in Brownsville. Brooklyn College Science Day, Brooklyn, NY, May 2009.


Marcinkiewicz, M., Kaushik, R., Labutov, I., Parsons, S. and Raphan, T. Learning to Stabilize the Head of a Quadrupedal Robot with an Artificial Vestibular System Robotics and Automation. IEEE International Conference on robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, May 2009.


Campese, V. and Delamater, A. R., The role of the Dorsal Hippocampus in renewal and spontaneous recovery of extinguished appetitive responding. Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago IL, October 2009.


Scarlet, J., Campese, V., & Delamater, A. R. (2009) Sensory-Specific Associations in Flavor-Preference Reversal Learning. Learning & Behavior, 37, 179-187.


Scarlet, J. (in press). SYSTAT. Sage Encyclopedia


Delamater, A., R., Campese, V. and Westbrook, R., F.  Renewal and spontaneous recovery, but not latent inhibition, are mediated by gamma-amino butyric acid in appetitive conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, Vol 35(2), Apr 2009. pp. 224-237.

 
Litman, L., Nutter-Upham, K.E. & Rabin, L.A. (in progress) Distributed learning alleviates memory detriment in people suffering from anxiety and depression. 


Maduramente, A., Rabin, L.A., & Nutter-Upham, K.E. (in progress). The relationship of sleep quantity/quality to academic procrastination in undergraduate students. Journal of Educational Psychology.
 

Rabin, L.A., Nutter-Upham, K.E., & Maduramente, A. (in progress). Relations of executive functioning and academic procrastination in undergraduate students: The roles of initiation and organization of materials.


Rabin, L.A. & Nutter-Upham, K.E. (under review). Introduction of a journal excerpt activity improves undergraduate psychology students¹ performance in statistics. R. Teaching of Psychology.

 
2008

Mokos, J., & Nutter-Upham, K. Using GPS and mapping to teach STEM skills while empowering at-risk youth to effect change within their community: A case study of a high school community research project in Brooklyn, New York. Ecological Society of America 2008.


Nutter-Upham, K.E., Rabin, L., Sher, L., & Anderson, L.. Explaining academic procrastination: The role of executive functioning. International Congress of Psychology. Berlin, Germany 2008. 

 
V. Campese, A. R. Delamater and R. F. Westbrook Renewal and spontaneous recovery but not latent inhibitions are mediated by GABA in appetitive conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.


R. Boger, W. Powell, M. Tomkiewicz, L. Hainline and S. Parsons City-as-Lab: Integration of environmental science into Brooklyn high schools, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Northeastern Section, Buffalo, NY, March 2008. [JPG, PDF]
 

R. Cohen and M. Tomkiewicz Personal Energy Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Green Urbanism Symposium, LaGuardia Community College, April 2008
 

R. Cohen and M. Tomkiewicz Using Education as a Tool to Reduce Energy Consumption, 3rd Annual Governors Island Science and Lecture Series, Governor's Island, New York, June 2008
 
 
E. Fishman, S. Tamang, and D. Shea, Medicare Out-of-Pocket Costs: Can Private Savings Incentives Solve the Problem?, The Commonwealth Fund, March 2008. [PDF]
 

J. Mokos and K. Nutter-Upham Using GPS and mapping to teach STEM skills while empowering at-risk youth to effect change within thir community, 93rd ESA Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, August 2008. [PDF]
 

W. Powell, S. Parsons, M. Tomkiewicz and L. Hainline Brooklyn College's City-as-Lab: An urban GK-12 initiative, Annual GK12 Conference Washington D.C., March 2008. [JPG, PDF]
 
 
J. S. Scarlet, V. Campese, M. Fein and A. R. Delamater, Outcome-specific encoding in flavor preference reversal learning does not depend upon basolateral amygdala or orbitofrontal cortex. Eastern Psychological Association 2008 Meeting, Boston, MA.
 

J. Suarez, K. Ranguelova, S. Yu, A. Jarzecki, and R. S. Magliozzo. Catalase Peroxidase (M. tuberculosis KatG) forms a protein based radical during catalase turnover. ACS 2008 Mid-Atlantic regional meeting (MARM). Queensborough Community College. Queens, New York. May 2008.
 

J. Suarez, K. T. Ranguelova, R. S. Magliozzo. Cross-linking of M. tuberculosis Catalase-Peroxidase (KatG). American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2008 Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA. April 2008.

 
2007

V. Campese, J. S. Scarlet, M. Fein, and A. R. Delamater Outcome-specific encoding in flavor preference learning and its reversal in rats: Effects of basolateral amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex lesions. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2007, San Diego California.
 

K. Ranguelova, S. Girotto, G. J. Gerfen, J. Suarez, R. S. Magliozzo and R. P. Mason. Radical Sites in Mycobacterium tuberculosis KatG Identified Using Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Immuno-Spin Trapping. Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine 14th Annual meeting. Washington, DC. November 2007.