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New York City Alliance for Minority Participation in Science, Engineering and Mathematics (NYC AMP)
Contact Person: Dr. Maria Psarelli, Director, Room: CP 112, Phone: (718) 289-5375
Background
The NYC AMP is a federally funded minority research and
training program sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation
in collaboration with CUNY. Its goal is
to encourage the participation of minority students in scientific, engineering and mathematical
disciplines (SEM). The AMP at BCC provides instructional and tutorial
support for introductory SEM courses. Moreover, it also provides funding
for supervised research by undergraduate students.
Along with other CUNY colleges, BCC enthusiastically participates in the AMP
program. Our program has grown during the last years, and we strongly
encourage students to participate, taking advantage of this unique
opportunity to elevate their academic achievement in science, engineering
and mathematics.
The program is structured in research units where faculty members in the
above mentioned disciplines supervise undergraduate research projects with
the participation of selected students.
List of Current AMP Projects
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Project: "Constructing Large Planar Networks", 2004-05 |
Mentor: Dr. Cormac O'Sullivan, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Research Assistant: Koami Semanyo
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Project: "Properties of Symplectomorphisms", 2003-04 |
Mentor: Dr. Andrew McInerney, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Research Assistant: Stephany Soria
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Project: "Legendre Curves in R3", 2003-04 |
Mentor: Dr. Andrew McInerney, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Research Assistant: Aida Wade
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Project: "Flows of Hamiltonian Vector Fields", 2003-04 |
Mentor: Dr. Andrew McInerney, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Research Assistant: Raysa Martinez
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Project: "Stirling, Bell and Bernoulli Numbers", 2003-04 |
Mentor: Dr. Cormac O'Sullivan, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Research Assistants: William DiNapoli, Sylvia Osuyi Ekpu
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Project: "Visualizing the Sweep Line Algorithm for Computing the Voronoi Diagram", 2003-04 |
Mentor: Dr. Sharon Persinger, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Research Assistants: Santa Gonzalez, Anny Garcia
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Project: "Cellular Automata and the Game of Life", 2003-04 |
Mentor: Dr. Ivan Petrovic, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Research Assistants: Eddy Coronado, Craig Roach
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Project: "Turing Machines and their Applications towards Cellular Automata", 2003-04 |
Mentor: Dr. Ivan Petrovic, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Research Assistant: Koami Semanyo
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Project: "Computational Studies of the Natural Medicinal", 2004 |
Mentor: Dr. Thomas Brennan, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Technology
Research Assistant: Charles Asamoah
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Project: "Developing a New Technique for Measuring Interfacial Tension for Polymers", 2004 |
Mentor: Dr. Neal Phillip, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Technology
Research Assistant: Raul Gilles
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Project: "Studies on Metal Chelates of Vitamin B6 Model Compounds", 2003-04 |
Mentor: Dr. Kamal Ismail, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Technology
Research Assistant: Ellen Olajide
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Project: "The Development of an Ion Chromatographic Method to Quantitate Low levels of Anionic Pollutants in Cloud Water and Snow Samples", 2003-04 |
Mentor: Dr. Neal Phillip, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Technology
Research Assistant: Lydia Owusu
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Project: "Asymptotic and Numerical Study of the Location of Zeroes of a Special Transcendental Equation", 2002-03 |
Mentor: Dr. Alexander Kheyfits, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Research Assistant: Halimatu Mohammed
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Project: "Cellular Automata and the Game of Life", 2003 |
Mentor: Dr. Roman Kossak, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Research Assistants: Eddy Coronado, James Boakye
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Project: "Deviation and Optimization of Non-Smooth Functions", 2002-03 |
Mentor: Dr. Mohamed Messaoudene, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Research Assistant: Rafiah Vitalis
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Project: "The Fibonacci Numbers Modulo p, Quadratic Reciprocity and Searching for Large Primes", 2002-03 |
Mentor: Dr. Cormac O'Sullivan, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
Research Assistants: Craig Salmon, Sylvia Osuyi Ekpu
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Project: "Bioinformatics and Physical Properties of Biopolymers", 2002-03 |
Mentor: Dr. Joseph Malinsky, Dept. of Physics and Technology
Research Assistants: Lendon Simpson, Alexis Quiroga
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Project: "Extraterrestrial Impacts and Mass Extinctions", 2002-03 |
Mentor: Dr. Luis Enrique Montenegro, Dept. of Physics and Technology
Research Assistant: Esmeraldo Castro, Godwin Dike
Highlights
Aliou Diop, a Bronx Commmunity College alumnus of the 2001
class, began his undergraduate research with the AMP program in Spring 2000
under the mentorship of Dr. Andrew McInerney of the Dept. of Mathematics and
Computer Science. A year later, he was among the first eight CUNY students and
the first BCC student to be awarded the AMP Carver Scholarship. In this
capacity, he presented his work in Science Fairs at both BCC and CUNY and in
several undergraduate research conferences around the country. In Fall 2002,
while a junior at Lehman College, he was among a handful of talented
undergraduates recruited from throughout the US to participate in the MASS
(Mathematics Advanced Study Semesters) Program at Penn State University. He
completed his B.S. in Mathematics at Lehman College in the Spring of 2003 and is
currently pursuing his Ph.D degree in Mathematics at the Graduate Center of the
City University of New York!!!
The AMP and the Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science at BCC is proud of
accomplishments of students like Aliou Diop and is looking forward to scout for
a new generation of talented students in sciences and mathematics.