September 7, 2007
VIA FACSIMILE
Vice Chancellor Jay Hershenson
Vice Chancellor of University Relations and
Secretary to the Board of Trustees
The City University of New York
535 East 80th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10021
Dear Vice Chancellor Hershenson:
I am pleased to announce the following faculty and student honors and awards for Hunter
College:
Faculty Honors and Awards:

Dr. Nicholas Freudenberg, a Distinguished Professor of Public Health at Hunter
College and of Social/Personality Psychology at the Graduate Center, was
awarded the 2007 Morton Deutsche Conflict Resolution Award by the American
Psychological Association’s Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and
Violence. The award is in recognition of Dr. Freudenberg’s work in addressing
the challenges encountered by incarcerated adolescents and adults returning to
communities, as well as for his scholarly work on violence prevention.

Dr. Neepa Maitra, an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Hunter
College, was named a 2007 Cottrell Scholar by Research Corporation for her
proposal titled “Strong-Field Dynamics of Atoms and Molecules in TimeDependent Density Functional Theory: A Phase Space Exploration.” She will
receive an award of $100,000 to further her research and teaching.

Dr. Cynthia Degazon, an Associate Professor in the Nursing Department at
Hunter College, was awarded a three year grant of $950,000 to continue the
BEST Program (Becoming Excellent Students in Transition to Nursing), which
seeks to reduce the nursing shortage and to increase the number of
underrepresented minorities in the nursing profession. Dr. Degazon also won the
New York-New Jersey area award for mentoring from Nursing Spectrum, a major
national magazine in the nursing profession.
Student Honors and Awards:

Terry Madden, an All-American wrestler received a gold medal at the
International Canada Cup games in Guelph, Ontario, Canada by winning the
freestyle 185-pound class a few days after graduation from Hunter College. He
was also named wrestler of the year by the New York State Collegiate Wrestler’s
Association.

Rivka Strom, an Audiology doctorate student, was awarded a $100,000
Communicative Disorders Scholarship from Setoma International, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to “service to mankind.”
I am extremely proud of the awards and honors achieved by these Hunter faculty
and students. I would appreciate your assistance in announcing these outstanding
achievements at the next Board of Trustees meeting. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Jennifer J. Raab
cc: Ms. Hourig Messerlian
Ms. Gail Aidinoff Scovell
Ms. Meredith Halpern
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