James Airozo currently serves as the CUNY Director of Student Academic Awards and Honors. In that position he works closely with the CUNY colleges and programs to enhance and expand nationally competitive scholarship outreach and support activities. An employee of the Office of Academic Affairs, he is currently resident at Macaulay Honors College where he works closely with Macaulay staff, particularly fellowship advisor, Mike Lamb in support of national scholarship candidates. He also engages in special projects, such as an upcoming CUNY wide Honors Conference, under the supervision of University Dean Ann Kirschner and various projects for the Office of Academic Affairs.

Prior to assuming the CUNY Director position, he was The Director of the Honors College at Polytechnic University after having worked, for thirteen years, as Associate Director of the Honors Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. As Associate Director, he was closely involved in national scholarship efforts serving as the campus representative for the Rhodes Scholarship and the Mellon Fellowship. He was a member of the campus Goldwater selection committee and the campus wide National Scholarships Advisory committee. At Poly he assisted candidates for the Goldwater Scholarship and the Jack Kent Cook Graduate Fellowship. He has had extensive experience in assisting students with their applications in a wide range of national scholarships and has participated in numerous mock interviews.

Dr. Airozo holds a Ph.D. in Spanish literature from the University of Michigan and has many years of experience teaching Spanish language and literature courses and serving as a Study Abroad Resident Director.

Chris Amores is a native New Yorker and lives in the Borough of Brooklyn. In 2003 he obtained his B.S. in Telecommunications at St. John's University. His Professional career has lead him to obtain positions at Baruch, The Graduate Center, and CIS - CUNY Central Office where his responsibilities ranged from support technician to supervisor of an IT team that supported seven sites. On his off time you can find him singing at karaoke bars, working out at NYSC, and spending time with family and friends.

Motto: "Making the Internet work for you one page at a time!" Plenty of time and patients to nurture multiple web pages into a full-grown website.

Graceann Dorse is a native of Scranton, PA, where she grew up dancing and riding horses. And yes, she loves "The Office." After graduating from New York University, she stayed in the city where she now enjoys choreographing, designing costumes, playing with improv comedy, and producing film and video projects for Christopher Webb Films.

She is a cheese aficionado; and is fascinated by robots, both old-timey and contemporary.

Jeff Drouin received his BA in English from Providence College, magna cum laude, in 1998 and his MA, also in English, from the University of Virginia in 2000. The infectious spirit of the dot-com boom led him to several positions in online medical publishing and web design, eventually moving him to New York to work in information technology at About.com. Now in the English PhD program at the CUNY Graduate Center, he has fused these experiences with his doctoral work, completing the certificate program in Instructional Technology and Pedagogy before joining the Honors College as an Instructional Technology Fellow (ITF) at Brooklyn College.

After two years as the Central Technology Fellow, Jeff is now actively involved in developing and implementing the pedagogical vision of Macaulay as the Multimedia/Instructional Technology Associate.

He has presented his research on developments in the modernist novel and the relativity theories of Albert Einstein at conferences on James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and textual scholarship. His interest in technology extends also to humanities scholarship in the form of the Ecclesiastical Proust Archive, an experimental resource for the study of narrative and hypermedia. Recently he has taught courses at Brooklyn College on modern drama and, at the graduate level, a survey of literary theory.

Sara Elzeftawy joined Macaulay Honors College on two different days, as a freshman in 2005 and as a member of staff in 2006. Sara is currently an Environmental Engineering student at the City College of New York. She also works in the NOAA-Crest Remote Sensing Lab at City College studying optical properties of harmful algal blooms.

Sara graduated from Midwood High School in 2005 with intentions of becoming a Pediatric Surgeon. But after being convinced by her City College classmates to try Engineering, her life course has taken a drastic change. Upon graduation, Sara intends on getting a Petroleum or Chemical Engineering graduate degree.

Sara is a nerd at heart and likes to incorporate engineering lingo into everyday conversation. She is addicted to crossword puzzles (although she may not be very good at them) and is a huge fan of LOST, despite what others may think. Her goals are to learn two more languages and to learn to play the drums and the violin.

Prior to joining the Macaulay team, Veronica Feliciano served in various student service areas within CUNY, including advising in The On-Course Advantage Program (TOCA) at Brooklyn College, which was awarded the Outstanding Institutional Advising Program Award by the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). As Macaulay's University Scholarship Coordinator, she oversees all aspects of the University Scholarship, including tuition, laptops and the Study Grant.

Veronica earned her BA in Psychology and her MA in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Her main interests lie in group dynamics.

Carolyn comes to Macaulay Honors College with almost 20 years of higher education experience in human resources and finance and administration. She received her BA in Economics from SUNY Binghamton, an MBA from Pace University, and completed the MDP program at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. She is also a certified bungee jumper.

Luke Heywood, Admissions Counselor for Macaulay Honors College, hails from Guyana (South America/Caribbean) and came to the U.S in January 2004 to pursue his undergraduate studies. He received his BA in Psychology from Brooklyn College, graduating from the Scholars Program in 2007 with honors. Prior to joining the Macaulay team, Luke served for three years within CUNY as a college assistant in the admissions office of Brooklyn College, where he gained valuable experience in the area of admissions services and enrollment.

Luke has an interest in International Law, takes pride in being a young entrepreneur in internet-based business, is a musician at his church, collects interesting and motivating quotations, and loves playing volleyball competitively. One of Luke's favorite quotes is by Orison Swett Marden, American author and founder of Success Magazine, who stated that "success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Dr. Ann Kirschner is the University Dean of Macaulay Honors College. She began her career as a lecturer in Victorian literature at Princeton University, where she earned a Ph.D. in English. She is the author of Sala's Gift, the story of her mother's wartime rescue of letters from Nazi labor camps. Her career as an entrepreneur in media and technology included the creation of internet businesses for the National Football League and Columbia University's online education company, Fathom.

A frequent contributor to conferences and publications on higher education and interactive media, Ann Kirschner was named one of New York Magazine's "Millennium New Yorkers" and honored as a distinguished graduate of Princeton University and University of Buffalo. She serves on the Board of Directors of Apollo Group, Open University of Israel, the Princeton University Graduate School Leadership Council, and the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Advisory Council.

She lives in New York with her husband, Dr. Harold Weinberg, and her children Elisabeth, Caroline, and Peter.

Dr. Mike Lamb works closely with Kenan Leadership Scholars and Horace W. Goldsmith Scholars. He aims to develop programming that encourages critical thinking, intellectual camaraderie and the development of cultural capital--ideally in festive settings. Dr. Lamb has presented his research to audiences ranging from geographers to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in such far-flung locales as Rome, Izmir, and Columbia, South Carolina. He has published articles in Urban Affairs Review, Arcade, Nonprofit Quarterly, and other journals. In addition to serving as Macaulay's Graduate Fellowship Advisor, Mike teaches Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College. He lives in Manhattan with his lovely wife Lulu and two cats, Soap and Suds.

Jose Moreno joined Macaulay Honors College at CUNY as Support Technician in February 2008. Jose is from Mexico City, Mexico where he obtained his B.S in Electronics Engineering at National Polytechnic Institute (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, IPN). Prior to CUNY, he worked for five years as Systems Administrator of ETON School where he acquired broad experience managing and implementing networks.

Jose holds Microsoft and CompTia certifications. Jose has a profound interest securing networks. He believes that everything is possible as long as you never give up. He also thinks that family is the most important point that he enjoys spending time with them.

Sarah Stewart hails from Detroit Rock City but made the migration to New York in 2007 after a two-year stint in Hawaii. She is thrilled to be working with student groups towards planning and executing events, in addition to running Macaulay's Cultural Passport program. Sarah enjoys playing kickball, pursuing urban renewal, and anything related to good food. Outside of Macaulay, Sarah is pursuing an M.S. in Environmental Systems Management and spends her weekends watching dogs in Tompkins Square Park.

At the Honors College since 2005, Associate University Dean of Academic Affairs Sylvia Tomasch is also Professor of English at Hunter College, where she chaired the department in 2002-05. A past president of the Medieval Club of New York, Dr. Tomasch served five years on the Executive Committee of the Chaucer Division of the Modern Language Association (Chair, 2005-06), and is in the midst of a five-year term on the Executive Committee of the Comparative Medieval Division (2007-11).

Her scholarly interests include surveillance studies, medieval literature, especially Middle English and Chaucer, historical cartography, medieval antisemitism, and the history of the discipline of Medieval Studies. Recent publications include the articles "Professionalizing Chaucer: John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert, and the Canterbury Tales as Cultural Capital"" and "Editing as Palinode: The Invention of Love and The Text of The Canterbury Tales"; two reprinted articles, "Postcolonial Chaucer and the Virtual Jew" and "Mappae Mundi and 'The Knight's Tale': The Cartography of Power, The Technology of Control"; and two co-edited volumes of essays, Text and Territory: Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages (which also contains two articles by her, "Introduction: Geographical Desire" and "Judecca, Dante's Satan, and the Dis-placed Jew") and The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens.

When she's not spending her summer hiking in Ireland or excavating million-year-old fossils in Spain, Dr. Tomasch is working on a cultural biography of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert and has begun a new project on Surveillance Studies and Medieval Practice.

Joseph Ugoretz, Director of Technology and Learning, earned his masters degree in the Teaching of English at Columbia University Teachers College, and his doctorate at the City University of New York Graduate Center. In addition to his work with Macaulay Honors College, he currently serves as a member of the Consortial Faculty for the CUNY Online Baccalaureate, and teaches in CUNY's graduate program in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.

As a professor of English, Dr. Ugoretz has over a decade of experience incorporating educational technology into his literature and composition classes. He has also been responsible for mentoring fellow faculty members across disciplines. He was a campus coordinator for the Visible Knowledge Project, a five-year project aimed at improving the quality of college and university teaching through a focus on both student learning and faculty development in technology-enhanced environments. Some of his collaborative work from that project is documented in the online gallery "Looking at Learning, Looking Together."

Aside from educational technology, Dr. Ugoretz' research interests include Urban Legends and Internet Lore, Science Fiction, and Oral Performance Art (the subject of his fieldwork with pitchmen at county fairs and carnivals, and of his essay, "Quacks, Yokels, and Light-Fingered Folk: Oral Performance Art at the Fair" in the 2006 collection Americana: Readings in American Popular Culture).