Diane Gibson, Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Executive Director of the New York Census Research Data Center
Angela Pinto, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Both professors are studying the problem of obesity through different disciplinary lenses. Gibson’s research, funded by IRP RIDGE Center for National Food and Nutrition Research, focuses on the economically disadvantaged and considers neighborhoods, food stamp use, and weight-related outcomes. Behavioral psychologist Pinto, whose research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, is evaluating commercial diet programs using scientific methodology.
James Krauskopf, Distinguished Lecturer and Director of the Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management, School of Public Affairs
Last summer Krauskopf joined the 29-member Leadership Committee on Nonprofit Revitalization, convened by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Charged with reducing regulatory burdens on nonprofits and strengthening accountability, the task force will present recommendations by the end of 2011.
Thomas S. Lyons, Lawrence N. Field Family Chair in Entrepreneurship, Department of Management
Lyons received the 2011 Ted K. Bradshaw Outstanding Research Award from the International Community Development Society. The award recognizes his exceptional research contributions to the field of community development.
Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, Valentín Lizana y Parragué Chair in Latin American Studies, Department of Black and Hispanic Studies*
Ramos-Zayas, who joined the faculty in Fall 2011, will take an active role in expanding the Latin American Studies Program. An anthropologist by training, Ramos-Zayas studies issues of citizenship, race, youth, and urban ethnography and the anthropology of affect and emotion.
Jianming (Jimmy) Ye, Chair, Stan Ross Department of Accountancy
Ye became accountancy chair last summer. His top priorities are supporting Zicklin’s relationships with alumni and accounting firms, enhancing Zicklin’s current MS programs in accounting and taxation, and international outreach.
*This new chair is funded by Hedy Feit, an adjunct professor within the Department of Black and Hispanic Studies and a longtime friend of Baruch. She and her late husband, Charles Feit (’48, LHD [Hon.] ’87) endowed the Feit Interdisciplinary Seminars in the Humanities; more recently, she endowed the Paul André Feit Fund and the Myrna Chase Seminars. Hedy Feit chairs the Weissman Dean’s Council.