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Selected Projects
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Cambridge, England, UK Directors: Sir Michael Atiyah, PRS; H.K. Moffatt, FRS
The Foundation extended U.S. participation in the
establishment, in 1992, of Great Britain's first national research
institute for the mathematical sciences. Rosenbaum Visiting
Fellowships, offered (1992 - 2000) on a competitive basis to American
post-doctoral scholars, enabled substantial U.S.
scholarly participation in all Newton Institute
programs. Work in topics such as Low-Dimensional
Topology and Quantum Field Theory; Dynamo Theory;
Epidemic Models; Biomolecular Function and Evolution in
the Context of the Genome Project; etc . rapidly advanced the
Newton Institute to its present world leadership
status.
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey Directors: F. Browder, I.M.
Gelfand, J. Lepowsky
I.M. Gelfand is the recipient of the Kyoto Prize, Wolf
Prize, MacArthur "Genius" Award and the Wigner Gold Medal. He
is one of the twentieth century's greatest
mathematicians with honorary degrees from Universities
of Paris, Oxford and Harvard among others. has written
hundreds of research papers and dozens of books. The
Foundation has supported Gelfand's classic work in
mathematics, and his pioneering work in molecular
biology, since his immigration to the U.S. An additional
Distinguished Visitors grant component produced
spectacular collaborative research across several
fields. A separate Mathematics Education grant component has supported the Gelfand
Outreach Program for Mathematics and continuing
development of its high school level mathematics
materials.
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The Paul and Gabriella Rosenbaum Garden
Designer: Robert Slater, Chicago
Park District
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Design, installation and
upkeep of the 50,000 square foot perennial garden
which has received numerous awards. The Garden was
dedicated as: "A gift to the City of Chicago
on behalf of all the survivors to whom she has
given shelter, from one family of survivors on the
50th anniversary of their safe arrival in the
United States on October 2, 1939." October 2,
1989 was declared Paul and Gabriella Rosenbaum
Garden Day in Chicago.
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University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Directors: Robert A. Fefferman; Izaak Wirszup
For Chicago Public Schools' high school
teachers: a model training program was developed to
improve teachers' range of understanding of mathematics.
It is based on Singapore's textbooks in combination with
Gelfand's Algebra
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University of Illinois at Chicago:
in Mathematics Education
Director: Yoram Sagher
Working with elementary and high school
teachers: model teacher training programs for the
Chicago Public Schools, best described as Teaching To
Mastery, are based on Singapore's rich mathematics
curriculum. This model, which improves teachers'
mathematical proficiency and strengthens their
pedagogical skills, has already been extended to schools
in other states.
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University of Illinois at Chicago:
in Health Education
Susan R. Levy, Director: Center for Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention Research
Building Your Life, an abstinence-based
university outreach program in health education, was
implemented in 10% of Chicago public elementary schools,
assisting these inner city schools in fulfilling the
State of Illinois mandate for sexuality and HIV/AIDS
education. Fully funded by the Foundation, the program
focuses on health, preventive care, and sexuality
education. The program is in every 5th through 8th grade
classroom weekly, in each school. The program's master's
level health professionals receive continuing University
training and oversight, and carry out its built-in
assessment component
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Richard J. Daley College
A City of Chicago Community College: Director: Vali
Siadat
Keystone To
Learning, a novel project in developmental mathematics
(remedial algebra), was given the Best Instructional
Program of 1999 Award by the National Council of
Instructional Administrators. The Foundation also
supported installation by mathematics departments of
versions of this program at: University of Alabama,
Tuscaloosa DePaul
University
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The State University of New
York at Stony Brook
Michio Kuga (1928-1990);
Chih-Han Sah (1934-1997); Santiago
Simanca
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Investigations, the grant's research
component, included international collaboration
in math-physics interaction; classical
number theory; algebraic geometry; group theory;
and in partial differential equations.
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Director: John W.
Milnor
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A separate research grant to SUNY, Stony
Brook's Institute for Mathematical
Sciences facilitates the Institute's work,
which lies mostly in dynamical systems.
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Santiago Simanca;
Chih-Han Sah (1934-1997)
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The education component of this grant
partnered with the Foundation-supported, high
school level, Gelfand Outreach Program in
Mathematics (Rutgers). As part of that program's
Puerto Rico partnership, S. Simanca translated
all program texts into Spanish.
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Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Berkeley, California
Directors: Irving Kaplansky; William P. Thurston;
David Eisenbud
MSRI draws together eminent
groups of U.S. and foreign mathematicians and scientists
for intensive concentration in "hot" areas. The
Foundation's Targets of Opportunity grant is
structured as discretionary funds, allowing for
immediate follow-up to interesting new developments.
Workshops over the years have included On Mirror
Symmetry; Magic, Mathematics and Coincidence;
Mathematics of Computation; Combinatorial Game Theory.
The grant also covered experimental programs such as
Journalists-In-Residence and Mathematics and the
Media.
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The Academy of Natural Sciences: Patrick Center for Environmental
Research
Philadelphia, PA. Director: David D. Hart
Environmental science is now
considered important, but is still incompletely
understood. Even basic data is often unavailable or
incomplete. Patrick Center projects carried out by
Rosenbaum Fellows included:
Assessing ecological benefits of streamside
reforestation in an urbanizing watershed; Interpretation
of long-term ecological change in southeastern rivers;
Pilot monitoring project on the industrialized portion
of the Schuykill River; Mathematical modeling of
turbulent transport of particles in aquatic systems; An
analysis of large-scale regional variation in
diatom-water chemistry relationships in rivers of the
eastern USA.
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Inter American
University of Puerto Rico's Center for Environmental
Studies (CECIA)
Director: Graciela Ramirez-Toro, Ph.D.
The Foundation has been
working with CECIA since its inception. The
mathematics education component trains K-12
teachers, both to improve their own math skills, and to
give them math materials to take into the classroom.
This program is a CECIA partnership with the
Foundation-supported, high school level, Gelfand
Outreach Program in Mathematics (Rutgers; and SUNY,
Stony Brook) projects. In addition to providing
teacher training to CECIA, the SUNY project translated
all program texts into Spanish, the classroom language
in Puerto Rico. Training in developmental mathematics
for middle and high school teachers has recently been
added, including a pilot distance learning project.
There are also yearly math and science camps for middle
and high school students. CECIA grant research
component includes: A long-term project to
restore water quality and the natural hydroperiod at
Laguna Cartagena National Wildlife Refuge intended to
improve habitat for native and migratory aquatic and
land birds. A reforestation pilot project to restore
of Puerto Rico's native subtropical dry forest species.
A study of escalating hillside development effects
on mangrove and seagrass systems in La Parguera, Puerto
Rico. Research into detecting and
removing drinking water contaminants.
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Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Directors: Wesley O. Pipes;
Jacqueline Oler.
Projects in drinking water
safety. Evaluation of EPA standards with regard to
microbiological contamination. Research in preventing
waterborne disease in Puerto Rico's unmonitored water
systems.
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Spertus Institute
for Jewish Studies Paul and Gabriella Rosenbaum
ARTiFACT Center
Director: Howard Sulkin
A permanent addition to the Spertus
Museum. Designed for children, the Center's hands-on
exhibits and activities teach children about archeology
and the history of the ancient Middle East. Hundreds of
schools have made class visits part of their school
curriculum. The visits are so popular that groups must
reserve their time months in
advance.
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