On Board Adam Stone (Enrollment Management) was announced as John Jays new Registrar on June 12, succeeding Cheuk

Lee, who had held the position on an interim basis. Stone, who has more than 25 years of experience in higher education, including 10 as a registrar, comes to John Jay from City College, where he helped implement a number of systems that will be coming to John Jay, most notably PeopleSoft, which is the basis of CUNYFirst. Vivian Todini (Marketing and Development) has been named as John Jays Executive Director of Communications and Marketing. A veteran communications strategist with strong management skills, Todini had been Executive Director of Institutional Advancement at the CUNY School of Law, where she managed the communications, development and government relations functions. She has been the principal of her own consulting firm, VT Consulting, and was the Communications Director for NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund for seven years.

The Printed Page The J Journal New Writing on Justice, the Colleges literary journal, has won a 2013 Pushcart Prize for Fiction for "The Fall of Punicea," a short story by Paul Stapleton that was published in the journal's Spring 2011 issue. With this recognition, along with two Special Mentions in the 2011 Pushcart Anthology, The J Journal joins the ranks of the best literary journals in the United States. "With 10 issues now under our belts, we are starting to set the foundation for an enduring contribution to the literature of justice," said journal co-editors Adam Berlin and Jeffrey Heiman (English). Angelique Corthals (Sciences) has published an article in the open-source journal PLoS ONE, "Detecting the Immune System Response of a 500 Year-old Inca Mummy," in which she reports on the first-ever use of proteomics to detect immune system response from a frozen Incan mummy. Corthals, a forensic anthropologist, worked with colleagues from Stony Brook University in using proteomics, a method that decodes proteins rather than DNA, to profile immune system response from degraded samples taken from 500 year-old mummies. The study, published July 25, found that the Incan mummy suffered from a bacterial lung infection at the time of its death. Scott Atran (Sociology/Center on Terrorism) has co-authored an article, Religious and Sacred Imperatives in Human Conflict, that appeared in the May 18 issue of Science. Atran, a Presidential Scholar in Sociology, noted that while sacred values sustain intractable conflicts like those between the Israelis and the Palestinians that defy rational, business-like negotiation they also provide surprising opportunities for resolution." The article was written with Jeremy Ginges of the New School for Social Research. Eugene ODonnell (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) had his op-ed article Son of a City published in the New York Post on July 28. The commentary examines recent shootings and homicide rates in New York and Chicago.

Grantsmanship David Kennedy (Criminal Justice) recently announced a two-year, $750,000 grant to the National Network for Safe Communities from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance to sustain and expand two highly successful crime-reduction strategies the group-violence reduction strategy and the drug-market intervention strategy. The NNSC is a project of the Colleges Center on Crime Prevention and Control, led by Kennedy, and is co-chaired by Kennedy and President Jeremy Travis.

Recognition Rosemarie Maldonado (Assistant Vice President/Counsel) has been appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the New York City Panel for Educational Policy, the 13-member board that sets policy for the New York City Department of Education. While serving on the board, Maldonado will remain in her current role at the College. Prior to joining John Jay in 2004, Maldonado was Chief Administrative Law Judge for the New York City Human Rights Commission. Jeremy Travis (President) won the 2012 Maud Booth Correctional Services Award presented by the Volunteers of America, a philanthropic human services organization. The award, presented in Denver, CO, on July 23, honors leaders in the correctional field whose work shows compassion and belief in the human potential of offenders and ex-offenders. .000