BRIAN SCHWARTZ, Ph.D. BOARD CHAIR

Brian Schwartz is a Professor of Physics at Brooklyn College and Director of the Science & the Arts Program and co-director of the New Media Lab at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). His research is in materials sciences, networks, transportation simulation, financial engineering, science education using sports and the communication of science to the public. He has edited 9 books and published more than 125 articles in refereed journals. In 2009 he won the American Institute of Physics Andrew Gemant Award for “ingenious creativity in engaging the public with the history and cultural aspects of physics and for inventing ways to celebrate physics through such varied vehicles as plays, musicals, exhibitions, street fairs, cabaret, posters, and operas.” He was Co-principal Investigator of a $6-million-dollar NSF grant titled Minority Access/ Networking in Science Technology Engineering and Math.