Getting to know Dr. Martin Moskovitsby Denai Brown.Have you met Dr. Martin Moskovits, the provost and chief academic officer of CCNY since August 1?The provost, considered, the second highest senior administrative officer to President Lisa, is charged with overseeing the academics at City College, and he’s well on his way. In a meeting with faculty last month, he promised to maintain high quality programs both in undergraduate and advanced studies, upgrade the CCNY website, give grants to different departments and focus directly on the needs of students.He’s also excited about the proposed initiative with Stanford. But mainly he plans to make things better for students. “I support 100 percent of President’s Coico’s top three priorities: student success, faculty success and community engagement,” says Moskovits, 68.Here are ten things you should know about our provost.
- He's a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- An inventor, he holds patents to a number of products he created.
- In 2010, Moskowits won the Optical Society of America Ellis R. Lippincott Award for making significant contributions to vibrational spectroscopy.
- Moskovits holds a B.Sc. in Physics and Chemistry in 1965, and a PhD in Chemical Physics in 1971 from the University of Toronto.
- He's the founder of Spectra Fluidics, a startup company dedicated to developing sensors based on microfluidics.
- His Facebook page has 25 friends and he's connected to 81 people on Linked-In.
- You can see him on Youtube explaining Nanotechnology, the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale.
- He was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986.
- On ratemyprofessor.com Moskovits has an overall quality of 3.6, helpfulness 3.7, clarity 3.5, easiness 3.3 out of a total of 5 points. One former student described him as the “best inspiring professor I have had in UCSB. He gave a farewell speech that kept all chem and non chem students thinking. Extremely helpful and tests are hard but chemistry tests are supposed to be hard. I highly recommend this professor. He is also entertaining in lecture.”
- He has written books on cryochemistry, metal clusters and surface-enhanced raman scattering.