Dolphin Awards 2011

Michal Kruk, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry.

You joined the Chemistry faculty at the College of Staten Island in 2005 and you became a part of the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center that same year. You received an MS in Chemistry from the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland and a PhD in Chemistry from Kent State University. Throughout your distinguished career you have been actively involved in research on materials design and synthesis, teaching both undergraduate and graduate students, and providing service to our College and University through your participation in numerous committees. As a researcher, you have published a seminal article on nanoporous carbon, which has been cited almost 700 times, resulting in your recent inclusion in Thomson Reuters’s list of the Top 100 Chemists, 2000-2010. You have also continued to receive external funding from the National Science Foundation, the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, and others, as well as internal CUNY grants. In your role as an instructor, you hold a record of teaching seven different courses at CSI and you have taken on a significant role in promoting undergraduate research in chemistry.

You exemplify CSI’s ideal of an academic and teacher who shines in the field and advances the noble cause of knowledge.