Biology Faculty

Dennis Aguirre	Assistant Professor	718 482-5748	M221B	deaguirre@lagcc.cuny.edu
Sarah Durand	Associate Professor	718 482-5743	M221C	sdurand@lagcc.cuny.edu
Maria Entezari	Assistant Professor	718 482-6079	M211	tentezarizaher@lagcc.cuny.edu
Hany Fam	Substitute Lecturer	718 482-5078	M220C	hfam@lagcc.cuny.edu
Lucia Fuentes	Assistant Professor	718 482-6084	M220F	lfuentes@lagcc.cuny.edu
Carol Haspel	Professor	718 482-5744	M202	chaspel@lagcc.cuny.edu
Charles Keller	Assistant Professor	718-482 5748	M220D	ckeller@lagcc.cuny.edu
Howard Motoike	Associate Professor	718 482-5322	M216	hmotoike@lagcc.cuny.edu
Thomas Onorato	Assistant Professor	718 482-5763	M207	thomas.onorato@gmail.com
Holly Porter-Morgan	Assistant Professor	718 482-6181	M221D	hporter-morgan@lagcc.cuny.edu
Preethi Radhakrishnan	Assistant Professor	718 482-5746	M213	pradhakrishnan@lagcc.cuny.edu
Randall Saad	Adjunct	718 482-5940	M204	rsaad@lagcc.cuny.edu
Karim Sharif	Assistant Professor	718 482-5964	M212	ksharif@lagcc.cuny.edu
D. Priyantha Wijesinghe	Associate Professor	718 482-5770	M221E	pwijesinghe@lagcc.cuny.edu
Boris Zakharov	Assistant Professor	718 482-6074	M221F	bzakharov@lagcc.cuny.edu

Chemistry Faculty

Ian Alberts	Assistant Professor	718-482-6183	M221G	ialberts@lagcc.cuny.edu
Janet Gonzalez	Assistant Professor	718 349-4082	E200I	jagonzalez@lagcc.cuny.edu
Nalband Hussain	Assistant Professor	718 482-5207	M210	nhussain@lagcc.cuny.edu
Philippe Mercier	Assistant Professor	718 482-5940	M221B	pmercier@lagcc.cuny.edu
Dionne Miller	Assistant Professor	718 482-5741	M214	dmiller@lagcc.cuny.edu
Ivan Rivera-Torres	Assistant Professor	718 482-5202	M217	irivera@lagcc.cuny.edu
Burl Yearwood	Associate Professor/Chairperson	718 482-5755	M202A	byearwood@lagcc.cuny.edu

Physics Faculty

James Frost	Professor	718 349-4046	M208	jamesf@lagcc.cuny.edu
Jaime Nieman	Professor	718 482-5754	M206	niemanja@lagcc.cuny.edu
John Toland	Assistant Professor	718 482-6005	M215	jtoland@lagcc.cuny.edu

Welcome to the Department of Natural Sciences!

Natural Sciences houses Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. Currently, the Department offers Associates in Science (AS) Degrees in Biology and Environmental Science. Faculty are actively involved in research in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics both on and off campus. Students interested in the Natural Sciences are encouraged to conduct research projects under faculty supervision. The Department of Natural Sciences is committed to providing an interactive learning environment that incorporates the lived experience, to providing extracurricular venues that enhance student learning, to integrating a hypothesis-driven research component into the science curriculum, to diversifying the natural sciences by increasing underrepresented minority participation, and to encouraging students to pursue advanced degrees in the Natural Sciences.