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P O S T E R 5
Researching Film History—From
Theater to Cinema
Michael Maslankowski
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matthew Solomon
Department of Media Culture
My research consisted of using systematic
approaches for gathering information and evidence
pertaining to selected topics in the field of film
history that will be used by Professor Solomon in
preparing a forthcoming book chapter and
<strong>conference</strong> presentation. The first half of my
research consisted of the use of microfilm readers
at the College of Staten Island Library to locate and
copy information found in the microfilmed
periodical, Moving Picture World, that detailed how
both the magic lantern and cinema were deployed
in relation to religion in the 20th century, between
the years of 1907 to 1910. The second phase of my
research focused on the two films, The Man Who
Laughs (1927) based on the French novel by Victor
Marie Hugo and Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
based on the Italian play adopted from Ridi,
Pagliaccio of Fausto Martini. This research was
based out of the New York City Public Library for
Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, where I used
scrapbooks, microfilms, news clippings, and film
archives to gather information from the 1910s and
the 1920s dealing with these films/plays
adaptations. The last phase of this research project
dealt with the French archive database, Gallica. I
used this database system to locate the publication,
L’Orchestre (first published in 1856), and primarily
focused on the 19th century, between the years
1888 to 1891. I copied the publications, detailing
performance information pertaining to the Robert-
Houdin Theatre, during an important transitional
phase in its history to help analyze trends that
occurred over this period of time.
P O S T E R 6
Research Poster Presentations
Synthesis of Curcumin
incorporated copolymers via ATRP
Cristopher Santana
Faculty Mentor-Dr. Krishnaswami Raja
Department of Chemistry
Curcumin based Biomimetic Polyphenols: The
chemical synthesis of therapeutically relevant, welldefined
high molecular weight polyphenols is very
rare. We propose to employ the following general
strategy: synthesizing living polymers in which the
side chain pendant groups and the polymer chain
end possess orthogonal reactivity, followed by the
attachment of a number of water soluble,
biocompatible moieties and appropriately designed
curcumin derivatives to the reactive polymer side
chains. In one embodiment t-butyl acrylate will be
polymerized via Atom Transfer radical
Polymerization using an azide incorporated initiator
1. The polymers with azide chain end will be
deprotected to produce poly(acrylic acid) with a
single azide chain end. The resulting polymer will
be further reacted with varying ratios of monoamine
derivatives of curcumin followed by
commercially available glucose amine (Glu-
NH2)/oligoethyleneglycol-NH2 (OGE-NH2) in two
sequential amidation steps to produce libraries of
polymers with varying loadings of curcumin
(Scheme 1). The glucose/PEG component of the
polymers serves to improve the water solubility of
the polymers.
Scheme 1. Synthesis of poly (acrylic acid) based
water soluble curcumin side-chain polymers with
reactive chain end.gestation births.
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