The Voice

To the Editor:

As a graduate of the recently completed NYSUT Leadership Institute (class of ’07), I would like to express my heartfelt thanks for the wonderful effort NYSUT and Cornell put forth on our behalf. The opportunity gave me and my two fellow UUP leaders the ability to work on and further develop our leadership skills with union activists from all areas and walks of New York state. The lessons learned and network of contacts formed will serve the union well as we take our place with the other 10 years of graduates numbering over 600.

It truly shows NYSUT is a union of professionals who look to give us the tools and knowledge to be better leaders in the union movement. The efforts and continued support of this program by our officers and NYSUT staff is a tribute to this organization putting its money where its mouth is, that being education. Thanks again to my fellow classmates and our instructors for a wonderful, eye-opening experience.

— Charlie McAteer, Stony Brook

To the Editor:

Every so often the claim resurfaces that Dr. Raymond Damadian should have received, or shared, the 2003 Nobel Prize awarded to Dr. Paul Lauterbur (who did his work at Stony Brook) and Dr. Peter Mansfield for their "seminal discoveries ... led to the development of modern magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

In the March 2008 Voice, Dr. Richard Macchia supports Damadian's claim.

As a working NMR/MRI scientist, familiar with the evolution of the theory and practice, I disagree.