School of Sciences

Dr. Arthur Yanushka  (home page)

Title: Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Office:  CW 300
Phone:  321-3454
e-mail:  yanushka@cbu.edu

Length of service at CBU: Dr. Yanushka has been at CBU since 1977.

Courses taught: Dr. Yanushka has taught most of the mathematics and most of the computer science courses offered at CBU at one time or another. This fall (2009), Dr. Yanushka is teaching: CS 171 Introduction to Programming and Algorithms; CS 481 Senior Project I; Math 117 Precalculus; Math 131 Calculus I, and Math 132 Calculus II. 

Formal Education: Dr. Yanushka attended Regis High School, "an endowed school for boys conducted by the Jesuits." It charges no tuition. It is located in the Silk Stocking district of Manhattan, on 84 St. between Park and Madison Avenues, three blocks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He attended Fordham University, another Jesuit school, in the Bronx, another borough of New York City, across the street from the Bronx Zoo and the Bronx Botanical Garden. He did his graduate work at the University of Illinois in Champaign Urbana where he earned his Ph.D. in mathematics in four years.

Professional Interests: Dr. Yanushka spent two years as a post doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and one year as a temporary faculty member at Kansas State University in Manhattan (Kansas). During the 1980s Dr. Yanushka started the computer science program at CBU. In 1986 he used his sabbatical to earn a master's degree in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in Suffolk county, about 90 miles from New York City. Recently, he served on the ad hoc committee to reform general education and on the Curriculum Committee which is working to implement the reforms.