Stuyvesant High School

Stuyvesant High School, often nicknamed Stuy by its staff and students, is one of New York City's specialized math- and science-based public high schools. The school was founded in 1904. Admission to Stuyvesant, which is run by the New York City Department of Education, is by competitive examination, and there is no tuition. The school is noted for its many accomplished alumni, its rigorous academics, and for sending the most students to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton of any public school in the United States.

Faculty scholarship

Frank McCourt taught English at Stuyvesant before the publication of his novels Angela's Ashes (ISBN 068484267X) and 'Tis (ISBN 0684865742). Other faculty publications include physics teacher Eugene Majewski's Earthquake Thermodynamics & Phase Transformation in the Earth's Interior (ISBN 0126851859), and chemistry teacher Sasha Alcott's Roadmap to the Regents: Physical Setting/Chemistry (ISBN 0375763082).

Related Topics:
Frank McCourt - English - Angela's Ashes - 'Tis

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Papers written by Stuyvesant faculty include:

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• Reducing Radicals in Nitrate Solution: the NO₃^- System Revisited by Benjamin Dreyfus (physics teacher) et al Pub: American Chemical Society
• Magnetic irreversibly line in I intercalated Bi Gregor Winkel (physics/music teacher) et al Pub: '95 Elsevier Science
• Stimulated Acceleration and Confinement of Deuterons in Focused Discharges M. Esper (physics teacher) et al pub: '88 IEEE
• A Study of Graphic Representations of Thermodynamic Relations Zhen-Chuan Li (Chemistry Teacher) not yet published
• John Avallone (physics teacher) is the holder of US Patent 5919182