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Faith Ringgold to Receive CCNY’s First Cultural Arts Award

Faith Ringgold, the renowned artist, author and quilt maker has been selected to receive The City College of New York’s First Annual Cultural Arts Award. An alumna of City College, she will be honored at a ceremony Thursday, October 6, at CCNY’s Aaron Davis Hall Center for the Performing and Visual Arts.
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CCNY Mambo Legend Wins Top Latin Music Award

Mambo legend Ray Santos, the long-time leader of The City College of New York’s Latin Band, is a co-recipient of The Latin Recording Academy’s 2011 Trustees Award. He’ll be honored November 9 with fellow luminaries Manuel Alejandro and Jesus “Chucho” Ferrer at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas during the Latin GRAMMY® Awards celebration.
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Academics Weigh New Field of Study on ‘Spanish Caribbean’

After close to a year of groundwork, nearly 100 academics representing some 50 institutions from around the world will gather July 25 - 27 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, for an academic conference titled “The Spanish Caribbean: Toward a Field of its Own.” The scholars will discuss the creation of a new field of graduate-level study focused on Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico plus émigré populations who trace their ancestry to these lands.
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New Professional Theatre Company to Debut at CCNY

Harlem is getting a new entertainment option this summer. The New Haarlem Arts Theatre (NHAT), a new professional theatre company launched by The City College of New York Department of Theatre and Speech, will offer two productions in its premiere season.
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Two CCNY AD/PR Students Win One Show Merit Awards

Roberto Clemente, a senior majoring in advertising and public relations at The City College of New York, was named a Merit winner in the One Show College Competition for creativity in advertising. Simeon Coker, a CUNY Baccalaureate student, who was mentored and taught by CCNY advertising faculty, also received a Merit award. The winners were announced at a reception May 11 in New York.
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CCNY Music Professor Jon Pieslak Named Guggenheim Fellow

Dr. Jonathan Pieslak, associate professor of music at The City College of New York, is one of 180 scholars, artists, and scientists from the United States and Canada awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for 2011. His project, a study of the music of indoctrination and propaganda in extremist cultures, was chosen from among nearly 3,000 applicants.
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CCNY Hosts 11th Annual CUNY Jazz Festival, May 12 – 13

The 11th annual CUNY Jazz Festival, a gathering of bands and ensemble from across the CUNY system, takes place May 12-13 in Aaron Davis Hall, Theater B, at The City College of New York. Chris Potter, hailed by “Down Beat” magazine as one of most studied saxophonists on the planet, will be the festival’s guest artist.
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Art Workshop Stretches High School Students’ Creative Skills

Late every Tuesday afternoon, 16 students from nine New York City high schools convene in a studio on the third floor of Shepard Hall on The City College of New York campus. For two hours, they stretch their creative talents as early-career and aspiring art teachers get to practice their pedagogical skills outside the classroom.
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CCNY Professor’s CUNY-TV Series Wins 3 New York Emmys

“Nueva York,” the CUNY-TV Spanish-language cultural series created and produced by CCNY film Professor Jerry Carlson, won three New York Emmy Awards at the 54th annual awards ceremony, April 3. This is the third year in a row the program has been recognized. Since the show’s debut in October 2005 it has won six New York Emmys.
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CCNY History Majors Garner Top PhD Fellowships

The City College of New York history department launched a research colloquium in the spring 2010 semester that would give its top students a “writing sample they can use to apply to graduate school.” A year later, the effort has paid off handsomely as four graduating seniors have been admitted to top PhD programs on full, five-year fellowships.
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CCNY Historian Edits Book on Pakistan

Since its inception 64 years ago, Pakistan’s quest for democracy has been tenuous. In “Pakistan: From the Rhetoric of Democracy to the Rise of Militancy,” edited by Dr. Ravi Kalia, professor of history at The City College of New York, readers get an idea of why.
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