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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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3 CCNY Students Receive Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship
City College of New York students Jose Esteban Rodriguez Alverio, Elizabeth Kelman and Nicholas Macaluso have received Jeannette K. Watson Fellowships for 2011. They are among 15 undergraduate recipients from 12 New York City colleges and universities.
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CCNY and Young & Rubicam Celebrate Diversity Partnership
The City College of New York is proud to celebrate its long and productive partnership with Young & Rubicam (Y&R) by honoring the global marketing communications company at a reception. The event, Tuesday, April 12, at City College, recognizes Y&R’s outstanding commitment to CCNY’s talented communications studies students.
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CCNY Historian Documents Life in Wartime Sarajevo
Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was subjected to a brutal four-year siege in the 1990s as Serbia tried to annex the newly formed state. It wasn’t the first time the city felt the brunt of war. A new book by Dr. Emily Greble, assistant professor of history at The City College of New York, explores how 50 years earlier its multiethnic communities tried to cope with occupation during World War II.
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Guggenheim Salutes David Del Tredici, March 27-28
David Del Tredici, one of America’s most honored living composers and a distinguished professor of music at The City College of New York, will be saluted by the Guggenheim Museum with two nights of performances of his compositions, March 27 and 28. “Celebrating David Del Tredici – With New Choreography by Lynne Taylor-Corbett” begins at 7:30 p.m. both nights in the Guggenheim’s Peter B. Lewis Theater, 1071 Fifth Ave., New York.
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Music Professor’s Album Honors Jazz Trumpet Legend
Suzanne Pittson, assistant professor of jazz vocal studies at The City College of New York, is a longtime fan of Freddie Hubbard, the late jazz trumpeter. She considers him a mentor, even though she did not meet him until a few months before his death in 2008.
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39th Annual CCNY Poetry Festival to Take Place May 17
The 39th annual City College Poetry Festival, an all-day, all-verse event that has become New York’s longest-running, most established and democratic poetry celebration, will take place 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 17, in Theater B of Aaron Davis Hall on The City College of New York campus at 135th St. and Convent Avenue.
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