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CCNY’s 38th Annual Spring Poetry Festival to Take Place May 14
The 38th Annual City College Poetry Festival will take place 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, May 14, in Theater B of Aaron Davis Hall at W. 135th Street and Convent Avenue on The City College campus. Dubbed “the Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” the festival is an all-day, all-verse event that has become New York’s longest-running, most established and democratic poetry celebration.
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Professor Ina Saltz’ ‘Body Type’ Sequel Released
“My life is type,” says Ina Saltz, Associate Professor and Director of CCNY’s Electronic Design and Multimedia program. That’s not surprising, given that she has been an art director for some of America’s best-known magazines, including “Time” and “Golf.” Of late, her fascination with type has expanded beyond type on paper or the computer screen to type on skin.
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CCNY-Led Team Wins One Club Creative Boot Camp Competition
A creative group of students from The City College of New York (CCNY) and Brooklyn College teamed to win The One Club’s “Creative Boot Camp” competition in January. The team, Nadine Charles, Sherifa Gayle, and Ricardo Paredes from CCNY, and Chanie Kaminker from Brooklyn College, worked on an advertising campaign for a new laptop developed by Hewlett Packard. They will attend The One Show in May in New York City in honor of their win.
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Exhibit at CCNY Highlights Diversity of U.S. Latino Communities
The United States’ Latino population, 35 million strong according to the 2000 U.S. Census, is a diverse mixture of people bonded by a common language, but with roots in different parts of the Western Hemisphere.
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CCNY’S Center For Worker Education Hosts Two Day Conference On Hip-Hop
“Is Hip-Hop History?,” a two-day conference to examine the current state of the music genre and subculture and its future outlook, will be held February 19 – 20 at The City College of New York (CCNY) Center for Worker Education (CWE). Approximately 200 persons, including hip-hop scholars, performers, entrepreneurs, journalists and activists, are expected to participate in the event, which will address such issues as the over-commercialization of hip-hop, hip-hop media going digital and hip-hop activism.
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CCNY Jazz Maestro John Patitucci Nominated For 4th Grammy
CCNY Professor of Music John Patitucci, a three-time Grammy winner, received a 2009 nomination in the Best Jazz Instrumental Album category for his 13th album, “Remembrance.” The winners will be announced at the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards, January 31, 2010, in Los Angeles.
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Teens' Mural Brings Pride Beauty to Harlem Neighborhood
Over a seven-week period last summer, a small group of local teens transformed a nondescript Chinese food takeout shop in Central Harlem into a source of pride and beauty for their community. The effort, which resulted in an 8’ x 15’ mural with Chinese motifs painted on the storefront, was a pilot project for the Harlem Youth Project, a City College of New York (CCNY) initiative supported by UNICEF to create a child and youth-friendly neighborhood.
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CCNY Philosopher Sees 'Great Awakening' in Middle East
Western media often portray Middle Eastern societies as rigid and resistant to change. However, Dr. Lou Marinoff, CCNY Professor and Chair of Philosophy sees a “great awakening” taking place in that part of the world.
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CCNY Plans Public Art Exhibit in St. Nicholas Park
As a predecessor to the creation of a public art exhibit in St. Nicholas Park next spring, The City College of New York (CCNY) hosts a reception and panel discussion on public art and its impact on New York City 4 – 8 p.m. Tuesday, December 1.
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CCNY, One Club Film Event December 1 To Promote Diversity In Advertising
The advertising profession is challenged to achieve a level of diversity that reflects the demographics of New York. The City College of New York (CCNY) Media & Communication Arts Department and The One Club are teaming to hold a special event that looks to address this, especially on the creative side.
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Professor Birman To Receive Sakharov Prize For Human Rights
For about 35 years, Dr. Joseph L. Birman, ’47, Distinguished Professor of Physics at The City College of New York (CCNY) has advocated for the rights of repressed scientists, first in the former Soviet Union and later in China, Cuba, Iraq, Iran and the United States. Now he is to be honored for “his tireless and effective personal leadership in defense of human rights of scientists throughout the world” as one of three recipients of the American Physical Society’s (APS) Andrei Sakharov Prize for 2010.
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U.S. Debut Set for Professor Krakowski’s “Looking for Palladin”
Professor Andrzej Krakowski’s feature film, “Looking for Palladin,” will make its U.S. theatrical debut October 30, when it begins a two-week exclusive East Coast engagement at New York’s Cinema Village, located at 22 E. 12th Street in Manhattan. One week later, it will open at Leammle’s Music Hall Cinema in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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HIP-HOP Theatre Pioneer Will Power Brings His Vision To CCNY As Kaye Artist In Residence
Theatre with a heavy dose of hip-hop is in store for City College undergraduates this fall when Will Power, an award-winning playwright and singer, actor, and dancer brings his multiple talents to CCNY as the Kaye Artist in Residence.
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DORIS CINTRON Named Acting Dean Of CCNY School Of Education
NEW YORK, July 10, 2009 – Dr. Doris Cintron has been appointed Acting Dean of City College’s School of Education. She will hold that position, which she assumed June 1, while the College conducts a search for a permanent successor to Dr. Alfred Posamentier, who has retired. Dean Cintron had been Assistant Dean of Education since 1998.
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CCNY M.F.A. Grad Jeremy Joffee Wins Silver Medal In 36TH Annual Student Academy Awards
NEW YORK, June 18, 2009 – Jeremy Joffee, a 2008 graduate of the M.F.A. program in Media Arts Production at The City College of New York (CCNY), received the Silver Medal in the 36th Annual Student Academy Awards for his thesis film “The Bronx Balletomane.” The award was announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences at a ceremony Saturday, June 13, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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CCNY Alumni Honor Joyce Conoly-Simmons, Joan Newman
Joyce Conoly-Simmons, Academic Support and Supplemental Instruction Coordinator for CCNY’s SEEK Program received the 2009 Faculty Service Award from the CCNY Alumni Association at the Association’s 157th Annual Meeting, Thursday, June 11. In addition, the Association presented its new Administrative Service Award to Joan Newman, Deputy to the Dean of the School of Education.
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CCNY Education Professors Catherine Franklin And Amita Gupta Named Fulbright Scholars
NEW YORK, June 11, 2009 – Amita Gupta and Catherine Franklin, members of faculty of the City College of New York (CCNY) School of Education, have received 2009-2010 Fulbright Scholar grants for research and teaching abroad.
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CCNY Studio Art Graduate Kyle Meyer Named 2009 Hays-Brandeis Fellow
NEW YORK, June 1, 2009 -- Kyle Meyer, a recent graduate of The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Art Program, is a 2009 winner of the Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship. He plans to use the Fellowship, which carries a $19,000 stipend, to travel to Swaziland this fall to document communities affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic there.
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CCNY Grad Students Ilan McKenna And Sara Roffino Win Fulbright Teaching Assistantships
NEW YORK, May 18, 2009 – Ilan McKenna and Sara Roffino, graduate students in The City College of New York’s (CCNY) School of Education, have received 2009-2010 Fulbright Program English Teaching Assistantships (ETA).
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CCNY’s 37th Annual Spring Poetry Festival – The Woodstock Of The Spoken Word – To Take Place MAY 15
NEW YORK, April 9, 2009 – The 37th Annual City College Spring 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. Friday, May 15, in Theater B of Aaron Davis Hall, on the campus of The City College of New York (CCNY) at 135th St. and Convent Avenue. This year’s featured guest poet is the award-winning Stanley Moss.
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