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  • Breast Cancer Pioneer Delivers Genetics Lecture March 16 at CCNY

    Dr. Mary-Claire King, American Cancer Society Professor in the Departments of Genome Sciences and Medicine at the University of Washington, will deliver the annual Louis Levine-Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics at The City College of New York (CCNY), 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 16, in The Great Hall.  Her topic will be “Every Unhappy Family is Unhappy in Its Own Way: Genetic Heterogeneity in Human Disease.”  The lecture, which is presented by CCNY Interim President Robert E. Paaswell and The City College Fund, is free and open to the public.

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  • MIT Professor to Deliver Katz Chemical Engineering Lecture March 15

    Dr. Arup Chakraborty, Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the Annual Katz Lecture in Chemical Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY) 2 p.m. Monday, March 15, in the Steinman Hall auditorium.  His topic will be “Understanding Adaptive Immunity: A Crossroad of the Physical, Life, and Engineering Sciences.”

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  • Spring Architecture Lectures Explore Green Design, Breaking Boundaries

    The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York (CCNY) will present the Sciame Spring Lecture Series – 2010, titled “Crossing Boundaries: Explorations and Expressions.”  The series, which presents talks by prominent, award-winning architects, runs eight consecutive Thursdays, February 11 through April 8.  Lectures begin at 6 p.m. and are held in the Spitzer School’s Sciame Auditorium.

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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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  • Powell Center Conference Examines Issues of Inclusion in the Green Economy

    While real job openings in the United States have plummeted 50 percent in two years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the sustainability sector offers one of the few bright spots in the job market.  Nationally, employment in the sector grew by 9.1 percent in the decade ending in 2007, compared with 3.7 percent overall, according to The Pew Charitable Trust.

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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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  • CCNY Student Engineers Discuss Water Projects At U.N.

    Since 2005, the City College chapter of Engineers Without Borders (CCNY-EWB) has been working to bring fresh water to small villages in rural Honduras.  Earlier this month, chapter leaders Svetlana Fisher and Joanna Bonfiglio gave a presentation on their efforts to a panel on water issues held at the United Nations as part of Rotary International Day.  Later that day, CCNY-EWB was feted at a fundraiser cocktail party held by Rotaract at the United Nations, a young professionals division of Rotary.

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  • Symposium Marks 400th Anniversary Of Royal Commentaries Of The Incas

    Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (Cuzco, 1539 – Córdoba, 1616) was the son of a Spanish conquistador and an Incan princess who would become the first great Spanish-American writer and the first historian of the New World born in the Americas.  “The Royal Commentaries,” his history of the Incan Empire and its conquest by Spain, is considered by many scholars to be the most elegant and complete accounting of the rise and fall of this civilization in what is now Peru.

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  • Cell Biologist Susan Lee Lindquist To Deliver Fourth Annual Cosloy-Blank Lecture

    Biologist Susan Lee Lindquist will deliver the Fourth Annual Sharon Cosloy-Edward Blank Lecture at The City College of New York (CCNY) 4 p.m. Thursday, November 19, in Room 95, Shepard Hall.  The title of her talk will be “Engineering Simple Cells to Study Complex Human Diseases.” A reception will follow the lecture in Room 150, Shepard Hall.

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  • Transportation Infrastructure Expert Says Major Projects Lack Economic Scrutiny

    Politicians and policymakers often tout the economic and social benefits of large-scale transportation infrastructure investments, but often the projects they promote are approved without the benefit of thorough economic analysis.  So says Dr. Joseph Berechman, Professor and Chair of Economics at The City College of New York.

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