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  • Security Expert Sees Cyber Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

    A cyber attack earlier this year on an Iranian nuclear facility may have set back Iran’s alleged plan to build an atom bomb.  However, the target of that incident, the plant’s control and monitoring systems, has implications for a wide range of strategic infrastructure, according to cyber security expert Dr. Tarek Saadawi, director, Center for Information Networking, and professor of electrical engineering in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York.

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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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  • Geoffrey Canada to Address CCNY’S 165th Commencement June 3

    Geoffrey Canada, the founder and chief executive officer of Harlem Children’s Zone and a nationally recognized education reform advocate, will be the guest speaker at The City College of New York’s 165th Commencement Exercises, 10 a.m., Friday, June 3 on the CCNY campus. 

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  • Michio Kaku to Deliver Samuel Rudin Lecture May 16

    Dr. Michio Kaku, Henry Semat Chair and Professor of Theoretical Physics at The City College of New York, has been in great demand around the country to speak on his best-selling book, “Physics of the Future.”  He will have home court advantage, however, when he presents the Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholars Lecture 5:30 p.m. Monday, May 16 in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall on the CCNY campus, 160 Convent Avenue, New York.  The event is free and open to the public.

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  • CCNY Libraries Hosts Cherry Blossom Film Festival

    The City College of New York Libraries celebrate Japanese culture by hosting a Cherry Blossom Film Festival April 28 – May 5 in the Cohen Library Archives Reading Room on the fifth floor of the North Academic Center.  During the festival, four noted Japanese films with socio-cultural themes from CCNY’s collection will be screened in their entirety or partially.  Four East Asia scholars from CCNY, Baruch College and Yale University will host and/or discuss the films, as well.

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  • NOAA Administrator to Visit CCNY for NOAA-CREST Day

    Dr. Jane Lubchenco, under secretary of commerce and administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will visit The City College of New York Friday, April 15, to participate in the ninth annual NOAA-CREST Day.  While here, she will also meet with CCNY President Lisa Staiano-Coico, CUNY Vice Chancellor for Research Gillian Small and NOAA-CREST Director Reza Khanbilvardi.

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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 Hosts “Einsteins” International Student Research Conference

    The City College of New York will host “Einsteins in the City 2011,” an international conference of top student researchers, April 13 through 15, in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall, 160 Convent Ave., New York. The theme for the event, “Transcending Boundaries; Communicating Across Disciplines,” promotes interdisciplinary cooperation in research and the cross-cultural exchange of ideas.

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  • CCNY Sociology Symposia to Focus on Race

    Two symposia presented by The City College of New York Department of Sociology, April 8 and April 15, will examine sociological and scientific perspectives on race. 

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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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  • James Evans to Deliver Levine – de Beer Genetics Lecture April 5

    Dr. James Evans, Bryson Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Medicine at the University of North Carolina, will deliver the Louis Levine–Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics at The City College of New York 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 5.

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