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CCNY Administrator, Lecturer Tracks Hip-Hop/Fashion Ties
Hip-hop, a culture and music genre with roots in New York City’s black and Latino communities, has influenced everything from language to politics to dance to fashion. Not surprisingly, a hip-hop pedagogy is emerging in academia, as evidenced by a hip-hop think tank at New York University and the establishment of hip-hop archives at Harvard and Cornell.
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Achva Stein Designs Courtyard for Metropolitan Museum of Art
Google “Morocco Courtyards and Gardens” and an eponymous book by Achva Stein, professor of landscape architecture in CCNY’s Spitzer’s School of Architecture, appears at the top of the list. Recently, Professor Stein had an opportunity to put her scholarship to work designing the Moroccan Courtyard for a new gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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CCNY Biologist Helps Inaugurate New Era of Family-Friendly STEM Policies
A few years ago, Ana Carnaval was a postdoctoral researcher with one baby in her arms and another on the way. Dr. Carnaval, now an assistant professor of biology at The City College of New York, considers herself lucky. But many other young female scientists abandon promising research careers. That may soon be changing. The National Science Foundation and early career scientists joined First Lady Michelle Obama to launch NSF’s Career-Life Balance Initiative, a new era of family-friendly policies in STEM fields.
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Interdisciplinary Climate Change Seminar Series Begins November 28
A new City College of New York seminar series takes an interdisciplinary look at climate change. The first event, 12:30 p.m. Monday, November 28, pairs Dr. Marco Tedesco, CCNY assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, and Andrea Polli, associate professor in fine arts and engineering at University of New Mexico. They will present their talk, “Digital Culture and Climate Change at the Poles,” in Room MR1 in the Marshak Science Center.
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CCNY Art Lecturer Runs Marathon in Less Than Three Hours
When she ran in the New York City Marathon three years ago, Megan Foster suffered stress fractures in her shins, forcing her to miss the next two years. This year, she adopted a new training regimen, and she completed the 26.2-mile course in just under three hours, a personal best.
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Duqu Virus Precursor of More Attacks, Cyber Security Expert Warns
Although so far the Duqu seems to have affected only a small number of cyber systems, it likely is a precursor to imminent more harmful attacks, warns cyber security expert Dr. Tarek Saadawi, professor of electrical engineering at The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering.
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CCNY Studio Designs for Midwest City’s Rebirth
Flint, Mich., the General Motors factory town that was the subject of “Roger and Me,” a controversial 1989 documentary by native son Michael Moore about factory closings there, is considered by many a “poster child” for aging Rust Belt cities. It’s an unfair assessment, asserts Denise Hoffman Brandt, professor of landscape architecture in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York.
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CCNY Film Professor Pens Two Books While on Sabbatical
Andrzej Krakowski, City College professor of film and video, apparently spent little of his 2010-2011 sabbatical playing golf or lying on the beach. The Hollywood screenwriter, producer and director has two books coming out next month, including one written in his native Polish that is being made into a movie and stage play.
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Extreme Melting on Greenland Ice Sheet, Reports CCNY Team
The Greenland ice sheet can experience extreme melting even when temperatures don’t hit record highs, according to a new analysis by Dr. Marco Tedesco, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at The City College of New York. His findings suggest that glaciers could undergo a self-amplifying cycle of melting and warming that would be difficult to halt.
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CCNY-led Research Could Lead to Wearable Sensors for the Blind
Wearable sensors that allow blind people to “see” with their hands, bodies or faces could be on the horizon, thanks to a $2 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to researchers at The City College of New York and Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).
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CCNY’s Solar Roof Pod Showcases Innovative Technology
A unique structure in the urban landscape has arisen on a plaza of The City College of New York campus over the past few months. Designed and built by CCNY students, faculty and team sponsors, it is meant to be installed on the roofs of commercial and residential buildings in high-density urban centers. Dubbed the Solar Roof Pod, it showcases cutting-edge green technology inside and out, including a novel heating and cooling system with more than twice the energy efficiency of conventional units.
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