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Travel Grants Send Spitzer Students to Far Corners of Globe
How did the spice trade influence architecture on two continents? That question led Lori Beppu, a graduate architect student in The City College of New York’s Spitzer School of Architecture, to travel to Sri Lanka and the Netherlands last year to search for answers, supported by a $5,000 travel fellowship from the Spitzer School.
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Painting of Coach Nat Holman Unveiled Saturday at CCNY
New York, NY – February 1, 2013 – The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) are celebrating 75 years of March Madness by commissioning one-of-a-kind paintings celebrating each of the national championship coaches who led their teams into history.
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Oscar-Nominated Film Highlights CCNY Black History Month Events
A February 21 screening of “Beast of the Southern Wild,” which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, highlights The City College of New York’s celebration of Black History Month 2013. The rich array of cultural events includes nine other film screenings plus concerts, events, lectures, plays and talks.
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Novel Energy Idea Wins CCNY Team Entry Into Elite Competition
A simple, inexpensive idea to convert wood waste in India into renewable energy in the form of electricity and charcoal has won a team of City College of New York undergraduates the top prize in a CUNY-wide entrepreneurship competition and an opportunity to go up against teams from 20 top-tier graduate business schools in a national competition.
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Interdisciplinary Collaboration Turns Climate Data into Art
Scientific research produces reams of data that the average person has little contact with and less hope of interpreting. Members of The City College of New York art and music departments have collaborated with a colleague and prominent climate change researcher on an innovative project that uses their creative talents to make his findings more accessible and compelling.
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Former UN Chief Kofi Annan to Speak at CCNY February 8
Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whose leadership of the world body earned him the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, will deliver an address at The City College of New York 10 a.m. Friday, February 8. His talk will cover the challenges he faced as secretary-general and the future of the United Nations. It coincides with the launch of his published official papers, which are held at City College.
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Conference at CCNY to Explore ‘Waterproofing New York’
After experiencing two destructive tropical storms in as many years, New York City finds itself forced to adapt to the reality of catastrophic weather events resulting from climate change. However, it cannot rely on simple fixes. Rather, it needs to create new urban landscapes with the capacity to negotiate social, cultural, and environmental forces, argues Denise Hoffman-Brandt, associate professor of landscape architecture in City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture.
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CCNY Receives $1 Million for Renovations to Aaron Davis Hall
The City College of New York announced today that it has received $1 million in capital funding from the New York City Council for renovations to Aaron Davis Hall. Councilmember Robert Jackson, who secured the funding, presented a check for that amount today to CCNY President Lisa S. Coico at a ceremony held in the facility.
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CCNY STEM Majors Scoop Up Record Five Wins at National Conference
City College of New York science students brought home a record five wins for research poster presentations at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) last semester in San Jose, California.
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Can Voting, Trusting Others Reduce Traffic Fatalities?
Do you live or drive in a state where people don’t vote, get involved in community organizations or trust their neighbors? If so, your chances of being fatally injured in a highway collision may be 50 percent greater, according to research by Dr. Matthew Nagler, associate professor of economics at The City College of New York.
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CCNY Afterschool Literacy Program Boosts Reading, Writing Skills
Thirteen-year-old Maxwell Drumgold enjoys reading about robotics, how video games are made and the evolution of animals. And he thanks The City College of New York School of Education’s Afterschool Literacy Enrichment Program for nurturing his reading skills.
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