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  • TEN LEONARD AND SOPHIE DAVIS SCHOLARSHIPS, WITH $20,000 STIPENDS, AWARDED TO STUDENTS IN CCNY’S SOPHIE DAVIS SCHOOL

    NEW YORK, December 19, 2006 – Ten fourth-year students in the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at The City College of New York have won $20,000 Sophie and Leonard Davis Scholarships for their last two years at Sophie Davis and their two clinical years at cooperating medical schools.

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  • CCNY ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR LANCE BROWN AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS TOPAZ MEDALLION

    NEW YORK, December 18, 2006 – Lance Jay Brown, a noted urban planner and ACSA Distinguished Professor in The City College of New York’s (CCNY) School of Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture (SAUDLA) has won the 2007 Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education.  

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  • THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK APPOINTS DR. RANDALL C. FORSBERG FIRST HOLDER OF ANNE AND BERNARD SPITZER CHAIR IN POLITICAL SCIENCE

    NEW YORK, December 7, 2006 – Dr. Randall C. Forsberg, an internationally recognized authority on arms control and security issues, has been appointed the first holder of the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair in Political Science at The City College of New York (CCNY).

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  • GIFT TO EXPAND EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED THROUGH COLIN POWELL CENTER AT CCNY

    NEW YORK, December 5, 2006 – As a Colin Powell Leadership Fellow with the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies at The City College of New York (CCNY), Trevor Houser, ’06, developed Internet-based tools to help decision-makers involved in U.S.-China relations build and identify consensus among stakeholders in both the public and private sector.  Another Fellow, Brad Walrond, ’06, served as a research assistant for a United Nations public opinion survey on peacekeeping in Burundi, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

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  • $10 MILLION GRANT FROM NEW YORK LIFE TO SUPPORT EXPANSION OF COLIN POWELL CENTER FOR POLICY STUDIES AT CCNY

    NEW YORK, December 5, 2006 — Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA (ret.) and President Gregory H. Williams of The City College of New York (CCNY) announced today that the New York Life Foundation is giving $10 million to establish The New York Life Endowment for Emerging African-American Issues at the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies.  The gift, the largest to date to the Powell Center, will provide permanent funding for scholarships and programming at this unique think tank that engages CCNY students in all aspects of its activities.

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  • SOPHIE DAVIS SCHOOL AT CCNY APPOINTS VACCINE PIONEER JOHN ROBBINS, M.D., HONORARY PROFESSOR

    NEW YORK, November 30, 2006 -- Dr. John B. Robbins, M.D., whose groundbreaking research in developing vaccines for childhood diseases has saved millions of lives around the world, is joining the faculty of The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at The City College of New York (CCNY) as an Honorary Professor.

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  • CCNY JEWISH STUDIES CLASS TO VISIT DOMINICAN VILLAGE THAT PROVIDED REFUGE TO EUROPEAN JEWS DURING WORLD WAR II

    NEW YORK, November 13, 2006 - During World War II, Sosua, a village on the north coast of the Dominican Republic, became home to approximately 800 Jews who fled the Nazis and settled there at the invitation of President Rafael Trujillo.  This week, a Jewish Studies class at The City College of New York (CCNY) will travel to Sosua and Santo Domingo to learn about this historic community and the Dominican Republic’s Jewish heritage.

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  • CCNY GRAD OCTAVIO WARNOCK-GRAHAM, MFA ’06, TAKES TOP DOCUMENTARY PRIZE IN ANGELUS STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL

    NEW YORK, November 13, 2006 -- “Silences,” City College graduate Octavio Warnock-Graham’s poignant M.F.A. thesis film about the search for his African-American father, won the Outstanding Documentary Award at the prestigious 2006 Angelus Student Film Festival in Los Angeles.

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  • CCNY HOSTS TWO EUROPEAN FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS

    NEW YORK, November 13, 2006 – The City College of New York (CCNY) is hosting two 2006-2007 Visiting Fulbright Scholars, Dr. Justo J. López Sarrión, a Spanish physicist, and Dr. Alexander Alexandrovich Mikhalev, a Russian mathematician.  Both are at CCNY to conduct fundamental scientific research.

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  • CCNY NAMES JACQUALYN MEADOW ATHLETIC DIRECTOR 

    NEW YORK, October 27, 2006 – Jacqualyn Meadow, who has five regional coach-of-the-year honors in women’s basketball to her credit, has been named Athletic Director for The City College of New York (CCNY).  She succeeds Robert Coleman, who left to become Director of Athletics at Whittier College in Whittier, Calif. 

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