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  • NYU Professor Emeritus Martin Pope to Deliver CUNY-CAT Distinguished Lecture February 16 at CCNY

    NEW YORK, February 6, 2006 – Dr. Martin Pope, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at New York University and former Director of NYU’s Radiation and Solid State Laboratory, will deliver the second lecture in a Distinguished Lecturer Series on Advances in Photonics at The City College of New York (CCNY) 3 p.m. Tuesday, February 16.  Dr. Pope, who graduated from CCNY in 1939, is celebrating his 50th year at NYU.

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  • CCNY OPENS LILLIAN AND HAROLD HOFFMAN STUDENT CENTER

    NEW YORK, January 31, 2006 – The City College of New York (CCNY) today opened the Lillian and Harold Hoffman Student Center and Forum, a 4,900 square-foot multipurpose facility that offers students a place to relax, socialize, study and present extracurricular programs.  The new facility was made possible by a gift from CCNY alumni Lillian J. and Harold M. Hoffman, members of the Class of 1951 and Class of 1949, respectively.

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  • CCNY HONORS DR. EUGENE S. CALLENDER, CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER AND MINISTER, WITH SPECIAL PRESENTATION OF PRESIDENT’S MEDAL

    NEW YORK, January 23, 2006 – Dr. Gregory H. Williams, President of The City College of New York (CCNY), tonight bestowed The College’s President’s Medal on Dr. Eugene S. Callender, long-time community and civil rights leader and pastor of St. James Presbyterian Church in Harlem.  The award presentation was made at a reception in The Great Hall of The City College honoring of Dr. Callender’s 80th birthday.  The reception was co-hosted by Rep. Charles B. Rangel.

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  • CCNY TO OFFER MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNDERGRADUATE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PROGRAMS

    NEW YORK, January 11, 2006 – The City College of New York (CCNY) has added two new undergraduate degree programs that bridge the science and engineering disciplines for the first time.  The new Bachelor of Science in Environmental & Earth System Science and Bachelor of Engineering in Environmental & Earth System Engineering are also the first of their kind to be offered by a CUNY or SUNY college.

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  • CCNY PHYSICIST HERNAN MAKSE WINS MAYOR’S AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

    NEW YORK, January 10, 2006 -- Dr. Hernan A. Makse, Associate Professor of Physics in the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics at The City College of New York (CCNY), has been named a co-recipient of the 2005 Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, in the Young Investigator category.  Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the winners yesterday.

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  • CCNY, MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING SCIENTISTS USE NEAR-INFRARED LASER LIGHT TO DETECT CANCEROUS BREAST TISSUE

    NEW YORK, January 3, 2006 – A team of scientists from The City College of New York (CCNY) and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has successfully used near-infrared laser light to differentiate between cancerous and non-cancerous human breast tissue.  The development could eventually lead to noninvasive techniques for detecting and diagnosing breast cancer.

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