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NEW TEACHING METHOD DEVELOPED AT CCNY IMPROVES UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ SKILLS, ATTITUDES TOWARD SCIENCE
NEW YORK, December 17, 2007 – In the typical undergraduate science class, the teaching approach relies heavily on textbooks instead of science’s primary literature, academic papers written by professors and other researchers. The textbooks summarize what the research reports contain, explains Dr. Sally G. Hoskins, Professor of Biology at The City College of New York (CCNY).
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SOUTH KOREAN ENERGY FIRM STX CO. LTD. AWARDS $1.2 MILLION TO CCNY PROFESSOR JAE W. LEE FOR PROCESS INTENSIFICATION STUDY
NEW YORK, December 17, 2007 - STX Co. Ltd., a South Korean energy conglomerate, has awarded $1.2 million to Dr. Jae W. Lee, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering in The Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY), for a five-year research assignment. Professor Lee will investigate “Process Intensification by Integrating Reaction and Separation.”
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CUNY DOMINICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE 15th ANNIVERSARY DINNER DECEMBER 8 AT CCNY TO HONOR OSCAR DE LA RENTA
NEW YORK, December 3, 2007 – Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta will receive a special award at a dinner Saturday, December 8, in The Great Hall of The City College of New York to celebrate the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute’s (CUNY-DSI) 15th Anniversary. Approximately 500 CUNY graduates of Dominican descent are expected to attend the event, which is also a salute to CUNY’s Dominican alumni, whose numbers exceed 35,000.
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DERRICK A. BELL, JR. AND REV. DR. JAMES A. FORBES, JR. INAUGURATE POWELL CENTER’S NEW YORK LIFE COLLOQUIUM SERIES AT CCNY
NEW YORK, November 29, 2007 – Dr. Derrick A. Bell Jr., and Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes Jr. will lead the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies’ inaugural New York Life colloquium, “The Courts, the Churches, and African Americans: Legacy and Contemporary Challenge,” 9:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Tuesday, December 4 at The City College of New York (CCNY). The event is the first of a twice-a-year series of lectures made possible by the New York Life Endowment for Emerging African American Issues.
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GEN. COLIN L. POWELL, USA (RET.), TO KEYNOTE URBAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE AT CCNY NOVEMBER 15
NEW YORK, November 12, 2007 – Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA (ret.), former U.S. Secretary of State and distinguished CCNY alumnus, will deliver the keynote address at a one-day urban leadership conference November 15 at The City College of New York (CCNY). He will speak during the conference’s luncheon session, beginning at 12:30 p.m., and will lead a town hall meeting on urban challenges and opportunities that begins at 2:15 p.m.
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CCNY-LED TEAM RECEIVES $330,000 FROM NSF TO DEVELOP ‘DYNAMIC TACTILE INTERFACE’ FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED COMPUTER USERS
NEW YORK, November 7, 2007 – A team of researchers from five institutions, led by The City College of New York (CCNY), has been awarded $330,000 over three years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a tactile surface that can facilitate communication between visually impaired and blind persons and computers.
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"AMERICAN MASTERS" CREATOR SUSAN LACY TO DELIVER RUDIN LECTURE AT CCNY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27
NEW YORK, November 5, 2007 – Susan Lacy, the award-winning creator and executive producer of the PBS series “American Masters,” will deliver the Fall 2007 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture at The City College of New York (CCNY), 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 27, in The Great Hall, Shepard Hall. Her address, “Why Art Matters,” is free and open to the public.
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CCNY LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE TO COMMEMORATE THE CENTENNIAL OF ITS HISTORIC, LANDMARKED CAMPUS
NEW YORK, November 5, 2007 – The City College of New York (CCNY) today launched a new website, “100 Years on Hamilton Heights,” to commemorate the Centennial of its Campus in Harlem. The CCNY Campus, which was designed by George B. Post, is considered one of the finest examples of neo-Gothic architecture at any academic institution in the United States. The structures are on national and state registers of historic buildings.
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DOMINICAN ARCHIVES OF THE CUNY DOMINICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE AT CCNY RECEIVES IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF MUSICIAN RAFAEL PETITON GUZMAN
NEW YORK, October 25, 2007 – The Dominican Archives of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY-DSI) at The City College of New York recently received five cubic feet of archival materials from the family of Rafael Petitón Guzmán, the 20th century Dominican composer, conductor, band leader, pianist, percussionist and song-writer. The items consist of music scores, personal documents, photographs, and memorabilia.
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CCNY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE PRESENTS “INEFFABLE,” CONFERENCE TO EXAMINE ROLE OF DIGITAL TOOLS IN ARCHITECTURE, NOVEMBER 10
NEW YORK, October 25, 2007 – The City College of New York (CCNY) School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture (SAUDLA) will present “Ineffable,” an academic conference that will explore points of contact between inexpressible dimensions of architecture and the codes, theories and techniques by which they are manifested. The event is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Saturday, November 10, in Room 95 of Shepard Hall.
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CCNY TO HOST ‘EINSTEINS IN THE CITY 2’ INTERNATIONAL STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE OCTOBER 30 – 31
NEW YORK, October 17, 2007 – The City College of New York (CCNY) will host “Einsteins in the City 2: Research and Society,” an international multidisciplinary student research conference, October 30 – 31 in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall on the CCNY campus.
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SCHOLAR, POET JOANNE BRAXTON TO KEYNOTE CCNY’s 3rd LANGSTON HUGHES FESTIVAL SYMPOSIUM OCTOBER 26
NEW YORK, October 16, 2007 -- Noted scholar and poet Joanne M. Braxton will be the keynote speaker at The City College of New York (CCNY) Langston Hughes Festival’s third symposium Friday, October 26 in CCNY’s Great Hall.
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CCNY’S DOMINICAN ARCHIVES WINS TOP AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN DOCUMENTING NEW YORK STATE HISTORY
NEW YORK, October 15, 2007 – The Dominican Archives at The City College of New York (CCNY) is the only one of its kind in the United States. It attracts scholars from all over the world to its unique collection of material related to the U.S. Dominican population.
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CCNY SEEK ALUMNI EVENT OCTOBER 13 TO HONOR FOUR WHO HELPED CREATE PROGRAM
NEW YORK, October 11, 2007 – In 1966, Charles B. Rangel was a new State Assemblyman representing Harlem, Basil A. Paterson was his counterpart in the State Senate and Percy E. Sutton had just become Borough President of Manhattan after serving in the Assembly seat that Rangel was elected to. They pushed for state legislation authorizing CUNY to establish a new program called SEEK to accept low-income students who would not be admitted otherwise.
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CCNY BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT HOLDS SYMPOSIUM HONORING DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR EMERITUS SHELDON WEINBAUM
NEW YORK, October 2, 2007 – Collaborators, former and current students, family, friends and colleagues of Dr. Sheldon Weinbaum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY) will mark his 70th birthday with a day-long symposium Friday, October 5, followed by a reception and dinner.
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ACTRESS, WRITER RUBY DEE TO RECEIVE 60TH JOHN H. FINLEY AWARD AT CCNY’S 127TH ANNUAL ALUMNI DINNER
NEW YORK, September 24, 2007 – The Alumni Association of The City College of New York will present its 60th John H. Finley Award to Emmy Award-winning actress, writer and activist Ruby Dee. The presentation will be made at the Association’s 127th Annual Dinner, Thursday, October 18, at The New York Marriott Marquis.
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LOIS POPE PRESENTS LIFE UNSUNG HERO SCHOLARSHIPS TO FOUR FRESHMEN IN SOPHIE DAVIS SCHOOL AT CCNY
NEW YORK, September 20, 2007 – Freshmen Irene R. Gaines, Sergio Galeano, Ashley Parks and Jennifer Y. Tom, all aspiring physicians in the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at The City College of New York, are this year’s recipients of the prestigious Lois Pope Annual LIFE Unsung Hero Scholarship Awards at CCNY.
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“THE RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION LIBRARY COLLECTION AT CCNY” EXHIBIT OPENS AT CCNY LIBRARY
NEW YORK, September 19, 2007 – A new exhibition on view in the atrium of the Morris R. Cohen Library of The City College of New York (CCNY) salutes the centenary of the Russell Sage Foundation, the principal American Foundation exclusively dedicated to research in the social sciences. The exhibit, which runs September 17 – October 5, tells the stories of Mr. and Mrs. Sage’s lives, the foundation they created and its library collection, which is housed in the City College Libraries.
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CCNY LIBRARY TO HOST “WOMEN IN MEDICINE” TRAVELING EXHIBITION
NEW YORK, September 12 , 2007 – The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Cohen Library will host Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians,” October 10 through November 30. The traveling exhibit, to be on display in the library atrium, was developed by the Exhibition Program of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office. This will be its only showing in the New York metropolitan area.
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