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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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  • COHEN LIBRARY EXHIBIT SALUTES “THE CREATIVE WRITING PROCESS AT CCNY”

    NEW YORK, September 12, 2007 –The Creative Writing Program at CCNY, an exhibition saluting the achievements of past and present faculty, students and graduates of CCNY’s Graduate English programs, is currently on view in the Morris R. Cohen Library Atrium, North Academic Center, The City College of New York.  This exhibition will be extended with a viewing in the Library Archives Gallery until October 31.

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  • NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION AWARDS CCNY-LED TEAM $2.4 MILLION TO CREATE ELEMENTARY PHYSICAL SCIENCE CURRICULA

    NEW YORK, September 11, 2007 – Early exposure to scientific concepts such as matter and energy has long-term beneficial effects on students’ ability to excel in science later in their academic careers, researchers have found.  But many American elementary school children, especially in poorer districts, receive little, if any, instruction in science, especially physical science.

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