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  • PROFESSOR LYNN APPELBAUM TO RECEIVE CCNY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FACULTY SERVICE AWARD

    NEW YORK, May 29, 2008 – Lynn Appelbaum, Associate Professor and Director of the Advertising /Public Relations Program at The City College of New York (CCNY), will receive the 2008 Faculty Service Award from the College’s Alumni Association at the Association’s 156th Annual Meeting, Thursday, June 5.

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  • CCNY’S 162ND COMMENCEMENT SET FOR MAY 30; PRESIDENT GREGORY WILLIAMS TO ADDRESS GRADUATES

    NEW YORK, May 19, 2008 – The City College of New York (CCNY) will confer an honorary degree on internationally renowned Mexican sculptor Enrique Carbajal, known professionally as “Sebastian,” at its 162nd Commencement Exercises, Friday, May 30, 2008.  Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau will receive The City College President’s Medal for Distinguished Service. The ceremony begins at 10 a.m. outside Shepard Hall, at 160 Convent Avenue, Manhattan.  

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  • PHYSICISTS AT CCNY DEVELOP TUNABLE LASER WITH BANDWIDTH SPANNING TWO WIDELY USED TELECOMMUNICATIONS WINDOWS

    NEW YORK, May 19, 2008 – A team of physicists in the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) of the Physics Department at The City College of New York (CCNY) have developed new near-infrared broadband laser materials with tunability ranges around triple those of earlier crystals.  The new crystals have a tunability range of as much as 460 nanometers (nm) and have potential application in such fields as telecommunications, biomedical imaging and remote sensing.

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  • TWO STUDENTS FROM CCNY TO RECEIVE SALK SCHOLARSHIPS

    NEW YORK, May 15, 2008 – Oluwaseun “Stephanie” Adeosun, a graduating senior at The City College of New York (CCNY), and William Mak, a member of the Class of 2007 of the Macaulay Honors College at CCNY, were among eight outstanding CUNY pre-medical students chosen to receive Jonas E. Salk Scholarships to study medicine.  The Salk Scholarships are being awarded this morning at Baruch College’s William and Anita Newman Conference Center.

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  • INDEPENDENT PRODUCER CHRISTINE VACHON KEYNOTES CCNY’S CITYVISIONS 2008 FILM FESTIVAL, MAY 30 – 31, AT DGA

    NEW YORK, May 13, 2008 - To employ a well-worn saying, look up the term ‘Independent Producer’ in the dictionary and you will find a picture of Christine Vachon. Ms. Vachon will bring stories from her adventures in the movie business as this year’s keynote speaker at Cityvisions 2008, the tenth annual juried film festival of The City College of New York’s (CCNY) M.F.A. in Media Arts Production program.

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  • CCNY ADVERTISING/PR MAJOR LAURA MALANDRINO PICKED AS FINALIST IN 2008 ‘ONE SHOW’ COMPETITION

    NEW YORK, May 7, 2008 – Laura Malandrino, a senior majoring in advertising and public relations at The City College of New York (CCNY), is a finalist in the prestigious One Show Creative Competition.  The 2008 winners will be announced in New York Thursday, May 8.

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  • CCNY GRAD STUDENT COREY SULLIVAN RECEIVES FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIP TO SPAIN

    NEW YORK, May 5, 2008 – Corey E. Sullivan, who will receive an M.A. in Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from The City College of New York’s (CCNY) School of Education this summer, has received a 2008-2009 Fulbright Scholars Award to teach English in Spain.

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  • AUTHOR JONATHAN SCHELL TO SPEAK AT “END OF WAR” CONFERENCE MEMORIALIZING CCNY SCHOLAR DR. RANDALL FORSBERG, MAY 5

    NEW YORK, May 2, 2008 -- Noted author and journalist Jonathan Schell will be the keynote speaker at a conference 9:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 5, honoring Dr. Randall C. Forsberg, the City College scholar and international authority on peace and disarmament who passed away last fall. His talk is at 6:00 p.m. in CCNY’s The Great Hall, Shepard Hall, located at 138 and Convent Avenue, Manhattan.

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  • HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL DEAN JEFFREY S. FLIER, M.D., ’68, TO DELIVER SPRING 2008 RUDIN LECTURE AT CCNY MAY 13

    NEW YORK, April 29, 2008 –Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D., ’68, Dean of Harvard Medical School, will deliver the Spring 2008 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall at The City College of New York (CCNY).  Dr. Flier’s topic will be “Obesity 2008: Molecular Science Confronts an Expanding Epidemic.”  The event is free and open to the public.

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  • CCNY MACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE JUNIOR ANNE TAN WINS INAUGURAL ART STEVENS PUBLIC RELATIONS SCHOLARSHIP 

    NEW YORK, April 28, 2008 -- Anne Tan, a junior in The Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York (CCNY), is the winner of the first Art Stevens CCNY/PRSA-NY Public Relations Scholarship.  The $5,000 scholarship is a gift from Art Stevens, a 1957 CCNY graduate and distinguished leader in the public relations profession and the PRSA-NY (Public Relations Society of America – New York Chapter). The award will be made annually during the Spring semester.

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  • SAXOPHONE ACE DICK OATTS IS GUEST ARTIST FOR 9TH ANNUAL CUNY JAZZ FESTIVAL, MAY 8-9, AT CCNY

    NEW YORK, April 28, 2008 – Renowned saxophonist Dick Oatts, who has performed with such legends as Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme during his illustrious career, will be the guest artist for the Ninth Annual CUNY Jazz Festival, May 8 - 9, at The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Aaron Davis Hall.  All the events will be in Theater B and free to the public.

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