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BET CORRESPONDENT SAMSON STYLES TO SPEAK AT GATEWAY COLLEGE FAIR AT CCNY, APRIL 29
NEW YORK, April 25, 2008 – BET news correspondent Samson Styles will be the guest speaker at this year’s Gateway College Tuesday, April 29, at The City College of New York (CCNY). He will speak at 5:00 p.m. in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall, located at 138th Street and Convent Avenue, Manhattan.
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CCNY RECEIVES $9.6 MILLION FROM SKADDEN, ARPS TO LAUNCH LANDMARK PROGRAM TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY IN LEGAL PROFESSION
NEW YORK, NY, April 17, 2008 – The City College of New York (CCNY) announced today that the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has committed $9.6 million over 10 years for the creation of a new rigorous and expansive program to increase diversity in law schools and the legal profession.
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ALMA MATER HONORS CCNY DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH PROFESSOR SHELDON WEINBAUM
NEW YORK, April 17, 2008 – Dr. Sheldon Weinbaum, CUNY Distinguished Research Professor of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering in The Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY), will receive the 2008 Davies Medal, the highest honor given to an engineering alumnus by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), his alma mater, Friday, April 18.
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SALESFORCE.COM CHAIRMAN AND CEO MARC BENIOFF TO DELIVER COLIN POWELL CENTER TALK ON ENCOURAGING CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY
NEW YORK, April 17, 2008 – Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) and a leading philanthropist, will discuss the need for a new culture of corporate giving and his innovative model for harnessing corporate assets to improve global conditions at The City College of New York (CCNY). The free event, sponsored by the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies, will take place on Thursday, April 17, from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Room 95 of Shepard Hall at CCNY, at 160 Convent Avenue at West 140th Street. Mr. Benioff’s talk will be followed by a discussion with Center scholars focused on issues of corporate philanthropy.
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CCNY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR ROBERT R. ALFANO RECEIVES 2008 CHARLES HARD TOWNES AWARD FROM OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
NEW YORK, April 15, 2008 – Dr. Robert R. Alfano, Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at the City College of New York and Director of the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers, has been named the 2008 recipient of The Optical Society of America’s (OSA) Charles Hard Townes Award. The award will be presented at OSA’s Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, May 4-9 in San Jose, Calif.
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CCNY STEEL BRIDGE CLUB QUALIFIES FOR NATIONAL COMPETITION
NEW YORK, April 14, 2008 – In only its second year of resumed competition, The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Steel Bridge Club has qualified to go to the national Steel Bridge Competition by taking second place in the metropolitan New York regional meet.
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ALUMNUS, COMEDY WRITER MICHAEL “MICKEY” ROSS GIVES $10 MILLION TO ESTABLISH JEWISH STUDIES CENTER AT CCNY
NEW YORK, April 10, 2008 – The City College of New York (CCNY) has announced that it has received a $10 million gift from Michael “Mickey” Ross, an alumnus and writer/producer for three of the most popular television sitcoms of the 1970s, to establish the Michael and Irene Ross Center for Jewish Studies. The gift was announced last night by President Gregory H. Williams following a lecture by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel in the College’s Great Hall.
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CCNY’s 36th Annual Spring Poetry Festival – The Woodstock of the Spoken Word – to Take Place May 16
NEW YORK, April 10, 2008 – The 36TH annual City College Poetry Festival, an all-day, all-verse event that has become New York’s longest-running, most established and democratic poetry celebration, will take place 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, May 16, in Theater B of Aaron Davis Hall, on the campus of The City College of New York (CCNY) at 135th St. and Convent Avenue.
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CCNY TO HOST NEW YORK CITY LOUIS STOKES ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY PARTICIPATION'S 11TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, APRIL 11 – 12
NEW YORK, April 4, 2008 – The City College of New York will serve as host site for the New York City Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation's (NYC-LSAMP) 11th Annual Urban University Conference, Friday, April 11, and Saturday, April 12. The conference is expected to draw over 300 students from CUNY colleges and other institutions.
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EVEN WITH WILKINS COLLAPSE, ANTARCTIC 2008 SURFACE SNOWMELT WAS 40% OF 20-YEAR AVERAGE, CCNY PROFESSOR FINDS
NEW YORK, April 4, 2008 –Last month, a large chunk of the Wilkins Ice Shelf collapsed. However, surface snowmelt in Antarctica for 2008 was 40 percent below the average for 1987 – 2007, according to research by Dr. Marco Tedesco, Assistant Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Science at The City College of New York.
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“Robert Sherwood and Friends: A Playwright and His World”
A Reading and Talk by CCNY Professor Harriet Alonso, April 17NEW YORK, April 2, 2008 – Harriet Hyman Alonso, Professor of History at The City College of New York (CCNY) and award-winning author, will present a reading and talk on her latest book, “Robert E. Sherwood: the Playwright in Peace and War,” 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 17, in the CCNY Cohen Library Archives. A book signing and reception will follow.
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