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  • Two-Day Conference At CCNY To Explore Cyber Security Policy And Technology, June 4 – 5

    NEW YORK, April 28, 2009 – The Center for Information Networking and Telecommunications (CINT) at The City College of New York (CCNY) and the U.S. Army War College present “Cyber Infrastructure Protection: Policy and Strategy,” a two-day policy and technical seminar, June 4 – 5 at CCNY.  The conference will help policymakers and researchers stay abreast of the latest research and foster greater contact between these groups.

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  • “Five Demands” Exhibit Commemorates 40th Anniversary Of CCNY Campus Takeover

    NEW YORK, April 24, 2009 – “The Five Demands: The Student Protest and Takeover of 1969,” an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of a student occupation of The City College of New York (CCNY) campus, will be on display May 4 through July 24 in the Cohen Library Atrium and July 27 through October 28 in the Cohen Library Archives Gallery.

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  • CCNY Distinguished Professor Michael Sorkin Elected Fellow Of American Academy Of Arts & Sciences

    NEW YORK, April 21, 2009 - Michael Sorkin, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at The City College of New York (CCNY), has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Academy announced yesterday.  He will be inducted into the Academy at an October 10 ceremony at its headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.

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  • Urban Youth Face Dire Situation, Participants In CCNY Workshop Warn

    NEW YORK, April 21, 2009 – Urban youth face, particularly in Central Harlem, face a dire situation characterized by low high school graduation rates and high rates of unemployment, incarceration and homicide.  These challenges were the topic of a one-day workshop held recently at The City College of New York (CCNY) organized by Dr. Jean Krasno, Lecturer in Political Science, and sponsored by the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service.

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  • NIH Awards CCNY Neuroscientists $2.8 Million To Study Multisensory Integration Deficits In Autism Patients

    NEW YORK, April 13, 2009 – Drs. Sophie Molholm and John Foxe, neuroscientists at The City College of New York (CCNY), have been awarded $2.8 million over five years from the National Institute of Mental Heath of the National Institutes of Health to study whether and how multisensory integration – the nervous system’s integration of different sensory stimuli – is impaired in persons with autism.

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  • CCNY’s 37th Annual Spring Poetry Festival – The Woodstock Of The Spoken Word – To Take Place MAY 15

    NEW YORK, April 9, 2009 – The 37th Annual City College Spring 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 15, in Theater B of Aaron Davis Hall, on the campus of The City College of New York (CCNY) at 135th St. and Convent Avenue.  This year’s featured guest poet is the award-winning Stanley Moss.

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  • CCNY Senior Kimberly Paige Young Receives Javits Fellowship For Graduate School

    NEW YORK, April 8, 2009 –Kimberly Paige Young, a senior in The City College of New York (CCNY) English Honors Program, has been selected as a Jacob K. Javits Fellow for the 2009-2010 academic year.  The program, administered by the U.S. Department of Education, provides up to $30,000 in support for a period not exceeding four years for graduate study in the arts, humanities or social sciences. 

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  • New York Times Names CCNY Instructor Tamara Kirson
    ESOL Teacher Of The Year

    NEW YORK, April 6, 2009 – Tamara Kirson, the lead instructor and staff developer in The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Adult Literacy Program is The New York Times 2009 ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Teacher of the Year.

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  • Team Led By CCNY Neuroscientist Tony Ro Demonstrates Link Between Brainwave Activity And Visual Perception

    NEW YORK, April 2, 2009 – Can we always see what is in front of us?  According to Dr. Tony Ro, a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at The City College of New York (CCNY), the answer is “no.”  New research published in “The Journal of Neuroscience” by Professor Ro and colleagues from the University of Illinois demonstrates that the brain cannot detect images when brainwave activity is in a trough.

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  • “Mexico Through Oriental Eyes” Exhibit At CCNY Center For Worker Education Connects Japan With Latino Culture

    NEW YORK, March 31, 2009 – Japanese artist Hiro Kagami brings his Mexican-themed artwork to The City College of New York (CCNY) Center for Worker Education (CWE) with his installation of “Mexico Through Oriental Eyes,” which will run through April 27.

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  • CCNY Junior Don Gomez, Iraq War Vet, Named 2009 Truman Scholar

    NEW YORK, March 27, 2009 – Don Gomez, a junior at The City College of New York (CCNY) and a veteran of the U.S. Army who had two tours of duty in Iraq, has been named a 2009 Truman Scholar. 

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