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  • Bernard Spitzer, ’43, Gives $25 Million To CCNY School Of Architecture

    NEW YORK, March 25, 2009 – Bernard Spitzer, a 1943 engineering graduate of The City College of New York (CCNY) and prominent real estate developer, is giving $25 million to City College for the benefit of the College’s School of Architecture.  The gift will be provided through the Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust.

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  • Quest Senior Education Program To Host Reception Celebrating Union With CCNY Center For Worker Education

    NEW YORK, March 24, 2009 – Quest, a non-profit senior educational program that is now part of The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Division of Worker Education (DWE), will host a luncheon to celebrate its official union with the College.  The event runs from 12 noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, at CCNY’s Center for Worker Education (CWE) located at 25 Broadway in Lower Manhattan. 

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  • Teobaldo Power String Quartet Receives Warm, Enthusiastic Welcome At CCNY Concert

    New York, March 20, 2009.—The Teobaldo Power String Quartet received a vibrant, warm, and enthusiastic response from the audience in its first New York concert, which was held in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall at The City College of New York (CCNY).  The quartet, which is based in the Canary Islands and was formed more than a decade ago, consists of Javier Morales López and Irina Sánchez, violinists, Patrick Doumeng, viola, and Johanna Kegel Zamora, cellist.  The New York concert was the first stop on a global tour that would also take the group to Beijing and Tokyo.

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  • Dan Rather To Deliver 2009 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholars Lecture At CCNY, Thursday, April 2

    NEW YORK, March 19, 2009 – Television journalism icon Dan Rather will deliver the Spring 2009 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholars Lecture at The City College of New York (CCNY) 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 2.  Mr. Rather, who was anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from1981 to 2005, will speak in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall on the CCNY campus, located at Convent Avenue and W. 138th Street in Manhattan. 

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  • Dr. John M. Butler To Discuss Forensic DNA “BEYOND ‘CSI’” In March 24 Louis Levine – Gabriella de Beer Lecture At CCNY

    NEW YORK, March 19, 2009 – Forensic DNA expert Dr. John M. Butler will deliver the annual Louis Levine – Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics at The City College of New York (CCNY) 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 24.  His topic will be “Beyond ‘CSI:’ Exciting Applications of Forensic DNA.”

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  • Novelist, Screenwriter Paul Auster To Deliver 6th Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture On Urbanism At CCNY March 12

    NEW YORK, March 5, 2009 – Novelist, screenwriter and man of letters Paul Auster will deliver the Sixth Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism at The City College of New York (CCNY) 6 p.m. Thursday, March 12, in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall.  His topic is “City of Words.” 

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  • Renowed Scholar K. Anthony Appiah To Deliver Second Annual President's Lecture At CCNY, Tuesday, March 10

    NEW YORK, March 3, 2009 – World-renowned philosopher, scholar and author Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah will deliver the second annual City College of New York President’s Lecture at CCNY 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 10.  He will address “Race and The New Genomics.”

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  • THREE CCNY CHEMISTRY PROFESSORS AWARDED FEDERAL RESEARCH GRANTS TOTALING $4.76 MILLION

    NEW YORK, February 26, 2009 – Three chemistry professors at The City College of New York (CCNY), all investigators affiliated with the CUNY Institute for Macromolecular Assemblies (MMA), have been awarded four separate multiyear research grants from the federal government totaling $4.76 million.

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  • NIH AWARDS $15.9 MILLION TO CCNY AND MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING TO CREATE PARTNERSHIP TO ADDRESS CANCER DISPARITIES

    NEW YORK, February 25, 2009 — The National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded The City College of New York (CCNY) and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) a $15.9 million grant to implement a unique partnership in cancer research, education, and outreach. The five-year, renewable award is funded by NCI’s U54 program, an initiative created to develop partnerships between minority-serving institutions and NCI-designated cancer centers.

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  • CCNY BLACK HISTORY MONTH EXHIBIT TRACES ANCIENT CONNECTIONS BETWEEN AFRICA AND INDIA

    NEW YORK, February 20, 2009 -- “The Colors of Monsoon Season,” a photographic exhibit highlighting the historical connections between Africa and India, is on display at The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Cohen Library Archives Gallery through March 6, 2009.  It opened on February 6 as part of CCNY’s Black History Month celebration.

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  • COLIN POWELL TO KEYNOTE CONFERENCE ON IMMIGRATION FEBRUARY 5 AT THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK

    NEW YORK, January 22, 2009 – Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA (ret.), former U.S. Secretary of State and distinguished CCNY alumnus, will deliver the keynote address at a half-day conference on immigrant integration Thursday, February 5, at The City College of New York (CCNY).  General Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants, will speak during the conference’s luncheon session, beginning at noon.  Vartan Gregorian, President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, will present opening remarks at 9 a.m.

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  • CCNY Appoints Robert Rodriguez Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs

    NEW YORK, February 4, 2009 - Robert Rodriguez has been appointed Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs at The City College of New York, CCNY President Gregory H. Williams announced today.  He had been Director of Affirmative Action, Compliance and Diversity and Chairman of the Auxiliary Enterprise Corp. at The College.  He will report to Esther Perález, Vice President of Student Affairs. 

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  • QUEST SENIOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OFFICIALLY JOINS THE CITY COLLEGE AND CENTER FOR WORKER EDUCATION FAMILY

    NEW YORK, January 26, 2009 – Quest, a non-profit senior educational program, has been officially named part of the Division of Worker Education (DWE) in The City College of New York’s (CCNY) College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, CCNY President Dr. Gregory H. Williams announced today.  Quest will continue to be housed at The Center for Worker Education in Lower Manhattan and will be renamed Quest: The CCNY-CWE Community for Lifelong Learning Inc.

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  • HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. TO SPEAK AT 35TH SOPHIE DAVIS PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT COMMENCEMENT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30 AT CCNY

    NEW YORK, January 22, 2009 – Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the distinguished scholar and author, will be the keynote speaker for the 35th graduation ceremony of The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education’s Physician Assistant (PA) Program at Harlem Hospital Center.  The event takes place 1 p.m. Friday, January 30, in The Great Hall, Shepard Hall, of The City College of New York (CCNY).

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