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CCNY-Led Team Wins One Club Creative Boot Camp Competition

A creative group of students from The City College of New York (CCNY) and Brooklyn College teamed to win The One Club’s “Creative Boot Camp” competition in January. The team, Nadine Charles, Sherifa Gayle, and Ricardo Paredes from CCNY, and Chanie Kaminker from Brooklyn College, worked on an advertising campaign for a new laptop developed by Hewlett Packard. They will attend The One Show in May in New York City in honor of their win.
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Three from CCNY Win in CUNY Nobel Science Challenge

Three undergraduate students at The City College of New York (CCNY) earned prizes in the 2009 CUNY Nobel Science Challenge. Freshman Hyeondo Hwang took first place in the Chemistry category. Sidra Javed, a fourth-year student in The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, and Elaine Cheng, a fifth-year Sophie Davis student, took second and third prize, respectively in the Physiology or Medicine category. The awards were presented at a ceremony Thursday, February 25.
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Honors Senior Sam Glickman Presents at Ornithology Meeting

Sam Glickman, a senior biology major in the Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York (CCNY), presented a poster at the joint meeting of the American Ornithologists Union, Cooper Ornithological Society and Society of Canadian Ornithologists, held last month in San Diego. He was one of only eight undergraduates nationwide to win a travel award from the societies.
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‘Our World 2030’ Conference Rescheduled for March 24

“Our World 2030: Preparing a New Generation for a Sustainable Future,” a conference sponsored by the New York Life Endowment for Emerging African-American Issues and organized by the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies at The City College of New York (CCNY), has been rescheduled to 4:30 – 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 24. It will be held in The Great Hall, Shepard Hall, on the CCNY campus.
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CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Announces 2010-2011 Fellows and Visiting Scholars

The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) at The City College of New York (CCNY) has announced 2010-2011 doctoral fellows and visiting scholars in Dominican Studies. Representing diverse academic disciplines, the fellows and scholars will advance a wide range of scholarly research projects, from the colonial history of the Dominican Republic to housing patterns of people of Dominican ancestry in New York City. They will work directly with CUNY DSI Director and Professor of Sociology Ramona Hernández.
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Book Co-Authored by June Williamson Receives AAP PROSE Award

A book co-authored by June Williamson, Associate Professor of Urban Design in the Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York (CCNY), has received a 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence from the American Association of Publishers (AAP). “Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs,” co-written by Ellen Dunham-Jones and published by John Wiley & Sons, won in the architecture and urban planning category.
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CCNY Student Entrepreneurs Develop
Social Network Site for CUNY Students

A group of students at The City College of New York (CCNY) have developed a social networking website that its founder describes as a combination of “Craigslist and a more sociable Blackboard for CUNY students.” Called “InYourClass.com,” the site combines the features of online bulletin boards with mini social networks for 20 of the 23 colleges and professional schools in the CUNY system. A preliminary version of the site launched February 2.
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Spitzer School of Architecture Presents Exhibit of Jose Oubrerie

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture (Spitzer School) at The City College of New York (CCNY) presents an exhibit on the works of noted French architect and author Jose Oubrerie. It debuts on February 16 and will be on display through May 14.
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CCNY Junior Luisirene Hernández Receives Travel Grant

Luisirene Hernández, a junior majoring in biochemistry at The City College of New York (CCNY), is one of 13 students nationwide selected to receive a Minority Travel Award to attend the Biophysical Society’s 54th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. During the meeting, February 20 – 24, she will present a poster “Obtaining Functionally Relevant Protein Structural Transitions Using a Combined Physics/Structure-Based Coarse Grained Model,” and be honored at a reception February 20.
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Harlem is Focus of Health Commissioner’s Community Lecture February 17 at CCNY

Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City Commissioner of Health, will deliver The President’s College and Community Lecture at The City College of New York (CCNY), 6 p.m. Wednesday, February 17, in The Great Hall. His topic will be “Take Care New York 2012: Building a Healthier Harlem.” The lecture is free and open to the public.
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Exhibit at CCNY Highlights Diversity of U.S. Latino Communities

The United States’ Latino population, 35 million strong according to the 2000 U.S. Census, is a diverse mixture of people bonded by a common language, but with roots in different parts of the Western Hemisphere.
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Spring Architecture Lectures Explore Green Design, Breaking Boundaries

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York (CCNY) will present the Sciame Spring Lecture Series – 2010, titled “Crossing Boundaries: Explorations and Expressions.” The series, which presents talks by prominent, award-winning architects, runs eight consecutive Thursdays, February 11 through April 8. Lectures begin at 6 p.m. and are held in the Spitzer School’s Sciame Auditorium.
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CCNY’S Center For Worker Education Hosts Two Day Conference On Hip-Hop

“Is Hip-Hop History?,” a two-day conference to examine the current state of the music genre and subculture and its future outlook, will be held February 19 – 20 at The City College of New York (CCNY) Center for Worker Education (CWE). Approximately 200 persons, including hip-hop scholars, performers, entrepreneurs, journalists and activists, are expected to participate in the event, which will address such issues as the over-commercialization of hip-hop, hip-hop media going digital and hip-hop activism.
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CCNY Biologists Identify New Spiny Pocket Mouse Species

Dr. Robert P. Anderson, Associate Professor of Biology at The City College of New York, and Ph.D. student Eliécer E. Gutiérrez have reported the existence of a new species of spiny pocket mouse, from Venezuela, Heteromys catopterius.
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Powell Center Conference Examines Issues of Inclusion in the Green Economy

While real job openings in the United States have plummeted 50 percent in two years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the sustainability sector offers one of the few bright spots in the job market. Nationally, employment in the sector grew by 9.1 percent in the decade ending in 2007, compared with 3.7 percent overall, according to The Pew Charitable Trust.
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Book Talk Lecture Series Returns to CCNY Center for Worker Education

The City College of New York (CCNY) Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, in collaboration with W.W. Norton & Company, will present the second installment of its successful “Book Talk” Lecture Series, February 1 through May 10. The lectures, which present prestigious CUNY and Norton authors, and cover such vital topics as health, American law, transportation, globalization and nature, take place at CCNY’s Center for Worker Education, 7th Floor, 25 Broadway in Lower Manhattan.
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