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Faith Ringgold to Receive CCNY’s First Cultural Arts Award
Faith Ringgold, the renowned artist, author and quilt maker has been selected to receive The City College of New York’s First Annual Cultural Arts Award. An alumna of City College, she will be honored at a ceremony Thursday, October 6, at CCNY’s Aaron Davis Hall Center for the Performing and Visual Arts.
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CCNY-led Research Could Lead to Wearable Sensors for the Blind
Wearable sensors that allow blind people to “see” with their hands, bodies or faces could be on the horizon, thanks to a $2 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to researchers at The City College of New York and Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).
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NRC Ranks CCNY PhD Program Among Best in US
In 1999, the City University of New York began training PhD candidates in biomedical engineering, three years before its engineering school, the Grove School at The City College of New York, even had a biomedical engineering department. Fast-forward 12 years to 2011 and the program is now one of the nation’s best, according to National Research Council (NRC) rankings.
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CCNY President Awards Scholarships to Nine Local Students
One wants to be an astronaut. Another aspires to be a surgical oncologist. A third City College of New York freshman, who spoke no English when she arrived from the Dominican Republic four years ago, is planning a medical career.
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CWE Offers Hip-Hop Book Lecture Series
A new lecture series from The City College of New York Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education will provide a forum for discussion with authors who chart what people know and understand about hip-hop. “Reading Hip Hop: Off the Records, In the Books,” which runs September 9 through December 2, will address hip-hop fiction, the business of hip-hop, music sampling, fashion, marketing, music politics and culture.
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Free Speech at CCNY Exhibit on Display at CWE
“The Struggle for Free Speech at the City College of New York: 1931-42,” an exhibition documenting student and faculty political activism at CCNY in the 1930s, will be on display at The City College Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, seventh floor, 25 Broadway, September 6-October 28, 2011. Carol Smith, a retired CCNY faculty member, curates the exhibition, which was made available courtesy of City College Libraries. The Puffin Foundation and Yip Harburg Foundation provided additional funding.
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CCNY’s Solar Roof Pod Showcases Innovative Technology
A unique structure in the urban landscape has arisen on a plaza of The City College of New York campus over the past few months. Designed and built by CCNY students, faculty and team sponsors, it is meant to be installed on the roofs of commercial and residential buildings in high-density urban centers. Dubbed the Solar Roof Pod, it showcases cutting-edge green technology inside and out, including a novel heating and cooling system with more than twice the energy efficiency of conventional units.
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Sponsor Network Turns Solar Roof Pod Dream Into Reality
When The City College of New York was selected from more than 100 entrants as one of 20 finalists in the U.S. Department of Energy 2011 Solar Decathlon, it faced a huge challenge: Could this urban, public college assemble the resources needed to design and build the students’ prototype solar house and compete against well-heeled, private and public institutions large and small?
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CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Wins NEH Grant
The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) at City College is developing an online resource to study four centuries of Spanish writing styles. The project is supported by a $50,000 start-up grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities. A prototype of the Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning Tool is scheduled to go live in spring 2013.
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Book Talk Lectures Focus on African-Derived Religions’ Aesthetics
The aesthetics that emerge from the spiritual practices of “African-derived” religions will be the focal point of The City College of New York Division of Interdisciplinary Studies Fall 2011 Book Talk Lecture Series. Presenters include Guggenheim Fellows Donald Cosentino and Colin Dayan.
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New Depiction Of Light Could Boost Telecommunications Channels
Physicists with the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) at The City College of New York have presented a new way to map spiraling light that could help harness untapped data channels in optical fibers. Increased bandwidth would ease the burden on fiber-optic telecommunications networks taxed by an ever-growing demand for audio, video and digital media. The new model, developed by graduate student Giovanni Milione, Professor Robert Alfano and colleagues, could even spur enhancements in quantum computing and other applications.
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