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CCNY Undergrad Johnson Ho Named 2011 Goldwater Scholar

Johnson Shiuan-Jiun Ho, a junior biomedical engineering major in the Grove School of Engineering and Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship for 2011. The national award recognizes undergraduate students who demonstrate academic excellence and outstanding potential for future scientific research.
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CCNY Historian Edits Book on Pakistan

Since its inception 64 years ago, Pakistan’s quest for democracy has been tenuous. In “Pakistan: From the Rhetoric of Democracy to the Rise of Militancy,” edited by Dr. Ravi Kalia, professor of history at The City College of New York, readers get an idea of why.
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3 CCNY Students Receive Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship

City College of New York students Jose Esteban Rodriguez Alverio, Elizabeth Kelman and Nicholas Macaluso have received Jeannette K. Watson Fellowships for 2011. They are among 15 undergraduate recipients from 12 New York City colleges and universities.
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NOAA Administrator to Visit CCNY for NOAA-CREST Day

Dr. Jane Lubchenco, under secretary of commerce and administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will visit The City College of New York Friday, April 15, to participate in the ninth annual NOAA-CREST Day. While here, she will also meet with CCNY President Lisa Staiano-Coico, CUNY Vice Chancellor for Research Gillian Small and NOAA-CREST Director Reza Khanbilvardi.
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CCNY and Young & Rubicam Celebrate Diversity Partnership

The City College of New York is proud to celebrate its long and productive partnership with Young & Rubicam (Y&R) by honoring the global marketing communications company at a reception. The event, Tuesday, April 12, at City College, recognizes Y&R’s outstanding commitment to CCNY’s talented communications studies students.
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CCNY Hosts “Einsteins” International Student Research Conference

The City College of New York will host “Einsteins in the City 2011,” an international conference of top student researchers, April 13 through 15, in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall, 160 Convent Ave., New York. The theme for the event, “Transcending Boundaries; Communicating Across Disciplines,” promotes interdisciplinary cooperation in research and the cross-cultural exchange of ideas.
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Secret Lives of the Furred and Feathered

Call her the tabloid journalist of the animal world. Julie Feinstein, a PhD student at The City College of New York, has the dirt on all creatures great and small – specifically – the wild animals that live among us. She lays it bare in a new tell-all book, “Field Guide to Urban Wildlife: Common Animals of Cities and Suburbs, How They Adapt and Thrive” (Stackpole Books, 2011).
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CCNY Senior Receives $100,000 Math Fellowship

Jian Liu, a graduating senior at The City College of New York, has won a Math for America Fellowship (MfA). The highly selective five-year program, for talented students committed to teaching math in public schools, provides a $100,000 stipend. Math for America is a nonprofit organization that aims to improve mathematics education in U.S. public secondary schools by recruiting, training and retaining outstanding mathematics teachers.
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CCNY Sociology Symposia to Focus on Race

Two symposia presented by The City College of New York Department of Sociology, April 8 and April 15, will examine sociological and scientific perspectives on race.
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Two Events at CCNY Explore Public Health and Ethics

A conference April 8 and a public lecture April 11 at The City College of New York will examine public health issues from ethical perspectives. The April 8 conference, “Contemporary Issues in Public Health: Historical and Ethical Perspectives,” features speakers from Columbia University, University of California – Berkeley and CCNY. Monday, April 11, Dr. Daniel Wikler, a Harvard University ethicist, will talk on “Research Ethics: Did We Misunderstand the Lessons of Nuremberg?”
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CCNY Historian Documents Life in Wartime Sarajevo

Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was subjected to a brutal four-year siege in the 1990s as Serbia tried to annex the newly formed state. It wasn’t the first time the city felt the brunt of war. A new book by Dr. Emily Greble, assistant professor of history at The City College of New York, explores how 50 years earlier its multiethnic communities tried to cope with occupation during World War II.
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