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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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Grove School Professor Leads New Metamaterials Center
A new National Science Foundation-sponsored industry & university cooperative research center program (I/UCRC) will “provide a one-stop shop for the design, fabrication and testing of a wide range of metamaterials.“ Dr. David Crouse, associate professor of electrical engineering in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, serves as director of the new Center for Metamaterials.
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CCNY Grad Student Receives 2 Green Chemistry Awards
Swapnil Jadhav, a graduate chemistry student at The City College of New York, has received two scholastic merit awards from the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS). Both honor graduate-level research he has conducted on green chemistry using renewable resources.
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Two CCNY Honor Students Named 2011 Truman Scholars
Ayodele Oti and Gareth Rhodes, honor students, Colin Powell Fellows and New York Life Scholars at The City College of New York enrolled in the CUNY Baccalaureate program, have been named 2011 Harry S. Truman Scholars. Ms. Oti, a junior in the Macaulay Honors College, and Mr. Rhodes, a third-year student who will graduate this May, are the fourth and fifth CCNY students and sixth and seventh CUNY students to receive Truman Scholarships in the last six years.
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Diane Ravitch to Critique Testing in Speech at CCNY April 6
Dr. Diane Ravitch, education historian and assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush, will critique the role of testing and choice in education in an address 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, at The City College of New York. Her speech is part of the Doyle and Alba Bortner Distinguished Speaker Series in Urban Education, which was begun in 2010. The talk is free and open to the public and will take place in the College’s faculty dining room, located on the third floor of the North Academic Center.
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CCNY’s Lance Jay Brown to Head ACSA College of Distinguished Professors
Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, ACSA Distinguished Professor in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, has been elected inaugural chancellor of the College of Distinguished Professors of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).
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CCNY Professor Develops Speedy Cancer Drug Screening Device
A biomedical engineering professor in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER grant to develop a micro-tumor array that could evaluate dozens of different drugs on a single chip in a single test. If successful, the research could take the guesswork out of treating cancer and other diseases, and lead to faster recoveries and better patient outcomes.
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CCNY Conference Offers Ideas to Spur Economic Recovery
Four prominent economists and financial experts will come to The City College of New York March 31 to present ideas about the economic recovery and possible scenarios. “The Way Out of the Crisis: Fed’s Response, Financial Impact and Effects on the Main Street Economy,” a conference hosted by CCNY’s Department of Economics and Business, will run 12 noon to 3 p.m. in Steinman Hall auditorium, located at the corner of Convent Avenue and St. Nicholas Terrace, New York.
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Guggenheim Salutes David Del Tredici, March 27-28
David Del Tredici, one of America’s most honored living composers and a distinguished professor of music at The City College of New York, will be saluted by the Guggenheim Museum with two nights of performances of his compositions, March 27 and 28. “Celebrating David Del Tredici – With New Choreography by Lynne Taylor-Corbett” begins at 7:30 p.m. both nights in the Guggenheim’s Peter B. Lewis Theater, 1071 Fifth Ave., New York.
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James Evans to Deliver Levine – de Beer Genetics Lecture April 5
Dr. James Evans, Bryson Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Medicine at the University of North Carolina, will deliver the Louis Levine–Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics at The City College of New York 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 5.
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