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CCNY Afterschool Literacy Program Boosts Reading, Writing Skills

Thirteen-year-old Maxwell Drumgold enjoys reading about robotics, how video games are made and the evolution of animals. And he thanks The City College of New York School of Education’s Afterschool Literacy Enrichment Program for nurturing his reading skills.
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CUNY DSI Makes 2,900-Photo Archive Accessible via Flickr

The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York (CUNY DSI) announced today that it has made accessible on the Internet an extensive collection of photographs of places and monuments from early colonial times of the Dominican Republic.
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Ancient Red Dye Powers New “Green” Battery

Rose madder – a natural plant dye once prized throughout the Old World to make fiery red textiles – has found a second life as the basis for a new “green” battery.

Chemists from The City College of New York teamed with researchers from Rice University and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to develop a non-toxic and sustainable lithium-ion battery powered by purpurin, a dye extracted from the roots of the madder plant (Rubia species).
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CCNY Gets $1.2 Million Grant to Train Science, Math Teachers

In an effort to help reduce the shortage of highly qualified science and math teachers working in New York City secondary schools, The City College of New York School of Education has established the Robert Noyce Teacher Academy Scholars Program (CCNY Noyce TA Scholars Program). The program will prepare 42 undergraduate STEM majors (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) for careers teaching grades 7 – 12 in urban schools.
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Grove Professor Receives $1.5MM to Study Breast Cancer Therapies

For some time, researchers have known about disparities in diagnoses and outcomes among breast cancer patients based on race and age. However, they have been challenged to develop a set of criteria that can be used to reliably target drug delivery mechanisms based on an individual patient’s tumor.
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Oscar Hijuelos Comes Home to CCNY for President’s Lecture December 6

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos, BA ’75, MA ’76, will deliver the Fall 2012 President’s Lecture at The City College of New York 5:30 p.m. Thursday, December 6, in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall. His talk is titled “Coming Home to City College” and is free and open to the public.
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CCNY Landscape Architect Offers Storm Surge Defense Alternatives

The flooding in New York and New Jersey caused by Superstorm Sandy prompted calls from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other officials to consider building storm surge barriers to protect Lower Manhattan from future catastrophes. But, such a strategy could make things even worse for outlying areas that were hit hard by the hurricane, such as Staten Island, the New Jersey Shore and Long Island’s South Shore, a City College of New York landscape architecture professor warns.
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CCNY Historian Tells Yip Harburg Story Through His Own Words

City College of New York Professor of History Harriet H. Alonso has written the first biography in nearly two decades of E. Y. “Yip” Harburg (1896-1981), the CCNY alumnus who enriched the Great American Songbook with such tunes as “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”
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Warming Temperatures Will Change Greenland’s Face

Global climate models abound. What is harder to pin down, however, is how a warmer global temperature might affect any specific region on Earth. Dr. Marco Tedesco, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences has made the global local. Using a combination of climate models, they predict how different greenhouse gas scenarios would change the face of Greenland and impact sea level rise.
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CCNY Launches “Mission US” Educational Tool

The City College of New York History Department will host a multimedia presentation November 13 to introduce “Flight to Freedom: The Mission Behind Mission US,” a new and innovative educational tool for teaching history to students in grades 5-9. Pennee Bender, associate director of the American Social History Project (ASHP) at CUNY will be the speaker, 12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m., in CCNY’s NAC building room 5/144).
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