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May 2001
5-10-01
GOV. PATAKI ANNOUNCES $1 MIILLION GRANT FOR NANOSCALE PHOTONICS RESEARCH
AT CCNY
New York State’s CUNY Center for Advanced Technology for Ultrafast Photonic
Materials and Applications at City College has been awarded a $1 million dollar
grant, Governor George E. Pataki has announced.
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5-10-01
AUTHOR WALTER MOSLEY TO SPEAK AT CCNY CONVOCATION
Best-selling author Walter Mosley, a 1991 City College alumnus and the
creator of what The New York Times calls “reluctant detective” Easy Rawlins,
will be the guest speaker at CCNY’s 19th Annual Honors Convocation
on Thursday, May 24, 2001.
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5-10-01
CCNY
GOLDEN KEY CHAPTER WINS AWARDS AT REGIONAL CONFERENCE
The City College Chapter of the Golden Key International Honour Society won
two regional awards for Best Newsletter and Best Website at the Society’s Eastern
Regional Conference at Temple University in Philadelphia recently.
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5-10-01
Top CCNY Students Are University Scholars In New CUNY
Honors College
Eighteen-year-old
Trinidadian immigrant Salma Ragoonath believes that life is too short to waste.
Ms. Ragoonath wants to become a doctor and do something important with her life
by saving the lives of others.
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5-14-01
CCNY’S 155th COMMENCEMENT
SET FOR JUNE 1
CONGRESSMAN CHARLES RANGEL AND ACTRESS RITA MORENO TO
BE HONORED
Harlem Representative Charles B. Rangel, one of the most senior members of the
United States Congress, and award-winning actress Rita Moreno, will be the honorees
at City College’s 155th Commencement Exercises on Friday, June 1,
2001. The ceremony will begin at 10 AM, at CCNY’s Herman Goldman Center,
133rd Street and Convent Avenue, Manhattan.
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5-16-01
RON
CARTER AUDIO ARCHIVE ESTABLISHED AT EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
The Eastman School
of Music at the University of Rochester has established the Ron Carter Audio
Archive and Collection in its Sibley Music Library, the largest academic music
library in the world.
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5-16-01
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER DAVID SHIPLER TO DELIVER
RUDIN LECTURE AT CCNY
David K. Shipler,
a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished former foreign correspondent
for The New York Times, will lecture at City College as The Samuel Rudin
Distinguished Visiting Scholar on Tuesday, May 22, 2001.
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5-23-01
Over $500,000 Raised by CCNY’s Publishing Certificate
Program
City College’s Publishing
Certificate Program (PCP) recently hosted a reception at The Central Park
Arsenal to thank donors and to honor CCNY students who were named BookExpo America
Interns and Bernard Mazel 2001 Opportunity Scholars. The Publishing Certificate
Program is a pioneering effort to increase the number of underrepresented minorities
in the publishing industry.
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5-23-01
IRADAC HOSTS “ESSENCE OF FAMILY” ART EXHIBIT
“The Essence of Family: Struggle, Triumph, and Color,” is
the title of a six-week exhibition by visual artist Aleathia Brown, which will
run through June 30, 2001, at the CUNY Institute for Research on the African
Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) at City College.
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5-24-01
CCNY’s
Student-Athletes Post Strong Finishes and Receive CUNYAC Conference Recognition
City College student-athetes Kishel John (women’s fencing), Dexter Wilson (men’s
outdoor track) and David Linton (men’s outdoor track) closed out a fine varsity
season for the CCNY athletic teams. John was named a 2001 CUNY Athletic Conference
(CUNYAC) Scholar Athlete Honorable Mention; while Wilson and Linton had first-place
finishes at the CUNYAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships held at York
College.
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