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Issue of ‘Camino Real’ Devoted to Dominicans in the U.S. At the invitation of the Instituto Franklin of the University of Alcalá, Spain, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) will produce a special issue of its prestigious journal, “Camino Real,” devoted to multidisciplinary monographs on Dominicans in the United States. CUNY DSI Director Dr. Ramona Hernández and Associate Director Anthony Stevens-Acevedo will edit the edition and conduct a national call for papers. This is the first such agreement between the CUNY DSI, which is housed at The City College of New York, and Instituto

Bronx Resident to Attend SUNY Downstate in Fall Maurice Selby, a senior at The City College of New York (CCNY), has been awarded the 2010 Jonas E. Salk Scholarship to study medicine. He is among eight CUNY students to receive the prestigious scholarship, which was presented in a ceremony May 12 at Baruch College. Mr. Selby, a Bronx resident originally from Staten Island, will receive an $8,000 stipend to assist with medical school. The prestigious Salk Scholarships are awarded to students chosen by a panel of distinguished physicians for their outstanding academic records, quality of their

Feng Miao, a PhD candidate in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY), has won the Intelligent Transportation Society of New York’s (ITS-NY) 2010 Student Award. She will attend ITS-NY’s 17th Annual Meeting and Technology Exhibition, June 10-11, in Saratoga Springs, to receive her award. Her winning paper, "Application of WIM Technology to Evaluate the Safety of Highway Bridges," describes how site-specific truck weight and traffic data collected using weight-in-motion (WIM) systems can be used to evaluate the safety of bridges in New York State. “Recent

‘A Place Out of Time’ Tells of Last all-Black Public Boarding School in North From 1866 to 1955, the Bordentown School in Bordentown, NJ, was an educational utopia for African-Americans, who were largely disenfranchised by the American education system. Known as “The Tuskegee of the North,” the school was an incubator of black pride and intellect where generations of children learned values, discipline and life skills. More than half a century after its closing, David Davidson, Professor in the MCA Department and Director of the MFA in Media Arts Production, recounts the story of this unique

Professors’ Programs Earn 4 New York Emmys For her thesis project, Maria Royo, ’09 MFA, a graduate film student who attended The City College of New York (CCNY) on a Fulbright Scholarship, turned the camera on her family. The resulting film, “Rediscovering Pape,” won for Best Documentary at the 31st College Television Awards and is a finalist for a student Oscar. “Rediscovering Pape,” is Ms. Royo’s heartfelt attempt to reconcile her memories of a close childhood relationship with her great-grandfather, who, she learned, had a Nazi past. She travels through Europe to trace his footsteps, break

Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman ’43 to Address Graduates; College to Honor H. Jack Geiger, Richard Ravitch Dr. Leon M. Lederman, a 1943 graduate of The City College of New York (CCNY) and one of its nine Nobel Laureates, will be the guest speaker at the College’s 164th Commencement Exercises, 10 a.m. Friday, May 28, on the College campus. In addition, the College will confer an honorary degree on Dr. H. Jack Geiger, Arthur C. Logan Professor of Community Medicine at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, and present The City College President’s Medal for Distinguished Service to New

Lessons Learned When Things Go Wrong Connect Ecology to Daily Life As a middle school science teacher at Hunter High School, Yael Wyner wanted to integrate conservation biology, which is typically taught in college, into the environmental science curriculum. One of the drawbacks, she discovered, was that “students learned about ecology and human impact separately and couldn’t connect the two.” That connection is critical, she explained, because “for students to be able to make informed decisions on environmental issues, they need to be able to understand the ecology. You can’t have informed

Michael Sorkin, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at The City College of New York's (CCNY) Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, was chosen as a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2010 Architecture Awards. Professor Sorkin was selected for the award, which carries a $7,500 prize, in recognition of his body of work in architecture, research and criticism. “As a critic, I call them as I see them,” said Professor Sorkin, who has written or edited 16 books to date. “It is important in an appearance-obsessed era

Saxophonist Billy Drewes is Guest Artist The City College of New York (CCNY) will host the 10th Annual CUNY Jazz Festival, 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Thursday, May 6 and 12 noon to 10 p.m. Friday, May 7 in Aaron Davis Hall, Theater B. Besides CCNY, ensembles from four other CUNY colleges and LaGuardia High School will participate in the event, which will feature saxophonist Billy Drewes as guest artist. “This is CUNY’s single most important jazz event,” said Mike Holober, CCNY associate professor of music and festival director. “It gives students from across the University the opportunity to

Twenty-three undergraduate and graduate students from The City College of New York (CCNY) traveled to Austria April 7 - 9 to participate in the Junior Science Conference 2010 at the Technical University of Vienna. Senior computer engineering major Igor Labutov took first prize in the masters-level poster competition; two other CCNY students also received prizes. The biannual event, which presents student research in four areas - computational science and engineering, materials and matter, information and communication technology, and energy and environment – attracted more than 200 students