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Discoverer of link between genes and hypertension to present annual Louis Levine-Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics Yale University biochemist Richard P. Lifton , who discovered the link between genetics and high blood pressure, will deliver the annual Louis Levine-Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics at The City College of New York. His talk on "Genome Approaches to Understand Hypertension and other Common Diseases" will begin at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 27, in The Great Hall. It is free and open to the public. Dr. Lifton is chair of the Department of Genetics and Sterling Professor of

Native of Warsaw earns degree in directing from Polish National Film School 46 years after homeland exiled him in wave of anti-Semitism Poland’s leading film school has awarded a PhD to Andrzej Krakowski , a professor of film and video at The City College of New York. Earning the degree, granted in January and the first PhD in directing for a faculty member at a U.S. film school, reflects not only his persistence, but changed attitudes in his homeland, as well. In 1968, Poland exiled him and most of the other Jews still living in Poland after the Holocaust. At the time, he was studying

The City College of New York media and communication arts (MCA) department will honor one of its own, Professor Lynn Appelbaum , for 20 years of service at a March 13 private reception. In addition, the department has established an endowed scholarship in her honor and created a Facebook page where well-wishers can share stories and post congratulatory messages. Professor Appelbaum is director of CCNY's advertising/public relations program, which has 200 undergraduate majors and in 2012 began offering a master of professional studies degree in branding and integrated communications. She has

The Americas Film Festival New York, June 2 – 5, to honor the rich diversity of cultures, languages and stories of the Americas The Americas Film Festival New York (TAFFNY), a new festival to showcase feature films, documentaries, shorts and animations that represent the rich diversity of cultures, languages and stories of the Americas, will be held June 2 – 5 at The City College of New York Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway, Manhattan, and the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, One Bowling Green. The City College Division of

Public invited to ’Meet the Dean‘ reception, groundbreaking talks, tours and insider’s view during ’A Day with the Colin Powell School at City College’ The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership is hosting “A Day with the Colin Powell School at City College” event Thursday, February 27. The day will: Introduce the school’s first permanent dean, Vince Boudreau; Showcase the remarkable work of the school’s departments and programs, and Present new initiatives associated with the school’s founding. “Since the Colin Powell School’s inauguration in May 2013, we have been intensively

Eleven City College advertising and public relations students were selected as finalists for the 2014 Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP), run by the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4As). The highly competitive program offers selected undergraduate and graduate students a 10-week paid summer internship at a 4A's member advertising agency. This year’s finalists from City College are: Tiffany Banks, Ashley Duchemin, Raj Gomes, Jerry Louis, Cheryl Minaya, Rohan Patrick, Frank Ponciano, Marcos Porrata, Sharmin Rashed, Andrea Lee Torres and Christopher Villanueva. Mr

In 2012, Dr. Nir Krakauer, an assistant professor of civil engineering in CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering, and his father, Dr. Jesse Krakauer, MD, developed a new method to quantify the risk specifically associated with abdominal obesity . A follow-up study, published February 20 by the online journal PLoS ONE, supports their contention that the technique, known as A Body Shape Index (ABSI), is a more effective predictor of mortality than Body Mass Index (BMI), the most common measure used to define obesity. The team analyzed data for 7,011 adults, 18+, who participated in the first Health

The City College of New York marks the start of Women's History Month with its 2nd Annual Women's Leadership Summit, Saturday, March 1. Themed "Renaissance Woman," the conference, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. in the North Academic Center (NAC) Hoffman Student Lounge, facilitates growth and connection among women's groups and professionals and CUNY students. Free and open to all CUNY students, the event is sponsored by City College's Women's Summit Student Committee and the Ernesto Malave Leadership Academy at CUNY. Registration is required. Following is a list of other Women's History Month events at City

The City College of New York will host the preliminary round of the New York City Science & Engineering Fair , 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Sunday, March 2, in the Great Hall, Shepard Hall. Sponsored by the New York City Department of Education and the City University of New York , the fair is the largest high school research competition in New York City. The fair is a two-tiered competition, with approximately 485 projects invited to compete in the preliminary round. Those scoring in the top 25 percent will be invited to participate in the final round, Tuesday, March 25, at the American Museum of Natural

Historian Eric D. Weitz , dean of The City College of New York's Division of Humanities and the Arts, leads a four-member panel discussion March 3 at CCNY on the groundbreaking 1812 Spanish Constitution of Cádiz. The conversation takes place 12 noon – 2 p.m. in the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) Archives and Library, Room 2/202, North Academic Center. The event is free and open to the public; however, registration is required. The other panelists are: Dr. Jorge Chinea, director, Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.; Dr. Raul Navarro