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The City College of New York launches "Science and Society," a yearlong lecture series, Thursday, December 5. Yale University historian Daniel Kevles will be the first speaker. His talk, "Genetics, Law and Human Rights," will be presented from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in Room 1/201, North Academic Center. Each speaker in the series is a prominent scholar in the humanities or social sciences whose work engages with the history, politics and societal significance of the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and math). Keith Wailoo , a noted historian of medicine and vice dean of the Woodrow

Award takes Haitian native back home to document earthquake recovery More than three years after one of the worst natural disasters in memory in the western hemisphere, recovery remains painfully slow from the earthquake that killed close to a quarter million people in Haiti. Widline Cadet, a 2013 City College of New York graduate, is documenting the aftermath through photography as a 2013 Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellow . She is supported by $19,000 stipend from the Mortimer and Sara Hays Endowment at Brandeis University. The fellowships provide support for travel and living expenses

Professor Catherine Seavitt Nordenson awarded $250,000 to design strategies to improve coastal resiliency of a vital ecological resource The City College of New York is one of four colleges and universities awarded grants from the Rockefeller Foundationto develop design strategies to improve resiliency in coastal zones subject to flooding such as that caused by Hurricane Sandy. The CCNY project will focus on developing proposals for Jamaica Bay, a 31-square mile estuarine embayment located in Brooklyn and Queens. The research is intended to supplement the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' North

The City College community will gather with the friends and family of Marshall Berman Friday, November 22, to pay tribute to Professor Berman, who passed away September 11. The tribute will be held 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, and is free and open to the public. Dr. Berman, a distinguished professor of political science in the Colin L. Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at City College, was a highly regarded humanist, social theorist and public intellectual. The Bronx native had been a member of the City College faculty since

‘Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations’ is first volume of its kind Retha Powers, acting assistant director of City College's publishing certificate program, has edited the first book to catalog more than 5,000 years of quotations attributed to black people. " Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations : 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World," published by Little, Brown and Co. , goes on sale November 19. The 720-page volume contains 5,000 quotes that date as far back as the time of Ancient Egypt and go through American slavery, Jim

The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York has rolled out the first prototype of a unique online tool to decode the various Spanish-language writing styles common in the 16th and 17th centuries. The " Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning Tool " will make it possible to teach anyone to decipher and read the handwriting styles used in the Spanish-speaking world in the colonial era. "By bringing together a number of digital interactive functions, the tool constitutes a much more effective pedagogical resource than any of the others devoted to Spanish

One made color television commercially feasible and developed the component that made camcorders possible. Another wrote more than 8,400 stories for the "New York Times." Yet another is an assistant secretary of defense and the highest-ranking City College of New York alumnus to serve in uniform since General Colin Powell. These and other distinguished City College alumni, along with Broadway legend Chita Rivera, were the toast of the 133rd Annual Alumni Dinner at the New York Hilton Thursday, November 7. While Ms. Rivera was presented the 66th John H. Finley Award for exemplary service to the

Rave reviews over “The New York Nobody Knows” by William Helmreich Four years, an astonishing 6,000 miles and nine pairs of shoes later, William Helmreich's long walkabout around the Big Apple is over. And the result is "The New York Nobody Knows" (Princeton Univ. Press, Oct. 2013), the City College of New York sociologist's 14th book that is being lauded by critics as the first sociological study of the city. The 67-year-old, who also teaches at the Graduate Center, CUNY, walked nearly every block– some 120,000 of them – in the five boroughs, in all weather, in perhaps the most unique

Dr. Robert R. Alfano, distinguished professor of science and engineering at The City College of New York, was presented with the Arthur L. Schawlow Prize at the the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Laser Science and Optical Society of America (OSA) meeting, held last month in Orlando. The Schawlow prize “recognizes outstanding contributions to basic research that uses lasers to advance our knowledge of the fundamental physical properties of materials and their interaction with light.” Professor Alfano was recognized for his “pioneering contributions to the field of ultrafast laser

Classical pianist broke Madison Avenue’s color barrier in 1955 when hired by Y&R as copywriter and jingle composer Advertising hall of famer and renowned concert pianist Roy Eaton, ’50, returns to his alma mater, The City College of New York, Thursday, November 21, to present a “Lunch with Leaders” talk to advertising and public relations majors. His topic will be “Music: a Tool for Transformation.” The event takes place 12 noon – 1:45 p.m. in Room 95, Shepard Hall, on the City College campus, located at 160 Convent Ave., Manhattan. Trained as a classical pianist, with a degree from the