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Former senator from Maine held positions as varied as Northern Ireland and Middle East peace envoy, Disney chairman and baseball drug investigator Former U.S. Sen. George J. Mitchell, who served as a special enjoy for Middle East peace in the Obama administration and held several other high-profile positions in business and public service after he retired from the Senate, will deliver the 2013 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, at The City College of New York. The event, to be held in the Great Hall, Shepard Hall, on the CCNY campus at 160 Convent

International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project gathering to look at the past and future changes of clouds and climate More than 80 scientists, climatologists and weather experts from across the globe will descend on The City College of New York this month to take part in a conference celebrating the collection of three decades-worth of worldwide satellite observations of the properties, behavior and effects of clouds. The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) will mark its 30th anniversary as a multinational collaboration to collect and analyze satellite data on clouds

Writer, poet, critic Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, scholar of Jewish mysticism in Mexican literature, to present three lectures April 23 - 25 The City College of New York has entered into a three-year agreement with the government of Mexico that will enable the College to host Cátedra Cultura de México, a series of Mexican culture lectures, on its campus and at offsite locations in New York City. The first event in the series is a three-day conference, April 23-25, at CCNY’s main campus in Harlem, the CCNY Center for Worker Education in Lower Manhattan and Instituto Cervantes New York in Midtown

One of 15 ‘exceptional national and international scholars’ selected for inaugural cohort City College of New York historian Dr. Judith Stein is doubly distinguished. Professor Stein, who earlier this year became a CUNY Distinguished Professor, has been awarded a CUNY Distinguished Fellowship for the spring 2014 semester from the Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) of the Graduate Center (GC) of the City University of New York. She one of 15 “exceptional national and international scholars” selected for the inaugural cohort of this GC initiative. “The selection committee was unanimous in its

Levine-de Beer Genetics Lecture to explore idea of DNA as ultimate forensic record of three billion years of evolution Dr. Sean B. Carroll, a pioneer of the field of evolutionary developmental biology who is widely considered to be its leading figure, will deliver the 2013 Louis Levine – Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics at The City College of New York at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 18. He will speak in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall, 160 Convent Avenue, New York. The lecture, titled “The Making of the Fittest: DNA and a New Golden Age of Evolutionary Science,” is free and open to the public

Education major Christopher Nickerson wins speech competition; three studio art majors garner awards in LaborArts contest Four City College of New York undergraduates were winners in two recent CUNY-wide student competitions. Christopher Nickerson, a sophomore in the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, won first prize in the 2013 Student Speech Competition, and studio art majors Elizabeth Arias, Bao Lin Zhang and Steven Chalmers took second prize, third prize and honorable mention, respectively, in the visual arts category in the 2013 CUNY / LaborArts

Event is college’s first formal production for New York entertainment industry For the first time ever, graduating seniors in The City College of New York’s Department of Theatre and Speech will present a showcase evening of scenes, songs and monologues to the New York entertainment industry. The City College Showcase will be presented 7 p.m. Monday, May 6, at the Producers’ Club, 358 W. 44th Street, in the Crown Theater. Following the model of many other drama schools, student showcases act as an introduction to the show business community. They can even provide a springboard for the start of

Researchers set up monitoring stations to identify causes behind expansion of landlocked Lake Enriquillo, observe impact on Lake Azuei Spring break in the Caribbean conjures up images of days on the beach and nights in the clubs. But for five City College of New York undergraduate environmental engineering majors, two professors, a graduate student and a post-doc, it means something very different: trying to understand a climate-related phenomenon that is imperiling two lakes on the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The team, led by Dr. Fred Moshary, professor of electrical

Highest rated four-year New York State public college in publisher’s annual survey Military Times, a publisher of newsweeklies and a website for armed services personnel and their families, ranked The City College of New York 33rd best four-year college in the United States for veterans. CCNY was the highest-rated New York State public college in the annual survey. In recognizing City College, Military Times gave high marks to the school's veterans' staff and academic support programs. It also noted that CCNY accepts American Council on Education (ACE) credits, which are given for coursework

New York, New Jersey Students to Vie in SeaPerch Challenge Saturday, March 23 Student teams from more than 20 schools in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey will delay spring break to converge at The City College of New York Saturday, March 23, for an underwater robotics competition – the first ever of its kind in the Northeast. Some 100 middle and high school students will compete in The First Annual Greater New York SeaPerch Challenge, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., in CCNY's Mahoney Pool. The event is part of a U.S. Navy program to encourage youth to pursue careers in science, technology