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Drawings by Alumnus Capture Life at CCNY in Bygone Era

Works of Marvin Gettleman, ’57, on Display in Cohen Library Gallery Through October 28 A new exhibit in the Morris Raphael Cohen Library Archives Gallery featuring sketches by City College alumnus Marvin Gettleman, ’57, offers a view of City College in a bygone era. “CCNY - An Era Sketched in Time: The Drawings of Marvin Gettleman, Class of 1957” runs through October 28. The Gallery is located in CCNY’s North Academic Center (NAC), 160 Convent Ave., Manhattan. The exhibit presents 31 drawings depicting fellow classmates and professors from Mr. Gettleman’s student days at City College. These
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CWE Hosts Colloquium on Hispanic Literature in New York

Latino Artists Round Table (LART) and The City College of New York Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CWE) will present the first international colloquium on Hispanic literature written in New York in Spanish, October 14 and 15 at CWE, seventh floor, 25 Broadway, Manhattan. The colloquium will provide an overview of literary work written in Spanish by Hispanics residing in New York from the 19th century to the present through panels and roundtables, as well as book presentations by publishing houses Editorial Campana and Artepoética Press. LART
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Faith Ringgold to Receive CCNY’s First Cultural Arts Award

Artist, CCNY Alumna to be Honored October 6 with Ceremony, Quilt Exhibit Faith Ringgold, the renowned artist, author and quilt maker has been selected to receive The City College of New York’s First Annual Cultural Arts Award. An alumna of City College, she will be honored at a ceremony Thursday, October 6, at CCNY’s Aaron Davis Hall Center for the Performing and Visual Arts. Ms. Ringgold is the first recipient of the award, which recognizes those who have made substantial contributions to the world through the cultural arts including visual, literary, music, performance and community. It has
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CCNY-led Research Could Lead to Wearable Sensors for the Blind

$2 Million NSF Award Represents Huge Payoff for CCNY’s City Seeds Grants Promoting Interdisciplinary Collaboration Wearable sensors that allow the blind to "see" with their hands, bodies or faces could be on the horizon, thanks to a $2 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to researchers at The City College of New York and Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). The grant, through the NSF "Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation" program, will fund a multidisciplinary team investigating devices for "alternative perception" and the principles underlying the
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NRC Ranks CCNY PhD Program Among Best in US

In 1999, the City University of New York began training PhD candidates in biomedical engineering, three years before its engineering school, the Grove School at The City College of New York, even had a biomedical engineering department. Fast-forward 12 years to 2011 and the program is now one of the nation’s best, according to National Research Council (NRC) rankings. Using NCR’s “S” measure, which is based on 20 quantitative criteria that are ranked and weighted by survey participants, the CCNY program is tied with The Johns Hopkins University and University of Pennsylvania in 11th place out
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CCNY President Awards Scholarships to Nine Local Students

One wants to be an astronaut. Another aspires to be a surgical oncologist. A third City College of New York freshman, who spoke no English when she arrived from the Dominican Republic four years ago, is planning a medical career. These students, all high achievers, are among nine recipients of the 2011 City College President’s Community Scholarships. Awarded strictly on academic merit, the scholarships provide $5,000 support renewable for up to five years. Scholars are required to perform community service and maintain good academic standing as a condition for renewal. “There’re so many
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Free Speech at CCNY Exhibit on Display at CWE

“The Struggle for Free Speech at the City College of New York: 1931-42,” an exhibition documenting student and faculty political activism at CCNY in the 1930s, will be on display at The City College Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, seventh floor, 25 Broadway, September 6-October 28, 2011. Carol Smith, a retired CCNY faculty member, curates the exhibition, which was made available courtesy of City College Libraries. The Puffin Foundation and Yip Harburg Foundation provided additional funding. “This exhibit addresses an important time in history,” said Dr
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CCNY’s Solar Roof Pod Showcases Innovative Technology

Climate Control and Energy Storage Systems Have More Than Twice the Efficiency of Best Available Products A unique structure in the urban landscape has arisen on a plaza of The City College of New York campus over the past few months. Designed and built by CCNY students, faculty and team sponsors, it is meant to be installed on the roofs of commercial and residential buildings in high-density urban centers. Dubbed the Solar Roof Pod, it showcases cutting-edge green technology inside and out, including a novel heating and cooling system with more than twice the energy efficiency of conventional
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CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Wins NEH Grant

The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) at City College is developing an online resource to study four centuries of Spanish writing styles. The project is supported by a $50,000 start-up grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities. A prototype of the Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning Tool is scheduled to go live in spring 2013. Having the system will bring CUNY DSI in line with major museums and libraries that apply digital technology to the study of Spanish script. CUNY DSI, which was founded in 1992, is the first and only
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Sponsor Network Turns Solar Roof Pod Dream Into Reality

Team New York Raises $1.4 Million from Energy Firms, Building Industry, Alumni When The City College of New York was selected from more than 100 entrants as one of 20 finalists in the U.S. Department of Energy 2011 Solar Decathlon, it faced a huge challenge: Could this urban, public college assemble the resources needed to design and build the students’ prototype solar house and compete against well-heeled, private and public institutions large and small? The answer has been a resounding “yes.” Team New York, with more than 100 students and 10 faculty members from the Bernard and Anne Spitzer
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