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Townsend Harris Medals Presented to Seven at November 9 Annual Dinner Frank J. Sciame, ’74 Arch., one of the nation’s preeminent builders, and Vy Higginsen, an African-American broadcasting pioneer, will receive the 64th John H. Finley Award from The Alumni Association of The City College of New York. Named for CCNY’s third president, the award honors deserving New Yorkers for exemplary service to the city. They will be feted at the Association’s 131st Annual Dinner, Wednesday, November 9, at The New York Hilton. In addition, the Townsend Harris Medal will be given to seven City College alumni

Graduate School Classmates Florencia Fraschina and Andrea Cukier Exhibit Together for First Time in 15 Years Argentine artists Florencia Fraschina and Andrea Cukier will have the first joint exhibit of their works in 15 years at The City College of New York’s Center for Worker Education. Titled “Inner Environments: New Paintings from Florencia Fraschina and Andrea Cukier,” it features 25 paintings and runs November 10 through January 25. “We are excited that our next exhibit will bring together two Argentine artists working from diverse perspectives: one working in Buenos Aires, the other

Topic Will Be Life and Death of a Microbial Community Microbiologist Dr. Richard M. Losick will deliver the 6th Annual Sharon Cosloy-Edward Blank Lecture at The City College of New York 4 p.m. Wednesday, November 9. The topic of his talk will be “Life and Death of a Microbial Community.” The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place in Room 250, Shepard Hall, and will be followed by a reception in Room 150, Shepard Hall. Dr. Losick is the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology, a Harvard College Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and a Howard Hughes Medical

Andrzej Krakowski’s New Volumes Tell Story of Poles in Early Hollywood, Offer Perspective on Art of Screenwriting Andrzej Krakowski, City College professor of film and video, apparently spent little of his 2010-2011 sabbatical playing golf or lying on the beach. The Hollywood screenwriter, producer and director has two books coming out next month, including one written in his native Polish that is being made into a movie and stage play. “Pollywood,” published by PWN (Polish Scientific Publishers), tells the stories of many of the Polish immigrants who played pivotal roles in Hollywood’s early

First Full Season at CCNY Performing Arts Center in 30 Years Award-winning actors, singers, writers and dancers will highlight a star-studded 2011-2012 season of performances, exhibits and special presentations at The City College of New York’s Aaron Davis Hall. Broadway star and award-winning singer and actress Lillias White will perform in concert for the first time at Aaron Davis Hall 7 p.m. Friday, November 4. This concert starts the cavalcade of stars appearing at CCNY for the year-long season of activities billed “All That’s City.” “I am deeply devoted to preserving and expanding the

Glacial Melt Cycle Could Become Self-Amplifying, Making it Difficult to Halt The Greenland ice sheet can experience extreme melting even when temperatures don’t hit record highs, according to a new analysis by Dr. Marco Tedesco, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at The City College of New York. His findings suggest that glaciers could undergo a self-amplifying cycle of melting and warming that would be difficult to halt. “We are finding that even if you don’t have record-breaking highs, as long as warm temperatures persist you can get record-breaking

Partnership between Stanford and the Nation’s Leading Public University Creates Stanford@CCNY In response to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s call to strengthen New York City’s economy by creating a world-class applied science and engineering school here, Stanford University President John L. Hennessy, The City University of New York Chancellor Matthew Goldstein and City College President Lisa S. Coico today announced the creation of the Stanford-CUNY Collaboration at City College, or Stanford@CCNY. Joining East and West Coast resources in an innovative new arrangement, Stanford@CCNY has the

Aims to Become ‘National Center’ Serving Government, Academic and Scientific Communities The NOAA-Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center (NOAA-CREST) has begun its second decade of operation, supported by a new five-year, $15 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The center, which is based at The City College of New York and includes four other university partner institutions in California, Maryland, Virginia and Puerto Rico, aims to become an international and national center that will serve government agencies as well as the academic and

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

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