News

City College of New York President Lisa Staiano-Coico has announced that Dr. Maurizio Trevisan, MD, has accepted an offer to become dean of the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at CCNY. Dr. Trevisan, whose appointment is subject to the approval of the CUNY Board of Trustees, is currently executive vice chancellor and chief executive officer, Health Sciences System, Nevada System of Higher Education. If approved, he will assume his new position August 1. “Dr. Trevisan is an experienced senior administrator, an internationally known physician/epidemiologist in the field of

The Hon. Naoki Ishii, mayor of Shimoda, Japan, will lead an eight-member delegation on a pilgrimage to The City College of New York July 13 to honor CCNY’s founder, Townsend Harris, who also opened the first U.S. consulate in Japan. The party will be the 25th from Shimoda to visit CCNY to pay homage to Harris, who founded The College as The Free Academy in 1847. Mr. Harris, a prominent New York merchant who became consul general to Japan in 1856, negotiated that treaty and is credited as the diplomat who opened the Japanese Empire to foreign trade and culture. Owing to his goodwill, openness

New York City’s sole public school of architecture is offering pre-college and college-level students a sneak preview into the world of design and other architectural concepts, June 27 – July 29 at The City College of New York. The five-week Architecture Summer Career Lab is presented by The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture (SSA) at CCNY and coordinated by the College’s Continuing and Professional Studies (CPS) Program. “The Lab is an excellent opportunity for prospective students and laymen to have an experience exploring architecture in an intimate, basic and comprehensible

How do you observe signs of climate change in real time? Dr. Marco Tedesco, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at The City College of New York, plans to be the first to catch sight of one dramatic indicator of a warming world on the Greenland ice sheet this summer, and through social media, people will be able to track his progress. Professor Tedesco arrived in Greenland earlier this month to attempt to witness – for the first time – the entire lifecycle of a supra-glacial lake – from earliest formation to its catastrophic draining. These huge bodies of water form each year

An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Charles Vörösmarty, professor of civil engineering in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, was awarded $3 million from the National Science Foundation to develop a regional earth system model of the Northeast. The effort involves partner institutions from around the region, including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass. The proposed model will depict the coupled atmosphere-land-water system of a 10-state region stretching from Maine to Pennsylvania and Delaware

Two-Day Meeting Looks at Past, Present and Future of Mathematics in the City Shortly after she joined the faculty of The City College of New York School of Education, Dr. Catherine Fosnot established the Mathematics in the City (MitC) center at CCNY in collaboration with the Freudenthal Institute at University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. Under her leadership, MitC became a national center for professional development in K-8 math education, with support from the National Science Foundation, ExxonMobil Foundation and the New York City Department of Education. A two-day conference at CCNY

Issues Raised by CCNY’s Tarek Saadawi Addressed in Conference June 8-9 and New Book Available Through Strategic Studies Institute A cyber attack earlier this year on an Iranian nuclear facility may have set back Iran’s alleged plan to build an atom bomb. However, the target of that incident, the plant’s control and monitoring systems, has implications for a wide range of strategic infrastructure, according to cyber security expert Dr. Tarek Saadawi, director, Center for Information Networking, and professor of electrical engineering in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New

New Haarlem Arts Theatre to Offer Two Productions for Premiere Season, Support Theatre MFA at CCNY Harlem is getting a new entertainment option this summer. The New Haarlem Arts Theatre (NHAT), a new professional theatre company launched by The City College of New York Department of Theatre and Speech, will offer two productions in its premiere season. “Blues for Mister Charlie,” written by James Baldwin and directed by Eugene Nesmith, will run June 23 – July 17. “It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues,” a musical revue written by Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor, and Dan

CCNY Prof Tony Ro reports new insights on synesthesia at Acoustical Society of America Conference The high whine of a hovering mosquito makes the skin tingle and crawl. Some sounds, such as fingernails screeching down a blackboard or the throbbing bass of a cranked-up car stereo, are felt as much as heard. These feelings result from cross-wiring of senses in the brain, according to City College of New York Professor of Psychology Tony Ro. He explained this phenomenon and its relation to a disorder of sensory mixing called synesthesia in an invited paper he presented Wednesday, May 25, at the

Roberto Clemente, a senior majoring in advertising and public relations at The City College of New York, was named a Merit winner in the One Show College Competition for creativity in advertising. Simeon Coker, a CUNY Baccalaureate student, who was mentored and taught by CCNY advertising faculty, also received a Merit award. The winners were announced at a reception May 11 in New York. “The One Show is the Academy Awards of our industry,” said Nancy R. Tag, associate professor of advertising and deputy chair of CCNY’s Media & Communication Arts Department. “It’s probably the most prestigious