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Yinery Baez, a fourth-year architecture student in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, never gave much thought to screws. However, as project manager for the interior of the Solar Roof Pod, CCNY’s entry in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, specifying cabinet hardware is one of her many responsibilities. “Many of the issues we face we never experienced in the classroom,” the Glendale, Queens, resident said. “Little details like the type of screws used, for example. For the cabinets, we produced over 50 drawings so they would have a

International Conference July 25 – 27 in Dominican Republic to Consider Pros and Cons; CCNY Sociologist Ramona Hernández Chairs Meeting After close to a year of groundwork, nearly 100 academics representing some 50 institutions from around the world will gather July 25 - 27 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, for an academic conference titled “The Spanish Caribbean: Toward a Field of its Own.” The scholars will discuss the creation of a new field of graduate-level study focused on Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico plus émigré populations who trace their ancestry to these lands. “The

Swapnil Jadhav and Giovanni Milione, graduate students in The City College of New York’s Division of Science, have been lauded for their leadership potential by prominent organizations in their respective fields. Mr. Jadhav, a PhD candidate in chemistry under the supervision of Associate Professor George John, was presented with the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) 2011 Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award. The award comes with a $1,000 stipend and certificate recognizing his outstanding contributions in furthering the goals of green chemistry. Through a project titled “Functional Molecular

First Time a Multidisciplinary Journal Devotes an Entire Issue to Dominican Studies “Camino Real,” the journal of the Instituto Franklin of the University of Alcalá, Spain, has published a special issue devoted to Dominican studies, a growing field in the United States focused on the study of people of Dominican ancestry. This is the first time a multidisciplinary academic journal has published an entire issue devoted to the field. Dr. Ramona Hernández, director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI), based at The City College of New York, and Anthony Stevens-Acevedo, CUNY DSI

A joint proposal from The City College of New York’s interdisciplinary Sustainability in the Urban Environment master’s program and two other organizations was one of 15 projects funded in the New York Department of Environmental Protection’s 2011 Green Infrastructure Grant Program. The team, which also includes New York Restoration Project, as lead partner, and Stantec Consulting, received $244,920. “We’re proud to have been asked to partner on this project with leading environmental restoration organizations like New York Restoration Project and Stantec,” said Dr. Latif M. Jiji, Herbert

Each summer, many City College of New York students leave the classroom behind to immerse themselves in exciting off-campus experiences. This year, a cadre of undergraduates invites you to follow their adventures on Twitter as they launch summer projects in academia, government, and the non-profit sector. The “Tweeting Your Summer” project begins by following the posts of four exceptional seniors in engineering and computer science. So far they have dipped into local cultural activities, befriended colleagues and fellow scholars, dived into the literature of their fields, discovered new joys

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