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Dr. Richard Sennett, author and professor of sociology at the London School of Economics and New York University, will deliver the seventh Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism 6 p.m. Monday, April 11, at The City College of New York. His topic will be “The Edge: Borders and Boundaries in the City.” The lecture, held in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall, located at 160 Convent Ave., New York, is free and open to the public. Professor Sennett is a social analyst who studies how people in urban populations understand material facts surrounding where they live and work to interpret their life

Cornelius Eady Will Be Featured Guest Poet The 39th annual City College Poetry Festival, an all-day, all-verse event that has become New York’s longest-running, most established and democratic poetry celebration, will take place 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 17, in Theater B of Aaron Davis Hall on The City College of New York campus at 135th St. and Convent Avenue. This year’s featured guest poet is Cornelius Eady. Over its 39-year history, the festival, which has been dubbed the “Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” has attracted numerous celebrated poets. They include singer/songwriter Paul

Event Produced By Colin Powell Center Student Fellows Looks at Using Social and Digital Media to Foster Collective Action and Create Change The Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies at The City College of New York presents the 2011 New York Life Symposium, “Civic Engagement in the Era of New Media,” 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., in Harlem. Organized by Powell Center student fellows, the event will explore how individuals and organizations can harness social and digital media to foster collective action and

“Primetime” Anchor John Quiñones to Deliver Keynote Address More than 500 participants are expected to attend a daylong conference at The City College of New York that will explore the myriad diverse issues related to immigration and education in New York City and the United States Saturday, March 19. John Quiñones, the Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of ABC's “Primetime,” will be the keynote speaker at the “CCNY Immigration & Education” conference, which runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, and is hosted by CCNY’s School of Education

Israeli-born Dan Pugach Honored for Jazz Composition, to Attend Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Workshop in Washington Dan Pugach, a graduate student majoring in jazz performanceat The City College of New York, has received a 2011 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award for his original composition, “Discourse This.” He is one of 31 talented young jazz composers nationwide whose compositions were picked by a jury of professional musicians. “Discourse This” began as a short jazz tune that Mr. Pugach, a drummer and native of Israel, wrote. One of his professors, Mike Holober, inspired him to re-composite the

Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, former vice president of Congo, is on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes related to the actions of his country’s troops while on duty in neighboring Central African Republic (CAR). Prosecutors at the ICC in The Hague say Congolese fighters committed mass rape, killings, and plunder in Bangui, the capital city of CAR, while helping that country’s president thwart a coup. In need of an expert on gender crimes and post-traumatic stress disorder to assist with the landmark case that began last November, they turned to Dr. Adeyinka Akinsulure

The City College of New York Division of Science announces 18 events for March featuring prominent scientists from across the United States speaking on their research. All are free and open to the public, and are held in the Marshak Science Building, unless otherwise noted. Listings of event times, speakers, topics and room numbers follow: March 3 , 3:30 p.m.: Physics colloquium, Dr. Andre Walker-Loud, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory,“ QCD: The Most Perfect Physical Theory (until one wants to compute properties of matter),” room 418N. March 7 , 12 noon: Salzberg chemistry seminar series

Ethnicity and religion are the foci of a new lecture series presented by The City College of New York history department . The three-part series, which kicks off Thursday, March 3, presents diverse perspectives on contemporary issues in which these topics play an important role. It is made possible by a grant from the office of CCNY President Lisa Staiano-Coico. The series dovetails with one of President Staiano-Coico’s goals for CCNY; engaging City College students and faculty across a wide range of disciplines on timely subjects, explains Dr. Clifford Rosenberg, chair of the history

Entertainer, activist to discuss “Freedom & the 21st Century” Harry Belafonte, the veteran entertainer, actor and social activist, will deliver The City College of New York’s Black History Month keynote address, 4:30 p.m., February 24, in Aaron Davis Hall’s Marian Anderson Theater. His talk will be entitled “Freedom and the 21st Century.” “Harry Belafonte is one of the towering figures of our times,” said CCNY President Lisa Staiano-Coico. “As an actor and a singer he has captured the imagination of Americans -- and he has been in the forefront of the fight for civil and human rights in our

CCNY Public Safety Office, Local Police, Fire Units Recognized as Part of National Day of Solidarity for Compassionate Patient Care Salute Students of the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Educationat The City College of New York joined with dozens of medical schools around the United States and Canada Monday, February 14, to observe the first National Day of Solidarity for Compassionate Patient Care. The event was created by the Gold Humanism Honor Society of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation to honor the spirit of caring exhibited by Dr. Randall Friese. He was the first trauma surgeon to treat