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Michael Sorkin, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at The City College of New York's (CCNY) Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, was chosen as a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2010 Architecture Awards. Professor Sorkin was selected for the award, which carries a $7,500 prize, in recognition of his body of work in architecture, research and criticism. “As a critic, I call them as I see them,” said Professor Sorkin, who has written or edited 16 books to date. “It is important in an appearance-obsessed era

Saxophonist Billy Drewes is Guest Artist The City College of New York (CCNY) will host the 10th Annual CUNY Jazz Festival, 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Thursday, May 6 and 12 noon to 10 p.m. Friday, May 7 in Aaron Davis Hall, Theater B. Besides CCNY, ensembles from four other CUNY colleges and LaGuardia High School will participate in the event, which will feature saxophonist Billy Drewes as guest artist. “This is CUNY’s single most important jazz event,” said Mike Holober, CCNY associate professor of music and festival director. “It gives students from across the University the opportunity to

Twenty-three undergraduate and graduate students from The City College of New York (CCNY) traveled to Austria April 7 - 9 to participate in the Junior Science Conference 2010 at the Technical University of Vienna. Senior computer engineering major Igor Labutov took first prize in the masters-level poster competition; two other CCNY students also received prizes. The biannual event, which presents student research in four areas - computational science and engineering, materials and matter, information and communication technology, and energy and environment – attracted more than 200 students

A team from the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture and the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY) has been chosen as one of 20 finalists in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon for 2011. As Team New York, the CCNY students will compete against colleges and universities from the United States, Belgium, Canada, China and New Zealand to design, build and operate the most affordable, attractive, effective and energy-efficient solar-powered house. “The Solar Decathlon is a great project to educate and train the next generation of professionals in

The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Model United Nations team won Outstanding Delegation in the 2010 National Model United Nations (NMUN) Conference at the United Nations and the Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan, held March 28 through April 3. CCNY was one of 17 institutions to receive an “Outstanding Delegation” award in the 2010 competition, which attracted over 300 colleges and universities from five continents. The CCNY team was its own mini United Nations. The 13 members of the delegation hailed from 13 different countries of origin. The conference replicates four of the main committees of

The City College of New York (CCNY) will host “Sustainable Transit: Developing an Action Agenda,” a day-long conference that will examine the role that public transportation can play in achieving sustainability and how transit agencies can reduce their environmental impact. The event will take place 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Friday, May 7, in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture building. Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D-NY, will deliver the opening address. Congressman Rangel represents New York’s 15th Congressional District, which includes the CCNY campus. “Transit contributes to regional

Dr. Barbara Ann Naddeo, Associate Professor of History at The City College of New York (CCNY), was named a winner of the 114th Rome Prize by The American Academy in Rome at its annual awards ceremony at The Harmonie Club in Manhattan last night. Professor Naddeo received the award in the Renaissance and Early Modern Italian Studies field, which entitles its recipient to an academic-year-long fellowship at The American Academy in Rome. Beginning September 2010, she will spend a year in Rome as one of a cohort of American scholars working and residing at The Academy for the pursuit of academic

Ambassador Stephen W. Bosworth, U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy, Will Deliver Keynote Address General Colin L. Powell, USA (ret.), former U.S. Secretary of State and distinguished CCNY alumnus, will convene a half-day conference on dynamic shifts affecting relations between North and South Korea and the implications of those relations for policymakers. The conference will take place Friday, April 23, at the Harmonie Club in Manhattan. General Powell will address the conference’s luncheon session. Ambassador Stephen W. Bosworth, U.S. Special Representative for North Korea

John Payton, Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, has been the lead counsel in some of the most significant civil rights cases in recent times. The list includes the affirmative action cases Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger. Next Tuesday, April 6, he will visit The City College of New York (CCNY) to lead a panel discussion on the Grutter case, which resulted in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on law school admissions, and deliver The Skadden, Arps Lecture in Legal Studies. His lecture topic will be “Democracy & Diversity.” Both events are in The

Sarah Adams Co-Hosts Conference April 22 on Student Parent Issues Getting a college degree is hard enough, but when academic obligations are juggled with the responsibility of raising a child, the challenge can be daunting. As a graduate student and parent attending The City College of New York (CCNY), Sarah Adams lived that challenge. While fortunate to have had a strong family support network, she saw many of her fellow student parents struggling to keep up. Last fall, the New York Life Graduate Fellow established the CCNY Student Parent Group to provide a support base for all students who