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February 2002

This issue is devoted primarily to the University's integral role in rebuilding New York following September 11.

CUNY Responds: Rebuilding New York

CUNY Alumnus/Prize-winning Journalist Reports from Islamabad, Jalalabad, Kabul

City Tech Students Envision Rebuilding St. Nicholas Church

U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins Mulls Emergency Service of Verse

John Jay College and FEMA Address Urban Hazards

Helping Students Write about Trauma

Biography of a Life Cut Violently Short

CUNY Law PracticeIn the Public Interest Since 9/11

Graduate Center 9/11 Digital Archive

Windows on the World Chef Returns to City Tech following 9/11

Walt Whitman Sums Up “Human and Heroic New York”

Inaugural Conference on "Women and Work"

For Alzheimer’s Patients Life’s a Stage

Kingsborough Center Incubator of Global Virtual Enterprises

Governor Proposes State Budget

White House Urged to Support Pell Grant Increase

President Jackson Named to Schools Board

Fine Way To Learn About Steinway

City College Scholar-Director Chosen Cultural Affairs Commissioner by Mayor

Claire Shulman Honored by QCC

CUNY Counsel Elected Legal Aid Society Chair

Law Dean Glen Honored by State Bar

"American Art at the Crossroads”—
April Symposium at Graduate Center

Challenging Summer for Students in Vassar/CUNY Program

CUNY Responds: Eight distinguished faculty members who are leaders in their fields — including an architect, civil engineer, art historian, sociologist, and public safety specialist — offer their perspectives on 9/11 and rebuilding New York. Full Story...

U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins mulls the emergency service of verse and launches a new web site to encourage appreciation of poetry in the nation's high schools. Full Story...

Addressing Urban Hazards: John Jay College of Criminal Justice forum draws scientists, law enforcement officials, engineers, authors and other experts. Full Story...

World Trade Center Biography projects author John Darton, a Hunter College/CUNY alumnus, into the spotlight. Full Story...

Reporting from Kabul: CUNY alumnus Mohamad Bazzi, a Newsday reporter, moves in mid-September from covering New York City to reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Full Story...

Student Architects at New York City Technical College design models for a new St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church whose structure was decimated on September 11. Full Story...

Helping Students Write About Trauma: Prof. Louise DeSalvo, author of a book on writing as a way of healing, reports on applying her expertise in the classroom following the World Trade Center attack. Full Story...

A Challenging Summer for CUNY community college students in a collaborative program on the Vassar campus. Full Story.

December 2001

An Integrated City University Responds to the WTC Crisis

Bold, High-Tech TV Magazine Invites "Study with the Best"

NYC Past in Full Array At Inaugural History Festival

CUNY Community Colleges: Vital to City Economy

Arthur Miller Drops Back In for Finley Award at CCNY Dinner

Archaeologists Research Vikings

Faculty Experts Join Collaboration on World Trade Center Future

New Research Foundation Head

Asthma Initiative at BCC Registers Major Success

Oysters Reintroduced to Bay

York Grad Makes Naval History

Managing the 9/11 Crisis at BMCC

Hunter Cartographers Prepare Vital Ground Zero Maps For Rescue

CCNY’s Rosenberg/Humphrey Interns Continue Public Service Tradition

City Tech Prof Sheds Light on Titanic

New Device for Medical Diagnonis

Mina Rees, Pioneering Military Scientist

Annual Perspectives Nears 25th Anniversary

University to HIV Children: “Toys (and Lots Else) Are Us”

Bold, high-tech TV magazine, "Study with the Best," features the best of the University and appears on CUNY-TV, Sundays at 8 am and 8 pm. Full Story...

Book Talk Author Kathleen Broome Williams, assisted by CUNY Women's Research & Development fund, writes on pioneering female military scientist who was Graduate Center's founding president. Full Story...

Fantastic voyage to patent for dad & son at City College results in a micro photonic explorer for internal medical diagnosis. Full Story...

An integrated City Universtiy responds to the WTC crisis: A first person account by Chancellor Goldstein on the days and weeks immediately following September 11. Full Story...

Ground Zero maps, provided by Hunter College Center for Spatial Information offer vital help to rescue workers at the site of the World Trade Center Collapse. Full Story...

First biennial Festival of City History sponsored by Gotham Center for the New York City History, a newly established enterprise at The Graduate Center led by Mike Wallace. Full Story...

October 2001

Campuses Mobilize After Terrorist Attack

CUNY's "Success Express" Highlights Grads

Freshman Enrollment Rises at CUNY

First Festival Presented by Gotham Center

CUNY TV enhances recruiting outreach

U.S. Cheers Poet Laureate: Prof. Billy Collins

A Dream of Food On Washington Mall

Navy League Award to Hunter Physicist

Nine Leading Scholars Named Distinguished Professors

Haitian First Lady, CCNY Alumna, Feted

Baruch College Opens Vertical Campus

Historic Matters

Baruch Center Confronts Quality of Urban Life

Hunter College Historian Communes with the Saints

A Displaced Person Discovers His Place on Campus

CUNY Students Vault into Poll Work

Double Play for CUNY Broadcasters

Campuses mobilize after terrorists attack to provide needed services and moral support. Actions range from Hunter College nursing students tending to the bereaved at a shelter near ground zero to a candle-lit memorial at Queens College and workers at Borough of Manhattan Community College dispensing emergency supplies to rescue workers. Full Story...

Verticle campus opens at Baruch College in a 17-story edifice designed by award-winning architects. It soars in a graceful arc over Lexington Avenue and offers dramatic views of the city. Full Story..

First City history festival
is presented by the Gotham Center at the CUNY Graduate Center, drawing together historians to debate myths and realities of New York City history. Full Story...

CUNY's "Success Express" highlights graduates with multiple CUNY degrees, including a judge, doctor, accountant and teacher. Full Story...

Nine leading scholars including the U.S. poet laureate, a reproductive/sexual rights specialist and a police scholar are named CUNY Distinguished professors. Full Story...

CUNY students vault into poll work on Election Day as polling sites in the five boroughs are more densely populated by CUNY students than usual. Full Story.....

Winter 2001 Issue

A City College Toy Story

2001-2002 Budget Request Highlights

Hearst's Run For City Hall in 1905

A Picture Worth Almost 1,000 Credits

1199 Union Sponsor College Fair

Media Industry For Grads in E-Design

CUNY's Dominican Studies Institute

Antiquities at CS Placed on the Web

Exchanging Riffs for Tiffs

Wilde About Kabuki at Queens College

Chancellor's Medal To Jack, Lewis Rudin

City College Casts Splendid in Midtown

Scientist Comes Home as Dean for Research

Recruiters Reach Out for New Students

Senate Chair Ponders CUNY Then and Now

Queens Readings Silver Plated

A Picture Worth Almost 1,000 Credits. The "CUNY story" has become an almost commonplace part of metropolitan life over the decades since the City University was established. Full Story...

CUNY's Dominican Studies Institute. The Dominican Studies Institute came into being less than ten years ago, a difficult time for the City University. Full Story...

Scientist Comes Home as Dean for Research After rusticating along the Tennessee River at Knoxville for nearly 20 years, Spiro D. Alexandratos is coming home. Full Story...

City College Casts Splendid in Midtown. You can thank that most academic of deities, the goddess of wisdom Athena, for the latest unique ornament to New York City's cultural life made possible by a City University campus. Full Story...

1199 Union Sponsor College Fair. More than 900 union members attended a major College Fair on November 30th co-sponsored by CUNY and the League/1199 Service Employees International Union's Employment. Full Story...

Media Industry For Grads in E-Design. When Carlos Carranza, Class of '97, enrolled in the first web design class offered in City College's Art Department in 1996. Full Story...

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