Alumni Hannah Rappleye and Lisa Riordan Seville from the Class of ’10 and radio instructor Amanda Aronczyk have received Soros Justice Fellowships from the Open Society Foundation. The $1.5 million in total awards supports investigative journalists, lawyers, academics, grassroots organizers, policy advocates, and filmmakers working to advance fairness and transparency in the U.S. criminal justice [...]
In our continuing efforts to showcase the talents of the student-athletes of the City University of New York, the CUNY Athletic Conference is holding our first-ever design contest. We are looking for a creative design for the cover of our 2012-13 Stude…
In our continuing efforts to showcase the talents of the student-athletes of the City University of New York, the CUNY Athletic Conference is holding our first-ever design contest. We are looking for a creative design for the cover of our 2012-13 Stude…
This press release details the astonishing story of Christopher Navas, a young man from a decade-long working-class background in commercial boilers, with little direction in life, who discovered a passion for neuroscience at Queens College. Today, he’s a Salk Scholar bound for Dartmouth medical school. Navas credits one professor in particular, Giuseppe Cataldo–himself, a part-time shoemaker at the time–with inspiring his fascination with science and starting him on the path toward success.
Queens College will confer an honorary doctorate on visionary
publisher, philanthropist and entrepreneur Sara Miller McCune
at its Commencement on May 31.
Brooklyn College is on track to reducing its carbon footprint by 30 percent by 2017, which is one of the many reasons why the college has once again earned a spot in the Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges. The annual report, compiled in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, highlights the colleges and universities that demonstrate a superior commitment to environmental sustainability.
Hostos Community College Professor Dr. Nelson Nuñez Rodríguez recently received two awards totaling over $30,000 from the American Society for Cell Biology: the 2012 Minority Visiting Professorship and the 2012 Linkage Fellows Award.
The College Board, a leading education nonprofit organization, is taking its college planning expertise and resources on the road through a series of bilingual town hall conferences in select cities across the country. Hostos Community College of The City University of New York has teamed up with the College Board to bring this town hall— called Destino Universidad — to the South Bronx on Thursday, May 24, 2012. The town hall will feature interactive panel discussions and workshops designed to provide college planning guidance on financial aid, admission procedures and course planning with sessions held in both English and Spanish.
