Greetings, Here are some inspiring clips as we hit the homestretch: •Michelle Gross scored a Daily Beast clip with this Cinco de Mayo-pegged culinary piece. •Anika Anand and Kenny Christensen’s video-and-print profile of a subway dancer found a home on DNA Info. •Evan Buxbaum, Althea Chang and Tom DiChristopher teamed on this video about the [...]
The San Juan Philharmonic Chorale will celebrate 25 years of performance history with a special concert in Lehman College’s Lovinger Theatre on Saturday, June 2, at 2 p.m.
In July 2012, Member States, policy-makers, civil society organizations, representatives of academia and the private sector will meet at UN Headquarters in New York during the high-level segment of the substantive session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to address the challenge of increasing productive capacity and promoting employment and decent work.
A hands-free system to help visually impaired people sense their surroundings won $50,000 for a team of five City College of New York students in the Second Annual Kaylie Prize for Entrepreneurship competition.
Following the news of his second prestigious commission from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress, Associate Professor of Music Jason Eckardt shows little sign of slowing down. In fact, his newest piece, a six-minute composition titled “to be held…” performed by violinist and singer Wendy Richman, incorporates a novel twist — Richman must compete against herself via an electronically manipulated prerecorded performance.
LaGuardia Community College students hold a fashion show on May 24 to help a student raise money for women in Haiti
Congressman Joseph Crowley met with some 70 local small business owners from his Queens and Bronx district to explain how Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program, a partnership with LaGuardia Community College, can help them grow their businesses and create jobs.
Senior Catherine W. Chan has been selected as a 2012 recipient of CUNY’s Jonas E. Salk Scholarship, an award given annually to eight students who have the potential to make significant contributions to medical research. The scholars are selected by a panel of distinguished physicians — all Salk alumni — based on the quality of their research, academic excellence and recommendations by professors and mentors.
In one of the first Occupy Wall Street protest cases to go to trial, alum Paul Keefe (’07), along with Gideon Oliver, represented Alexander Arbuckle, who was taking photos at January 1 march and was arrested for disorderly conduct. Arbuckle was found not guilty, mostly due to the photographs and video taken by Arbuckle and others that contradicted testimony from police officers. “What’s happening is very similar to what happened in 2004 with the Republican National Convention,” Keefe said. “It’s just a symptom of how the NYPD treats dissent. But what has changed is that there is more prevalence of video. it really makes our job a lot easier to have that video.”
In a guest column for JURIST, Adjunct Professor Michael Macchiarola discusses the role of the judiciary in settlements between the Securities and Exchange Commission and private parties. He cites Judge Jed Rakoff of the US District Court of the Southern District of New York, who, in some recent opinions, has “questioned the wisdom of the long-running settlement practice” of the SEC.
