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STX Co. Ltd., a South Korean energy conglomerate, has awarded $1.2 million to Dr. Jae W. Lee, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering in The Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY), for a five-year research assignment. Professor Lee will investigate “Process Intensification by Integrating Reaction and Separation.” Process intensification is [...]

Prominent women leaders in politics, business and academia will explore the complex challenges facing New York at the Third CUNY Women’s Leadership Conference, “Women’s Leadership for Change: Building a Better New York” on Friday, Nov. 16. This year’s program also unveils before several hundred CUNY students and educators the new 2008 CUNY/New York Times Knowledge Network calendar and website, “Let Freedom Ring,” fourth in a groundbreaking educational series highlighting critical U.S. historical themes, co-sponsored by JP Morgan Chase and TIAA-CREF and researched by The LaGuardia and Wagner Archives at LaGuardia Community College.

I applaud the New York State Commission on Higher Education’s recommendations to reinvigorate public higher education in our state. We owe it to the students and people of New York State to provide new and real investment in CUNY and SUNY. New Yorkers deserve public universities whose stature is nationally recognized, whose programs are highly [...]

The statistics are sobering: A 2005 Center for Disease Control (CDC) survey found that among New York high school students, 11% are overweight and 17% are at risk for becoming overweight, while 78% did not meet recommended levels of physical activity. The percentage of overweight children aged six to 11 more than doubled in the [...]

Baruch’s Weissman School of Arts & Sciences hosted a visit on December 7 by nine Afghan higher education officials as part of the Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program. The educators sought information on a range of topics involving higher education in the U.S., particularly graduate degree programs for international students. Entitled, “University Administration [...]

Baruch College alumni who attended the 75th anniversary celebration of The Ticker dubbed the well-attended June 6 gala reception the college’s event of the year. Now, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education has made that title official. The organization, an international association of university fundraising and alumni relations professionals, has awarded the event [...]

The York College/Community Commemorative Quilt Committee (YCCCQC) will host its 9th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Black History Month Art, Memorabilia, Poetry, Quilt Exhibition and Celebration on Sunday, January 13 at the York College Performing Arts Center at 94-45 Guy R. Brewer Boulevard. The art exhibition opening reception will commence at 1:30 p.m. [...]

York College (http://www.york.cuny.edu) will host its First Annual Foundation Gala, Celebrating the Legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to benefit York College Foundation Scholars Monday, January 21, 2008, 7 p.m., at the Performing Arts Center. NY1′s popular talk show host and political analyst Dominic Carter is the master of ceremonies and world renowned [...]

Born in Lebanon to refugee parents, BMCC associate psychology professor Maram Hallak had spent her youth fleeing from one war zone to another. In time, she made her way to America, settling in New York – a single mother “with three children to raise, little English and no resources.” She worked at minimum-wage jobs, frequented [...]

Hunter College student Asif Rahman received a prestigious award for outstanding scientific presentation at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students held in Austin in November. Rahman – a junior with a triple major in biology, political science and Thomas Hunter special honors – won for his project studying factors that play a role [...]

Soumitri Seshadri, who recently graduated from the College of Staten Island, has won first-place honors at the American Society of Engineers’ International Mechanical Engineering Congress Exposition, which was held recently in Seattle. According to CSI Engineering Science and Physics Professor Alfred Levine, Seshadri’s win in the Technical Poster Presentation category was for his senior project [...]

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York announces the establishment of the Saul Kripke Center, devoted to preserving, studying and promoting the work of one of the great thinkers of our times, who many consider to be the world’s foremost living philosopher. A distinguished Graduate Center faculty member, Professor Kripke’s achievements span [...]

As an English major at Hunter College in the sixties, Patricia Spence Rudden recalls “how exciting it was to discover Laura Nyro’s music in the midst of studying literature by ‘dead white males.’ Her music was very urban; I understood it almost immediately. I began to appreciate Nyro’s lyrics in a way that academics didn’t [...]

The Society of Woman Geographers has awarded graduate fellowships to Hunter students Erin Araujo and Rhoda Quan. The geography masters students each received a $5,000 fellowship award on November 16 at the Geography Department’s Annual Geography Awareness Week dinner. Alice Hudson, president of the New York Group of SWG, which support thesis research by women [...]

When Jean-Yves Plaisir joined BMCC’s department of teacher education two years ago, specializing in the early childhood field was the furthest thing from his mind. “I’d taught in elementary school, but never at the early childhood level,” he says. But he couldn’t help noticing that his classes were comprised almost exclusively of women. “I found [...]

The Queensborough Community College Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship is awarded every other year to one or more faculty members who have demonstrated a consistent body of outstanding achievement in faculty research or creative work. The three recipients for the 2007 year are Dr. Cheryl Bluestone, Professor of Psychology in the Department of Social [...]

Ruth Cusick, a third-year student at the CUNY School of Law, is the recipient of a Skadden Fellowship, an award that will provide her with funding to undertake a public interest law project after graduation. Ms. Cusick’s project will be at the Mental Health Advocacy Services in Los Angeles. There she will represent and advocate [...]

On Thursday, November 29, Brooklyn College celebrated the third annual Shirley Chisholm Day to commemorate the life and accomplishments of the first black woman to be elected to Congress and the first woman to run for President of the United States as a member of a major political party. Organized by Professor Patricia Antoniello, director [...]

CUNY Distinguished Professor Ruthann Robson is the subject of a new article on the CUNY Central Web site devoted to distinguished professors. The piece focuses on Professor Robson’s fiction and non-fiction works and on her philosophies as an expert in lesbian and gay jurisprudence as well as pedagogy. View the Article »

Eighteen faculty members from the College of Staten Island (CSI) are among The City University of New York’s Salute to Scholars celebration honoring faculty members who won prestigious national awards or outstanding national recognition for their research, artistic endeavors, and other accomplishments. “Our honorees represent the rich mosaic of faculty expertise and research interests that [...]