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Lehman College will showcase student work in its first annual Festival of Theatre and Dance from December 7-10 in the Speech and Theatre Building’s Studio Theatre.

Thomas W. Smith Academic Fellowships recognize academic excellence in CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies, an individualized University-wide degree, cunyba.cuny.edu. To date, 663 students have been named Smith Fellows.

From Safety of New York, Reporting on Distant Home By BRENDAN SPIEGEL Published: November 19, 2011 in The New York Times WHEN news breaks in Nigeria, Omoyele Sowore is there. His Web news operation was the first to publish a photo of the Nigeria-born “underwear bomber” arrested in December 2009, and when a suicide bombing [...]

Greetings, The recommended application deadline for the Class of 2013 is coming up on January 4, 2012. Please remember, while we encourage you to complete as much of the application process as possible, we realize it may not be possible to have every item in place by that date. As long as you have begun [...]

Greetings, The recommended application deadline for the Class of 2013 is coming up on January 4, 2012. Please remember, while we encourage you to complete as much of the application process as possible, we realize it may not be possible to have every item in place by that date. As long as you have begun [...]

Greetings, The recommended application deadline for the Class of 2013 is coming up on January 4, 2012. Please remember, while we encourage you to complete as much of the application process as possible, we realize it may not be possible to have every item in place by that date. As long as you have begun [...]

Five BMCC students—Catherine Bisono, Alexandra Hellman, Lois Pine, Gregory Rodriguez, and JoNae Smith—will appear in Writers in Performance Showcase: Cycles, Hairy Armpits and Revelations at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center on December 2nd and 3rd at 8 p.m.

The Lehman Latin Jazz Ensemble will present “Salsa Picante” on Tuesday, December 6, at 4:30 p.m. in the Hearth Room, located on the third floor of the College’s Music Building.

The Lehman College Community Band will celebrate the holiday season with “Holiday Hurrah,” a free concert featuring a mix of holiday music and classics for wind band.

It’s not many college seniors that already have a job lined up seven months before they graduate. But senior Kelechi Ndukew, a Lehman Scholar and Biological Sciences major, does. He has won a year-long fellowship with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undergraduate Scholarship Program.

Queens College Professor of Educational and Community Programs Peishi Wang has received a five-year, $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to provide education and support services to preschoolers with autism and other disabilities in high-needs communities in Queens.

The Medgar Evers College Educational Talent Search Program recently received a five-year $1.6 million dollar grant from the US Department of Education. Under the auspices of the School of Professional and Community Development, the program identifies low-income and disadvantaged students and provides them with the academic, career, and financial counseling needed to graduate from high school and continue on to college.

For as long as she can remember, Thylo Ba has wanted to be a doctor. Growing up in Dakar, the Senegalese capital, she was painfully aware that healthcare was woefully inadequate and doctors were in short supply.

Hip-hop, a culture and music genre with roots in New York City’s black and Latino communities, has influenced everything from language to politics to dance to fashion. Not surprisingly, a hip-hop pedagogy is emerging in academia, as evidenced by a hip-hop think tank at New York University and the establishment of hip-hop archives at Harvard and Cornell.

Brooklyn College announced today that it is taking steps to ensure an education of superior quality remains accessible to current and future students as tuition costs rise across the City University of New York. Yesterday, CUNY announced that tuition at all of its campuses will increase by $300 annually for the next four years in order to make up in part for reductions in public funding over the past several years.

Professors Ramzi Kassem and Amna Akbar set the record straight on the facts about CUNY Law’s Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) Project.

Our Chancellor, with the support of the Board of Trustees, has led an historic battle for almost a decade to bring the CUNY Compact to its full fruition. He has done so in the face of difficult economic times, deeply painful budgetary reductions, and stiff political resistance.

The house that Louis Armstrong, the founding father of American Jazz, and his wife Lucille called home since 1943 is offering special guided holiday tours from December 1 through December 30. In keeping with Louis and Lucille’s tradition, the mid-century house will be brightly decorated for the holidays.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice and New York Law School (NYLS) announced today the creation of a dual-degree M.A.-J.D. program in forensic psychology and law to train attorneys with a specialization in mental disability law, and train psychology graduate students in the legal system.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt, an iconic symbol of the epidemic that has killed more than half a million Americans, will go on display at The City College of New York December 1 in observance of World AIDS Day.

On loan from The NAMES Project Foundation in Atlanta, the quilt will hang in The Great Hall on the second floor of Shepard Hall, until December 2. Members of the public will be able to view it without charge 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on both days. City College is located at 138th Street and Convent Ave., Manhattan.