CUNY Newswire

For the third time this season Julia Sung has been named the CUNYAC/Applebee’s Women’s Swimming Athlete of the Week after five first place victories in the Bearcats’ two-conference win week…Chryzl Goco is named this week’s top…

Kenny Kim Is named CUNYAC/Applebee’s men’s swimming athlete of the week following two top times and a new school record…Abel Dupres set two new Lehman records following the Lightning’s lone meet of the week against Baruch (Jan. 9).

Jamecia Forsythe shot 46.9% from the field and 55.6% beyond the arc averaging 17.5 points, 13.0 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per contest in the Bloodhounds’ 1-1 week…For the second time this season Baruch’s Iyana Abrams is recognized as the to…

Winston Douglas earns the top player of the week nod following Medgar Evers’ 2-1 week with key wins against nationally ranked Oswego State (#22) and conference opponent Lehman… With the help of rookie standout Javon Cox in his third consecutive…

“We are reviewing Governor Cuomo’s submission today of the 2012-2013 New York State Executive Budget to the State Legislature and its impact on The City University of New York.

Sylvia Kahan, critically acclaimed author of Music’s Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac, will discuss the world of the Princesse’s influential, avant-garde salon.

Jeremy Travis, President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, today announced that Gina Barton of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Trevor Aaronson of Mother Jones magazine are the winners of the John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim 2012 Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Awards.

Alum Fiordaliza Rodriguez (’99) was quoted in a New York Times story about how Latinos view their racial identity.

Professors Mimi Fahs and Bill Gallo from the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College and Mieke Schmitz (a Hunter MPH student at the time and now a DPH student) and Nina Parikh (Brookdale Center for Healthy Living & Longevity) publish: The association between neighbourhood social cohesion and hypertension management strategies in older adults [...]

Lorna Thorpe, associate professor at CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College and colleagues publish Increased screening colonoscopy rates and reduced racial disparities in the New York Citywide Campaign: An urban model. See abstract below: OBJECTIVES: In 2003, in response to low colonoscopy screening rates and significant sociodemographic disparities in colonoscopy screening in New [...]

Lorna Thorpe, associate professor at CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College and colleagues publish Increased screening colonoscopy rates and reduced racial disparities in the New York Citywide Campaign: An urban model. See abstract below: OBJECTIVES: In 2003, in response to low colonoscopy screening rates and significant sociodemographic disparities in colonoscopy screening in New [...]

Sophia Tewa, a recent graduate of both Lehman College and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, has won the award for Best Documentary Feature at the Winter 2012 Hollywood Cinema Film Festival for “The People the Rain Forgot.”

Tom Robbins, investigative journalist in residence at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, has written the cover story for this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine on Judith Clark, a ’60s activist who took part in the notorious 1981 Brinks robbery that left two police officers and an armored-car guard dead. Titled Judith Clark’s Radical Transformation, [...]

Last summer, as members of BMCC’s Finance and Economics Club prepared to compete in the 2011 College Fed Challenge, their advisor, Yanni Tournas, urged them to keep a balanced perspective. “The goal,” he said, “isn’t to win but to learn.”

The Fifth Annual MLK Jr. Step up Speak out Family Day of Service, in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., will take place on Saturday, January 21 on the campus of the College of Staten Island (CSI). The keynote speakers will be Charles Laganga, Community and Youth Activist and Vice President of Staten Island friends of Hospice Care, and Tracy Brown, Essence best selling author. View the Event Program »Organizers chose this day “to restore Dr.

President Obama has named Dr. Mildred S. Dresselhaus (Hunter ’51) as one of two recipients of the Enrico Fermi Award, a prestigious award for scientific achievement. The award, honoring the memory of Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi, is administered on behalf of the White House by the U.S Department of Energy. Dresselhaus shares the honor with Dr. Burton Richter of Stanford University.

The International Women’s Human Rights Clinic and the Center for Reproductive Rights jointly submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on issues related to the status of women’s reproductive rights in the Philippines

The Queens College Choral Society will hold auditions for new members on January 18, 25 and February 1.

This spring the group will perform Brahms’ Requiem, one of the most beloved masterworks of all time.

The Choral Society will also be featured in the world premiere of a new work commissioned by the Queens Symphony Orchestra called 1001 Voices: A Symphony for Queens.

Lecturer Aimee Record teaches Women in Literature, a course that goes beyond—way beyond—just reading and discussing classic stories.
What makes Record’s course different is that she puts traditional literary texts in the context of contemporary culture and students’ lives.

On stage at Hunter College’s winter commencement on January 19th will be the internationally acclaimed ballet dancer Heather Watts, Ford Foundation president Luis A. Ubinas, and the 1,500 undergraduate and graduate students who will receive their degrees. Watts will receive an honorary degree and Ubinas will deliver the commencement address. The ceremony will take place at 3 pm in the Assembly Hall.