“I am proud to say that I have ‘graduated’ from Hostos Community College three times in three different decades,” declared Juan Jose Reyes, who works at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center as a Cardiac/Vascular Register Technologist (RT).
His dream came true when he earned an associate’s degree in radiology from Hostos, becoming the first in his family [...]
Hunter College students will become muckraking journalists this spring under the tutelage of Village Voice investigative reporter Tom Robbins, who will serve as the Jack Newfield Professor.
Robbins is the second distinguished journalist to occupy the post, established to honor Newfield, a legendary reporter and Hunter graduate. Robbins will teach a course entitled “Urban Investigative Reporting” [...]
York College and the Black American Heritage Foundation will pay tribute to women of historic stature who often go unsung in the world of jazz. These are the wives of internationally renowned musicians who many have never met or seen. But on Friday, February 2, 2007, from noon – 2 p.m., in the lobby of [...]
Brooklyn, NY — The familiar adage “all good things come to those who wait” is certainly true for Brooklyn College student Pangeline Edwards, who became a mother at 18 and deferred her education and career to raise her two children. Now, with her children grown, she will be living the dream of many students – [...]
Brooklyn, NY — Some people have all the fun.
Brooklyn College Distinguished Professor Theodore Raphan, for example, plays with robots. And he and his team may someday be able not only to help people walk better, but also to improve the performance of the robotic vehicles that roam the lunar landscape.
Raphan and his team recently implanted [...]
Brooklyn, NY — How do I stay healthy? It’s the big question for more and more Americans. A lot of their concerns about cholesterol, exercise, weight, and blood pressure are rooted in research by epidemiologists over the past 50 years. Epidemiology, which seeks the causes of disease by studying populations rather than individuals, illuminates the [...]
We are reviewing the details of the 2007-2008 State Executive Budget Released today by Governor Spitzer and are encouraged by his recommendations to strengthen the State’s investment in The City University of New York.
This winter, the CUNY Graduate Center will present the exhibition Attenuations: Paintings and Works on Paper by Ukrainian immigrant artist Albert Fayngold. Fayngold’s artwork will be on display in the Exhibition Hallway on the first floor of the Graduate Center from February 5 through March 5. Jointly sponsored by the Art Gallery and the Ph.D. [...]
Veronica Nunez, a Liberal Arts major at Queensborough Community College, was accepted into the Kaplan Leadership Program. She is one of the five students throughout the New York Metropolitan area that was chosen to be a Kaplan Leadership Scholar.
Starting with the Spring 2007 semester, Ms. Nunez will receive financial and academic support through the [...]
January 30, 2007 — Long Island City, New York — LaGuardia Community College today announced the award of a $100,000 grant from HIP Health Plan/Centralized Laboratory Services to completely renovate and update its existing nursing resource center into a state-of-the-art computer and media resource facility.
The newly named “HIP/Centralized Laboratory Services Tutoring Center” will provide [...]
