April 30, 2007—Eight Baruch College undergraduates will attend the annual shareholders’ meeting of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. at the invitation of legendary value investor and company CEO Warren Buffett. The meeting will be held at the company’s headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska during the first weekend of May.
The students are members of the Portfolio Management Club, started [...]
Bronx, NY – Bronx Community College (BCC) Student Volunteers working with the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) Campus Chapter are making a difference. They are bringing prom dreams closer to some 100 students at a high school on the campus by offering new and gently-used dresses. What started out as a few [...]
Free to the Community
Bronx, NY – The first Bronx Kids Comic Conference (Comic-Con) will be held on Saturday, April 28, 2007 in Colston Hall Lower Level 10 a.m. – 6 p.m at Bronx Community College (BCC) of The City University of New York BCC, West 181st Street and University Avenue.
FREE TO THE PUBLIC: The Conference [...]
Brooklyn, NY — April 27, 2007 — New York City College of Technology/CUNY (City Tech) will honor Frank Crystal & Company Chairman James W. Crystal, New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr., City Tech alumnus and U.S. Bureau of Engraving & Printing Director Larry R. Felix ‘80 and international food consultant Anna Nurse at [...]
BRONX, NY—Queen College Geology Professor Nicholas K. Coch will discuss the vulnerability of the New York area to hurricane damage in a lecture to the Lehman College Sigma Xi chapter on Thursday, May 3, at 6 p.m. in Lehman’s Faculty Dining Room. The talk is free and open to the public and will be preceded [...]
BRONX, NY—Melida Maldonado, a senior at Marble Hill High School for International Studies, has won third place and a $1,500 award in the Japan Center at Stony Brook—Canon Essay Competition. The competition aims to promote awareness and understanding of Japan in the United States and to help young Americans broaden their international horizons. Maldonado is [...]
Forty Percent of Students in Bronx Institute Prep Course
Earn Admission to City’s Specialized High Schools
BRONX, NY — Students from some of the most economically challenged neighborhoods in New York City are being accepted in record numbers to the city’s specialized high schools—a gateway to the nation’s top colleges—after completing a free preparation course and workshop [...]
Isidore (Izzi) Ramkissoon, musician, composer, and 2007 graduate of the College of Staten Island (CSI) will be presented in concert at the Robert Miller Gallery, 524 W. 26th Street, Manhattan on Friday, May 4, 2007 at 8:00pm. Ramkissoon’s composition, Sub-ter-ain Frequencies 5.1, is a multimedia electronic-acoustic work, and is the first-prize winner of [...]
The Laughter Arts Festival, featuring Dom Irrera and Bobby Collins, will close the Spring 2007 season of the Center for the Arts (CFA) at the College of Staten Island (CSI) on Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 8:00pm. Tickets are on sale at $45, $42, and $39. Contact: 718-982-ARTS (2787), boxoffice@cfashows.com, or www.cfashows.com. The CFA [...]
The euphoria over Baruch senior Joselyn Muhleisen (’07) and her Fulbright award had barely subsided when more good news reached the college. Baruch had another Fulbright winner, this one a graduate student. Christopher Bell, a 29-year old Master of Public Administration candidate with a BA from NYU and a deepening interest in post-Soviet Eastern Europe, [...]
