Hunter senior Silvia Caballero has been selected as one of five outstanding young scientists from across the nation to receive a prestigious 2008 Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study.
These highly-competitive fellowships, awarded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, provide full support for up to five years of study toward a PhD for exceptional young people in [...]
Lehman College will host a series of free events for Black History Month, including the College’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture on Tuesday, February 26, which will feature Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson as the keynote speaker. The talk, which is open to the public, will take place from 11 a.m. to [...]
Professor Terry Berkowitz, chairperson of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, is a visual artist with an international reputation. From Jan. 31 to Mar. 9, her work will be on view in Madrid’s Galeria Magda Belloti in a one-person exhibition that tackles issues of family, war crimes, and culture.
The exhibition is titled 1402-1944 and [...]
The Baruch Performing Arts Center (BPAC), the College’s state-of-the-art hub for theatrical and musical performances, has announced the launch of a new concert series featuring up-and-coming contemporary musicians this spring. Dubbed 55UnderGround, the series aims to spotlight musicians from the New York City area beginning in March 2008.
John Malatesta, managing director of Baruch Performing Arts [...]
Michael Sorkin, director of the graduate program in Urban Design in The City College of New York School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture (SAUDLA), has been named Distinguished Professor of Architecture. The CUNY Board of Trustees approved the promotion at its January 28 meeting.
Over the past two decades, Professor Sorkin has been one [...]
Dr. Muhammad Yunus, a banker and economist, is famous for extending small loans or micro credit to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional loans. The founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus and the Bank were jointly awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.”
Dr. Yunus will [...]
Roumen Vragov, an assistant professor of statistics and computer information systems in Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business is part of a winning team in Microsoft Research and adCenter’s $1 million Beyond Search Request for Proposal competition.
Vragov, along with teammates Vernon Smith of George Mason University and David Porter of Chapman University, will receive a grant [...]
The City College of New York (CCNY) School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture (SAUDLA), has announced its Spring 2008 Lecture Series. Entitled “Architecture: A Social Vision,” the series consists of six lectures and begins February 7.
The lecturers include architecture critics and planners as well as prominent architects. Lectures are held 6 [...]
Wednesday, January 30
8 pm Interactive Environmental Webcast with Audience Cell-phone Voting Campbell Dome, Queens College, Flushing NY. For directions and a campus map: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/about/directions.php; http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Map/
The 2% SOLUTION, hosted by Alexandria Bowman, Queens College Geology Club.
Focus the Nation will stream a free, live, interactive webcast called “The 2% solution.” Join
Stanford University climate scientist Stephen Schneider, sustainability expert Hunter
Lovins, [...]
Approximately 600 future scientists and engineers from high schools across the city will compete in the New York City Science and Engineering Fair, Saturday, February 2 — Sunday, February 3, at the City College of New York. The competition is co-sponsored by the City University of New York and the New York City Department [...]
