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Chris Matthews to Deliver Hunter Commencement Address

April 30th, 2008 | Hunter College

Chris Matthews, broadcast journalist and host of MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, will address approximately 3,000 members of the Class of 2008 and their families and friends at Hunter College’s 197th commencement ceremony, to be held on June 4, 2008 at Radio City Music Hall.
A television news anchor with significant depth of experience, Matthews has [...]

James Gallery Exhibition Casts an International Gaze on ‘Documentary’ Modes

April 30th, 2008 | CUNY Graduate Center

Deadpan: Photography, History, Politics—the latest exhibition at the CUNY Graduate Center’s Amie and Tony James Gallery—brings together distinctly different bodies of work from Sierra Leone, Lebanon, South Korea, and Australia to consider the efficacy and politics of ‘documentary’ photography. On view from May 16 through June 28, the exhibition features images by four acclaimed [...]

Baruch Men’s Tennis Team Wins Seventh CUNYAC Title, Heads to NCAA Tournament

April 30th, 2008 | Baruch College

The Baruch College Men’s tennis team hit the road this morning, as it heads to its second straight year playing in the NCAA tournament at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. The Bearcats clinched their spot after beating Hunter College last Saturday at the U.S. National Tennis Center in Queens, acing their seventh title as the [...]

City Tech Opens Small Business Development Center Serving Brooklyn

April 30th, 2008 | New York City College of Technology

New York City College of Technology (City Tech) has become a new regional center of the New York State Small Business Development Center (NYS SBDC), offering fulltime expert management and technical assistance to start-up and existing businesses in Brooklyn.
The office, located in the Howard Building, 25 Chapel Street, 11th floor, in Downtown Brooklyn, is open [...]

Macaulay Honors College Announces 2008 Chancellor’s Awards

April 30th, 2008 | The University

The Chancellor’s Awards for Academic Excellence and The Chancellor’s Awards for Student Leadership and Community Service will be presented tonight by Chancellor Matthew Goldstein at a ceremony for students, faculty and parents at the CUNY Graduate Center.
The Chancellor’s Awards are awarded to each junior in the Macaulay Honors College at CUNY who has earned a [...]

Macaulay Honors College Announces 2008 Chancellor’s Awards

April 30th, 2008 | Macaulay Honors College

The Chancellor’s Awards for Academic Excellence and The Chancellor’s Awards for Student Leadership and Community Service will be presented tonight by Chancellor Matthew Goldstein at a ceremony for students, faculty and parents at the CUNY Graduate Center.
The Chancellor’s Awards are awarded to each junior in the Macaulay Honors College at CUNY who has earned a [...]

John Jay College To Launch Academy for Critical Incident Analysis with $175,000 Grant from Dart Foundation

April 29th, 2008 | John Jay College of Criminal Justice

John Jay College of Criminal Justice today announced a $175,000 grant from the Dart Foundation to launch the Academy for Critical Incident Analysis (ACIA). The mission of the Academy is to promote and disseminate scholarly research relating to the emergence, management and consequences of critical incidents. ACIA will sponsor research, host conferences and [...]

‘Contesting Culture: Battling Genres in the African Diaspora’ Conference on Fri., May 2

April 28th, 2008 | Baruch College

West African religious rituals and hip-hop dance as practiced in the 21st century North America may seem to have little in common. In fact, they are linked by a tradition of aesthetic and spiritual dueling, exported by enslaved people to the African Diaspora and disseminated and revised in black communities from Haiti to Los Angeles [...]

CCNY Macaulay Honors College Junior Anne Tan Wins Inaugural Art Stevens Public Relations Scholarship

April 28th, 2008 | City College

Anne Tan, a junior in The Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York (CCNY), is the winner of the first Art Stevens CCNY/PRSA-NY Public Relations Scholarship. The $5,000 scholarship is a gift from Art Stevens, a 1957 CCNY graduate and distinguished leader in the public relations profession and the PRSA-NY (Public [...]

Saxophone Ace Dick Oatts Is Guest Artist For 9th Annual CUNY Jazz Festival, May 8-9, At CCNY

April 28th, 2008 | City College

Renowned saxophonist Dick Oatts, who has performed with such legends as Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme during his illustrious career, will be the guest artist for the Ninth Annual CUNY Jazz Festival, May 8 – 9, at The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Aaron Davis Hall. All the events will be [...]