Before its headquarters was built on the banks of the East River in midtown, the Security Council of the United Nations held its first formal meetings on American soil in a gymnasium at Hunter College’s Bronx campus, now Lehman College. The college’s namesake, New York Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who had worked for the U.N. [...]
Award-winning Lehman College professor and author Sondra Perl will lead 21 middle, high school and college educators from across rural America in an intensive study of the Holocaust to help better convey the difficult, yet important, subject matter to students. The 10-day seminar begins July 7 in New York City.
Professor Perl is author of On [...]
Lehman College Professor Patricia Thompson, the daughter of famed Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, is one of seven Americans invited to a “Descendants of Famous Russians” conference, sponsored by the Russian State Department, that will take place in Moscow July 6–9. She joins a distinguished group that will include Igor Sikorsky, the son of the renowned [...]
Professor Alfonso Quiroz is adding yet another prestigious honor to the long list of awards that he has received during his professional career–a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship.
Quiroz, who has been a professor at Baruch’s Weissman School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of History since 1994, teaches courses about the history, economy and politics [...]
Recognizing the pivotal role mentoring plays in higher education, Queensborough Community College has launched an ambitious mentoring program for Career Technical Education students with financial support provided by a grant under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 administered by the New York State Education Department, and private funding from [...]
With spring session and finals over for the semester, many BMCC students are eager to start their summer vacation. But behind the doors of a science classroom at BMCC, just days after final exams were completed, a group of students were learning about DNA sequences and molecular biology.
These students weren’t taking summer classes or cramming [...]
The collapse last summer of the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River and the two fatal construction crane accidents in Manhattan this year have inspired a new exhibit on construction and engineering disasters at The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Morris R. Cohen Library.
“Why Structures Fail: Challenges to Engineering Design” opens Monday July 14 [...]
Hon. Naoki Ishii, Mayor of Shimoda, Japan, will lead a 21-member delegation on a pilgrimage to The City College of New York (CCNY) July 16 to honor CCNY’s founder Townsend Harris, who opened the first U.S. consulate in Japan.
The party will be the 22nd delegation from Shimoda to visit CCNY to pay homage to Harris, [...]
Researchers at the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) at The City College of New York (CCNY) have conducted time-resolved fluorescence measurement and optical imaging studies that demonstrate the efficacy of Cytate as a fluorescence marker to detect prostate cancer. Cytate, a contrast agent that conjugates to receptors on prostate cancer cells, exhibited greater [...]
Those within BMCC’s Athletics Department take tremendous pride in it being named the best sports program in the CUNY Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) two years in a row — but Athletic Director Steve Kelly makes sure everyone knows that it’s not always about winning and losing.
“Of course the main goal is to put a competitive team [...]
