At first glance, the third workshop at the College of Staten Island (CSI) involving 20 Staten Island high school students looked like a lot of fun as the students began to assemble their mechanized LEGO® Mindstorms® kits.
They are also learning the essential elements of engineering, and the basic concepts of the scientific method, thanks to [...]
Never-before-released recordings of the renowned Louis Armstrong, including legendary radio broadcasts and excerpts from Armstrong’s home-recorded tapes, are now available on a two-CD set from Jazz Heritage Society.
Disc One features the finest performances from a historic series of radio broadcasts. From April to May 1937, Louis Armstrong was the guest host of Rudy Vallee’s Fleishmann’s [...]
In September, Medgar Evers College President Edison O. Jackson will receive the 2008 Minority Access Presidential Role Model Award from Minority Access, Inc.- the groundbreaking educational advocacy non-profit dedicated to promoting diversity on college campuses and worksites nationwide.
“It’s truly an honor to receive this prestigious award,” said Dr. Jackson. “I realized early in life that [...]
Zoe Sheehan Saldana, assistant professor in the department of Fine and Performing Arts, has been named one of six emerging artists to be awarded a 2008-09 Workspace residency by Dieu Donne, a nonprofit arts organization devoted to the creation, production and preservation of contemporary art in the process of fabricating handmade paper.
Sheehan Saldana will be [...]
New York City College of Technology Biology Professors Nasreen and Niloufar Haque have announced preliminary findings of their research on the “white stuff” in Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal.
“What we suspected turned out to be true,” Nasreen confirmed. “The extracts from the microbes in the water proved to be potential sources of antibiotics or inhibitors.” Clearly, this [...]
In their inaugural season last year, BMCC’s women’s soccer team did not win a single game. After the season, the head coach left, leaving BMCC Athletic Director Steve Kelly searching for one that would establish a foundation for success.
Kelly didn’t have to look far: BMCC men’s soccer head coach Kenichi Yatsuhashi was up for the [...]
Joyce Moy has spent years assisting Asian immigrants adjust to life in New York City and as the newly appointed director of the Asian American/Asian Research Institute of the City University of New York, she hopes to help even more. An attorney, Moy has served as executive director of business and community development at LaGuardia [...]
The 1994 Rwandan Genocide, which claimed the lives of more than 800,000 Hutus and Tutsis, forced Georges Ndabashimiye’s family to seek refuge in the Congo where militant rebels violently seized their camp and killed Ndabashimiye’s father and sister. The national and personal disaster plunged Ndabashimiye to the brink of despair. “To be able to lead [...]
After an extensive search, the Initiating Committee of A Vision for Staten Island is pleased to announce the appointment of Adena Long as the Executive Director for the upcoming A Vision for Staten Island process.
Ms. Long, who is currently the Greenbelt Park Administrator and Executive Director of the Greenbelt Conservancy, lives on Staten Island. In [...]
Professor Beryl Blaustone has received accolades from the Best Practices in Legal Education blog for her presentation at the International Clinical Conference in Cork, Ireland last month.
In one post to the blog, a writer noted that the professor did a “masterful job of demonstrating her techniques for providing meaningful feedback to students in a client- [...]
