Dean Michelle Anderson, “We have more students going into public law percentage-wise. Our motto is ‘law in the service of human needs’
FLUSHING, NY, November 25, 2008—The Queens College Choral Society and Orchestra will join with all of the choral ensembles in the Aaron Copland School of Music—forming a chorus of over 200 singers—to perform the college’s 68th annual winter concert on Saturday, December 13 at 8 pm in Colden Center Auditorium. They will be led by [...]
BRONX, NY—Steve Mirsky, science editor of Scientific American and author of its popular Anti Gravity column, will deliver Lehman College’s 29th annual Sweeny Memorial Lecture on Friday, December 5, at 5 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Music Building. His talk, entitled “Adventures in Science Journalism,” will detail some of the famous science stories, [...]
Despite New York’s rich theatrical offerings, many BMCC students lack either the opportunity or means to attend live performances. Ever since arriving at BMCC five years ago, Katherine Kavanagh, an assistant professor in the Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts department, has sought to remedy that situation. This semester, in collaboration with lecturer Alkis [...]
“I first fell in love with detective stories as a child, reading them with my dad,” says James Tolan, an assistant professor of English at BMCC. These days, Tolan conveys his passion for the genre through a 300-level English elective—“The Detective Story.”
“Apart from its intrinsic appeal, the detective story is a great vehicle for teaching [...]
On the first day of any of the psychology courses she teaches, Janis Walters sets a key expectation for her students.
“I tell them that by the end of the course, they should have a grasp of basic psychological concepts,” says Walters, an associate professor in BMCC’s Psychology Department. “But more importantly, they should be able [...]
BRONX, NY— Blanca Cambi, a senior at Lehman College, is one of nine students nationwide to receive Vanguard’s 2008 Women in Information Technology Scholarship Award. Each year, Vanguard awards merit-based scholarships to college students entering their senior year. Cambi received the maximum award of $8,000 to cover tuition, books and supplies.
A double major in computer [...]
Brooklyn, NY — The “Dream Team” of 1992 U.S. Olympic basketball players swept through the competition. Tiger Woods dominates golf like no player before him. Just like those champions, the team of student culinary all-stars from New York City College of Technology (City Tech) blew away all competitors at the culinary salon of the annual [...]
Celebration Part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, Nov. 17-23
The Manhattan Borough President’s Office and Baruch College will celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Lawrence N. Field Programs in Entrepreneurship at a gala reception on Thursday, November 20, 2008. The celebration, which coincides with Global Entrepreneurship Week (Nov. 17 -23), will include the presentation of two proclamations, [...]
A dozen contemporary artists are presented in this exhibition of women whose work, while broadly feminist, is neither didactic nor loaded with female imagery. Artists who worked outside the women’s organizations of the late 1960s and 70s, these women nonetheless produced challenging, innovative work that explored history, identity and shifting perceptions of bodily forms and [...]
