“I want to join with Governor David Paterson and Mayor Michael Bloomberg in strongly urging the New York State Senate to renew mayoral control of the New York City public schools before the current law expires today, June 30, 2009. The City University of New York is very much dependent on a stable public [...]
THE MORAL dilemmas and the science surrounding America’s development and use of the atom bomb during World War II took center stage at a groundbreaking symposium at the CUNY Graduate Center. The event was pegged to the Metropolitan Opera’s first production of “Doctor Atomic” by John Adams.
The highlight was an unprecedented discussion by 11 scientists [...]
“I should have died with them there, at the Dominican Republic’s prison-torture chamber known as La 40,” said to the audience surviving pamphleteer Dr. Ramón Antonio Veras.
On June 25, 2009, The City University of New York, the Eugenio María de Hostos Community College Foundation, and Bronx Community College presented the Bronx première of Los Panfleteros [...]
Sayali Sohoni was born and raised in Pune, India. Conscious of the disparities in accessing justice that exist in India, Sayali decided pursue a career in law
The Staten Island Foundation has elected College of Staten Island President Dr. Tomás D. Morales to its Board of Directors at its 11th Annual Meeting. The Staten Island Foundation is an independent, private foundation serving the borough of Staten Island, NY, interested in outcomes in the areas of education, health and human services, [...]
Although the arts flourished in Spain in the early years of the 20th century, works by Spanish women during that period have largely been overlooked by critics and scholars. An exception is the poetry of three women—Ernestina de Champourcin, Josefina de la Torra and Concha Mendez—who are the subject of an academic project by BMCC [...]
June 29, 2009 –LaGuardia Community College is one of twenty new community colleges in seven states selected to join Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national initiative to help more community college students succeed. With the addition of these colleges, the initiative has grown to include 102 institutions – 98 colleges and four universities [...]
FOSSILS OF THE FIRST APES, coral reef habitats and measuring the polar ice caps are the focus of summer scientific study by researchers at Lehman College, Baruch College and City College.
And while these researchers are off to explore their worlds, the rest of us can follow their progress via a Universitysponsored blog that will feature [...]
ON THE 13th floor of the North Building at Hunter College, in the back of a laboratory that is humming and spinning with the sound of high-tech scientific research equipment, Cliff Soll sits at his computer analyzing data compiled by a quadrupole time-offlight high-resolution mass spectrometer. The spectrometer, which converts molecules to ions so that [...]
BRONX, NY — Two new deans have been named at Lehman College: Lehman History Professor Dr. Timothy Alborn will become the new dean of Arts and Humanities and Dr. Edward L. Jarroll, a biologist and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern University, will become dean of Natural and Social Sciences. [...]
