CUNY BACCALAUREATE FOR UNIQUE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES is proud to announce our recent recipients of the Truman and Fulbright Scholarships.
The work that CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies has been doing to facilitate University-wide college degrees in Sustainability (http://cunyba.gc.cuny.edu/sustainability/) is being recognized by the University Design Consortium’s Innovation Clearinghouse of Good Practices.
Fifteen CUNY students have received the highly competitive national Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for Spring 2011, a program managed by the Institute of International Education. The Gilman Scholarship Program offers awards for undergraduate study abroad and was established by the International Academic Opportunity Act of 2000. This scholarship provides significant funding awards for U.S. undergraduate [...]
CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies is a recipient of a Google Grant award! The Google Grants program supports organizations sharing Google’s philosophy of community service to help the world in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the arts. Designed for 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations, Google [...]
Michael Hattem, a fourth-year student in CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies, had his junior honors research paper “‘As Serves our Interest best’: A Reinterpretation of the Popular Political Response in New York City to the Imperial Crisis, 1765-1776″ selected for publication in the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of History. Over fifty students from across the country [...]
Eleven CUNY students have received the highly competitive national Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for 2011, a program operated by the Institute of International Education. The Gilman Scholarship Program offers awards for undergraduate study abroad and was established by the International Academic Opportunity Act of 2000. This scholarship provides significant funding awards for U.S. undergraduate [...]
Recognizing the invaluable role academic institutions can play in strengthening the work of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of The United Nations and his staff launched “Academic Impact” on November 18, 2010. Academic Impact is a new partnership between over 500 academic institutions from 90 countries and the U.N. to use scholarship, innovation, and [...]
The Latino Data Project, which makes information available on the growing Latino population of the United States and especially New York City, has released its 2010 series of reports covering five national subgroups — Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Brazilians, Peruvians, and Colombians. The reports are available for downloading on the Web site of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at http://web.gc.cuny.edu/lastudies . They are based on the analysis of extant data available from a variety of sources such as the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Institute for Health, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and state- and local-level data sources.
A white paper by Graduate Center doctoral student Kimberly Libman that targeted prescription-drug price gouging played a vital role in the passage of legislation signed into law by Governor David Paterson. The legislation was drafted by New York State Assembly Member Micah Z. Kellner and co-sponsored by State Senator Tom Duane. Libman’s research helped move the legislation out of committee and on to passage.
Poised for its 50th Anniversary next year, the CUNY Graduate Center is adding to its already renowned faculty 12 senior-level professors who will help set the tone for the institution’s next era as a national leader in doctoral and graduate-level education.
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