CUNY Newswire

The Lehman Chamber Players will kick off their musical season at Lehman College with a performance of works by Loeffler, Ravel and Faure on Sunday, September 30, at 2 p.m.

A new article by Dr. Luisa N. Borrell, the chair of Lehman College’s Department of Health Sciences, explores the disparities in periodontal disease (gum disease) among U.S. adults along age, sex, racial/ethnic and socioeconomic lines over a ten-year period. The article appears in the September-October issue of Public Health Reports.

Lehman College will host an Early Childhood Education Job Fair on Saturday, Sept. 8, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the APEX building on its campus.

Two Lehman College choruses are now accepting new members for the fall semester.

Dr. Anny Morrobel-Sosa, most recently the dean of the College of Science at the University at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), has become the new provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Lehman College.

Lehman College has been awarded a five-year, $3.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund a new Sophomore Year Initiative designed to increase retention rates among undergraduates during their critical second year of college.

Dr. Deirdre Pettipiece, a scholar and author and most recently the associate dean of arts and sciences at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, has been named the new dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at Lehman College. Her appointment was approved by the CUNY Board of Trustees and became effective on July 16.

Inside Lehman XII, Lehman College’s student co-produced video news magazine, has won three awards—the Videographer Award of Distinction, the Communicator Award of Distinction, and the Hermes Creative Award (gold).

Lehman College President Ricardo R. Fernández delivered the keynote address at the University of Guam’s 60th Anniversary Presidential Forum and predicted that over the next several decades the digital revolution will drive major changes in the process of credentialing students and workers.

Kachuen Gee, the technical services librarian at Lehman College, has been chosen as president-elect of the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), which represents about 1,000 Chinese and Chinese-American librarians both in the U.S. and abroad.

The Lehman College Community Band will give a free concert entitled “Summer Pops” on Saturday, June 30, at 2 p.m. in the Lovinger Theatre. This event is open to the public. Led by Professor Alan Hollander, the band will perform a “pops” variety, including Broadway favorites, marches, and other arrangements for symphonic wind band by [...]

The new CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies will celebrate its launch at a festive ceremony on Tuesday, June 26, at 6 p.m. in Elebash Hall of the CUNY Graduate Center at 365 Fifth Avenue. The free event, which is cosponsored by CUNY and the Mexican Consul General’s Office in New York, is open to the [...]

The campus of Lehman College will become tobacco-free on Sunday, July 1, and the smoking or consumption of tobacco in any form will not be permitted, indoors or outdoors.

Ten undergraduates in the senior colleges of the City University of New York have won prizes for Making Work Visible, the 2012 Labor Arts/CUNY Contest, held annually to celebrate the achievements of the U.S. labor movement.

Lehman College Biological Sciences Professor Dr. Eleanore Wurtzel and her team of researchers have discovered an attribute of the CruP plant protein that could make crops more resistant to climate change. Dr. Wurtzel’s paper, “Lycopene cyclase paralog CruP protects against reactive oxygen species in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms,” is published in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Lehman College invites the community to take part in a new program at the College that will bring New York State’s fresh seasonal produce to the campus for sale. The Summer Farm Share will begin at Lehman on June 12, providing fruits and vegetables at a reduced price. Farmers from Corbin Hill Farm will visit the Concert Hall Plaza, near Gate 10 on Paul Avenue, every Tuesday from 2 – 5 p.m. through mid-November to sell their most recent harvest.

BRONX, N.Y. — Albert P. Carey, chief executive officer of PepsiCo Americas Beverages, addressed more than 2,600 graduate and undergraduate students in the Lehman College Class of 2012 at the College’s 44th Commencement exercises on Thursday, May 31, on the College’s South Field.

BRONX, N.Y.—Lehman College senior Sushanta Singha has been awarded a $9,900 scholarship toward postgraduate studies in London from the Mountbatten Institute. Singha, a native of Bangladesh, received the award as a result of being a St. George’s Society Scholarship recipient at Lehman. The St. George’s Society and its members have contributed more than $200,000 to [...]

The Music Department at Lehman College will debut a series of professional development courses this summer at the undergraduate and graduate level for teachers seeking additional credits for state certification.

BRONX, NY—Lehman President Ricardo R. Fernández was honored at the Fortieth Anniversary Celebration of Bronxworks for his leadership in higher education and his dedication to serving the Bronx. The event was held on May 15 at Mutual of America’s Park Avenue headquarters. The mission of Bronxworks, which began as the Citizens Advice Bureau in 1972, [...]