Instead of hanging out with friends of the same ethnic or religious backgrounds,
some Queens College students are having lunch with others whose perspectives,
values and philosophies may be contrary to their own. They are participating in
Lunchtime 2.0, a student-driven initiative that aims to promote understanding
through conversation among the college’s diverse students. The last Lunchtime 2.0
event of the spring semester is scheduled for Thursday, May 10, from
12:15 – 1:30 pm in the QC Dining Hall.
Queens College was selected as one of the most environmentally responsible
colleges in the U.S. and Canada in The Princeton Review’s just released
Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2012 Edition. QC was recognized for
such sustainability initiatives as water conservation, alternative transportation
and reduction in waste and carbon emissions.
– Professors and Scientists Got Their Boost from Special Programs at Queens College – FLUSHING, NY, April 23, 2012 – Jamar Whaley, 35, had dropped out of Stuyvesant High School before graduation and later earned an alternative NYC high school diploma. Despite these early difficulties, he gained admission to Queens College, where he went [...]
Twenty-seven contemporary artists will look at the age-old belief of the “evil eye” through their work in diverse media at an art exhibitionat Queens College’s Art Center. The group show
is in conjunction with the college’s Year of Turkey.
The award-winning author E. L. Doctorow will read from his work at Queens College on Tuesday, April 24, at 7 pm. As a guest of the college’s famed Evening Readings Series, the acclaimed author will be interviewed onstage by WNYC Radio’s Leonard Lopate.
Acclaimed composer and Queens College professor Bruce Saylor’s new opera The Image Maker makes its world premiere at Queens College on Friday, May 4 through Sunday, May 6. Based on James Merrill’s famous verse play of the same name, the new work will be presented with another Saylor opera, My Kinsman Major Molineux. The Image Maker is set in the Caribbean and touches on themes of magic and the folk religion Santeria. My Kinsman is based on the short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Queens College, together with the Poetry Society of America, will break new ground on Friday, May 4 at 7:30 pm, with a theatrical performance of Rita Dove’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poems Thomas and Beulah. More than just a reading of the work, the poems will come to life through music, movement, slides, and more in an interpretation by QC MFA student Tyler Rivenbark. An informal conversation with Ms. Dove and the cast will follow the performance.
Susan Croll, who taught psychology at Queens College for over a decade, has been named among the top college professors in the nation by The Princeton Review The Best 300 Professors–a new book developed in collaboration with the popular website, RateMyProfessors.com. Croll earned her PhD in Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center and conducted her dissertation research in neuropsychology at QC, where she also earned her master’s degree.
Immigrant voting rights and immigration policy–hot topics in the news–will be discussed by elected officials and experts at two separate forums being held at Queens College on Wednesday, April 18. These are among several events being held at QC during Immigration Heritage Week , including the staged reading of a play, No Rooters in the Desert.
During the Middle Ages people with blue or green eyes –
a rarity among Muslims – were considered unattractive, evil and
and subjected to discrimination.
Queens College History Professor Kristina Richardson has
received a two-year Marie Curie fellowship to Germany to research
the significance of this medieval phenomenon, which has never been
studied.
