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Bronx Community College students Cory Vendryes and Yanilda Peralta were trophy winners at the Ed Leonard Memorial Speech Tournament held at Seton Hall University in New Jersey October 22, 2011. The two members of BCC’s Speech, Drama and Debate Team were winners in the Impromptu Sales event. Vendryes, a liberal arts major with a biology [...]

Lehman alumnus Nelson Torres (B.A., ’98; M.S.W., ’08) has won an Emerging Leadership Award from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for his work with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transsexual (LBGT) community of the Bronx.

Second Evening in the New Writers Series Near Lincoln Center on Manhattan’s Upper West Side

Wednesday, September 21, 2011- On September, 20, 2011, Dr. Félix Matos Rodríguez, President of Eugenio María de Hostos Community College of The City University of New York (CUNY), addressed participants at a Congressional Staff Briefing on Federal Programs for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), which was held at The Capitol in Washington D.C.

Lehman College broke ground today on a new $6.3 million Child Care Center that will double the capacity of its present center and serve 140 children for all-day and after-school programs.

More than half the world’s population live in cities, many of which are increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. But cities are also emerging as the innovative “first responders” in dealing with climate change, says a major new report led by researchers at The City University of New York (CUNY) and Columbia University and published by Cambridge University Press.

Four Lehman students must have the luck of the Irish. They’ve won Fulbright Awards from the Ireland–United States Commission for Educational Exchange (the “Irish Fulbright Commission”) to travel to the Emerald Isle this summer to deepen their studies of the Irish language.

Lehman College’s literary magazine, Obscura, released its second issue this spring. Building on the strength of last year’s inaugural issue, the sleek, black-and-white review features fiction, poetry, photography and artwork from Lehman students.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 (New York) – Professor Ángel Morales, Artistic Director of the Hostos Repertory Theater, has won an ACE Best Director Award for his staging of You Always Forget Something (Siempre se Olvida Algo), and Luz María Lambert received an ACE Award for Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance in the same [...]

The 2010 U.S. Census recently reported a steep rise in multiracial households across the nation, which makes particularly timely Greg Donaldson’s Zebratown: The True Story of a Black Ex-Con and a White Single Mother in Small-Town America (Scribner). The title refers to a neighborhood in Elmira, one of New York’s many upstate cities noted for rusting factories and a big prison, where “mixed-race couples and their children abound.”

  Current Men’s Assistant, Women’s Head Coach to Share Leadership of Caimans BRONX, N.Y. (APRIL 4, 2011) – Current women’s head coach Jason Geleski and current men’s assistant coach Marvin Patterson have been named the co-head coaches of the Hostos Community College men’s basketball program, director of athletics Carol Kashow has announced. “I am extremely [...]

BRONX, N.Y.—The First Lady of The Dominican Republic, Dr. Margarita Cedeño de Fernández, will deliver the 42nd annual Lehman Lecture at Lehman College on Wednesday, March 23, at 11 a.m. in the Lovinger Theatre. She will be presented with an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the College. Both the ceremony and lecture will be [...]

It’s a Friday afternoon, and 30 students are seated in a circle in Room 116 of Powdermaker Hall on the Queens College campus.

Julian Bond, civil rights leader and former NAACP leader will speak at Queens College February 17.

Queens College Choral Society’s 70th Anniversary Season kicks off with a performance of Handel’s Messiah. This year students from the Aaron Copland School of Music will participate.

The centerpiece of CUNY’s Decade of Science initiative — construction of the $700 million Advanced Science Research Campus at City College — celebrated a critical milestone in October.

Meet Assistant Professor Bobby A. Wintermute: committing to the future through the past.

The Institute will fund Professor Ussher’s project to simulate how distress and growth propagate through the real economy New York, NY, November 02, 2010 – The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), launched with a $50 million pledge from George Soros to promote changes in economic theory and practice through research grants, Task Force groups, [...]

Lehman College celebrated the topping-off of its new $70 million science building with a ceremony on Oct. 28 attended by New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, members of the Council’s Bronx delegation, and Lehman and CUNY officials.

Lehman College honored three members of the Bronx community at its annual Leadership Dinner on October 27. Held at the New York Botanical Garden and sponsored by the Herbert H. Lehman College Foundation, the dinner raised more than $400,000 in cash and pledges for scholarships, fellowships, an endowment and College needs.