As a teenager, Gregory Pardlo witnessed his father, the president of Newark Airport’s Professional Air Traffic Controllers union, lead his members on an unpopular and illegal labor strike. That spirit of dogged opposition inspired him to pursue his passion–poetry–and guided him to produce a wide range of work that defies simple categorization. Pardlo, an assistant professor at Medgar Evers College, reads and discusses selections from his book “Totem,” winner of the American Poetry Review’s Honickman First Book Prize.
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With the approval of a design for a new $56 million library and classroom building, Bronx Community College is one step closer to completing the vision renowned architect Stanford White began on the campus more than a century ago. The North Instructional building designed by the architectural firm of Robert A.M Stern will not only complement the 19th century, neoclassical structures designed by White; it will complete the academic quadrangle White originally envisioned.
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With over 25 million albums sold worldwide, Salman Ahmad’s South Asian rock band “Junoon” is one of the most successful world music groups ever assembled. Now a solo artist, writer, and UN Goodwill Ambassador for HIV/AIDS awareness, Salman is teaching “Islamic Music and Culture of South Asia,” a course at Queens College he hopes will enable students to create a better relationship between Western and Islamic cultures.
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A controversial theory that postulates everything in the universe is made up of tiny strings could be the Holy Grail of modern physics– a unified “Theory of Everything.” In his lecture entitled “String Theory for Dummies,” presented as part of The Graduate Center’s Science & the Arts Series, Dr. Jim Gates, professor in physics at the University of Maryland, brings this often-confusing theory down to earth.
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Professor William Solecki’s “Environmental Change and Urban Sustainability-The Case of New York City” explores how non-renewable resources and greenhouse gases could spell major change in the climate and weather, including increased droughts, heat waves, hurricanes and flooding. A professor of geography at Hunter College, Professor Solecki delivered his remarks on Governor’s Island as part of a special summer lecture series offered by CUNY faculty.

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In her lecture entitled “A Full Plate: Food Sustainability and Food Security,” Deborah Popper, associate professor of political science, economics and philosophy at the College of Staten Island, argues that the future of food production and availability in the U.S. will suffer if we remain reliant on imports and domestically grown corn-a crop she believes is too difficult to maintain. Professor Popper insists that instead of developing new products, such as ethanol, which rely on corn, we should turn to a more grass based agriculture. Professor Popper also discusses the issue of food security and points out that, with only 1.3% of all food imports inspected by the F.D.A., the public has a right to be nervous.

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The Baruch Business Report offers a conversation between John Elliott, the Dean of Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business, and Terrence Martell, Saxe professor of Finance and International Business in Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business. The discussion starts with the results of the second quarter 2007 “Chief Financial Officers Outlook Survey,” which is conducted quarterly by Financial Executives International and Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, and continues into a larger economic analysis including interest rates, outsourcing, and international accounting standards. The survey results are available on Baruch College’s website at
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/cfosurvey/.

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