Small business owner Ed Taylor, on NYC’s first all electric delivery truck, Dr. Carolyn Williams, President of Bronx Community College on the “green collar” workforce, and major event producer Chris Wangro on making concerts and other events green. Featured Green Artists: Will Hawkins, Peggy Atwood, David Grubs.
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Ron Spalter, the City University of New York’s COO on making the change to sustainability. Lisa Shpritz, Bank of America on the Bank of America Tower, their new LEED skyscraper made with recyclable materials. Adam Gardner of the band Guster on Reverb, not for profit that helps musicians and concerts go green. Featured Green Artists: Emily Zuzik, Scott Krokoff, Guster.

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Roll over Beethoven, or at least rap to the beat, says Prof. Howard Meltzer, deputy chair of music at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Prof. Meltzer designed his survey course, Music and Western Civilization, to encourage students to merge their musical tastes with classical music. “People feel personally attached to music they listen to,” says Prof. Meltzer, who’s been teaching the class since 2005. Without these contemporary cultural touchstones, “you’ll set up a barrier between the students and the teacher.” It’s a technique that puts music in an historical context as a means to help analyze the piece, he says.
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In his report to the Board of Trustees, Chancellor Matthew Goldstein highlights Fall 2008 achievements, including record-high SAT scores, increased student enrollment and new doctoral degree-granting authority at both City College and Hunter College. In response to the declining economy, the Chancellor discusses new working groups to review finances, physical assets and other areas.
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Public meeting of the Board of Trustees, September 22, 2008.
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Notorious for its pollution, Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal is being studied by two New York City College of Technology biology professors as a possible source of life-saving antibiotics. Profs. Niloufar Haque and Nasreen Haque, who are sisters, say that by examining micro-organisms that have learned to adjust to such filthy conditions, they could potentially be used to combat heart disease, Alzheimer’s and AIDS. “(These organisms) are not only fighting against other organisms, but a lot of other chemicals that have been dumped in that canal,” says Prof. Nasreen Haque. “They’re finding mechanisms to resist those chemicals as well as other microbes. They are survivors.”
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The Advanced Science Research Center, a new CUNY-wide research complex under construction in Harlem, will be one of the largest science facilities in New York. As CUNY’s new Vice Chancellor for Research, Dr. Gillian Small will oversee the new center along with other initiatives at the University during the Decade of Science – a $1 billion advancement plan to promote the sciences.
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As the country marks the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an historic presidential race is rounding the final stretch. Was the issue of homeland security given the attention it deserved by Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain in their battle for the White House? “No,” says Prof. Joseph King. “I don’t think either candidate has addressed it other than in vague generalities.” Prof. King notes that neither campaign has discussed domestic security, including the candidates’ future plans for the Department of Homeland Security, in any detail: “There is a lack of specificity in both camps.”
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Public hearing on items on the Board of Trustees Calendar for the September meeting of the Board, September 15, 2008.
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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 2008 “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 economic confidence, market predictability, soaring oil prices and the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards in the US. The survey results are available on Baruch College’s website at:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/cfosurvey/.
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