News from The City University of New York
Mon, 20 May 2013 20:08:34 +0000
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Center for Urban Environmental Reform Releases Environmental Justice Comic Book for Classrooms The Center for Urban Environmental Reform (CUER) at the City University of New York School of Law is helping to bring environmental justice to classrooms with the release of its comic book Mayah’s Lot.
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United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan To Deliver Commencement Address at Hostos Community College Monday, May 20, 2013 (Bronx, NY) – United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will deliver the keynote address at Eugenio María de Hostos Community College’s 42nd commencement ceremony, to be held in New York City Center at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, June 7, 2013. The College will confer degrees on approximately 800 students. “I [...]
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Former Education Secretary William Bennett Analyzes 3,500 Colleges’ Return on Investment—and Queens College Ranks 37 FLUSHING, N.Y., May 20, 2013 – A diploma from Queens College pays off, literally. Former Secretary of Education William Bennett, co-author of Is College Worth It?, has evaluated 3,500 U.S. colleges and universities for their return on investment, or ROI. Citing PayScale surveys of jobholders who earned bachelor’s degrees, but nothing higher, Bennett finds that [...]
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Michael Sorkin Receives Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award Michael Sorkin, distinguished professor of architecture and director of the graduate urban design program at The City College of New York’s Spitzer School of Architecture, has won a 2013 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. Professor Sorkin was selected in the Design Mind category, which recognizes “a visionary, such as an educator, author, critic, curator, or designer, who has had a profound impact on design theory, practice, or public awareness.”
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Alumni Win International Reporting Fellowships — and More Five CUNY J-School graduates and one current student walk away with honors from various journalism organizations.
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Brooklyn’s Hill, Baruch’s Flint and Hunter’s Colangelo Earn Top Honors The City University of New York Athletic Conference and Applebee’s are proud to announce the 2013 CUNYAC/Applebee’s Softball All-Stars.
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Brooklyn’s Hill, Baruch’s Flint and Hunter’s Colangelo Earn Top Honors The City University of New York Athletic Conference and Applebee’s are proud to announce the 2013 CUNYAC/Applebee’s Softball All-Stars.
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Recent CUNY SPH graduate Michael LeVasseur together with SPH faculty members Elizabeth Kelvin & /Nicholas Grosskopf publish on the association among bullying, identity and suicide attempt among New York City youth Recent SPH graduate Michael LeVasseur, together with Hunter faculty member Elizabeth Kelvin and York College faculty member Nicholas, publishes: “Intersecting identities and the association between bullying and suicide attempt among New York City youths: results from the 2009 New York City Youth Risk Behavior Survey” in the AJPH. The authors found that the association between [...]
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Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein to Deliver the Keynote Address at LaGuardia Community College’s 41st Commencement Exercises on June 6 Long Island City, NY—Lloyd Blankfein, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., which under his leadership launched the 10,000 Small Businesses initiative and selected LaGuardia Community College as its first partner, will deliver the keynote address at the College’s 41st Commencement Exercises on June 6. Mr. Blankfein will address an [...]
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Forty-six CUNY Students Invited by Japan to Enjoy an All-Expense Paid Trip to its Country Long Island City, NY—May 20, 2013—In appreciation of its strong relationship with LaGuardia Community College, the Consulate General of Japan in New York has invited 46 CUNY students to take part in an all-expense paid 10-day study tour of Japan in May. “Kakehashi – Bridge for Tomorrow” the Youth [...]
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[video] Paying it Forward, Endowing a Scholarship The 2013 Class Gift Committee seeks to endow The Class of 2013 Legacy Scholarship, an endowed scholarship that will remain in perpetuity, long after the graduates leave campus in celebration of the College’s 37th Annual Commencement ceremony. It’s an ambitious goal that requires raising $25,000, and is a unique opportunity to leave a legacy by giving back to the next generation of CSI undergraduates.
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CUNY Begins National Search For J-School Dean A national search has begun for a new academic leader for the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which has emerged as one of the leading journalism schools in the country less than a decade after its founding, Chancellor Matthew Goldstein has announced.
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Clips of the Week A TV report by alum Walter Smith-Randolph was featured on "The Daily Show."
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70′s-Era Physics Prediction Finally Confirmed City College of New York Assistant Professor of Physics Cory Dean, who recently arrived from Columbia University where he was a post-doctoral researcher, and research teams from Columbia and three other institutions have definitively proven the existence of an effect known as Hofstadter’s Butterfly.
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Welcome to “The Nabe” The CUNY J-School is launching a new hyperlocal website, The Nabe, which is a successor to The Local, a blog started in 2009 by The New York Times.
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http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2013/05/16/39547/ New Study Shows LaGuardia Community College’s GED Bridge Program Significantly Boosts GED Pass Rates and College Enrollment MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research firm, released encouraging findings today from a rigorous evaluation of a new approach to GED instruction pioneered by LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). [...]
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Multi-Lingual Queens College Graduating Senior Receives Fulbright Scholarship to Teach English in South Korea Madeline Yap, who will be graduating from Macaulay Honors College at Queens College on May 30, has received a Fulbright scholarship to teach English in South Korea. She is the second QC Fulbright winner to receive this teaching assignment.
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LA Times: Prof. Robson on Labeling Clothing Manufactured “Sweat-Free” In an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, Distinguished Professor Ruthann Robson responds to a May 7 op-ed that called for consumers to support the workers who make our clothes, in the aftermath of a factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed more than 600 garment workers.
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Dr C Mary Schooling and colleagues’ article featured in the American Journal of Epidemiology as “Editor’s choice”. Dr C Mary Schooling and colleagues publish in the American Journal of Epidemiology: Mendelian randomization and estimation of treatment efficacy for chronic disease. This article, featured as “Editor’s choice” explains how the new analytic strategy of Mendelian randomization provides information complimentary to the ‘gold standard evidence’ from randomized controlled trials. Traditionally, randomized controlled trials assess [...]
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CUNYAC Honors the Best and Brightest at Michael Steuerman Awards Dinner On Thursday, May 16, the City University of New York Athletic Conference celebrated the 2012-13 academic and athletic year with the 27th Annual Michael Steuerman Scholar-Athlete Awards Dinner. Presented by Pepsi, the night was a tribute to our outsta...
