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One made color television commercially feasible and developed the component that made camcorders possible. Another wrote more than 8,400 stories for the "New York Times." Yet another is an assistant secretary of defense and the highest-ranking City College of New York alumnus to serve in uniform since General Colin Powell. These and other distinguished City College alumni, along with Broadway legend Chita Rivera, were the toast of the 133rd Annual Alumni Dinner at the New York Hilton Thursday, November 7. While Ms. Rivera was presented the 66th John H. Finley Award for exemplary service to the

Rave reviews over “The New York Nobody Knows” by William Helmreich Four years, an astonishing 6,000 miles and nine pairs of shoes later, William Helmreich's long walkabout around the Big Apple is over. And the result is "The New York Nobody Knows" (Princeton Univ. Press, Oct. 2013), the City College of New York sociologist's 14th book that is being lauded by critics as the first sociological study of the city. The 67-year-old, who also teaches at the Graduate Center, CUNY, walked nearly every block– some 120,000 of them – in the five boroughs, in all weather, in perhaps the most unique

Dr. Robert R. Alfano, distinguished professor of science and engineering at The City College of New York, was presented with the Arthur L. Schawlow Prize at the the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Laser Science and Optical Society of America (OSA) meeting, held last month in Orlando. The Schawlow prize “recognizes outstanding contributions to basic research that uses lasers to advance our knowledge of the fundamental physical properties of materials and their interaction with light.” Professor Alfano was recognized for his “pioneering contributions to the field of ultrafast laser

Classical pianist broke Madison Avenue’s color barrier in 1955 when hired by Y&R as copywriter and jingle composer Advertising hall of famer and renowned concert pianist Roy Eaton, ’50, returns to his alma mater, The City College of New York, Thursday, November 21, to present a “Lunch with Leaders” talk to advertising and public relations majors. His topic will be “Music: a Tool for Transformation.” The event takes place 12 noon – 1:45 p.m. in Room 95, Shepard Hall, on the City College campus, located at 160 Convent Ave., Manhattan. Trained as a classical pianist, with a degree from the

Professor Robert Alfano and colleagues devise approach for applying quantum and optical principles to cosmetic preparations How someone perceives color is determined by how the item they are looking at scatters and emits light. In August, three City College of New York physicists affiliated with the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) were awarded a patent for a method for changing perception of skin tone by applying quantum and optical principles to cosmetic preparations. IUSL Director Robert R. Alfano led the team. Research Associate Xiaohui Ni played a key role in

General Powell contributes $5 million to school at City College The Colin L. Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York announced its new board of visitors November 5. The board, consisting of 26 prominent Americans, will hold its inaugural meeting later this month. Chairing the board is General Colin L. Powell USA (Ret), CCNY ’58, who donated a lead gift of $5 million to the campaign for the Powell School, and has been the driving force behind the campaign, which has raised $44 million to date. The Powell School’s Board of Visitors will help support the

City College of New York biology senior Violeta Contreras Ramirez' study into visual cortex development has won her a FASEB MARC travel award to the 2013 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) meeting in Nashville, Tenn., November 13-16. At the conference she will make a poster presentation on the research she conducts under the mentorship of Dr. Jonathan Levitt, associate professor of biology. Her abstract is entitled "Postnatal refinement of cortical projections from ferret primary visual cortex." "My research field is neurobiology and I'm looking at how the

School places high among master’s universities for research, social mobility in magazine’s college rankings The City College of New York was ranked 43rd among the United States’ 684 master’s universities, according to the 2013 “Washington Monthly” College Rankings. The magazine rates schools based on their contribution to the public good in three broad categories that receive equal weight: Social Mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), Research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and Service (encouraging students to give something back to their country)

Meeting November 7 – 8 in Detroit is first of its kind to bring together change agents from Southeast Michigan, Northeast Ohio and Upstate New York The Spitzer School of Architecture’s J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City (JMBC), in partnership with the American Assembly and the Detroit Collaborative Design Center, is hosting the Bruner Loeb Forum on Legacy City Design. The two-day conference will be held, November 7 – 8 in Detroit. “The conference builds on our Legacy City Design Initiative launched last year in partnership with the American Assembly, which is based at Columbia

College’s entry in 2011 Solar Decathlon to become multi-purpose facility dedicated to sustainability A campaign is underway to install the Solar Roofpod atop the Spitzer School of Architecture building, where it will serve as a multi-purpose facility dedicated to sustainability. The installation is expected to begin in early 2014. The solar-powered house was The City College of New York entry in the U.S. Department of Energy 2011 Solar Decathlon. “Placing the Solar Roofpod atop the Spitzer School of Architecture would allow it to function as originally intended, on top of a roof, tied into a