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Shimoda Mayor Shunsuke Kusuyama will lead a 13-member delegation from that city to The City College of New York July 17 to honor City College founder Townsend Harris. The delegation, comprising civic officials, students and citizens of Shimoda, will be the 27th since 1986 to visit CCNY to pay homage to Harris, who founded what was known as The Free Academy in 1847 and later opened the first U.S. consulate in Japan. Because Harris was instrumental in opening trade between Japan and the West, he is revered there. The group will visit the Cohen Library Archives in the North Academic Center

Ethnographic Filmmaking course taught by CCNY anthropologist and filmmaker immerses students in American Indian culture The recent streak of killer tornadoes did not deter five City College of New York undergraduates from journeying to southwestern Oklahoma. Accompanied by Professor of Film Campbell Dalglish, MFA graduate Niav Conty, and consultant Robert Vetter, they traveled to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College (CATC) in Weatherford for a two-week intercultural exchange with Native American peers June 10 – 24. Associate Professor of Anthropology Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber, who

Khalil Kain’s directorial debut uses multiracial cast to reinterpret Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about troubled midwestern farm family Actor Khalil Kain, best known for edgy character roles in film and portraying Darnell Wilkes on the television series Girlfriends, makes his stage directing debut with an Equity LORT/LOA production of Sam Shepard's "Buried Child," July 11 to August 3 at Aaron Davis Hall on the City College campus. The production uses a multiracial cast to reinterpret the underlying symbols of Shepard's Pulitzer prize-winning play about a dysfunctional mid-western farm family.

City College seminar on gender and architecture nominates 14 NYC sites for City Lore’s Census of Places That Matter The list of recognized places of significance in New York City identified with women’s history and gender is brief. For example, the New York State women’s history trail includes only three locations in the Big Apple. Now, students in a seminar on Gender and Architecture at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture have identified 14 more. They range from a Harlem apartment building to a mural in Brooklyn to a 72 year-old bridal shop. All have been nominated for inclusion on

Dr. Daniel M. Greenberger, Mark W. Zemansky Professor of Physics at The City College of New York, has been appointed a CUNY Distinguished Professor. The CUNY Board of Trustees approved the appointment at its June 24 meeting. “Professor Greenberger has established himself as a leading physicist in his field. His presence at City College adds to the prestige of the University and College,” said Dr. Maurizio Trevisan, City College provost, in support of his nomination. The appointment, Provost Trevisan added, recognizes Professor Greenberger’s national and international stature in his field and

Civic education program empowering young people in stop-and-frisk encounters to be presented at Roosevelt Institute Policy Expo June 28 in Washington Walking home from school in fall 2011, Depak P. Borhara was stopped by police near his Elmhurst, Queens home. The City College of New York undergraduate's first experience with stop-and-frisk, the NYPD's contentious practice of random street interrogations, left him fearful. "At that time I thought it weird because I'd never been stopped before. I later realized that it was a pattern for young people to be stopped, so I thought that it had to be

Lisa Quinones’ AutismWonderland chronicles saga of caring for special needs son while working full time and going to graduate school at CCNY When Lisa Quinones went to City College’s commencement exercises last month, she had to “fight back tears” when her dean talked about overcoming hardships and obstacles. Ms. Quinones, a legal secretary from the Bronx, had just spent the last five years working toward her MFA degree in creative writing while dealing with the challenges of raising a child diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. With encouragement from one of her professors, two years ago

Political science and public relations major from Brooklyn is only undergraduate chosen from New York State schools Stephanie M. Guzman, a senior in The City College of New York's Honors Program, is one of 36 exceptional advertising, public relations and marketing students nationwide awarded scholarships by The LAGRANT Foundation [TLF]. The Brooklyn resident, the only undergraduate recipient from a New York State college or university, will receive $5,000 from TLF. In honor of its 15th anniversary, TLF awarded $250,000 to 36 students; 22 undergraduates and 14 graduate students. Ms. Guzman, a

Dr. Carla Cappetti, a professor of English at The City College of New York whose specialty is American literature and literary theory, has been awarded a 2013-2014 Fulbright Scholar Award for teaching and research in Italy. She will spend Spring 2014 at Ca' Foscari, University of Venice, an institution with approximately 18,500 students and concentrations in the humanities, foreign languages, economics and environmental studies. Professor Cappetti will teach MA and PhD candidates specializing in Anglophone literatures. Her seminar will focus on her current interest, the role of nature and wild

New book by Spitzer School of Architecture’s June Williamson seeks to increase ‘Design DNA’ for place where most North Americans live In 2010, June Williamson, associate professor of architecture at The City College of New York’s Spitzer School of Architecture, organized and ran a design competition for the Long Island Index, a not-for-profit that conducts research on regional issues. Ideas from that contest, which challenged entrants to creatively retrofit Long Island’s existing downtown areas, provide the foundation for her new book, “Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a