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The University's Board of Trustees appointed City College of New York historian and author Dr. Judith Stein a University Distinguished Professor at its January 28 meeting. The appointment recognizes Professor Stein's outstanding scholarship over the past four decades, which has helped shape the study of 20th century U.S. history, labor history, African-American history and political economy. The title of Distinguished Professor is conferred on an individual by the University Board of Trustees after completion of reviews at the campus level and the University level in recognition of exceptional

Enable top students to study local architecture style and influences, conduct research with aim toward incorporating ideas into future practice How did the spice trade influence architecture on two continents? That question led Lori Beppu, a graduate architect student in The City College of New York’s Spitzer School of Architecture, to travel to Sri Lanka and the Netherlands last year to search for answers, supported by a $5,000 travel fellowship from the Spitzer School. Ms. Beppu, who received her MArch degree in June 2012, was one of four members of the Spitzer School’s Class of 2012 to

A February 21 screening of “Beast of the Southern Wild,” which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, highlights The City College of New York’s celebration of Black History Month 2013. The rich array of cultural events includes nine other film screenings plus concerts, events, lectures, plays and talks. Other scheduled events include a concert by George Brandon and the Blue Unity Orchestra with the CCNY Gospel Choir, February 28, and Tony Award nominee Calvin Levels as James Baldwin in “James Baldwin: Down from the Mountaintop,” February 14. In addition, the graduate

Undergrads’ plan to convert wood waste to electricity, charcoal goes up against 20 top-tier b-schools in International Impact Investing Challenge A simple, inexpensive idea to convert wood waste in India into renewable energy in the form of electricity and charcoal has won a team of City College of New York undergraduates the top prize in a CUNY-wide entrepreneurship competition and an opportunity to go up against teams from 20 top-tier graduate business schools in a national competition. The CCNY team is the first undergraduate team ever invited to participate in the International Impact

Talk coincides with launch of his newly published official papers Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whose leadership of the world body earned him the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, will deliver an address at The City College of New York 10 a.m. Friday, February 8. His talk will cover the challenges he faced as secretary-general and the future of the United Nations. It coincides with the launch of his published official papers, which are held at City College. The speech, titled “Kofi Annan: Insights into a Challenging Decade and the Future of the UN,” will be delivered in The Great

Daylong event March 2 examines storm protection opportunities that incorporate multiple infrastructure systems This news release has been edited to include a new event date as a result of the February 9 snowstorm, which caused City College to be closed. After experiencing two destructive tropical storms in as many years, New York City finds itself forced to adapt to the reality of catastrophic weather events resulting from climate change. However, it cannot rely on simple fixes. Rather, it needs to create new urban landscapes with the capacity to negotiate social, cultural, and environmental

Daylong event March 2 examines storm protection opportunities that incorporate multiple infrastructure systems This news release has been edited to include a new event date as a result of the February 9 snowstorm, which caused City College to be closed. After experiencing two destructive tropical storms in as many years, New York City finds itself forced to adapt to the reality of catastrophic weather events resulting from climate change. However, it cannot rely on simple fixes. Rather, it needs to create new urban landscapes with the capacity to negotiate social, cultural, and environmental

City College of New York science students brought home a record five wins for research presentations at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) last semester in San Jose, California. The winning CCNY students were: Oluwaniyi Mabayoje, a senior chemistry major Tai-Danae Bradley, a senior mathematics and physics major Syed Haider, a senior biology and premedical studies major Ashraf Elzanie, a fourth-year student in the Sophie Davis BS/MD program Keaira Dupuy, a second-year Sophie Davis BS/MD student They were selected from a field of more than 1,500 participants

CCNY study relates social capital to crash deaths, finds more killed in states scoring low on voting, community involvement and trust Do you live or drive in a state where people don't vote, get involved in community organizations or trust their neighbors? If so, your chances of being fatally injured in a highway collision may be 50 percent greater, according to research by Dr. Matthew Nagler, associate professor of economics at The City College of New York. In an article published in the "Eastern Economic Journal," Professor Nagler shows how social capital plays a role in the number of

Images of colonial-era Dominican historic sites and monuments comprise collection The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York (CUNY DSI) announced today that it has made accessible on the Internet an extensive collection of photographs of places and monuments from early colonial times of the Dominican Republic. The searchable collection, titled “First Blacks in the Americas,” contains more than 2,900 photographs, organized in 57 sets, of historic monuments built during the Dominican Republic’s colonial period. These buildings, churches, houses and sites of industrial