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Participants from March ‘Waterproofing New York’ conference return to CCNY to re-imagine five vital urban infrastructure systems In March, municipal leaders, scientists, engineers and designers met at The City College of New York for “Waterproofing New York,” a conference that explored the impact of past and future storms on five vital infrastructure systems. “Beyond Waterproofing,” a sequel to that event, presents the designer-participants approaches to re-imagining New York’s water/waste, power/data, circulation/fuel, parks/recreation and shelter infrastructure systems. The program takes

College to Confer Honorary Degree on Martin Cohen, ’70; C. Virginia Fields to receive President’s Medal Dr. Matthew Goldstein, Chancellor of The City University of New York (CUNY) and a member of the CCNY Class of 1963, will be the keynote speaker at The City College of New York’s 164th Commencement Exercises, 10 a.m., Friday, May 31, on the CCNY campus. In addition, CCNY will confer the honorary degree Doctor of Science on real estate investor and philanthropist Martin Cohen, ’70 liberal arts. C. Virginia Fields, president and CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, Inc.

Colin L. Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, incorporating CCNY’s Division of Social Sciences, to be inaugurated at May 2 ceremony The City College of New York will rename its Division of Social Sciences The Colin L. Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. The City University of New York Board of Trustees approved the name change at its April 29 meeting after hearing testimony from General Powell and students from the Colin Powell Center for Leadership and Service, the leadership and public policy center at CCNY established in 1997. The School’s formal inauguration will take

Event produced by Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at Center for Worker Education salutes Hip-Hop Appreciation Week The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies hosts the fourth annual “Is Hip-Hop History?” Conference 4 – 10 p.m. Friday, May 10, at the Center for Worker Education, 7th Floor, 25 Broadway, Manhattan. This year’s event honors Hip-Hop Appreciation Week. “Chuck D. may have been prophetic when he wrote the lyric ‘Treat it Like a Seminar’ because hip-hop now is the subject and inspiration for much intellectual work in many academic institutions,” states

Documentary by Tatyana Kleyn premieres April 30 at CCNY, followed by panel discussion led by President Lisa S. Coico “I was five months old when I came to this country, but those five months make all the difference in the world.” That statement by Arline, an undocumented immigrant and City College of New York undergraduate, opens “Living Undocumented: High School, College and Beyond,” a 17-minute film by CCNY Associate Professor of Education Tatyana Kleyn and Ben Donnellon. Six dreamers, two of whom attend CCNY, share through the film their immigration journeys, their identification, the

Dave Davidson tells story of iconic dadaist and pioneer filmmaker who taught at CCNY in 1940s and 1950s “HANS RICHTER: Everything Turns – Everything Revolves,” a documentary by City College of New York Professor of Film Dave Davidson about the pioneering filmmaker, will have its premiere 1 p.m. Sunday, May 5, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles. Richter, who was a major force in redefining art and film in the 20th century, was also director of CCNY’s Institute of Film Techniques – the first documentary film school in the United States – from 1941 to 1957. The film charts

Designation will lead to more internship opportunities with world body Undocumented for most of her earlier life in the United States, Natalia Saavedra yearned to travel and learn about other cultures. That led the Colombia native to The City College of New York, where she majors in international studies and has held several internships with United Nations affiliated non-governmental organizations [NGOs]. Ms. Saavedra, who will graduate this summer, applied her experience with the UN to help City College obtain consultative NGO status there. This will make it possible for more students to

CCNY professor heads projects imaging rivers, swamps and vineyards An aircraft-mounted, multipurpose NASA radar system has just returned loaded with data from a month-long trek over rainforests, plateaus, swamps and fault lines of South America. This forms part of an ambitious mission to study wetlands, agriculture, climate and biogeography across broad swaths of the United States and nine other countries pairing high-resolution radar imaging with ground data. Among the researchers leading investigations tied to the NASA mission is Dr. Kyle McDonald, City College of New York professor of earth

City College turns to one of its own to present the Ninth Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism: Distinguished Professor of Political Science Marshall Berman, who will speak 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 2, in The Great Hall, Shepard Hall. His topic will be “Emerging From the Ruins.” The talk is free and open to the public. A philosopher and urbanist, Professor Berman will speak to how much of urban creativity grows out of urban disaster and disintegration. As examples, he will cite New York, which has undergone a remarkable recovery since its fiscal crisis of the 1970s, and Paris, which was

The 13th Annual CUNY Jazz Festival, a gathering of bands and ensembles from across the CUNY system, takes place May 2-3 in Aaron Davis Hall, Theatre B, at The City College of New York, 135th Street and Convent Avenue, Manhattan. Trumpet player Tim Hagans, hailed by “The New York Times” as “a firecracker of a trumpeter,” will be the festival’s guest artist. The festival features ensembles from CCNY and four other CUNY colleges: Hunter, Queens, York and the College of Staten Island. It commences 12 Noon Thursday, May 2, with a performance by the CCNY Jazz faculty ensemble, composed of several