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A new City College of New York seminar series takes an interdisciplinary look at climate change. The first event, 12:30 p.m. Monday, November 28, pairs Dr. Marco Tedesco, CCNY assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, and Andrea Polli, associate professor in fine arts and engineering at University of New Mexico. They will present their talk, “Digital Culture and Climate Change at the Poles,” in Room MR1 in the Marshak Science Center. “Our aim is to create an interdisciplinary framework that will encourage discussion and critical thinking about climate change and its implications

First Writer from French Caribbean to Receive Langston Hughes Medal Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat, hailed as the literary voice of Haiti, will receive the 2011 Langston Hughes Medal at The City College of New York’s Langston Hughes Festival, Friday, November 18. CCNY President Lisa S. Coico will bestow the award upon Ms. Danticat at 6:30 p.m. in the Marian Anderson Theatre, located in Aaron Davis Hall on the CCNY campus. “Since 1978, the Langston Hughes Festival has honored eminent African-American writers including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker,” said

Megan Foster’s Time Thrusts Her Into Sub-Elite Category of Women Marathoners; One of 18 from City College to Cross Finish Line When she ran in the New York City Marathon three years ago, Megan Foster suffered stress fractures in her shins, forcing her to miss the next two years. This year, she adopted a new training regimen, and she completed the 26.2-mile course in just under three hours, a personal best. Her official time, 2:59:35, placed her 59th among all women in the race and thrust her into the sub-elite category, one notch below the world’s best female marathoners. She averaged one mile

CCNY Electrical Engineering Professor Tarek Saadawi Likens to Reconnaissance Plane on Spy Mission Although so far the Duqu seems to have affected only a small number of cyber systems, it likely is a precursor to imminent more harmful attacks, warns cyber security expert Dr. Tarek Saadawi, professor of electrical engineering at The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering. Professor Saadawi likens Duqu to a reconnaissance plane on a spying mission to prepare for a bombing raid. “Duqu’s main goal is information gathering and surveillance of specific cyber systems,” he says. “It

Visit by Landscape Architecture Students to Flint, Mich., Provides Foundation for New Ideas to Reshape Communities’ Futures Flint, Mich., the General Motors factory town that was the subject of “Roger and Me,” a controversial 1989 documentary by native son Michael Moore about factory closings there, is considered by many a “poster child” for aging Rust Belt cities. It’s an unfair assessment, asserts Denise Hoffman Brandt, professor of landscape architecture in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York. In September, Professor Brandt took eight graduate

For ten weeks last summer, Ivan Estevez, a sophomore majoring in civil engineering in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, interned at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) near San Francisco. His assignment was to study 3D scans of the geological damage done by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in the spring and to help generate figures for the USGS’ report on the disaster. For his work, Mr. Estevez, a Bronx native born of immigrant parents from the Dominican Republic, has been selected a Department of the Interior (DOI) Student

Townsend Harris Medals Presented to Seven at November 9 Annual Dinner Frank J. Sciame, ’74 Arch., one of the nation’s preeminent builders, and Vy Higginsen, an African-American broadcasting pioneer, will receive the 64th John H. Finley Award from The Alumni Association of The City College of New York. Named for CCNY’s third president, the award honors deserving New Yorkers for exemplary service to the city. They will be feted at the Association’s 131st Annual Dinner, Wednesday, November 9, at The New York Hilton. In addition, the Townsend Harris Medal will be given to seven City College alumni

Graduate School Classmates Florencia Fraschina and Andrea Cukier Exhibit Together for First Time in 15 Years Argentine artists Florencia Fraschina and Andrea Cukier will have the first joint exhibit of their works in 15 years at The City College of New York’s Center for Worker Education. Titled “Inner Environments: New Paintings from Florencia Fraschina and Andrea Cukier,” it features 25 paintings and runs November 10 through January 25. “We are excited that our next exhibit will bring together two Argentine artists working from diverse perspectives: one working in Buenos Aires, the other

Topic Will Be Life and Death of a Microbial Community Microbiologist Dr. Richard M. Losick will deliver the 6th Annual Sharon Cosloy-Edward Blank Lecture at The City College of New York 4 p.m. Wednesday, November 9. The topic of his talk will be “Life and Death of a Microbial Community.” The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place in Room 250, Shepard Hall, and will be followed by a reception in Room 150, Shepard Hall. Dr. Losick is the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology, a Harvard College Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and a Howard Hughes Medical

Andrzej Krakowski’s New Volumes Tell Story of Poles in Early Hollywood, Offer Perspective on Art of Screenwriting Andrzej Krakowski, City College professor of film and video, apparently spent little of his 2010-2011 sabbatical playing golf or lying on the beach. The Hollywood screenwriter, producer and director has two books coming out next month, including one written in his native Polish that is being made into a movie and stage play. “Pollywood,” published by PWN (Polish Scientific Publishers), tells the stories of many of the Polish immigrants who played pivotal roles in Hollywood’s early