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City College of New York alumna Millana Williams, ’10, is a prime example of how hard work, perseverance and dedication can help anyone succeed. Just months after graduating from CCNY with a BA in advertising and public relations, she has won the model segment of Lifetime’s reality series “Project Runway.” Originally from Houston, Millana moved to New York on a leap of faith; her goal was to obtain a college degree and break into the fashion business. “I moved to New York when I was 19,” she said. “It was definitely very hard financially. Yet, I knew that I wanted to live in Manhattan and that

Human Gut Microbiome Will Be Topic for December 8 Address Dr. Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D., will deliver the 5th Annual Sharon Cosloy-Edward Blank Lecture at The City College of New York 4 p.m. Wednesday, December 8. His topic will be “The human gut microbiome: dining in with trillions of friends.” 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. Gordon is the Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and director of

Two Grants Targeting Hispanic-Serving Institutions Aim to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates and Prepare Graduate Students for Careers in Green Economy Two grants totaling $5.7 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Education will help The City College of New York improve undergraduate retention and graduation rates and prepare graduate students for careers in the green economy. CCNY was the only mainland institution east of the Mississippi River to receive awards through the Department’s Title V programs for Hispanic-serving institutions at both the undergraduate and graduate

Faculty Experts to Talk on This Year’s Winners and Why They Won Do you want to know more about the winners of the 2010 Nobel Prizes as well as top awards given in architecture, geosciences and mathematics? Then attend “Who Won the Nobel Prize* this Year and Why,” two panel discussions featuring short presentations by City College faculty experts, 4:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Monday, November 15, and Tuesday, November 16, in Room 95, Shepard Hall, The City College of New York. The event, which is free and open to the public, is presented by CCNY’s Division of Science. “The Nobel Prizes, the Pritzker

Event Picks Promising Early-Career Engineering Faculty from Across the Country Dr. Raymond Tu, assistant professor of chemical engineering in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, is one of 53 young researchers and educators nationwide invited to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s 2010 Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium. The event, which will bring together innovative, early-career engineering professors from more than 40 institutions, will be held December 13 – 16 in Irvine, Calif. Professor Tu, who was voted the Grove School’s teacher of the

George Ranalli, under whose tenure as dean the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York has been transformed into a first-tier design school, will be awarded the Sidney L. Strauss Award from the New York Society of Architects. Dean Ranalli, who has led the school since 1999, will be recognized for outstanding achievements within the architectural profession at the society’s annual awards dinner, November 18. “I felt there was no better choice for this award at this time than George Ranalli,” said David J. Millner, first vice president of the New York

President Staiano-Coico to Confer Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters, Upon Him Mario Vargas Llosa, the 2010 Nobel Laureate in Literature, will deliver The City College of New York’s President’s Lecture 5:30 p.m. Thursday, November 18, in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall on the CCNY campus at 160 Convent Avenue, Manhattan. Prior to his address, CCNY President Lisa Staiano-Coico will bestow upon him the honorary degree Doctor of Letters. Mr. Vargas Llosa’s topic will be “Return of the Monsters.” His lecture comes two weeks after the launch of his latest novel, “El sueño del celta” (“The Celtic's

Four scientists will participate in a panel discussion on projects under way in the Dominican Republic and their impact on the country’s economic development. The event, presented by the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) takes place 4 p.m. Saturday, November 6, Room 1/203, North Academic Center, The City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, Manhattan. The four panelists and their topics are: • Dr. Jorge E. González, NOAA-CREST Professor, Grove School of Engineering, The City College of New York, “Expansion of Lake Enriquillo: Observations and Environmental Causes.” • Dr. Yolanda

Honored for ‘Five Decades of Extending Fundamental Health Services’ and Leading Through Example Dr. H. Jack Geiger, a founding faculty member of the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at The City College of New York, who has focused his career on health, poverty and human rights, has been awarded the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism. He was honored at a dinner during The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (ASF) Conference, held October 16 in Baltimore, M.D. A co-founder and past president of Physicians for Human Rights and Physicians for Social Responsibility, Dr. Geiger is

The City College of New York Division of Science announces 18 events for the month of November featuring scientists from prominent universities and research institutes from across the United States and Germany. All are free and open to the public and held in the Marshak Science Building, unless otherwise noted. Listings of event times, speakers, topics and room numbers follow. November 1 , 12 noon: Salzberg Chemistry Seminar Series, Dr. Michael Mirkin, professor of chemistry, Queens College, “Charge-transfer processes at electrochemical nanointerfaces,” Room 1027. November 1 , 12:15 p.m