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President Williams Recommends to Chancellor Goldstein Naming School in Honor of Bernard and Anne Spitzer NEW YORK, March 25, 2009 – Bernard Spitzer, a 1943 engineering graduate of The City College of New York (CCNY) and prominent real estate developer, is giving $25 million to City College for the benefit of the College’s School of Architecture. The gift will be provided through the Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust. The gift was announced today by Dr. Matthew Goldstein, ’63, Chancellor of The City University of New York (CUNY), at a news conference held to kick off CUNY’s new capital

NEW YORK, March 24, 2009 – Quest, a non-profit senior educational program that is now part of The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Division of Worker Education (DWE), will host a luncheon to celebrate its official union with the College. The event runs from 12 noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, at CCNY’s Center for Worker Education (CWE) located at 25 Broadway in Lower Manhattan. The organization which is based at CWE, adopted the name Quest: The CCNY-CWE Community for Lifelong Learning Inc., when the union became official January 26. “Quest is a lifelong learning institution that is important

Recital is First New York Performance for Canary Island Ensemble New York, March 20, 2009.—The Teobaldo Power String Quartet received a vibrant, warm, and enthusiastic response from the audience in its first New York concert, which was held in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall at The City College of New York (CCNY). The quartet, which is based in the Canary Islands and was formed more than a decade ago, consists of Javier Morales López and Irina Sánchez, violinists, Patrick Doumeng, viola, and Johanna Kegel Zamora, cellist. The New York concert was the first stop on a global tour that would also

NEW YORK, March 19, 2009 – Television journalism icon Dan Rather will deliver the Spring 2009 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholars Lecture at The City College of New York (CCNY) 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 2. Mr. Rather, who was anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from1981 to 2005, will speak in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall on the CCNY campus, located at Convent Avenue and W. 138th Street in Manhattan. His topic will be “Democracy and the 24-Hour News Cycle.” A reception will follow the event, which is free and open to the public. About Dan Rather His distinguished

NEW YORK , March 19, 2009 – Forensic DNA expert Dr. John M. Butler will deliver the annual Louis Levine – Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics at The City College of New York (CCNY) 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 24.His topic will be “Beyond ‘CSI:’ Exciting Applications of Forensic DNA.” The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall, located atConvent Avenue and W. 139 th Street in Manhattan. A reception will follow the lecture. To RSVP, call 212-650-7192 or e-mail cly@citycollegefund.org . Dr. Butler is the author of the internationally acclaimed

NEW YORK, March 5, 2009 – Novelist, screenwriter and man of letters Paul Auster will deliver the Sixth Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism at The City College of New York (CCNY) 6 p.m. Thursday, March 12, in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall. His topic is “City of Words.” The lecture, which is presented by the Graduate Program in Urban Design in CCNY’s School of Architecture, Urban Design & Landscape Architecture, is free and open to the public. CCNY is located at W. 138 th Street and Convent Avenue in Manhattan. “Paul Auster is the quintessential urban novelist. His novels are about

CCNY President Gregory H. Williams to Receive Langston Hughes Medal NEW YORK, March 3, 2009 – World-renowned philosopher, scholar and author Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah will deliver the second annual City College of New York President’s Lecture at CCNY 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 10. He will address “Race and The New Genomics.” The lecture, in The Great Hall, Shepard Hall, will be preceded by the presentation of the College’s Langston Hughes Medal to Dr. Gregory H. Williams, 11th President of The City College and an award-winning author. The medal is being presented to President Williams to honor

City College art lecturer Tom Thayer , a performance artist who “operates at the intersection of the hand-crafted and the technological,” will premiere one of his live performances and give a talk about his work at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 7 p.m. Monday, December 16. Mr. Thayer’s work explores shifts that occur when a three-dimensional object, such as a collage or sculpture, is represented in another medium. Many of his performances incorporate short videos that he and his siblings shot as teenagers. Mr. Thayer previously participated in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. “This is an