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NEW YORK, April 13, 2009 – Drs. Sophie Molholm and John Foxe, neuroscientists at The City College of New York (CCNY), have been awarded $2.8 million over five years from the National Institute of Mental Heath of the National Institutes of Health to study whether and how multisensory integration – the nervous system’s integration of different sensory stimuli – is impaired in persons with autism. “Atypical integration of multisensory inputs has been suggested as a major component of autism,” said Dr. Molholm, an Associate Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at CCNY. “If we can

NEW YORK, April 9, 2009 – The 37th Annual City College Spring Poetry Festival, an all-day, all-verse event that has become New York’s longest-running, most established and democratic poetry celebration, will take place 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, May 15, in Theater B of Aaron Davis Hall, on the campus of The City College of New York (CCNY) at 135th St. and Convent Avenue. This year’s featured guest poet is the award-winning Stanley Moss. Over its 37-year history, the Festival has attracted the participation of numerous celebrated poets. They have included singer/songwriter Paul Simon, Allen

NEW YORK, April 8, 2009 –Kimberly Paige Young, a senior in The City College of New York (CCNY) English Honors Program, has been selected as a Jacob K. Javits Fellow for the 2009-2010 academic year.The program, administered by the U.S. Department of Education, provides up to $30,000 in support for a period not exceeding four years for graduate study in the arts, humanities or social sciences. Ms. Young, who will graduate from CCNY next month with a double major in English Literature and Comparative Literature, will use the award at the CUNY Graduate Center where she'll pursue a Ph.D. in

NEW YORK, April 6, 2009 – Tamara Kirson, the lead instructor and staff developer in The City College of New York's (CCNY) Adult Literacy Program, is The New York Times 2009 ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Teacher of the Year. Ms. Kirson was recognized at a ceremony at the newspaper's headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, where she received a commemorative plaque and a $2,500 gift.The ESOL award program recognizes instructors who have consistently gone above and beyond the call of duty to help students learn English and develop the skills to create successful new lives in the United

NEW YORK, April 2, 2009 – Can we always see what is in front of us? According to Dr. Tony Ro, a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at The City College of New York (CCNY), the answer is “no.” New research published in “The Journal of Neuroscience” by Professor Ro and colleagues from the University of Illinois demonstrates that the brain cannot detect images when brainwave activity is in a trough. “We may have our eyes open, but we sometimes miss seeing things,” Professor Ro said. “When the brain is in a state of readiness, you see; when it is not, you don’t see.” Brainwave

NEW YORK, March 31, 2009 – Japanese artist Hiro Kagami brings his Mexican-themed artwork to The City College of New York (CCNY) Center for Worker Education (CWE) with his installation of “Mexico Through Oriental Eyes,” which will run through April 27. Curated by Areceli Tinajero, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature at CCNY and The CUNY Graduate Center, the 12-piece exhibit captures the beauty and magic of Mexican traditions. It is on display at CWE, located on the seventh floor of 25 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, “Rather than illustrating a particular aspect of Mexican life

NEW YORK, March 27, 2009 – Don Gomez, a junior at The City College of New York (CCNY) and a veteran of the U.S. Army who had two tours of duty in Iraq, has been named a 2009 Truman Scholar. The Truman Scholarship provides up to $30,000 in funding to students pursuing graduate degrees in public service fields. It is one the most prestigious and competitive national scholarship programs, awarding between 60 and 65 scholarships annually to a field of 600 – 700 nominated candidates. “I am very pleased to have been awarded the Truman Scholarship, but what makes it so special for me is that so many

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