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The City College of New York (CCNY) will host “Sustainable Transit: Developing an Action Agenda,” a day-long conference that will examine the role that public transportation can play in achieving sustainability and how transit agencies can reduce their environmental impact. The event will take place 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Friday, May 7, in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture building. Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D-NY, will deliver the opening address. Congressman Rangel represents New York’s 15th Congressional District, which includes the CCNY campus. “Transit contributes to regional

Dr. Barbara Ann Naddeo, Associate Professor of History at The City College of New York (CCNY), was named a winner of the 114th Rome Prize by The American Academy in Rome at its annual awards ceremony at The Harmonie Club in Manhattan last night. Professor Naddeo received the award in the Renaissance and Early Modern Italian Studies field, which entitles its recipient to an academic-year-long fellowship at The American Academy in Rome. Beginning September 2010, she will spend a year in Rome as one of a cohort of American scholars working and residing at The Academy for the pursuit of academic

Ambassador Stephen W. Bosworth, U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy, Will Deliver Keynote Address General Colin L. Powell, USA (ret.), former U.S. Secretary of State and distinguished CCNY alumnus, will convene a half-day conference on dynamic shifts affecting relations between North and South Korea and the implications of those relations for policymakers. The conference will take place Friday, April 23, at the Harmonie Club in Manhattan. General Powell will address the conference’s luncheon session. Ambassador Stephen W. Bosworth, U.S. Special Representative for North Korea

Sarah Adams Co-Hosts Conference April 22 on Student Parent Issues Getting a college degree is hard enough, but when academic obligations are juggled with the responsibility of raising a child, the challenge can be daunting. As a graduate student and parent attending The City College of New York (CCNY), Sarah Adams lived that challenge. While fortunate to have had a strong family support network, she saw many of her fellow student parents struggling to keep up. Last fall, the New York Life Graduate Fellow established the CCNY Student Parent Group to provide a support base for all students who

John Payton, Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, has been the lead counsel in some of the most significant civil rights cases in recent times. The list includes the affirmative action cases Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger. Next Tuesday, April 6, he will visit The City College of New York (CCNY) to lead a panel discussion on the Grutter case, which resulted in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on law school admissions, and deliver The Skadden, Arps Lecture in Legal Studies. His lecture topic will be “Democracy & Diversity.” Both events are in The

A short film by Carlos Aguasaco, a Spanish lecturer in The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, has won for best video in the art category at the Cartagena (Colombia) International Film Festival. Mr. Aguasaco, who is also an alumnus of CCNY, wrote, produced and directed “Medialengua” (“Half Tongue”), a short story about a word in Spanish being confused with an English word. “I have known Carlos since his time as a student of our MA program in Spanish, when I was chair of the Department,” said Dr. Juan Carlos Mercado, dean of the Division of Interdisciplinary

The City College of New York (CCNY) has been named to the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. This is the highest recognition an institution of higher education can receive from the Federal Government for its commitment to volunteering, community service and civic engagement. CCNY was chosen for its service-learning academic programs as well as for student-led community service projects. “As a public institution serving a diverse community, community service and civic engagement are integral to our mission,” said CCNY Interim President Robert E. Paaswell. “We’re

Sy Sternberg, ’65 EE, former chairman and chief executive officer of New York Life Insurance Co., will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from his alma mater, The City College of New York (CCNY), April 23. CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, ’63, and CCNY Interim President Robert E. Paaswell will confer the degree on him in a ceremony at 4:30 p.m. during the “ Frontiers in Physics” symposium presented by the CCNY Physics Department at The Harmonie Club in New York. The honorary doctorate recognizes Mr. Sternberg’s “distinguished service to college, city and country,” said CCNY

Mike Holober to Lead Westchester Jazz Orchestra in Premiere Performance In addition to teaching in the Music Department at The City College of New York (CCNY), noted jazz composer and pianist Mike Holober serves as artistic director and conductor of the Westchester Jazz Orchestra (WJO). On Saturday, April 10, he will lead the ensemble in the premiere of his composition “Flow: In Celebration of the Hudson River.” The concert, at the Town Hall Theatre in Irvington, New York,” begins at 8 p.m. Professor Holober will give an informal talk before the concert at 7:15 p.m. “Flow” is a three-movement

Honorary Degree to be Conferred Upon Sy Sternberg, ’65 EE Five prominent physicists from leading U.S. and European universities will explore the future of their discipline at “Frontiers in Physics,” a daylong symposium presented by the Physics Department at The City College of New York (CCNY). The event, Friday, April 23, at The Harmonie Club in New York, will serve as the occasion for the conferral of an honorary doctorate on Sy Sternberg, ’65 EE, former chairman and chief executive officer of New York Life Insurance Co. The principal speakers, representing high-energy physics, condensed