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NEW YORK, April 24, 2009 – "The Five Demands: The Student Protest and Takeover of 1969," an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of a student occupation of The City College of New York (CCNY) campus, will be on display May 4 through July 24 in the Cohen Library Atrium and July 27 through October 28 in the Cohen Library Archives Gallery. On April 22, 1969, a group of CCNY students, whose demands included greater minority enrollment, occupied the South Campus and Klapper Hall.They did not vacate the buildings until May 4, two weeks later. The protest led to the implementation of The City

NEW YORK, April 21, 2009 - Michael Sorkin, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at The City College of New York (CCNY), has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Academy announced yesterday. He will be inducted into the Academy at an October 10 ceremony at its headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. Professor Sorkin was one of 210 leaders from the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs, and the nonprofit sector elected to join one of the United States’ most prestigious honorary societies. The

Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service to Conduct Pilot Program, Community Service Projects with Young People in Harlem NEW YORK, April 21, 2009 – Urban youth face, particularly in Central Harlem, face a dire situation characterized by low high school graduation rates and high rates of unemployment, incarceration and homicide. These challenges were the topic of a one-day workshop held recently at The City College of New York (CCNY) organized by Dr. Jean Krasno, Lecturer in Political Science, and sponsored by the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service. The workshop was the first such

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