May 24, 2012 |
Lehman College
The Music Department at Lehman College will debut a series of professional development courses this summer at the undergraduate and graduate level for teachers seeking additional credits for state certification.
May 24, 2012 |
New York City College of Technology
New York City College of Technology (City Tech) will mark the annual rite of passage for graduating students at its 72nd Commencement Exercises on Monday, June 4, beginning at 11:30 a.m., at Jacob Javits Center North, 40th Street at 11th Avenue, Manhattan. Delivering the commencement address is The Honorable Eric L. Adams, New York State Senator, 20th Senatorial District, and a 1984 graduate of the College.
May 24, 2012 |
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Daily Pilot reporter Mike Reicher, a 2009 alumnus of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, took first place in education reporting in the California Newspapers Publishers Assn.’s (CNPA) annual Better Newspapers Contest. His “School Flight” series for the Costa Mesa (Calif.) newspaper examines why affluent families from the Mesa Verde neighborhood have abandoned their local [...]
May 24, 2012 |
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
The CUNY Association of Black Journalists competed in the first ever New York City Trivia Bowl of the Asian American Journalists Association on May 18th. Of 18 teams representing media outlets and professional organizations, the CUNYABJ team finished in ninth place, ahead of The Wall Street Journal and WABC-TV. The New York Times team took [...]
May 23, 2012 |
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Alumni Hannah Rappleye and Lisa Riordan Seville from the Class of ’10 and radio instructor Amanda Aronczyk have received Soros Justice Fellowships from the Open Society Foundation. The $1.5 million in total awards supports investigative journalists, lawyers, academics, grassroots organizers, policy advocates, and filmmakers working to advance fairness and transparency in the U.S. criminal justice [...]
May 23, 2012 |
College of Staten Island
Synergy Marketing Research, a team of upper class marketing research students from the College of Staten Island, presented the results of their semester’s research project to the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, May 22, at the Chamber’s St. George office.
May 23, 2012 |
Sports
In our continuing efforts to showcase the talents of the student-athletes of the City University of New York, the CUNY Athletic Conference is holding our first-ever design contest. We are looking for a creative design for the cover of our 2012-13 Stude…
May 22, 2012 |
Queens College
This press release details the astonishing story of Christopher Navas, a young man from a decade-long working-class background in commercial boilers, with little direction in life, who discovered a passion for neuroscience at Queens College. Today, he’s a Salk Scholar bound for Dartmouth medical school. Navas credits one professor in particular, Giuseppe Cataldo–himself, a part-time shoemaker at the time–with inspiring his fascination with science and starting him on the path toward success.
May 22, 2012 |
Queens College
Queens College will confer an honorary doctorate on visionary
publisher, philanthropist and entrepreneur Sara Miller McCune
at its Commencement on May 31.