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UN investigator Juan E. Mendez, International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo, headline panels March 27, April 2 ����Ӱҵ Human Rights Forum will host two leaders in the global fight to stem crimes against humanity: Juan E. Mendez, March 27, and Luis Moreno Ocampo, April 2. Setting the stage for the talks will be a screening on March 27 of the documentary “Watchers of the Sky.” Mr. Mendez, the United Nations special rapporteur on torture and other inhuman punishment will appear with Amrit Singh, senior legal officer for the National Security and

Theaster Gates, an artist and innovator in the field of social practice, will present the 10th Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture at ����Ӱҵ, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, in the Great Hall, Shepard Hall on the ����Ӱҵ campus. Mr. Gates’ topic will be “Place Over Time: New Symbols for Durational Encounters with the City.” The event is free and open to the public. Mr. Gates is internationally known for his work on the South Side of Chicago, including Dorchester Projects, Black Cinema House and the upcoming Stony Island Arts Bank and Dorchester Artists Housing Collaborative. Whether in

Rebecca Panko identifies plant species that can survive on leachate, could reduce amount of runoff discharged into sewer system Composting converts organic household waste into a source of nutrients that can enrich garden soil. However, the runoff it produces can be detrimental to the quality of surrounding bodies of water. City College of New York biology major Rebecca Panko has been investigating whether this runoff, or leachate, could be used in a more sustainable way. For more than a year, she has been conducting research at the Lower East Side Ecology Center under the guidance of Director

$30,000 in prizes offered for viable solutions to social and environmental challenges The Zahn Innovation Center at ����Ӱҵ invites ����Ӱҵ students, faculty and staff to enter the Zahn Social Innovation Challenge, a competition awarding $30,000 in prizes to winning proposals in the social entrepreneurship arena. April 4 is the deadline to enter. The Zahn Center and the Zahn Social Innovation Challenge are both administered by the City College Fund. The competition is intended to encourage members of the City College community to propose their ideas for sustainable social

Honors to Elliot Jurist in 2014 and Paul Wachtel in 2013 mark first time professors from same institution win twice in a row For the second time in as many years, a City College of New York psychology professor has received the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 39 Scholarship and Research Award. This year's recipient is Professor Elliot L. Jurist . His colleague, Dr. Paul Wachtel, won in 2013. This is the first time that professors from the same institution have been given the award in consecutive years. The Scholarship and Research Award recognizes APA members who have made

Aspiring writers often endure months – if not years – of receiving rejection letters from editors before a publisher finally says “yes.” However, several recent graduates of ����Ӱҵ’s MFA program in creative writing have achieved some success by getting their first – and sometimes second novels –published lately. Among them: Brendan Kiely, MFA ’11, whose debut novel, “The Gospel of Winter” (Margaret K. McElderry Books), about a teenage boy from a fractured family who turns to a new crew of friends for support after a local priest betrays his trust, was released in January

Discoverer of link between genes and hypertension to present annual Louis Levine-Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics Yale University biochemist Richard P. Lifton , who discovered the link between genetics and high blood pressure, will deliver the annual Louis Levine-Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics at ����Ӱҵ. His talk on "Genome Approaches to Understand Hypertension and other Common Diseases" will begin at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 27, in The Great Hall. It is free and open to the public. Dr. Lifton is chair of the Department of Genetics and Sterling Professor of

����Ӱҵ media and communication arts (MCA) department will honor one of its own, Professor Lynn Appelbaum , for 20 years of service at a March 13 private reception. In addition, the department has established an endowed scholarship in her honor and created a Facebook page where well-wishers can share stories and post congratulatory messages. Professor Appelbaum is director of ����Ӱҵ's advertising/public relations program, which has 200 undergraduate majors and in 2012 began offering a master of professional studies degree in branding and integrated communications. She has

Native of Warsaw earns degree in directing from Polish National Film School 46 years after homeland exiled him in wave of anti-Semitism Poland’s leading film school has awarded a PhD to Andrzej Krakowski , a professor of film and video at ����Ӱҵ. Earning the degree, granted in January and the first PhD in directing for a faculty member at a U.S. film school, reflects not only his persistence, but changed attitudes in his homeland, as well. In 1968, Poland exiled him and most of the other Jews still living in Poland after the Holocaust. At the time, he was studying

The Americas Film Festival New York, June 2 – 5, to honor the rich diversity of cultures, languages and stories of the Americas The Americas Film Festival New York (TAFFNY), a new festival to showcase feature films, documentaries, shorts and animations that represent the rich diversity of cultures, languages and stories of the Americas, will be held June 2 – 5 at ����Ӱҵ Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway, Manhattan, and the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, One Bowling Green. The City College Division of