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Event produced by Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at Center for Worker Education salutes Hip-Hop Appreciation Week ����Ӱҵ’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies hosts the fourth annual “Is Hip-Hop History?” Conference 4 – 10 p.m. Friday, May 10, at the Center for Worker Education, 7th Floor, 25 Broadway, Manhattan. This year’s event honors Hip-Hop Appreciation Week. “Chuck D. may have been prophetic when he wrote the lyric ‘Treat it Like a Seminar’ because hip-hop now is the subject and inspiration for much intellectual work in many academic institutions,” states

Documentary by Tatyana Kleyn premieres April 30 at ����Ӱҵ, followed by panel discussion led by President Lisa S. Coico “I was five months old when I came to this country, but those five months make all the difference in the world.” That statement by Arline, an undocumented immigrant and City College of New York undergraduate, opens “Living Undocumented: High School, College and Beyond,” a 17-minute film by ����Ӱҵ Associate Professor of Education Tatyana Kleyn and Ben Donnellon. Six dreamers, two of whom attend ����Ӱҵ, share through the film their immigration journeys, their identification, the

Dave Davidson tells story of iconic dadaist and pioneer filmmaker who taught at ����Ӱҵ in 1940s and 1950s “HANS RICHTER: Everything Turns – Everything Revolves,” a documentary by City College of New York Professor of Film Dave Davidson about the pioneering filmmaker, will have its premiere 1 p.m. Sunday, May 5, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles. Richter, who was a major force in redefining art and film in the 20th century, was also director of ����Ӱҵ’s Institute of Film Techniques – the first documentary film school in the United States – from 1941 to 1957. The film charts

Designation will lead to more internship opportunities with world body Undocumented for most of her earlier life in the United States, Natalia Saavedra yearned to travel and learn about other cultures. That led the Colombia native to ����Ӱҵ, where she majors in international studies and has held several internships with United Nations affiliated non-governmental organizations [NGOs]. Ms. Saavedra, who will graduate this summer, applied her experience with the UN to help City College obtain consultative NGO status there. This will make it possible for more students to

����Ӱҵ professor heads projects imaging rivers, swamps and vineyards An aircraft-mounted, multipurpose NASA radar system has just returned loaded with data from a month-long trek over rainforests, plateaus, swamps and fault lines of South America. This forms part of an ambitious mission to study wetlands, agriculture, climate and biogeography across broad swaths of the United States and nine other countries pairing high-resolution radar imaging with ground data. Among the researchers leading investigations tied to the NASA mission is Dr. Kyle McDonald, City College of New York professor of earth

City College turns to one of its own to present the Ninth Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism: Distinguished Professor of Political Science Marshall Berman, who will speak 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 2, in The Great Hall, Shepard Hall. His topic will be “Emerging From the Ruins.” The talk is free and open to the public. A philosopher and urbanist, Professor Berman will speak to how much of urban creativity grows out of urban disaster and disintegration. As examples, he will cite New York, which has undergone a remarkable recovery since its fiscal crisis of the 1970s, and Paris, which was

The 13th Annual CUNY Jazz Festival, a gathering of bands and ensembles from across the CUNY system, takes place May 2-3 in Aaron Davis Hall, Theatre B, at ����Ӱҵ, 135th Street and Convent Avenue, Manhattan. Trumpet player Tim Hagans, hailed by “The New York Times” as “a firecracker of a trumpeter,” will be the festival’s guest artist. The festival features ensembles from ����Ӱҵ and four other CUNY colleges: Hunter, Queens, York and the College of Staten Island. It commences 12 Noon Thursday, May 2, with a performance by the ����Ӱҵ Jazz faculty ensemble, composed of several

Walter Russell Mead’s address, ‘America’s ‘Asia Pivot’ in a Time of Upheaval,’ will examine North Korea’s belligerence and regional reactions Preeminent public intellectual Walter Russell Mead will deliver the inaugural Anne and Bernard Spitzer Lecture at ����Ӱҵ 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 15. Mr. Mead, who is author of the blog Via Meadia on The American Interest website, will address the state of America’s relationship with Asia, given recent growing turmoil in the region. The talk, titled “America’s ‘Asia Pivot’ at a Time of Upheaval: The Pacific Isn’t Looking Pacifistic”

Chemical engineering major from Ukraine is 6th winner from City College since 2004 Alla Zamarayeva, a junior chemical engineering major in the Grove School of Engineering at ����Ӱҵ, has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship for 2013 from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The Goldwater Scholarship, which is federally funded, is America’s premiere award for undergraduates majoring in math, science and engineering. “We are thrilled by this recognition for Alla,” said ����Ӱҵ President Lisa S. Coico in congratulating her. “She came here

Former senator from Maine held positions as varied as Northern Ireland and Middle East peace envoy, Disney chairman and baseball drug investigator Former U.S. Sen. George J. Mitchell, who served as a special enjoy for Middle East peace in the Obama administration and held several other high-profile positions in business and public service after he retired from the Senate, will deliver the 2013 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, at ����Ӱҵ. The event, to be held in the Great Hall, Shepard Hall, on the ����Ӱҵ campus at 160 Convent