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Human Gut Microbiome Will Be Topic for December 8 Address Dr. Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D., will deliver the 5th Annual Sharon Cosloy-Edward Blank Lecture at ����Ӱҵ 4 p.m. Wednesday, December 8. His topic will be “The human gut microbiome: dining in with trillions of friends.” The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place in Room 250, Shepard Hall, and will be followed by a reception in Room 150, Shepard Hall. Dr. Gordon is the Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and director of

Two Grants Targeting Hispanic-Serving Institutions Aim to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates and Prepare Graduate Students for Careers in Green Economy Two grants totaling $5.7 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Education will help ����Ӱҵ improve undergraduate retention and graduation rates and prepare graduate students for careers in the green economy. ����Ӱҵ was the only mainland institution east of the Mississippi River to receive awards through the Department’s Title V programs for Hispanic-serving institutions at both the undergraduate and graduate

Faculty Experts to Talk on This Year’s Winners and Why They Won Do you want to know more about the winners of the 2010 Nobel Prizes as well as top awards given in architecture, geosciences and mathematics? Then attend “Who Won the Nobel Prize* this Year and Why,” two panel discussions featuring short presentations by City College faculty experts, 4:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Monday, November 15, and Tuesday, November 16, in Room 95, Shepard Hall, ����Ӱҵ. The event, which is free and open to the public, is presented by ����Ӱҵ’s Division of Science. “The Nobel Prizes, the Pritzker

Event Picks Promising Early-Career Engineering Faculty from Across the Country Dr. Raymond Tu, assistant professor of chemical engineering in the Grove School of Engineering at ����Ӱҵ, is one of 53 young researchers and educators nationwide invited to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s 2010 Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium. The event, which will bring together innovative, early-career engineering professors from more than 40 institutions, will be held December 13 – 16 in Irvine, Calif. Professor Tu, who was voted the Grove School’s teacher of the

George Ranalli, under whose tenure as dean the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at ����Ӱҵ has been transformed into a first-tier design school, will be awarded the Sidney L. Strauss Award from the New York Society of Architects. Dean Ranalli, who has led the school since 1999, will be recognized for outstanding achievements within the architectural profession at the society’s annual awards dinner, November 18. “I felt there was no better choice for this award at this time than George Ranalli,” said David J. Millner, first vice president of the New York

President Staiano-Coico to Confer Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters, Upon Him Mario Vargas Llosa, the 2010 Nobel Laureate in Literature, will deliver ����Ӱҵ’s President’s Lecture 5:30 p.m. Thursday, November 18, in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall on the ����Ӱҵ campus at 160 Convent Avenue, Manhattan. Prior to his address, ����Ӱҵ President Lisa Staiano-Coico will bestow upon him the honorary degree Doctor of Letters. Mr. Vargas Llosa’s topic will be “Return of the Monsters.” His lecture comes two weeks after the launch of his latest novel, “El sueño del celta” (“The Celtic's

Four scientists will participate in a panel discussion on projects under way in the Dominican Republic and their impact on the country’s economic development. The event, presented by the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) takes place 4 p.m. Saturday, November 6, Room 1/203, North Academic Center, ����Ӱҵ, 160 Convent Avenue, Manhattan. The four panelists and their topics are: • Dr. Jorge E. González, NOAA-CREST Professor, Grove School of Engineering, ����Ӱҵ, “Expansion of Lake Enriquillo: Observations and Environmental Causes.” • Dr. Yolanda

Honored for ‘Five Decades of Extending Fundamental Health Services’ and Leading Through Example Dr. H. Jack Geiger, a founding faculty member of the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at ����Ӱҵ, who has focused his career on health, poverty and human rights, has been awarded the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism. He was honored at a dinner during The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (ASF) Conference, held October 16 in Baltimore, M.D. A co-founder and past president of Physicians for Human Rights and Physicians for Social Responsibility, Dr. Geiger is

����Ӱҵ Division of Science announces 18 events for the month of November featuring scientists from prominent universities and research institutes from across the United States and Germany. All are free and open to the public and held in the Marshak Science Building, unless otherwise noted. Listings of event times, speakers, topics and room numbers follow. November 1 , 12 noon: Salzberg Chemistry Seminar Series, Dr. Michael Mirkin, professor of chemistry, Queens College, “Charge-transfer processes at electrochemical nanointerfaces,” Room 1027. November 1 , 12:15 p.m

In a collaborative effort, ����Ӱҵ’s advertising/public relations program (AD/PR) in the media and communication arts department and the art department’s electronic design and multimedia program (EDM) swept the New York City Police Foundation’s 2010 advertising competition. They took the top three prizes in the print category, besting teams from Pratt Institute and Parsons The New School for Design. “We’re extremely proud of this achievement, especially since it offered a unique opportunity for our two programs to collaborate in a cross-disciplinary way,” said Professor