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Ambassador Stephen W. Bosworth, U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy, Will Deliver Keynote Address General Colin L. Powell, USA (ret.), former U.S. Secretary of State and distinguished ����Ӱҵ alumnus, will convene a half-day conference on dynamic shifts affecting relations between North and South Korea and the implications of those relations for policymakers. The conference will take place Friday, April 23, at the Harmonie Club in Manhattan. General Powell will address the conference’s luncheon session. Ambassador Stephen W. Bosworth, U.S. Special Representative for North Korea

John Payton, Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, has been the lead counsel in some of the most significant civil rights cases in recent times. The list includes the affirmative action cases Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger. Next Tuesday, April 6, he will visit ����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ) to lead a panel discussion on the Grutter case, which resulted in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on law school admissions, and deliver The Skadden, Arps Lecture in Legal Studies. His lecture topic will be “Democracy & Diversity.” Both events are in The

Sarah Adams Co-Hosts Conference April 22 on Student Parent Issues Getting a college degree is hard enough, but when academic obligations are juggled with the responsibility of raising a child, the challenge can be daunting. As a graduate student and parent attending ����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ), Sarah Adams lived that challenge. While fortunate to have had a strong family support network, she saw many of her fellow student parents struggling to keep up. Last fall, the New York Life Graduate Fellow established the ����Ӱҵ Student Parent Group to provide a support base for all students who

A short film by Carlos Aguasaco, a Spanish lecturer in ����Ӱҵ’s (����Ӱҵ) Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, has won for best video in the art category at the Cartagena (Colombia) International Film Festival. Mr. Aguasaco, who is also an alumnus of ����Ӱҵ, wrote, produced and directed “Medialengua” (“Half Tongue”), a short story about a word in Spanish being confused with an English word. “I have known Carlos since his time as a student of our MA program in Spanish, when I was chair of the Department,” said Dr. Juan Carlos Mercado, dean of the Division of Interdisciplinary

����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ) has been named to the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. This is the highest recognition an institution of higher education can receive from the Federal Government for its commitment to volunteering, community service and civic engagement. ����Ӱҵ was chosen for its service-learning academic programs as well as for student-led community service projects. “As a public institution serving a diverse community, community service and civic engagement are integral to our mission,” said ����Ӱҵ Interim President Robert E. Paaswell. “We’re

Sy Sternberg, ’65 EE, former chairman and chief executive officer of New York Life Insurance Co., will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from his alma mater, ����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ), April 23. CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, ’63, and ����Ӱҵ Interim President Robert E. Paaswell will confer the degree on him in a ceremony at 4:30 p.m. during the “ Frontiers in Physics” symposium presented by the ����Ӱҵ Physics Department at The Harmonie Club in New York. The honorary doctorate recognizes Mr. Sternberg’s “distinguished service to college, city and country,” said ����Ӱҵ

Mike Holober to Lead Westchester Jazz Orchestra in Premiere Performance In addition to teaching in the Music Department at ����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ), noted jazz composer and pianist Mike Holober serves as artistic director and conductor of the Westchester Jazz Orchestra (WJO). On Saturday, April 10, he will lead the ensemble in the premiere of his composition “Flow: In Celebration of the Hudson River.” The concert, at the Town Hall Theatre in Irvington, New York,” begins at 8 p.m. Professor Holober will give an informal talk before the concert at 7:15 p.m. “Flow” is a three-movement

Honorary Degree to be Conferred Upon Sy Sternberg, ’65 EE Five prominent physicists from leading U.S. and European universities will explore the future of their discipline at “Frontiers in Physics,” a daylong symposium presented by the Physics Department at ����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ). The event, Friday, April 23, at The Harmonie Club in New York, will serve as the occasion for the conferral of an honorary doctorate on Sy Sternberg, ’65 EE, former chairman and chief executive officer of New York Life Insurance Co. The principal speakers, representing high-energy physics, condensed

Responding to Environmental Crisis, Students Take Future Into Their Hands In the lead-up to the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, students from campuses around New York City are coming together to form the Amp Up Network. The first Amp Up Student Summit will be held at ����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ) 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 27 in the North Academic Center Ballroom. The grassroots Amp Up Network will serve to connect environmental student activists on college campuses throughout the five boroughs. More than 100 students from CUNY and private colleges in New York City plan to attend

The Hon. Mario M. Cuomo, former governor of New York, will deliver the Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholars Lecture at ����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ) 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 8, in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public. Mario Cuomo was the longest serving Democratic governor in the modern history of New York State, serving from 1983 to 1995. “The New York Times” called his tenure “one of the most celebrated governorships in history.” In his 12 years at the helm of the Empire State, Governor Cuomo steered New York through two recessions