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����Ӱҵ’s scenic campus, with its landmark neo-gothic buildings, is about to get greener. The 162 year-old institution is now part of the nation’s first official “Heritage Rose District.” A variety of heritage roses including the rare “Green Rose” were planted by a group of ����Ӱҵ officials, Heritage Rose Foundation members and community residents on the west side of the 35-acre campus, along Amsterdam Avenue (between 135th and 136th Streets) on October 24. This followed the “Heritage Rose District” ground breaking in Harlem and Washington Heights earlier in the day by

Two years ago, while working on her M.A. thesis about delinquency in Bushwick, Stefanie Joshua, a City College student with no filmmaking experience, decided that the socio-economic plight of her old neighborhood could make a good documentary. The sociology student, who completed her degree in 2005, took a filmmaking class and wrote, produced and directed “Bushwick Homecomings,” a 38-minute film about the Brooklyn neighborhood’s social and economic changes between 1970 and 2000. The film, which won the “Best USA Documentary” award at Britain’s 2008 Swansea Life Film Festival, has been acquired

Seven Alumni to Receive Townsend Harris Medals for Outstanding Postgraduate Achievement The Alumni Association of ����Ӱҵ will present its 62nd John H. Finley Award jointly to actor F. Murray Abraham and the Theater for the New City (TNC). The presentation will be made at the Association’s 129th Annual Dinner, Wednesday, November 4, at The New York Hilton. The award, named for ����Ӱҵ’s third President, is presented annually to New Yorkers who have given exemplary service to their city. Mr. Abraham is a distinguished star of the silver screen and stage who has promoted

����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ) will offer a new, interdisciplinary graduate program, “Sustainability in the Urban Environment,” that incorporates emerging approaches from the disciplines of architecture, engineering and science. The program will enroll its first students for the Spring 2010 semester. It will award a Master of Science degree in Sustainability to its graduates. “None of the masters-level programs in sustainability currently listed on the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education website integrate the disciplines of architecture, engineering and

It is not often that a group of scientists get to define a field of study. But, that is what Dr. Jeffrey Morris, Professor of Chemical Engineering in The Grove School of Engineering at ����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ), and colleagues at ����Ӱҵ and the University of Chicago are attempting to do. Professor Morris is principal investigator on a new, five-year $3 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that establishes a Partnership in Research and Education in Materials (PREM) at ����Ӱҵ in collaboration with the University of Chicago’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. The

Dr. Sheldon Weinbaum, CUNY Distinguished Research Professor of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering in The Grove School of Engineering at ����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ), has received the National Biomedical Engineering Society’s Inaugural Diversity Award. The award honors exceptional contributions to improving gender and racial diversity within biomedical engineering. Professor Weinbaum was chosen for his long-standing efforts to integrate women and under-represented minorities (URM) into engineering and, more recently, into biomedical engineering as co-founder of ����Ӱҵ’s Biomedical

Collaboration has long been recognized as essential to the advancement of scientific knowledge. While the nature of co-production of knowledge in collaborative settings has been studied for some time, little is known about how the process works in collaborations established and maintained through virtual organizations. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at ����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ) is studying how virtual organizations, where people work in different locations, sometimes halfway around the world, change and affect the production of scientific knowledge. They are supported by a

Freshmen Daniel Asemota, Mohammad Sadat, Maha Salama and Chantal Strachan, all aspiring physicians in the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at ����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ), were chosen as 2009 recipients of the prestigious Lois Pope Annual LIFE Unsung Hero Scholarship Awards at ����Ӱҵ. Mrs. Pope, the Florida-based philanthropist and President of Leaders in Furthering Education (LIFE), presented the awards, which each carry a $25,000 stipend, at a ceremony and luncheon at the College, Wednesday, October 7. The scholarships go to incoming Sophie Davis freshmen who have

����Ӱҵ (����Ӱҵ) is experiencing a surge in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Since August 1 members of the College’s faculty have received 22 grants from NSF totaling $8.9 million. The rise reflects an increase in proposals submitted by faculty members, according to Regina Masterson, Director of the Office of Research Administration. In addition, several new faculty members brought grants with them that had been awarded to them at their previous institution, she noted. “We are experiencing unprecedented funding levels, with $30 million from all sources for

With visiting and permanent exhibits and public lectures throughout the school year, ����Ӱҵ’s (����Ӱҵ) Center for Worker Education (CWE) is rapidly becoming an artistic and cultural destination in Lower Manhattan. The Center, located at 25 Broadway, is home to the College’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, which sponsors the exhibits and lectures, which are free and open to the public. Currently on display at the Center is “Dominicans in New York: An Exhibit from the Dominican Archives & Library Collections,” funded by the New York Council for the Humanities. The