As a sociology graduate student at Harvard University, Peter Moskos thought the best way to see the inner workings of a police unit in a high-crime area was to join the force himself. So he did. The result is his first book, “Cop in the Hood: My...
Beyond Bike Lanes: Retrofitting the 21st Century Metropolis for Bicycles and Pedestrians
Professor Tom Angotti’s “Beyond Bike Lanes: Retrofitting the 21st Century Metropolis for Bicycles and Pedestrians” investigates ways to make the United States less dependent on automobiles by exploring how other cities have...
The CUNY Sustainability Project and PlaNYC
Project Manager Laura Sawgert Winkel of The CUNY Sustainability Project explores CUNY`s involvement with Mayor Michael Bloomberg`s PlaNYC 2030, a comprehensive, long-term plan to reduce global warming emissions by 30% by the year 2030. In her...
New Materials for Renewable Energy Technologies
In his lecture “New Materials for Renewable Energy Technologies,” part of the Governor`s Island Lectures on Sustainability, Steven Greenbaum, professor of physics at Hunter College, explores different strategies to lower the world`s carbon dioxide...
Beijing Olympics: A Lost Opportunity
The ruling Communist Party may have viewed the 29th Beijing Olympic Games as a way to project China as a prosperous and progressive country, but its suppression of protests over Tibet, as well as its reaction to parents whose children perished in the...
“Green” Coffee? Drink Up!
Cold coffee drinks have been available for more than a century, but Lehman College sophomore Luke Kelly claims his new beverage “Luke`s Brew” is the first environmentally friendly, unsweetened black coffee that can also be stored for several weeks...
Babies, Geometry and the NSF Fellow
William Macaulay Honors College and Queens College graduate Joseph Hirsh has always had a passion for mathematics, including space-based math like geometry and topology. Hirsh, who received a prestigious research fellowship from the National Science...
Crime Scene Experience
For some Brooklyn College biology majors, watching an episode of ”CSI Miami” was their closest encounter with a crime scene investigation — until Dan Eshel came along. In spring 2008, the biology professor introduced a DNA...
Queens College Athletics Nets Diversity Award
For its commitment to race and gender equality in athletics, Queens College was one of fourteen schools honored with the National Collegiate Athletics Association`s (NCAA) Division II Diversity Award. Director of Athletics, Dr. Richard Wettan, says the...
Modern Army, One Toothbrush
U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan get one toothbrush for every 15-month tour, according to Dr. Gwen Brown, assistant professor of dental hygiene at New York City College of Technology. Prof. Brown’s military veteran-students are the source of...
Playing the Field with Science and Mathematics
Not everyone might see the connection between shooting hoops and mastering physics, but Dr. Penny Hammrich, dean of education at Queens College, did. Her innovative program “Sisters in Science and Brothers of Science Equity Reform Project” has for 15...
Surviving the Unthinkable
The 1994 Rwandan Genocide, which claimed the lives of more than 800,000 Hutus and Tutsis, forced Georges Ndabashimiye’s family to seek refuge in the Congo where militant rebels violently seized their camp and killed Ndabashimiye`s father and...
New Leadership for Asian American/Asian Research Institute
Joyce Moy has spent years assisting Asian immigrants adjust to life in New York City and as the newly appointed director of the Asian American/Asian Research Institute of the City University of New York, she hopes to help even more. An attorney, Moy...
Kojo Wallace: Top of His Class
Like former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Kojo Wallace attended the elite Mfantsipim Methodist boarding school in Ghana’s Cape Coast and studied hard to succeed. His efforts — then and since his emigration in 2006 to join his New York City...
Executive Committee Meeting of the Board of Trustees
Executive Committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Monday, July 21, 2008.
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Mapping Deadly Cyclone’s Destruction
When the second deadliest cyclone on record hit the Irrawaddy Delta in Myanmar in May, it left 134,000 people dead or missing and some 2.4 million stranded without adequate food, shelter or supplies. Using typical Geographic Information Systems, Yuri...
Krugman: Americans’ Unhealthy Spending
The top-earning 1% of Americans account for one-quarter of the country’s health expenditures, a disparity showing how skewed today’s health-care system is towards the wealthy, says New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. “Even if you have...
Education (Technology)
Public schools are pushing too much cutting-edge technology instead of focusing in the core mission of education, according to Internet guru Omar Wasow. Mr. Wasow, a former board president of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School in Bedford Stuyvesant...
Louis Armstrong: At Home in Corona
Jazz icon Louis Armstrong was wealthy enough to live anywhere, yet the renowned trumpeter, who grew up in numbing poverty in New Orleans, chose modest Corona, Queens, to live in with his wife Lucille starting in 1943. For decades “Sachmo,” as he was...
Choosing Wisely
Life is about choices. “Behavioral economics” analyzes the underpinnings of choice using psychology and economic theory, says Richard H.Thaler, professor of behavioral economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. By...
Banking on Evolution
Charles Darwin changed the way people thought about evolution with his 1859 seminal work “On the Origin of Species,” featuring the theory of natural selection. His own financial practices helped shape his groundbreaking ideas. “(Darwin`s) way of...
Alma Guillermoprieto: The Power of Giving
Prolific author and journalist Alma Guillermoprieto urged Baruch College’s 2008 graduating class to help others as much as she was helped by a scholarship from the Andrew Goodman Foundation, set up by the mother of the murdered 1960s civil rights...
Leadership and the Presidents
Hunter College’s “Aspen at Roosevelt House” series concludes with a conversation on presidential leadership. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and David Gergen, director of the...
The Skinny on Trans Fat
The Trans Fat Help Center, a partnership of The New York City College of Technology and New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, is helping restaurateurs and other food service professionals rid their menus of harmful trans fat....
Community Colleges “Overlooked”
A comprehensive report published earlier this year by the College Board’s National Commission on Community Colleges says two-year schools need immediate attention if the country is to maintain a healthy middle class and survive in the growing...
CUNY Honors Renowned Philosopher Saul Kripke
A pioneer in the field of logic, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Saul Kripke, has spent 40 years studying the philosophy of language and is regarded by his peers to be one of the world`s greatest living philosophers. His research has led to...
Jacob Riis: A New Look Back
In his classic book “How the Other Half Lives,” the photojournalist Jacob Riis exposed poverty like never before. More than a century later, these iconic black and white photographs of Lower East Side tenement life have not lost their punch....
The UN’s Bronx Roots
Before its headquarters was built on the banks of the East River in midtown, the Security Council of the United Nations held its first formal meetings on American soil in a gymnasium at Hunter College’s Bronx campus, now Lehman College. The...
Chancellor’s Report to the Board of Trustees
Chancellor Matthew Goldstein discusses the settlement reached on contract negotiations between the University and the Professional Staff Congress, the record 35,000 degrees conferred by the University this spring and the forthcoming report from the State...
A Look at U.S.-Swiss Relations Today
Traditionally known as the land of clocks and chocolates, Switzerland is the seventh largest investor in the U.S. today, employing more than 400,000 people in more than 600 companies, including banking and pharmaceutical giants UBS and Novartis....
