A veteran professional actress, published writer, teacher and articulate advocate for the advancement of women and underrepresented groups, Victoria Lichterman is also newly tenured at age 68. She has a full playbill of intercultural communication research, writing about racial stereotyping and speaking out against ageism planned for the upcoming year. A Women's History Month feature.
NYC College of Technology Biology Professors Isaac Barjis and Walied Samarrai are the creative wizards behind hybrid lab courses in general biology and in anatomy/physiology. Part animation, part video, part interactive software and part Wiki, their courses are generating a buzz with both students and colleagues, as they create a fascinating, fun experience that encourages experimentation.
Patricia Rudden, associate professor of English at New York City College of Technology/CUNY brings the work of Laura Nyro and other contemporary female recording artists to serious scholarly consideration in a new book that she edited, Singing for Themselves: Essays on Women in Popular Music.
For its visionary Black Male Initiative (BMI) program, NYC College of Technology has been named one of nine U.S. Model Replication Institutions recognized by NASA and the NSF for implementing proven strategies to increase participation, retention and graduation rates of underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Author Aaron Barlow focuses on what he calls "neteracy" (the ability to effectively negotiate the Web) and "massed media" (media coming from the people). He talks about the growing need for people to become "neterate" as well as literate, to take full advantage of the Web. He also considers changing attitudes toward communications technology, which is increasingly falls into the hands of end users.
With support from a Fulbright grant, NYC College of Technology Nursing Professor Patricia Cholewka is in Lithuania conducting interviews with practicing nurses and observing clinical/academic environments. She is gathering information on the impact that technology is having on nursing practice in post-Soviet Lithuania in managing, monitoring and improving healthcare outcomes.
Routine screening for oral signs of disease can save lives, but only seven percent of dentists offer the mouth and neck exams they should. Dr. Gwen Cohen-Brown, an oral pathologist and dental hygiene professor, is on a mission to educate her students and providers on how to recognize the clinical signs of such systemic diseases as HIV/AIDS.
Astrophysicist Gregory L. Matloff and his artist wife, C Bangs, are working on projects that are as far out as you can get without actually leaving the planet. Their latest work, Living Off the Land in Space, co-authored with NASA's Les Johnson, is due in bookstores next month. Targeted to both scientists and the general public, it looks at in-development propulsion systems that propel spacecraft with little or no need for on-board fuel.
It won't be hard to spot 45-year-old Nooria Nodrat among the 37,000 or so runners participating in the New York City Marathon on November 5. She'll be the one in an Achilles Track Club t-shirt accompanied by a coterie of six runners, one of whom will be tethered to her with a dish towel.
How can a "technological" college enhance its curriculum to provide students with a broader, deeper education -- one that embraces the liberal arts while not sacrificing the intensive preparation its graduates need to enter industry? New York City College of Technology/CUNY (City Tech) is about to explore how to accomplish this, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
September 11, 2001, brought Sherina Ali and her daughter, Jolina Rodriguez, together in more ways than one. Not only were both women deeply affected by the events of that day, the disaster led to both attending New York City College of Technology, where they are studying for bachelor's degrees in human services after recently earning their associate degrees.
New York City College of Technology/CUNY has selected interactive design pioneer Dr. Edwin Schlossberg as its 2006 commencement speaker and the recipient of an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. The commencement exercises will take place on Tuesday, June 6, 10:30 a.m., in the Theater at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan.
It's not unusual for students graduating from college to thank their parents, particularly their mothers, for being there for them during the years spent toiling for their degrees. But in Aillen Aponte's case, maternal devotion reached extraordinary heights, as her mother dedicated her life to caring for Aillen, who was born with cerebral palsy and wheelchair-bound.
Employing adjunct professors as tutors, NYC College of Technology was able to boost the pass rates of students in two challenging gatekeeper engineering technology courses as much as 30 percent. The Adjunct Academy initiative, which received FIPSE funding, has turned out to be a win-win situation.
New York City College of Technology Professor Adrianne Wortzel has created a virtual robot psychoanalyst on her interactive website. This online art installation has been visited by people from all over the world, who sign up for five-minute sessions with the robot.
New York City College of Technology/CUNY Professor Xiangdong Li is collaborating with Polytechnic University, located just across the street from City Tech in Downtown Brooklyn, on a virtual laboratory for information assurance education and research, and is the first of its kind in the nation.
Dr. Niloufar Haque, a neuroscientist who teaches at New York City College of Technology/CUNY, is sponsoring a conference on neurodegenerative diseases on April 15. Presentations to focus on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, Fragile X Syndrome, Epilepsy, and stress and the brain.
New York City College of Technology students are getting a leg up on their careers thanks to a $3.1 million electronic portfolio (ePortfolio) initiative, in which they design their own websites that include research papers, accounts of internship experiences and multimedia presentations.
The two-day symposium features a stellar line-up of eminent physicists who will discuss new developments and present broad overviews in such frontier research areas as elementary particle, nuclear and atomic physics as well as the physics of nanostructures.
Peabody and Emmy Award-winning reporter Ti-Hua Chang, who has worked for WNBC News since 1993, will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate in humane letters.
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