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Bookmark or Share- National Science Foundation Awards LaGuardia Community College $530k ...LONG ISLAND CITY, NY (August 27, 2024) — The U.S. National Science Foundation recently awarded a $530K grant to LaGuardia Community College/CUNY for professional development in STEM degree programs. The grant award is part of NSF’s comprehensive investment of $14.5 million in an inaugural set of awards through its Innovation in Two-Year College in STEM Education (ITYC) program. The program ...
- Renowned CCNY historian and author Andreas Killen is new Stuart Katz ...A subsequent book, “Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany,” explored the influence of cinema on German society. Killen has received awards from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the National Science Foundation, and the Deutscher Akadamischer Austauschdienst (or DAAD).
- First Lady Michelle Obama addresses City College of New York Class of ...The City College of New York. First Lady Michelle Obama will deliver the commencement address during the 170th Commencement Ceremony at The City College of New York on Friday, June 3, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. on the South Campus Great Lawn on the CCNY campus in historic Harlem, where more than 3,000 students make up the Class of 2016.
- Maggie Nelson ’04 (English) Awarded MacArthur ... - CUNY Newswire“Maggie Nelson is a writer forging a new mode of nonfiction that transcends the divide between the personal and the intellectual and renders pressing issues of our time into portraits of day-to-day lived experience,” the Foundation said in its announcement. “Nelson’s five book-length works of nonfiction are grounded in experiences and ...
- M.F.A. Fiction Program Faculty Member Sigrid Nunez Wins National Book ...Her novel The Friend beat out stiff competition at the awards ceremony on November 14 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. By ROBERT JONES JR. Adjunct Professor Sigrid Nunez’s National Book Award–winning novel The Friend explores the life of a woman suffering after the loss of her best friend and mentor, and burdened with caring for the unwanted dog […]
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