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Certified Nursing Assistant Program Part of New Emphasis on Job Training In response to community demand for short-term job training opportunities, T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Continuing and Professional Studies (CPS) will introduce a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) training program in October. The nine-month program, which leads to New York State certification, is one of several new continued education offerings this fall. 
Others include small business development, quilt making and security guard training. Information on these and CPS’ complete fall schedule, as well as registration

Award Recognizes Commitment to Community Service Jay-Sheree Allen, a member of T��ɫ��Ƶ Class of 2011, has been selected as a winner of the 2011 Pearson Prize for Higher Education. The award, which carries a $10,000 stipend, is given by the Pearson Foundation to recognize exemplary students who have distinguished themselves through commitment to community service while completing their undergraduate studies. Ms. Allen was one of 20 National Fellows chosen in the competition. Ms. Allen, a native of Jamaica who transferred from New York University, majored in psychology and

Mambo legend Ray Santos, the long-time leader of T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Latin Band, is a co-recipient of The Latin Recording Academy’s 2011 Trustees Award. He will be honored November 9 with fellow luminaries Manuel Alejandro and Jesus “Chucho” Ferrer at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas during the Latin GRAMMY® Awards celebration. The Trustees Award is a special honor whose recipients are selected by ballots cast by the Academy’s trustees. It recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions, other than performance, to the field of recording throughout their career

Yinery Baez, a fourth-year architecture student in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at T��ɫ��Ƶ, never gave much thought to screws. However, as project manager for the interior of the Solar Roof Pod, CCNY’s entry in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, specifying cabinet hardware is one of her many responsibilities. “Many of the issues we face we never experienced in the classroom,” the Glendale, Queens, resident said. “Little details like the type of screws used, for example. For the cabinets, we produced over 50 drawings so they would have a

International Conference July 25 – 27 in Dominican Republic to Consider Pros and Cons; CCNY Sociologist Ramona Hernández Chairs Meeting After close to a year of groundwork, nearly 100 academics representing some 50 institutions from around the world will gather July 25 - 27 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, for an academic conference titled “The Spanish Caribbean: Toward a Field of its Own.” The scholars will discuss the creation of a new field of graduate-level study focused on Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico plus émigré populations who trace their ancestry to these lands. “The

Swapnil Jadhav and Giovanni Milione, graduate students in T��ɫ��Ƶ’s Division of Science, have been lauded for their leadership potential by prominent organizations in their respective fields. Mr. Jadhav, a PhD candidate in chemistry under the supervision of Associate Professor George John, was presented with the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) 2011 Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award. The award comes with a $1,000 stipend and certificate recognizing his outstanding contributions in furthering the goals of green chemistry. Through a project titled “Functional Molecular

First Time a Multidisciplinary Journal Devotes an Entire Issue to Dominican Studies “Camino Real,” the journal of the Instituto Franklin of the University of Alcalá, Spain, has published a special issue devoted to Dominican studies, a growing field in the United States focused on the study of people of Dominican ancestry. This is the first time a multidisciplinary academic journal has published an entire issue devoted to the field. Dr. Ramona Hernández, director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI), based at T��ɫ��Ƶ, and Anthony Stevens-Acevedo, CUNY DSI

A joint proposal from T��ɫ��Ƶ’s interdisciplinary Sustainability in the Urban Environment master’s program and two other organizations was one of 15 projects funded in the New York Department of Environmental Protection’s 2011 Green Infrastructure Grant Program. The team, which also includes New York Restoration Project, as lead partner, and Stantec Consulting, received $244,920. “We’re proud to have been asked to partner on this project with leading environmental restoration organizations like New York Restoration Project and Stantec,” said Dr. Latif M. Jiji, Herbert

Each summer, many City College of New York students leave the classroom behind to immerse themselves in exciting off-campus experiences. This year, a cadre of undergraduates invites you to follow their adventures on Twitter as they launch summer projects in academia, government, and the non-profit sector. The “Tweeting Your Summer” project begins by following the posts of four exceptional seniors in engineering and computer science. So far they have dipped into local cultural activities, befriended colleagues and fellow scholars, dived into the literature of their fields, discovered new joys

City College of New York President Lisa Staiano-Coico has announced that Dr. Maurizio Trevisan, MD, has accepted an offer to become dean of the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at CCNY. Dr. Trevisan, whose appointment is subject to the approval of the CUNY Board of Trustees, is currently executive vice chancellor and chief executive officer, Health Sciences System, Nevada System of Higher Education. If approved, he will assume his new position August 1. “Dr. Trevisan is an experienced senior administrator, an internationally known physician/epidemiologist in the field of