Paquito D’Rivera, the musician, conductor, and composer whose extraordinary career has influenced American music across Latin, jazz, and classical genres, will perform the world premiere of his new work Ladies in White in An Evening with Paquito D’Rivera at Elebash Recital Hall on May 3.
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The Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center has announced its 2010-2011 Biography Fellows. Established by a generous gift from the Leon Levy Foundation in 2006, the Center offers annual fellowships to writers working in the genre.
Read moreThe City University of New York Graduate Center announces the following public programs to be held during the month of April at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street. For further information about the Graduate Center and its public programs, visit http://www.gc.cuny.edu/.
Read moreA white paper by Graduate Center doctoral student Kimberly Libman, targeting the high cost of college textbooks, is the basis of a legislative package just introduced in the New York State Assembly. The paper, Transforming Textbooks, shows how electronic textbooks can reduce costs and expand academic resources for cash-strapped public college students, who spend more than $1,000 annually on required texts, and for public universities, which are facing budget cuts. But, the report also warns, the publishing industry’s current business practices stand in the way.
Read moreThe City University of New York Graduate Center announces the following public programs to be held during the month of March at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street. For further information about the Graduate Center and its public programs, visit http://www.gc.cuny.edu.
Read moreTwo hundred aspiring scholars from undergraduate CUNY campuses will present their research at the 13th Annual CUNY Pipeline Conference on Friday, February 19. The Pipeline program is aimed at encouraging City University of New York students from underserved minorities to enter doctoral programs and, eventually, the academy as professors.
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Read moreThe Great Issues Forum, a series of high-profile public conversations that explore critical issues of our time through a single thematic lens, will focus on Islam in the spring of 2010.
Read moreMannequins dressed in 1960s European fashions combine with legendary foreign films of the period to evoke a vital creative era, in the James Gallery’s latest exhibition, FASHION + FILM, the 1960s Revisited, on view from Friday, March 12, through Saturday, May 1.
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