Events http://www.york.cuny.edu These are the search results for the query, showing results 1021 to 1035. A Walk To Beautiful - Film Screening http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/a-walk-to-beautiful-film-screening The Women’s Center, Diversity And Pluralism Committee, Child And Family Center in cooperation with The African American Resource Center Present A Walk To Beautiful - Film Screening  

A documentary screening and discussion “A Walk to Beautiful" tells the story of five women in Ethiopia suffering from devastating childbirth injuries and their journey on the road to recovery.
Giving birth should not be a death sentence….
]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Student Development Current Student Student Activities Women Center 2012-02-29T22:55:46Z Event A Talk about Graduate School in International Affairs http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/a-talk-about-graduate-school-in-international-affairs Ms. Leigh Morris Sloane Executive Director Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) About Ms. Leigh Morris Sloane:

Leigh Morris Sloane serves as the Executive Director of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA). In this role, she manages programs and services and develops new initiatives for APSIA's 60 full and affiliate member schools. From 2006-2008, Ms. Sloane was the Executive Director of the Civic Education Project (CEP), where she worked with the Board of Directors to develop new programs with universities in the Middle East. Previously, Ms. Sloane was the Assistant Director for the Congress and US Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). At CFR, she organized roundtable discussions for senior congressional staff with leading foreign policy experts. Ms. Sloane earned a Master's degree from the London School of Economics in History and Theory of International Relations and a Bachelor's degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Behavioral Sciences Current Student 2011-09-06T16:36:03Z Event A Radio-Theater Presentation http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/a-radio-theater-presentation A Radio-Theater Presentation of En otoño siempre llueve by José de la Rosa. En otoño siempre llueve by José de la Rosa

Participants: Vivian Deangelo (Artistic and Executive Director of Teatro Iati), Teresa Yunque (Actrees), and William González (Sound designer) (In Spanish).

All these activities are free and open to the public and sponsored by the Foreign Languages/ESL/Humanities Department and the York College Auxiliary Enterprises.

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student 2008-10-10T15:00:00Z Event A Night of Soul Benefit Concert http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/night-of-soul-benefit Starring: Jonathan Quash, Mark Adams (Piano), Freddy Dugard (Percussion), with Featured singers: Melissa Turner, Miya Bass, and Cathia Aubin. Come and celebrate a season of change.
$25.00 Donation
]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Mens Center Current Student Public 2008-10-25T00:35:00Z Event A Night of Soul http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/a-night-of-soul-1 Starring: Jonathan Quash, Mark Adams (Piano), Freddy Dugard (Percussion), Hashim Sharieff (Bass), with Featured singers: Melissa Turner, Miya Bass, and Cathia Aubin. No publisher Miguel Bernard Mens Center Current Student 2008-10-25T00:32:55Z Event A Grants Workshop http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/a-grants-workshop-1 From The Office U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Topic: How to navigate the federal and state grant process 

for not-for-profit and faith-based organizations.

Open to the public and free of charge.
To RSVP or for additional information please contact Camille Joseph 212-688-6262
]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student Public 2011-03-08T20:40:17Z Event A Distinguished Alumni Panel http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/a-distinguished-alumni-panel The Science Departments, The Graduate Programs Club, The Premed Club and The Biology/Biotechnology Club Present A Distinguished Alumni Panel. A Personal and Professional Odyssey From the York College/CUNY BS To an Advanced Professional Degree And Beyond

Christopher Wilson

1st Year PhD Student Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Brandeis University

Melissa James

PhD, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology SUNY Downstate Postdoc, Kitsis Lab, Cell Biology, AECOM

Srinivas Kolla,

MD Director, Residency Program in Radiology SUNY Health Sciences Center

Alexander Birk,

PhD Research Associate Professor Department of Pharmacology Weill College of Medicine

Refreshments!

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard School of Arts and Sciences Student Development Biology Current Student 2012-04-12T23:15:27Z Event A Conversation with Corporate Attorneys http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/A-Conversation-with-Corporate-Attorneys-Vincent Interested in practicing law, but concerned about law school and what comes after? Join us for an intimate discussion on the rigors of the application process to law school and how to navigate the corporate world with two young attorneys at the global law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.

Guest Attorneys: Vincent merry III ESQ and Rashan Boykin ESQ.

This event is for anyone Interested in practicing law, but concerned about law school and what comes alter.

It will consist of an intimate discussion on the rigors of the application process to law school and how to navigate the corporate world with young attorneys at the global law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.

Lunch will be provided

 

]]> No publisher Tanagra Bledman Current Student 2008-02-26T19:25:00Z Event A Conversation About Careers http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/a-conversation-about-careers Please join us for a conversation about careers in law and beyond with our featured guests Mr. Allan B.K. Urgent, Assistant United States Attorney and Mr. Phillip HoSang, Jr., Senior Associate, Aaronson Rappaport Feinstein & Deutsch. Bring your lunch and join us for an informal discussion! Sponsor by:
  • The Political Science Program (Department of Behavioral Sciences) Brown Bag Series

Co-sponsors:

  • Pre-Law Program
  • Pre-Law/Political Science Club
  • African American Resource Center

 

]]> No publisher Rafael Nunez Behavioral Sciences Current Student Faculty/Staff Visitors 2010-03-29T16:19:10Z Event A Caged Bird Tries to Sing http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/a-caged-bird-tries-to-sing-1 Welcome to a new series of regular faculty presentations devoted to an examination of pedagogical means and motives in the English Department's general education offerings. Come and join English 200 instructors as they reflect upon the sometimes  Quixotic experience of  treating imaginative literature as an academic subject in the English 200 classroom.

Presentations will be 20-30 minutes in length, followed by a 20-30 discussion period. All faculty and students invited. Refreshments will be served.

Jim Papa   10/15  1:00 PM  “The Poet as Peddler” 
Nathan Austin 10/15  2:00 PM   “Teaching the Material”



]]> No publisher James Papa Lecture Current Student Faculty/Staff English 2008-10-15T14:35:00Z Event A Book Party for Author Geoffrey Jacques http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/a-book-party-for-geoffrey-jacques You are invited to a party to celebrate the new book, A Change in the Weather. A Change in the Weather

Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary by Geoffrey Jacques

 

gjacques change weather


About the Book

"This is the most exciting work on the development of literary and artistic modernism in the United States that I have read in a long time. …The breadth of the author's interdisciplinary knowledge is stunning… Much of this study is groundbreaking."
—James Smethurst, author of The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s.

Please RSVP Below

Dr. Lindamichellebaron
516-489-0120
lmbaron@aol.com

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Off-Campus Event Current Student English 2009-09-16T23:25:00Z Event A Post Election Forum http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/a-post-election-forum An Historic Election in a Time of National Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities Panelists:
  • Moderator: Ron Daniels, Distinguished Lecturer, Behavioral Sciences, York College
  • Katrina vanden Heuval, Editor of the Nation Magazine
  • Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
  • Walter Fields, Senior Vice-President for Governmental Relations and Public Affairs, Community Service Society of New York
  • John Flateau, Senior Fellow, DuBois-Bunche Institute, Medgar Evers College/CUNY
  • Michael Flynn, Assistant Professor Behavioral Sciences, York College

The panelists will assess one of the most extraordinary election campaigns in American history and discuss the significance of the outcome against the backdrop of a deepening domestic and global economic crisis. Among the topics to be addressed are the role that race, gender and class played in the campaign and the direction of public policy in the new administration given conflicting philosophies/approaches on critical issues between conservatives and liberals, Democrats and Republicans. 

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Lecture Current Student 2008-10-30T15:52:39Z Event 2012 Closing The Achievement Gap Series http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/events/2012-closing-the-achievement-gap-series Supporting Young Men Of Color In Their Pursuit For A College Education: Fulfilling President Obama’s 2020 Goal for College Achievement. Welcome by Dr. Dorita Gibson - Deputy Chancellor for Equity and Access

Opening Remarks by Robert J. Alig - College Board Vice President for the Middle States Region

Moderated by Rubain Dorancy - Deputy Network Leader of Children First Network 563

Keynote Speaker: US Department of Education Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights - Russlynn Ali

United States Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights, Russlynn Ali serves as the head of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the United States Department of Education. The Assistant Secretary is the primary civil rights advisor to the United States Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan. As Assistant Secretary, Ms. Ali is responsible for enforcing U.S. civil rights laws as they pertain to education—ensuring the nation's schools, colleges and universities receiving federal funding do not engage in discriminatory conduct related to race, sex, disability or age.

Ms. Ali’s rich history includes serving: as a teacher, as the liaison for the president of the Children's Defense Fund, as assistant director of policy and research at the Broad Foundation, and as chief of staff to the president of the Los Angeles Unified School District's Board of Education. She has also taught at the University of Southern California Law Center and the University of California at Davis.

In the legal field, Ali was a contract attorney at Bird, Marella, Boxer and Wolpert, deputy co-director and counsel at the Advancement Project at English, Munger & Rice, and an attorney at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, all in Los Angeles. Ali is a member of the California State Bar.

The Closing the Achievement Gap (CAG) is a speaker series and learning program sponsored by NYCDOE Division of Equity and Access and derives from the Empowering Boys Initiative (EBI). The series is a component of the NYCDOE’s Empowering Boys Initiative and focuses on closing the achievement gap in Black and Latino male students by supporting schools through the identification, development and promotion of innovative and culturally competent support systems. This year’s theme is “Engaging The Community: Preparing Young Men For College & Career Achievement.” These sessions will equip professionals, teachers, parents and students with the necessary tools that are needed to engage, retain and encourage boys to succeed in the global economy. For more information, contact Nicole Yarde

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Teacher Education Performing Arts Current Student 2012-04-19T20:55:00Z Event 2011 Spring Wellness Festival http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/2011-spring-wellness-festival Our Judgment in Good Health & Wellness. "Order of the Day: Complete with Good Health" 

AC- F01: Free: HIV & STD Screening by ACQC 
Atrium: Free: HIV Screening by Clergy United for Community Empowerment

  •       Blood Pressure Screening
  •       Cholesterol & Glucose Screening
  •       Health Insurance Vendors 
  •       And much, much more...

      Blood Drive by NY Hospital Queens Blood Mobile 

      Donate Blood & receive a free pair of NY Mets tickets

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Current Student Health Services Center Student Development 2011-04-07T18:55:00Z Event 2011 Sophomore Summer Institute Deadlines http://www.york.cuny.edu/events/2011-sophomore-summer-institute Apply to these available Pre-Law programs. 2011 Sophomore Summer Institute dates and locations:

Northern Illinois University College of Law, Dekalb, IL

June 5 – June 25, 2011

Click here for the On-line application  

The 2011 CLEO-Womble Carlyle Road to Law School Academy dates and locations:

Chapel Hill, NC

Sunday, July 3 - Saturday, July 30, 2011

The online registration will be opened soon.

 

]]> No publisher Miguel Bernard Behavioral Sciences Current Student Student Development 2011-04-05T21:10:00Z Event