Protecting DolphinsDolphins may be the second smartest creatures on the planet, but as the Oscar-winning
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 | Keeping CUNY Talent at CUNY
A year after Luesoni Johnson entered Kingsborough Community College, she was presenting prizewinning research. She enters Hunter College next fall under a program aimed at keeping top students at CUNY.
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 | Top Fiction Prize for McCann
Colum McCann, Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter, has won the 2009 National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin, about lives touched by tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s Twin Towers act
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 | As the City Turns
Educational ‘soaps’ and ‘sitcoms’ jointly produced by the Mayor’s Office and the University help immigrants grasp issues and benefits of New York life.
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 | A Walk on the West Side
Michael Sorkin’s Twenty Minutes in Manhattan details a walk from the CUNY professor’s Greenwich Village apartment to his old design studio in Tribeca, offering his views on city living and urbanism.
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 | Probing The Seas for Their Deepest Secrets
David Gruber, assistant professor of biology and environmental science at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, spent last summer exploring the mysteries of deep coral reefs in the Caribbean and Red Seas.
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 | Veterans Returning Home Get Help From CUNY
Every war produces its own generation of veterans who return home with different experiences & needs. CUNY is emerging as a national leader in recruiting them into the classroom & developing programs to smooth their transition from military life.
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 | Sorting Out the Puzzle of Autism
There are many initiatives in education and research underway at the University that are dedicated to solving the puzzle of autism. At Hunter, Brooklyn and City colleges, the work is aimed at a similar goal.
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 | Reflective Sails Could Save the World From Asteroids
A 25 million-ton asteroid is hurtling toward earth. It's not getting here until 2036, but scientists at New York City College of Technology are working on a plan to divert it. Gregory Matloff, assistant professor of physics and a NASA consultant, favors deflecting asteroids with >>
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 | Documenting China's "Unnatural" Disaster
A week after last year's catastrophic earthquake in China's Sichuan Province, two CUNY professors arrived with a film crew to shoot an HBO documentary about the disaster. They expected the Chinese government to be leading the effort to rescue and >>
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 | New Supreme Court Justice Has CUNY Roots
Celina Sotomayor taught her children that hard work and a good education would be the ticket out of their home in an East Bronx housing project. She set an example by going to Hostos Community College to earn a nursing degree when she was 44.
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 | An Eclectic Writer Drawn By What He Doesn't Know
Colum McCann, a National Book Award winner and creative writing teacher at Hunter College, set his latest book in New York City. Inspired by the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, "Let the Great World Spin," >>
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Help for Haiti: With tragic events continuing to unfold in Haiti, the University is sharing information about humanitarian and relief efforts and other activities on the campuses.
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Solar DayMarch 10 | 10:00 AM Bronx Community College
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