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The City College of New York has had a long and distinguished history in physics. Three of its alumni went on to become Nobel laureates in physics: Robert Hofstadter in 1961, [132] Arno Penzias in 1978, [133] and Leon Lederman in 1988. [134] Albert Einstein gave the first of his series of United States lectures at the City College of New York ...
Shepard Hall, CCNY Campus Harlem. Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York (CCNY) is a nonpartisan educational, training, and research center named after its founder, General Colin L. Powell, USA (Retired), a graduate of CCNY.
Shepard was a graduate of CCNY, and chairman of the Board of Trustees from 1904 to 1911. At this time, CCNY was building its new "North Campus". Shepard took particular interest in the 2,400-seat Great Hall of the Main Building, supervising its decoration and furnishing. The Main Building was named Shepard Hall after him. [2]
Arthur Kornberg, who graduated from the City College of New York, a senior college of CUNY, in 1937, was the first CUNY laureate, winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959. [7] Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle , both of whom graduated from the City College in 1937 with Kornberg, jointly won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in ...
Many individual buildings in the district are also landmarked, including Shepard Hall on the CCNY campus, and the building that once housed The High School of Music & Art. The Audubon Mural Project paints the neighborhood with images of the birds depicted by John James Audubon in his early 19th century folio The Birds of America. [14]
Composite photo comprising fourteen separate photos of A.J. Bogdanove's 1930 mural "The Great Teachers" in the Lincoln Hallway of Shepard Hall in the College of the City of New York, commissioned by CCNY's Class of 1901
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed Colleen Shogan, the Archivist of the United States, and announced plans to shake up the board of the ...
James Traub, City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City College, 1994. Paul David Pearson, The City College of New York: 150 years of academic architecture, 1997. Sandra S. Roff, et al., From the Free Academy to Cuny: Illustrating Public Higher Education in New York City, 1847–1997, 2000.