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Lehman Professor Leads Seminar for Rural Educators Teaching The Holocaust
August 22, 2008
This summer, award-winning Lehman College English professor and author Sondra Perl led twenty-one middle, high school and college educators from across rural America in an intensive, ten-day study of the Holocaust to help better convey the difficult, yet important, subject matter to students.
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Lehman College Grows Even Greener: New Science Facility to Be First Within CUNY to Have 'LEED' Certification
April 11, 2008
Earth Day is April 22, but at Lehman College the commitment to the environment is pursued 365 days a year.
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Lehman College Professor Breaks New Ground in Underwater Research
April 9, 2008
Lehman College Professor Heather Sloan has published a study that for the first time documents a previously undetected change in the rate at which the Antarctic and African plates are moving apart. The research, published in the March issue of
Geology, also calls into question a commonly used method scientists use to determine movement.
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Lehman Professor Contributes to Research with Global Health Significance
January 24, 2008
Lehman College Professor Eleanore T. Wurtzel is part of a team of researchers, working in seven laboratories in the U.S. and Mexico, that has developed tools for breeding new lines of maize rich in provitamin A—a finding that could greatly reduce malnutrition around the world. Their research was published on Jan. 18 in the prestigious journal Science under the title "Natural Genetic Variation in Lycopene Epsilon Cyclase Can Enhance Provitamin A Biofortification of Maize."
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Associate Dean to Speak at White House Initiative Conference
November 11, 2007
Dr. Susan Polirstok, Associate Dean of Education at Lehman College, has been invited to participate in an upcoming national conference sponsored by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans. She will discuss The Teacher Academy, the new initiative by The City University of New York to prepare secondary-level math and science teachers, and stress in her presentation that this kind of innovative program is needed "for the United States to maintain its global competitiveness in the next decade."
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Far From the Fields of the Midwest, The Bronx Harvests its Corn Crop
While most of the corn being harvested this fall in the U.S. is on its way to the mill or the market, the crop grown in New York City's Lehman College is headed in another direction: the research lab. A team of scientists is studying the corn to find ways to increase the Vitamin A content in cereal crops for the world's population.
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Study Led by Biology Professor Finds Mislabeling of Popular Dietary Supplement
Research led by Professor Edward Kennelly (Biological Sciences) has found that a surprising number of black cohosh supplements sold in the United States did not contain any extract of the black cohosh plant. Black cohosh is the eighth most popular botanical dietary supplement in the nation and is used by millions of women to treat hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms.
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Alumni Return as Recruiters to Career Expo '06
This year's Career Expo attracted close to 400 students seeking jobs and networking opportunities. Pepsi, Frito-Lay, the Children's Aid Society and the New York City Fire Department were just a few of the more than 60 employers that sent representatives to talk with students and provide information on employment.
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Herring Find Their Way Back to the Bronx—with a Little Help
Dr. Joseph Rachlin and his Laboratory for Marine and Estuarine Research (LaMER) team assembled with other biologists and community groups March 21 at the Bronx Zoo to release 201 alewife herring into the Bronx River.
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College Renames Library to Honor
Founding President, Dr. Leonard Lief
The Lehman College Library was renamed on May 4 as the "Leonard Lief Library" to honor the College's founding president, a Shakespearean scholar and skilled administrator who guided the institution from 1968 until his retirement in 1990. Dr. Lief was present at the ceremony, along with CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, Lehman President Ricardo R. Fernández and other current and retired administrators and faculty members.
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Last reviewed on: 4/23/2009
