This Fall’s President’s Lecture was given by Oscar Hijuelos, who delivered a speech entitled “Coming Home to City College.” Before Hijuelos took the podium, President Lisa Coico described him as a “true son of City College,” which is an appropriate title for the well-known author. In addition to being one of the college’s first SEEK […]
A large crowd of students and faculty gathered in Shepard Hall to hear Mark Strand, the well-known poet, editor and translator. Over the past fifty years, Strand has built an impressive resume. He has published over a dozen books of poetry, as well as books of prose and poetry translation. Strand was the U.S. Poet […]
Cancer has become popular in today’s media from movies like The Bucket List to books like A Walk to Remember and My Sister’s Keeper. In fact, cancer as a topic in entertainment media has become popular to the point where it seemingly has become its own genre with its own stereotypes. Stories that deal with […]
I recently read The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science by Julie Des Jardins. The book discusses prominent female scientists, from the Nobel Prize-winning Marie Curie to Rosalind Franklin –- the brilliant scientist largely passed over for her work uncovering the structure of DNA, to Lillian Gilbreth – engineer, psychologist, and […]
