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Nanette Shaw
Three renowned Nobel laureates -- Leon Lederman, Günter Blobel, and Roald Hoffmann -- will help the CUNY Graduate Center celebrate a "Festival of Science" on Friday, April 7, at its new campus at 365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th Streets. The day-long event is part of The Graduate Center’s "Celebrating the Center" festivities from April 3 to 7, which will offer the city free public lectures, concerts, readings, symposia, and films to inaugurate the school’s move to the landmark B. Altman building. The day will also feature a forum on Science in the Media, a science magician, and a play reading. A complete schedule is attached. All events are free and open to the public, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For further information, call 1-212-817-8215 or e-mail continuinged@gc.cuny.edu. Dr. Lederman, a Nobel laureate in physics and former director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, will speak on "New Strategies in Science Education and Outreach" at 1:30 p.m. in The Graduate Center’s Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium. Beginning at 2:30 p.m. in the auditorium, Dr. Blobel, a 1999 Nobel laureate in medicine and currently with The Rockefeller University, and Dr. Hoffmann, a Nobel laureate in chemistry now with Cornell University, will participate in the Frontiers of Science Symposium. Dr. Blobel will speak on "Intracellular Protein Traffic," and Dr. Hoffmann will discuss "Molecules Reacting: The New Kinetic Art." Also featured in the symposium will be Lene Vestergaard Hau of the Rowland Institute and Harvard University, speaking on "The Art of Taming Light to Bicycle Speed." The Science and the Media forum will feature Peter Brown, editor, The Sciences; Alan Friedman, director, New York Hall of Science; Madeleine Jacobs, editor-in-chief, Chemical & Engineering News; and Warren Leary, science reporter, The New York Times. Closing the event will be a 5 p.m. reception, featuring science magician Bob Friedhoffer and physics chanteuse Lynda Williams; as well as a staged reading by Break-A-Leg Productions of excerpts from Eugene Ionesco’s "The Lesson." The Graduate Center is the doctorate-granting institution of The City University of New York, the largest urban university in the U.S. The only consortium of its kind in the nation, The Graduate Center draws its faculty of more than 1,600 members mainly from the CUNY senior colleges and cultural and scientific institutions throughout New York City. Established in 1961, The Graduate Center has grown to an enrollment of nearly 4,000 students in 31 doctoral programs and seven master's degree programs in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Graduate Center also houses 24 research centers and institutes and administers the CUNY Baccalaureate Program. According to a recent National Research Council report, more than a third of The Graduate Center's rated programs rank among the nation's top 20 at public and private institutions, nearly a quarter are among the top ten when compared to publicly supported institutions alone, and more than half are among the top five programs at publicly supported institutions in the northeast. Further information on The Graduate Center's programs and activities can be found on its Web site at: www.gc.cuny.edu. |