With hurricane season upon us, Illya Azaroff needs to empty his voicemail inbox at least once a day. His expertise in disaster recovery, resilience and rebuilding, and his activity in the post-Hurricane Sandy recovery campaign have made him increasingly popular with government officials, architects and engineers.
When Dany Salas left the Dominican Republic for New York in January 2008 to attend college, he was uncharacteristically silent for the first couple of months in his new country. He was afraid to speak English; his thick Spanish accent wasn’t understood and he felt self-conscious.
David Hinson, national director, Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), a bureau within the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, will address more than 2,300 graduating seniors at NYC College of Technology's 73rd Commencement Exercises on Tuesday, June 4.
Dr. Anne Zissu, chair of the business department at New York City College of Technology (City Tech), was the lead expert witness in the recent landmark $500 million settlement of a class action suit against Countrywide Financial Corporation.
New York City College of Technology (City Tech) has chosen English Professor George Guida as its 2013 Scholar on Campus for his outstanding work as a poet, fiction writer, critic, editor and teacher. He will deliver his Scholar on Campus lecture, “Creativity, Language and Life,” and read from his poetry, on Monday, April 22, at 5 p.m.
A half-day conference (8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) on the evolving culture and impact of the bicycle in Brooklyn sponsored by City Tech's Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center and CUNY's University Transportation Research Center.
Vasily Kolchenko, associate professor of biological sciences at New York City College of Technology (City Tech), is a key player on a research team that recently made a breakthrough with enormous potential significance for the treatment of serious diseases.
Building on the success of his previous books about Italian-American identity in the New World, George Guida has released his new fiction collection, The Pope Stories and Other Tales of Troubled Times (Bordighera Press, 2012).
Observing the 2007-08 U.S. banking crisis and its devastating effects on the secondary mortgage market, Anne Zissu has responded by addressing recent history and the current state of this critically important market in a timely update of her 2005 book, The Securitization Markets Handbook: Structures and Dynamics of Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities (John Wiley & Sons, 2012).
When thousands of citizens opposed to “fracking” present their case to legislators in Albany this spring, chances are that some of them will carry posters of a controversial billboard created by New York City College of Technology (City Tech) graduate Svetlana (Lana) Akhmadieva.
One might think that Richard Fisher chose a circuitous path to a college degree and academic achievement. But it ended up working out just fine for him, as he has been named New York City College of Technology’s (City Tech’s) 2012 Valedictorian.
As a young boy growing up in Iran, Mohammad Razani was fascinated with space travel and its potential to benefit humans. His passion has shaped his career and his scholarship, inspiring the publication of his new book, Information, Communication, and Space Technology (CRC Press, 2012).
XiangDong Li has been named New York City College of Technology’s (City Tech’s) 2012 Scholar on Campus for his outstanding work in the emerging fields of informational security and quantum computing.
On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking, marine forensics expert Richard Woytowich will present a paper re-interpreting the statements made by survivors at the 1912 official inquiries into the disaster.
Soyeon Cho, assistant professor of human services at New York City College of Technology (City Tech) discusses her research that is focused on physical and mental health disparities in the Korean American populations in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and New Jersey (especially Fort Lee and Palisades Park).
The timeliness of Panayotakis’ new book, "Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy" (Pluto Press, UK, September 2011), was captured in the forward by Joel Kovel. “In Remaking Scarcity, Costas Panayotakis expertly dissects a capitalist system in the agonies of intractable crisis and gives a radical yet practicable guide to its transformation.”
City Tech's Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center fellows and other speakers and panelists will address issues related to the future of the Brooklyn Waterfront in a conference titled, "The Waterfront -- A Brooklyn Model for Preservation and Change."
Some of the nation’s top chefs will be turning out to help New York City College of Technology (City Tech) raise money for its hospitality management scholarship program. They will create their signature dishes.
The ways in which four major American women writers -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather and Edith Wharton -- dealt with their domestic roles and how they portrayed this domesticity in their work is the focus of a new book by New York City College of Technology (City Tech) Professor Caroline Hellman.
Changing the world can be fun, according to City Tech Professor Benjamin Shepard. His two recently published books explore the use of play as a valuable component of social movements and political activism, from the local to the national level.
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