CUNY’s 15th Annual IT Conference

Keynote Speaker George Otte, University Director of Academic Technology, CUNY / Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, CUNY SPS Public universities are in a longstanding bind that demands growth in programs and enrollments, high student achievement and efficient use of limited funding. As CUNY heeds the call to serve more students – especially via online, hybrid

Award-winning novelist and poet Thaddeus Rutkowski

Atrium Amphitheater

Award-winning novelist and poet Thaddeus Rutkowski will read from his novel, Tetched, screen a short film based on the novel, and discuss how a book becomes a film. Refreshments will be served.

TK20 Train-the-trainer Fall 2016 Workshop: Assessment Scoring

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TK20 is the college's new assessment software. These workshops are for faculty designated as Gen Ed and Assessment Liaisons, or Course Coordinator Liaisons. They cover fundamentals of using software, not the actual content that needs to be uploaded to the software. Register, email itec@citytech.cuny.edu

NY Regional ePortfolio Conference: Re-bundling Higher Education: High Impact ePortfolio Practice and the New Digital Ecosystem.

Pace University (Downtown Campus)

Call for Proposals (Deadline: December 2, 2016) The conference will be held at Pace University’s downtown campus and is co-sponsored by Pace and three CUNY campuses – LaGuardia, Guttman, and the Macaulay Honors College. The deadline for proposal submissions is December 2.  Proposal submission information can be found on the website http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/rebundling17/ The conference theme

WAC/WI: The Creative Classroom

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Looking for innovative ways to increase student participation and improve learning outcomes? In this workshop, we share both high-tech and no-tech strategies you can implement in your classroom to reinforce WAC practices and promote active learning. RSVP: facultycommons@citytech.cuny.edu

High Performance Computing at Los Alamos Laboratories with Guest Speaker Dr. Gary Grider

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Los Alamos has helped the nation invent and manage the nuclear arsenal for eight decades. Computing at extreme scales has always been a primary tool for keeping the world safe. That same extreme computing is used for lots of other scientific pursuits like climate, national infrastructure, and even brain studies. This talk will provide an

Humanities Seminar: Works in the Works – Pinkie and The Blue Boy: Material Culture and Immigrant Identity

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In June Cleaver’s home, reproductions of Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy (1770) and Sir Thomas Lawrence’s Pinkie (1794) hang in the foyer. For television viewers who tuned in to watch their favorite postwar family sitcom, “Leave it to Beaver,” the paintings represented traditional gender roles and a new type of domestic affluence and consumerism for

“Write That NSF Preproposal!” CUNY Boot Camp

Belfer Research Building, Rm. 302AB 413 E 69th Street, New York, NY, United States

The goal of the Preproposal Boot Camp is for faculty members to spend a day and focus fully on getting started on their NSF BIO (DEB or IOS) preproposal for the January 2017 deadline. Dedicated time for writing will be interspersed with instant peer-reviews and working groups to discuss issues with getting started on an NSF grant

Classical vs. Quantum Probability / Classical vs. Quantum Realism

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Presented by: Dr. David Kagan from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA, USA Abstract: Quantum theory is the most successful physical framework ever conceived. Its predictions' precision is unparalleled, and it has passed every experimental test. Nevertheless, since its inception, the picture of the world painted by quantum theory is a murky one. Many practicing physicists try to avoid

City Tech Writer 2017, Volume 12

Faculty submit your students' best writing to the City Tech Writer What is City Tech Writer? City Tech Writer is an interdisciplinary journal of undergraduate writing focused on publishing excellent student writing from across the disciplines. Would CTW be interested in my students' writing? Yes! We publish lab reports, research papers, essays, interview transcripts, and