When the Textbook Falls Short:Exploring Alternative Course Materials

A-432 (Projection Room), Library

Learn how alt / open educational resources (OERs) are sustainable, accessible, and engaging to students. Find out how to locate and adopt dynamic course materials to supplement or replace textbooks. We’ll cover all the basics!

Grade Center

G-604

This workshop will cover how to create tests and set up Blackboard's grade center for quizzes and assignments. To register, email itec@citytech.cuny.edu  

Scholars Exchange Spring 2017Creative Arts Showcase

N-227

Time Presenter Topic 11 a.m. Robin Michals Washing Away: Florida and Louisiana 12 p.m. Jenna Spevack Treetones Tour: Governors Island 2 p.m. Shauna Vey The Last Vaudevillian: Recovering Baby Peggy's Stage Years 3 p.m. Adam Wilson factorOracle: an Extensible Max External for Investigating Applications of the Factor Oracle Automaton in Real-Time Music Improvisation

Know Your Rights as an Author!

A-432 (Projection Room), Library

Don’t sign away your rights! Your decisions today regarding your scholarship can affect you in the future. Learn how to better understand publisher contracts and how you can keep key rights to your scholarship by using the SPARC Author Addendum, a legal instrument that modifies the publisher’s agreement. RSVP to Prof. Monica Berger

Physics Seminar: Transient superconductivity from electronic squeezing of optically pumped phonons

N-823

Presented by Prof. David Reichman of Columbia University Abstract: Advances in light sources and time-resolved spectroscopy have made it possible to excite specific atomic vibrations in solids and to observe the resulting changes in electronic properties, but the mechanism by which phonon excitation causes qualitative changes in electronic properties has remained unclear. Here we show

Works in the Works: Cathy Santore

A-631

Delight in Disorder "A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness;... Do more bewitch me, than when art Is too precise in every part." Sixteenth-century Venetian painters catered to the niche market for pictures of “disheveled” women, a new genre of portraiture—half-length, close-up, pictures of women with hair and clothing in slight