The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) helps faculty and administrators compete for and win grants that strengthen the intellectual climate and improve the learning environment at City Tech. The office provides notices of grant opportunities and works with faculty and administrators over the life-cycle of a grant – from concept development through close-out.
View Program “By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and Edgar Allan Poe type of story—a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision ... Not only do these amazing tales make tremendously interesting reading—they are always instructive.” -Hugo Gernsback, 1926. When the widely recognized “Father of Science Fiction,” Hugo Gernsback
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
