Call for Mentors: Help build a mentoring network at City Tech

We are seeking senior faculty with different areas of expertise to help build a mentoring network program at City Tech throughout the 2022-2023 academic year.  Please consider participating as a mentor or a lead mentor. Lead Mentors will receive a $500 stipend. Activities will include serving on the Mentoring Network Steering Committee and, developing and delivering

RF CUNY Brown Bag Research Webinars: NIH Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE)

Targeted Audience: Biomedical faculty in CUNY collegesPresenters: John Tsapogas-Director RF-Office of Award Pre-Proposal Support & Louise Hainline, Special Associate to the Provost for Grants and Contracts and Professor of Psychology, Brooklyn College Overview of Webinar: The goal of the Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE) program is to develop a diverse pool of

Quantum and the Future of Computing: Expert Talk from a Swiss Laboratory

Attached is a flyer for the upcoming expert talk on quantum computing by Luciano Bello of IBM, Zurich.  The flyer links to a registration landing page (https://bit.ly/QuantumComputingTTU).  The Zoom session can hold up to 300 attendees.  Where a group, such as a class, can participate on one connection that would be preferable but not necessary.

Kognito – certification to support student mental health wellness

CUNY is offering a free simulated workshop providing best communication practices and interventions for student mental health wellness. Won’t you join us during spring break?* Participants will complete the simulated best practices workshop, join colleagues for a lively post-Kognito discussion, and obtain a Kognito completion certificate. Presented by Professor Justine Pawlukewicz, Human Services Department. Open

2022-2023 OUSAP Leadership Development Fellowship Program

The CUNY Office of Undergraduate Studies, Academic Programs & Policy (OUSAP) is now accepting applications for the 2022-2023 OUSAP Leadership Development Fellowship Program.OUSAP initiated this program to increase CUNY’s pipeline of faculty who are well prepared to thrive and serve in an academic executive leadership role at CUNY. The program is designed to provide faculty

Retaining Diverse Groups in STEM

Speaker: Melanie Villatoro, Ph.D.Chair of Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technology Department Abstract:Colleges across the United States must produce more engineering graduates to keep up with demands of the engineering workforce. Population trends indicate that women and minorities are highly underrepresented in the STEM fields. Therefore, recruitment and retention of these populations is critical to

Adventures in Ungrading: The Community College Experience

What are your students actually learning from your course? Are your students intrinsically motivated to deepen their learning and content knowledge, or extrinsically motivated to play the game of getting a good score and grade? “Ungrading” is a growing movement in higher education that critically questions the conventional grading system and traditional forms of assessment.

Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work’s Critical Feminist Social Work Roundtable: “Social Work and Reproductive Justice”

We will hear Dr. Zakiya Luna, Dr. Stephanie Begun, and Dr.Erica Goldblatt Hyatt discuss their use of critical feminisms in social work research. Dr.Mery Diaz, faculty in City Tech's Human Services department and Editorial Board member at Affilia, will moderate. This webinar is hosted and co-sponsored by the New York College of Technology's Human Services Department, Gender

OLAC: Blending synchronous and asynchronous modalities in hybrid courses across OpenLab and Blackboard platforms

Each month during the spring semester, faculty from the City Tech Online Learning Advisory Council (OLAC) and Dr. Karen Lundstrem, Chair of OLAC, will present techniques, resources, and best practices on a specific topic that is relevant to creating hybrid learning spaces designed to deepen student understanding and increase student success. After the presentations, faculty

Physics Department presents Topologically Ordered Matter and Why You Should be Interested

Presented by Professor Steven Simon, Oxford University, UK Abstract:In two dimensional topologically ordered matter, processes depend on gross topology rather than detailed geometry. Thinking in 2+1 dimensions, particle world lines can be interpreted as knots or links, and the amplitude for certain processes becomes a topological invariant of that link. While sounding rather exotic, we