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At CUNY, Mission to Elevate Science Begins to Bear Fruit

The most visible manifestation yet of the billion-dollar transformation taking place at the City University of New York might also be the most unassuming: a so-called science cafe series in a Japanese restaurant on the Upper West Side. There, the ...

From LISA W. FODERARO, The New York Times,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: City University of New York,  National Institutes of Health,  Matthew Goldstein,  Stony Brook University,  U.S. Senate

The Neediest Cases: Offering a Helping Hand, and Then Needing One

Nannette Perkins, 61, has a catalog of health problems. After she had a heart attack last year, doctors used a stent to open a valve. Because of a long-ago work-related injury, she struggles with a bad back and walks with a cane. A diabetic, she checks ...

From LISA W. FODERARO, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Catholic Charities,  New York Times Company

Two-Year Colleges, Swamped, No Longer Welcome All

Sonja Taylor applied to LaGuardia Community College this summer with every expectation of being admitted. She planned to study business, bringing her closer to her dream of owning a restaurant. But her application arrived in August, after the college ...

From LISA W. FODERARO, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: LaGuardia Community College,  Barack Obama,  City University of New York,  State University of New York,  David A Paterson

Columbia Professor Charged With Punching University Employee

A Columbia University professor has been charged with assault and harassment after an another Columbia employee accused him of punching her in the eye at an Upper West Side bar Friday night. The professor, Lionel McIntyre, 59, was arrested on Monday, ...

From LISA W. FODERARO, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Columbia University,  Daniel Morgan,  New York Post

Concierges and Marble Baths: For Some at Columbia, This Is Dorm Life

Last year, when Columbia University tried to interest Ben Cox, then a first-year M.B.A. student, in its new apartment building in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, he scoffed. It was too far from the campus in Manhattan, he thought, and the unit was ...

From LISA W. FODERARO, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Columbia University,  Citigroup,  Henry Hudson,  City University of New York

The Whole Applicant

PATRICIA B. TAYLOR, an assistant principal at Rye High School in Westchester County, N.Y., noticed the shift a few years ago. Public colleges and universities that were once content to crunch grade-point averages and SAT scores suddenly wanted more. ...

From LISA W. FODERARO, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: University of Washington,  Hawkins, Inc.,  Sandra Day O'Connor,  Ward Connerly

In Affluent Greenwich, Publicly Supported Housing Has a 50-Year History

GREENWICH, Conn. “This is one of the wows,” said Tracy Villanueva, a mother of four, as she opened the doors of a spacious closet in the hallway of her four-bedroom apartment here. “Look at how big this is. You don’t even know this is housing.” By ...

From LISA W. FODERARO, The New York Times,  25 Sep 2009

Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: Dartbrook Lodge in Keene, N.Y.

For decades, the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York have been home to a motley assortment of lodgings, from great camps-turned-upscale-retreats to sleepy motels to for lack of a better phrase cabin colonies. Some of the latter, situated cheek by ...

From LISA W. FODERARO, The New York Times,  17 Sep 2009

Sunday Routine | John Sexton: Church, Work and a Yankees Nightcap

John Sexton, 66, is the 15th president of New York University, a position he has held since 2001. He joined N.Y.U. as a law professor almost 30 years ago. In the summer, he spends time at his weekend house on Fire Island with his daughter, Katie, 20, a ...

From LISA W. FODERARO, The New York Times,  14 Sep 2009

Related Topics: John Sexton,  New York University

From the bronx, the 2,752nd victim of the trade center attack

Remembrance, volunteers from organizations across the city joined relatives to read the names. NEW YORK — Leon Heyward emerged from the subway just as the second plane struck, piercing the south tower. As others fled, he helped rescue disabled ...

From LISA W. FODERARO NEW YORK TIMES, The San Jose Mercury News,  12 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Joe Biden,  Rudy Giuliani,  New York Liberty

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