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Alain Cuny

Cuny worked in both France and Italy, an example of his work in Italian language is as general Leone in Many Wars Ago 1970.

Aviva Rahmani

More recently, Rahmani concurrently studied for a GIS certificate at Lehman College, CUNY (PJIM article, Boetzkes), while finishing a dissertation at Plymouth University, UK.

Bertram Myron Gross

Bertram Myron Gross (1912 in Philadelphia – March 12, 1997 in Walnut Creek, California) was an American social scientist, Federal bureaucrat and Professor of Political Science at Hunter College (CUNY).

Carmen E. Arroyo

Arroyo took classes in English and attended Eugenio María de Hostos Community College, of the City University of New York (CUNY) where in 1978 she earned her Associate of Arts degree.

Cheryl Byron

Byron then obtained a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in English from City College (CUNY) while maintaining her professional life, including becoming in 1976 the first woman to perform her own original brand of poetry in a calypso tent in Trinidad, for which she is recognised as "the mother of Rapso".

City University of New York School of Law

In 1981 CUNY hired Charles Halpern to be the founding dean of a planned law school.

Charles Halpern, founder of the D.C.-based Center for Law and Social Policy, a Georgetown law professor, and the acknowledged "father of public interest law" was the first Dean of CUNY Law.

Conrad Herwig

He attended Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Afro-Caribbean ethnomusicology, and Queens College, CUNY, with a Master of Arts, Jazz Studies.

Fontainebleau Schools

Inspired by setting of the Chateau and its magnificent formal gardens, its faculty has included prestigious international names in architecture, including F. Candela, A. Cuny, B. Doshi, Sheila Hicks, L. Kroll, R. Licata, R. Péchére, B. Rasica, Paolo Soleri, J. Soltan, A. Van Eyck, Y. Wohlert, and I. García.

Gérard Cuny

In October 1958 he participated to the first meeting of the clinical European section of the International Association of Gerontology in Sunderland (England), during which the Nancy school (R. Herbeuval and G. Cuny) will present the "Treatment of prostate cancer and adenoma of the prostate" in the session on "Genito-urinary disturbances in old age."

Jerome Swartz

Swartz received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from The City College of New York and a Ph.D. also in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, receiving fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation along the way.

Joan Wallach Scott

Previously married to Donald Scott, a professor of American history at CUNY, she is the mother of A. O. Scott, a film critic for the New York Times, and the artist Lizzie Scott.

Joseph Kiselewski

His bronze Bust of Sylvanus Thayer, 1966, is in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, Bronx Community College/CUNY, on University Avenue and West 181st Street, as is his bronze Bust of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1970.

Rhomaleodus

It was first named by Plamen S. Andreev and Gilles Cuny in 2012 and the type species is Rhomaleodus budurovi.

The Photographers' Gallery

Exhibitions in the gallery have included one-person exhibitions of work by André Kertész, Danny Treacy, Taryn Simon, Ori Gersht, Cuny Janssen, and David King.

Virginia Staudt Sexton

Staudt graduated from CUNY in 1936 with a B.A. cum laude in the classics and was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa and to Eta Sigma Phi, the classics’ honor society.

Wellington Chen

Originally appointed by Governor George Pataki as a board member of the City University of New York, Chen also engaged in discussions by CUNY leaders on their immigrant pasts on CUNY's A Nation of Immigrants Curriculum with notable speakers as Cuba Eduardi Marti, Jamaica Marcia Keizs and Hugo Morales.


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