The 2009 CUNY Nobel Science Challenge is an essay competition for undergraduate students at CUNY. Students are invited to submit essays (1000 to 1500 words) describing this year's Nobel science awards: physiology/medicine; physics; chemistry; economics. Prizes (three in each category): Apple iMac, Dell Mini 10 Netbook, Amazon Kindle.

For more details on the contest:
http://cuny.edu/research/CUNY-Nobel-Science-Challenge.html

To read about the 2009 Nobel Prize winners:
http://nobelprize.org/

Proposals for student technology-fee funded projects are currently being solicited. Guidelines for projects are available at:

https://myqc.qc.cuny.edu/AdminServices/OCT/Tech%20Fee/default.aspx

(The page requires login with an Active Directory account.)

The deadline for proposals is December 16, 2009.

We congratulate this year's winners of the President's Awards for Excellence in Teaching. They are:

Full-time Faculty:
Peter Conolly-Smith, History
Yin Mei Critchell , Drama, Theatre & Dance
Jeff Maskovsky, Urban Studies

Adjunct Faculty:
Peter Novick, Biology
Doreen Schmitt, Anthropology
Jennifer Stengel-Mohr, Linguistics & Communication Disorders

Continuing Education Faculty (new award)
Brian H. Lowy, Paralegal Studies

Many congratulations also to this year's recipient of a President's Grant for Innovative Teaching Projects:
Carol S. Rhodes, Secondary Education & Youth Services, for a project titled: "Beyond the College Walls: A Technology Enhanced Collaborative Professional Learning Community"

For a list of previous recipients of these teaching awards:
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/ctl/resources/awards.html