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Dueling Hand Clappers
Harrington Center Director Mark Rosenblum (second from left) and Pres. James Muyskens (second from right) lend rhythmic support to Salman Ahmad (center, with guitar) and Yale Strom (far right) at the Feb. 5 Common Chords concert, the second organized by Rosenblum uniting Muslim and Jewish musical traditions on the stage of LeFrak Concert Hall. |
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Searching for One of Antarctica’s Holy Grails
Steve Pekar (Earth & Environmental Sciences, right), has received a $256,958 grant from the National Science Foundation to retrieve samples from strata deep in the Earth’s crust below Antarctica. He will be heading back there this fall. |
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Peace Quilt
This Peace Quilt, made last fall by
Rikki Asher (Secondary Education) and 14 of her graduate students, is one of two quilts Asher recently brought with her to India. She will spend three months there working on a project with eighth-grade students, who will produce two quilts that Asher will bring back to New York. |
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Remembrance of Queens Past
More than 200 people were in attendance in the Science Building Oct. 13 for a daylong conference, The Queens Experience: Historical Perspectives on the Development of Queens, celebrating the 70th anniversary of Queens College and the 350th anniversary of the Flushing Remonstrance, a 1657 document considered by many to be a precursor to the freedom of religion provisions of the Constitution. Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall, President James Muyskens, and Frank Warren (History) welcomed attendees, who were treated to a series of panels moderated by local historians and QC faculty members that examined the borough’s cultural and political history.
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