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York College is a public senior college in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, United States.It is a senior college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Founded in 1966, York was the first senior college founded under the newly formed CUNY system, which united several previously independent public colleges into a single public university system in 1961.
Year Image Laureate Relation Category Rationale 1959 Arthur Kornberg (shared with Severo Ochoa): City College, class of 1937 : Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" [7]
The college was established in 1957 through the efforts of civic-minded groups who felt that there was a growing need for more higher education facilities in the Bronx.
Norman Gary Finkelstein (/ ˈ f ɪ ŋ k əl s t iː n / FING-kəl-steen; born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist and activist.His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Anderson was born in Sebastopol, California and he has a brother and three sister. His brother is the author Jon Lee Anderson, and his sister Michelle is also a writer.He grew up in East Asia, primarily in Taiwan and Korea, where his father was an agricultural advisor for the American government. [1]
Krugman in 2008. Among the Graduate Center's faculty are recipients of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize, the Lakatos Award, the National Medals of Humanities and Science, the Bancroft Prize, Grammy Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, New York City Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, the Lakatos Award, and the Presidential ...
Nancy K. Miller [1] (born 21 February 1941) is an American literary scholar, feminist theorist and memoirist.Currently a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, Miller is the author of several books on feminist criticism, women’s writing, and most recently, family memoir, biography, and trauma.
The term "Zionism" is derived from the word Zion (Hebrew: ציון, romanized: Tzi-yon) or Mount Zion, a hill in Jerusalem, widely symbolizing the Land of Israel. [33] ...