February 28, 2005 (Vol. 1, No. 3)

Lehman Honors College Students Capture Poster Prize for 'New York's Nobel Prize Winners'

The CUNY Honors College at Lehman, Class of 2007

Lehman's Honors College Class of 2007 and Instructional Technology Fellow Camille Tipton have been selected to present their poster "New York's Nobel Prize Winners" at the annual National Collegiate Honors Council Conference of the Northeast Region in April.

The poster was initially presented at the Honors College Poster Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center last December, where it won the poster contest in the Urban Issues category. It was the only CUNY presentation to be invited to the Conference.

The Northeast Region of the National Collegiate Honors Council is an organization of students, faculty and administrators dedicated to the encouragement and support of undergraduate honors learning. Its annual conference allows students the opportunity to exchange information, ideas and assistance.

For their poster, the Lehman students focused on the science behind the Nobel Prizes. They researched and put together biographical data on Nobel winners with a New York City connection, including their discoveries.

"It is an impressive record of New York City's contribution to world science over the period of one hundred years that is unmatched by any other city in the world," said Distinguished Professor Eugene Chudnovsky, who served as the group's mentor.

All students in the Honors College take four required seminars, one in each of their first four semesters. In this third semester, the theme for the seminar was "Science and Technology in New York City." Students analyzed science and technology that have had an impact on contemporary New York.

Other seminar topics included science and technology, the computer, urban health issues, the environment and energy. The seminars give students an opportunity to examine the intellectual and historical roots of the semester's topic, as well as its ethical, legal, social and economic ramifications.

With only eight students in the Lehman Honors College Class of 2007, the classes has had an opportunity to get to know one another and form a tight bond. The group consists of Avraham Albelda of While Plains; Daniel Gurdak of Manhattan; Sophie Muller of Irvington, NY; Rhea Natividad of Bergenfield, NJ; and from the Bronx: Kristin Burgess, Lisa Capetola, Sebastian Cruceanu and Christine Mariani.

During the fall semester, the group worked on longer power-point presentations that explained the science behind the Nobel Prizes. Their poster presentation consisted of shortened versions of the presentation displayed on a 10" x 7.5" sheet.

"The amount of work and detail that went into these posters really shows just how hard working and bright these scholars are," says Professor Gary Schwartz, director of the Lehman Honors College.

To learn more about the Honors College program, visit their Web site at http://www.cuny.edu/honorscollege.

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