Posted on January 20, 2013

The Bronx Institute at Lehman College has received a grant from New York State to provide college readiness services to three public schools in the Bronx. The schools include Gateway School for Environmental Research and Technology, New World High School, and Renaissance High School for Musical Theater and Technology...

Posted on January 5, 2013

The Bronx Institute at Lehman College has been awarded grants by Con Edison and The Edwin Gould Foundation. The grants are for the Institute’s Engaging Latino Communities for Education (ENLACE)...

Posted on September 12, 2012

Four students who graduated from the first Bronx Institute at Lehman College ENLACE cohort in 2006 are returning to campus to give back to the program and to support its initiatives...

Posted on June 06, 2012

The Bronx Institute at Lehman College has been awarded one-year grants by the Edwin Gould Foundation and the Toyota USA Foundation...

Posted on May 15, 2012

Excelencia in Education has recently recognized the Bronx Institute’s ENLACE program as an “example...

Posted on May 14, 2012

The Bronx County Historical Society has selected Professor Herminio Martinez as its Educator of the Year....

Posted on March 23, 2012

The Bronx Institute at Lehman College recently published Pathway to College...

Posted on February 28, 2012

Con Edison recently awarded a program expansion grant to The Bronx Institute...

Posted on February 2, 2012

The Bronx Institute at Lehman College recently hosted a well attended informational luncheon for a select group of principals...

Posted on January 05, 2012

The Bronx Institute at Lehman College has been awarded a two-year, $100,000 grant...

Posted on October 26, 2011

Two students in The Bronx Institute at Lehman College’s ENLACE program spent one week this summer interning at The Bronx County Historical Society...

Posted on June 13, 2011

ENLACE (Engaging Latino Communities for Education), the Bronx Institute at Lehman College’s academic enrichment program for college-bound Latinos...

Posted on May 23, 2011

As she has done since her freshman year, Roseannie Langomas, a senior at DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx, is planning to spend her summer studying science, mathematics, and the humanities....

Posted on April 18, 2011

Six ninth-graders from the Urban Assembly School (HS 241) recently competed in the third annual Real World Design Challenge (RWDC), a national aerospace engineering contest that...

Posted on April 05, 2011

More than 100 families attended “Financial Literacy,” a conference sponsored by The Bronx Institute at Lehman College for ninth grade GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) students and their parents...

Posted on January 13, 2011

Lehman hosted the third annual "Ready to Lead" Conference last month for 125 ninth- and tenth-graders in the Bronx Institute's GEAR UP program. This day-long leadership development and college awareness program for Latino high school students...

Posted on December 07, 2010

The Bronx Institute at Lehman College recently launched Junior ENLACE, a math and science program for seventh- and eighth-grade Latino students from the Bronx. ENLACE, the Engaging Latino Communities for Education program, offers an original curriculum...

Posted on December 04, 2010

Thanks to a generous donation from the Shubert Organization, 215 Bronx Institute GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) students recently attended the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Memphis...

Posted on November 15, 2010

Twenty-three high school seniors are completing a three-year study and internship program at the Bronx Zoo, where they have been learning about conservation, biology, animal care, and zoo design, thanks to a partnership between The Bronx Institute at Lehman College and The Bronx Zoo...

Posted on July 07, 2010

The Toyota USA Foundation has awarded the Bronx Institute at Lehman College a three-year, $369,000 grant for the ENLACE Latino Collegiate Society, an award-winning academic enrichment program for Latino high school students from low-income Bronx families...

Posted on June 15, 2010

Students from the Bronx Institute's first GEAR UP group are celebrating their graduation from dozens of public and private colleges and universities...

Posted on May 25, 2010

The Bronx Institute at Lehman College ENLACE Latino Collegiate Society has been awarded a two-year, $200,000 grant from the New York Life Foundation to recruit a new cohort of highly motivated Latino high school students from low-income families in The Bronx...

Posted on April 20, 2010

Bronx Institute's GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) students will soon have the opportunity to learn the rudiments of astrophysics, thanks to a new professional development program for public school...

Posted on April 14, 2010

The Bronx Institute recently hosted two workshops on the Lehman campus aimed at informing GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) students and their families about paying for college....

Posted on March 15, 2010

Students Bronx Institute ENLACE Program eighth and eleventh graders recently traveled to Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where they attended a workshop on acoustical physics...

Posted on February 22, 2010

Four hundred Bronx high school students came to Lehman last month to learn about summer internships and study programs that can advance their educational and career goals...

Posted on Jan/Feb, 2010

"People said we couldn't do it," said Dr. Herminio Martinez with a touch of wonder in his voice as he told Education Update about Lehman College's Bronx Institute, a nonprofit organization he directs...

Posted on January 22, 2010

The Bronx Institute at Lehman College has been awarded a four-year, $100,000 grant from the Edwin Gould Foundation for its Engaging Latino Communities for Education (ENLACE) Latino Collegiate Society...

Posted on September 24, 2009

Congressman Eliot Engel issued a statement for the Congressional Record last week commending the Bronx Institute at Lehman College for its work on the GEAR UP program (Gaining Early Awareness and Education for Undergraduate Programs)...

Posted on September 17, 2009

The Bronx Institute of Lehman College announces its celebration of the First Annual National GEAR UP Day...

Posted on September 10, 2009

Students in Lehman's Bronx Institute GEAR UP program traveled to San Francisco this summer to present their research work at the program's annual conference...

Posted on April 6, 2009

One hundred and twenty Bronx middle-school students received new Dell laptops, courtesy of the Bronx Institute at Lehman College's Laptop Loan Program, which aims to put the power of the wireless Web into the hands of Bronx GEAR UP students...

Posted on April 05, 2009

The Bronx Institute at Lehman is planning a series of workshops this summer designed to help families prepare students for college...

Posted on March 08, 2009

A delegation of Chilean educators visited the Bronx Institute at Lehman College in early February to learn about the Institute’s work with young people and public schools in the Bronx...

Posted on February 9, 2009

More than two hundred Bronx Institute students attended the Institute's first GEAR UP Summer Opportunities Fair on January 21...

Posted on January 27, 2009

One hundred and fifty Bronx high school students attended the Bronx Institute's second annual "Ready to Lead" conference in December...

Posted on December 15, 2008

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation recently awarded a grant to the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators (N.H.C.S.L.) to study best practices developed by the Bronx Institute's ENLACE Latino Collegiate Society...

Posted on December, 2008

The Bronx Institute, a CUNY institute based at Lehman, reaches 9,000 Bronx students and their families with academic enrichment opportunities and preparation to enter competitive colleges and careers...