Centers and Institutes

Have you ever wondered what color that shirt you were holding was? Is that a can of tomato soup or garbanzo beans? Is that a five dollar bill or a single? Lynnette Tatum, Training Specialist at Computer Center for Visually Impaired People (CCVIP), and Konstandinos Chalkias, Coordinator of CCVIP Demo Center, give a demonstration of the devices that have been designed to assist you in identifying these items and more. The speakers will be looking at the ID Mate, the Colorino Color identifier, the Money Talks money identifier and labeling systems like the VoxCom and Pen Friend.

The event takes place on January 19, 2010, at 17 Lexington Ave, Room 1220.

Lynnette Tatum, Training Specialist at Computer Center for Visually Impaired People (CCVIP), and Madelyn Guilbeault, Training Assistant, CCVIP, discuss the options currently available for reading electronic books including demonstrations of devices such as the Victor Reader Stream, the BookSense and the new digital National Library Service reader.

Elizabeth Savage, Publisher Relations, ReadHowYouWant.com and Mark MCcLuski, Head Librarian, Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library make brief remarks.

Konstandinos Chalkias, Coordinator of CCVIP Demo Center, moderates the event.

The event takes place on November 19, 2009, at 17 Lexington Ave.

This event honors Baruch's participants in KPMG's Living Green Case Competition and provides them with an opportunity to share their answers to the competition question: If you had $1,000 to improve the environmental/sustainability programs at your school, what would you do?

Participants

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Team Green Baruch

Jeremy Sykes (speaker), Accounting, Graduate Student

Vitri Wibisono, Accounting, Graduate Student

Elizabeth Wong, Accounting, Graduate Student

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Refill Revolution

Daniella Leifer (speaker), MBA Student

Celine Ruben-Salama, MBA Student

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Emerald Green Team

Ralph Bianculli (speaker), Finance and Investments, Junior

Justin Velella (speaker), Political Science, Junior

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Green Bandits

Gabriele Suleiman, International Business, Graduate Student

Dhunia Clermont, Marketing, Graduate Student

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Positively Skewed

Varun Nagpal, Finance, Graduate Student

Ksenia O'Neill, Finance & Real Estate, Graduate Student

Shiniu Wei (speaker), Finance, Graduate Student

The event takes place on December 10, 2009, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-250, moderated by Professor Mindy Engle-Friedman, Chair, Task Force on Sustainability.

Madelyn Guilbeault, Training Assistant at Computer Center for Visually Impaired People (CCVIP), gives a demonstration of the latest in portable CCTV devices, focusing on the Far view CCTV. Other devices are shown and discussed as well.

Konstandinos Chalkias, Coordinator of CCVIP Demo Center, moderates the event.

The event takes place on December 15, 2009, at 17 Lexington Ave.

The Center For Innovation and Leadership in Government presents "Altered Political Landscape: City Hall 2010." The following panelists discuss what changes are in store for New York City Hall following the 2009 elections:

Nicole Gelinas, Manhattan Institute

Erica Gonzalez, El Diario

Clyde Haberman, New York Times

Errol Louis, NY Daily News

Tom Robbins, Village Voice

The event is moderated by Professor Doug Muzzio at School of Public Affairs (SPA), Baruch College. Jonathan Engel, Associate Dean, SPA, Baruch College makes the opening remarks.

The event takes place on December 8, 2009, at the Baruch Newman Conference Center, 7th floor.

"Baruch College and the Flatiron 23rd Street Partnership Business Improvement District co-sponsor the forum to help New York’s hard-pressed entrepreneurs and small business owners revitalize and retool their businesses in a recessionary economy.

The panel discussion focuses on the state of entrepreneurship in New York and the challenges facing small business owners and managers, following welcoming remarks by John Elliott, Dean of the Zicklin School of Business; Stan Altman, President of Baruch College; Jennifer Brown, Executive Director Flatiron 23rd Street Partnership; and Robert Walsh, NYC Department of Small Business Services Commissioner. The panel is moderated by Brian Tracey, Online Editor, Crain’s New York Business

Panelists include:

Jonathan Bowles, Director, Center for an Urban Future;

Steve Cohen, Deputy Commissioner, Empire State Development, Division for Small Business;

Raymond Keating, Chief Economist, Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council;

Edward G. Rogoff, Chair, Department of Management, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College.

The event takes place on November 20, 2009 at the Baruch College Newman Conference Center, 7th floor."

A panel of nonprofit managers discusses strategies and structures for running international nonprofit organizations in New York City, including starting, running, and expanding nonprofit work to an international scale, and the benefits of headquartering international work in New York City instead of elsewhere. Panelists include: Lynne Rudolph Patterson, Co-founder and Director of Pro Mujer; and Luanne Zurlo, Executive Director of Worldfund. The panel is moderated by John Casey, Associate Professor at the School of Public Affairs. David Birdsell, Dean of the School of Public Affairs, gives opening remarks. A Q&A session follows.

This Nonprofit Seminar is presented by the Center for Nonprofit Strategy and Management. The event takes place in the Administrative Building, Room 301.

"Dr. Jeffrey Peck, Dean of the Weissman School of Arts & Sciences at Baruch College leads a live onstage interview with theater legend Theodore Bikel about his life and career, beginning with the role of Tevye the Milkman in Broadway’s Fiddler on the Roof, and spanning more than 40 years to his current star role in the New York premiere of the National Yiddish Theater production of Sholom Aleichem: Laughter through Tears about the pioneering 19th-century author Sholom Aleichem at Baruch Performing Arts Center.

John Malatesta, Managing Director, Baruch Performing Arts Center, introduces the event. The program is presented by the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences and Baruch Performing Arts Center, in cooperation with the National Yiddish Theater - Folksbiene.

The event takes place on November 11, 2009, at Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch Performing Arts Center."

Marc Hodak, founder of Hodak Value Advisors, discusses scandals from history and the present day, and explores why business scandals tend to proliferate during economic downturns, how history repeats itself, and what lessons can be learned from scandals. A Q&A session follows.

This program is sponsored by the CEO Trust in partnership with the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity. The event takes place on December 7, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, Room 750.