"The Newman Library and the Baruch College Computing Center for Visually Impaired People (CCVIP) co-sponsor a lecture by Mike Mellor, the writer of the authoritative biography of the Louis Braille. This event marked the library’s official opening of the traveling exhibition on loan from the National Braille Press. The twenty-panel display, in print and Braille, celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille. It takes a viewer through the highlights of Louis’s life, the Braille production process, and why Braille remains important today.

Karen Luxon Gourgey, Director of CCVIP, makes the opening remarks. Konstandinos Chalkias, Coordinator, CCVIP Demo Center and Lynnette Tatum, Training Specialist, CCVIP, demonstrate a penfriend labeling system. Arthur Downing, Chief Information Officer and Chief Librarian, Baruch College, introduces the speaker.

The event takes place on December 3, 2009, at the Baruch College Newman Conference Center, Room 750."

The SEC has proposed a major reform to proxy access rules related to dissident shareholders. With the comment deadline set for August 17, public companies must decide what do to in response and when.

This proxy reform panel discusses both recent reform (Rule 452 - Broker Discretionary Vote being eliminated for 2010 Proxy Season) and the proposed changes (access by dissident shareholders to the management ballot that is mailed to shareholders). Panelists include Douglas Chia, Senior Counsel & Assistant Corporate Secretary, Johnson & Johnson; Jeff Morgan, President and CEO of NIRI National; and Nieles Holch, Executive Director, Shareholder Communications Coalition.

The event is moderated by Baruch College Professor Michael Goodman, Director, CCI Corporate Communication International; Director, MA in Corporate Communication.

The event takes place on July 27, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, Room 750.

Konstandinos Chalkias, Coordinator, Computer Center for Visually Impaired People (CCVIP) Demo Center, gives a demonstration of the cell phone accessibility on Symbian and Windows Mobile cell phones using the Mobile Speak screen reading software.

Karen Gourgey, Ed.D., Director of CCVIP, makes the opening remarks.

The event takes place on September 9, 2009, at 17 Lexington Ave.

A panel of experts speaks about today's shipping realities at a global market breakfast seminar co-sponsored by Weissman Center for International Business, Baruch College/CUNY, Journal of Commerce, and NYMAR (New York Maritime Inc.).

Peter Shaerf, President of NYMAR (New York Maritime Inc.), makes the opening remarks.

The event is moderated by Joseph Bonney, Executive Editor, Journal of Commerce. Speakers include Paul Bingham, Managing Director, IHSGlobal Insight; Stefanie Kasselakis, President, Poten Capital Services; Richard Larrabee, Director, Port Commerce, Port Authority of NY & NJ; Omar Nokta, Managing Director, Equity Research, Marine Transport & Offshore Drilling, Dahlman Rose & Co.; and William F. Rooney, Managing Director, North and South America Hanjin Shipping Company Ltd.

Terrence Martell, Director of the Weissman Center for International Business, makes the closing remarks.

The event takes place on May 8, 2009, at the Newman Conference Center, Room 750.