Medgar Evers College School of Science, Health and Technology

A CUNY team from Bronx Community College (10 students and 2 faculty), La Guardia Community College (1 student), York College (2 students) and Medgar Evers College (2 students and 1 faculty) will be journeying to Mumbai, India during July 30 - August 15, 2019 on a sustainability focused Study Abroad Program. The CUNY team in India will be led by Professor Neal Phillip of Bronx, Prof. Paramita Sen of Bronx and Prof. Dereck Skeete of Medgar Evers. The CUNY team will be joined ...in India by Mr Greg Bruce, the Principal for Sustainability for Townsville, Australia. Townsville is the 2012 winner of an IBM Smarter City Challenge Award and Mr Bruce is the principal architect of the smart city deliverables for the city. Last year a CUNY team under the leadership of Dr Neal Phillip of Bronx Community College conducted successful sustainability focused Study Abroad programs in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (June 2018) also with Mr Greg Bruce and in Townsville, Australia (November 2018). Dr. Skeete was part of the team in Australia last year. The team had quite an impact in both locations and had many deliverables including installing solar powered weather stations, monitoring climate/pollution monitoring on a micro-scale with backpack weather stations designed by NOAA-CREST at City College, conducting Collective Social Learning workshops, conducting STEM workshops and training students and sustainability staff on the use of our backpack weather stations and presenting at the 2018 Annual Global Eco Asia-Pacific Tourism Conference. See blogs chronicling activities in Spain and Australia: Palma de Mallorca, Spain Study Abroad Program: https://bcc-cuny-mallorca.tumblr.com/ Townsville, Australia Study Abroad Program: https://bcc-cuny-australia-ecotourism.tumblr.com/ We commend Dr. Skeete for his work and we are are looking forward to a similarly successful, sustainability focused, visit to Mumbai, India. Be well. Terrence P.s. please see link to photos from farewell reception hosted by the Indian consulate: https://www.indiainnewyork.gov.in/subGallery Terrence Blackman, Ph.D., Dean, School of Science, Health & Technology Medgar Evers College, CUNY

Education is about building a sustainable infrastructure that can reliably connect (y)our folk to opportunity--it feels really good when a student says--I'm heading off to the ...and you think, job well done young lady and you see the ancestors smiling in your mind's eye. Dean Terrence Blackman

The joy of science-- PROJECT: Synthesis of Diacylglycerol-Lactones (DAG-Lactones) Diacylglycerol (DAG) is a lipid second messenger that is produced through phosphoinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) hydrolysis following the activation of receptor-coupled phospholipase C or indirectly from phosphatidylcholine via phospholipase D. Increased levels of... DAG are transduced into cellular signals by binding to the C1 domains of the various protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms and six other families of proteins. The binding of DAG translocates the target proteins to membranes and may further lead to conformational change of the protein, as is the case with PKC, leading to enzyme activation. These proteins represent promising therapeutic targets for cancer, dementia, HIV and AIDS, and multiple other disorders. In the project a new class of DAG mimetics will be prepared using microwave technology and tested for PKC activity. The materials have arrived. Dr. Denton is happy! Dean Terrence Blackman

Dear Colleagues, I trust all is well. Here’s hoping that you enjoy some good barbecue and fellowship tomorrow. Mindful of the challenges that we will face in the days ahead in our School, our College and our nation I thought that I’d share this article with you for under the rubricreadings for the 4th. Be well. Terrence Terrence R. Blackman, Ph.D.... Dean, School of Science, Health &Technology Medgar Evers College, The City University of New York "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced".--James Baldwin https://www.theatlantic.com//fourth-of-july-black-/564320/

On June 12, 1963, African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, During World War II, Evers volunteered for the U.S. Army and participated in the Normandy invasion. In 1952, he joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). As a field worker for the NAACP, Evers traveled through his home state encouraging poor African America...ns to register to vote and recruiting them into the civil rights movement. He was instrumental in getting witnesses and evidence for the Emmett Till murder case, which brought national attention to the plight of African Americans in the South. After a funeral in Jackson, he was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. President John F. Kennedy and many other leaders publicly condemned the killing. In 1964, the first trial of chief suspect Byron De La Beckwith ended with a deadlock by an all-white jury, sparking numerous protests. When a second all-white jury also failed to reach a decision, De La Beckwith was set free. Three decades later, the state of Mississippi reopened the case under pressure from civil rights leaders and Evers’ family. In February 1994, a racially mixed jury in Jackson found Beckwith guilty of murder. The unrepentant white supremacist, aged 73, was sentenced to life imprisonment.(https://www.history.com/this-day-/medgar-evers-assassinated) Today I call upon us to pause for a moment to reflect privately on the responsibility of that comes to us as individual faculty, as departments, as a School of Science, Health and Technology and as Medgar Evers College to the community, city, state and nation of which we are a part and I call on us to commit ourselves to unfinished work of Medgar Wiley Evers. Be well. Dean Terrence Blackman