In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the CUNY Institute for Health Equity will hold panel discussions highlighting scientists, scholars, and leaders from a Hispanic or Latino background conducting important research and helming key organizations.

Panel Chairs: Judith Aponte, associate professor at Hunter College’s School of Nursing, and Maria Isabel Roldós, director of the CUNY Institute for Health Equity and an associate professor of Health Sciences at Lehman College.

The panel includes Cristina Contreras, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan; Paule Joseph, Ph.D., chief of the Section of Sensory Science and Metabolism at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute of Nursing Research; Omar Martinez, who leads Temple University’s Disparities and Inequities in HIV/AIDS Research Lab; and Karen Tejada, a community/public health nursing graduate student. 

Register here.

The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is a classic tragedy of destruction following errors in judgment.  Naomi Zack presents social and political aspects of this disaster as it unfolded in public health through federal and local government structures, society, culture, and the economy.

Federalism combined with politics in facing and denying the SARS-CoV2 pandemic has revealed both weaknesses and strengths.

Naomi Zack is Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College.

RSVP by September 29^th:  https://libcal.lehman.edu/event/8111923?hs=a

*This is an online event - URL will be sent via registration e-mail*

*Registration is required*

Information:  Michelle.Ehrenpreis@lehman.cuny.edu

The Virtual Reality Training Academy teaches the skills needed to create Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality applications for industry and education covering many diverse fields, including: architecture, product visualization, game creation, multimedia design, and broadcast media.

Come and network with your peers and know more about our next VR program starting in spring 2020. You will have the chance to speak to the instructor(s) and former participants. A 15-week/180 hour course, on immersive media. Composed of eight modules, the course will focus on the Unity platform as the means to developing content for Augmented and Virtual Reality.  Students will receive a Lehman College certificate and badge.

Are you looking to refresh and renew your course? Want to engage students with course materials? Are you looking to replace an expensive textbook that often goes unread by students? Would you like to become more aware of resources available in your discipline for possible reuse by you or your students? Hoping to enhance or remix your course materials with fresh and stimulating text or multimedia content?

We invite you to register for our online workshop, “Enhancing Your (Online or Hybrid) Course with Open Educational Resources (OER)." As this is an online workshop, you don’t need to be to campus.

About the workshop:

• This asynchronous online workshop will provide a deep dive into Open Educational Resources (OER) and how to find, evaluate, and make a plan to integrate OER in your course.
• Workshop is appropriate both for those new to the subject as well as those who have already worked with OER.
  
• You are eligible to be compensated for 10 NTA hours (up to $550 total) upon successful completion of the workshop.
• Please note that faculty teaching online and hybrid, multi-section and high-enrollment courses will be given priority.
• The workshop is open to full-time and part-time faculty. Part-time faculty need to have an active appointment in order to participate.
  
• Faculty who have taken this workshop in the past are not eligible to take it again. If you are not sure if you have participated, please see the list of Lehman faculty who have successfully completed the workshop.

Schedule for the Enhancing Your (Online or Hybrid) Course through the Use of Open Educational Resources (OER) Workshop: June 1-14