SUM Research, Innovation, and Creativity at CUNY
December 30, 2019
![American Christianity’s Obsession with Native American Salvation](images/MEF-1.jpg)
"Messianic Fulfillments: Staging Indigenous Salvation in America" by Prof. Hayes P. Mauro examines Christian evangelical movements of the 16th-19th centuries' efforts to transform Native Americans into the "ideal American."
December 3, 2019
![Male nurse with arms crossed in clinic examination room](images/IMG_5140.jpg)
Professor Randelle Sasa holds that dropping injurious gender-based labels like male nurse would strengthen the profession and create a more gender-balanced workforce.
October 30, 2019
![Transparent sheet music on 16mm camera and film. Sheet music is by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major](images/GettyImages-171156941-e1572443100297.jpg)
A new book looks at why modern filmmakers choose classical music to frame their narratives.
June 25, 2019
![Street sign in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC, honoring Julio Rivera: Julio Rivera corner](images/julio.jpg)
A play dramatizes the murder of Julio Rivera, a gay Puerto Rican man in Jackson Heights, Queens. The killing was the first hate crime tried in New York State during the 1990s.
May 10, 2019
![Students gather around a laptop](images/diversity.jpg)
A professor used a community college classroom to find out how diversity affects editorial decision-making.
December 4, 2018
![3D printed heart](images/TheHeart.jpg)
Need a model of an ear, pancreas or kidney? How about a model of a space station, or a theatrical mask? The Advanced Manufacturing Lab at Queensborough Community College can help.
November 6, 2018
![ARBEIT MACHT FREI, Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Lesser Poland, Poland, April 2015](images/Auschwitz.jpg)
A new book offers strategies for teaching community college students about genocide by connecting the history of mass atrocities to contemporary issues, social justice, the arts, and other interdisciplinary approaches.
May 21, 2018
![Marching band](images/9230-Allen.jpg)
Professor Jules Allen traveled the country for five years photographing African-American marching bands, a culture that “breathes the soul and spirit of Africa within the modern world.”