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Late last year, the Fund for the City of New York, along the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, named the first winners in the its new program: the Sloan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics in New York City Public High Schools.

Homer Panteloglou, a science teacher at the High School of Economics and Finance in Lower Manhattan, was among the educators honored. Panteloglou, his students say, is an inspiration inside and outside of the classroom.

In the mid-1990s, Reggie Miller was the man that New York Knicks fans loved to hate. The fierce rivalry culminated in the 1994-95 NBA playoffs, when Miller’s Indiana Pacers faced off against the Knicks.

Now the story is being told through the eyes of players, coaches and fans – including Spike Lee – in the new documentary film “Winning Time: Reggie Miller v. The New York Knicks.” The movie, by Dan Klores, is part of ESPN’s “30 by 30” documentary series, which chronicles events, athletes and issues that affected sports from 1979 to 2009.

They’ve gathered at Rockefeller Center, every Wednesday from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. for the last six years, to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Now Grandmothers Against the War are taking their fight to local high schools. The seniors are planning a counter-recruitment action on March 18, where they’ll tell students how to opt out of being contacted by military recruiters.

Fashion designer Diana Eng is using her work to spur girls’ interest in math and science.  At her Feb. 24 Fairy Tale Fashion Show, Eng invited 17 students from the Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women in Brooklyn to see her latest tech-inspired fashions.

Eng, the 26-year-old author of “Fashion Geek: Clothing, Accessories, Tech,” hopes to inspire more girls to take up math- and science-based careers.