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Travel Grants Send Spitzer Students to Far Corners of Globe

How did the spice trade influence architecture on two continents? That question led Lori Beppu, a graduate architect student in The City College of New York’s Spitzer School of Architecture, to travel to Sri Lanka and the Netherlands last year to search for answers, supported by a $5,000 travel fellowship from the Spitzer School.
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Novel Energy Idea Wins CCNY Team Entry Into Elite Competition

A simple, inexpensive idea to convert wood waste in India into renewable energy in the form of electricity and charcoal has won a team of City College of New York undergraduates the top prize in a CUNY-wide entrepreneurship competition and an opportunity to go up against teams from 20 top-tier graduate business schools in a national competition.
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CCNY STEM Majors Scoop Up Record Five Wins at National Conference

City College of New York science students brought home a record five wins for research poster presentations at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) last semester in San Jose, California.
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CCNY Awards 12 President’s Community Scholarships

Twelve high-achieving students from upper Manhattan and the Bronx are the latest recipients of City College of New York President’s Community scholarships to study free at CCNY.
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CCNY Studio Wins “Parks for the People” Award of Excellence

“Finding Common Ground,” a plan for the Nicodemus National Historic Site in Nicodemus, Kan., produced by a studio of first-year graduate landscape architecture students in The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, received one of two awards of excellence in “Parks for the People,” a student competition to reimagine America’s National Parks.
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“Harlem in the City” Festival to Salute Neighborhood as Cultural And Intellectual Force

The City College of New York, in collaboration with the Harlem Arts Alliance, presents “Harlem in the City,” a weeklong festival of activities celebrating Harlem as a cultural and intellectual force for New York City, America and the world.
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CCNY Announces Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month Events

Whether it is called Hispanic Heritage Month or Latino Heritage Month, it is a fiesta of lectures, concerts, parties and forums celebrating the cultures and traditions of the peoples who comprise the largest segment of The City College of New York’s student population. Events run September 13 through October 17 and take place on CCNY’s main campus at 138th Street and Convent Avenue and at the Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway, New York.
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CCNY Student Covers Controversy at Journalists Conference

One of the biggest challenges young journalists face is maintaining objectivity while covering a controversial story, especially when they see themselves as an advocate. Emily Goldblum, a senior studying journalism at The City College of New York, passed that test with flying colors at UNITY 2012, a national conference for minority and LGBT journalists, where she recently covered a major story on a schism in the organization.
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CCNY Garners Roosevelt Institute Best New Chapter Award

Following an initial year in which it published several award-winning public policy papers and worked on models to implement its recommendations, The City College of New York Roosevelt Institute student chapter has been awarded the Institute’s Best New Chapter of the Year award for 2012-2013. The Roosevelt Institute cited the CCNY chapter for its rapid growth, functionality, excellent papers and participation in policy events.
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Princeton Review Selects CCNY as One of Nation’s Best Colleges

For the first time, The Princeton Review will add The City College of New York to its roster of the nation’s best colleges. The prestigious selection earns CCNY a place in The Princeton Review’s annual “Best Colleges” guidebook, The Best 377 Colleges: 2013 Edition, published this week.
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CCNY-Groomed Miss Albania Shoots for the Stars

There is Colin Powell, statesman and author. There is also Jonas Salk, creator of the polio vaccine, and Andrew Grove whose Intel chip revolutionized computers. The list of notable City College of New York alumni is lengthy.
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