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CCNY Film Grad Zachary Borst’s TV Spot to Air During Super Bowl

The day his father bought him his first car was one of the happiest of Zachary Borst’s teenage years. That joy provided the creative spark for a television commercial that will air during Super Bowl XLVI that the 2010 graduate of CCNY’s MFA program in media arts production wrote, directed, produced and edited. His spot bested 200 other entries in a competition sponsored by Chevrolet, earning him tremendous exposure and a $25,000 cash prize.
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Ben Vereen Headlines Black History Month at CCNY

The City College of New York will celebrate Black History Month 2012 with a rich array of cultural events throughout February that includes exhibits, film screenings, conferences, lectures, discussions and performances.
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CCNY Team Advances in ‘Parks for the People’ Competition

CCNY’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture is one of nine institutions chosen from a field of 41 to advance to the second round of the “Parks for the People” design studio competition. Graduate landscape architecture students comprise the CCNY team, which will develop plans and designs for the Nicodemus National Historic Site in Nicodemus, Kan., a Reconstruction-era settlement of emancipated slaves, and participate in a jury review this summer.
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Three CCNY Students Compete for Miss New York USA Title

As a little girl, Merlix Ventura competed in local beauty pageants in Upper Manhattan and won every time. But by age five, success had gone to her head and her mother stopped letting her compete.
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Sophie Davis Students Teach Patients to Ask Questions of Their Doctors

For some patients, knowing how to ask questions in a doctor’s office could make a huge difference in their outcomes. A pilot program at The City College of New York’s Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education is teaching future physicians to help patients take charge of their health by querying their medical providers.
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Crowdfunding Science: Student Raises Cash Online to Follow a Flying Fox

The flying fox is an adorable doe-eyed bat with a dark side – it is the perfect vector for emerging infectious diseases from Asia. Susan Tsang, a PhD student in ecology and evolutionary biology at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center, turned to a revolutionary way to help fund her research into how this species spreads disease.
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CCNY Students Receive $86.4 Million in Financial Aid

The City College of New York provided $86.4 million in financial aid to its students for fiscal year 2011, the College announced today. As a result, 42 percent of all students, including 59 percent of the freshman class, paid no tuition. Approximately three-fourths of the student body received either full or partial financial aid. This support, from government sources and private philanthropy (scholarships), is critical to enabling CCNY students to study without economic hardship.
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CCNY, Hostos and LaGuardia Receive $4 Million for STEM

The City College of New York and two CUNY community colleges are partnering on a multifaceted initiative to attract more students to the STEM disciplines – especially Hispanics and low-income students – and help them earn their degrees. Producing more STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) graduates is critical to strengthening U.S. competitiveness in the global economy.
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CCNY Art Lecturer Runs Marathon in Less Than Three Hours

When she ran in the New York City Marathon three years ago, Megan Foster suffered stress fractures in her shins, forcing her to miss the next two years. This year, she adopted a new training regimen, and she completed the 26.2-mile course in just under three hours, a personal best.
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CCNY Studio Designs for Midwest City’s Rebirth

Flint, Mich., the General Motors factory town that was the subject of “Roger and Me,” a controversial 1989 documentary by native son Michael Moore about factory closings there, is considered by many a “poster child” for aging Rust Belt cities. It’s an unfair assessment, asserts Denise Hoffman Brandt, professor of landscape architecture in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York.
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Extreme Melting on Greenland Ice Sheet, Reports CCNY Team

The Greenland ice sheet can experience extreme melting even when temperatures don’t hit record highs, according to a new analysis by Dr. Marco Tedesco, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at The City College of New York. His findings suggest that glaciers could undergo a self-amplifying cycle of melting and warming that would be difficult to halt.
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