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‘Military Times’ Ranks CCNY Among Best 4-Year Colleges in US for Vets

Military Times, a publisher of newsweeklies and a website for armed services personnel and their families, ranked The City College of New York 33rd best four-year college in the United States for veterans. CCNY was the highest-rated New York State public college in the annual survey.
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CCNY Team Spends Spring Break Studying Imperiled Caribbean Lakes

Spring break in the Caribbean conjures up images of days on the beach and nights in the clubs. But for five City College of New York undergraduate environmental engineering majors, two professors, a graduate student and a post-doc, it means something very different: trying to understand a climate-related phenomenon that is imperiling two lakes on the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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CCNY Hosts First Navy Aquatic Robotics Competition in NYC

Student teams from more than 20 schools in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey will delay spring break to converge at The City College of New York Saturday, March 23, for an underwater robotics competition – the first ever of its kind in the Northeast.
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Two CCNY Scientists Receive NSF CAREER Awards

Two scientists from The City College of New York have won National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards to support their research, teaching and outreach over the next five years.
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Junot Díaz, Yoani Sánchez to Speak at CCNY Week of March 18

The City College of New York hosts two prominent figures from the world of Hispanic arts and letters the week of March 18.
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CCNY Launches Master’s in Branding + Integrated Communications

The City College of New York (http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/) Department of Media and Communication Arts (http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/mca/) will welcome its first group of students into its new master’s degree program in Branding + Integrated Communications – “BIC” (http://www.bic-nyc.com/ ) – in September 2013.
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41st Annual CCNY Poetry Festival Scheduled for May 10

Tom Sleigh, senior poet and director of Hunter College’s creative writing MFA program, will be the featured guest poet for the 41st annual The City College Poetry Festival. The all-day, all-verse event runs 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, May 10, in Theater B of Aaron Davis Hall, 135th Street and Convent Avenue on the CCNY campus. Dubbed “the Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” the festival has become New York’s longest-running poetry celebration.
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Mathematician Arthur Szlam Named Sloan Research Fellow

Dr. Arthur Szlam, assistant professor of mathematics at The City College of New York, has been awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for 2013. Professor Szlam develops mathematics for cutting-edge applications in machine learning.
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CCNY Undergrads to Speak at UN Event

Five outstanding City College of New York undergraduates will participate in a UN-hosted global analysis of gender-based violence, highlighting CCNY’s 2013 Women’s History Month observance. The event March 9, will be at the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and is free and open to the public.
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Two CCNY Professors Pen Book of Teachers’ Inside Stories

City College of New York Professors of Education Beverly Falk and Megan Blumenreich’s new book presents an insider’s look at the complex challenges facing urban educators. “Teaching Matters: Stories from Inside City Schools” (The New Press, 2012) tells the stories of 15 teachers who applied analysis and critical thinking to come up with solutions to trying educational issues.
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CCNY Grad Students Create Tool to Measure a City’s Success

How does a city measure success? In the case of Newark, N.J., the city is a major employment, cultural and education center. However, limited education attainment and low incomes preclude many residents from taking advantage of opportunities right in their backyard.
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