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Grove School Students Win Intelligent Ground Vehicle Design Competition

A five-member team of students in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY) took first place in the design category in the 18th annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC). The event, in which 58 teams from six countries qualified to compete, was held June 4 – 7 at Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Mich.
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Mayor Of Japanese City Leads Pilgrimage To CCNY

Hon. Naoki Ishii, Mayor of Shimoda, Japan, will lead a 14-member delegation on a pilgrimage to The City College of New York (CCNY) July 14 to honor CCNY’s founder Townsend Harris, who opened the first U.S. consulate in Japan.
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CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Investigates Financial Behavior

New York City’s 600,000-plus Dominicans are more likely than Latinos nationwide to have accounts at a bank or credit union. However, they continue to rely heavily on alternative financial institutions such as check-cashing businesses, and use costly financial instruments such as money orders and tax refund anticipation loans because the mainstream financial institutions are not meeting their needs.
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Korean Singer Gives CCNY’s Colin Powell Center $10,000

Kim In-soon, the acclaimed Korean R&B vocalist, came to The City College of New York (CCNY) Thursday, June 3, to visit with students and to present a $10,000 gift to the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies. The gift will support the Center’s mission of developing new generations of leaders from populations previously underrepresented in public service and policy circles.
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CCNY Grad Takes Silver at Academy Award Ceremony

Rediscovering Pape,” the MFA thesis film by City College of New York (CCNY) alumna Maria Royo, ’09, won a silver medal at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 37th Annual Student Academy Awards ceremony June 12 in Beverly Hills. The medal came with a $3,000 prize.
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CCNY Alumni Honor John Lee & Robin Villa

Dr. John J. Lee, Distinguished Professor of Biology at The City College of New York (CCNY), received the 2010 Faculty Service Award from the CCNY Alumni Association at the Association’s 158th Annual Meeting June 10, in The Great Hall. In addition, the Association presented its second Administrative Service Award to Robin Villa, ’75MA, Director of the Honors College.
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CCNY, Natural Currents Energy Services to Identify Top New Jersey Tidal Power Generation Sites

With a coastline stretching from New York Harbor to Cape May, New Jersey stands to benefit from a new study designed to pinpoint the top 20 sites for hydrokinetic energy, a renewable resource produced by the movement of tides, waves and currents in oceans and other bodies of water. A City College of New York (CCNY) engineering professor is partnering with Natural Currents Energy Services, LLC (NCES), a leader in tidal power technology, to locate these sites.
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CCNY Radio’s $1.7m Facelift

WHCR 90.3 FM, The City College of New York’s community radio station, unveils its new studios at CCNY 10 a.m., Wednesday, June 16 after a $1.7m facelift designed to boost service to listeners in upper Manhattan.
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CCNY Art Exhibit Opens in St. Nicholas Park, June 16

St. Nicholas Park on the slopes of The City College of New York (CCNY) in uptown Manhattan will morph into an open air art space this summer, thanks to a collaboration between CCNY, the West Harlem Art Fund, Inc., and other community partners.
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CCNY Theatre Professor Makes Cinematic Directing Debut

Dr. David Willinger, stage director, playwright and Professor in the Department of Theatre and Speech at The City College of New York (CCNY), is making his cinematic directorial debut. His first film, “Lunatics, Lovers and Actors,” which will have its world premiere Tuesday, June 22, at the New Hope Film Festival in New Hope, PA.
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Colin Powell Center at CCNY to Host “Motor City” Screening

Dr. Robert E. Paaswell, Interim President of The City College of New York (CCNY) and an internationally recognized transportation expert, will join award-winning executive producer Kathleen Hughes and Aaron Woolf, director of PBS’s “Blueprint America: Beyond the Motor City,” for a panel discussion at the New York screening of the eye-opening documentary, Monday, June 14 at CCNY.
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