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Emmy-Winning CCNY Student Film Picked as Oscar Finalist

For her thesis project, Maria Royo, ’09 MFA, a graduate film student who attended The City College of New York (CCNY) on a Fulbright Scholarship, turned the camera on her family. The resulting film, “Rediscovering Pape,” won for Best Documentary at the 31st College Television Awards and is a finalist for a student Oscar.
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CCNY Professor Brings Conservation Biology to Secondary Schools

As a middle school science teacher at Hunter High School, Yael Wyner wanted to integrate conservation biology, which is typically taught in college, into the environmental science curriculum. One of the drawbacks, she discovered, was that “students learned about ecology and human impact separately and couldn’t connect the two.”
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Michael Sorkin Wins American Academy Architecture Award

Michael Sorkin, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at The City College of New York (CCNY), was chosen as a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2010 Architecture Awards. Professor Sorkin was selected for the award, which carries a $7,500 prize, in recognition of his body of work in architecture, research and criticism.
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CCNY Wins 3 Awards at Vienna Science Conference

Twenty-three undergraduate and graduate students from The City College of New York (CCNY) traveled to Austria April 7 - 9 to participate in the Junior Science Conference 2010 at the Technical University of Vienna. Senior computer engineering major Igor Labutov took first prize in the masters-level poster competition; two other CCNY students also received prizes.
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Tenth Annual CUNY Jazz Festival to Run May 6 - 7

The City College of New York (CCNY) will host the 10th Annual CUNY Jazz Festival, 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Thursday, May 6 and 12 noon to 10 p.m. Friday, May 7 in Aaron Davis Hall, Theater B. Besides CCNY, ensembles from four other CUNY colleges and LaGuardia High School will participate in the event, which will feature saxophonist Billy Drewes as guest artist.
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CCNY to Compete in U.S. Energy Department’s 2011 Solar Decathlon

A team from the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture and the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY) has been chosen as one of 20 finalists in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon for 2011. As Team New York, the CCNY students will compete against colleges and universities from the United States, Belgium, Canada, China and New Zealand to design, build and operate the most affordable, attractive, effective and energy-efficient solar-powered house.
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CCNY Wins Outstanding Delegation at National Model UN

The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Model United Nations team won Outstanding Delegation in the 2010 National Model United Nations (NMUN) Conference at the United Nations and the Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan, held March 28 through April 3. CCNY was one of 17 institutions to receive an “Outstanding Delegation” award in the 2010 competition, which attracted over 300 colleges and universities from five continents.
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CCNY Listed in Princeton Review Green College Guide

The City College of New York is one of 286 U.S. colleges and universities selected for inclusion in the Princeton Review’s “Guide to Green Colleges.” The Guide, presented in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, lists “colleges and universities that have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to sustainability.” CCNY was one of three CUNY colleges included in the Guide.
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CCNY Marks Earth Day with Festival, Climate Plan Debut

Culminating a week filled with environment-related events, The City College of New York (CCNY) holds its annual Earth Day Festival 12 noon – 2 p.m. Thursday, April 22. The same day, the College will make public its draft Climate Action Plan developed by CCNY Green, the College’s sustainability task force, and invite comments on the plan from the College community.
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CCNY to Host Sustainable Transit Conference May 7

The City College of New York (CCNY) will host “Sustainable Transit: Developing an Action Agenda,” a day-long conference that will examine the role that public transportation can play in achieving sustainability and how transit agencies can reduce their environmental impact. The event will take place 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Friday, May 7, in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture building.
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CCNY Historian Barbara Ann Naddeo Wins 114th Rome Prize

Dr. Barbara Ann Naddeo, Associate Professor of History at The City College of New York (CCNY), was named a winner of the 114th Rome Prize by The American Academy in Rome at its annual awards ceremony at The Harmonie Club in Manhattan last night.
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