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The City College of New York kicks off Black History Month with the 45th Annual Langston Hughes Festival presenting two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead with the Langston Hughes Metal at a ceremony on Feb. 1 from 6-8 p.m. in Aaron Davis Hall. The medal is awarded to highly distinguished writers from the African American diaspora. Past award winners include: James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison and more. The festival includes a symposium from 12:30-1:45 p.m. that will highlight “The Paper,” which was created in the late 60s by a group of African-American students at

The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership has announced its College Advancement Leaders Fellowship program with the naming of its inaugural cohort of Fellows. The program, established in partnership with the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), aims to prepare Colin Powell School seniors for the CASE Advancement Internship Program , which was launched more than a decade ago to increase diverse perspectives in the higher education advancement profession, which includes the disciplines of alumni relations, communications, development

President Vince Boudreau will resume his visits to regional City College of New York alumni and friends on Jan. 21, starting in Austin, Tex. The president’s “City In…” tours, which began in 2022, have already taken him to Austin, Tex., Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Washington. Along the way, he met with hundreds of alumni across the country to brief them on the College’s achievements in recent years. The briefings also included an exclusive update on the $1 billion, 10-year “ Doing Remarkable Things Together” campaign that was announced in May 2022 to kick off the

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead is this year’s City College of New York’s Langston Hughes Medal recipient. He’ll receive the Medal at CCNY's 45th annual Langston Hughes Festival on Feb. 1. The medal is awarded to highly distinguished writers from throughout the African American diaspora. It recognizes honorees for their impressive works of poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography and critical essays that help to celebrate the memory and tradition of Langston Hughes. Past award winners include: James Baldwin; Gwendolyn Brooks; Toni Morrison; August Wilson; Maya Angelou; Octavia

Sanjoy Banerjee, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at The City College of New York, and Director of the City University of New York (CUNY) Energy Institute, has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors’ (NAI) Class of 2023 Fellows. Election as an Academy Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors. Banerjee and 161 other academic inventors will be inducted as NAI Fellows at the Academy’s 13th annual meeting on June 18, 2024, in Raleigh, North Carolina. His new peers include two Nobel Laureates – Morten P. Meldal (University of Copenhagen)

Physicists at the University of Texas at Austin and The City College of New York are the recipients of a highly competitive $1.1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to explore exotic phases of matter in atomically thin quantum materials. The project is only one of five selected by the foundation this year in the science and engineering category; five more were selected for medical grants. Vinod Menon, professor of physics in the Division of Science, is the CCNY scientist on the team that also includes UT Austin’s Allan H. MacDonald, Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Physics

The City College of New York’s and the Foundation for City College’s ongoing outreach initiatives to provide fresh, nutritious meals to those in need continues to expand, including an effort that resulted in hundreds of meals being distributed during the holiday season. Starting in September, and for each succeeding Thursday, Benny’s Pantry provided meals in the NAC Plaza. The meals were sponsored by the Migrant Kitchen Initiative , an organization dedicated to ending the hunger crisis in New York City by reducing food insecurity at the community level. The CCNY and Migrant Kitchen Initiative

The City College of New York has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) by the National Security Agency (NSA) for the Cybersecurity Master’s Degree Program in City College’s Grove School of Engineering. This designation will run through 2028. The NSA awards CAE-C designations to institutions that commit to producing cybersecurity professionals that will reduce vulnerabilities in the national infrastructure. While the NSA does not provide funding to CAE-C designated institutions, once a school obtains a designation, it can compete for grants like

PRWeek names the Branding + Integrated Communications Master of Professional Studies Program (BIC) among its finalists for Outstanding Education Program of the Year. The winner will receive their award at the 2024 PRWeek Awards on March 14. BIC is a 36-credit, portfolio-driven master's degree program that combines theory and practice in an interdisciplinary, multi-tracked curriculum that addresses the opportunities and needs of marketing communications industries on behalf of both private and not-for-profit organizations. Students can choose from four specialization tracks: management/planning

Elizabeth J. Biddinger, City College of New York’s award-winning chemical engineering professor, is a participant in a Lehigh University-led multi-institution project to develop a new class of molecules, chemistries, and chemical processes to better store and transport green energy across the globe. The effort is funded by a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The multidisciplinary team aims to improve current liquid organic hydrogen carriers and use AI to identify novel approaches that could lay the groundwork for a global renewable energy supply chain. Biddinger’s