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The City College of New York MFA student in Film, Cinema, and Video Studies Sisa Quispe was awarded a 2023 New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) scholarship. She was one of seven film, television, and media production students at New York area schools as part of the organization’s ongoing commitment to nurturing the next generation of women in media. The other awardees were Brooklyn College Film Production undergraduate student Mahalia Jackson; Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema MFA Directing candidate Sarah Rhye; Hunter College MFA candidate in Integrated Media Arts Yehui Zhao; New

President Joe Biden has awarded the National Medal of Science to Myriam Sarachik (posthumously) and Sheldon Weinbaum, two of the most distinguished researchers and educators of their generation who, collectively, spent more than a century on faculty at The City College of New York. They were among nine recipients of the medal honored at the White House. Established in 1959 by the U.S. Congress, the National Medal of Science is the highest recognition the nation can bestow on scientists and engineers. The presidential award is given to individuals deserving of special recognition by reason of

Funded by a $799,352 U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Office of Science grant, research is underway at The City College of New York to fundamentally advance understanding of the critical processes in plasma-based anti-/de-icing approaches and plasma-assisted additive manufacturing and coating technologies. The three-year project is led by Yang Liu, assistant professor in the Grove School of Engineering and an expert in experimental fluid mechanics. According to Liu, plasma-droplet interactions have been recognized as the fundamental mechanisms of many industrial and natural processes, including

Preparing for a future in which artificial intelligence (AI), networked systems, autonomous vehicles (AVs) and connected AVs (CAVs) are integral to society, The City College of New York is launching an international program to train select students in mastering Avs. The three-year project -- in partnership with Turkey’s Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and California-based autonomous bus company ADASTEC Corp – is funded by a $300,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. “Future societies will depend more and more on AI and networked systems, and, in turn, on AVs and CAVs for many

To help students with financial challenges stay enrolled, The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership has, thanks to a generous grant from the Ichigo Foundation, created the position of Financial Aid Adviser and First Year Experience Coordinator. Jennifer Lavayen, a CCNY academic advisor, is the first appointee. “Upwards of 20 percent of CCNY students enrolled in any given semester do not reenroll for the following semester. Much of this has to do with challenges around paying for college,” said Andrew Rich, the Richard J. Henley and Susan L. Davis Dean

Ibrahima Fall, a City College of New York student majoring in civil engineering, is a 2024 fellow in the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Minority Student Fellowship. The fellowship program seeks to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in the transportation field and in Transportation Research Board activities. To ensure that solutions to the nation’s transportation problems address people from a variety of backgrounds, the Transportation Research Board established the Minority Student Fellows Program in 2010 to actively explore research, ideas and solutions from diverse

The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education kicks off Latinx/a/o Heritage Month with the 10th edition of The Americas Poetry Festival of New York. The festival at City College Downtown takes place from Oct. 11-13 and is a collaboration with the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association and Instituto Cervantes New York. CCNY professors and writers Carlos Aguasaco, Yrene Santos, and Carlos Velásquez Torres curate this annual event. Click here for more information. Below is a list of LHM events: The Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS)

Alumnus Alan Levy was the first in his family to graduate in 1958 with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from The City College of New York. The free tuition at the time made pursuing a degree possible, and now he wants to pay it forward with a $100,000 gift to create The Alan and Sharon Levy Scholarship Fund. The scholarships will support women and minority students in CCNY’s Division of Science and will be based on financial need. It will support all education-related expenses. “I was able to obtain a B.S. from CCNY and a Ph.D. from Purdue University without incurring any debt,” said Levy.

Award-winning film director and producer Shalini Kantayya, whose latest film, “ TikTok, Boom,” was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, delivers the David Dortort Lecture in the Dramatic Arts at The City College of New York on Oct. 4. Free and open to the public, her talk, 5:30 – 7 p.m. in Theatre B of CCNY’s Aaron Davis Hall, is entitled “What happens to human rights when we let technology encroach on our social systems?" “TikTok, Boom” investigates TikTok’s algorithm and users to paint a picture of the world’s most downloaded app, and how it can be wielded

The City College of New York and the Consulate of Brazil in New York signed an official cooperation agreement for further supporting and promoting Portuguese language and Brazilian culture at the college. The Consulate of Brazil has already been a strong financial supporter of conferences, talks and cultural events regularly organized by the Minor in Portuguese Language and Lusophone Cultures. In 2019, CCNY signed a similar cooperation agreement with the Consulate of Portugal in New York. Portugal renewed their commitment last year. The agreement now signed with Brazil comes to reinforce these