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Emily Raboteau, the American Book Award-winning author and Professor of English in The City College of New York’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, is the recipient of a writing residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. The elite honor, which is unsolicited, is presented to outstanding creative writers whose work deals with themes of social activism. Past residents have included National Book Award winner Nikky Finney and National Book Critic Circle Award winner Claudia Rankine. Raboteau will spend two weeks next spring in the Lannan residency program in Marfa, Texas, working on her

Four City College of New York students are traveling to Asia and Europe this winter 2017 semester on Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships. The quartet are recipients of the competitive national scholarships that provide support for overseas travel and research. Junior Ivan De Luce, sociology major, will study at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. His research project for the scholarship involves visiting Syrian refugee shelters to photograph and interview subjects, which he hopes to turn into an exhibit upon his return to City College. The Washington Heights resident will study courses

Six City College of New York participants were winners at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Tampa, Fla. Each received awards in the poster presentation category. The students and their topics are: Kevin Gonzalez, developmental biology; Candice Forrester, engineering, physics, math; Svetlana Markova, engineering, physics, math; Elizabeth T. Yim, social and behavioral sciences; Chrissy Cherenfant, cell biology; Michael Obadina, cancer biology. Another CCNY student, biology major Emmanuel Dwomoh, took first place for his poster presentation at the Meharry

The City College of New York’s Graduate Program in Educational Theatre is collaborating with PS 161 for a presentation of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Jr. This is the sixth co-production with the Harlem-based school. Sixteen City College graduate student directors are rehearsing with 40 middle school students from PS 161’s drama club to prepare for the performance. The showcase is part of the Fundamentals in Teaching Theatre course taught by Jennifer Katona, lecturer and director of the Graduate Program in Educational Theatre. The PS 161 middle school students have been preparing since

The City College of New York is the #1 Military Friendly School among public universities with more than 10,000 students. This is according to Victory Media, which awarded City College its Top 10 Gold award for 2017. The honor is based on public information gathered from a Military Friendly® survey and personal data from CCNY veteran students about how they feel about the college. “Veterans are looking for a hand up, not a hand out, and so organizations like yours provide that opportunity for them to take that military service—where they learn team-work, discipline and leadership—and bring it

Biomedical engineer Marom Bikson’s internationally recognized contributions in medical device innovation include research on noninvasive electrical brain stimulation to treat brain disorders such as depression, chronic pain, and stroke. The City College of New York professor is now the recipient of a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health aimed at revolutionizing the treatment of brain diseases using brain stimulation that is personalized to each patient. Eighteen medical centers around the country and Google are also partners in this research. Bikson’s medical device design

One is a dreamlike film sequence about journeying from poverty in Mexico to a City College of New York classroom. The other is a stunning campus photo. Both earned CCNY undergraduates Mariana Osorio (art and music) and Suha Sultan (biomedical engineering) top prizes in two international competitions. An international student from Mexico, Osorio took the $4000 top prize at the 2016 International Student Travel Video Contest for her entry “ This Magic World.” It tells her story about leaving one of the most impoverished and dangerous states in Mexico to study music and art in the United States.

The first digital platform in academia presenting a comprehensive history of the Americas’ earliest African inhabitants is now live. “ First Blacks in the Americas/ Los Primeros Negros en las Américas,” a bilingual archival resource in English and Spanish, is the product of The City College of New York- based CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. Led by Ramona Hernández, professor of sociology in City College’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, CUNY DSI is the nation's first university-based research institute devoted to the study of people of Dominican descent around the world

Since its founding in 1847 as the Free Academy, The City College of New York has provided a world-class higher education to an increasingly diverse student body--serving as one of the single most important avenues to upward mobility in the nation. Access to excellence remains the vision of the College today. City College is the founding institution of The City University of New York and the first public urban institution of higher education in the United States. Vice Chairman of the CUNY Board of Trustees Barry Schwartz will chair this search committee which includes trustees, faculty

Dear Friends and Colleagues, I'd like to take this opportunity to wish each of you a happy and safe thanksgiving. I hope that this Thursday, and over the course of the holidays to come, you have the opportunity to spend time with people you love and who love you, enjoy the bounty of the season, and reflect on all that is good in your life. When I take that pause myself, I'll spend time thinking about all of you, and the work we do together on this campus. I'm so grateful to call CCNY my home institution, and to number each of you among the members of my community. I also hope that as we move