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The box office hit “ El ruiseñor y la noche: Chavela Vargas canta a Lorca,” directed by Rubén Rojo, makes its New York premiere at The Americas Film Festival of New York (TAFFNY) on June 9. Screen time is 6:30 p.m. at Instituto Cervantes New York. The documentary, whose title in English means “The Nightingale and The Night: Chavela Vargas Sings Lorca,” features Mexican singer Chavela Vargas and the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca. The story follows Vargas’ wish in the last year of her life to pay tribute to Garcia Lorca. A question and answer session with director Rojo follows the screening

Dr. E. Maudette Brownlee, chair of the SEEK department, and Sue (Roberta Turner) office manager in the physics department, are this years’ CCNY service award honorees at the Alumni Association of The City College of New York’s 164th annual meeting, June 9. Brownlee, in her 20th year as chair of SEEK, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, will receive the Faculty Service Award. She is also director of the City College’s Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Program. Turner will receive the Administrative Service Award. She has worked at CCNY since 1988 and is hailed by physics faculty as the “soul” of

Rousing, colorful, stirring and inspiring sum up The City College of New York’s memorable 170th Commencement Exercises. More than 8,000 people, including First Lady Michelle Obama and a large media turnout converged on the South Campus Great Lawn to salute the Class of 2016. Obama, making her last commencement appearance as First Lady, received a rock-star welcome. She was then wowed by the speakers, including Yemeni-born Salutatorian Orubba Almansouri, who passionately narrated her fight to pursue her education, countering the tradition for females in her culture. Obama, in turn, thrilled the

Associate Professor of Economics and Business Matthew Nagler joins a select group of academics from institutions around the country as a member of the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team. Informally known as the “nudge team,” the SBST was created by executive order in 2015 to apply findings from the social and behavioral sciences to improve federal policies and programs, particularly by leveraging unobtrusive incentives, or “nudges.” A behavioral economist, Nagler is a proponent of “nudges,” a term coined in a 2008 book by University of Chicago academics Richard Thaler and Cass

Fifty years later, City College of New York’s pioneering Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Program continues to be a pathway to success for many students that would otherwise have found a college education daunting. The acronym for “Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge,” SEEK began as a pre-baccalaureate program at City College in 1965. In 1966, the New York State Assembly passed legislation creating SEEK and the program was expanded to other CUNY senior colleges. Since then, SEEK has provided counseling, academic and financial support to students who qualify based on specific income and

The Class of 2016 at The City College of New York’s 170th Commencement Exercises comprises 3,955 students whose success stories are a continuation of a CCNY legacy. This year, that tradition brings First Lady Michelle Obama to historic Harlem to salute the institution and its latest graduates. Among the numerous standouts in the graduating class are: Rokeya Begum, a SEEK student graduating with a BA in history. Accepted to 14 law schools in New York and New Jersey, she has decided to attend CUNY Law this fall; Tyler Joseph, who is receiving his second undergraduate degree, a BS in mathematics

IN2NYC, a program piloted by the Zahn Innovation Center at The City College of New York to bring foreign entrepreneurs to New York City, is officially underway. New York Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen, City College President Lisa S. Coico and Maria Torres-Springer, president of the NYC Economic Development Corporation, participated in the launch at CCNY today. They highlighted the economic influence IN2NYC will have on the city and NYCEDC’s partnership with the Zahn Center. NYCEDC is sponsoring the program through the City College Fund and the Zahn Center. The ceremony also kicked off the

The City College of New York is to present an honorary degree to First Lady Michelle Obama at its 170th Commencement Exercises on June 3. The event’s guest speaker, Obama will receive the degree Doctor of Humane Letters from City College President Lisa S. Coico. The ceremony starts at 10:30 a.m., on CCNY’s South Campus Great Lawn. An attorney, writer and the wife of the 44th and current President, Barack Obama, Obama is the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Through her four main initiatives, she has become an influential role model and advocate for healthy families

A 35-year tradition continues at The City College of New York Thursday, May 26, when 250 mostly local Harlem students, grades K through six, participate in the 2016 Langston Hughes Choral Speaking Festival. The event runs 10 a.m. to 12 noon at the Aaron Davis Hall, Theater ‘A.’ The young participants perform imaginative renditions of Hughes' poetry and fiction. Performances range from choral reading and dramatization to interpretive dance, musical tributes and original poetry or prose. The festival was founded by the late Raymond R. Patterson (1929-2001), professor emeritus of English at City

Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences presents its top alumnae award to Dr. Lisa S. Coico, president of The City College of New York on Tuesday, May 24. She is also a speaker at the institution’s commencement exercises at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, 12 – 2:20 p.m. Coico will receive WCGS’s Graduate School Distinguished Alumnus Award 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, at the institution’s Uris Auditorium in Manhattan. She will be honored for outstanding contributions to biomedical research and education. A nationally prominent educator and researcher in microbiology and immunology, Coico earned