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Maintaining its tradition of excellence at the annual international event, The City College of New York won the Distinguished Delegation Award at the 2016 National Model United Nations (NMUN) Conference in Manhattan. City College’s 16-member undergraduate team received the award from the National Collegiate College Association for its outstanding work representing Ghana during deliberations in assigned committees. The NMUN is the largest and most prestigious conference of its kind. It attracts close to 5,000 delegates from six continents. This is the second straight year that CCNY, whose team

When the credits roll for Domenica Cameron-Scorsese’s debut feature, “ Almost Paris,” at its Tribeca Film Festival premier April 24, among the names on the screen will be Jasmin Klinger’s, a City College of New York BFA music major. The junior from Israel scored the music for the film by Martin Scorsese’s actress-director daughter. Klinger composed, recorded and mixed the score at City College’s Sonic Arts Center (SAC). Klinger is also credited for another song in the 90-minute comedy/drama whose cast includes Wally Marzano-Lesnevich, Michael Sorvino and Adrian Martinez. Klinger talks about

One of Chemistry Professor Maria Tamargo’s missions is to ensure that the City College of New York is recognized as being in the forefront of materials science research. The other is to increase minority participation in the field. A $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation won by Tamargo and her colleagues will help to achieve both of those goals. The five-year grant from the NSF’s Centers for Research Excellence in Science and Technology will go toward creating the new CREST Center for Interface Design and Engineered Assembly of Low-dimensional Systems. Known by the acronym

First Lady Michelle Obama will deliver the commencement address during the 170 th Commencement Ceremony at The City College of New York on Friday, June 3, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. on the South Campus Great Lawn on the CCNY campus in historic Harlem, where more than 3,000 students make up the Class of 2016. The City College of New York is the first public higher education institution in New York City and has one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation. Established as a free institution dedicated to overcoming barriers to advancement, CCNY continues its mission of access to excellence and

The City College of New York student chapter of Engineers without Borders’ (EWB-USA CCNY) latest initiative is a water access project to benefit a rural community in Siuna, Nicaragua. Currently, 46 percent of the Tadazna community or approximately 370 people, lack access to drinking water. The project adopted by the chapter entails the construction of six groundwater wells in the locality. Each well is intended to support approximately one to five families. The design of the wells will allow for clean and safe water for daily use and consumption, decreasing the risk of contamination and

On Friday, March 11, students and faculty from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and City College’s BIC Program, and communications professionals attended a unique "co-conference” sponsored by both schools entitled "Journalism in the Age of Branded Content...and Vice Versa." This sold-out event featured top experts and executives from PRWeek, Contently, IBM, Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Later, five cross-disciplinary teams composed of students from both schools broke out into work sessions to develop “speed" campaigns anchored in a branded content solution for one of these

Professor Hillary Brown of The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture has invested her long-term interest in sustainability in a proposal to the Haitian Ministry of Commerce and Industry to spur economic development in a rural seaside town. Her project, “Sea, Sun, Soil and Salt: A Circular Economy for Anse-Rouge, Haiti,” is an ambitious blueprint for an eco-industrial park in an area still coping with the influx of people who abandoned Port-au-Prince after the 2010 earthquake. The immediate region is plagued by numerous challenges: extreme poverty, absence

Dr. Andrew S. Grove, a distinguished member of The City College of New York’s Class of 1960 whose $26 million gift to the institution in 2005 is the largest in CCNY’s history, died in Los Altos, Calif., on Monday. He was 79.“Dr. Grove was an outstanding and loyal son of CCNY who changed the world through his innovation and leadership at Intel Corp,” said City College President Lisa S. Coico. “He gave generously, too, and our Grove School of Engineering named in his honor stands as a world class testament to this great pioneer.” Dr. Gilda Barabino, Dean and Berg Professor at the Grove School

Dr. Huda Y. Zoghbi, a renowned neurogeneticist from Baylor College of Medicine, presents this year’s Louis Levine-Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics at The City College of New York on Thursday, April 7. Her talk, “The Story of Rett Syndrome and the Insight it Provides into Neuropsychiatric Disorders” begins at 5 p.m. in The Great Hall. It is free and open to the public. Widely respected globally, Zoghbi has made many seminal discoveries in neurological disease research. Her interests range from neuro-development to neurodegeneration. She is the founding director of the Jan and Dan Duncan

City College of New York Associate Professor Tatyana Kleyn, who directs the School of Education’s Programs in Bilingual Education and TESOL, directed and co-produced the documentary film, “Una Vida, Dos Países [One Life, Two Countries], ” which premieres at Aaron Davis Hall on Thursday, March 24 at 6 p.m. This film, Kleyn’s second after “ Living Undocumented,” shares the stories of the families who were undocumented in the U.S., and focuses on the children and youth. Her interest in this topic stemmed from media reports on the rising numbers of people being deported to Mexico and other nations