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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

The Mayor's Office of Sustainability (MOS) is partnering with the CUNY Building Performance Lab, an initiative of The City College of New York-based CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, to re-launch the NYC Benchmarking Help Center. The first of its kind in the nation, the Help Center ran in 2011-2013 through a partnership with CUNY BPL, MOS, Department of Buildings, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and the Institute for Market Transformation. It supported property owners in complying with Local Law 84 of 2009 (LL84), a legislative mandate requiring all buildings

The third annual Sternberg Family Lecture at The City College of New York on Wednesday, March 30, presents a discussion by three experts entitled “A disrupted Foundation: Employment, School Retention, and Social Ties among Disconnected Latino Youth." Hosted by the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, the lecture starts at 4:30 p.m. in City College’s Great Hall. The speakers are: Dr. Ramona Hernandez, director, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at CCNY, and professor of sociology at CCNY and doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Hernandez is the author of pioneering

Reducing a barrier that generally hinders the easy generation of new molecules, a team led by City College of New York chemist Mahesh K. Lakshman has devised a method to cleave generally inert bonds to allow the formation of new ones. The study is the cover story in the journal ACS Catalysis published by the American Chemical Society. “Saturated carbon-hydrogen bonds in organic compounds are considered relatively inert and generally difficult to break in order to make other bonds, leading to new molecules,” explained Lakshman, professor of chemistry in City College’s Division of Science

Thanks to a 2016 National Endowment for the Humanities award, Václav Paris, assistant professor of English at The City College of New York, is spending this semester working on a book on early 20th-century modernist prose. “Epic after Evolution: Modernism’s National Narratives,” is the title of Paris’ NEH funded project. It is the second NEH grant in a year to a City College faculty member. “The project involves research and writing leading to publication of a book on selected works of early 20th-century modernist prose,” said Paris, whose research will be conducted in the United States and

City College of New York educator Dr. Beverly Falk is the recipient of a $475,000 grant from the Foundation for Child Development for a study aimed at benefitting pre-K children from high-need and diverse communities. Entitled "High Quality Culturally-Relevant UPK Practices across Communities,” Falk’s project will look at New York City prekindergarten classrooms across diverse communities that are part of the PreK for All initiative. Her goal will be to identify teaching practices in different settings that are effective with and supportive of children and families from high-need, immigrant