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Twenty-one students from South Korea’s Kyungpook National University are spending Feb. 16-23 at The City College of New York for a week-long seminar on philosophical counseling led by noted CCNY philosopher and author Dr. Lou Marinoff. The founding president of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association, Marinoff has held similar seminars at institutions in Asia and other parts of the world. It is being offered at City College for the first time in conjunction with the school’s Continuing and Professional Studies program. “The students coming from Korea are very eager for this

How many architecture students does it take to build a table? Six architecture students—Justyna Drodzd, Christina Bien-Aimé, Shereese Trumpet, Wei Zhang, Julian Usman and Jamie Huang—were charged with designing and building a collapsible table for the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s Solar Roof Pod. Serving as a classroom and event table, the project had to be designed and built under onerous restrictions: it had to be collapsible with no single piece longer than 27 inches so that it could be taken apart and stored, and there was no money budgeted for it. Fortunately, Huang

Thirty-three newly-minted physician assistants received their diplomas at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education Physician Assistant Program at Harlem Hospital Center’s 42 nd Commencement Ceremony on Jan. 29. During the ceremony in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall on the CCNY campus, six graduating students received recognition for their achievements: Nichole Wallace (Dean’s Award); Hannah Chang and Andrey Frenkel (Director’s Award); Nargiza Khikmatova (Clinical Year Excellence Award); Flora Williams (Didactic Year Excellence Award); and Talaya Centeno (Research Writing Award). Chang

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Beth Wittig presents her work with Engineers Without Borders in the fourth installment of The City College of New York’s 2015-16 “Presidential Conversations: Activism, Scholarship, and Engagement” series on Thursday, Mar. 24, 4-5:30 p.m. in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s Sciame Auditorium. The presentation, “Public Engagement through Engineers Without Borders: Rewards and Challenges,” is free and open to the public. Wittig examines the Engineers Without Borders projects in which the CCNY Chapter has been involved; how students and

Mary Erina Driscoll, dean and Harold Kobliner Chair in Education at The City College of New York’s School of Education, testifies before the New York City Council’s Committee on Higher Education. The sole item on the agenda was “Are Post-Secondary Institutions in New York City Adequately Training Teachers?” In her testimony, Driscoll answers the committee’s question in the affirmative, adding that “adequate is not good enough for the children of New York.” She provided data from the New York City Department of Education to support her twin contentions that CCNY meets the needs of its students

The City College of New York is among the outstanding colleges and universities that offers students a valuable return on their investment in higher education, according to the new 2016 edition of The Princeton Review’s Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Schools That Give You the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck. Highlighting academics, affordability and career prospects, The Princeton Review editors said CCNY offers students a real opportunity to realize their future at a remarkably affordable cost. City College stands out not only for its outstanding academics but also for affordability via

Interdisciplinary Studies Assistant Professor Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken highlights recent research, which operates at the intersection of Africana Studies, Haitian Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Jewish Studies, in the third installment of the City College of New York’s 2015-16 “Presidential Conversations: Activism, Scholarship, and Engagement” series on Thursday, February 4, 4-5:30 p.m., in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s Sciame Auditorium. The presentation, titled “Is Engagement in Postcolonial Scholarship Activism?,” is free and open to the public. “I interrogate

A City College of New York Physics Department team led by Professor Vinod Menon, in collaboration with Assistant Professor Pouyan Ghaemi, is using a $2 million National Science Foundation Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation grant for its project, Excitonics and Polaritonics using 2D materials (ExPo2D). The four-year project aims to develop the next generation of photonic and electronic systems and sub-systems that exploit the unique advantages of atomically thin (graphene-like) semiconductors. The team also includes Professors Marc Baldo, Dirk Englund and Jing Kong of the

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Marco J. Castaldi of the Grove School of Engineering is a Fulbright Global Award winner for his continuing work on converting solid waste materials to energy, chemicals or fuels. Castaldi’s research involves transforming waste materials, such as biomass and municipal solid waste, to energy and chemicals. The residuals from that transformation, such as ash and char, are recycled into valuable products such as catalysts and adsorbents for energy and environmental applications. Such applications may be used to reduce emissions or to purify water. “This

The City College of New York’s annual Black History Month observances this year include discussions on cultural and social issues, along with live performances and music. The schedule begins on Tuesday, Feb. 2 with the traditional Black History Month kickoff in City College’s NAC Ballroom, 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Open to members of the CCNY community only, it will feature interactive activities, music and rundown of all the events during the month of February. On Tuesday, Feb. 11, “Diversity Talks” features special guests in a panel discussion on hip hop and social justice. It will be held in the