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The City College of New York’s Cátedra Vargas Llosa, the first such resource in the United States, welcomes Spanish-language literary giants Mario Vargas Llosa and Alonso Cueto to a discussion on literature on Friday, Oct. 16. Entitled “A Conversation with Mario Vargas Llosa and Alonso Cueto," the chat starts at 6:30 p.m. in City College’s Faculty Club and Dining Room. It is free and open to the public. The talk between Cueto, an award-winning Peruvian writer, and Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian-born 2010 Nobel laureate in literature, will be in Spanish. A question and answer session in both

City College of New York historian and author Emily Greble is headed to Serbia on a 2015-2016 Fulbright Scholar Award to research and write a book about Muslims in post-Ottoman Europe. She will spend spring 2016 working on the project entitled “Muslims on the Edge of Europe: the Making of a “European” Islam in the Balkans, 1878–1946.” The book analyzes Muslim life, politics, law, and culture in the post-Ottoman Balkans. An associate professor and deputy chair of City College’s history department, Greble specializes in the history of modern Eastern Europe and the Balkans, particularly the

The City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture presents “Landing Studio: It Still Takes 12 Days,” an exhibition of design work opening Thursday, Sept. 24 through April 15, 2016. The opening reception, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sept. 24, includes a lecture by Dan Adams and Marie Law Adams, Landing Studio’s principal founders, in the Spitzer School’s Sciame Lecture Hall. The lecture starts at 6:30 p.m. The exhibit will be on display 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday in the Atrium Gallery. It is free and open to the public. “The exhibition focuses on two moments in

Two PhD students mentored at The City College of New York have been awarded Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellowships for excellence by the U.S. Department of Education. The fellows, who will receive need-based support including a stipend of up to $32,000 annually during the second year of their respective programs, are Christine Chrissian (biochemistry) and Mikhail Miroshnikov (chemistry). The awards bring to 10 the number of GAANN fellows appointed at City College in the last two years. Four other PhD students have been designated GAANN affiliates for the 2015-16 academic

Dr. David J. Lohman, assistant professor of biology at The City College of New York, and his colleagues received $2.5 million in grants from the National Science Foundation for a collaborative study to resolve the evolutionary history of all butterfly species. Entitled “ButterflyNet—an integrative framework for comparative biology,” the support is part of $12.3 million in NSF Genealogy of Life awards announced last week. Lohman will lead a group of scientists from Georgetown University, Harvard University, the University of Florida and Yale University in the project. According to Lohman

Leading structural biology researchers from around the country take part in the opening symposium of two neighboring initiatives -- the City University of New York Advanced Science Research Center Structural Biology Initiative and the City College of New York Center for Discovery and Innovation's Structural and Molecular Biology Cluster -- on Sept. 25. The day-long symposium, Structural Biology 2015: Insight Through Integration, features a number of distinguished speakers, each of whom is an expert in different areas of structural biology. The symposium also recognizes the efforts toward

In a first for the Zahn Innovation Center, one of its startups received a significant investment from a Fortune 100 company.3M Safety and Graphics Business Group made a minority equity investment in StrongArm Technologies Inc., which develops leading safety solutions for injury prevention and peak performance for industrial workers, or those they call “Industrial Athletes.”StrongArm was founded in Rochester, N.Y. in 2012 by Sean Petterson and Justin Hillery, who created the company due to their personal experiences with their fathers. Both fathers worked strenuous blue collar jobs and needed

In a first for the Zahn Innovation Center, one of its startups received a significant investment from a Fortune 100 company. 3M Safety and Graphics Business Group made a minority equity investment in StrongArm Technologies Inc., which develops leading safety solutions for injury prevention and peak performance for industrial workers, or those they call “Industrial Athletes.” StrongArm was founded in Rochester, N.Y. in 2012 by Sean Petterson and Justin Hillery, who created the company due to their personal experiences with their fathers. Both fathers worked strenuous blue collar jobs and needed

Josh Weston, a distinguished Class of 1950 alumnus and honorary chairman of Automatic Data Processing, Inc., will deliver the second President’s Leadership Lecture at The City College of New York on Tuesday, Oct. 6. He will talk in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall from 12:30 to 2 p.m.The lecture is free and open to the entire CCNY community. A reservation is required. Click here to RSVP.Millard Drexler, chairman and CEO of J.Crew Inc., delivered CCNY’s inaugural President’s Leadership Lecture in February 2015. About Josh WestonWeston graduated from CCNY with a BS in economics and traveled to New

" No Home Movie," a motion picture directed by City College of New York Distinguished Lecturer and renowned filmmaker Chantal Akerman, has been selected for the 53rd New York Film Festival. It makes its U.S. premiere at the Film Society of Lincoln Center Oct. 7-8. The Film Society is located in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in mid-Manhattan.Akerman’s 115-minute feature is an intimate portrayal of her Holocaust survivor mother’s last years. Critics call it one of the rare works of art that is both intensely personal and universal.For a schedule and tickets to NYFF screenings, click