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Associate Professor Frank Melendez of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York is the recipient of an international Fellowship from the Italian organization Nature, Art & Habitat Residency ( NAH R). He is one of seven fellows who have been awarded the one-month summer residency in the Taleggio Valley, a rural region in the Italian Alps. The theme for the 2023 Fellowship is “AIR.” Fellows will explore the function, mechanism, importance, and state of air from a range of perspectives, and reflect on the impacts of air pollution and air quality

About 100 million years ago, a group of moths with legume-eating caterpillars started flying during the day rather than at night. That chance event led to the evolution of all butterflies. Before reaching these conclusions, researchers from dozens of countries assembled the world’s largest butterfly tree of life using DNA from more than 2,000 species representing all butterfly families and 92% of genera. Using this framework, they traced the movements and feeding habits of butterflies through time in a four-dimensional puzzle that led back to North and Central America. According to their

Anil K. Agrawal, Herbert G. Keyser Professor of Civil Engineering in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, is one of 10 top professionals elected American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) distinguished members. The class of 2023 will be inducted at ceremonies during the ASCE 2023 Convention, Oct. 18-21 in Chicago. Distinguished membership is the highest honor ASCE can bestow upon a member. It is reserved for civil engineers who are either ASCE members or fellows and have attained recognized superiority in position, character, and achievement through significant

Civil rights attorney Bryan A. Stevenson, Esq., founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, is the keynote speaker at The City College of New York’s 170th commencement ceremony on Friday, June 2 at 10 a.m. He will receive the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa. City College will also honor architect Joseph L. Fleischer, FAIA ’65, ’66 with the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa. Stevenson is being recognized for his outstanding career in law, and his dedication to criminal justice reform and social justice. Growing up in an era of "informal

Organovis, a student-led start-up from the Zahn Innovation Center at The City College of New York, has won the 2023 Women in Tech Incubator Competition. Sponsored by Standard Chartered Americas, the WiT competition is part of the Bank’s longstanding partnership with the Zahn Center to promote greater gender diversity in the technology sector. As winners of the competition, Organovis received the top prize of $25,000 to support the development of its business plans. The team’s innovative approach to drug testing aims to revolutionize the future of drug testing by making it more accurate

“ Harlem View,” a City College of New York student publication, is the winner of two 2022 Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) for the best collegiate journalism in the northeast region. Undergraduates Maricela Niola, Gary Hilborn, Craig Hunter, Susan Thorson and Jennifer Garcia from the Media and Communication Arts Department in CCNY’s Division of Humanities and the Arts earned SPJ recognition. Niola’s “ Tough time for Brooklyn Street vendors,” won in the News Videography category, as did Gary Hilborn’s “ LGBTQ elders” in the Feature Videography

Eight CCNY Branding + Integrated Communications (BIC) students from the Classes of 2024 and 2025 have won prestigious The LAGRANT Foundation (TLF) Scholarships. The students are Kamillah Collins, Roderic David, Stephana Eghan, Bianca Fernandez, Jade Holiday, and Jason Liu, Class of 2024, and Dana Dang and Britney Huston, incoming Class of 2025. The LAGRANT Foundation will recognize this year’s scholarship recipients during three ceremonies starting in New York on May 8, in Portland, Ore. on May 15, and ending in Minneapolis, on May 22. All recipients receive $3,500 scholarships. Throughout the

The 8th International Conference on Historical Links between Spain and the Americas will take place from May 3-5 with climate change as this year’s theme. The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (City College Downtown) is a sponsor. The event is open to the public. This year, the conference welcomes non-geographically restricted proposals and panels on STEM disciplines focused on climate change. The call for papers embraces different disciplines and areas of study, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to the connections

The Physician Assistant Program at the CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York (CUNY MED) is one of the Top 50 PA programs in the nation, according to U.S. News’ 2023-2024 Best Health Schools Rankings released today. CUNY MED’s program is tied with 15 other schools, including Boston University, Hofstra University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Pittsburgh. The rankings were compiled from 211 physician assistant programs accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, and are based on in-depth

The City College of New York will mark the first year of its “Doing Remarkable Things Together” campaign at its 2023 Presidential Humanitarian Awards Celebration on Tuesday, May 2 at 6:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall. The Celebration will honor H. Carl McCall, chairman emeritus of the State University of New York, a former New York state comptroller and state senator, and the Democratic Party’s 2002 gubernatorial nominee; and renowned photographer and physicist Stephen F. Somerstein ’66. McCall will be recognized for his trailblazing career and lifelong commitment to New York state