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The City College of New York undergraduate researcher, Charanjot Singh, a senior majoring in physics, was named Top Presenter in his session at the American Physical Society Conference in Las Vegas in March. It was his first presentation at a professional conference. His presentation was titled “Strain engineering effects on the optical properties of bilayer MoS₂.” Singh studies the properties of atomically thin-layer materials such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), a compound composed of molybdenum and sulfur, because of its unique reflective and luminescent properties. Specifically, he is

Poet Gloria Mindock is the guest poet at the 51st annual City College Poetry Festival at CCNY’s Marian Anderson Theater at Aaron Davis Hall, 135th and Convent Ave. in Manhattan, on May 12. Dubbed “the Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” the festival is New York’s longest-running poetry celebration. "The City College Poetry Festival is the democratic voice of poetry in New York City public schools,” said Pamela L. Laskin, director of the CCNY Poetry Outreach Center which produces the festival. “Its assumption is that there are many poets, and they all have terrific stories to tell. This would make

Counterpoint, a duo exhibition of works by Japanese artist Natsuki Takauji and Korean artist Haksul Lee, is on display at The City College of New York’s Morris R. Cohen Library Archives Gallery from April 20-May 18. The exhibition, curated by Francine Rodgers, features over 30 works by the artists created over the past 10 years. The exhibition presents the complexity of the creative journey of Takauji and Lee, who have worked for many years as colleagues. This exhibition uses the disorderly juxtaposition of different bodies of work to express the highly individual complexity of creative

Catherine Hernandez, an anthropology major in the William E. Macaulay Honors College, is The City College of New York’s Class of 2023 Valedictorian. The daughter of a 1993 CCNY alumnus, Hernandez is graduating summa cum laude with a 3.98 GPA. She’ll receive a BA degree in anthropology with a minor in art history and Jewish studies. Kimberly Pereyra Monero from the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership is the Salutatorian. A political science major and community change studies minor, she’s graduating with a BA degree and 3.90 GPA. About Catherine Hernandez Hernandez proudly

Four CCNY faculty members were awarded Black, Race and Ethnic Studies (BRES) Fellowships by the Graduate Center, CUNY. Associate Professor of sociology Norma Fuentes-Mayorga and Associate Professor of history Justin Williams are being awarded BRES Research Faculty Fellowships. English Professor Kathlene McDonald and Associate Professor of Anthropology Susanna Rosenbaum are being awarded BRES Curriculum Development Faculty Fellowships. The fellowship is designed to enhance Black, race and ethnic studies scholarship and teaching throughout CUNY schools, and is part of a $3 million Mellon

Ayesha Khan, a member of The City College of New York’s Class of 2023, has been named a Harry S. Truman Scholar. She is one of 62 exceptional students from 60 U.S. colleges and universities selected as 2023 Scholars by the Board of Trustees of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. The highly competitive Truman Scholarship is the premier graduate scholarship for aspiring public service leaders in the nation. Selection is based on a combination of career and graduate study interests, community service and academic achievement. “We have confidence that these 62 new Trumans will meet their

Associate Professor of English Robert Higney, Glenford Patterson, lecturer of economics and business, and Zihao Zhang, assistant professor at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, are among the 49 faculty members named as 2023 CUNY Career Success Fellows from 21 schools in the City University of New York system. As the most powerful influencers of students, faculty are given Career Success Fellowships to implement effective methods of helping students understand the relationship between classroom learning and careers that can be adapted to every field and to serve as career

Emily Badger, the New York Times urban policy writer, will deliver this year's Lewis Mumford Lecture at The City College of New York on Thursday, April 27. Her talk, 6 - 7:30 p.m. in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture's Sciame Auditorium, is entitled, "Pressing Change in the Increasing Inflexible City." It will focus on how cities must change as the nation emerges from the pandemic. To watch virtually, a Zoom link is available. Badger writes about cities and urban policy for The Upshot from the Times' Washington bureau where she covers the interconnections between housing

The City College of New York’s Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing culminates its symposium “Archives as Muse: A Harlem Storytelling Project” with a panel, a viewing of “Whitman on Walls!” by theater troupe Compagnia de' Colombari, and a poetry reading on Tuesday, April 25 from 6-8 p.m. The multimedia event will take place on the first floor of the North Academic Center (NAC) located at West 138th Street and Convent Avenue. The event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP. The panel will be moderated by Michelle Valladares, director of the MFA program, and includes Compagnia

City College of New York Computer engineer and scientist Samah M. Saeed is the co-recipient of a $4.6 million U.S. Department of Energy [DoE] grant to advance quantum computing. The funding is for her project, “Toward Efficient Quantum Algorithm Execution on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Hardware.” An assistant professor of electrical engineering in CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering, Saeed will focus on resolving the issues currently affecting the development of quantum computing. The ultimate goal is to develop research and training programs to enable efficient and reliable executions of