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To help students with financial challenges stay enrolled, The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership has, thanks to a generous grant from the Ichigo Foundation, created the position of Financial Aid Adviser and First Year Experience Coordinator. Jennifer Lavayen, a CCNY academic advisor, is the first appointee. “Upwards of 20 percent of CCNY students enrolled in any given semester do not reenroll for the following semester. Much of this has to do with challenges around paying for college,” said Andrew Rich, the Richard J. Henley and Susan L. Davis Dean

Ibrahima Fall, a City College of New York student majoring in civil engineering, is a 2024 fellow in the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Minority Student Fellowship. The fellowship program seeks to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in the transportation field and in Transportation Research Board activities. To ensure that solutions to the nation’s transportation problems address people from a variety of backgrounds, the Transportation Research Board established the Minority Student Fellows Program in 2010 to actively explore research, ideas and solutions from diverse

The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education kicks off Latinx/a/o Heritage Month with the 10th edition of The Americas Poetry Festival of New York. The festival at City College Downtown takes place from Oct. 11-13 and is a collaboration with the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association and Instituto Cervantes New York. CCNY professors and writers Carlos Aguasaco, Yrene Santos, and Carlos Velásquez Torres curate this annual event. Click here for more information. Below is a list of LHM events: The Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS)

Alumnus Alan Levy was the first in his family to graduate in 1958 with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from The City College of New York. The free tuition at the time made pursuing a degree possible, and now he wants to pay it forward with a $100,000 gift to create The Alan and Sharon Levy Scholarship Fund. The scholarships will support women and minority students in CCNY’s Division of Science and will be based on financial need. It will support all education-related expenses. “I was able to obtain a B.S. from CCNY and a Ph.D. from Purdue University without incurring any debt,” said Levy.

Award-winning film director and producer Shalini Kantayya, whose latest film, “ TikTok, Boom,” was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, delivers the David Dortort Lecture in the Dramatic Arts at The City College of New York on Oct. 4. Free and open to the public, her talk, 5:30 – 7 p.m. in Theatre B of CCNY’s Aaron Davis Hall, is entitled “What happens to human rights when we let technology encroach on our social systems?" “TikTok, Boom” investigates TikTok’s algorithm and users to paint a picture of the world’s most downloaded app, and how it can be wielded

The City College of New York and the Consulate of Brazil in New York signed an official cooperation agreement for further supporting and promoting Portuguese language and Brazilian culture at the college. The Consulate of Brazil has already been a strong financial supporter of conferences, talks and cultural events regularly organized by the Minor in Portuguese Language and Lusophone Cultures. In 2019, CCNY signed a similar cooperation agreement with the Consulate of Portugal in New York. Portugal renewed their commitment last year. The agreement now signed with Brazil comes to reinforce these

A City College of New York-led project utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) technologies to develop a low-cost, easy-to-use, and high-precision system for the early diagnosis of cardiovascular disease is the recipient of a four-year $2.8 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. The Ohio State University-based, NSF-funded AI-EDGE Institute is partnering with The City College in the project entitled: “AI/ML-driven edge computing for cardiovascular disease diagnosis/mechanism study.” “Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, so early

Alumni Gennady Khirich '07 and Stephen Ma '11 return to The City College of New York for the Merck Info Session and Networking Event hosted by the Career & Professional Development Institute, in the newly formed Office for Experiential Learning, on Thursday, Sept. 28 from 12:30-2 p.m in the North Academic Center Flex Space. Undergraduate and graduate students in biology, chemistry, translational medicine, physics as well as majors in biomedical, chemical and mechanical engineering are all welcome. “The Career and Professional Development Institute is honored to be hosting CCNY alumni from a

Retired U.S. Congressman Charles B. Rangel and U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat – his successor in Congress – lead a roster of distinguished speakers in the Capalino webinar, “The Future of New York: The Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative,” on Sept. 25. Available in the U.S. and Canada, it starts at 10:30 a.m. Click here to register. Other speakers include: Carlo A. Scissura, Esq., President & CEO, New York Building Congress; Dr. Vincent G. Boudreau, President, The City College of New York; and Susan Hinkson-Carling (Moderator), Managing Director, Capalino. Based at The City

Ramón De Los Santos, a veteran administrator with expertise in increasing student enrollment, retention and success, is The City College of New York’s new Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs. He joins CCNY from CUNY’s LaGuardia Community College where he served with distinction as director of the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) and, later, as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs. “As director of ASAP, Dr. De Los Santos was, within the first three years, able to increase the three-year graduation rate of this population, as well as to expand the program from 800 students to