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The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, originally founded by educators and union leaders, is collaborating with District Council 37, New York City’s largest public employee union, to offer basic computer courses to members. “CWE Recruitment Coordinator Trisha Baboolal and I met with some officers of District Council 37. As a result of that meeting, CWE entered into an agreement with the District Council 37 Education Fund to serve the educational needs of their members,” said Juan Carlos Mercado, dean of the Division of

From Brazil and Seoul to Israel and Barcelona, The City College of New York offers many exotic and attractive study abroad destinations for students. Now add India to the mix. The Indian sub-continent is the latest international location to host City College students keen on broadening their horizons. The inaugural program takes 14 participants, both graduate and undergraduate, to New Delhi, January 1 – 13, 2017. A general study of education within the context of urban India, the intensive course offers three graduate credits. “It incorporates interdisciplinary perspectives on education in

Britain’s Royal Society of Chemistry is bestowing Fellowship status on City College of New York researcher George John – the second City College professor honored such this year. Mahesh Lakshman, vice chairman of CCNY’s department of chemistry and biochemistry, was inducted this fall. John is being inducted into the society, the world’s leading community of chemical scientists, through its "Leaders in the Field" scheme. Through this scheme the RSC identifies outstanding individuals in chemical science to be invited to become Fellows. John was nominated and chosen for his major contributions to

Professors Nancy Stern and Tatyana Kleyn, of the School of Education at The City College of New York, are recipients of a $2.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of English Language Acquisition. The grant, which is in partnership with New Visions for Public Schools, will provide education to certified subject-area high school teachers in New York City to support emergent bilingual students (English language learners) in their classrooms. The project entitled “Improving Instruction for Secondary English Learners” will cover tuition and school-based support for 80

The City College of New York’s Undergraduate Student Government welcomes the Harlem community to the annual Harlemween party where children and teenagers trick-or-treat throughout the North Academic Center Ballroom for a night of scares. “Harlemween represents a way to celebrate the children of the community and a safe Halloween where we’re going to play games, have music and candy. And it’s just a great way to give back and help the community because USG is always trying to help create a safe environment where we can have people feel comfortable and welcome at all times,” said Maria Santana

Ntozake Shange, the famed playwright and poet, is this year’s Langston Hughes Medal winner. The dramatist of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” joins a list of literary luminaries, including James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, and Walter Mosley, who have received the honor from The City College of New York. In a hugely prolific career, Shange has written 15 plays, 19 poetry collections, six novels, five children’s books, three collections of essays, and a memoir called “Lost in Language & Sound.” Her theatre piece “For Colored Girls Who Have

Sixty City College of New York students are recipients of Alumni Association scholarships for their outstanding academic achievement. Scholarships range from $1000-$5000 and can cover up to one year of the awardee’s tuition. The students will receive their scholarships at the 136 th Annual Alumni Dinner where co-anchors Rosanna Scotto and Greg Kelly of “Good Day New York” on Fox 5 are recipients of The 69 th John H. Finley Award, which recognizes exemplary dedicated service to the City of New York and the nation, while enhancing the quality of life of its people. In addition, seven CCNY alumni

As the countdown continues to the Presidential election, new analytical tools by physicists at The City College of New York promise a quicker and remarkably accurate method of predicting election trends with Twitter. Hern´an A. Makse, Alexandre Bovet and Flaviano Morone have developed analytic tools combining statistical physics of complex networks, percolation theory, natural language processing and machine learning classification to infer the opinion of Twitter users regarding the Presidential candidates this year. “Forecasting opinion trends from real-time social media is the long-standing

Lynn Appelbaum, professor and director of The City College of New York’s Advertising/PR Program, is the winner of The Hispanic Public Relations Association’s inaugural BRAVO! PR Educator of the Year Award. The HPRA National Bravo! awards are the most prestigious awards in Hispanic communications recognizing the industry's finest campaigns and personalities. Appelbaum was honored along with Dewey Square Group Principal Maria Cardona (Pioneer of the Year) and television personality and style influencer Kika Rocha (HPRA-NY Journalist of the Year) at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in Manhattan.

Over the centuries, generations of Indians have emigrated to parts of the globe as distant as Fiji, Trindidad and Guyana. Yet the big theme in Indian Diaspora literature over the years has been their original home, according to Susham Bedi, the Indian-born novelist, actress and academic.“Indians are rebuilding their Indian homes everywhere they go,” said Bedi. “Their tradition, value systems, social customs, rituals and even taboos get implanted with them. Indians have kept their culture even after more than hundreds of years of immigration.” Reflecting on her own experience, Bedi noted that