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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

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