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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

One of the world’s leading experts in the field, Jeffrey Morris of The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is the recipient of the 2023 Bingham Medal from the Society of Rheology (SOR). The Medal is the 93-year-old SOR’s highest award and is given annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the field of rheology. The Society cited Morris: “for his transformative research on the flow of suspensions, particularly of the mechanics of discontinuous shear thickening, and his application of rheology to practical problems in suspension flow, including his

Pamela L. Laskin, director of The City College of New York’s Poetry Outreach Center, is celebrating her second consecutive Freedom Through Literacy Board Option Award from the Pennsylvania-based Judith’s Reading Room. The international honor is for her latest work, a series of picture books that capture the world of those who are differently-abled, particularly those without speech. “Through her work, this diverse population will no longer be marginalized as she brings her books into public school classrooms with the goal to educate a mainstream audience,” Laskin is cited by Judith’s Reading

A student team from The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering returned from the National Society of Black Engineers’ 49th annual conference in Kansas City, Missouri, as NSBE Small Chapter of the Year Award winners. Some 13,000 members from NSBE Chapters across six regions attended the five-day gathering at the Kansas City Convention Center. The CCNY chapter’s honor was based on its programs and community engagement during the 2022-2023 academic year. Highlights, according to Ashley Bailey, a senior majoring in environmental engineering, and chapter VP, include: Co-hosting and

After three years of a virtual-only experience, Waffle Games 6.0 returns to New York City on April 15-16 at The City College of New York as a hybrid event. The gaming convention and conference celebrates the gaming industry as well as what it means to be involved in games, chase dreams and change the industry. The event is free and open to the public. The Saturday, April 15 event will take place in the North Academic Center (NAC) building located at West 138th Street and Convent Avenue. Sunday, April 16 will be completely online and broadcasted virtually through Eventee with portions also