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Jane Chu, former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, will deliver the ninth annual Sternberg Family Lecture in Public Scholarship, “Leadership in Ambiguity: A Celebration of Immigrant Stories,” at The City College of New York on Wednesday, March 15 at 4 p.m. in CCNY’s Great Hall. During her four-year tenure at the NEA (2014-18), Chu traveled to all 50 U.S. states and four countries, making more than 400 site visits to meet with artists and arts leaders, government and civic leaders, philanthropists, and the general public. Under her leadership, the NEA awarded $430 million to support

Gabriel Foreman is the first-ever Executive in Residence in the Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications, and External Affairs at The City College of New York, and will work on projects with Rise Light & Power, the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, and the unified Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative and CUNY’s Accelerate, Complete, and Engage (ACE) collaborative. In his role, Foreman will build sustained pathways to CCNY for high school students as well as help with recruitment, talent development curriculum, industry placement and grant

City College of New York physics senior Refath Bari has published his first academic paper, " Simulating the Action Principle in Optics," in the peer-reviewed journal, The Physics Teacher. An undergraduate publishing a paper in a prestigious peer-reviewed journal is a rarity. "We see light reflecting off mirrored surfaces, and it always appears to move in a straight line," said Bari. "But put a pencil in a glass of water, and the pencil appears to be bent," said Bari. Light appears to obey one law at one moment and a different law at another. The Principle of Least Action, (PLA) is the single

With climate change an increasingly pressing global issue, The City College of New York’s involvement in finding solutions continues to expand. CCNY is joining a group of other prominent institutions in a new CAP (Climate Adaptation Partnerships) program supported by a $6,037,4681 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Program Office ( NOAA- CPO). Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network (CCAN) is part of a broader network of 12 teams funded by NOAA's CAP ( formerly known as the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) program) across the U.S. Titled: “

Dr. Helen H. Hobbs, the award-winning University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) medical researcher and molecular geneticist, presents the 2023 Louis Levine-Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics at The City College of New York on Thursday, March 23. Her talk, “Nature, Nurture, and Disorders of Lipid Excess,” begins at 5 p.m. in The Great Hall. It is free and open to the public. Her lecture will propose that insufficient time has elapsed for human genomes to adapt to the caloric abundance and reduced physical activity accompanying industrialization. “Diseases of dietary excess, rather than

The City College of New York is the recipient of two grants totaling more than $15 million under the U.S. Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program. The congressionally mandated UTC program was created in 1987 to support the formation of university consortia to advance transportation research, technology development, and education and workforce development in the United States. CCNY’s University Transportation Research Center (UTRC) will lead the regional UTC for USDOT Region 2, which includes New York State, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin

Three City College of New York students are recipients of the Women’s Forum Education Fund Award, which supports women over the age of 35 who have overcome adversity to resume their education. The unrestricted $10,000 grants are awarded directly to the recipient for any costs associated with advancing her education. The winners and their bios are listed below. Doreen Ahumah is a double major in childhood education at the School of Education and psychology at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, and she will graduate in the fall of 2023. As a single parent, who lost her

City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture Adjunct Lecturer Pedro Cruz Cruz and Associate Professor Nandini Bagchee have won a course development prize from Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). The course titled Archipelagic Estates of Puerto Rico: Islands and Island Cultures in light of Climate Change was one of five winners of the 2023 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society. Winners receive cash and support to

Two national leaders in movements for social change have been appointed to full-time Distinguished Lecturer positions at The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. The positions were made possible by Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice (LDSJ), a new CUNY institute dedicated to developing the next generation of social justice leaders, based at the Colin Powell School and the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. Cristina Jiménez Moreta is a community organizer, political strategist and storyteller, and 2017 MacArthur Fellowship recipient

On Wednesday, March 1, at 6 p.m. family, friends and fans will pay tribute to George Lois, industry icon, cultural activist, and co-founder of The One Club for Creativity. He will be honored, along with his wife Rosemary Lois, in The Great Hall at The City College of New York where George donated his archives and where he served as a Board Member for the Branding + Integrated Communications (BIC) graduate program and mentor to Advertising/Public Relations undergraduates. Luminaries to speak include Senator Bill Bradley, paper magazine founder Kim Hastreiter, fashion Designer Tommy Hilfiger, U