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The City College of New York MFA student in Film, Cinema, and Video Studies Sisa Quispe was awarded a 2023 New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) scholarship. She was one of seven film, television, and media production students at New York area schools as part of the organization’s ongoing commitment to nurturing the next generation of women in media. The other awardees were Brooklyn College Film Production undergraduate student Mahalia Jackson; Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema MFA Directing candidate Sarah Rhye; Hunter College MFA candidate in Integrated Media Arts Yehui Zhao; New

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

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

A recent college ranking system lists The City College of New York (CCNY), the founding campus of the City University of New York system, as the #1 national university for the economic value it returns to its students. MIT placed second, and the University of Florida ranked third. The ranking was done by Degreechoices, an online college guide and advice company that bases its rankings of colleges and universities entirely on a unique measure of relative financial value. According to Forbes, Degreechoices’ college evaluations are based on the economic return students attending different

Students from the City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture have been invited to attend a celebration for the future redevelopment of the Kingsbridge Armory, and to display the models they made for an architectural competition to reimagine the space, in the Armory parking lot on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2:00pm-5:00pm. The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, click the link. The Armory is up for redevelopment thanks to an investment by the City and State of New York of $200 million, a favorite project of Governor Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams, and

Understanding global patterns of species genetic diversity is an integral part of monitoring and preserving life on Earth. To date, however, scientists have mapped macrogenetic patterns in vertebrates exclusively. Macrogenetics uses publicly-available data to identify global drivers of genetic diversity. Only five percent of all known living animal species are vertebrates while 95 percent are invertebrates. More than half of invertebrates are insects. “Insects are the most diverse group of organisms on the planet, but their species diversity is vastly under described,” said City College of New

After four months of waiting, Katherine J. (Katie) Scardino is on her way to Mexico to start her nine-month Fulbright Scholarship. The September 2022 graduate of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York, who majored in psychology and minored in Spanish, was first told that she had been awarded the prestigious scholarship in April, without any specifics. She received the notice of her placement on Aug. 10, giving her only three weeks to obtain her visa before leaving to take up her positions as an assistant to an English language professor and a

The City College of New York is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduates according to The Princeton Review. The education services company profiles and recommends CCNY in the new edition of its annual college guide, The Best 389 Colleges: 2024 Edition, (August 15, 2023, Penguin Random House, $26.99). Notably, CCNY is listed among the best in the Northeast. Only about 15% of America’s 2,600 four-year colleges are profiled in the book. The Princeton Review chooses the colleges for the book based on data it annually collects from surveys of 2,000 college administrators about their

The City University of New York announced that the CUNY School of Medicine (CUNY Med) at The City College of New York has been granted full accreditation. Dean Carmen Renée Green, MD received the news and proudly shared this achievement with the entire CUNY Med community saying, “I would like to congratulate everyone involved in the accreditation process, as this is truly a team effort. I thank every individual who provided guidance to our team during each stage of the accreditation process and express my gratitude to the dedicated faculty, staff, students, clinical partners, donors, and

Seven undergraduates, the 31st cohort since The City College of New York joined the exclusive nationwide program, are the latest recipients of Mellon Mays Fellowships. The program’s goal is to help increase diversity in the faculty ranks of higher education by identifying and supporting exceptional undergraduates from traditionally underrepresented groups. The students, all juniors, their majors and research topics are: Ramatoulaye Diarra ( sociology) – she will investigate solutions to lessen food insecurity and increase communities’ independence. Devin Chand Mehra ( philosophy) – his