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Naajidah Correll, Bryan Guichardo and Nana Minder, from the Black Studies Program at The City College of New York, are 2017 Mellon Mays Fellows. The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program is the centerpiece of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s initiatives to increase diversity in the faculty ranks of institutions of higher learning. Fellows have demonstrated academic ability and an aspiration to pursue a doctoral degree in selected humanities, social sciences and physical sciences. The fellowship provides fellows with structured programming; faculty mentoring; support for research

Yusuke Fukui, Mayor of Shimoda City, joins the long list of Japanese pilgrims that have traveled to The City College of New York to pay homage to its founder Townsend Harris when he visits the institution on July 12. Since 1986, top civic officials from Shimoda have made annual pilgrimages to City College to honor Harris. This year marks CCNY’s 170th anniversary. After establishing what was then known as The Free Academy in 1847, Harris, a prominent New York merchant, went on to forge U.S.-Japan relations. He arrived in Shimoda on August 21, 1856 to open the first American consulate in Japan.

The City College of New York’s Leslie Paik has been named lead editor for the American Sociological Association's (ASA) Rose book series. “I am especially proud to be part of this series,” said Paik, a sociology professor in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, “because it features innovative sociological research with significant policy relevance on a wide range of topics such as economic inequality, the environment, race and ethnic relations, and justice reform.” The ASA Rose Series in Sociology chose the City University of New York to be its new editorial home, starting

As the HIV/AIDS epidemic approaches its fourth decade, each year brings promising news of pioneering research to alleviate the scourge. Add City College of New York scientists to the list with a rapid method to access new molecules that could inhibit the virus that causes AIDS. The CCNY research led by Mahesh K. Lakshman, vice chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Ph.D. student Hari Akula, focuses on the modification of nucleosides. These are genetic building materials in all living organisms and because of this they possess great potential as antiviral agents. The ability

Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, Distinguished Professor of Hispanic literature and culture at The City College of New York, is the recipient of the Enrique Anderson Imbert Prize from the North American Academy of the Spanish Language. This distinction recognizes the achievements and scholarship of individuals who have contributed to the understanding, appreciation and promotion of Hispanic culture in the United States, especially in the fields of language and literature. “This award holds a particular significance because of the prestige of the institution conferring it and because I personally knew

Architecture majors Johannah Deegan and Zara Tamton are winners of the inaugural Art + Science Leonardo da Vinci Challenge , a collaborative effort between the Division of Science and the Division of Humanities and the Arts, at The City College of New York. The team won for their artwork entitled “Flock,” which was created by using their expertise in coding and robotics, gained in Professor Frank Melendez' Responsive Architectures course. Open to all undergraduate students, teams of two or more students submitted artwork expressing a scientific principle, concept, idea, process, and/or

CCNY Professor Marta Gutman has been recognized on an international level for her urban history, A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850–1950 (The University of Chicago Press, 2014). The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) awarded the book the 2017 Spiro Kostof Award, given to interdisciplinary studies of urban history that make the greatest contribution to our understanding of the growth and development of cities. A City for Children focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings over a hundred year span in Oakland

A fifth cohort of City College of New York students is headed to Palo Alto, California, this month for the annual CCNY-Stanford Summer Research Program. The competitive program is designed for outstanding undergraduates considering graduate school -- specifically doctoral research -- in the humanities. The students, their majors and research topics, are: Junior Romiesa Ahmed (English literature and sociology), literature that reflects the portrayal of women and their roles in society in the novels of Jane Austen; Senior Maria Claudia Chaname (Spanish), the literary work of Peruvian writer

Pamela L. Laskin, director of Poetry Outreach in the English Department, and Vernon Ballard, director of Front Line User Support Services in IT, are this year’s CCNY service award honorees at the Alumni Association of The City College of New York’s 165th annual meeting, June 15. Laskin will receive the Faculty Service Award for her outstanding commitment to City College’s Poetry Outreach Center. She leads its mission to encourage poetic activity at all levels of public education. In addition, Laskin serves as a mentor to the MFA faculty she trains and sends out to teach poetry to public school

The transformation of public parks, alternative development models for emerging economies and a study of formidable Black scholar Arturo Alfonso Schomburg are some of the new book topics by City College of New York faculty. John Krinsky, political scientist in City College’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership is the co-author of, " Who Cleans the Park? Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City” (Chicago Press). “ Infrastructural Ecologies: Alternative Development Models for Emerging Economies” (The MIT Press), is the latest book by Hillary Brown, professor in the