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Teams Good Bot and SignThis, comprising engineering and computer science students from The City College of New York, collaborated on creative coding challenges in a 24-hour coding sprint in the Spring 2017 hackNY Student Hackathon. Team Good Bot received the Hack Harassment Prize, which is the Major League Hacking’s themed prize against online harassment. Good Bot’s five members built a social media application called SlackBot to monitor Slack channels looking for inappropriate content or content that may be considered harassment. The bot uses artificial intelligence to identify such content

Popular MA Program in the Study of the America’s gets a new focus The City College of the City University of New York (CCNY) is pleased to announce a new program, the Dominican Studies Track in the Master in the Study of the Americas Program in the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education. The program is the first of its kind in the nation. “City College’s new master’s degree recognizes the importance of the Dominican Republic and Dominicans in our city, in our culture and at our university,” said CUNY Chancellor James B. Milliken. “Nearly 10 percent of CUNY’s

Annika Lüdke, a graduate of the Master’s Program in International Relations from the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, is one of the many outstanding members of the Class of 2017. After a stint as an au pair in the United States and an introduction to intercultural communications at a community college, Lüdke knew that small town life in Germany was not for her. So she made her way to The City College of New York. “I looked for programs, and I found City College and the Colin Powell School. I was totally convinced this would be a great school, so I looked into professors and

$3.7 million NSF grant to fund project The City College of New York is partnering with the University of Texas at El Paso to educate the next generation of Hispanic professors in environmental sciences and engineering. Entitled “Collaborative Research: The Hispanic AGEP Alliance for the Environmental Science and Engineering Professoriate,” the five-year project is funded by a $3.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation. It begins July 1, 2017. Harlem-based City College, which is designated a Hispanic Serving Institution of Higher Education by the U.S. Department of Education, will

MEDIA ADVISORY WHAT: The City College of New York/CUNY launches Dominican Studies specialization in the Master in the Study of the Americas Program in the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies. The first of its kind in the United States, the program will focus on the legacy and the socioeconomic development of the Dominican people in the Dominican Republic, in the United States, across the Americas, and around the world. WHO: Congressman Adriano Espaillat Dr. Vita C. Rabinowitz, Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost, The City University of New York Dr. Vincent Boudreau, Interim

Charisse Holder, Sean Feol-Baugh and Erica Lopez, all from The City College of New York’s Masters in Branding + Integrated Communications (BIC) program, are recipients of 2017 LAGRANT Foundation scholarships. The scholarships support students from ethnically diverse backgrounds pursuing careers in advertising, marketing and public relations. Twenty graduate students nationally have been honored by the Los Angeles-based LAGRANT Foundation (TLF). Holder, a resident of Valley stream, N.Y., is in BIC’s strategic management track. She received her undergraduate degree in international marketing and

The surfaces of Earth, Mars, and Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, have all been scoured by rivers. Yet despite this similarity and the amazingly Earth-like landscapes of Titan complete with valleys, lakes, and mountains, researchers led by City College of New York geologist Benjamin Black report new evidence that the origins of the topography there and on Mars are different from on Earth. In their paper “Global drainage patterns and the origins of topographic relief on Earth, Mars, and Titan,” published in the latest issue of “Science,” the team identifies plate tectonics on Earth as one key

For the second year in a row, a team from City College of New York’s Master’s Program in Branding + Integrated Communications (BIC) is a GOLD Pencil Winner at The ONE Show’s 2017 Young Ones Competition, one of the most prestigious student advertising, interactive and design competitions in the industry. Enmanuel Vargas, Yulia Lesnichaya, Surabhi Govindarajan and Tung-Han Lin won for their partnership proposal “ VIDEALL.” A plug-in, VIDEALL is the product of the partnership between Google’s Chrome browser and Microsoft’s Sign Language Translator. It converts audio, subtitles or closed

Vivek Tiwary, the Tony Award-winning Broadway producer and New York Times best-selling author, is the guest speaker at The City College of New York’s 171st Commencement Exercises on Friday, June 2. The ceremony starts at 9 a.m. on CCNY’s South Campus Great Lawn, 135th St. and Convent Ave., Manhattan. The Class of 2017 comprises approximately 3,820 students. Of these 2,894 are receiving undergraduate degrees and 926 graduate degrees. Tiwary returns to City College after delivering its 2017 Samuel Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture in March. He founded the multiplatform arts and

Rausan Borujerdi, a 2016 graduate of the Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, is the recipient of a Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship. The political science major is one of 20 stellar graduates nationwide selected for the program, which prepares candidates to become members of the U.S. Foreign Service. Hundreds of applicants from over 270 colleges and universities competed for the fellowship managed and funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by The Washington Center. Fellows receive up to $37,500 in annual financial support toward a