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More than 175 years after he founded The City College of New York and went on to forge U.S.-Japan relations, the lure of Townsend Harris continues in the Far East. On Sunday, July 16, 2023, Mayor Shoichiro Matsuki leads a civic delegation from the city of Shimoda to CCNY to pay homage to Townsend. The annual Japanese visits began in 1986. Interrupted by the COVID pandemic, this is their first visit since 2019. “This year marks 167 years since Harris arrived in Shimoda on August 21, 1856 to open the first American consulate,” said CCNY archivist Sydney Van Nort. “As first consul general there

The documentary film “The Five Demands” premieres in New York on Thursday, July 13 at Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem followed by a one-week run at the Firehouse Cinema in Chinatown, beginning Friday, July 14. The CCNY professor and The Documentary Forum Founder Andrea Weiss and The CCNY alumni Greta Schiller co-directed and co-produced the film about the 1969 shutdown, takeover, and occupation of The City College of New York by a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students. During the 1969 furor, classes were canceled, students arrested, and the college president resigned. Through

It’s a dilemma that many a regular bettor probably faces often -- deciding when to place a sports bet. In a study entitled “ A statistical theory of optimal decision-making in sports betting,” Jacek Dmochowski, Associate Professor in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, provides the answer. His original finding appears in the journal PLOS One. “The central finding of the work is that the objective in sports betting is to estimate the median outcome. Importantly, this is not the same as the average outcome,” said Dmochowski, whose expertise includes machine learning

A new study of a brain region called the rostro-medial prefrontal could potentially advance diagnosis and therapies for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Entitled “ Rejection Distress Suppresses Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Borderline Personality Disorder,” the research appears in the journal “Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.” Researchers from The City College of New York, Columbia University, and New York State Psychiatric Institute led by CCNY psychologist Eric A. Fertuck discovered that the rostro-medial prefrontal specifically becomes more active when

Professor Jerome Haferd, of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, has designed a new installation for Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, New York. The interactive work entitled “Sankofa” will be up until October 2023 and reopen in spring 2024. “Sankofa” is the first of several installations and multi-year, multi-structure vision plan design by Haferd and funded by the Mellon Foundation as a part of the Culture, Creativity, & Care Initiative at Marcus Garvey Park led by Harlem Grown, a nonprofit dedicated to educating youth on living healthy and sustainably. Haferd is the lead

Ruth Pion Vizcaino, a social researcher, anthropologist and activist focusing on racial justice and gender equality in her homeland, is the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute’s (CUNY DSI) inaugural Threatened Scholars Fellow. She will spend the fall semester at The City College of New York-based CUNY DSI, benefitting from a safe space to continue working in favor of promoting cultural inclusiveness in the Dominican Republic. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Threatened Scholars Fellowship Program was launched at CCNY this year. Two other Fellows in the 2023-2024 cohort will be announced later

The 10th edition of The Americas Film Festival New York (TAFFNY) opens on June 15 with the New York premiere of “As Bestas” (The Beast) by Oscar-nominated director Rodrigo Sorogoyen at the Instituto Cervantes New York. TAFFNY closes on June 22 with its awards ceremony for short films in competition at the National Museum of the American Indian followed by the N.Y. premiere of “Fancy Dance” by Seneca/Cayuga filmmaker, Erica Tremblay. A cultural initiative of The City College of New York’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (City College Downtown), TAFFNY

In partnership with the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York, Bloom Energy introduced the first cohort of Colin Powell Bloom Energy Innovation Fellows at a ceremony in the rotunda of New York City Hall. The 11 Fellows will gain extensive work and professional development experience through a cohort-based program at Bloom’s San Jose, Calif. headquarters this summer. The program will provide students with experience in various business areas at Bloom Energy, a leading manufacturer in the fuel cell industry, including: mechanical, electrical and

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Center of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York has announced its inaugural cohort of the Moynihan Public Scholars Fellowship. The four 2023–24 Moynihan Public Scholars and their projects are: Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, who will work on a comprehensive history of African American electoral leadership in New York City and New York State; Daphne Lundi, deputy director for Living Streets & Public Spaces at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental

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