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CPS's Linda Powell and Cesar Conde

CCNY presents Inaugural Colin L. Powell Distinguished Leadership Award to Cesar Conde

Cesar Conde, chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, is the inaugural recipient of the Colin L. Powell Distinguished Leadership Award, bestowed by the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York. The award recognizes individuals who have reached the highest level in their fields, and who embody the leadership values that General Powell, a 1958 graduate of The City College, demonstrated throughout his career: integrity, humility, humor, pragmatism, and common sense. These values were articulated most famously in Powell’s Thirteen Rules of Leadership, which
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CCNY's Vanessa K. Valdés is co-curator of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition: Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter.

CCNY’s Vanessa K. Valdés is co-curator of The Met’s Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter

Vanessa K. Valdés, associate provost for community engagement at The City College of New York, is co-curator of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition: Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter. The exhibit runs from April 3-July 16 and is co-curated by David Pullins, associate curator in The Met’s Department of European Painting. Valdés was the former interim dean at the Macaulay Honors College and director of the Black Studies Program at CCNY. She is the author of “ Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Schomburg” and wrote the essay “Arturo Schomburg, Juan de Pareja, and Afro
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CCNY's 2023 Critical Language Scholarship scholars Ryan Walsh and Marieme Jiddou

Colin Powell School’s Ryan Walsh & Marieme Jiddou win top State Dept. language scholarships

Graduate student Ryan Walsh and senior Marieme Jiddou, both from The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, are recipients of highly competitive Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) from the United States Department of State. The CLS program provides overseas foreign language instruction and cultural immersion experiences for American undergraduate and graduate students in 14 critical need languages to promote rapid language gains and essential intercultural fluency in regions that are critical to U.S. national security and economic prosperity. Walsh is
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Ruth E. Stark, CUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at CCNY

NIH awards CCNY’s Ruth Stark $800k for “biology of fungal melanization study”

Ruth E. Stark, CUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The City College of New York, is the recipient of a $805,865 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study ways of developing new antifungal therapies that target melanization pathways. She and two researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine are Multiple Principal Investigators on a $4,079,890 grant from NIH’s Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) entitled “The Biology of Fungal Melanization.” “Melanin is a very important pigment in the biosphere and
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Hazel Carter, associate professor, School of Education

American Foundation of The University of the West Indies honors CCNY educator Hazel Carter

Dr. Hazel M. Carter, an expert in education reform pipeline programs in The City College of New York’s School of Education, is the 2023 winner of the Pelican Award presented by the American Foundation of The University of the West Indies (AFUWI) and The University of the West Indies Alumni Association New York chapter. The honor recognizes distinguished UWI alumni who have achieved unprecedented success in their chosen field or industry, operate with integrity, and serve as exemplary role models to The UWI community globally, particularly to its current students. An AFUWI board member, Carter
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A young David Aronow, a CCNY Class of 1913 alumnus.

The David Aronow Foundation gifts CCNY $75,000 for fellowship stipends

The David Aronow Foundation is partnering, once again, with The City College of New York for a fellowship named after the Class of 1913 alumnus, David Aronow. The David Aronow Fellowship at City College will provide a $3000 stipend to students with unpaid internships. Aronow was the youngest of five surviving children in an immigrant family, and the only member of his generation to have the chance to go to college: City College. He founded his foundation in 1947, and it has contributed to educational, humanitarian, cultural and scientific causes for over seven decades "We at The David Aronow
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Dean Carmen Green and CUNY Med MD students on Match Day.

CCNY’s CUNY School of Medicine celebrates Match Day 2023

MD candidates, from the CUNY School of Medicine (CUNY Med) at The City College of New York, join medical school students throughout the country to learn where they have matched for their residencies. “ Match Day,” is run by the National Resident Matching Program, which releases results to applicants seeking residency positions in the U.S. “The specific contribution of our medical school lies in our ability to provide culturally competent primary care physicians to underserved communities,” said CCNY President Vincent Boudreau. “Every year match day - when our graduates learn where they will
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Attentive Energy_CCNY Partnership_March 2023

Attentive Energy proposes $10 million renewable energy program at CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering

Attentive Energy One – a joint venture between TotalEnergies and Rise Light & Power – is committing $10 million to The City College of New York (CCNY) to establish a new renewable energy training program as part of its 1,400 MW offshore wind proposal to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) in January 2023. The announcement was made today by Attentive Energy One and CCNY leadership on a visit to CCNY’s Grove School of Engineering in Harlem. The Attentive Energy One project will build an offshore wind farm, which will deliver clean energy to over 700,000 homes
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"Mass Support" Exhibition at Spitzer School of Architecture

First Spitzer School exhibition since 2018, "Mass Support" and symposium makes U.S. debut

Making its U.S. debut, the exhibition “Mass Support: Flexibility and Resident Agency in Housing” opens at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, on Tuesday, March 21 with a reception at 6 p.m. in the Atrium Gallery. The exhibition which runs through Sunday, May 7, is a joint presentation by the Spitzer School, The Architectural League of New York, and the Curatorial Research Collective of the TU/e, with support from the Dutch Culture USA program of the Consulate-General of the Netherlands, New York, and is the first in-person show at Spitzer since
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Martin Luther King, Jr. photo at Selma March by Stephen Somerstein

Historic Selma March photos by alum Stephen Somerstein ’66, on public display at CCNY for first time

Fifty-eight years after capturing numerous iconic photos of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Rights March as a student photojournalist, alumnus Stephen Somerstein returns to his alma mater for the first ever public exhibition of his historic images at The City College of New York. The exhibition, “Witness to History: Selma 1965 Photography of Stephen Somerstein,” is open to the public and runs March 21 to May 14 in the Lincoln Corridor of CCNY’s Shepard Hall. The opening day reception is March 20 and includes a conversation, 5:30 – 7 p.m. in Shepard Hall room 350, between
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