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Grove School of Engineering seniors Abraham “Avi” Rubel and Xinbin Xu are the recipients of scholarships from international engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti. The awards were established by the Manhattan-based company in memory of former executives and City College of New York alumni Lee Petrella ’80, and Daniel A. Cuoco ’67. Rubel is the winner of the 2018 Lee Petrella Memorial Scholarship and Summer Internship. The award provides a $5,000 scholarship and a paid internship to a civil engineering major. Rubel, who’s specializing in structures, interned with Thornton Tomasetti’s Structural

Marlene Camacho-Rivera, assistant professor, CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York, focuses her research on improving chronic disease self-management in the areas of asthma and cancer within urban minority communities. As a Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship recipient, Camacho-Rivera will continue her research in those areas receiving recognition for her contributions to underrepresented ethnic and racial minorities in medicine. Given by the Association of American Medical Colleges, the fellowship recognizes an outstanding junior faculty member who has demonstrated

Music major Will Fisher of The City College of New York has played guitar since he was eight-years-old. With dreams of working in the music industry, Fisher chose to enroll in CCNY’s Sonic Arts Center Music and Audio Technology Program to develop his producing and composing skills. As the recipient of the Evelyn Buckstein Scholarship, Fisher will continue to pursue his passion graduating with the Class of 2019. The Buckstein Scholarship was endowed in 2007 by CCNY alumna Evelyn Buckstein, BMI Foundation board member and retired BMI assistant vice president and counsel. The program annually

Fiorella Garrido-Lecca spent part of the summer in her native Peru researching gender-based violence and how women resist it. At UCLA, her fellow City College of New York sociology major in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, Abraham Arriaga, explored the phenomenon of pet ownership by a subgroup of the homeless population. The two juniors are members of the latest cohort of Mellon Mays Fellows at City College. Six CCNY students have been awarded 2018 fellowships in the national program that paves the way to doctoral careers for students from traditionally underrepresented

The CUNY School of Medicine (CSOM) will host its tenth Mini-Medical School on Wednesday, Nov. 14, to discuss how to stay healthy during the flu season. This session, entitled “"Public Health Impact of Influenza: Why You Need To Get an Annual Flu Vaccine" and presented by Dr. Jane R. Zucker, Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Immunization at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, will explore the importance of getting an annual flu shot and other ways to prevent getting the flu. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 5:30 p.m.-7:00

The City College of New York’s Division of Humanities and the Arts presents MLK50: Let Freedom Ring. The event, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 7:30 – 9 p.m. in the Marian Anderson Theatre of CCNY’s Aaron Davis Hall, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in April 1968. Inspired by King’s teachings on dignity, freedom and equality, the commemoration includes remarks by City College President Vince Boudreau and a performance of John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” by CCNY’s Faculty Jazz Ensemble featuring professors Suzanne Pittson and Mike Holober. In addition, jazz

Pamela Laskin, a lecturer in the English Department at The City College of New York, is one of two winners of Leapfrog Fiction's International Contest for 2018 for her book, Why No Bhine (Why No Goodbye), a young adult novel in verse. The story is told from the point of view of a fourteen-year-old boy who has been left behind in Myanmar when his mother and three of his siblings escaped to Malaysia. The boy, Jubair, writes angry letters to his mother, which she will never get to see. Meanwhile, his mother manages to smuggle letters to him, but he never reads them; he is too enraged over what he

In its fifth annual rankings of the Best Global Universities, U.S. News & World Report places The City College of New York in the top half of the world’s 1,372 elite institutions from 75 countries. City College is ranked #669, tied with New Mexico State University at Las Cruces. In addition, U.S. News ranks CCNY #471 [tied with Heriot Watt University of Britain] in its Best Global Universities for Physics. This category recognizes: “well-regarded universities from around the world (that) have shown strength in producing research in a wide range of topics related to physics – the study of

The Master’s in Translational Medicine (MTM) program at The City College of New York (CCNY) is an exciting collaboration between The Grove School of Engineering and The CUNY School of Medicine. A new kind of graduate degree program, MTM is gaining traction in the rapidly growing New York City healthcare landscape, educating the next generation of leaders in medical technology innovation. Earlier this month, an MTM alumni Biodesign team won the Nestlé Skin Health SHIELD “Journey to Innovation in Skin Health” Pitch Event. MenoPal, a team comprised of 2017-2018 MTM graduates, is working on a

City College of New York’s student-designed “Zincotron” scored a double at AIChE's annual Chem-E-Car Competition®, taking third place against foreign and domestic opposition, and winning the Spirit of Competition Award for the fourth year running. Forty teams competed in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers finals at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in, Pittsburgh, Pa. Zincotron won AIChE's Mid-Atlantic competition last spring – City College’s third successive victory in that regional event – to qualify for the finals in Pittsburgh. The objective of the Chem-E-Car competition is