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Pixar is known the world over for its crowd pleasing animated films like Coco, Finding Nemo, and Toy Story. While the company’s movies are beloved, they’re also studied by students and teachers who carefully dissect the company’s innovative animation techniques and character development methods. Many of those students and teachers dream of someday walking the company’s legendary halls – or even working there. For two faculty members and one student from the Electronic Design and Multimedia department at The City College of New York, that dream will come true this summer when they get a chance

Graduating senior Emmanuel Dwomoh is The City College of New York’s fourth Fulbright award recipient this spring. The biology honors student leaves CCNY on June 1 with a year-long research grant to study the high prevalence of esophageal cancer in Uganda. A naturalized U.S. citizen born in Ghana, Dwomoh’s winning Fulbright proposal takes him back to Mbarara in southwest Uganda where he spent summer 2017 working on a malaria project. Mbarara is also the epicenter for esophageal cancer in that nation. “East Africa forms the African esophageal cancer hot spot where esophageal squamous cell

You are what you eat. But your nutritional needs change as you age. Take a proactive part in your own health by attending the CUNY School of Medicine's Mini-Medical School on Nutrition and Healthy Aging at The City College of New York on May 9. The featured speaker will be Dr. Ghada Soliman, Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental, Occupational, & Geospatial Health Sciences at the CUNY School of Public Health. Dr. Soliman is well known for her research and teaching, as well as her expertise in community nutrition education, food policy, and personal nutrition. This event is FREE

Health and mental wellness-related pitches by student startups were among the big winners in the Zahn Innovation Center’s 2018 venture competition at The City College of New York. More than $150K in prizes went to the budding inventor/entrepreneurs to develop their ideas. The startups competed in four categories. Some startups designed hardware devices, others created software, some focused on social impact, and others were women-led ventures that leveraged technology for NYC. The startups at the Zahn Center have both a hyper-local focus in the city, as well as a global perspective in

There was a time when springtime was associated with revolutions abroad, particularly in the political sphere. For Ranin M. Ali, a junior in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at The City College of New York, the impact seems personal after her own spring experience in Salzburg, Austria, with a Dutch Holocaust survivor and contemporary of Anne Frank. City College’s first participant in the Global Citizenship Alliance, a week-long seminar that teaches students from around the world to become global citizens, returned home just that -- a global citizen eager to encourage

Data security is on everybody’s minds these days. Who better to speak to this important topic than Facebook’s Chief Security Officer, Alex Stamos. Stamos, who will be the featured speaker on May 10 at the 2018 Robert Kahn & Patrice Lyons Lecture, hosted by the Grove School of Engineering at the City College of New York, is committed to bringing more openness and collaboration to the security community, and to building solutions that keep people safe in the circumstances they face every day. He is an expert in global scale infrastructure, designing trustworthy systems, and mobile security. A

City College of New York physicist Vinod Menon, whose research in light-matter interaction at the nanoscale has advanced the field of photonics, is among six scientists globally bestowed with IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lectureships. The accolade honors excellent speakers who have made technical contributions of high quality and enhanced the technical programs of Photonics Society chapters. Menon’s year-long tenure begins July 1, 2018 and ends June 30, 2019. A professor in the City College’s Division of Science, Menon’s research includes the development of nanoscale structures where

Soon the geodesic domes constructed in 1973 by six ex-Charas gang members after a fateful meeting with revolutionary architect R. Buckminster Fuller will rise again. Through a collaboration between Loisaida Inc., La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez and DIAP (Digital Interdisciplinary Art Practice) at The City College of New York, artist, researcher and City College DIAP MFA student Matthew Mottel will build 2 geodesic domes (one at La Plaza and the other at the Loisaida Inc. Center’s courtyard) as an interactive art installation starting on May 5th. The original project was documented in Charas

Keila Solomon, a recent graduate of The City College of New York, has won the Frederator Award for Best Animation at the CUNY Film Festival. Solomon, who earned a BA in Art with a concentration in Digital Design while at City College, beat out 22 other animated films to win for her animated short film, "Couture". Fred Seibert, the head of Frederated Networks, presented her with the award. " Couture" tells the story of a girl who wishes for a beautiful prom dress who is surprised to find that getting what she wants is even more satisfying when she makes it happen – with the help of a new friend

Since 2002, the H. Austin and Florence R.S. Kaye Foundation joined with The City College of New York providing funds to support talented students pursuing a major in the Division of Humanities & the Arts. The City College of New York’s Kaye Scholars Program alumna, Yasmin El Gheur, is getting ready to graduate as the Class of 2018’s Valedictorian. “The scholarship gave me more control over my academic pursuits and was the catalyst that led me to a more rigorous and fulfilling experience at City College,” said El Gheur, who majored in Art History and minored in Arabic Language and Cultures. “My