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CCNY vintage postcard exhibit

Wish you were here! CCNY postcards from the past

Starting Wednesday, April 18 through May 29, 2018, the City College Archives at The City College of New York will exhibit more than 120 historic postcards collected by Dalton Whiteside, a CCNY architecture student, Certified CCNY Architectural/Historical Tour Guide and Archives Research Assistant at City College. Additional postcards from The City College Archives collection of CCNY’s buildings and grounds will be on view. Postcards of neighboring institutional buildings acquired by City College such as the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart will be included in
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Hidetaka Hirota book

Immigration book by CCNY’s Hidetaka Hirota wins national award

City College of New York historian Hidetaka Hirota’s seminal maiden book, “ Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy,” is winner of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society’s Best First Book Award. The national prize recognizes the work of early career scholars in the field of U.S. immigration and ethnic history. “Expelling the Poor” was judged to be the best book on any aspect of the immigration and ethnic history of the United States and/or North America. Other considerations were its substantial primary research, its
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CCNY trio receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Roland Maio, a member of The City College of New York’s Class of 2018, and two recent CCNY graduates are recipients of National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. The three awards to City College are the most among the nine fellowships to City University of New York schools. The fellowships recognize and support exceptional students who have proposed graduate-level research projects in their fields. Selection is through a national competition. In addition to Maio, CCNY’s other NSF fellows and their research thrusts and new schools are: Stanley Ko, marine geology and
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CUNY School of Medicine Mini-Medical School at The City College of New York

Is sleep loss a health risk? Find out April 25 at CCNY’s Mini-Medical School

Getting enough sleep can be a struggle. But according to The National Center For Health Research, the gap between getting just enough sleep and getting too little may affect your health, your mood, your weight, and your ability to concentrate. Find out why organizations like the National Football League are prioritizing sleep and you should too – on April 25 at the CUNY School of Medicine’s Mini-Medical School at The City College of New York. This informative session is free and open to the Harlem community. The evening’s topic, "Sleep Health and the Importance of Getting A Good Night's Sleep
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Yasmine and Zhiying are CCNY’s 2018 Valedictorian and Salutatorian

Brooklynite Yasmine El Gheur, a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and the first of her family to complete college, is The City College of New York’s Class of 2018 Valedictorian. Zhiying Zhu, born in China and raised by a single parent after emigrating to the United States, will be the Salutatorian at CCNY’s 172nd Commencement Exercises on June 1. Following are brief bios of the Valedictorian and Salutatorian: Yasmine El Gheur A first generation American from Park Slope, Brooklyn, El Gheur is graduating from the Division of Humanities and the Arts with a BA in art history and a 3.94 GPA. She
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Poet Nicole Cooley is featured guest at 46th annual poetry festival.

46th Annual CCNY Poetry Festival is Woodstock of the Spoken Word

Prize winning poet and author Nicole Cooley will be the featured guest poet for the 46th annual City College Poetry Festival on Friday, May 4th. Dubbed “the Woodstock of the Spoken Word,” the festival has become New York’s longest-running poetry celebration. Cooley is a poet and non-fiction writer and the author of eight books including Breach, a collection of poems focusing on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath; Girl after Girl after Girl, and her newest collection Of Marriage. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, Narrative and Drunken Boat. She is a professor of English and
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Hernan Makse physicist at CCNY

CCNY physicist tracks influence of fake news on Presidential election

For the last few days, Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to explain to Congress how fake news on Facebook might have influenced the Presidential election. It hasn’t gone well. Unraveling how fake news happens is probably best undertaken by experts like Hernan Makse, Professor of Physics at the City College of New York’s Division of Science. Makse, who is well versed in the theoretical understanding of complexity, has published a new study investigating the influence of fake and traditional, fact-based, news outlets on Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election. In summary, the study shows
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Fulbright awards for Colin Powell School’s Claire Lynch, Etienne Forbes

Claire Lynch and Etienne Forbes, cohorts in The City College of New York’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, are headed to Europe this fall on Fulbright awards. The two graduating seniors join a select group of 2018-2019 winners nationally in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. A political science and Jewish studies double major in the Colin Powell School and Macaulay Honors College at CCNY, Lynch is the recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grant. She’ll spend Sept. 2018 to June 2019, as a teacher in the Spanish capital’s bilingual education system. “Subjects
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CCNY winning Chem-E-Car team

CCNY’s Chem-E-Car three-peats

For the third year in a row a team from The City College of New York has won the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Mid-Atlantic Regional Chem-E-Car competition! The team participated in the competition held at Princeton University on April 7, 2018. “Zincotron”, a Grove School of Engineering student-designed shoe-box sized car, finished ahead of a crowded field of 20 competitors and was within 16cm of the target of 18.4m carrying its load of 400ml of water. The second-place car from Cooper Union was close behind, at 18cm. In this competition, teams spend the semester designing
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Master’s Program in Data Science and Engineering

New Master’s Program in Data Science and Engineering at CCNY

The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering is offering a new Master’s Program in Data Science and Engineering to address the growing demand for data science and data engineering skills in government and industry. The new program, administered by the Computer Science Department, prepares students to analyze, process, visualize and apply machine learning and computational statistics to problems in engineering, science, and many other disciplines. A key feature of the program is the required capstone master’s project or thesis. Within the program, students will apply the data
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