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David Unger, director of The City College of New York’s Publishing Certificate Program and an award-winning author, saw his latest novel, “ The Mastermind” translated into several major languages including Spanish, Arabic and Italian. Now Unger is tasked with re-translating “ El Señor Presidente,” the most celebrated novel by Guatemalan Nobel laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias. The project is supported by a New York State Council on the Arts grant awarded to Unger and marks the 50th anniversary of Asturias’ Nobel Prize for Literature. Published in 1943, “El Señor Presidente” (The President) is

Facebook is partnering with The City College of New York to launch a web security hybrid course—the first of its kind on campus. The company is donating $25,000 toward scholarships and educational expenses. Spearheaded on the CCNY campus by computer science major Chantelle Levy, Facebook chose her to be CCNY’s Facebook Ambassador. “It's truly a pleasure to be chosen as a Security Ambassador Intern for Facebook; my interest in security stemmed from no other than the TV Show ‘Mr. Robot’,” said Levy, a senior. “Since then, I've been involved in anything security-related, including the web

The City College of New York’s Zahn Innovation Center is the recipient of $500,000 in capital funds from the Manhattan Borough President’s Office. The award will enable the Center, a startup incubator, to dramatically improve its manufacturing offerings by adding short run manufacturing capabilities to the equipment in its MakerLab. The MakerLab is a rapid prototyping facility designed for student entrepreneurs and the hardware startup community. The new equipment and improvements will bring lasting impact to City College and Harlem community startups, both benefitting from the upgrade. “I am

For her unique insights into student and teacher behavior, City College of New York philosophy professor Jennifer Morton is the winner of the American Philosophical Association’s inaugural Israel Scheffler Prize in Philosophy of Education. APA cited five of Morton’s connected set of papers on topics in the philosophy of education for presenting her its new award established in memory of the late Israel Scheffler, an influential philosopher of education globally. Morton’s insightful papers that caught APA’s attention are: “The Non-Cognitive Challenge to a Liberal Egalitarian Education;”

Most high school students spend their summer hanging out at the mall or chilling at the shore. But each year a handful of students from NYC high schools spend their break peering through fancy microscopes at The Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (IUSL) of the City University of New York at The City College of New York. Why do these kids bypass the beach to be part of the Photonics Internship program? “They’re passionate about science and eager to learn about optics and physics,” says Robert Alfano, a scientific innovator whose work unites the divergent fields of medicine, biology

Poet Kimiko Hahn, award-winning author of nine books of verse, presents two readings in The City College of New York’s Rifkind Center, NAC room 6/316, on Nov. 14. “Craft Talk,” 2 – 3 p.m. and “Reading,” 5 – 6 p.m., to conclude this semester’s Kowald Legacy Series. Both are free and open to the public. The readings are supported by the Kenneth Kowald Fund for Advancing American Literature and the Rifkind Center for the Humanities in City College's Division of Humanities and the Arts. Hahn’s critically acclaimed work includes the books “ The Artist's Daughter: Poems,” “ The Narrow Road to the

Six students from The City College of New York were winners at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Phoenix, Arizona. The undergraduates from the Division of Science, the CUNY Medical School at CCNY, the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and the Grove School of Engineering excelled in both poster and oral presentations. The students, their majors, topics and presentation categories, are: Geneva Hidalgo, psychology, social/behavioral sciences and public health (oral); Mariya Mayer, music, cancer biology (poster); Courtney Ogando, biomedical

Team CCNY, comprising undergraduates from The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is the 2017 AIChE Chem-E-Car finals’ Spirit of Competition Award winner for the third year running. In addition, “Sulfurious,” the CCNY entry, placed 11th out of 41 domestic and international qualifiers in the competition in Minneapolis. Sulfurious won the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Mid-Atlantic competition last spring to advance to the AIChE finals. The objective of the Chem-E-Car competition is for students to build a car, the size of a shoebox, which runs and stops at a

MEDIA ADVISORY WHAT: City College of New York (CCNY), considered a top ten military friendly school, will acknowledge the men and women of the college community who have served WHO: Christopher Gorman, Director of Veteran Affairs Dr. Vincent Boudreau, Interim President, CCNY Student, Faculty and Staff Veterans WHERE: The City College of New York NAC Plaza (outdoors) Convent Avenue and 138th Street WHEN: 10 am, Friday, November 10, 2017 Program 10:00 am – Greeting 10:05 am – Posting of the Colors 10:10 am – National Anthem performed by the CCNY Gospel Choir 10:15 am – Speech 10:20 am – Closing

There’s no question that generations of university students want to change the world, starting with where they are. But how? Four undergraduates from The City College of New York are among 229 students from 10 countries named 2017 University Innovation Fellows by Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. The program empowers students to become agents of change at their schools. Fellows work to ensure that their peers gain the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to compete in the economy of the future and make a positive impact on the world. Selected from City College (the